José Quintero / Buba Estudio
Paparazzi – Cold in A Warm Climate (CDr)
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Indeed you do...
"...It’s a heavy tune with no definable emotional tang beyond an odd ‘fleeting rapture’; in this respect, it fits nicely with the Basic Channel aesthetic, where the productions of Von Oswald and collaborator Mark Ernestus are glorious and overwhelming, but distant – not cold, but somehow removed. Their impact relies on submission; you willingly lose yourself in the luster of their gun-metal, greyscale noises – grainy reverb and tape hiss, rolling waves of texture, endless plateaus of rhythm."Historic Sounds of Newport Jazz & Folk Festivals, Newly Online
As the future of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals continues to unfold, its recorded past has suddenly been thrown open.Recently the festivals themselves almost disappeared, amid the financial collapse of their producing company, the Festival Network LLC. They returned last summer in a new guise, at their usual site, once George Wein, the founder of both festivals, regained the right to hold music events there.
It’s a complicated story. But if you want to know why the Newport Jazz Festival has been so important to American music, it’s easy: you just have to hear the recorded evidence. Bits and pieces have emerged over the years, in live recordings by Ellington, Coltrane and others. Now Wolfgang’s Vault, the online concert-recording archive, intends to fill in the gaps...
RIP - Robert Enke
GERMANY'S top goalkeeper Robert Enke died last night after being hit by a train.
The 32-year-old - set to star for his country at next year's World Cup - was fatally injured at a level crossing near Hannover.
Early reports suggested troubled Enke may have killed himself.
The Hannover 96 captain was devastated when his two-year-old daughter Lara died of a rare heart ailment in 2006.
He leaves behind his wife, Teresa, and an eight-month-old daughter the couple had adopted in May.
Last night, his club president Martin Kind was reported as having described the keeper as "unstable" in recent weeks.
Enke was struck by a regional train travelling between Norddeich and Hannover at a railway crossing in Neustadt am Rubenberge and died at the scene.
A German police spokesman confirmed late last night: "The victim is national team goalkeeper Robert Enke from Hannover 96.
"The first police indications are that it was a suicide."
@'Daily Record'
The 32-year-old - set to star for his country at next year's World Cup - was fatally injured at a level crossing near Hannover.
Early reports suggested troubled Enke may have killed himself.
The Hannover 96 captain was devastated when his two-year-old daughter Lara died of a rare heart ailment in 2006.
He leaves behind his wife, Teresa, and an eight-month-old daughter the couple had adopted in May.
Last night, his club president Martin Kind was reported as having described the keeper as "unstable" in recent weeks.
Enke was struck by a regional train travelling between Norddeich and Hannover at a railway crossing in Neustadt am Rubenberge and died at the scene.
A German police spokesman confirmed late last night: "The victim is national team goalkeeper Robert Enke from Hannover 96.
"The first police indications are that it was a suicide."
@'Daily Record'
Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) G20 Pittsburgh
The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) was used for the first time in the USA in Pittsburgh during the time of G20 summit on September 24-25th, 2009
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Kissinger in London today to collect a Margaret Thatcher 'Medal of Freedom'. Will he use it to beat some Chilean dissidents to death?
Accept the facts – and end this futile 'war on drugs'
We are handing one of our biggest industries over to armed, criminal gangs
The proponents of the "war on drugs" are well-intentioned people who believe they are saving people from the nightmare of drug addiction and making the world safer. But this self-image has turned into a faith – and like all faiths, it can only be maintained by cultivating a deliberate blindness to the evidence.The recent furore about the British government's decision to fire its chief scientific advisor on drugs, Professor David Nutt, missed the point. Yes, it is shocking that he was ditched for pointing out the mathematical truth that taking ecstasy is less dangerous than horse-riding, and that smoking cannabis is less harmful than drinking alcohol. But this is how the war on drugs has to be fought. The unofficial slogan of the prohibitionists for decades has been: The facts will only undermine the war, so invent some that show how successful we are, fast.
Look at the United States, the country that pioneered the drug war, and still uses its military and diplomatic might to demand the rest of the world cracks down. In 1998, the Office of National Drug Control Policy was ordered by Congress to stop funding any scientific research that might give the impression that we should redirect funding from anti-trafficking busts into medical treatment of addicts, or that there is any argument to legalise, regulate or medicalise drug use.
It's Nutt cubed: only tell us what we want to hear. So, to give a small example, the ONDCP spent $14bn on anti-cannabis adverts aimed at teenagers, and $43m to find out if the ads worked. They discovered that kids who saw the ads were more likely afterwards to get stoned, so the evidence was suppressed, and the ad campaign marched on...
Johann Hari
@'The Independent'
(RePost) The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
In Memory of
Private ARTHUR JOHN HADDOCK
2766529, 6th Bn., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
who died age 20
on 24 April 1944
Son of Robert Arthur and Catherine Haddock,
of Orrell, Bootle, Lancashire.
Remembered with honour
CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
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