This book was inevitable: "Breaking Bad and Philosophy" http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Bad-Philosophy-David-Koepsell/dp/0812697642
Monday's Long Song
3 hours ago
Monday, 2 July 2012
A perfect mix for this bitterly cold day
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01. ASC - Stranded With No Direction - SSCD11
02. Djorvin Clain - Deep Storm - Pattern of Thought - SSCD12
03. Michael Mantra - Mountain (Lunatik Sound System Remix) - SSCD10
04. Michael Mantra - Mountain (Ohrwert Summit Alter) - SSCD10
05. Djorvin Clain - Somewhere - SSCD12
06. Djorvin Clain - The Untitled One - SSCD12
07. Edanticonf - Planet - SSD07
08. Edanticonf - Drome - SSD07
09. Edanticonf - Forest of Echo - SSD07
10. Mon0 - Dreaming - SS14
11. Inanitas - Jim - Unreleased
12. Electribalt - Unreleased
13. Alteria Percepcysne - Jamais Vu - SSD01
14. Sonitus Eco - Strange Figure Up Ahead- SSD05
15. Sonitus Eco - Time Goes By...- SSD05
16. Research Music Lab - Ambient 1 Remix - SSD06
Pushing Citizens To Extremes
Mick Farren
♪♫ The Flaming Lips - You Lust (feat. Phantogram)
"You got a lot of nerve
A lot of nerve to fuck with me
Better kill your emperor
'Cause you know you're just like me
You lust
You lust
You lust
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
When you pull the switch on them
I don't really want to know
When you shoot the stars away
The brightest light is the first to go
You lust
You lust
You lust
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
Lust to succeed
Unholy and magnificent
The selfish eye can't see itself
When it shoots across the fire
It can never be destroyed
It can never be destroyed
It can never be destroyed"
Via
Russians join in call for Pussy Riot trio's release
Artists and musicians around the world have called for their release. Now, nearly four months after three women were arrested for performing a protest anthem inside Moscow's most important Orthodox church, Christ the Saviour cathedral, a growing number of Russians are joining calls for their freedom.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alehina – all members of the anarchic Pussy Riot punk band – have been in prison since March, held on charges of hooliganism which could eventually mean a seven-year sentence. Many Muscovites were happy enough to see a tough response to the band's irreverent act of rebellion, which was aimed at President Vladimir Putin. But with no trial date set, no signs that they will be released and opposition to Putin spreading, support for the trio has grown, even among those who at first condemned them.
"Their actions insulted me, because I'm religious," said Alexander Ivanov, a popular musician. "It's not what they said, it's where they did it. I was offended – but for them to get seven years in jail for an unsuccessful experiment, that's going too far."
Ivanov is one of more than 100 cultural figures who signed an open letter last week calling on the state to release the women, in an indication that popular unease at their plight is growing.
"It scares me that, for a rather unsuccessful, but extreme, cultural experiment, they want to jail them for so many years," he said. "Artists need to have freedom."
Some of Russia's best-known opposition figures – satirist Viktor Shenderovich, poet Lev Rubinstein, musician Yury Shevchuk – signed the letter. Other names were more surprising, such as those of actress Chulpan Khamatova and actor Yevgeny Mironov, both of whom appeared in videos for Putin's re-election campaign earlier this year. Director Fyodor Bondarchuk, a prominent supporter of Putin's, also added his name. The signatories warned of the social divisions caused by the case, stating: "While the participants in the performance have been held under arrest, an atmosphere of impatience has grown in society which will cause division and radicalism. We do not see any legal foundation or practical sense in further isolating from society these young women who present no real danger."
Nearly 25,000 other supporters have added their names to the letter, which was published on the website of the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy.
The domestic groundswell of opinion comes after a concerted international campaign. Beastie Boy Ad-Rock – real name Adam Horowitz – has performed at a Pussy Riot benefit in New York; the US punk band Anti-Flag have released an English-language cover of the controversial Punk Prayer, and the Tokyo Palace in Paris has opened an exhibit on the jailed rockers.
Benefits have been held in Prague, Warsaw and Tallinn, where the Estonian president was in attendance. But such backing from Russia's cultural intelligentsia was until recently all but non-existent. Artemy Troitsky, Russia's premier rock critic, thinks similar acts in Russia would be impossible. "We could put on a concert in support of Pussy Riot in a forest or something," he said. "But in our police state it's not realistic to put on such a concert – it would be stopped."
Troitsky, a harsh regime critic with a sharp, expletive-laden tongue, has instead gathered hundreds of artists to put together a series of albums to support the growing movement against Putin's rule – and to call for Pussy Riot's release. The so-called "White Album" has more than 350 artists so far; a proper album is in the works. Troitsky is hoping for songs, or messages of support, from stars such as Paul McCartney or Madonna, who will perform in St Petersburg in August.
"We're calling for honest elections, a fight against corruption, justice and freedom for political prisoners – Pussy Riot first," Troitsky said. "They are the clearest and most undoubtable case of people arrested for political reasons."
Last week Amnesty International again called for the release iof the three women, whom they have dubbed prisoners of conscience. The statement came after a Moscow court extended the trio's detention until 24 July. No trial start date has been set.
