Journeys In Sound - Max Cooper
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Sunday, 13 May 2012
Evan Djirlic: N'EX to Narita
The N'EX is an amazing express train system that stops in many major urban parts in and around Tokyo
On the train journey to Narita Airport I placed my camera on the
windowsill of the carriage and filmed the passing buildings and
landscape. Upon arriving home I mirrored the images I had recorded 90
degrees in post and was left with an amazing kaleidoscope-like montage
of symmetrical structures floating seamlessly in the sky. Please, sit
back and enjoy.Shot on the Canon S95
Music by Trentemøller
Daniel Martin Moore & Joan Shelley - Farthest Field
This album was recorded in December 2011 & February 2012 at the FunRanch & The Casa in Louisville, KY, mixed at the FunRanch and mastered at the FunHome. Numbers 1, 4 and 8 written by Joan Shelley (BMI). Numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 written by Daniel Martin Moore, Mythocracy (ASCAP). © ℗ 2012 Daniel Martin Moore & Joan Shelley
Released by: Ol Kentuck Recordings
Release/catalogue number: OK-005
Release date: May 8, 2012
Saturday, 12 May 2012
"Militant", noun: 1) s/he who dies when a US bomb detonates; 2) someone who dislikes US bombs dropped on their country http://is.gd/eve849
#Popleveson: the Twitter meme from Court 73
Hopefully that is the first (and last) reference to 'The Wall' to ever sully this blog...
Huey Newton on Gay Rights (August 15 1970)
Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as oppressed groups), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion. I say " whatever your insecurities are" because as we very well know, sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth, and want a woman to be quiet. We want to hit a homosexual in the mouth because we are afraid that we might be homosexual; and we want to hit the women or shut her up because we are afraid that she might castrate us, or take the nuts that we might not have to start with.
We must gain security in ourselves and therefore have respect and feelings for all oppressed people. We must not use the racist attitude that the White racists use against our people because they are Black and poor. Many times the poorest White person is the most racist because he is afraid that he might lose something, or discover something that he does not have. So you're some kind of a threat to him. This kind of psychology is in operation when we view oppressed people and we are angry with them because of their particular kind of behavior, or their particular kind of deviation from the established norm.
Remember, we have not established a revolutionary value system; we are only in the process of establishing it. I do not remember our ever constituting any value that said that a revolutionary must say offensive things towards homosexuals, or that a revolutionary should make sure that women do not speak out about their own particular kind of oppression. As a matter of fact, it is just the opposite: we say that we recognize the women's right to be free. We have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the most oppresed people in the society.
And what made them homosexual? Perhaps it's a phenomenon that I don't understand entirely. Some people say that it is the decadence of capitalism. I don't know if that is the case; I rather doubt it. But whatever the case is, we know that homosexuality is a fact that exists, and we must understand it in its purest form: that is, a person should have the freedom to use his body in whatever way he wants.
That is not endorsing things in homosexuality that we wouldn't view as revolutionary. But there is nothing to say that a homosexual cannot also be a revolutionary. And maybe I'm now injecting some of my prejudice by saying that "even a homosexual can be a revolutionary." Quite the contrary, maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary.
When we have revolutionary conferences, rallies, and demonstrations, there should be full participation of the gay liberation movement and the women's liberation movement. Some groups might be more revolutionary than others. We should not use the actions of a few to say that they are all reactionary or counterrevolutionary, because they are not.
We should deal with the factions just as we deal with any other group or party that claims to be revolutionary. We should try to judge, somehow, whether they are operating in a sincere revolutionary fashion and from a really oppressed situation. (And we will grant that if they are women they are probably oppressed.) If they do things that are unrevolutionary or counterrevolutionary, then criticize that action. If we feel that the group in spirit means to be revolutionary in practice, but they make mistakes in interpretation of the revolutionary philosophy, or they do not understand the dialectics of the social forces in operation, we should criticize that and not criticize them because they are women trying to be free. And the same is true for homosexuals. We should never say a whole movement is dishonest when in fact they are trying to be honest. They are just making honest mistakes. Friends are allowed to make mistakes. The enemy is not allowed to make mistakes because his whole existence is a mistake, and we suffer from it. But the women's liberation front and gay liberation front are our friends, they are our potential allies, and we need as many allies as possible.
