Friday, 25 November 2011
Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson Memorial Day Playlist
Andean - Brook, Michael
Butcher's Death - Astor Piazzolla
Totem Ancestor - Cage/Kronos Quartet
The Castleford Ladies Magic Circle - Jake Thackray
Ain’t There Anyone Here For Love? - Hoagy Carmichael & Jane Russell
Dance Of The Dream Man - Angelo Badalamenti
Do Your Thing - Moondog
Earbraces - Lost In Hildurness
El Tango de Roxanne - Ewan McGregor, Jacek Koman & José Feliciano
Lah-Di-Dah - Jake Thackray
Waiting for the Miracle - Leonard Cohen
Life (Adouna) - Youssou N'Dour
Lying - COH
Nesarpa - Tsering Gyurme
So Young It Knows No Maturing - THHBC
This Is A Film - Goran Bregovic
We'll Meet Again - Johnny Cash
Arabesque Theme - Henry Mancini
All The Pretty Little Horses - COIL
At a Glance - Tord Gustavsen Trio
Blue In Green - Miles Davis
The Bookhouse Boys - Angelo Badalamenti
Candy Man - David Ackles
Cripple And The Starfish - Antony & The Johnsons
Falls Into View - Ben Christophers
How Can I Leave - Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight
Joy And Jubilee - Bonnie Prince Billy
The Last Amethyst Deceiver - COIL
Leonora's Song - Astor Piazzolla
Low Side Of The Road - Tom Waits
Passion For Life, Part 1 - Richard Bandler
Put Your Love In Me - Hot Chocolate
Sacred Works Of Liberation - Lama Gyurme
Sea Song - Robert Wyatt
Trick Me - Kelis
Dtorumi - SoiSong
7 Seconds - Youssou N'Dour
I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry
Otherness Blue - Sun Ra
Alone Again Or - Love
Hop Hop Hop - Goran Bregovic
20 Jazz Funk Greats - Throbbing Gristle
All That Is My Own - Nico
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) - Cher
Chopin Walz 64 no2 -
Dazed - Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight
Track 10 - Issan Vol7
Howard Skempton - Lento - BBC Symphony Orch -
In The Deathcar - Goran Bregovic
La Pergata -
Leksänds Skänklåt - Jan Johansson
Milkshake - Kelis
Track 05 - Issan Vol 8
Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground
Partch - Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales - Part/Kronos Quartet
So Strange Is Man - Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight
Tallis Scholars -
Offering Chant - Lama Gyurme
This list was compiled from Peter's iTunes library. It is a semi-random selection based on his iTunes 'play counts' and songs we know he liked to listen to, plus a few he actually composed and played on.
These tracks will be played randomly at a private memorial for his family and close friends in Central London on 24th November 2011
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Serious Listeners: The Strange And Frightening World Of Coil
At top is Sleazy's rejected cover for Paul McCartney's 'Tug Of War' album...
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire
Hermes created a few chronological playlists, for lack of a better term, highlighting one-month spans in 1973, 1974, and 1975. From Lou Reed to Jon Gibson, Al Green to Kraftwerk, Patti Smith to Miles Davis. Enjoy.
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January 1973. New York City. Lou Reed's hitting the Billboard charts, the New York Dolls are playing "Trash," Meredith Monk is playing Town Hall without a musical instrument, Miles Davis is going electric, and Laurie Anderson is directing her dreams.
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May to June 1974. New York City. Gil Scott-Heron releases the seminal Winter in America, Kool Herc invents hip-hop in a Bronx park, Springsteen gets his big break, an early version of what will become the band Blondie plays CBGB's, Philip Glass completes Music in Twelve Parts, and a young Patti Smith records her first single.
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April to March 1975. New York City. Al Green plays the Felt Forum, not in the best condition; Patti Smith and Television begin their legendary seven-week residency at CBGBs, after which Smith would walk away with a major label contract; Kraftwerk plays "Autobahn" at the Beacon Theatre; and Jon Gibson, a young multi-instrumentalist and friend of Philip Glass and Steve Reich, plays "Cycles" at the Washington Square Church.
See Also:
Will Hermes’ Blog
Read the Excerpt in Rolling Stone
A 300-Song Spotify Playlist for Love Goes to Buildings on Fire
On WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show”
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Author and critic Will Hermes uncovers the variety of revolutionary music in New York City, from rock to classical, salsa to hip hop, in his new book Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever. Chuck Klosterman says the book is "an almost perfect portrait of New York music culture: specific yet comprehensive, enthusiastic yet objective, and as informed as it is personal. The four-page section of what (seemingly) every interesting person in NYC was doing on the night of the ‘77 blackout could have been a book unto itself."
Frank Zappa - BBC Documentary (1993)
I'm sorry I just don't get Z*pp* at all...(and by posting this I have broken one of Exile's cardinal rules of never featuring him!)
I am sure some of you will enjoy this but...there are some musicians who just bore me rigid. I never get a sense of any emotion from their playing and Z*pp* certainly ticks that box for me...and have I mentioned that fugn puerile sense of 'humour'?
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Intelligent move
injectingadvice Injecting Advice.com
RT @LifelineProject : Packs containing life-saving drug Naloxone are being handed out to drug users leaving Perth Prison bit.ly/s9Gh4N
Egypt protests: 'The wailing of sirens never stops'
The writer Mona Eltahwy, who has being released after being detained for 12 hours at the interior ministry, has claimed, in a series of tweets, that she was beaten and sexually assaulted by the central security forces (CSF).5 or 6 surrounded me, groped and prodded my breasts, grabbed my genital area and I lost count how many hands tried to get into my trousers.Eltahwy also said she was blindfolded for two hours and posted a picture of her swollen hand. She indicated that she intends to write about her ordeal.
