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@AlamMcG/
Now I have no reason to get up in the middle of the night/
Oh well back to bed I go!
Laterzzzz...

and...

L'Anno Che Verrá (Girlz with Gunz # ????)

Hazel says:

After writing yesterday's entry, I decided to let my imagination run wild with some ideas about what might unfold for art and artists over the next ten years. These are the outtakes:Artists will be the new pop stars. They'll have to tour constantly to promote their work as well as be subjected to the same sort of intrusive coverage by paparazzi as Kid Rock or P. Diddy. Bi-sexuality will continue to be trendy and Sam Taylor-Wood will dump her young husband to take up with an aging Megan Fox, whom she'll cast in a re-make of The Hours. After subjecting myself to Orlan-esque body modifications, I will become art's answer to Pamela Anderson – or Kim Kardashian, whichever.
In a reversal of a trend begun by Julian Schnabel and less successfully, Robert Longo, in the '80s and sustained by Sam Taylor-Wood until this year, film directors will aspire to become artists rather than the other way around (come on down, Tim Burton).The mainstream audience will become increasingly art-savvy and Kevin McCloud will switch his attention from architects' and home-owners' Grand Designs to their aspirations as collectors. Unfortunately for artists, they'll be more discerning and demand more depth, development and relevancy in the work they actually buy.Due to the loss of rudimentary artisan skills, a tragic by-product of a thirty year emphasis on post-modern theory rather than traditional, centuries-old practice, art schools will become irrelevant and be replaced by free, widely distributed, web-based, autonomous learning resources. Artists will re-learn 15th century skills and techniques through [gasp!] experimentation, practise, online research, and by viewing work by fellow artists. Artspeak will only exist in academic libraries. The language died when a wider audience learned to translate it and discovered the banality of its messages. It will be studied by ethnologists as an anachronistic but doomed fad that owed its existence exclusively to conceptual art. What used to be regarded as conceptual art will now be mainstream and the exclusive domain of advertising agencies desperate to try anything to reach mass audiences after the death of broadcast TV and newspapers. Glossy art magazines will have replaced interior design magazines as the 'pornography' of the middle class, who will pay a premium to display them as paper editions on their Marc-Newson-for-Target coffee tables.Takashi Murakami will become increasingly jaded as his ideas about democratising work are reduced to soul-less, auto-industry-style production lines. He will commit public seppuku in the foyer of the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi (Tokyo) in a bid to restore his honour as an artist. Damien Hirst will pre-sell by auction a range of artworks to be manufactured after his death. One of the works will be his dead, dissected body preserved in formaldehyde. He will organise a world-wide, touring retrospective exhibition featuring his decaying corpse as its centre-piece – to be launched immediately after he passes away. E-Bay rather than Sotheby's will handle the Hirst auction and in conjunction with Matthew Freud and Jay Jopling, will hype the event to drive up prices: indeed, the works will be auctioned several times over, for massively increasing amounts, even before Hirst dies. He will retain ownership of a small percentage of each work so his estate might participate in the rising value forever.Dames Tracey Emin and Germaine Greer will establish an arcane cult that worships and sexually enslaves young men. Neither will see any irony in this. An ancient Jeffrey Smart will be invited to preside as High Priest over annual rites at an undisclosed location in Tuscany. (Thanks to Italian singer-songwriter, Lucio Dalla, for the title.)

Via'Self VS Self'

Day & Night

José Quintero / Buba Estudio

Ik hou van de zomer

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Night of the Lotus Eaters

Indeed you do...

"...It’s a heavy tune with no definable emotional tang beyond an odd ‘fleeting rapture’; in this respect, it fits nicely with the Basic Channel aesthetic, where the productions of Von Oswald and collaborator Mark Ernestus are glorious and overwhelming, but distant – not cold, but somehow removed. Their impact relies on submission; you willingly lose yourself in the luster of their gun-metal, greyscale noises – grainy reverb and tape hiss, rolling waves of texture, endless plateaus of rhythm."

@'Dusted'

Historic Sounds of Newport Jazz & Folk Festivals, Newly Online

As the future of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals continues to unfold, its recorded past has suddenly been thrown open.

