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Ottagone / Selected II [2026]
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Thursday, 17 May 2012
REpost: Welcome to the Go Go (BBC Arena 1986?)
(RIP Chuck Brown)
The healing power of music...
Eight-year-old blind-autistic Jacob enjoying some fine acoustic guitar by a musician in downtown Lawrence, Kansas on May 13, 2012.
Tyler ... Thank you so much for letting Jacob feel the music! http://tylergregorymusic.com
An asshat tweets...
...Sometimes I wonder whether my life
is scripted. The $, the power, the coordination behind the scenes to
stop us. It will all be exposed..
Iggy Pop (Letterman 1982)
Best youtoob comment ever: 'This is not iggy , whoever is singing has a shirt , iggy does not wear shirts'
Bonus:
Iggy Pop and David Bowie (Dinah Shore Show 1977) Thanx Kenny!!!
It has been an honour and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager. I greatly appreciate the work that Steve [Clarke], Kevin [Keen], the players and all of the staff put in during my time and feel proud that we delivered the club's first trophy in six years winning the Carling Cup and came close to a second trophy in the FA Cup final. Of course I am disappointed with results in the league, but I would not have swapped the Carling Cup win for anything as I know how much it meant to our fans and the club to be back winning trophies.
Whilst I am obviously disappointed to be leaving the football club, I can say that the matter has been handled by the owners and all concerned in an honourable, respectful and dignified way and reflects on the quality of the people involved and their continued desire to move the football club forward in the same way as when they arrived here.
I would like to thank all of the staff at the club for their effort and loyalty. I said when first approached about coming back as manager that I would always be of help if I can at any time and that offer remains the same.
Finally, I want to put on record my heartfelt gratitude to Liverpool's fans, who have always given me and the club their unwavering support. Without them neither the club nor I would have achieved anything
Liverpool sack Kenny Dalglish after showdown talks in Boston
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Exile's inaugural imbecile of the day award...
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Monday, 14 May 2012
Thaer Halahleh’s letter to his daughter: 'My Beloved Lamar…Forgive me'
The Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs received a letter from hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Thaer Halahleh addressed to his two year old daughter Lamar, most likely passed on by one of Addameer’s lawyers Mona Neddad during her last visit to the Ramle prison hospital on Thursday, May 10.
In the latest installation of prisoner profiles for Al-Akhbar English News, I wrote how Lamar who was born while Thaer was imprisoned only knows her father through pictures and posters.
Addameer confirmed that Thaer’s letter was not passed to his family by them. The letter was first published by Ma’an News Agency.
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In the latest installation of prisoner profiles for Al-Akhbar English News, I wrote how Lamar who was born while Thaer was imprisoned only knows her father through pictures and posters.
“A month later on July 19, Thaer became a father to baby Lamar but only got to meet her months later on October 9, the first visit allowed him since his last arrest and the only time his family were able to see him. Lamar is almost 2 years old now, and knows her father through pictures. She goes to sleep with a photo of her father tucked beneath her cheek. She is convinced that there is a wedding every day because of the solidarity tent set up outside the family home in the Hebron village of Kharaas. Her mother Shireen cries privately when Lamar insists on wearing a new dress every day.”Below is a translated version of Thaer’s letter, by Jalal Najjar:
“My Beloved Lamar, forgive me because the occupation took me away from you, and took away from me the pleasure of witnessing my firstborn child that I have always prayed to God to see, to kiss, to be happy with. It is not your fault; this is our destiny as Palestinian people to have our lives and the lives of our children taken away from us, to be apart from each other and to have a miserable life. Nothing is complete in our lives because of this unjust occupation that is lurking on every corner of our lives turning it into eeriness, a continuous pursuit and torture. Despite the fact that I was deprived from holding you and hearing your voice, from watching you grow up and move around in the house and in your bed, and that I was deprived of my role as a human and a father with my daughter, your existence has given me all the power and hope, and when I saw your picture with your mother in the sit-in tent, you were so calm staring in wonder at people, as if you were looking for your father, looking at my pictures that are hung inside the tent asking in silence why is my father not coming back. I felt that you are with me, in my sentiment and inside my mind, as if you are a part of my heartbeats, steadfast and the blood that flows in my veins, opening all doors for me spreading clear skies around me, and unleashing your free childish voice after this long silence.”UPDATE
“Lamar my love: I know that you are not to be blamed and that you don’t yet understand why your father is going through this battle of hunger strike for the 75th day, but when you grow up you will understand that the battle of freedom is the battle of going back to you, so that I can never be taken away from you again or to be deprived of your smile or seeing you, so that the occupier will never kidnap me again from you.”
