Australia: stop the assault on our media
Wednesday 27 June 2012
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Kronos Quartet - Sun Rings (Glasgow 15 July 2012)
Kronos Quartet - Sun Rings - Riverside Museum - Sun 15 Jul. A sneak look to whet your appetite: http://vimeo.com/9213829. Tickets 0141 353 8000
Someone should tell @RichardDawkins how many characters he could save by using bit.ly. His tweets include his full name twice.
Commissioner of Sewers (1991)
You almost certainly know the name of William S. Burroughs, and more than likely you know him as the author of the novel Naked Lunch. If the idea of plunging straight into his writing intimidates you, given how drug-saturated, psychologically unconventional, and formally “cut-up” that writing can get, where should you go to get some background on this unstoppably influential member of the Beat Generation? After all, knowledge of Burroughs’ work seems creatively beneficial: so many different kinds of artists found inspiration in his chaotic, fragmented work and even more chaotic, fragmented life that he wound up making collaborative appearances in nearly every medium known in his lifetime: film, music, television, performance art, rock videos.
When German filmmaker Klaus Maeck, for example, needed a star for the dream sequences in Decoder, a low-budget dystopian tale of the government weaponizing emotion-killing muzak, he recruited Burroughs. The two men’s acquaintance proved even more fruitful than that: in 1991, Maeck directed the hour-long documentary William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers. In it, he takes an in-depth interview with Burroughs, a series of his readings, a collection of his appearances in other movies, and even images of his paintings, then cuts them up (as is the Burroughs sensibility) and reassembles them using all the finest — or at least the strangest — visual effects and video filters the early nineties had to offer. Should documentarians work this way? Burroughs himself, in one of the film’s interview segments, has an answer: “There is no such concept as ‘should’ in art. Or anything.”
Via
(Thanx Kaggsy!)
William S. Burroughs’ Rare, Experimental Artworks
Aaron Sorkin on America
...And yeah you, sorority girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know. And one of them is there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force and number four in exports.
We lead the world in only three categories. Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real and defense spending where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of a 20 year-old college student but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) you’re talking about. Yosemite?
From 'The Newsroom'Via
The Alternative World Drug Report
HERE
Carla Bley - La Leçon Française (Moers Festival 27.5.2012)
Carla Bley (conductor), Steve Swallow (bass), Bohuslän Big Band & Dortmund Choral Academy Boys Choir
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis (Albumstream)
http://www.deadcandance.com/
you can get one free mp3 from the album for your email address.
ALBUMSTREAM
thanks to trnsnd
Tuesday 26 June 2012
Euro 1964 - Final Spain vs. USSR 2–1 (Full length)
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Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid Attendance: 79,115 Referee: Arthur Holland (England) |
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Pereda  6'Marcelino 84' |
Report | Khusainov 8' |
     
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