Recently the festivals themselves almost disappeared, amid the financial collapse of their producing company, the Festival Network LLC. They returned last summer in a new guise, at their usual site, once George Wein, the founder of both festivals, regained the right to hold music events there.

It’s a complicated story. But if you want to know why the Newport Jazz Festival has been so important to American music, it’s easy: you just have to hear the recorded evidence. Bits and pieces have emerged over the years, in live recordings by Ellington, Coltrane and others. Now Wolfgang’s Vault, the online concert-recording archive, intends to fill in the gaps...

@'NY Times'

RIP - Robert Enke

Robbert Enke

GERMANY'S top goalkeeper Robert Enke died last night after being hit by a train.
The 32-year-old - set to star for his country at next year's World Cup - was fatally injured at a level crossing near Hannover.
Early reports suggested troubled Enke may have killed himself.
The Hannover 96 captain was devastated when his two-year-old daughter Lara died of a rare heart ailment in 2006.
He leaves behind his wife, Teresa, and an eight-month-old daughter the couple had adopted in May.
Last night, his club president Martin Kind was reported as having described the keeper as "unstable" in recent weeks.
Enke was struck by a regional train travelling between Norddeich and Hannover at a railway crossing in Neustadt am Rubenberge and died at the scene.
A German police spokesman confirmed late last night: "The victim is national team goalkeeper Robert Enke from Hannover 96.
"The first police indications are that it was a suicide."
@'Daily Record'

Mum presents Shocking Pinks

Poster by Hadley Donaldson

Shocking Pinks - Emily

Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) G20 Pittsburgh

The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) was used for the first time in the USA in Pittsburgh during the time of G20 summit on September 24-25th, 2009

Sonic warfare - Steve Goodman (AKA Kode9)

Sonic Warfare

sound, affect & the ecology of fear

Samuli Kemppi - Dubiteknomiks 1

Another five post Basic Channel Dubiteknomiks mixes available to download from this Finnish DJ

Samuli Kemppi
Download
HERE

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Kissinger in London today to collect a Margaret Thatcher 'Medal of Freedom'. Will he use it to beat some Chilean dissidents to death?about 4 hours ago from web

Accept the facts – and end this futile 'war on drugs'

We are handing one of our biggest industries over to armed, criminal gangs

The proponents of the "war on drugs" are well-intentioned people who believe they are saving people from the nightmare of drug addiction and making the world safer. But this self-image has turned into a faith – and like all faiths, it can only be maintained by cultivating a deliberate blindness to the evidence.

The recent furore about the British government's decision to fire its chief scientific advisor on drugs, Professor David Nutt, missed the point. Yes, it is shocking that he was ditched for pointing out the mathematical truth that taking ecstasy is less dangerous than horse-riding, and that smoking cannabis is less harmful than drinking alcohol. But this is how the war on drugs has to be fought. The unofficial slogan of the prohibitionists for decades has been: The facts will only undermine the war, so invent some that show how successful we are, fast.

Look at the United States, the country that pioneered the drug war, and still uses its military and diplomatic might to demand the rest of the world cracks down. In 1998, the Office of National Drug Control Policy was ordered by Congress to stop funding any scientific research that might give the impression that we should redirect funding from anti-trafficking busts into medical treatment of addicts, or that there is any argument to legalise, regulate or medicalise drug use.

It's Nutt cubed: only tell us what we want to hear. So, to give a small example, the ONDCP spent $14bn on anti-cannabis adverts aimed at teenagers, and $43m to find out if the ads worked. They discovered that kids who saw the ads were more likely afterwards to get stoned, so the evidence was suppressed, and the ad campaign marched on...
Johann Hari
@'The Independent'

(RePost) The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month

In Memory of

Private ARTHUR JOHN HADDOCK

2766529, 6th Bn., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
who died age 20
on 24 April 1944
Son of Robert Arthur and Catherine Haddock,

of Orrell, Bootle, Lancashire.

Remembered with honour
CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

Radiohead - Harry Patch (In memory of)

Henry John "Harry" Patch (17 June 1898 25 July 2009)—known as "the Last Tommy"—was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe and the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War.Patch was, with Claude Choules, one of the last two surviving British veterans of the First World War, and along with Frank Buckles and John Babcock, one of the last four worldwide. He was, at the age of 111 years, 38 days, the verified third-oldest man in the world, the oldest man in Europe and one of the 70 oldest men ever.

