Jack White & Alison Mosshart form new band - 'The Dead Weather'

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The new group includes Alison Mosshart of The Kills, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age and Jack Lawrence of The Greenhornes with Jack White on drums.

Story from 'NY Times' here.

Ricky Gervais meets Elmo

From 'The Hangover - Helper' here.

Dutch police foil Amsterdam terror attack

Story from 'Radio Netherlands' here.

(A concern as son number one lives over in Amsterdam.)

The Blog

From 'coisas do arco da velha' here.

How Dutch is that moggie in the window?

(Photo by Hippie Coco.)

Artifacts for a dream home

Tourbillon turntable.

Details here.
Speakers here.

Libertate

Short film by Jose Alvarado.

Francoise Hardy

An old Dutch beer drinkers joke (as told by Chief Heineken)

"So what is the similarity between drinking Heineken and making love in a canoe?"
"I don't know what is the similarity between drinking Heineken and making love in a canoe?"
"They are both fucking close to water!!!"

The lunatic ninja 'roo

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"An Australian couple thought they were being attacked by an intruder when a kangaroo crashed through their bedroom window and started jumping on them. "My initial thought, when I was half awake, was it's a lunatic ninja coming through the window. It seems about as likely as a kangaroo breaking in," Beat Ettlin told local media on Monday. The three metre (9 feet) kangaroo smashed through the window in Ettlin's Canberra home on Sunday night. "
Full story here.

Keith Moon blows up his drumkit (and nearly Pete Townsend too!)

The Who - 'My Generation' (Smother Brothers Comedy Hour, 1967)

New Doherty solo album hits the blogosphere

Search around and you will score 'Grace/Wasteland'
Will it be a hit?

Pete Doherty & Dot Allison- Sheepskin Tearaway (Live)

doll face

Dave McKean

Miles & Herbie

Kafka's 'The Trial'

The official site for artist/filmaker/musician Dave McKean is about to launch from here and there is a good fan site here.

Sonnet 138