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Smoking # 32

Artwork by Hazel Dooney

Judee Sill - The Kiss

Lots of unreleased Judee Sill recordings here.

Judee Sill - Jesus Was A Crossmaker

The Life & Times of Judee Sill

Black Cab continue to make concept albums cool again!

Bought Black Cab's 'Call Signs' today.

Any album that opens with sounds from 'The Conet Project' is A OK with me.
Why this band aren't bigger is beyond me.
Oh, and do read Anna Funder's 'Stasiland', the book that the album is 'loosely' based on.

Video appears in paper magazines

The first-ever video advertisement will be published in a traditional paper magazine in September.

The video-in-print ads will appear in select copies of the US show business title Entertainment Weekly.

@ 'BBC'

The land of the free

After being named president of Freedonia in Duck Soup Rufus T. Firefly

(Groucho Marx) sings:

"You're not allowed to smoke
or tell a dirty joke
And whistling is prohibited
If chewing gum is used the chewer is pursued
And in the hoosegow hidden
Whatever form of pleasure are exhibited
Report to me and they will be prohibited
It's as I say, so shall it be
This is the land of the free."

(Thanx Kathie)

Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle

Gil Scott-Heron - Re-Ron 12"

Label: Arista

Catalog#: AD1-9216
Format: Vinyl, 12", Single
Country:US
Released:1984
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Style: Electro
Mixed By - Robert Stevens
Produced by Bill Laswell for Material OAO
Recorded by Rob Stevens at Evergreen Studio
Assistant: Han Rowe
Mixed by Rob Stevens at RPM Studio
Assistant: Mike Krowiak
Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk
Bernard Fowler: backing vocals
Bernie Worrell: synthesizers, clavinet
Anton Fier: DMX
Bill Laswell: DMX, radio
Aïyb Dieng: cowbell
Chant: Bernard Fowler, D. ST, Shevin Conway, Nicky Skopelitis
(Discogs)

Black Cab ('Call Signs' launch) The Esplanade 29th August

Photo by Joe Lewit

Ron Peno will perform with Black Cab at the launch of their third album Call Signs at the Esplanade Hotel in Melbourne on August 29. The legendary Died Pretty frontman, who lends his considerable pipes to album track ‘Ghost Anthems’, recently appeared with Black Cab (sans hat) at the Northcote Social Club in July.

Out now through Sydney label Laughing Outlaw, Call Signs is loosely inspired by the state-sponsored climate of fear that pervaded East Germany in the 1970s. “We’d read a book by Anna Funder called Stasiland that really captured the mentality of living at a time when around 50 percent of East Germans contributed intelligence information, often about their neighbours,” explained singer Andrew Coates in a recent interview with M+N. “There was so much distrust and paranoia and it really interested us.” The album was produced by Woody Annison who worked on Black Cab's debut Altamont Diary.

Supports from The Sand Pebbles and Sun Blindness.

BLACK CAB LAUNCH ‘CALL SIGNS’

Saturday, August 29
The Gershwin Room, Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne, VIC

@ 'Mess+Noise'

Mona says: "See you all there."

LSD-25

Art by Alex Grey

Lysergic acid diethylamide

Is LSD good for you?

Image: Albert Hoffman signed blotter art

As the FDA paves the way for clinical LSD trials, scientists are exploring its medical benefits. Is acid the new Xanax? Plus, from Angelina to The Beatles, a gallery of celebrity trippers.
HERE

As you can see a friend of mine in Germany actually got Albert Hofman's autograph!
Lucky bugger!

The science of sport

The five sexes: why 'Male' & 'Female' are not enough.

A very interesting and informative blog post here.
I feel very sorry for Caster Semenya and Athletics South Africa should have had this sorted out a long time ago, so this situation need never have arisen for an 18 year old girl.

Gaspar Noé's 'Enter The Void'

HERE
My thanx to Ed for the link!

Buy one anyway

(Thanx HerrB)