"The case is dragging on because they can't do anything – on the one hand, they can't let them go because it would be against Putin's order; on the other hand, they can't start the trial because they have no argument," Troitsky said. Putin criticised Pussy Riot's performance shortly after their arrest, which many in Russia took as a signal of his support for the criminal case against them.
The longer it drags on, the more public acts of defiance grow. Last week, actor and director Olga Darfi strutted down the red carpet at the opening of Moscow's International Film Festival in a makeshift pink balaclava.
"I don't share their point of view and I'm not aesthetically close to what they do, and maybe they deserve some administrative punishment," Darfi said. "But that they're in jail is totally illegal. And we have to fight against this situation and create social pressure – if we do nothing then any of us can find ourselves in this situation. It's very dangerous."Pussy Riot shot to notoriety inside Russia with their flash performances of anti-Putin punk songs, accompanied by a revolutionary look of bright balaclavas and stockings. A February performance inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, dubbed Punk Prayer, led to their arrest. The anti-government lyrics, delivered in the heart of official Orthodox Christianity, shocked the nation.
The powerful Orthodox church has continually attacked the band. Last week its spokesman, Vsevolod Chaplin, said that God had told him in a divine revelation that he "condemns what they have done". He added: "This sin will be punished in this life and the next."The signatories of the open letter in support of Pussy Riot warned of the social divisions caused by the case. "While the participants in the performance have been held under arrest, an atmosphere of impatience has grown in society which will cause division and radicalism.
"We do not see any legal foundation or practical sense in further isolating from society these young women who present no real danger," the letter said. Nearly 25,000 readers have added their names to the letter, which was published on the website of liberal radio station Echo Moskvy.
Miriam Elder @'The Guardian'
Sunday, 1 July 2012
Off to see Damo Suzuki tonight
Info
Bugger that!
Far too cold here in Melbourne tonight to go traipsin' uphill & downhill in the wind & rain...
GAH!!!
What is it w/ kids & their
intolerably CRAP loud music. Think I may have to wire up the PA &
blast Sunn O))) in their direction! (1:30AM)
CELEBRITY: Katie Holmes files for divorce, citing 'irreconcilable homosexuality'.
Are middle aged mums REALLY being seduced by porn?
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
So is it the billionaire or the spanking that women like so much about Shades of Grey? I’m sure it’s not the fisting.
Saturday, 30 June 2012
Massive Attack - Live at Melt Music Festival (July 2010)
Melt Music Festival (Germany)
16-18 July 2010
United Snakes
Babel
Girl I Love You
Invade Me
Teardrop
Safe From Harm
Inertia Creeps
Unfinished Sympathy
Atlas Air
16-18 July 2010
United Snakes
Babel
Girl I Love You
Invade Me
Teardrop
Safe From Harm
Inertia Creeps
Unfinished Sympathy
Atlas Air
Friday, 29 June 2012
Biréli Lagrène Quartet - Festival Django Reinhardt 27.06.2012
Biréli Lagrène (guitar)
Franck Wolf (tenor saxophone)
Jean-Yves Jung (hammond organ B3)
Jean-Marc Robin (drums)
recorded @ Festival Django Reinhardt Samois Sur Seine 27.06.2012
Yeah right!!!
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Steve Bloom: A walk down Kitengela Road, Nairobi
This panoramic image might be the widest
continuous photographic image ever made. It appears in the book Trading
Places, The Merchants of Nairobi: by Steve Bloom.
The photographer’s ongoing challenge is to encapsulate life’s
experiences in a rectangular, two–dimensional form. In reality, of
course, we perceive the visual world as an endlessly unfolding synthesis
of images, in which pieces come together and then disperse as our eyes
dart around and we move through time and space.This long photograph of Kitengela Road here captures the hustle and bustle of Nairobi's Langata neighbourhood in a naturalistic, unposed way, giving the viewer the illusion of walking down the road. Steve Bloom started at the Hotel Hilton at the far end on the right, and moved along to the Jeddy Hair Salon, taking a photograph every four paces.
The resulting images were painstakingly stitched together. As the eye moves along the photograph, the viewpoint changes continually, as if the viewer is physically moving down the road. Some of the traders, such as the knife sharpener, are seen repeatedly, going about their business in different parts of the road at different times. This image opposes the 'decisive moment' approach to photography, and is more cinematic in its structure.
In the book, this image stretches across the title page and sixteen pages of the introduction. When printed one metre high, the print is about forty metres long.
Learn more about Steve Bloom at http:/stevebloomphoto.com
Buy signed copies of the book at stevebloomshop.com
Licence images to publish at stevebloom.com/index.php
Top CIA Spy Accused of Being a Mafia Hitman
That’s according to journalist Evan Wright’s blockbuster story How to Get Away With Murder in America, distributed by Byliner. In it, Wright — who authored Generation Kill, the seminal story of the Iraq invasion — compiles lengthy, years-long investigations by state and federal police into a sector of Miami’s criminal underworld that ended nowhere, were sidelined by higher-ups, or cut short by light sentences. It tracks the history of Prado’s alleged Miami patron and notorious cocaine trafficker, Alberto San Pedro, and suspicions that Prado moved a secret death squad from the CIA to Blackwater...
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