Sunday 8 November 2009
The Fugs - from the movie 'Chappaqua'
Chappaqua (1966) was written and directed by Conrad Rooks and is the semi-autobiographical account of his attempt to pull himself up out of a pit of drug/alcohol addiction. The film includes appearances by counter-cultural icons Allen Ginsburg and William S. Burroughs and musical performances by The Fugs, Ravi Shankar and Ornette Coleman. At the end of this scene featuring The Fugs, that is Conrad Brooks rolling around amidst the crushed sugar cubes
(A really interesting film that is available if you know where to look!)
(A really interesting film that is available if you know where to look!)
America's mass murder addiction
Nidal Malik Hasan may have shouted “Allahu Akbar” before his murderous onslaught at Fort Hood, but his actions were part of an American phenomenon that is a national emergency.
You had barely enough time to grasp what might have happened in the Cleveland home of convicted rapist Anthony Sowell, where police so far have found the remains of 11 women, when news came of Hasan’s massacre. Yet just as that terrible event was starting to sink in, the airwaves were burning up with reports of a shooting rampage in an office building in Orlando, Florida, in which 8 people were said to have been shot, one—as of this writing—fatally.
It's time to start asking ourselves whether our famous American freedom—in both its liberal and conservative formulations—is not actually a subtle form of dehumanizing tyranny.uthority-whether these "freedoms" are actually a tightening dog-collar turning us all into rabid animals.
More than health care, the economy, jobs, Afghanistan, Iraq, public malfeasance, private dishonesty, civil rights, disease or tainted food, mass murder is American’s primary problem and most fundamental shame. No prosperous country not riven by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. And yet for all of the fascination with mass murder in the media, in Hollywood—and among us--no politician will do more than pay lip service in condemning it. No journalist will crusade against it. No celebrity will take it up as a cause.
Nobody does a damn thing to try to stop it. Conservatives don’t want to make an issue of mass murder because then they would be confronted with the fact that nearly all of the massacres are committed by people using guns. Liberals don’t want to cry out about it because then they would have to address the fact that the violence of our entertainment—TV, movies, videogames, our proliferating apps—makes killing seem like just another strategy for coping with reality. If the utterly immoral legality of handguns and assault weapons puts killing within reach, then vicarious violence, sanctified by every corner of the entertainment culture, makes murder ethically and conceptually possible...
Compare...
Obama & Michelle Barak during the presidential campaign in 2008, at a Bruce Springsteen-Billy Joel benefit concert in New York. Photo: Callie Shell/Aurora
Untitled 29/77, 1990-91
Paris Opera Project
type C photograph
(Thanx Stan)
type C photograph
(Thanx Stan)
Saturday 7 November 2009
Investigating the link between gun possession and gun assault
ObjectivesWe investigated the possible relationship between being shot in an assault and possession of a gun at the time.
Method
We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants within Philadelphia, PA, from 2003 to 2006. We adjusted odds ratios for confounding variables.
Results
After adjustment, individuals in possession of a gun were 4.46 (P < .05) times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not in possession. Among gun assaults where the victim had at least some chance to resist, this adjusted odds ratio increased to 5.45 (P < .05).
Conclusions.
On average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. Although successful defensive gun uses occur each year, the probability of success may be low for civilian gun users in urban areas. Such users should reconsider their possession of guns or, at least, understand that regular possession necessitates careful safety countermeasures.
What a surprise!
@'American Public Health Association'
CHosen Few & East Bay Dragons - America's Black Biker Set Revisited
Stunning photographic essay on the first black American biker club.@'The Selvedge Yard' via 'Pathway To Unknown Worlds'
The Patina of WSB
Yotte, my friend,You are a gentleman, scholar, wizard and a true star!
With much love
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Friday 6 November 2009
DaiQuing Tana - Silent Sky (2009)
Tracklist:01.Silent Sky (06:04)
02.Snow Mountain (04:32)
03.Ongmanibamai (05:47)
04.Qinghai Lake (04:43)
05.Passed Time (04:24)
06.Dancer In The Darkness (06:38)
07.Missing You (05:36)
08.Golden Bracelet (05:28)
09.Reborn (04:16)
Earlier this year I was utterly enchanted by Sofia Jannok's almost perfect pop album well it has happened again with this album by Mongolian singer DaiQuing Tana.
Sublime!
Seven Dead and 12 9 dead and up to 30 injured in Shootings at Texas Base
First Picture Of the suspect Major Malik Nadal Hasan.Fort Hood TX.
The shootings started at about 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time and the base has been locked down. One person is in custody but there is believed to be at least one more gunman still at large.
(Updates Via Fifi)
The shootings started at about 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time and the base has been locked down. One person is in custody but there is believed to be at least one more gunman still at large.
(Updates Via Fifi)
Lee Perry on On-U Sound(bites)
Lee Perry Vs Horsepower “EXERCISING RMX” (ONUDP53)Lee Perry Vs Kode9 Ft Samia Farah “YELLOW TONGUE RMX” (ONUDP52)
Excersising with Horsepower:
Yellow Tongue with Samia vs Kode9:
Thursday 5 November 2009
Why oh why?
