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Wednesday, 5 May 2010
REpost: The Complete 'International Times' Archive
(Heads up from 'Jahsonic')Every issue of the 'International Times' is now available online.
Contributors included Alex Trocchi, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
Tom McGrath was amongst the editors.
“The first few issues had a lot of serious articles by William Burroughs about the overthrow of the state. He used it as his platform to work out his ideas. And there was Ginsberg too. All the usual suspects. When we were running out of money, I was talking to Paul McCartney about it, and he said, ‘Well, you should interview me, then you’ll get ads from the record companies.’ And I thought, ‘hey, he might be on to something.’ So I interviewed him, and then George Harrison, and then the next week Mick Jagger called up, demanding to be interviewed too. And Paul was right, we got ads from the record companies.”
(Barry Miles - 2007)
READ IT HERE.
(Via 'Boredom Is Always Counter-Revolutionary' here.)
More on that YouGov/Sun poll...
"Which of the following would you most like to see after the next general election?"
A Conservative government, ruling on its own - 27%
A Labour government, ruling on its own - 22%
A Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition - 12%
A Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition - 17%
A 'grand' coalition with all three main parties ruling together - 10%
Don't know -12%
"Suppose a Conservative Government were formed under Mr Cameron. Which of these statements comes closest to your own view?"
I would be delighted - 23%
I would be dismayed - 46%
I wouldn't mind - 23%
Don't know - 7%
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Peter Brötzmann Graphics Opening Tonight...
MAY 5 – 29 2010
PETER BRÖTZMANN (GER)
Graphic Work (1964 – 2010)
Opens Wednesday May 5, 6-8pm
In association with the 2010 Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Peter Brötzmann (b.1941) is a German composer, musician, visual artist and graphic designer. After studying painting and graphic design at the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal and applying his trade at an advertising agency, Brötzmann established himself as a leading exponent of improvised music. As a musician he has been influenced both by free jazz, as well as by the conceptual interventions of the Fluxus movement, with which he was associated in the mid-1960s. Dissatisfied with the agenda of commercial art galleries, Brötzmann has maintained a mostly private, but prolific output of visual work along with creating graphic work to accompany his musical recordings.
This exhibition situates Brötzmann’s graphic practise alongside his broader artistic practise, and in particular his activities as a free (jazz) musician, activities for which he is best known, and with which much of his graphic work has been associated, at least since the late 1960s. The focus of the exhibition will be graphic work produced for the important independent music label FMP (Free Music Production) and includes original prints of posters, LP covers and book jackets, woodcuts, drawings and objects as well as ephemera from Brötzmann’s personal archives.
Peter Brötzmann makes his Australian debut performance as a guest of 2010 Melbourne International Jazz Festival. For info and full program go to www.melbournejazz.com
2/141 Flinders Lane
Well this ain't his debut Melbourne performance, played out here in about '87 with Peter Kowald on bass!
Well this ain't his debut Melbourne performance, played out here in about '87 with Peter Kowald on bass!
For Fox Sake # ? - Revisionist Wank!
"As the nation marks the 40th anniversary of the Kent State antiwar protests Tuesday, previously undisclosed FBI documents have emerged, showing that one or more gunshots may have been fired at embattled Ohio National Guardsmen that day in May 1970 before the Guard killed four students and wounded at least nine others."
Malcolm McLaren
The McLaren 'South Bank Show' and the Pistol's Jubilee Thames boat trip vids can be found
(...oh and the Sex Pistols in Sydney 1996!)
New Arizona immigration law proves to be really bad for business
Proponents of the new law say they just want to protect the state's interests, but what they have really done is to shoot themselves in the foot. This new law has more to do with scoring political points for Arizona's right wing politicians than enforcing the law, and that is the trend throughout the United States. In my home state of Florida, the far right leaning state legislature passed a ridiculously poorly written education bill that was like the Az immigration law, more about political points than about improving the education system. The Republican Governor Charlie Crist saw it for what it was and vetoed the bill. He's now running for the US Senate as an Independent. Sadly, the right wing in America feeds off fear and loathing and doesn't let the facts get in the way. To quote a favorite author, "so it goes."
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