On Jan 9th, students of Sharif University (Tehran) in protest to the coup government and the illegal detention of their fellow classmates held a peaceful gathering. They were chanting students would rather die than give in to tyranny and imprisoned students must be released.
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Saturday, 9 January 2010
William Burroughs in London ('Pirate Tape' by Derek Jarman)
WSB in London at the time of the Final Academy.
Meanwhile in LaLa land - "It would be like discovering that Buddha, unbeknownst to anybody, had sat down and wrote down the entirety of his discoveries and it could be verified that he wrote it,"
More than 1,000 unreleased recordings of lectures by L. Ron Hubbard and reams of corresponding writings have been unveiled in the culmination of a 25-year project to locate, restore and transcribe lost pieces of the Scientology founder's work.
The new materials were announced in a New Year's celebration at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles that was broadcast to churches around the world last week and include 1,020 lectures and hundreds of corresponding booklets from courses and other sessions with Scientology ministers from 1953 to 1961. They include discussions of how Hubbard arrived at the principles of Dianetics and his research on everything from decision-making to personal responsibility.
They were recovered through a painstaking hunt that led members to find tapes and papers in a basement in Wichita, Kan., a storage trailer in Phoenix, and a garage in Oakland, Calif., among other places. Some of the materials were believed to have been lost...
A Concert for Tuli Kupferberg January 22 - St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn
Lou Reed, Philip Glass, Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Gary Lucas, Richard
Belzer and other notable artists will join THE FUGS for a benefit
concert for Tuli Kupferberg, the Beat poet and original member of The
Fugs, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn on Jan. 22.
Mr. Kupferberg, 86, has had two strokes over the last year, which have
left him blind. The ticket proceeds from the concert, which is being
produced by Hal Willner, will help pay his medical expenses.
Among the others performers are the singer John Kruth; Ed Sanders, Mr.
Kupferberg’s fellow Fug; and Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders
(who also played on early Fugs albums). Tickets are $75 to $125 and
are available at stannswarehouse.org or (718) 254.8779.
A Concert for Tuli Kupferberg
January 22 - St. Ann's Warehouse
with -
Lou Reed
Philip Glass
Sonic Youth
The Fugs
Gary Lucas
John Zorn Trio
Peter Stampfel
John Kruth
RePost: For a friend...
Sunn O))) live at Corsica Studio London 22/02/09.
Just Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson playing live to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 'Grimmrobe Demos' release.PLAY LOUD!!!
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Indian man attacked and set alight in Melbourne
An Indian man is in a serious condition in a Melbourne hospital after being attacked and set alight by a gang.
The attack comes a week after an Indian graduate student, Nitin Garg, was stabbed to death in the city.
This prompted a travel advisory from the Indian government about the safety of Melbourne.
Last year saw a spate of attacks against Indian students, which has deterred many from studying in Australia.
The 29-year-old Indian was returning home from a dinner party with his wife when he set up by a gang of men, who poured fluid over him and then set him alight.
He is now in a Melbourne hospital, where his condition has been described as serious, suffering from burns to 15% of his body.
Police say they are not sure why the man was targeted and whether it was a racially-motivated attack - but it is bound to increase the sense of outrage in India, where there's been an angry reaction to the murder last weekend of Nitin Garg.
The Indian government has already this week issued an advisory warning about the dangers of travelling to Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, where the local Indian community claims that racist attacks are on the rise.
OK let's see if the Victorian police say it is not racism now.
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