Girlz With Gunz # 35 - The Inner Space (1968)

Holger Czukay - bass guitar, sound engineer, electronics

Michael Karoli - guitar, vocals, violin
Jaki Liebezeit - drums, percussion
Irmin Schmidt - keyboards, vocals
Rosemarie Heinikel (aka Rosy-Rosy, Kamera Song only)

Go to 'mplak_aout' here.
More info at 'Forced Exposure' here.

A clip from Kobi Jaeger's 1969 film 'Kamasutra - Vollendung der liebe' starring Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schone.

Just before the clip ends Malcolm Mooney takes over and you get a few tantalizing seconds of "A Man Named Joe" from Can's Delay 1968 (aka Prepared To Meet Thy Pnoom).

A day of rest

Nice people these burn again Christians*

*TOPY 'T' shirt slogan c. early 1980's.

Compassion?

The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.
Story at 'CNN' here.

Do endless representations of the crucifixion desenitise the faithfull to cruelty to others?

Gregory Corso on Jack Kerouac

Gregory Corso - an excerpt from 'The Riverside Interview'

Gregory Corso
here.
Gavin Selerie, "The Interview," in The Riverside Interviews: 3 Gregory Corso. Gavin Selerie, ed., Ladbroke Grove: Binnacle Press, 1982.

Tom McGrath 1940 - 2009 RIP

Tom McGrath

(Born 23 October, 1940 in Rutherglen, Glasgow, died 29 April 2009)
More from 'The Guardian' here and 'The Herald' here.

Another great Glaswegian bites the dust.
Playwright and piano player McGrath was the original editor of 'International Times'. A close friend of Alex Trocchi and author of the play 'The Hardman' about the infamous Jimmy Boyle.
There is a superb book of interviews with him from 'The Riverside Interview' series probably published in the early 80's, if you see it grab it!

I am personally indebted for his founding of the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow, a shrine to the avant garde, which is still in operation as the Centre for Contemporary Arts and where 35 years ago I first came across so many things that are still a part of my life.

Indeed...

It was once said that a black man would be President of the U.S.A. "when pigs fly."

Indeed, 100 days into Obama's presidency...

A Swine flu!

(Thanx to 'Smegger' JohnC')

Message for Simon (anon)

This is you yes?

Smoking # 3

Photo by 'This Is A Wake Up Call' here.

Oren Ambarchi & Nels Cline @ NGV 30 April 2009

(Photos by TimN)

Swine flu under the microscope

(Via 'Mogodonia' with thanx.)

William S. Burrough's lectures @ the Naropa Institute

Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso & William Burroughs at Naropa Institute.
A whole series of lectures and readings by WSB can be downloaded here.

A song for the times

New Wilco cover of Woody Guthrie's 'The Jolly Banker' available here.

Mayday