Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Laurel & Hardy dance to Billy Jean

Old friend ex Pretty Things drummer Viv Prince alive and well in Portugal tonight

I'll be honest I didn't think Viv would still be with us in this day and age. I met him in the late seventies through a woman I knew called Louise, who turned me on to Scott Walker and whose original May 68 posters I coveted. She was also one of the first twenty members of the original Rolling Stones fan club. Viv and her would reminisce about the early gigs and complain that they were never the same without Brian Jones. Viv also did the most incredible impersonation of Jagger's stage moves. Every so often I would get invited back to Viv's small bedsit in Highgate to try the demon home brew he made and I remember one night I was extolling the virtues of (some) disco music which to say didn't go down well with Viv would be a rather massive understatement. Anyway after falling unconscious at some point I finally awoke and headed off and after walking about a mile realised on seeing my reflection in a shop window that the bast'rd had written 'I LOVE DISCO' in texta on my forehead (NOT easy deciphering it backwards with a dreadful hangover!!!)

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Joe Strummer and Punk Self-Reinvention

How Lester Bangs Taught Me To Read

Monday, 19 August 2013

Map of London Underground trains in real-time

What I learned from getting shot

Welcome to Britain: Border control officers can seize personal data without reasonable suspicion

♪♫ Tom Jones & Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Long Time Gone (1969)

from "This Is Tom Jones, ABC TV Studios, September 6, 1969"
Thanks to Kaggsy!!

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Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave(1999)

A Cry from the Grave tells the story of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in which the Bosnian Serb army killed an estimated 7,000 Bosnian Muslims.
It follows hour by hour the story of the killings. Through the testimony of survivors and relatives of those who died it explores the pain felt when no one is brought to justice.There are interviews with investigators from the UN-sponsored court at The Hague and from the UN special prosecutor.
But the underlying message of the film is bleak indeed - no matter what is done, it will never be enough. A Cry from the Grave has won numerous prizes. It has been shown at the UN, and it was used during a war crimes trial at The Hague