Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Christian preacher blames gays for Hurricane Sandy and I'm sure that this bloke will have a different point of view soon. Maybe not!

NYC

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Monday, 29 October 2012

Spot the difference (after 11 hours)



London Heathrow Approach Time-lapse Turns Jumbo Jets into Floating Toys

Talking of screws (and other bits of metal)


Nils Frahm - Screws (Free Download)

i am sitting in front of a sheet of paper. my right hand is bending over my left thumb. the first day i got out of my cast i could bend it by 15°. now i am already at 50° and that makes me happy. things are going uphill...
as you can imagine, it is really bad news for a pianist when he gets diagnosed with a broken thumb. that day i was sitting in the emergency room, feeling rather dizzy while thinking of a zillion shows coming up and all the people involved around it. i realised in that moment how busy things have become. it is hard to turn down interesting projects and opportunities, since i surely love my work. it actually never felt like work. playing piano and playing it for wonderful people is the greatest joy i can imagine.
for a couple of days i felt like this all could be over. how pathetic. but hey – also feeling sorry for yourself has its place somewhere. all of a sudden i had so much time, an unexpected holiday. i cancelled most of my schedule and found myself being a little bored. even though my doctor told me not to touch a piano for a while, i just couldn't resist. i started playing a silent song with 4 fingers on my left and the remaining 5 on my right hand. i set up one microphone and recorded another tune every other night before falling asleep.
the day i got rid of my cast i had recorded 9 little tunes. they have helped me feel less annoyed about my accident and reminded me that any good is something i can only achieve, when i am making the most out of what i've got.
thank you all for listening!
with lots of love,
nils
HERE
Via
Bonus:

San Francisco Riot Twitter Word Cloud



Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons

Con Men

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Lee Perry on making soul music your church and the curse of 'black magic reggae'

Every single man who say he is a reggae star dead. Whereas you are living. If reggae isn’t a curse, why Bob Marley dead? Why Peter Tosh dead? Why all the Jamaican artists dead? Why are most of the Jamaican producers dead? If reggae was a blessing, they would not be dead. They would be happy, jumping around the place, singing, ‘Oh Lord thank you for saving my soul when reggae wanted my soul,’ and they would dance out of here. They would have them a long life, smoke them cigarettes and get crazy and want to kill somebody, from cigarette curse. Or they shoot somebody from reggae gun curse. Or something like that.
HERE
(Thanx Mark!)

Four Tet - Lion (Jamie xx remix)

Still undecided? Think about the future. Support the candidate who won't bring about the zombie apocalypse


So vile


Terry Callier R.I.P.

Sunday, 28 October 2012


Jimmy Savile investigators arrest Gary Glitter on 'suspicion of sexual offences'



'The Revisionaries': Texas schoolbook battle — crazier than you thought!

Fuzzy logic


Fritz Catlin - Hard Boiled Mix


Info

Brian Eno: Imaginary Landscapes

The Thing Is... An Interview with Eno




Paul Morley interviews Brian Eno in 1992.
G'day Mr Beresford LOL!
Bonus:


William Burroughs on CBC 1977

Peter Gzowski interviewing William Burroughs on 90 Minutes Live in 1977.
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Saturday, 27 October 2012

Today's Must Read

Apocalypse Now Then

Girlz with Gunz #59392 (International Times)


Graham Parker on Judd Apatow, Glenn Beck, and Getting The Rumour Back Together


The Rolling Stones live at La Trabendo in Paris Thursday night

On Thursday 25th October 2012, the Rolling Stones played a secret gig at Paris' La Trabendo club. It was the first time Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood were on stage together in over five years. The band were joined on stage by longtime bass player and keyboardist Darryl Jones and Chuck Leavell. Read a full report of the gig here: http://www.rollingstones.com/2012/10/25/the-rolling-stones-play-surprise-gig-...
Set List:
Route 66
It's Only Rock and Roll
Shattered
When The Whip Comes Down
Champagne and Reefer
Doom and Gloom
Miss You
Tumbling Dice
Start Me Up
Midnight Rambler
Jumping Jack Flash
Brown Sugar
MORE
A live DVD coming soon I suppose...

President Romney can thank Obama for his Permanent Robotic Death List

Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent

Derek Jarman: A Journey to Avebury (1971)



Soundtrack added by Coil

Friday, 26 October 2012

Lee Ranaldo - Xtina As I Knew Her (Hi-Fi, Melbourne 24th Oct 2012)

(Thanx Carbie Warbie!)

♪♫ He's My Brother She's My Sister - Let's Go


Cory Doctorow: Pirate Cinema (@ Word, Brooklyn)

(Thanx Joly!)

TV Shack Admin Richard O’Dwyer “Almost Certain” To Be Extradited To US

THE CHOICE

Donald Trump wants Barack Obama to publish his college and passport records but won't reveal his own




LOL!!!

Thursday, 25 October 2012

'Will the 2012 Election be Stolen?' (Highlights)

Highlights from Emergency Forum: 'Will the 2012 Election be Stolen?' at The Open Center NYC on Oct 22 2012.
Speakers:
Mark Crispin Miller (Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform); Attorney, election reform activist, and former GOP political operative Jill Simpson; Lori Grace, Founder, Institute for Democracy and Election Integrity; Jim March, BlackBoxVoting; Moderated by Bob Fitrakis, attorney/author, election reform activist, Executive Director, Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and Harvey Wasserman, author, democracy activist, Senior Editor, Columbus Free Press
Read more: http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4755
A 2 hour radio special followed this forum:
http://prn.fm/2012/10/22/green-power-wellness-election-theft-panel-102212/#axzz2ABCbWwqU
(Thanx Joly!)

Al Weiwei does 草泥马* style

*Grass Mud Horse (?)
(Thanx Josh!)

Brass Eye: Welcome to Paedogeddon (2001)


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The Savile scandal is about children, not overpaid TV executives

John Lydon & Keith Levene: Interview With JJ Jackson (MTV 16/9/82)



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Well Keith enjoyed that interview eh? I liked his laughter at the 'nodding' reference right at the end too...

Hmmm!

♪♫ Bran Van 3000 - Astounded

It's a Curtis sorta day round at Exile Towers today...