Saturday, 15 August 2009

Today's 'Odd Spot' from 'The Age' newspaper

Police in Newcastle, England are seeking a cruel thief with a sense of humour.
A man returned home to find he had lost his entire CD collection in a break in but the crook had left behind "there Is Nothing Left To Lose' by the Foo Fighters.

ROFL!

Friday, 14 August 2009

Hackers use Twitter to control botnet

Hackers are now using Twitter to send coded update messages to computers they’ve previously infected with rogue code, according to a report from net-monitoring firm Arbor Networks.
@ 'Wired'

The banned 'Family Guy' episode

“I’m here to save the unborn – after they come out of the vagina, they can go fuck themselves.”

Deadly contractor incident sours Afghans (yes Blackwater again)

Four men with the U.S. firm once known as Blackwater are said to be under investigation in the deaths of two Afghans. A U.S. report found serious fault with private security firms in Afghanistan.
@ 'LA Times'

Les Paul RIP

Les Paul
(June 9, 1915 – August 13, 2009)

Let's play (war)games

Just what America needs...more powerful guns!
What a tosser!
Still I like Sage Francis's song at the beginning!
Unfortunately...
'Summer of Hate'
@ 'Daily Beast'

Thursday, 13 August 2009

Oh yes...


PJ Harvey also steals her closing rant in "Rid of Me" from Captain Beefheart's "Dirty Blue Gene". Yes, she does!
Ever noticed how PJ Harvey's "I Think I'm A Mother" steals the words from Captain Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie"? Yes, it does!


From Lydia Dutch (Ninja Author) on Twitter.

Where I used to go on my holidays as a kid

The water was FREEZING!
Slimy moss on all the rocks!
Midgies!
More midgies!
Fugn hated it!
(And we won't mention the Mirror Class dingy!)

Barack Obama's words downplay wars

(Illustration by Shepard Fairey)

He may be presiding over two wars and facing a terror threat at home and abroad, but you'd hardly know it from listening to President Barack Obama speak.

Obama has uttered more than a half-million words in public since taking office Jan. 20 - and a POLITICO analysis of nearly every word in this vast public record

shows that domestic topics dominate, so much so that Obama sounds more like a peacetime president than a commander-in-chief with more than 100,000 troops in the field.

Things you learn on the interwebby thingy!

Scotland's drug death toll at record levels

Story @ 'BBC' here.

Interesting that the photograph above is a little more realistic than the one which accompanied a story the other day on the record amount of Class A drugs seized in Scotland in the past year:

"Careful son or you'll take yer eye oot!"

PS: Scotland did it again...
...pass me the drugs!

SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST (Sonny Sharrock)

More @ 'Destination - Out'
A summer re-up!
(Thanx guys, it is the one that I voted for!)

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

"Is it cos I is black" - Ali G.

President Obama debunks Palin’s “death panel” conspiracy theory

Isakson's response:

Yesterday:
"I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin's web site had talked about the House bill having death panels on it where people would be euthanized. How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts. You're putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don't know how that got so mixed up"

Today:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today denounced comments made by President Obama and his spokesman regarding Isakson’s alleged connection to language contained in the House health care bill on "end-of-life counseling."

Isakson vehemently opposes the House and Senate health care bills and he played no role in drafting language added to the House bill by House Democrats calling for the government to incentivize doctors by offering them money to conduct "end-of-life counseling" with Medicare patients every five years.


"The House provision is merely another ill-advised attempt at more government mandates, more government intrusion, and more government involvement in what should be an individual choice."

