Sunday 15 May 2011
'I make the pussy purr with the stroke of my hand'
Lizardoid Charles Johnson
Cognitive dissonance alert! 'Cat Scratch Fever' is now the anthem for the Huckabee religious right?
mcmoynihan Michael C Moynihan
Holy shit. IMF head Dominque Strauss-Kahn (and Sarko nemesis) arrested on rape charge in NY. http://nyp.st/kJjHGO
US charges six with aiding Pakistani Taliban
Authorities in the US have charged six people with providing financial support to the Pakistani Taliban.
Three are US citizens, including two imams at Florida mosques, while three are at large in Pakistan.The news comes amid heightened tension in relations between Pakistan and the US following the US raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
The Pakistani Taliban said it was behind a revenge attack on Friday that killed 80 in north-western Pakistan.
Pakistani MPs on Saturday passed a resolution condemning the US special forces raid in the town of Abbottabad and demanding a review of the bilateral relationship.
US Senator John Kerry, who is about to visit Pakistan, insisted the US wanted to "build, not break" ties with Pakistan but said there were "serious questions that need to be answered" in the relationship.
Florida imams The four-count indictment against the six people was announced by the US attorney for the Southern District of Florida and local FBI agents.
The three Florida citizens were named as Hafiz Khan, 76, and his sons Irfan Khan, 37, and Izhar Khan, 24. The latter was reportedly arrested in Los Angeles.
Hafiz Khan is the imam at the Flagler Mosque in Miami, while Izhar Khan is the imam at the Jamaat al-Mumineen Mosque in nearby Margate.
Ali Rehman, Alam Zeb and Amina Khan, who live in Pakistan, were also charged.
Amina Khan is the daughter of Hafiz Khan. Alam Zeb is her son.
The six are accused of conspiring to provide material support to a conspiracy to murder, injure and kidnap people abroad and conspiring to provide support to a terrorist organisation, the Pakistani Taliban.
Each of the four counts carries a possible 15-year jail term.
Miami FBI special agent John Gillies said: "Today terrorists have lost another funding source to use against innocent people and US interests. We will not allow this country to be used as a base for funding and recruiting terrorists."
@'BBC'
Taliban join the Twitter revolution
iankatz1000 ian katz
Taliban on Twitter (@alemarahweb) is following US adviser to Afghan army (@Afghantim) and charity supporting UK troops (@AfghanHeroesUK)
Another in the missing post series...
empireofthekop Empire of the Kop
Congrats to Man City on winning the FA Cup now u & United can all celebrate together like 1 big happy family #NOT
First Listen: Kate Bush, 'Director's Cut'
Bush is best known for her canonized 1985 album Hounds of Love. It's tempting to call that record a turning point in pop: It's as weird as it is catchy, as intelligent as it is danceable. And it's only gotten better with age.
Four years after Hounds of Love, Bush released The Sensual World, on which the uncompromising singer did something out of character: She compromised. The album's title track was conceived as a distilled version of Molly Bloom's soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses. (If you're like me and just couldn't make it to the end of Ulysses, you may remember the passage from Sally Kellerman's impassioned reading in the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School.) When Bush approached the Joyce estate about using actual passages from the book, the estate declined, leaving Bush to paraphrase the text as best she could. (So Dangerfield got the thumbs up, and Bush didn't? Who says the man didn't get any respect?)
In the eyes of fans, The Sensual World hardly suffered from the limitation, but "good enough" never sat right with Bush. So, more than 20 years later, she asked again — and this time got the answer she was looking for.
The opportunity to remake the song motivated Bush to tinker with other entries in her discography. The result is Director's Cut, a collection of 11 revamped songs that made their first appearances on The Sensual World and 1993's The Red Shoes. With new words and vocals, "The Sensual World" has been re-christened "Flower of the Mountain." Bush re-recorded all of her vocals and the drums, but left most of the other instrumentation untouched, including Eric Clapton's guitar in "And So Is Love." (Okay, so she's made a few mistakes here and there.)
For those familiar only with Hounds of Love, Director's Cut is bound to open eyes. It's less energetic, hardly danceable, and it at times resembles the work of Bush's duet partner Peter Gabriel. But give the songs time. Let Bush's songwriting sink in. Just like her, you'll find yourself wanting to return to them.
Otis Hart @'npr
Hear 'Director's Cut' In Its Entirety
Another of the missing blog posts...
JPBarlow John Perry Barlow
I expect a new anti-porn campaign based on it's being shown to lead to terrorism. http://is.gd/TGcZUr
William Burroughs & Brion Gysin - Destroy All Rational Thought
Documenting "The Here to Go Show" , a commemoration of the lives of Burroughs and Gysin, which took place in Ireland in 1992. Featuring one of the last interviews William Burroughs gave as well as previously unseen footage of Burroughs during the 50s and 60s. The Master Musicians of Joujouka, lifelong favorites of Burroughs and inspiration to many, provide a soundtrack.
(Thanx Dave!)
Here is another post that blogger lost t'other day...
William S. Burroughs’ Wild Ride with Scientology
WSB/Ali's Smile/Naked Scientology
(For very regular Exile visitor Frank-R in Paris!)
