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Saturday, 17 April 2010
Pornography makes it hard to stay celibate, bishop says
A prominent Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico blamed eroticism on television and internet pornography for child abuse by priests, in the latest incendiary comments on sex scandals in the church.
"With so much invasion of eroticism, sometimes it's not easy to stay celibate or to respect children," Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said during an annual meeting of Mexican bishops near Mexico City on Thursday (local time).
"If on television and on the internet and in so many media outlets there is pornography, it is very difficult to stay pure and chaste," said Bishop Arizmendi, an influential bishop from the colonial town of San Cristobal de las Casas in southern Mexico.
The timing of his comments comes as Pope Benedict turned 83 on Friday and the Catholic hierarchy has been rattled by revelations of sexual abuse scandals in parishes around the world.
It also follows several controversial comments made by Catholic clergy, including on Monday when the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said priest paedophilia was linked to homosexuality not celibacy.
"Many psychologists and psychiatrists have shown that there is no link between celibacy and paedophilia, but many others have shown, I have recently been told, that there is a relationship between homosexuality and paedophilia," he told a news conference in Santiago, Chile.
Mexico is home to the world's second-largest Roman Catholic population after Brazil and the country has been rocked by its own share of allegations against Catholic leaders.
Tabloid bait
Today a UK-wide ban on the drug Mephedrone, otherwise known as Meow Meow, becomes law, meaning a potential five year prison term for those caught possessing the substance. But several police forces are saying that they will operate a week-long amnesty while others are saying they will target dealers rather than seeking out users. London's biggest meph-heads are gathering tomorrow night to use up their stash in one final blowout, and according to them a "Central London club has offered us their venue for free and is even supplying Philip Starck brushed aluminium tables and Tiffany silver keyfobs from which to do our bumps of Meph". Apparently "one of the biggest DJs on the M-CAT scene is doing a set of specially sped-up meph sounds for at least 16 hours" and they're inviting requests - from "Love Cats" to "Stray Cat Strut".
WTF??? (yet again)
!CAUTION!
Meanwhile, federal law enforcement agencies mounted a massive operation across Arizona Thursday targeting van operators allegedly involved in smuggling undocumented migrants from Mexico. Nearly fifty people were arrested, and more than 800 federal agents were involved in the bust, that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is touting as its largest-ever human smuggling case.
HERE Interview with Keith Richards at Montsalvat Victoria by Gary Hyde ABC (Broadcast 27th February 1973).
Keith Richards - Kooyong Melbourne 17 February 1973 (Afternoon Show)
'I like bootlegging! I think there ought to be more bootleg records...'
Mick Jagger (Flower Petals) Kooyong Melbourne Feb 1973
Photo by Rennie Ellis
(Hope you don't mind my using the photo Josh!)
'...because I don't like capitalist record companies!'
Rolling Stones Release Limited Edition 7" Single For Record Store Day Today
To celebrate the third annual Record Store Day today, The Rolling Stones will release a limited edition, individually numbered, 7" single featuring the previously unreleased track "Plundered My Soul." This newly unearthed track from the "Exile On Main Street" recording sessions will first be available exclusively with independent music stores participating in Record Store Day. The b-side features the newly remastered version of "All Down The Line" - both tracks are from the forthcoming "Exile On Main Street" expanded editions available May 18, 2010, in the US.
Friday, 16 April 2010
REpost: The weekend New York came to Glasgow ( May 1977)
What a double bill!
The Friday night had seen The Ramones supported by Talking Heads at Strathclyde University.
Only The Ramones had played in the UK previously.
(I think I may have written about these gigs here before but what can I say...?
That weekend was the first time I met Allan Jones from the Melody Maker, a story that he revisited in his regular column 'Stop Me If You have Heard This Before' at the back of 'Uncut', a couple of years ago.
It was very strange to be confronted with my 17 year old self especially as I was reading it with two of my kids who are older now than I was then.
I remarked that I had hardly changed - which I thought was good!
They thought that was tragic!)
A couple of other things...yes that was ANOTHER poster that I used to have and also Steven Daly from Orange Juice then, Vanity Fair now was working up in Listen Records at the time and he gave me a great recording of Television either from this night or of the only other time that they played in Glasgow the first time around (with the Only Ones supporting).
If anyone does have a copy of that still and wants to share...
What were the concerts like...what do you think?
Ah memories!
The Friday night had seen The Ramones supported by Talking Heads at Strathclyde University.
Only The Ramones had played in the UK previously.
(I think I may have written about these gigs here before but what can I say...?
That weekend was the first time I met Allan Jones from the Melody Maker, a story that he revisited in his regular column 'Stop Me If You have Heard This Before' at the back of 'Uncut', a couple of years ago.
It was very strange to be confronted with my 17 year old self especially as I was reading it with two of my kids who are older now than I was then.
I remarked that I had hardly changed - which I thought was good!
They thought that was tragic!)
A couple of other things...yes that was ANOTHER poster that I used to have and also Steven Daly from Orange Juice then, Vanity Fair now was working up in Listen Records at the time and he gave me a great recording of Television either from this night or of the only other time that they played in Glasgow the first time around (with the Only Ones supporting).
If anyone does have a copy of that still and wants to share...
What were the concerts like...what do you think?
Ah memories!
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