As John Cole put it:
"In for a penny, in for a pound. There is simply nothing these guys will not lie about, and they have no problem reversing course hours after publicly stating something completely different. The facts are just optional with these guys. They just don’t care if they tell the truth, they are not ashamed to lie at will, and no one in the media will hold them accountable.
Isakson is up for re-election in 2010, and he knows how wingnutty the base is. He has to play to the Palin wing or he will get primaried. That is how crazy the GOP is these days."

broken haze - Live

broken haze is the alias of Keisuke Ito, a Japanese experimental electronica hip-hop producer whose fururistic music is composed with glitchy digital noise, chopped melody, industrial drum sound, and dark cinematic ambience.
This is some cutting-edge music. If you like dark dubstep/atmospheric breakbeat/techno/glitch, you'll feel right at home.

David Sylvian - Manafon (Update)

Manafon's release date is set for Sept 14th. Manafon will be available in two editions. A regular CD/digipak edition and a twin volume deluxe edition with CD and DVD featuring the film 'Amplified Gesture'.

7 minutes of fame for carrying a gun to an Obama protest! Will it be 15 minutes for using it?

Tuesday, 11 August 2009


Go here.

The best post ever!

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Go here to see the similarities between Christian Bale & Kermit the Frog!

UN worker ‘bites’ man and lands diplomat in middle of nepotism row

And Murdoch wants us to pay for this crap!

Rush Hour London

What a surprise! Rachel Maddows exposes the backers of the Healthscare tactics

"A lie told often enough becomes truth." - Lenin

Monday, 10 August 2009

Spank!!! # 7 (Don't make the King mad!)

(Spank King?)
Via 'Skull Swap'

Robert Crumb - A short history of America

My acid trip with Squeaky Fromme

Photograph by Dick Schmidt, Sacramento Bee. "Sacramento Police and Secret Service men handcuff Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme under a Capitol Park tree after she tried to shoot President Gerald Ford Sept. 5, 1975."
@ 'BoingBoing'

Florida man blames cat for illegal downloads

George Pelecanos & The Pogues - The Boogaloo, London 23 July 2009






Earlier this year, when The Pogues played Washington, D.C., bestselling novelist and writer/producer on The Wire George Pelecanos was in the audience, and he went backstage after the show: "The band were fans of The Wire (we had used several of their songs, memorably, on the show)," he recalls, "and we were all fans of their music going back to the 80s, when I was buying their vinyl imports at records stores like Phantasmagoria in Wheaton, Maryland." A few weeks later, when band member Spider Stacey came through town, they met again: "Over a meal in Chinatown, on H Street, (Full Kee, my spot for Chinese) I told Spider that I would like to do a pub event in London when I came over in July, and asked him if he would be interested in playing a set after I did a reading. He agreed and through Gaby Young hooked it up at Boogaloo on Archway Road in Highgate, run by a fellow named Richard who used to book the old Filthy McNasty's. The gig was set for Thursday, July 23. To my surprise, it wasn't just Spider and a couple of friends on the bill, as I had understood it would be. It was The Pogues, who had come to play their first pub date since 1983. In other words, it was history."

@'Media Bistro'

George Pelecanos reads from his new novel 'The Way Home'
Songs performed by The Pogues include The Body of an American, The Sick Bed of Cuchullainn, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Transmetropolitan, Kitty and Down in The Hole.
This reading which was accompanied by a 'secret' gig by The Pogues was presented by a very old friend of mine, former Fall manager Richard Thomas, who is also promoting these upcoming shows at The Roundhouse: David Peace August 18th Rich Hall September 10th Iain Banks September 14th William Boyd September 16th Please note the Armando Ianucci shows on October 11/12th are completely sold out More info www.roundhouse.org.uk
(It is moments like this when I wish that I still was in London and in fact one of my last nights there was seeing The Pogues at 'The Bull & Gate' in Kentish Town in '83 and The Boogaloo for a time before it's present reincarnation was my local!)

George Pelecanos on his visit to London here.

Old news as new news!

So redheads feel more pain and need more anesthetic?
Sound familiar, go to 'New Scientist' here in 2002

Sunday, 9 August 2009

William Jefferson Airplane!

Daily Show
Full Episodes
Political HumorSpinal Tap Performance

The Warlocks


ROFL!