Blackwater Approved Iraqi Payments After Shootings

Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.

Blackwater approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests over the deadly shootings in Nisour Square stoked long-simmering anger inside Iraq about reckless practices by the security company’s employees. American and Iraqi investigators had already concluded that the shootings were unjustified, top Iraqi officials were calling for Blackwater’s ouster from the country and company officials feared that Blackwater might be refused an operating license it would need to retain its contracts with the State Department and private clients, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Four former Blackwater executives said in interviews that Gary Jackson, who was then the company’s president, had approved the bribes, and the money was sent from Amman, Jordan, where Blackwater maintains an operations hub, to a top manager in Iraq. The executives, though, said they did not know whether the cash was delivered to Iraqi officials or the identities of the potential recipients.

Blackwater’s strategy of buying off the government officials, which would have been illegal under American law, created a deep rift inside the company, according to the former executives. They said that Cofer Black, who was then the company’s vice chairman and a former top C.I.A. and State Department official, learned of the plan from another Blackwater manager while he was in Baghdad discussing compensation for families of the shooting victims with United States Embassy officials...

@'NY Times'

Scotland's Secret Shame

A BBC Panorama Documentary which looks at the sectarian problem's in Scotland (Glasgow in particular) and how the problems are associated with two of the biggest football clubs in the world - Rangers and Celtic.

Produced by Murdoch Rodgers.
Transcript:
HERE
(Painful, painful reading!)

Congrats Murdoch!!!

An investigation into the quality of home care for older people - which led to the brief arrest of its journalist, who went undercover to report the story - was among the winners at a celebration of Scottish TV and film.

At the BAFTA Scotland awards last Saturday night, the News and Current Affairs title went to 'Panorama - Britain's Homecare Scandal', whose reporter, Arifa Farooq was arrested for giving false information about her identity while applying for a job that gave her access to the standards of domiciliary care.

The programme was made by the BBC Scotland Investigations Unit. In the end, the Procurator Fiscal chose not to pursue Farooq, whose efforts led to inquiry being held by the Scottish Parliament into home care contracts.

The producer was Murdoch Rodgers and the assistant producer was ex-Sunday Herald reporter, Liam McDougall.

This is the third year in a row that BBC Scotland has won the News and Current Affairs title at the Scottish BAFTAs.

Disclaimer: Murdoch is my 'brother-in-law'

"Gie him a big kiss frae me sis!"

Morrisey should just have taken Josh Homme's advice and "buttfuck 12 year old dickless boys"!

No one fugn knows indeed!

Gurlz, gurlz, gurlz!

(For Jackiesan!)

Fakir Musafar

Nineteen inches 1959

Chained 1978

Fakir Musafar

Karl Rove's adoptive Father's piercings
@'Boing Boing'

Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart (featuring Doleres O'Riordan) - The Sun Does Rise

Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Becoming More Like God

Morning Yotte!

Alamut

This and especially this may be of interest to you...

Alan Moore on 'Dodgem Logic'

So there's an overtly political thrust to the mag?

To a certain extent. In the second issue I'm doing a piece on anarchy: the practicalities of it, and how it might be made to work without just fucking everything up forever (laughs). I've been reading some stuff about Sortition, which is basically a bit like the old Athenian government by lot. Which strikes me as a way you could still have a government which would not contradict the central anarchist tenet of no leaders. Yes, you need massive constitutional reform, but on the other hand when circumstances are as desperate as they are at the moment, when our political masters are buying mink coats for their swans on expenses, then what is unthinkable, politically, in this day and age?

These are ideas I'm going to be pushing and I suppose there is a political agenda, but it's mainly a humanitarian one...

Alan Moore launches his bi-monthly magazine Dodgem Logic in November, featuring articles and artwork by himself and various other contributors, including Mustard magazine. We spoke to him at his Northampton home.
@'Mustard'

Remember that Alan Moore knows the score...

