Henry Miller & Anaïs Nin on Death and Dreams

Australia 2013 (Dust Storm Onslow WA)

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Unlikely cover star of Gay News issue #1

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Savile 'Groomed Nation'

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If Andrew Sullivan Is The Future of Journalism Then Journalism Is Fucked

MONA Bushfire Fundraiser Concert

MONA is pleased to announce a MONA Bushfire Fundraiser Concert to raise funds for the Australian Red Cross Tasmanian Bushfires 2013 Appeal - Monday 21 January.
http://www.mona.net.au/what%27s-on/events.aspx

THE ARTISTS:
Hoodoo Gurus
The Break
Kate Miller-Heidke
Evan Dando & Spencer P Jones
Neil Gaiman
Jherek Bischoff
Taiko Drum

Tickets $33, on sale from Tuesday 15 January, 12pm.
All profits from the concert are being provided to the Australian Red Cross Tasmanian Bushfires 2013 Appeal. Production costs are being minimised by the generous donation of time and services by dozens of companies and individuals.
MONA - Museum of Old and New Art and MONA FOMA staff are organising the event, suppliers are offering equipment and services including artist accommodation, volunteers are staffing the concert and artists are performing without fee. Mona has waived ticket booking fees and is giving all food and bar profits from the evening to the Red Cross.

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Durutti Column guitarist Vini Reilly 'embarrassed' by appeal

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Liaisons Dangereuses - Live @ The Hacienda (7/782)

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Delia Derbyshire Day 2013

Delia Derbyshire Day 2013 will be the first of its kind. It will be a day to celebrate and highlight the fascinating work of Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), the pioneering electronic music composer who worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and is most famous for realising the original Dr Who theme in 1963.

Delia Derbyshire Day will be taking place on Saturday 12 January 2013 at Manchester’s renowned music venue Band on the Wall (Best Entertainment Venue at Manchester Tourism Awards 2012). 2013 will be the Dr Who 50th Anniversary and therefore of Delia Derbyshire's iconic original theme, so this event will launch the celebrations.
Awarded funding from the Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation and Quebec Arts Council, this project involves three new music-based commissions, the Delia Derbyshire Day event and a Northern England mini-tour.
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Australia 2013

Tammy Holmes shelters her grandchildren Charlotte Walker, 2, Esther Walker, 4, Liam Walker, 9, Matilda, 11, and Caleb Walker, 6, under a jetty as a wildfire rages nearby in Dunalley, Australia, Jan. 4, 2013. This photo was taken by Tammy Holme's husband Tim Holmes.
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Irvine Welsh on ‘Scottish Independence and British Unity’

Therefore I’m advancing another proposition: political separation could promote the cultural unity that the UK state, in its current form, with its notions of ‘assumed Englishness’ is constantly undermining. Despite the shallow flag-waving social engineers in Government and sections of the media, who tried to turn it into a bread and circuses propaganda event, the Olympics were the best expression of inclusive Britishness we’ve had for decades. (The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, despite massive media hype and the pathetic efforts of a few unionist Labour councils, still amounted to an inconsequential joke in Scotland.) Danny Boyle, in a couple of hours, did more to assert democratic socialist values over neo-liberalism than the UK Labour Party has managed to do in almost forty years. But it was also nostalgic; it mirrored not just what many of us still aspire to, it showed us what we have to accept we’ve irredeemably lost. But I cheered just as ecstatically when Brad Wiggins crossed the line as when Chris Hoy did, and plenty other Scots I know did too. So post UK, why not, for example, just keep the British Olympic team?
If we rid ourselves of the political imperialist baggage of the UK state, new possibilities emerge. For example, it would become feasible for Ireland, as an established sovereign nation, to see itself as part of a shared geographical and cultural entity. This, in turn, brings potential opportunities for the continued development of the peace process in Northern Ireland. The idea of the political independence of England and Scotland leading to conflict, hatred and distrust is the mindset of opportunistic status-quo fearmongers and gloomy nationalist fantasists stuck in a Bannockburn-Culloden timewarp, and deeply insulting to the people of both countries. Swedes, Norwegians and Danes remain on amicable terms; they trade, co-operate and visit each other socially any time they like. They don’t need a pompous, blustering state called Scandinavia, informing them from Stockholm how wonderful they all are, but (kind of) only really meaning Sweden...

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Cathy Berberian

Catherine Anahid Berberian (July 4, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was an American soprano and composer. She interpreted contemporary avant-garde music composed, among others, by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and Igor Stravinsky. She also interpreted works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Philipp Zu Eulenburg, The Beatles, folk songs from Armenia, also by the musical analyst Komitas Vartabed, and her own compositions. Her best known work is Stripsody (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds (onomatopoeia)...
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