ExileGuy's handy hints for surviving the recession - # 1

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Eh?

Clofu = George Clooney flavoured tofu!

Story from 'The Washington Post' here.

(Not even April the first and isn't this a rather cannibalistic idea for vegetarians?
'Oxymoronic' for sure!)

What was that you were saying Rooney?

Manchester Utd 1 VS Liverpool 4
Full report from the 'BBC' here.

Fuctbook

"The answers are always inside the problem, not outside."
Marshall McLuhan

Interesting that on the 4th of March when there was a press conference to unveil the new layout of FB that Marshall McLuhan's name was spelled wrong!

The medium is the message indeed!
A relevant interesting article on these changes here.
PS: Facebook - listen to what your users are saying...this is two major fuck ups in the space of a month or so.

What is wrong with this picture?

With the news that Michael Jackson has sold out ALL 50 shows at London's O2 Arena he probably thinks that he is still 'The King of Pop'!

(The answer is of course EVERYTHING!)

Varg

Taking a break

"The FUCK poem!"

FUCK dogs
FUCK cats
FUCK birds
FUCK fish
FUCK trees
FUCK the beach
FUCK your nature strip
FUCK your homes and gardens
FUCK your 4 wheel drive
FUCK your sports ute
FUCK your BMW
FUCK your vintage rolls
FUCK your Vincent black lightning
FUCK your 38 ford v8 chopper
FUCK your laws and orders
FUCK your jails and mental institutions
FUCK your terrorist paranoia
FUCK your rich fat inflated new age self-lovin’ paraphernalia
FUCK self-avoiding finger-pointing victim thrust
FUCK yr dirty looks
FUCK your dirty minds
FUCK your finger lickin bubblin-under suppressed paedophilia
FUCK the stupid flag
FUCK nostalgia
FUCK Australia
FUCK your bank accounts
FUCK credit extensions
FUCK your hypertension
FUCK your gold card wine rack
FUCK you right up the crack between your stupefied day job and your late night porno movie wank
FUCK your mortgage
FUCK your semi-legal drugs
FUCK meth ice crack smack
FUCK your feel good pills
FUCK your crucifixion bloodlust
FUCK yr endless paranoia about drug busts
FUCK yr clothing that just about covers up your monstrous self-loathing
FUCK yr beliefs
FUCK your god
FUCK trust
FUCK lust
FUCK madness
FUCK sadness
FUCK the rich and
FUCK the poor
FUCK your illness
FUCK your secret lies
FUCK compassion
FUCK your mission
FUCK aggression
FUCK your permission to fill in what’s missin with 50 fucking fucks
FUCK circumcision
FUCK seduction
FUCK rape
FUCK sodomy
Fuck FUCK
FUCK old people
FUCK kids
FUCK racism
FUCK political correctives
FUCK shock jocks with tiny fuckin cocks
FUCK life
FUCK your wife
FUCK the world
FUCK your girl
FUCK you yeah FUCK you yeah FUCK you
FUCK poetry
FUCK this venue
FUCK Byron Bay
FUCK the councillors
FUCK the mayor
FUCK pussy whipped employees everywhere
FUCK everything not included here
FUCK this poem
FUCK never saying FUCK
Fuck EVERYTHING I say
And if you don’t agree

Well…..

FUCK ME

(Daevid Allen)

"Greetings friends!

In response to widespread enquiries I have attached the curious story of Stefanie and I being thrown out of the Woodford Folk Festival in the good old boy Australian state of Queensland at the end of 2008 for unrestrained POETIC use of that universal magick word affectionately known as FUCK.

Apparently it is OK that people of all persuasions use FUCK in all walks of life EXCEPT in a poetic, humorous or imaginative literary performance. Such is life in the deep north of the sixth most retrograde, over regulated and childishly obedient nation in the world. If you imagine that, in Australia, at an apparently alternative folk festival, the festival organisers might have some idea of the popularity and breadth of modern performance poetry and its use of multi media in 2008.

