Art Ensemble of Chicago (featuring Fontella Bass) - 'Theme De Yoyo"

Fontella Bass

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

'Your head is like a yoyo, your neck is like the string. Your body's like a camembert oozing from its skin.

Your fanny's like two sperm whales floating down the Seine. Your voice is like a long fuck that's music to your brain.

Your eyes are two blind eagles that kill what they can't see. Your hands are like two shovels digging in deep.

And your love is like an oil-well. Dig, dig, dig, dig it, On the Champs-Elysees'.

Get it here.
(From 'Les Stances A Sophie' S/T.)
(Pure sassiness that even your most elderly relative will twitch to come this party season!)

Madness. Riding a bicycle at 107 miles per hour!

Worst xmas tree of the year? The winner...Melbourne

This monstrosity is in our City Square (and it was put up in October!)

Hee - Hee!

Xmas trees of the year!

David Hicks - restrictions lifted

Story from the 'BBC' here.

Countdown to Armageddon

Public Enemy & the Jungle Brothers at the Esplanade Hotel in St. Kilda on January 1st (SOLD OUT) and the 2nd. (Tickets here.)

With PE doing a gig in Brisbane also on the 1st before jetting down to Melbourne at least this time there will be an excuse for Flava to NOT know what city he is in!
(A reference to the time I saw them at Festival Hall & he bounded on stage here in Melbourne and told us how good it was to be in Sydney!)

Your weekly address from Obama

Hello Dan it's Joe here, I hope you are keeping well / It's the 21st of December now they're ringing the last bell

Paul Kelly - 'How To Make Gravy' Live 17th November 2006.
Make Poverty History concert Myer Music Bowl Melbourne.


"Hello Dan, it's Joe here
I hope you're keeping well
Its the 21st of December
now theyre ringing the last bell
if I get good behaviour
I'll be out of here by July
Won't you kiss my kids on Christmas day

Pleeeease don't let them cry for me

I guess the brothers are driving down from Queensland and Stella's
flying in from the coast
They say it's gonna be a hundred degrees, even more maybe, but that
won't stop the roast

Who's gonna make the gravy now?
I bet it won't taste the same

Just add flour, salt, a little red wine and don't forget a dollop of
tomato sauce for sweetness and that extra tang

And give my love to Angus and to Frank and Dolly,
Tell 'em all I'm sorry I screwed up this time
And look after Rita, I'll be thinking of her early Christmas morning
When I'm standing in line

I hear Mary's got a new boyfriend, I hope he can hold his own
Do you remember the last one? What was his name again?
(Just a little too much cologne)

And Roger, you know I'm even gonna miss Roger
'Cause there's sure as hell no one in here I want to fight

Oh praise the Baby Jesus, have a Merry Christmas,
I'm really gonna miss it, all the treasure and the trash
And later in the evening, I can just imagine,
You'll put on Junior Murvin and push the tables back
And you'll dance with Rita, I know you really like her,
Just don't hold her too close, oh brother please don't stab me in the
back

I didn't mean to say that, it's just my mind it plays up,
Multiplies each matter, turns imagination into fact
You know I love her badly, she's the one to save me,
I'm gonna make some gravy, I'm gonna taste the fat
Tell her that I'm sorry, yeah I love her badly, tell 'em all I'm
sorry,
And kiss the sleepy children for me
You know one of these days, I'll be making gravy,
I'll be making plenty, I'm gonna pay 'em all back."

(Paul Kelly)

The best Xmas song ever.

Play the 'Sock & Awe' game

Try to hit Bush with a shoe here.

BACK...

DON'T LOSE...

Painting by April Hoff.

Dick Cheney: Obama 'not likely to cede authority'

Story from 'Politico' here.

So let me try and understand this.

It's OK to go against the will of the people and to authorise all sorts of shenanigans in time of 'war'?
Sorry, you are part of a democracy.
In fact you pride yourself on being THE democracy which you then try and export around the world.
In my book - you call it 'war' then I think you should be tried for 'war crimes'.

Sexy secrets from the Syrian souk

Picture:BBC

Story from the 'BBC' here.

FIFA to allow 'GB' soccer team in 2012 Olympics

Story from the 'BBC' here.

(OK, so let's try and get this straight. GB equals Great Britain right and yet Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland ALL oppose this move and FIFA have no objections if ALL the players are English...No sorry, still don't get it!)

Grateful Dead Audio & Video Downloads

Grateful Dead Downloads

Audio here & here
Video here

Daniel Radcliffe at Gypsy of the Year 2008

IMPORTANT: SERIOUS SECURITY FLAW FOUND IN INTERNET EXPORER

WARNING ! / IMPORTANT !
Story from the 'BBC' here.

Hazel Dooney flies high!

'The Aviatrix' by Hazel Dooney
The above painting was sold tonight for $32.701 (Australian) / (14,375 UK pounds) at Christies in London.
What can I say apart from the fact that Ms. Dooney is one of our most exciting (and challenging) artists working in Australia today.
If you don't know her work then please do yourself a favour and check it out here and her wonderful, ever rewarding blog here.
(I am biased. Hazel was my # 1 'Girl With A Gun' way back when I started this blog!)

