Tuesday, 15 February 2011
The most beautiful missed free-kick!!
FC Mulhouse - Louhans (1-0)
ROFLMFAO!
btw, 1.460.976 youtube clicks within 5 days...
Monday, 14 February 2011
PJ Harvey to become 'Official War Songwriter'?
The museum's Roger Tolson was responding to an interview Harvey gave to Radio 4 talking about her new album 'Let England Shake', which was inspired by two and half years of research into military conflicts.
Harvey said: "I started wondering where the officially appointed war songwriter was. You have got your war artists, like Steve McQueen, and your war photographers. I fantasised that I had been appointed this official songwriter and so I almost took on that challenge for myself".
In 2006, Steve McQueen (the British artist, not the legendary Hollywood actor, obviously) went to Iraq as part of the Imperial War Museum's official war artists' programme, producing the work 'Queen And Country' as a result.
Responding to the Radio 4 comments, Tolson told The Guardian: "We are certainly interested in working with PJ Harvey. It is something we can take forward as we have never commissioned anybody in that capacity. We have never sent a musician out to a conflict zone".
@'CMU'
What a difference a week makes...
(Click on images to enlarge)Via
1986 South Bank Show documentary on The Velvets at 'Dangerous Minds'
Top: Village Voice ad, March 31, 1966/Bottom: Village Voice ad April 7, 1966
A Symphony of Sound
Al Jazeera English vs. Russia Today
Anyone getting their information about Egypt from Russia Today would have learned that the United States orchestrated the uprising, the Muslim Brotherhood was formed by MI6 and opposition leader Mohamed El Baradei was a Free Mason. Five years since its launch, the English-language channel has become home to fringe ideas and rabid anti-American rhetoric. At the same time, Qatar-based Al Jazeera English has proved itself indispensable, in a time of decreasing television budgets, to the coverage of global stories such as the Egypt uprising — bringing non-stop live coverage as the events unfolded and holding interviews with those most relevant to the story.
Another difference between the two? Russia Today is widely carried by major U.S. cable providers such as TimeWarner. Al Jazeera is not.
Al Jazeera English launched to suspicious fanfare in November 2006. Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had famously called the coverage of the Iraq War provided by its Arabic-language sister channel “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable.” Former U.S. President George W. Bush reportedly mused about bombing its Doha headquarters (a report the White House denied).
Yet in four years it has grown into a respected news channel, watched by policymakers as it provides — by virtue of its budget, location and focus — incomparable breadth of coverage of the Middle East. What the 1991 Persian Gulf War was for CNN, so the ongoing crisis in Egypt may well be for Al Jazeera English...
Another difference between the two? Russia Today is widely carried by major U.S. cable providers such as TimeWarner. Al Jazeera is not.
Al Jazeera English launched to suspicious fanfare in November 2006. Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had famously called the coverage of the Iraq War provided by its Arabic-language sister channel “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable.” Former U.S. President George W. Bush reportedly mused about bombing its Doha headquarters (a report the White House denied).
Yet in four years it has grown into a respected news channel, watched by policymakers as it provides — by virtue of its budget, location and focus — incomparable breadth of coverage of the Middle East. What the 1991 Persian Gulf War was for CNN, so the ongoing crisis in Egypt may well be for Al Jazeera English...
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Miriam Elder @'Global Post'
Alireza Gorbani & Dorsaf Hamdani present Ivresses @ Festival Au Fil des Voix 2/9/11
1. Le Sacre de Kayyam
2. L'Ivresse
3. L'Existence
4. Amoureux
5. Enivrement
6. L'Echanson
Alireza Ghorbani (chant classique persan)
Dorsaf Hamdani (chant classique arabe)
Ali Ghamsary (composition, tar, divan)
Sohrab Pournazeri (Kamanche, Tanbur)
Hussein Zahawy (Daf, Bendir, Darbouka, Dayera)
Sofiane Negra (Oud)
Keyvan Chemirani (Zarb, Udu)
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