Tuesday, 4 June 2013

You couldn't make this up...

The Raincoats (Live @Acklam Hall, London 10th May 1979)

Here's an extraordinary early Raincoats live recording, taped beneath the Westway at Ladbroke Grove's Acklam Hall during their first British tour, shortly before the release of their eponymous debut Rough Trade LP. They were playing as support to Switzerland's ever-vibrant Kleenex, & Cabaret Voltaire were on the bill too, I believe?
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(Mona's faux-pas #1: I had just been given a whole heap pf promo postcards for Odyshape and was at a gig by either Paul Rogers or Paul playing with Talisker and I saw my friend Kent, so I handed him one of the cards not knowing that Gina and him had split up a couple of days before...if looks could kill!)
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In Gezi Park

Analysis: The hopes that blaze in Istanbul

Paul White: Time-lapse of a drawing

A time lapse showing the progression of a pencil drawing over 30 hours by artist Paul White.
Film production by Johnny Blank.
More from the artist Paul White here:
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Hunter S. Thompson just sitting around

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Bradley Manning Trial

For real time reporting follow Alexa O'Brien

Seven Myths About Bradley Manning

Monday, 3 June 2013

How Democratic Is Turkey?

Julian Assange: The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’

'Social media is the worst menace to society' - Recep Erdogan





"There is now a menace which is called Twitter," Erdogan said. "The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society."
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013

One more thing...


While normally I wouldn't celebrate anyone's death, for Thatcher I made an exception. A number of glasses of milk were drank the night I heard!

Saturday, 2 February 2013

Good night. Go to sleep. May your dreams be beautiful XXX


whispers
This is the last of Exile (at least for the conceivable future.) It's been a blast. Met some great people thru it. (You know who you are.) The 'unreal' world was starting to interfere with the 'real' one and when the two met...well the results were 'interesting'. Time for the flesh and the blood.
- Mona

London anarchist bookshop firebombed

Freedom, London's oldest anarchist bookshop, was firebombed in the early hours of Friday 1st Febuary. Early reports suggest the bookshop on the ground floor and the building's electrics were “seriously damaged”, despite the bookshop having been fitted with metal shutters following a bombing by members of Combat 18, a British neo-fascist group, in 1993. Thankfully, nobody was hurt in last night's attack...
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Does it?

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Friday, 1 February 2013

Homeopathic A&E



How To Destroy Angels - How Long?

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The Most Powerful Gun Control Speech: Father Of Sandy Hook Victim Speaks Out

Doesn't look as though things are working out quite as planned...

Unmediated: Alan Light and Sylvie Simmons Converse on the Unlikely Yet Enduring Iconhood of Leonard Cohen

Frisk (1996)


Dennis Cooper

TRUTH

Nibs

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Deal with it...




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Say it with flowers...

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Gabby Giffords Statement At Gun VIolence Hearing


Death by cunnilingus

Black Uhuru With Sly & Robbie - Dubbin' It Live


Ad Break: Hyundai Flaming Lips Super Bowl Ad

(Thanx Stan!)

PUNK (Tina Weymouth in 1976)

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Björk Guðmundsdóttir as a child

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Wednesday, 30 January 2013

White Freightliner (Townes Van Zandt Tribute)


From 2000. In order of taking lead , Peter Rowan, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, Emmylou Harris. Also there Willie Nelson, John Van Zandt, Jack Clement and Guy Clark

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

♪♫ Renegade Soundwave - Biting My Nails

Nervous? Moi?

How cigarette smuggling fuels Africa's Islamist violence

Zeph Farmby

'The Tube' Berlin Special

NSFW♪♫ The Knife - Full of Fire

Directed by Marit Östberg
Marit Östberg is a filmmaker and visual artist, based in Stockholm and Berlin. Her works are often focused on images of queer bodies and sexualities. She sees her work in a wider context of feminist fights and histories and her visual world has been described as uncompromising. Uncompromisingly current. Uncompromisingly sexy. Uncompromisingly political.
“The film ‘Full of Fire’ started to grow as an embryo in the song´s lines ‘Who looks after my story’. Who takes care of our stories when the big history, written by straight rich white men, erase the complexity of human´s lives, desires and conditions? The film ‘Full of Fire’ consists of a network of fates, fears, cravings, longings, losses, and promises. Fates that at first sight seem isolated from each other, but if we pay attention, we can see that everything essentially moves into each other. Our lives are intertwined and our eyes on each other, our sounds and smells, mean something. Our actions create reality, we create each other. We are never faceless, not even in the most grey anonymous streets of the city. We will never stop being responsible, being extensions, of one another. We will never stop longing for each other, and for something else.”
- Marit Östberg
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Monday, 28 January 2013

Biosphere: Secret Thirteen Mix 054

1. Pyrolator – Minimal Tape 1/8 [Ata Tak, 1979]
2. Dome – The Red Tent I [Dome Records, 1980]
3. Throbbing Gristle – Beachy Head [Industrial Records, 1979]
4. B.E.F. – The Old At Rest [Virgin, 1981]
5. Chris And Cosey – Moving Still [Rough Trade, 1981]
6. Colin Newman – Fish Four [4AD, 1981]
7. The Human League – Toyota City [Virgin, 1980]
8. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Progress/Once When I Was Six [Dindisc, 1980]
9. Throbbing Gristle – Distant Dreams (Part Two) [Industrial Records, 1980]
10. Thomas Leer & Robert Rental – Six A.M. [Industrial Records, 1979]
11. Throbbing Gristle – Walkabout [Industrial Records, 1979]
12. Thomas Leer & Robert Rental – The Hard Way In & The Easy Way Out [Industrial Records, 1979]
13. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Castalia [Alfa Records, 1979]
14. Thomas Leer & Robert Rental – Perpetual [Industrial Records, 1979]
15. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thatness And Thereness [Alfa Records, Inc, 1980]
16. Bill Nelson – The Shadow Garden [Cocteau Records, 1981]
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