Tuesday, 10 July 2012

EMPowered to Kill

♪♫ Chaka Khan - Some Love

Some of you may know the New Age Steppers version...

Sam Shepard: 'Speed and booze together make you quite . . . omnipotent'

INTERVIEWER

Have you struggled with drinking?

SHEPARD

My history with booze goes back to high school. Back then there was a lot of Benzedrine around, and since we lived near the Mexican border I’d just run over, get a bag of bennies and drink ripple wine. Speed and booze together make you quite . . . omnipotent. You don’t feel any pain. I was actually in several car wrecks that I don’t understand how I survived.
At any rate, for a long time I didn’t think I had a problem. Alcoholism is an insidious disease; until I confronted it I wasn’t aware that it was creeping up on me. I finally did AA in the hardcore down on Pico Boulevard. I said, “Don’t put me in with Elton John or anything, just throw me to the lions.”
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Portrait of the Artist: Sam Shepard and the Anxiety of Identity

Contrast & Compare

G'night!

Russia halts sales of new weapons to Syria

Monday, 9 July 2012

The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama

Sure, we as a nation have always killed people. A lot of people. But no president has ever waged war by killing enemies one by one, targeting them individually for execution, wherever they are. The Obama administration has taken pains to tell us, over and over again, that they are careful, scrupulous of our laws, and determined to avoid the loss of collateral, innocent lives. They're careful because when it comes to waging war on individuals, the distinction between war and murder becomes a fine one. Especially when, on occasion, the individuals we target are Americans and when, in one instance, the collateral damage was an American boy.

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Warren Ellis on The Dirty Three

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Those early gigs were just brilliant! Somewhere in storage I still have their first cassette which I got at a gig at The Corner Hotel...

How technology has transformed communication for expatriates

‏@thelaurenwatson

If your kid is really ugly, please invest all your money in music lessons then send them to L A. They'll totally still get laid out here

Oren Ambarchi Talks Haino/O'Malley Collab

Australian consumer data sold to financial fraudsters: ACC report

Cheating & Lying

Doping allegations Armstrong's toughest battle yet

Above The Beatles

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The Passport to Prove It: A Stamped History of Marie Colvin’s Career

The Web's Best Scientology Longreads

Immigrants risk grisly ends to reach America

Taliban publicly execute woman accused of adultery near Kabul

The Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali (E10)

♪♫ Spirit - 1984 (Live Beat Cub 1970)

Adele Bertei & Lesley Woods

JOANNA BROWN: When I was 15, I lived in a small town in Louisiana, and the record store carried New York Rocker. I knew I was queer, but it was horrible because I was the only one. The magazine had a spread on famous couples in punk, and there was Adele Bertei of The Contortions and her girlfriend, Lesley Woods, of the Au Pairs. I was so impressed that there was a lesbian couple; I realized, maybe it was OK to be queer if you were into punk
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Queer to the Core

Parliament/Funkadelic - P-Funk Earth Tour - Houston '77

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Saw this tour at the Hammersmith Odeon in 78. Mind still blown & ass still free!!!

Fritz Catlin - Ragga Trousered Philanthropist Mix

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More from Fritz on Exile HERE
Skintologists

James Blood Ulmer and Pharoah Sanders Live 2003

Cecil Taylor live 1984

Keith Tippett

Hommage to Cesaria Evora @ Festival Rio Loco 13.06.2012 (Complete Concert)

with Khaly, Tito Paris, Maria Alice, Teofilo Chantre and Nancy Vieira

A-Ha!

Sunday, 8 July 2012

This is NOT a test...

Indie Club King Surveys Other Thrones

Marshall McLuhan: Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations (1967)

Revised edition of Explorations magazine, No. 8.
With additional contributions by V. J. Papanek, J. B. Bessinger, Marshall McLuhan, Karl Polanyi, Carol C. Hollis, David Hogg, Jack Jones
Publisher Something Else Press, New York/Frankfurt/Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1967
61 pages
via aphasic-letters.com
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