Ghostly International presents...Deastro

PLEASE read this link

"...What the people who draw these comparisons are doing is invoke the archetype of Hitler that we have collectively formed in our head, the archetype of something so evil and inhuman that it is beyond our capacity to shake off or transcend. By linking President Obama to the archetype of Hitler they are not trying to make any points about health care or energy or any other policy, but they are attempting to put him into a box out of which nobody could ever escape and from which any kind of soul growth or evolution is impossible. In short, they are trying to make a man who is about as human and compassionate as any man who has ever graced the American political landscape, inhuman. Just like Hitler did with those he didn’t like…"

So you wanna talk about Hitler…

What Facebook is for

Michael Jackson's brain reunited with body

Law enforcement investigators also allege that the unreleased toxicology report, shows Jackson had a lethal amount of the anesthetic Propofol in his system as well as Xanax.
(@ 'TMZ')

Burial - Lambeth

'Hyperdub' turns 5


Hyperdub 5.1 EP - 12"Vinyl (HDB023) Released: 31/08/09
Kode9 & The Spaceape ft. ChaCha - ‘Time Patrol’
Black Chow – ‘Purple Smoke’
Flying Lotus – ‘Disco Balls’

Hyperdub 5.2 EP - 12"Vinyl (HDB024) Released: 07/09/09
Joker & Ginz – ‘Stash’
Zomby – ‘Tarantula’
Samiyam – ‘Roller Skates’

Hyperdub 5.3 EP - 12"Vinyl (HDB025) Released: 14/09/09
Quarta330 – ‘Bleeps From Outer Space’
LV – ‘Turn Away’

Hyperdub 5.4 EP - 12"Vinyl (HDB026) Released: 21/09/09
Martyn – ‘Mega Drive Generation’
LD – ‘Shake It’

Hyperdub 5.5 EP - 12"Vinyl (HDB027) Released: 28/09/09
Mala – ‘Level Nine’
Cooly G – ‘Weekend Fly’

October:

5 Years Of Low End Contagion
(2x CD Compilation)
CD#1 - A CD compilation including all the tracks featured on the 5 EP's. Plus several additional previously unreleased tracks.
CD#2 - A 16 track compilation of older hyperdub music, much of which has never been released on cd before.

Listen @ BLEEP

Girlz With Gunz # 74 (Harper’s Weekly, 16th April 1904)

Saturday, 8 August 2009

Man! This guy is just SO good!

Willy DeVille RIP

US singer songwriter Willy DeVille, who headed the 1970s New York punk group Mink DeVille before going solo and taking new directions, has died at the age of 55, his French tour organiser said Friday.

"Willy DeVille this night joined Edith Piaf, Jack Nitzsche and Johnny Thunders", said Caramba Spectacles, referring respectively to the French star who inspired him, to his producer, and to a fellow-70s punk guitarist.

His wife had announced in June that DeVille had pancreatic cancer.


Friday, 7 August 2009

Sex Pistol's Jubilee boat trip 1977


DDoS attacks cause Twitter to collapse

High-profile websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter have been targeted by hackers in what is described as a "massively co-ordinated attack".

Other sites such as blogging platform Live Journal were also reportedly targeted in the attack on Thursday. Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.

@ 'BBC' @'Computerworld'

cyxymu's site still down

A bright future!

Via 'Philly Burbs'
Wicked smile, this kid will go far!

Save the world - pee in the shower!

Nokia - shooting people

Jerry Garcia @ Woodstock

Gog? Magog? Agog!

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

Full story here.
(Collage by Jonathan Yeo.)

Detail.

WTF!!! No really- WTF!!!



Limbaugh: "The Obama health care logo is damn close to a Nazi swastika logo"

Do he and his pals also think that the U.S. Army medical corps are like Nazis too?
@ 'Daily Kos'

Dear god, this is absolutely disgusting...

(Thanx to 'YesButNoButYes')

Ronnie Biggs set free

Full story @ 'BBC'