Alas poor Jude: "I knew her how well...?"

I would guess
not a particularly
happy chappy at the mo...

Not so Naked Lunch

Kim Gordon, Michael Stipe & William S. Burroughs
Via 'This isn't happiness'

Hosh Roshana שנה טובה

A shofar made from a ram's horn

In the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, there is a ceremony called Tashlich. Jews traditionally go to the ocean or a stream or river to pray and throw bread crumbs into the water.

Symbolically, the fish devour their sins.
Occasionally, people ask what kind of bread crumbs should be thrown. Here are suggestions for breads which may be mostappropriate for specific sins and misbehaviors:

For ordinary sins
White Bread

For erotic sins
French Bread

For particularly dark sins
Pumpernickel

For complex sins
Multi-Grain

For twisted sins
Pretzels

For tasteless sins
Rice Cakes

For sins of indecision
Waffles

For sins committed in haste
Matzoh

For sins of chutzpah
Fresh Bread

For substance abuse
Stoned Wheat

For use of heavy drugs
Poppy Seed

For petty larceny
Stollen

For committing auto theft
Caraway

For timidity/cowardice
Milk Toast

For ill-temperedness
Sourdough

For silliness, eccentricity
Nut Bread

For not giving full value
Shortbread

For jingoism, chauvinism
Yankee Doodles

For excessive irony
Rye Bread

For unnecessary chances
Hero Bread

For telling bad jokes/puns
Corn Bread

For war-mongering
Kaiser Rolls

For dressing immodestly
Tarts

For causing injury to others
Tortes

For lechery and promiscuity
Hot Buns

For promiscuity with gentiles
Hot Cross Buns

For racist attitudes
Crackers

For sophisticated racism
Ritz Crackers

For being holier than thou
Bagels

For abrasiveness
Grits

For dropping in without notice
Popovers

For over-eating
Stuffing

For impetuosity
Quick Bread

For indecent photography
Cheesecake

For raising your voice too often
Challah

For pride and egotism
Puff Pastry

For sycophancy, ass-kissing
Brownies

For being overly smothering
Angel Food Cake

For laziness
Any long loaf

For trashing the environment
Dumplings

(Thanx to RobbieM
via Superstar R.J. Lemon from the "krewe du jieux, New Orleans" ~ Happy New Year to you all!)

Moritz von Oswald Trio @ Bimhuis Amsterdam 23062008

Featuring Moritz von Oswald with Max Louderbauer and Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay).

Evolution - Burning Man 2009 Time Lapse

From Red to black in seconds (last week in Australia) "Oh my gosh" & "Holy shit" indeed

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.” - Friedrich Nietzsch

Tack>>Head - In The Area 2008

Doug Wimbish (bass), Keith Leblanc (drums), and Skip "Little Axe" McDonald (guitar) at Sully's Pub & Tiki Bar in Hartford, Connecticut. WIMBASH 2008 (August 9, 2008)
Sharehead, soon come.

Glenn Beck: High as a kite

"Beck was known at B104 as a pro's pro in the studio but was becoming increasingly unraveled when not working. "Beck used to get hammered after every show at this little bar-café down the street," remembers a music programmer who worked with Beck. "At first we thought he was going to get lunch." The extent to which Beck was struggling to keep it together is highlighted by Beck's arrest one afternoon just outside Baltimore. He was speeding in his DeLorean with one of the car's gull-wing doors wide open when the cops pulled him over. According to a former colleague, Beck was "completely out of it" when a B104 manager went down to the station to bail him out. In his 2003 book, "Real America," Beck refers to himself as a borderline schizophrenic. Whether that statement is matter-of-fact or intended for effect, he has spoken more than once about taking drugs for ADHD, and when he was at B104, Beck's coworkers believed him to be taking prescription medication for some kind of mental or psychological ills. "He used to complain that his medication made him feel like he was 'under wet blankets,'" remembers the former music programmer.

Today, when Beck wants to illustrate the jerk he used to be, he tells the story of the time he fired an employee for bringing him the wrong pen during a promotional event. According to former colleagues in Baltimore, Beck didn't just fire people in fits of rage -- he fired them slowly and publicly. "He used to take people to a bar and sit them down and just humiliate them in public. He was a sadist, the kind of guy who rips wings off of flies," remembers a colleague."

Excerpt from Alexander Zaitchik's three part mini-biography at
'Salon'
Via 'Daily Kos'

PS~ What is "White Culture" Glenn?

Sunday Mix - Dave Twomey: Mariana Mix

Go HERE for tracklist and to download.

Back in the real world

Meanwhile 'enduring America' has a good wrap up of the rumours flowing in and around Iran today.
HERE

1730 GMT: Today’s “Velvet Revolution” Showcase. It comes courtesy of the Supreme Leader’s Advisor For Military Affairs, Major General Seyed Yahiya Rahim Safavi, who said on Saturday, “The (enemies’) soft war is aimed at changing the (Iranian nation’s) culture, views, values, national beliefs and belief in values. Soft warfare is a complicated type of political, cultural, information operations launched by the world powers to create favorable changes in the target countries.”

1715 GMT: The Wall Street Journal, snarling for a confrontation with Iran, inadvertently exposes the weakness in the dramatic presentation of the second enrichment facility: “Let’s also not forget the boost Iran got in late 2007, when a U.S. national intelligence estimate concluded that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and kept it frozen. The U.S. spy agencies reached this dubious conclusion while apparently knowing about the site near Qom.”

Probably for the chest-thumpers at the WSJ is that the conclusion is not dubious at all (see the State Department’s defense of it in a separate entry). Even if the second facility had taken in shipments of uranium, which is not alleged even by the US Government, even if high-grade centrifuges had been installed, which is not established, even if those centrifuges had begun enriching uranium, which is not claimed anywhere, that would not establish a direct link with a resumed nuclear weapons program. It would merely establish that Iran now had some quantity of enriched uranium which might or might not be for military rather than civilian purposes.

However, the WSJ’s railing do not have to be logical to show the problems for the Obama Administration’s strategy. Opponents will now claim that the 2nd enrichment facility shows that all intelligence assessments from 2007 must be thrown out and will put by default the faith-based assertion that Iran is hell-bent on the Bomb and beyond diplomacy.

1650 GMT: The Institute for Science and International Security has posted images “of two possible locations of the gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facility under construction near Qom, Iran. Both are tunnel facilities located within military compounds approximately 30-40 kilometers away.”

Ethicist blasts Ahmadinejad on IRIB

A hat trick for Torres

LIVERPOOL 6 VS 1 HULL

Bring 'em on!
And it just keeps on getting better!
(sorry Longy!)

Putting the KY back into Kentucky!

@ 'Daily Dish'
Jeez Louise!
Lynchings down south! Calls to bring back McCarthyism!
Obama banning flavoured tobacco (and pot) is "gay"!
WTF?!?
Where is an interrobang when you need one?
(My apologies to Yotte!)

M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume

Bonus: Audio
M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume (Remix)

Bodhan (with an X)

(Click to enlarge)
Somewhere along the lines in the past week or so I was talking with someone about Bodhan and I just found this over at Prehistoric Sounds.
Who knows, maybe someone's memory will get refreshed...could have been up at 'High Vibes'.
Anyway enough of this, or god forbid Bodhan will think he is having a revival.
(It's all good mate, it was mostly complimentary, I think!)