“When you grow up you will understand how injustice was brought upon your father and upon thousands of Palestinians whom the occupation has put in prisons and jail cells, shattering their lives and future for no reason other then their pursuit of freedom, dignity and independence. You will know that your father did not tolerate injustice and submission, and that he would never accept insult and compromise, and that he is going through a hunger strike to protest against the Jewish state that wants to turn us into humiliated slaves without any rights or patriotic dignity.”
“My beloved Lamar keep your head up always and be proud of your father, and thank everyone who supported me, who supported the prisoners in their struggle, and don’t be afraid for God is with us always, and God never lets down people who have faith and patience. We are righteous, and right will always prevail against injustice and wrong doers.”
“Lamar my love: that day will come, and I will make it up to you for everything, and tell you the whole story, and your days that will follow will be more beautiful, so let your days pass now and wear your prettiest clothes, run and then run again in the gardens of your long life, go forward and forward for nothing is behind you but the past, and this is your voice I hear all the time as a melody of freedom”.
Addameer confirmed that Thaer’s letter was not passed to his family by them. The letter was first published by Ma’an News Agency.
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Israel warned of volatile situation as Palestinian hunger strikers near death
The Cold War rival to Eurovision
"The Soviet singer was so eager to win that she did a cartwheel
up on stage. But her skirt fell down and she revealed everything to the
judges. I'll never forget the face of the Soviet ambassador in the front
row. We laughed like hell." - Jerzy Gruza, Polish director of
Intervision Song Contest
During the Cold War, Europe was divided by a concrete wall and by rival ideologies. East and West competed in everything. The Western allies had Nato; the Eastern bloc had the Warsaw Pact.
The West had the Common Market; the East had Comecon.
We had the Eurovision Song Contest; they had... the Intervision Song Contest.
The Soviet Union could not take part in Eurovision. It was not a member of the European Broadcasting Union, the club of western broadcasters that organised the show. But that did not mean that behind the Iron Curtain people did not want to wear sequins and sing their hearts out. Of course they did. So the communist world created its very own songfest.
Intervision was born in August 1961 - just one week after the appearance of that rather more sinister Cold War icon, the Berlin Wall. With the division of Europe now a physical reality, artists in the East shrugged their shoulders and decamped to the shipyards of Gdansk in Poland for a socialist sing-song.
It was not a Communist party functionary, though, who had come up with the idea - it was a Polish pianist.
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a Jewish musician who had worked for Polish Radio before World War II. On 23 September 1939, as the Nazis pounded Warsaw from the ground and from the air, Szpilman was performing Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor live on air. It would be the last live music on Polish radio until the end of the war.
Decades later Szpilman would become famous as the hero of Roman Polansky's film, The Pianist; he had survived Nazi invasion, desperate conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto and arrest. His family had been put on a train and sent to the gas chambers. But Szpilman escaped from the railway station and spent the rest of the war in hiding. After an experience like that, arranging a song contest must have been a walk in the park.
It soon became clear, though, that a shipyard was not the ideal venue for Szpilman's song contest. In 1964 his musical extravaganza relocated up the coast to the Polish seaside resort of Sopot. A spectacular open-air amphitheatre, the Forest Opera, became the annual home of the Sopot Music Festival...