Gig of 2009!

Michael Gira @ The Toff!
Nothing more to say.

(Just brought to my attention that this link here (Zshare) is no longer working. It will be rectified A.S.A.P.)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & his brothers live NYC 2006

3 sets from Will and brothers Paul and Ned live at Joe's Pub NYC in 2006 from 'Aquarium Drunkard' here.

Girlz With Gunz # 20

Dot Allison

Bush acknowledges absence of al Qaeda in pre-occupation Iraq with a "So What"!

BUSH: One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand. This is where al Qaeda was hoping to take-

RADDATZ: But not until after the U.S. invaded.
BUSH: Yeah, that's right. So what? The point is that al Qaeda said they're going to take a stand. Well, first of all in the post-9/11 environment Saddam Hussein posed a threat. And then upon removal, al Qaeda decides to take a stand.

Black Cab

Black Cab - Hearts On Fire

Black Cab - New Speedway Boogie

For all you St. Kilda supporters

Jennifer Aniston on the cover of the new GQ.
She will be 40 in February (gulp!)

Good Duck Bush!

Shoes thrown at Bush in Iraq

Story from 'The Huffington Post' here.

Bush claims success in 'War-On-Drugs'

Story from 'The Huffington Post' here.

(?)

Bush farewells Iraq today.
Story from the 'BBC' here.

Ornette Coleman live with the Grateful Dead on the 9th December 1993 (Los Angeles Sports Arena)

I was unaware that Ornette had also played with the Dead on this occasion until my friend Tim (the jazz errorist) brought this to my attention after yesterday's post here.
(Tracks are ' Drums - Space - The Other One - Wharf Rat & Turn On Your Lovelight)
Also augmenting the Dead on ' Drums & Space' are Flora Purim & Airto Moreira . Brazil's first couple of fusion.
You can get it here.
(The next night it would be Branford Marsalis' turn to sit in with the Dead again.)

Little Axe - Killing Floor Blues (Live 2005)

Little Axe - Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, Keith Leblanc, guest Pierre (sax) with
Adrian Sherwood (at the mixing desk) playing the Second Annual Wimbash at Sully's Pub in Hartford, Connecticut August 2005.

(David Parker runs skysaw.org for EVERYTHING On-U Sound related
and here is his little Axe complete discography.)

Tangled up in blues & times out of mind

For a complete A to Zee of Zimmerman go here and here.

Rain on my parade - 'Clean Feed' rally a washout in Melbourne today

Photos by TimN

Cold, wet and wintry conditions meant that there were probably no more than 150-200 people (and one furry alien) at today's 'clean feed' rally in Melbourne.

This is one of the biggest attacks on our civil liberties that we are facing here in Australia.

(Non Australian readers of this blog may be unaware that our Prime Minister, Chairman Rudd speaks fluent Mandarin and that maybe this little idea was whispered into his ear by China's President Hu Jintao the last time that they were cozying up together as the similarities with
'the great firewall of China' are uncanny.)

Please go here to see what Obama's views are on this subject.

Mugabe's government claims UK caused cholera outbreak!!!

Story from the 'BBC' here.

Daft Punk - Electroma (ONE NIGHT ONLY)

PitchforkTV will be showing this film today until 8pm (US East Coast Time) here.
A word of warning: my eldest son and I actually paid hard earned dollars to see this film when it was shown in Melbourne.
It is CRAP.
You will be amazed how bad it is.

Just read that it is 74 minutes long.
It will feel like eternity (and then some).
The film does not even contain any Daft Punk music!

Obama on 'net neutrality'

SAVE THE INTERNET

As I am about to head off to the 'Clean Feed' Rally here in Melbourne in the torrential rain, I ask all American readers to click on the image above for further information regarding the preservation of 'net neutrality'.
Interesting that while it is Chairman Rudd and the Labor government who are trying to introduce this legislation here in Australia, over there in the US Obama has promised to fight to keep the internet free from censorship.
You can read about that here.

I may not agree with what a lot of people say on the internet but I defend their right to say so.
(it's called democracy!)

Ornette Coleman & the Grateful Dead live 23rd February 1993 (Oakland Colisseum)

Photo above by Susana Millman
(Taken from the wonderful new book 'GratefulDead365')

Here you can get Ornette Coleman sitting in with the Grateful Dead at the 'Mardi-Gras' gig from the 23rd of February 1993 at the Oakland Colisseum.
Tracks are 'Space - The Other One - Stella Blue - Turn On Your Lovelight & Brokedown Palace'.
Again it would have been interesting to have heard them playing with each other in the seventies when both Ornette and the Dead were exploring new sonic boundaries.
Ornette's son Denardo is also sitting in on percussion in this set.

(Another gig of Ornette and the Dead playing together from later in the year can be found here.
David Murray live with the Grateful Dead at Madison Square Garden on September 22nd 1993 can be found here. Use search engine at top for much more Grateful Dead live material on this blog.)

$20 Blackberry loaded with McCain campaign info sold to reporter

Story from 'Fox News' here.