Given that I was partly responsible (see Machine Poets with William Burroughs) for the pioneering of multi media poetry performance in Paris and London ICA in 1962 and in fact represented Australia with the same show at the Paris Biennale of 1967, my treatment by Woodford Festival poetry organiser Shirley Friend seems just a trifle over the top. But then, as you see here, they wouldn't want to know about all that. They only seem to know about BUSH poetry and maybe also a little bit of SLAM poetry might be allowed....So welcome to modern Queensland alternative culture my friends. But dont you worry about that. There are plenty of pumpkin scones!

Love and pataphysical belly laughs,

daevid"

Jack White & Alison Mosshart form new band - 'The Dead Weather'

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The new group includes Alison Mosshart of The Kills, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age and Jack Lawrence of The Greenhornes with Jack White on drums.

Story from 'NY Times' here.

Ricky Gervais meets Elmo

From 'The Hangover - Helper' here.

Dutch police foil Amsterdam terror attack

Story from 'Radio Netherlands' here.

(A concern as son number one lives over in Amsterdam.)

The Blog

From 'coisas do arco da velha' here.

How Dutch is that moggie in the window?

(Photo by Hippie Coco.)

Artifacts for a dream home

Tourbillon turntable.

Details here.
Speakers here.

Libertate

Short film by Jose Alvarado.

Francoise Hardy

An old Dutch beer drinkers joke (as told by Chief Heineken)

"So what is the similarity between drinking Heineken and making love in a canoe?"
"I don't know what is the similarity between drinking Heineken and making love in a canoe?"
"They are both fucking close to water!!!"

The lunatic ninja 'roo

WANTED
"An Australian couple thought they were being attacked by an intruder when a kangaroo crashed through their bedroom window and started jumping on them. "My initial thought, when I was half awake, was it's a lunatic ninja coming through the window. It seems about as likely as a kangaroo breaking in," Beat Ettlin told local media on Monday. The three metre (9 feet) kangaroo smashed through the window in Ettlin's Canberra home on Sunday night. "
Full story here.

Keith Moon blows up his drumkit (and nearly Pete Townsend too!)

The Who - 'My Generation' (Smother Brothers Comedy Hour, 1967)

New Doherty solo album hits the blogosphere

Search around and you will score 'Grace/Wasteland'
Will it be a hit?

Pete Doherty & Dot Allison- Sheepskin Tearaway (Live)

doll face

Dave McKean

Miles & Herbie

Kafka's 'The Trial'

The official site for artist/filmaker/musician Dave McKean is about to launch from here and there is a good fan site here.

Sonnet 138

Reason - Dave McKean

The Week Before - Dave McKean

Jane Fonda

"Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood."

Girlz With Gunz # 26

Jane Fonda

Chuck Norris wants to be President of Texastan!

Story here.
(One word: IDIOT!)