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television, the Drug of the Nation

The Beatnigs - Television (On-U Sound Remix by Adrian Sherwood, Gary Clail & Mark Stewart)

(A shout out to the 'Devotional Hooligan' in Bristol!)

On their debut album, this striking San Francisco quintet explodes in a tight and danceable riot of industrial percussion, vocals and tape manipulations. According to an enclosed booklet ("Aural Instruction Manual"), the word "nig" is defined as "a positive acronym...[it] has taken on a universal meaning in describing all oppressed people who have actively taken a stand against those who perpetuate ethnic notions and discriminate on the basis of them." Assailing "Television" (the medium, not the band), poverty and hunger ("Burritos"), the "CIA" and South Africa ("Control"), the Beatnigs cross Devo, Test Dept. and the Dead Kennedys in a brilliant, original coincidence of extremist musical ideas and radical politics. "Television" was subsequently given a pair of head-spinning remixes by Adrian Sherwood, Gary Clail and Mark Stewart and issued on a four-version 12-inch.

Beatnigs leader Michael Franti went on to front the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and then Spearhead in the '90s.
(Ira Robbins - Trouser Press)

Bonus:Audio
The Beatnigs - Television (On-U Sound Remix)

David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (The Kenny Everett Video Show)

30-Years On: David Bowie's Lodger Comes In From The Cold
@'The Quietus'

Lord McCluskey calls for drugs to be legalised

One of Scotland’s most senior former judges has called for the legalisation of heroin and other illicit drugs.

Lord McCluskey said government policy had failed to cut the number of drug deaths or level of drug-related crime.

The former solicitor general for Scotland and High Court judge added that he was appalled by the effect that illegal substances were having on Scotland’s communities.

McCluskey, who defended Sir Paul McCartney against drugs charges in 1973, said he believed that heroin should be given to addicts in controlled medical settings to cut off the flow of money to organised crime. “If people are addicted to heroin, give them heroin. I’m not suggesting you sell it at newsagents, but if you were to offer it to addicts in a medically controlled setting, there would be no criminal market,” he said.

McCluskey said treating drugs as a criminal issue was wrong, and they should be regarded as a health problem...

@'The Times'

Launch of ‘After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation’

Transform Drug Policy Foundation will launch their internationally groundbreaking book ‘After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation’ on 12th November 2009 at 11.15am, at the House of Commons, London and at 11.00am at the DPA Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The book is also being launched in mainland Europe, South America, Australasia and Asia.

There is a growing recognition around the world that the prohibition of drugs is a counterproductive failure. However, a major barrier to drug law reform has been a widespread fear of the unknown – just what could a post-prohibition regime look like?

For the first time, ‘Blueprint’ answers that question by proposing specific models of regulation for each main type and preparation of prohibited drug, coupled with the principles and rationale for doing so.

Transform demonstrate that moving to the legal regulation of drugs is not an unthinkable, politically impossible step in the dark, but a sensible, pragmatic approach to control drug production, supply and use.

The House of Commons event will include short presentations by Steve Rolles (author of the publication), Dr Ben Goldacre (‘Bad Science’ columnist for the Guardian) and Professor Rod Morgan (Former Chair of the UK Youth Justice Board) followed by a question and answer session and a light lunch.

The Albuquerque launch has a panel including Danny Kushlick (Transform), Sanho Tree (Institute for Policy Studies) and US Rep. Roger Goodman.

If you would like to attend either the House of Commons or Albuquerque events, please contact Jane Slater on +44 (0) 117 941 5810 or email jane@tdpf.org.uk.

Till The Bars Break

Superb album concerning Native American Indian's culture & land rights with the wonderful Jeanette Armstrong, Michael Franti's Beatnigs, The Fire Next Time, Chuck D with Mad Professor and an interview with Che Guevara from 1967 amongst others.
@'(Son of)'

Shackleton - DJ Set Sonar 08

The Open Road London (1927)

London was the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. Pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene brought these picture-postcard scenes to life with a specially-devised colour film process.

Text from the earliest illustrated handscroll (12th century) of The Tale of Genji

(Thanx Carolyn)

Dirty Three: Live at ATP-NY'09 w/ Nick Cave (download)

Black Tide/Deep Waters
@'Free Music Archive'