[E.O.M.S.]

Tuesday 16 December 2008

Bush acknowledges absence of al Qaeda in pre-occupation Iraq with a "So What"!

BUSH: One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand. This is where al Qaeda was hoping to take-

RADDATZ: But not until after the U.S. invaded.
BUSH: Yeah, that's right. So what? The point is that al Qaeda said they're going to take a stand. Well, first of all in the post-9/11 environment Saddam Hussein posed a threat. And then upon removal, al Qaeda decides to take a stand.

Monday 15 December 2008

Black Cab

Black Cab - Hearts On Fire

Black Cab - New Speedway Boogie

For all you St. Kilda supporters

Jennifer Aniston on the cover of the new GQ.
She will be 40 in February (gulp!)

Good Duck Bush!

Shoes thrown at Bush in Iraq

Story from 'The Huffington Post' here.

Sunday 14 December 2008

Bush claims success in 'War-On-Drugs'

Story from 'The Huffington Post' here.

(?)

Bush farewells Iraq today.
Story from the 'BBC' here.

Ornette Coleman live with the Grateful Dead on the 9th December 1993 (Los Angeles Sports Arena)

I was unaware that Ornette had also played with the Dead on this occasion until my friend Tim (the jazz errorist) brought this to my attention after yesterday's post here.
(Tracks are ' Drums - Space - The Other One - Wharf Rat & Turn On Your Lovelight)
Also augmenting the Dead on ' Drums & Space' are Flora Purim & Airto Moreira . Brazil's first couple of fusion.
You can get it here.
(The next night it would be Branford Marsalis' turn to sit in with the Dead again.)

Little Axe - Killing Floor Blues (Live 2005)

Little Axe - Skip McDonald, Doug Wimbish, Keith Leblanc, guest Pierre (sax) with
Adrian Sherwood (at the mixing desk) playing the Second Annual Wimbash at Sully's Pub in Hartford, Connecticut August 2005.

(David Parker runs skysaw.org for EVERYTHING On-U Sound related
and here is his little Axe complete discography.)

Tangled up in blues & times out of mind

For a complete A to Zee of Zimmerman go here and here.

Saturday 13 December 2008

Rain on my parade - 'Clean Feed' rally a washout in Melbourne today

Photos by TimN

Cold, wet and wintry conditions meant that there were probably no more than 150-200 people (and one furry alien) at today's 'clean feed' rally in Melbourne.

This is one of the biggest attacks on our civil liberties that we are facing here in Australia.

(Non Australian readers of this blog may be unaware that our Prime Minister, Chairman Rudd speaks fluent Mandarin and that maybe this little idea was whispered into his ear by China's President Hu Jintao the last time that they were cozying up together as the similarities with
'the great firewall of China' are uncanny.)

Please go here to see what Obama's views are on this subject.

Mugabe's government claims UK caused cholera outbreak!!!

Story from the 'BBC' here.

Daft Punk - Electroma (ONE NIGHT ONLY)

PitchforkTV will be showing this film today until 8pm (US East Coast Time) here.
A word of warning: my eldest son and I actually paid hard earned dollars to see this film when it was shown in Melbourne.
It is CRAP.
You will be amazed how bad it is.

Just read that it is 74 minutes long.
It will feel like eternity (and then some).
The film does not even contain any Daft Punk music!

Obama on 'net neutrality'

SAVE THE INTERNET

As I am about to head off to the 'Clean Feed' Rally here in Melbourne in the torrential rain, I ask all American readers to click on the image above for further information regarding the preservation of 'net neutrality'.
Interesting that while it is Chairman Rudd and the Labor government who are trying to introduce this legislation here in Australia, over there in the US Obama has promised to fight to keep the internet free from censorship.
You can read about that here.

I may not agree with what a lot of people say on the internet but I defend their right to say so.
(it's called democracy!)

Ornette Coleman & the Grateful Dead live 23rd February 1993 (Oakland Colisseum)

Photo above by Susana Millman
(Taken from the wonderful new book 'GratefulDead365')

Here you can get Ornette Coleman sitting in with the Grateful Dead at the 'Mardi-Gras' gig from the 23rd of February 1993 at the Oakland Colisseum.
Tracks are 'Space - The Other One - Stella Blue - Turn On Your Lovelight & Brokedown Palace'.
Again it would have been interesting to have heard them playing with each other in the seventies when both Ornette and the Dead were exploring new sonic boundaries.
Ornette's son Denardo is also sitting in on percussion in this set.

(Another gig of Ornette and the Dead playing together from later in the year can be found here.
David Murray live with the Grateful Dead at Madison Square Garden on September 22nd 1993 can be found here. Use search engine at top for much more Grateful Dead live material on this blog.)

$20 Blackberry loaded with McCain campaign info sold to reporter

Story from 'Fox News' here.

The Walled City of Kowloon

An amazing walk around and through the 'Walled City of Kowloon'.

Scott Walker - Rosary

(As performed on Jools Holland's show in the 90's -
especially for Ryan 'for services rendered'.))

Friday 12 December 2008

1997 interview with Bettie Page

Bettie Page - RIP

Bettie in 2003 (age 80!!!)

April 22 1923 - December 11 2008
Go here.

