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♪♫ Levon Helm Band & Wilco - The Weight (Solid Sound Festival 2011)

'Levon was the glue, not just in The Band, but in all of what people think of when they think of North American music. He was a great unifier; a great glue. He unified blues and country, rural and city, and even North and South. Luckily he showed us all the way to keep it together and let it swing.'

- Jeff Tweedy

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Levon Helm RIP

Levon Helm, singer and drummer for the Band, died on April 19th in New York of throat cancer. He was 71.
"He passed away peacefully at 1:30 this afternoon surrounded by his friends and bandmates," Helm's longtime guitarist Larry Campbell tells Rolling Stone. "All his friends were there, and it seemed like Levon was waiting for them. Ten minutes after they left we sat there and he just faded away. He did it with dignity. It was even two days ago they thought it would happen within hours, but he held on. It seems like he was Levon up to the end, doing it the way he wanted to do it. He loved us, we loved him."

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Our communities in crisis

'Nobody comes to investigate why this is happening': Mowanjum community leader Gary Umbagai at the entrance to the town. Photo: Glenn Campbell
It came without warning, triggered by something as trivial as a teenage boy demanding that his brother hand over his mobile phone. It was the 16-year-old's birthday, and he was celebrating by drinking steadily all day, as he did most days. The tiff, really nothing more than a simple squabble between brothers, ended in the early hours of the next morning when the darkest of impulses overwhelmed the child.
An 8-year-old girl raised the alarm. She had sighted the boy's lifeless body hanging from a tree behind the church in the abandoned playground. After several hours police and emergency services arrived, conducted a brief investigation and had the body removed.
As the sun climbed into the sky, scores of children looked on in silence. Witnesses said the grieving and sobbing rolled through the tiny community of Mowanjum like a thick black cloud. In this one small place, just a 10 minute drive from the thriving mining hub of Derby in West Kimberley, there have been six deaths by suicide in six months.
Gary Umbagai, council chairman and mineworker, openly despairs about the rising death toll and community dysfunction. "There is something dreadfully wrong in our community, but what can we do?" Mowanjum and Derby he adds, have the highest youth suicide rates in Australia, possibly the world.
"There is a terrible crisis here, but nobody in authority except the police acts as if there is a crisis." The Age visited Mowanjum this month with the permission of the traditional owners and after being alerted to the community's desperate plight by health workers troubled by what they believe is chronic official indifference.
In January, a 20-year-old surrendered his life after his partner locked him out because he was drunk and violent. In March, a 44-year-old newly unemployed mineworker hanged himself. In yet another incident, a young girl vanished into the bush only to be found days later, also the victim of an apparent uncontrollable impulse after a relationship went wrong.
Umbagai says he has lost count of attempted suicides. A document obtained by The Age reveals that in a four-month period from July last year, 18 females and 22 males were admitted to the Derby hospital, for self-harm, attempted hanging, overdosing and suicidal thoughts. Most cases involved indigenous people and excessive alcohol consumption. The number of young Aboriginal people taking their own lives may be higher as some deaths, such as a recent road fatality, have been classified as accidental...

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 Russell Skelton @'The Age'

Benjybars - Roots of Kode9 Mix

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Kode9 - Sine of the Dub
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Kode9 - Spit
Kode9 - Swarm
Kode9 - Stalker
Kode9 - Dislokated
Kode9 - Fukkaz
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Kode9 - Curious
Deep Alpha - All Think (Kode9 Alphadub remix)
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Massive Music - Find my Way (Kode9 remix)
The Bug - Skeng (Kode9 refix)
Kode9 - Den of Drumz
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Dabrye feat Doom - Air (Kode9 remix)
James Yorkston - Woozy with Cider (Kode 9 remix)

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A VERY interesting read

Crazy

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UPDATE:

This is NOT a direct quote from Kerouac but in fact an Apple ad inspired by him from 1997 and apparently - 'Using a Mac computer, if you open your applications and right click on the TextEdit application and select "Show Package Contents" Contents>Resources then open the file "Edit.icns" in the Preview application you will notice that this quote is used in the icon. It is part of the icon but isn't noticeable until the icon is blown up.'

Thanx to Stan for pointing this out.

However this is fugn bonkers...