Saturday 2 July 2011
DJ Harvey - Sarcastic Disco Vol 2
1 - Spring - Wendy Carlos
2 - Our Prayer - The Beach Boys
3 - Hollywood Symphony - Holger Czukay
4 - We Have Come To Bless This House - Severed Heads
5 - Clash (Shugyru of the Sun) - Logic System
6 - Can't Be Serious - Ginny
7 - Transfer Station Blue - Michael Shrieve
8 - Camino del sol - Isabelle Antena
9 - Don't you know I did it - John Forde
10 - My Boss - Linda Di Franco
11 - Woman of the World - Double
12 - Memories - Amadeo
13 - Love for the sake of love - Claudja Barry
14 - ???
15 - pause
16 - Fragrance - Holger Czukay
17 - Irena's theme - Giorgio Moroder w/ 'Sensuous Black Woman' accapella
18 - Nocturne - Bryan Ferry
19 - Riding to Rio - Strange Cargo
20 - 95 in the shade - Hudson Ford
21 - pause
22 - Rendezvouz with the Sun - Howard Wales
23 - Hallucinations - Roy Budd
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Friday 1 July 2011
All good things come to an end...?
...will 'Exile' return?
Who knows!Years/months/weeks/days/hours...
twitter/exilestreet
Facebook/Mona Street
The Way We Were
Channel 4 UK programme first broadcast circa 1984 / 1985-ish. Hosted by the late Tony Wilson, it's a compilation of performances by bands taken from his previous TV shows in the late 70's, such as So It Goes. Includes Sex Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, The Fall, Elvis Costello, Blondie, Penetration, Wreckless Eric, Ian Dury, Tom Robinson, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, XTC and Joy Division - many of them making their TV debuts
(BIG thanx to commenter 'The Herb Whisperer' over at Dangerous Minds)
Will never forget Tony Wilson on Granada Reports (the 6PM news bulletin for the Liverpool/Manchester area) holding a microphone to incoming waves at Blackpool beach (?) asking "Is this the new wave?" LOL!
Thursday 30 June 2011
Wednesday 29 June 2011
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris Live
Big Mouth Blues
Streets of Baltimore
Gram Parsons on meeting Emmylou Harris
Michele Bachmann's Holy War
It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics. Fans of obscure 1970s television may remember a short-lived children's show called Far Out Space Nuts, in which a pair of dimwitted NASA repairmen, one of whom is played by Bob (Gilligan) Denver, accidentally send themselves into space by pressing "launch" instead of "lunch" inside a capsule they were fixing at Cape Canaveral. This plot device roughly approximates the political and cultural mechanism that is sending Michele Bachmann hurtling in the direction of the Oval Office.
Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. "It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world!" she gushed. "You are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard."
I said lunch, not launch! But don't laugh. Don't do it. And don't look her in the eyes; don't let her smile at you. Michele Bachmann, when she turns her head toward the cameras and brandishes her pearls and her ageless, unblemished neckline and her perfect suburban orthodontics in an attempt to reassure the unbeliever of her non-threateningness, is one of the scariest sights in the entire American cultural tableau. She's trying to look like June Cleaver, but she actually looks like the T2 skeleton posing for a passport photo. You will want to laugh, but don't, because the secret of Bachmann's success is that every time you laugh at her, she gets stronger.
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance. And Bachmann is exactly the right kind of completely batshit crazy. Not medically crazy, not talking-to-herself-on-the-subway crazy, but grandiose crazy, late-stage Kim Jong-Il crazy — crazy in the sense that she's living completely inside her own mind, frenetically pacing the hallways of a vast sand castle she's built in there, unable to meaningfully communicate with the human beings on the other side of the moat, who are all presumed to be enemies.
Bachmann's story, to hear her tell it, is about a suburban homemaker who is chosen by God to become a politician who will restore faith and family values to public life and do battle with secular humanism. But by the time you've finished reviewing her record of lies and embellishments and contradictions, you'll have no idea if she actually believes in her own divine inspiration, or whether it's a big con job. Or maybe both are true — in which case this hard-charging challenger for the GOP nomination is a rare breed of political psychopath, equal parts crazed Divine Wind kamikaze-for-Jesus and calculating, six-faced Machiavellian prevaricator. Whatever she is, she's no joke...
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Matt Taibbi @'Rolling Stone'
Bachmann's had her share of government aid
Michele Bachmann sets record straight: 'I'm a substantive, serious person'
JAMA on 60s Psychedelic Drug Culture
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Maybe he could lend us a few quid....Prince Charles's income from taxpayers rises 18%
The Prince of Wales received £1,962,000 from taxpayers last year, up from £1,664,000 the year before
@'TheGuardian'
Tuesday 28 June 2011
Alien encounters 'within twenty years'
A top Russian astronomer say he expects humans to encounter extraterrestrial civilisations within the next two decades
@'The Guardian'
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