One of my favourite pop groups of the 70's are set to reform next year and I am not allowed to tell you who it is until the official announcement!
(sigh!)
Professor David Nutt attacks ministers over ‘failure’ on alcohol
Alcohol is the “gateway drug” that remains the greatest threat to society, and the Government’s failure to address the problem epitomises its disregard for scientific evidence, Professor David Nutt said yesterday. Professor Nutt said that the comparison he made between the harm caused by alcohol and Ecstasy, which led to his dismissal as head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, was incontrovertible. He questioned the Government’s arbitrary approach to the assessment and control of harmful substances, and how ministers might think that giving alcohol a harm ranking was a distraction.
“When I say alcohol is more dangerous than Ecstasy, cannabis and LSD, I mean it, and the council means it,” Professor Nutt said. “The Government has to wake up to this time bomb and the health risks of alcohol. Across the political spectrum everyone knows that alcohol is the biggest killer.”
Professor Nutt said he felt that alcohol prices could be raised to triple the price at which some drinks were sold, with taxation the most obvious way of achieving this. He compared the treatment of his expertise to that of the Chief Medical Officer’s report on alcohol abuse. Earlier this year Sir Liam Donaldson found his recommendations for a minimum price per unit of alcohol, based on several scientific studies, dismissed by Downing Street the day before it was published.
Samuli Kemppi - Dubiteknomiks 1
Tracklist:
Carl Craig - The Climax (Basic Reshape) | Basic Channel
Echospace - Sonorous | Fortune
CV313 - Dimensional Space | Echospace
Echospace - Spatial Dimension | Deepchord
Echospace - OBMX | Fortune
Deixis - Form.v1 | Abstract Forms
CV313 - Saraya | Fortune
Quantec - Lunar Orbiter | Echocord
MLZ - M-Brane | Modern Love
Leftover - Linear Aspect | Baum
Samuli Kemppi
Carl Craig - The Climax (Basic Reshape) | Basic Channel
Echospace - Sonorous | Fortune
CV313 - Dimensional Space | Echospace
Echospace - Spatial Dimension | Deepchord
Echospace - OBMX | Fortune
Deixis - Form.v1 | Abstract Forms
CV313 - Saraya | Fortune
Quantec - Lunar Orbiter | Echocord
MLZ - M-Brane | Modern Love
Leftover - Linear Aspect | Baum
Samuli Kemppi
Vuelo
Tourisism (an intrepid mollusk)
The Abyss of Indiscretion
This texas dub mystery school combines mercury, iron and lead into dub massive. since the matter and substance of all things are indestructible, all its parts are subject to all forms, so that Each and Everything becomes Everything and Each, if not at one and the same time and in a single minute, then at various times and various moments, in sequence and alternation. all for one! one for all!
More
HERE
The Abyss of Indiscretion
This texas dub mystery school combines mercury, iron and lead into dub massive. since the matter and substance of all things are indestructible, all its parts are subject to all forms, so that Each and Everything becomes Everything and Each, if not at one and the same time and in a single minute, then at various times and various moments, in sequence and alternation. all for one! one for all!
More
HERE
Das Kraftfuttermischwerk - Tief | Mixed for Proton Radio 06.09.2009
Tracklist:
Paul St. Hilaire & René Löwe - Faith [False Tuned]
Radio Slave - Neverending [Ostgut Tonträger]
Brendon Moeller - Changes [Third Ear Recordings]
Marko Fürstenberg - Strackebrot (Havantepe Remix) [tfe-records]
Quantec - Chaindata [Styrax Leaves]
P.Laoss - Speak French [unreleased]
Rhauder feat.Paul St.Hilaire - No News (Marko Fürstenberg Remix) [Ornaments]
Lowtek Soundsystem - Stella Polaris [Out Of Orbit Recordings]
Found a Way (feat. Tikiman) - Find A Way (Vocal plus Version) [Main Street Records]
Luke Hess - Transform [Echochord]
Grit - Deimos [ROHS!]
Consistent - Who Did (das Kfmw Remix) [tfe-records]
Paul St. Hilaire & René Löwe - Faith [False Tuned]
Radio Slave - Neverending [Ostgut Tonträger]
Brendon Moeller - Changes [Third Ear Recordings]
Marko Fürstenberg - Strackebrot (Havantepe Remix) [tfe-records]
Quantec - Chaindata [Styrax Leaves]
P.Laoss - Speak French [unreleased]
Rhauder feat.Paul St.Hilaire - No News (Marko Fürstenberg Remix) [Ornaments]
Lowtek Soundsystem - Stella Polaris [Out Of Orbit Recordings]
Found a Way (feat. Tikiman) - Find A Way (Vocal plus Version) [Main Street Records]
Luke Hess - Transform [Echochord]
Grit - Deimos [ROHS!]
Consistent - Who Did (das Kfmw Remix) [tfe-records]
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