.@Sarahngb is coming to kindly take me to the hospital. Besides beating me, the dogs of CSF subjected me to the worst sexual assault ever
Another hour later I was free with apology from military intelligence for what CSF did. Took pics of my bruises and recorded statement 1/2
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Prison slaves
Once an isolationist communist state, over the last 20 years China has become the world's biggest exporter of consumer goods. But behind this apparent success story is a dark secret - millions of men and women locked up in prisons and forced into intensive manual labour.
China has the biggest penal colony in the world - a top secret network of more than 1,000 slave labour prisons and camps known collectively as "The Laogai". And the use of the inmates of these prisons - in what some experts call "state sponsored slavery" - has been credited with contributing to the country's economic boom.
In this episode, former inmates, many of whom were imprisoned for political or religious dissidence without trial, recount their daily struggles and suffering in the "dark and bitter" factories where sleep was a privilege.
Charles Lee spent three years imprisoned for religious dissidence. He says: "For a year they tried to brainwash me, trying to force me to give up my practice of Falun Gong. They figured me out ... so they changed their strategy to force me to feel like a criminal ... because, according to their theory, a prisoner should be reformed through labour .... So they forced me to do slave labour."
@'Al Jazeera'
Michael Cebon on Ethical Jobs
Michael Cebon founded EthicalJobs.com.au to help people and organisations work towards ‘a more equitable, more just or more sustainable world’. He discusses the definition of an ‘ethical job’, the impact of the GFC on this trend, and the increasing trend to ethical career pathways across all demographic groups. “In the past 10 years people want more purpose and meaning,” says Michael Cebon. “The GFC was a wake-up call that money won’t always be there”.
Someone I used to know...
...and in all the time we were going out I never once talked about Spitfires!
Damn you are looking good DW!
The Ayahuasca Project / The Jungle Prescription
Ten years ago Mark Ellam, Jeronimo Mazarrasa, and Robin McKenna began to make a documentary film about what indigenous people know, and we have forgotten, about the most potent plants on earth.
The Jungle Prescription tells the story of ayahuasca, a visionary Amazonian brew of indigenous origin and its encounter with the West, as played out through the story of two doctors. The first, Dr. Jacques Mabit, runs a legendary detox centre deep in the Peruvian jungle. The second, Dr. Gabor Maté, is risking his reputation trying to establish a similar program in Canada. Through the intimate stories of these doctors and their patients, we see how an ancient medicine causes cathartic, life-changing insight, and we witness the commitment of people who have devoted their whole lives to helping others applying this medicinal knowledge.
The Ayahuasca Project is a labour of love developed over the course of ten years of research, with long periods of travel in the Amazon region. We have gathered an outstanding and unique collection of footage, stories and experiences in the complex and multifaceted ayahuasca world.
We made a short version of the film for Canada´s CBC, The Jungle Prescription, and we ran out of money. Now we need YOUR support to help us finish the editing and final post-production of the feature-length documentary we set out to make.
ABOUT THE FILM
The film follows the story of two radical doctors and their patients. One is in Peru, and for 30 years has worked hand in hand with indigenous healers.
The other is a doctor and bestselling author from Vancouver. He believes the medical system has failed us - by chasing symptoms instead of the root causes of illness. To help his patients - and benefit all of us- he is willing to risk his reputation and go up against Canada’s legal system.
We follow Dr Mate’s attempts to help his patients, and the miracles and disasters along the way. We watch young, cocaine-injecting lovers teeter on the edge, and an aboriginal single mother with a decade-long crack habit reunited with her children. Meanwhile, Dr. Mate relapses into his own addictive patterns, and is forced to face the consequences, and to learn the true meaning of commitment.
Along the road, we meet a Kurdish gangsta, a Catalonian pharmacologist, an indigenous shamanic powerhouse from the Putumayo, a shoeshine boy from Perú, and a very very angry wife. All wrapped around a mysterious visionary drink from the Amazon, outlandish rituals, purgative plants, tears, laughter, epiphanies, relapses, classical music, and the eternal human question: how to live.
WHY ARE WE MAKING THIS FILM?
We decided to focus our film on the treatment of addiction through the combination of traditional Amazonian medicine and western psychotherapy. We believed it was the best way to present to the world how ayahuasca affects people (as displayed by the dramatic process of change that the addicts undergo), while making a clear statement - the very same plants can be poisons or remedies, depending how they are used. We want to make a film that not only pays homage to the richness of indigenous knowledge, but actually shows an example of how it can be put into practice - and the mutual benefits this can bring, when the exchange is reciprocal.
Since news of our documentary was made public, the Canadian government has threatened Dr. Maté with prosecution if he continues working with ayahuasca.
This ongoing controversy reminded us why it’s so important that we continue. As we move towards finishing the film, the story continues to unfold- and we are uniquely positioned to tell it.
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@'Kickstarter'
EFF EFF
Anon "leaks" Facebook's 2010 law enforcement guidelines, which have been available on the EFF website since Jan: eff.org/r.H7t#foia
Anon "leaks" Facebook's 2010 law enforcement guidelines, which have been available on the EFF website since Jan: eff.org/r.H7t
Pepper Spray! A yummy and delicious form of crowd control
Pizza is a vegeatable. Pepper spray is a vegetable. Megyn Kelly is a vegetable.
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