Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Smells Like Words

Why isn't Obama outraged about a drone war based on profiling?

Lady Gaga au naturel

Via

The Story of the 'Mexican Suitcase'

The Amen Break and the Golden Ratio

Drawings on a school desk at Port Hedland (June 2002)

Via

Bill Sienkiewicz: Walter

Via

The Conservative March Toward a Society of Sociopaths

Stand Your Ground, Be a Man

Shit People Say to People with Disabilities


How Microsoft Lost Its Way, as Understood Through The Wire

Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy

A series of 16 short films each detailing a crime of the British monarchy, based on Heathcote Williams' poem "Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy": RB opening - The Sex Pistols argument, Killing an Ibis, Mad Monarchs, Michael X, Harry Trouble, I Danced With A Man, Foot in Mouth, Folk on the Hill, Knighthoods, Milton Gas, Glitter Freeze, Swift Justice, Raj Doubt, Gaunt etc, Koh I Noor, Paine & Thoth/Blake Acres Zappa
(Thanx Martin!)

No platform for Billy Bragg

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Evita Corby & James Williamson (1973)

Via

리더 친애


HA!

Steve Bell

Refugees and Australia

A call for open borders and free movement for all

Rudd's PNG solution will work, but it isn't right

Defining ‘success’ in the asylum seeker debate

♪♫ Swans - Oxygen (Pitchfork Festival Chicago 21/7/13


♪♫ Lata Mangeshkar/Madan Mohan - Aaj Socha Toh Aansu Bhar Aaye

Hanste Zakhm

Showtime

Via

Anyone Who Had a Heart

♪♫ Ewan MacColl - Dirty Old Town


I recently finished reading Rob Young's Electric Eden (an excellent history of folk music in the UK), and came across MacColl and Charles Parker's Radio Ballads for the first time. You can watch Philip Donnellan's interpretation of three of them HERE

Cry From The Cut (BBC Radio 1962)


The Birmingham Ballads

Goth chooks?

Black bones?

Oops CNN!

Via

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre: The Ruins of Detroit

HERE
Via

John Cooper Clarke honoured by University of Salford

Ian Dury Retrospective Opens At Royal College of Art

Monday, 22 July 2013

A welcoming song for when the little fucker pops out...

Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison arrested for barking at police dog

Where there's a will(y) there's a way

Why David Cameron's war on internet porn doesn't make sense

A protester holds a placard in the rain during a protest against the Australian Government asylum seeker policy in Melbourne on July 20, 2013.Australia's deal with Papua New Guinea is vulture capitalism at its worst

MP: How do we benefit?

Priest: New asylum seeker agreement ridiculous

Breaking Good

Via

♪♫ Andrew Weatherall - Live @Chinwag (Outlaws Yacht Club 13/6/13)

Chinwag is an evening of conversation and music run by Chris Madden and the good people at Outlaws Yacht Club in Leeds. Recently we were lucky to have an enlightening chat with Andrew Weatherall followed by a set on the turntables playing a selection of dub, rockabilly and rock n roll.
Info
Download

Jay Z's 99 Illustrated Problems

HERE
Via


99 Problems ((but a hyphen ain't one)
*HIC

What you missed last night (Black Cab at Yah Yah's)