Most amazing service ever

Back in the days in London, I was a big fan of Throbbing Gristle and then Psychic TV.
(Genesis P-Orridge is pictured above).
Lots of people I knew were closely aligned with the Temple and a friend of mine made the 'psychic cross' badges from his studio in Camden Lock.
To cut a long story short my badge had been proudly worn in London, Amsterdam and then here in Melbourne and then the back broke and I gave it to a 'friend' (it's OK Adam - I won't mention your name) to fix.
He says he gave it back to me, I know that he didn't.
Then I noticed that that they were available at Gen's site and I went to buy one but it wouldn't allow me to pay with paypal from here in Australia.
I sent off an email and pretty quickly heard back from Ryan who was handling the webshop orders.
I was expecting some money so I said that I would send it through to him last Monday, however the money didn't come in until yesterday and so I sent it off then.
In my postbox today was the package which had winged its way from New York.
So Ryan for the trust of posting that package before the money had actually been paid all I can say is a very BIG thank you.

Colin Powell on 'small - town values'

Rumsfeld responsible for detainee abuse - US Senate report

Illustration(c) Siegfried Woldhek 2004
Story here.

Please also visit this site started by Mr. Woldhek.
NABUUR makes it easy to make a difference.
Nabuur.com is an online volunteering platform that links Neighbours (online volunteers) with Villages (local communities) in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Connected through Nabuur.com, Neighbours and local communities learn about each other, share ideas and find solutions to local issues.
Everybody has something to offer, and everything is done online.
Do you have a little spare time and the desire to make a difference?
(And 'bedankt' for the permission to use the illustration.)

What was happening on the streets during Miami: Art Basel

Check out here and here.
Thanx to 'The Obama Art Report' here.

Reminder - 'No Clean Feed' rally tomorrow 12 - 5pm outside State Library Swanston Street Melbourne

Go here for information for other Australian cities.
See you there.

The Australian government is planning to implement internet filtering at the ISP level. This internet filter will work in much the same way as the freely available filters for adult content which can already be downloaded by the public for personal use. The proposed filter will be intended to block content with a MA15+ rating or higher. Websites deemed to host illegal content will also be blocked. A blacklist of websites deemed unsuitable for public viewing has already been produced, this list is at present not available to the public. The dangerous concern is that any website the government disapproves of can easily be added to this list. Regardless of whether or not you trust the current government, there are no safeguards in place to prevent future governments from exploiting this list and adding websites that oppose their own personal ideals.

In order to pass this legislation it is likely that gambling websites will also be blocked. The cost of this technology is believed to be $45 million for the initial setup and then an additional $33 million per annum.

On the 28th of July the Australian government released a report detailing the results of a trial of six potential filters. The report included the following statistics.

Internet speeds dropped between 21% and 86%. The most accurate filter was also the one with the greatest drop in speed.

Content that the filters failed to block ranged from 2% to 13%.

Content blocked by mistake ranged from 1.3% to 7.8%

The type of websites blocked by accident may include websites on issues such as sexual health or breast cancer. Legitimate websites unfortunate enough to be hosted on a web-server with adult content are also likely to be blocked. Websites which are hacked or spammed with porn will again be blocked. Hate websites and websites deemed to be inciting criminal activity will be blocked, this may include websites promoting euthanasia or file sharing.

This legislation will not protect children. If anything this legislation is more likely to harm children than protect them. Parents are likely to be lured into a false sense of security. Bypassing internet filters has been proven to be notoriously easy for children.

Of greater concern is the possibility that such a filter would encourage paedophiles to start using programs that make it more difficult for them to be tracked. This would hamper the efforts of the police in tracking paedophiles online.

An internet filter will do nothing to combat the production and uploading of Child Pornography.

The internet filter will not block P2P networks which are where the majority of file sharing occurs.

If the Australian government wants to stop child sexual abuse then the money for this legislation should be spent on Federal police programs designed to target the producers of such material

Let your federal MP know how you feel about this issue. Speaking directly to them will have the greatest effect. Letters will help too especially handwritten ones. Be careful not to insult or offend them, even if they are a sitting member of the labor party, they may not necessarily agree with this policy.

An official petition is available at http://www.wakinggiant.org/au_censorship.htm. The petition is open to all Australian citizens. Make sure that the people who sign it add their address, failing to do so may render a signature void.

Join Australians Against Internet Censorship.(AAIC). We are a non-political non-profit group dedicated to stopping this legislation from being passed. We are working at raising awareness of this issue and organising protests to show the public opposition to this legislation. You can find us at http://www.nocleanfeedforum.com

For further information visit http://stopthecleanfeed.com/

Today and tomorrow in New York

A festival/record fair happening in New York to celebrate independent NY!
details here.
This grabbed my attention as way back in the 80's the noise-jazz band I was in were called 'Eye and Ear Control' and we have both taken the name from this.

Thursday 11 December 2008

More art in the eye of a needle

Copy of email sent to Blogger today

I have a blog
www.exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com
I have received two DMCA takedown notifications
One dated December 4th http://exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com/2008/11/mike-hart-passed-away-on-this-day-in.html
One dated November 11th http://exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com/2008/11/ryan-adams-cardinology.html
In both cases the links were to music sourced from archive.org (Ryan Adams & Little Feat)
These are legal downloads and are therefore not in breach of copyright.
I have another question which is how many DMCA notifications do you get before the blog is pulled.
It seems obvious to me that The International Federation of Phonographic Industry do not actually check to see what is there.
I hope to hear back from you
Regards/

Well let's wait and see what happens.
I am pretty certain that if I receive another DMCA notification then this blog will disappear,
in which case I will return with another blog:

(son of) exile on moan street