We should be willing to discuss the insecurities that many people have about homosexuality. When I say "insecurities," I mean the fear that they are some kind of threat to our manhood. I can understand this fear. Because of the long conditioning process which builds insecurity in the American male, homosexuality might produce certain hang-ups in us. I have hang-ups myself about male homosexuality. But on the other hand, I have no hang-up about female homosexuality. And that is a phenomenon in itself. I think it is probably because male homosexuality is a threat to me and female homosexuality is not.
We should be careful about using those terms that might turn our friends off. The terms "faggot" and "punk" should be deleted from our vocabulary, and especially we should not attach names normally designed for homosexuals to men who are enemies of the people, such as Nixon or Mitchell. Homosexuals are not enemies of the people.
We should try to form a working coalition with the gay liberation and women's liberation groups. We must always handle social forces in the most appropriate manner.
Via
Happy Birthday Ian XXX
Ian would have turned 70 today - a true "jewel in the crown of England's Glory". Let's all raise a glass in his memory this weekend.
Via
Friday, 11 May 2012
#dctxtspeak
IMHO = Is My Horse Outside?
LMAO = Let Me Ask Osborne
ROTFL = Rupert's On The Fone, Listening
MILF = Murdoch Is A Lovely FellowBRB = Bloody Rebekah Brooks
Etc
On this day, Rebekah Brooks said that they didn't "threaten", rather, they just used "persuasion"
Algren's Last Night
Based on a script written and narrated by Algren friend Warren Leming,
"Algren's Last Night" is the bittersweet tale of a Chicago writer
bidding farewell to the city he had 'made his trade.'
Unique and evocative cityscapes reveal a dark, haunted Chicago rarely traveled or seen.
Director/Producer/Editor/Camera: Carmine Cervi
Actor/Writer/Producer: Warren Leming
Unique and evocative cityscapes reveal a dark, haunted Chicago rarely traveled or seen.
Director/Producer/Editor/Camera: Carmine Cervi
Actor/Writer/Producer: Warren Leming
Euler diagram used to represent the propinquity effect just so there are no 'semantic misunderstandings' at the Leveson Inquiry
'...and cor-relatively that government or individuals within it have permitted themselves to acquire an excessive degree of propinquity to News International. I am putting this in a deliberately roundabout way; I could I suppose be much blunter.' - That you could Mr. Jay!!!
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Argentina's Senate passes gender identity law
Via Mauro Cabral, Co-Director of the Argentinian branch of GATE (Global Action for Trans* Equality) I learn that the country's Senate yesterday (9 May 2012) unanimously approved a gender identity law that doesn't require a medical diagnosis in order to gain legal recognition, hormonal treatment and/or surgical procedures (including hormones and surgeries carried out in the public health system) and that doesn't require medical intervention as a condition of legal recognition.As Mauro says:
It's a law grounded in the right to identity, establishing informed consent as the best practice for trans* access to health.
It seems likely there will be a short delay for the legislation to be formally enacted by Presidente Cristina Fernández before it actually becomes law, but it's hoped that it will be practically implemented soon after that.
The significance of this change cannot be understated - the linking of trans* people's medical and legal statuses is an area of trans* rights which has long been believed to cause more problems for many trans* people than it solves, both in accessing healthcare and obtaining legal recognition, and it is to be hoped that other countries will follow Argentina's example in supporting trans* people's rights.
More at the Spanish language website Minutouno
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Image compiled from public domain images in Wikimedia Commons (here and here) by Helen
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Cross-posted from Bird of Paradox
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