Iain Sinclair

Novelist, film maker & psychogeographer Iain Sinclair talks to 'The Guardian' here about his new book 'Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report'
'BBC' interview here.
When I was living in London back in the late 70's & early 80's I used to buy books regularly from Iain Sinclair at his stall down in Camden Walk.
In my opinion he is truly one of the greatest novelists writing today as well as being a really decent bloke. When his first novel 'White Chappell,Scarlet Tracings' was published a copy was actually sent out to me here in Australia by the late, lamented Mike Hart from Compendium.
William Gibson has said that Sinclair is his favourite author.
If you haven't read any of his books (and you don't mind some intellectual stimulation) then I heartily recommend his work:
* Back Garden Poems', poetry, 1970
* The Kodak Mantra Diaries: Allen Ginsberg in London, documentary, 1971
* Muscat's Wurm, poetry, 1972
* The Birth Rug, poetry, 1973
* Lud Heat, poetry, 1975
* Suicide Bridge, poetry, 1979
* Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal: Selected Poems 1970-1987, poetry, 1987
* White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, fiction, 1987 (originally a limited edition from Goldmark but reprinted by Paladin)
* Downriver, novel, 1991
* Jack Elam's Other Eye, poetry
* Radon Daughters, novel, 1994
* Conductors of Chaos: a Poetry Anthology, editor 1996
* The Ebbing of the Kraft, poetry, 1997
* Lights out for the Territory, non-fiction, 1997
* Slow Chocolate Autopsy, fiction, 1997 (with illustrations by Dave McKean)
* Crash, essay, 1999
* Liquid City, non-fiction, 1999 (with Marc Atkins)
* Rodinsky's Room, non-fiction, 1999 (with Rachel Lichtenstein)
* Sorry Meniscus, essay, 1999
* Landor's Tower, novel, 2001
* London Orbital, non-fiction, 2002 (paperback edition 2003)
* White Goods, poems, essays, fictions, 2002
* Saddling The Rabbit, poetry, 2002 Etruscan Books
* The Verbals, in conversation with Kevin Jackson, 2003 Worple Press
* Dining on Stones, novel, 2004
* Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out Of Essex', non-fiction, 2005
* London: City of Disappearances, editor, various essays about London psychogeography etc, 2006
* Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report, non-fiction, 2009

More on Iain Sinclair here (including reviews of some of his books).

Kruger gets the blues!

B.B. King

Robert Johnson

John Lee Hooker

More wonderful paintings of blues musicians can be found at Sebastian Kruger's blog here.

More blues paintings here & here.

'Captain Keith' by Sebastian Kruger

More of Sebastian Kruger's work here and here.

Kruger'n'Keef

Backstage with Bob Dylan

Mona 1 VS Wired 0

'Anna Matveyeva (pictured here), who received this year's prize for "best debut." She wins a next-gen mobile phone.'
via 'Wired' here.

I knew that something was up in the world of Miss Atom by virtue of the fact that in the space of a couple of hours yesterday I had over 500 hits from Germany alone to my previous post here.
Google took me to the 'Wired' blog and I thought looking at the photo above that a worthy winner had been found. Reading the article made me realise that the photo was not of the winner.
So who had won?
The article originally said the winner was Yelena Bulgakov and there was a photo of the winner at the official Miss Atom site here, but even with my limited knowledge of Cyrillic characters I knew that Екатерина didn't translate as Yelena. Further investigation took me to 'Der Spiegel' online here and one of the contestant's photos was clearly of the winner and there was the name Ekaterina.
A comment was left at 'Wired' and they have now changed the winner's name accordingly!

UPDATE:11/03/09
They still haven't spelled her name right. It's not "Yekaterina"!

"Boris. Why is always Boris?"
(The Wire)

We have a winner! Екатерина Булгакова

Twenty-six year-old Ekaterina Bulgakova (95-69-97) lives by one credo: "Movement -- that's the essence of life!"

She wins a weeklong holiday in the socialist paradise of Cuba.

My choice came third.

50 Years!

FREE TIBET

The weekend New York came to Glasgow (1977)

Television/Blondie

Aaagh memories!
What a double bill and the Friday night had been The Ramones supported by Talking Heads at Strathclyde University!
Only The Ramones had played in the UK previously!
(I think I may have written about these gigs here before but what can I say...?
I actually met Allan Jones from the Melody Maker that weekend, a story that he revisited in his regular column 'Stop Me If You have Heard This Before' at the back of 'Uncut', a couple of years ago.
It was very strange to be confronted with my 17 year old self especially as I was reading it with two of my kids who are older now than I was then.
I remarked that I had hardly changed - which I thought was good!
They thought that was tragic!)

The Breakfast Song

This song aired on The Mornin' Show, a local program carried by NBC affiliate WTVA in Tupelo, Mississippi.

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Live in London 1988.

Ali Bongo - RIP

Story from the 'BBC' here.

Yes We Can!

International Women's Day

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I Am Goodbye