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Gorilla Rose (2011- Albumstream)
Gun Club co-founder, gunslinger for The Cramps and six-string stylist for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the legendary Kid Congo Powers named his new album Gorilla Rose after the artist/performer. As a teenage boy, Powers met Gorilla Rose in the emerging LA punk scene of the ’70s through seminal weirdo band The Screamers. While editing his fan club newsletters at a haunted Hollywood house, a teenage Powers was also exposed to the sounds of Neu, Nico, Billie Holiday and Goblin’s soundtrack to the film Susperia, and along with Gorilla Rose, these past influences found their way into the Kid’s new full-length.
To record the album, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds grabbed producer Jason Ward and hightailed it back to the magik gymnasium at The Harveyville Project, a high school in Kansas and also the scene of the crime of their much acclaimed 2009 release Dracula Boots. Kiki “El Coyote” Solis on bass and Ron “The Cap’n” Miller on drums, along with new Pink Monkey Bird Jesse “The Candyman” Roberts (The Ruby Doe) on guitar, keys and vocals, firms up Kid Congo’s squawking flock.
Brandishing thirteen all-original, glam-tastic compositions, Gorilla Rose blasts off with the ’60s Chicano rock influences of explosive dance anthem “Bo Bo Boogaloo.” That’s just the start of a wild ride through funky but chic decadence, slip sliding rockabilly, teenage punkdom, mystic krautrock, baby-making sleaze, the best bad peyote trip you ever took and even a velvety call from the beyond. Finding inspiration in the past is what Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds do best. On this 2011 sonic trip, the Kid brings his past into the present and names it after someone flamboyant and inspired: Gorilla Rose.
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Bo Bo Boogaloo
Goldin Browne
Bunker Mentality
At The Ruin Of Others
Bubble Trouble
Catsuit Fruit
Our Other World
Hills Of Pills
Flypaper
Injun War Crimes
Lord Bloodbathington
Lullaby In Paradise
Gorilla Rose
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Saturday 14 May 2011
Scots mausoleum with longest echo hosts Kronos Quartet
A US classical quartet are to stage a concert in a Scottish mausoleum which has one of longest lasting echoes of any man-made structure in the world.The Kronos Quartet will perform to a handful of fans at Hamilton Mausoleum in South Lanarkshire.
The show will also be broadcast to a larger audience at Glasgow's Royal Concert and streamed online.
It is part of a wider music festival being curated by the world-renowned string group.
The Kronos Quartet, who has worked with Tom Waits and David Bowie, has been performing a unique mixture of rock and classical music for almost 40 years.
The San Francisco-based musicians were drawn to the Hamilton mausoleum venue, the last resting place for the Dukes of Hamilton, when they heard about its famous long lasting echo.
Violinist David Harrington said: "When you have 15 seconds of overlaying sounds it is much different from any other concert hall you would ever play in."
"We have never played in a mausoleum before and we have certainly never played in an acoustical environment like this."
Longer reverberation
Hamilton mausoleum has hosted concerts and musicians before. Jazz musician Tommy Smith recorded an album there.
The Kronos Quartet show is just one part of the wider music festival taking place over the weekend which will showcase a range of musicians and musical styles.
Sven Brown, director of music for Glasgow Life which runs the city's musical venues said: "The thing about the Hamilton event is that it was never meant to happen and is purely down to the fact that David got off the plane in Glasgow and immediately asked about the mausoleum.
"People had talked about it. It is mind-blowing to think there is not another room on the planet that has a longer reverberation time than this one."
He added: "You really want to hear either the plucked string of the voice float in the air and when you started translating that to floating in the air for 12 seconds you suddenly realise that there is an opportunity for them, the Kronos Quartet, to do something extraordinary."
Earlier this month the Kronos Quartet was awarded the 2011 Polar Music Prize, Sweden's highest music honour.
@'BBC'
Kesang Marstrand’s version of Tunisian anthem
Kesang was present among those who demonstrated on January 14th, in Tunis, Tunisia. In admiration of Tunisia's popular revolution and in solidarity with its cause she has recorded her own interpretation of the country's national anthem.
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Bob Dylan: To my fans and followers
Allow me to clarify a couple of things about this so-called China controversy which has been going on for over a year. First of all, we were never denied permission to play in China. This was all drummed up by a Chinese promoter who was trying to get me to come there after playing Japan and Korea. My guess is that the guy printed up tickets and made promises to certain groups without any agreements being made. We had no intention of playing China at that time, and when it didn't happen most likely the promoter had to save face by issuing statements that the Chinese Ministry had refused permission for me to play there to get himself off the hook. If anybody had bothered to check with the Chinese authorities, it would have been clear that the Chinese authorities were unaware of the whole thing.We did go there this year under a different promoter. According to Mojo magazine the concerts were attended mostly by ex-pats and there were a lot of empty seats. Not true. If anybody wants to check with any of the concert-goers they will see that it was mostly Chinese young people that came. Very few ex-pats if any. The ex-pats were mostly in Hong Kong not Beijing. Out of 13,000 seats we sold about 12,000 of them, and the rest of the tickets were given away to orphanages. The Chinese press did tout me as a sixties icon, however, and posted my picture all over the place with Joan Baez, Che Guevara, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. The concert attendees probably wouldn't have known about any of those people. Regardless, they responded enthusiastically to the songs on my last 4 or 5 records. Ask anyone who was there. They were young and my feeling was that they wouldn't have known my early songs anyway.
As far as censorship goes, the Chinese government had asked for the names of the songs that I would be playing. There's no logical answer to that, so we sent them the set lists from the previous 3 months. If there were any songs, verses or lines censored, nobody ever told me about it and we played all the songs that we intended to play.
Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.
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