MORE
Bluegrass Roots
1964 TV special shot documentary style in the mountains of North
Carolina. It follows Old Man Bascom Lunsford as he casts the talent for
his Asheville Mountain Music Festival (also the first such event).
"Bluegrass Roots" presents a who's who of the most extraordinary
singers, players and dancers the Bluegrass Mountains had to offer. Songs
Include: Groundhog, Johnson Boys, East Virginia Blues, Twinkle Twinkle
Little Star, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, and Heavenly Light is Shinning
On Me.
Jeez - I really do detest...
What About Me (1993)
Rachel Amodeo & Richard Hell
'What About Me' portays the gradual deterioration of Lisa Napolitano (Rachel Amodeo) a young women forced to exist on the streets, intermingling with the outcasts of society. Along the way she encounters a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, Nick (Richard Edson); a nihilistic East Villager, Tom (Nick Zedd); and a sympathetic good samaritan, Paul (Richard Hell). 'What About Me' was filmed in black and white on location in Tompkins Square Park and the Lower East Side. Gregory Corso, Judy Carne, Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan and Dee Dee Ramone appear in addition to the homeless residents of the park. The soundtrack includes music by Johnny Thunders.
(Thanx Chuck!)
FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!
LEGALISE ALL DRUGS. TAKE THE MONEY AWAY FROM THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT AND STOP THIS FUCKING MADNESS NOW!!!
Spiritualized Live at 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.
- "Hey Jane"
- "Lord Let It Rain On Me"
- "Headin' for the Top Now"
- "Walkin' with Jesus"
- "Oh Baby"
- "Rated X"
- "Born Never Asked"
- "Electric Mainline"
- "Soul on Fire"
- "I Am What I Am" *
- "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" *
- "Mary"
- "Stay with Me" *
- "So Long You Pretty Thing" *
- "She Kissed Me (And It Felt Like a Hit)" *
- "Come Together" *
- "Cop Shoot Cop"
Download full show (Audio)
HERE
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Donald 'Duck' Dunn RIP
Details are sketchy at this time but, according to a Facebook post by Steve Cropper, legendary sessions bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn passed away Sunday morning in Tokyo.
His post:
Today I lost my best friend, the World has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live. Duck Dunn died in his sleep Sunday morning May 13 in Tokyo Japan after finishing 2 shows at the Blue Note Night Club.A page has already been put up on Facebook saluting Dunn, "A place for fans, friends, and others to share their messages of support or respect for those who cared for such an incredible person..."
Dunn grew up in Memphis, a close friend in childhood with Cropper. In their teens, Dunn and Cropper formed the group the Royal Spades with Dunn on guitar, Cropper on bass, future Memphis Horns player Wayne Jackson on trumpet, Charlie Freeman on guitar, Terry Johnson on drums, Don Nix on baritone saxophone, Charles "Packy" Axton on saxophone, John "Smoochy" Smith on keyboards and Ronnie Angel on vocals.
At the urging of Axton's mother, who owned Satellite Records, they changed their name to the Mar-Keys and, in 1961, went to number 2 on the R&B and 3 on the pop charts with Last Night. Dunn left soon after to play with Ben Branch's Big Band but would return to the rock charts in 1964 when he replaced original bassist Lewie Steinberg in Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
Dunn, along with the Memphis Horns and drummer Al Jackson, Jr., also became the house band for Stax Records, playing on such big hits as Respect and I Can't Turn You Loose by Otis Redding, In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett and Hold On, I'm Coming by Sam & Dave.
Booker T. & the M.G.'s also continued to branch out from their original Memphis sounds on albums throughout the 60's and 70's. Dunn also became a major session player on his own for everyone from Eric Clapton to Bob Dylan to Stevie Nicks and was a regular member of the Blues Brothers Band and appeared as himself in both Blues Brothers movies.
Dunn went into a semi-retirement in the middle of the last decade but continued to play occasional M.G.'s shows along with special shows.
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