Tuesday 31 July 2012

...by the news that James Holmes has been charged with 24 counts of murder and yet he 'only' killed 12 people.

A friend suggested ' if he has a dual personality, they may both be guilty. 12 x 2 = 24. Simples!' Which at the moment seens the only logical explanation!!!

Can someone shed any light on this for me?

A Day Job Waiting for a Kill Shot a World Away

White Snow

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Alan McGee: The Man who Discovered Oasis (Omnibus BBC 1998)

Paul over at Dangerous Minds has an update on Mr McGee's current activities HERE.

I first came across Alan when he was doing The Living Room club down on Tottenham Court Road back in the early 80's as we had a number of mutual friends. Admire his 'get up and do it' attitude a lot but I really do think that Oasis were one of the worst bands of all time. Shows what I know eh?

Hollyweird Propaganda Dept.

"Get a look at Stars Earn Stripes, the epic new reality series from Mark Burnett and Dick Wolf where eight celebrities face the challenges of real American heroes"

Hmmm!!!

(Thanx GKB!)

♪♫ Dead Kennedys - California Über Alles

Relevant still!!!

K-Punk presents Return to the Fourth World

This mix was prompted by the fact that, in several recent pieces of writing about music, I found myself returning to Jon Hassell’s concept of “Fourth World Music” (music that combined elements from the so-called First and Third Worlds). The mix is an attempt to bring together these new approaches with the original take on Fourth World music conceived of by Hassell and Brian Eno.
Mark Fisher aka K-Punk (http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/)

AGF & Craig Armstrong Konstantinopolis
Jon Hassel Gift Of Fire
Shackleton El Din (Part One)
Ricardo Villalobos Ichso
Kode9 & The SpaceApe Black Sun (Partial Eclipse Version)
Lil Silva Seasons
Liquid Liquid Optimo
23 Skidoo Kundalini
Mantronix Big Band B-Boy
Ekoplekz Temporal Drift
FD Skwee Lazercrotch – Shanghai Tunnel
Miles Davis Great Expectations (excerpt)
Moebius & Beerbohm 883
African Head Charge Bazaar
David Sylvian Brilliant Trees

Listen/Download
HERE

(Thanx Mark!)

Monday 30 July 2012

Best album review ever

(Click to enlarge)

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Chris Marker R.I.P.

PUSSY RIOT 4EVER

Madonna, Miuccia Prada, Kate Moss, Patti Smith, Bjork, Stella McCartney, Lady GaGa, Courtney Love...do something together about this awful travesty of justice. Use your vast wealth of fame and money and power to make a change for the benefit of these women and women throughout Russia: come out in support of these strong young punks. How wonderful it would be to see all of the you in balaclavas supporting Pussy Riot...preferably on the next cover and back pages of Vogue/Tatler/Vanity Fair/Purple in ads paid for and produced by YOU - strong women that all benefited from or helped CREATE punk. These are all magazines with weight and all read in Russia. Annie Leibovitz to snap, Anna Wintour to bloody style it if and you wonderful women pay for it to appear EVERYWHERE. Please REPOST this, particularly my friends in Fashion and Music - I know we all have 'mutual' friends here and this will get seen by the right people and this may seem crazy but think of it as your Live Aid moment...and moments like this don't come round very often. It would be FRONT PAGE NEWS AROUND THE WORLD. And Putin and his evil machine may just start to bow to international pressure: the pressure of people and above all the pressure of women to change this world - THEIR WORLD - for the better. PUSSY RIOT 4EVER...
Dave Dorrell
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Pussy Riot trial over Putin altar protest begins

Laurie Penny: London, Underground

They tell a lot of lies about London. Here’s one of them: during the Battle of Britain, with the Luftwaffe flattening the capital, those Londoners who were too poor to afford their own shelters were encouraged to take refuge on the platforms of the underground. The faded sepia pictures of families bedding down on the platforms of the Central line are still iconic, another representation of the dogged forbearance for which Londoners are renowned. We live in a city that has withstood two thousand years of invasion, rebellion, fires, plagues, wars ,and terrorist attacks and survived. Londoners knuckle down. We don’t grumble. We get on with things. We keep calm – as that resurrected bit of defunct military propaganda now plastering tote bags, tourist tat and novelty chocolates across the country gamely declares – and we carry on.
In fact, it didn’t happen quite like that. What happened was this: When the Blitz began, government ministers decided to close down the Tube during air raids, except for the use of a few officials. They didn’t want hundreds of thousands of refugees in the subways because they feared, as historian Andrew Martin puts it, that if the working class went underground “they might never come out again.” The shelterers, he notes, were “objects of patrician distaste;” signs were put up outside Tube stops forbidding them to enter. Then, on the 19th of September 1940, the British Communist party, who had campaigned against the ban from the start, launched a series of organized riots. They tore open the tubes and Londoners rushed to occupy the platforms as the bombs screamed overhead. After that, the government had no choice but to support the refugees in order to save face...
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Adam Cullen R.I.P.

Girlz with Gunz # 5394

(Thanx Mark!)

Lalo Alcaraz: Welcome to Anaheimistan

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♪♫ Broadcaster featuring Peggy Seeger - First Time Ever

HA!

(Thanx André!)

Anaheim Today

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'The price of freedom is eternal vigilance'

If WikiLeaks is under attack, journalism is under attack

Sunday 29 July 2012

The Pixies - loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies

An intimate portrait of the band members and their trying, tense and ultimately triumphant return as one of rock music's greatest bands. When college rock darlings the Pixies broke up in 1992, their fans were shocked and dismayed. When they reunited in 2004, those same fans and legions of new listeners were ecstatic and filled with high hopes. loudQUIETloud follows the rehearsals and the warm up shows for the full-fledged, sold out reunion tour. It also catalogs, in the cinema verite style of the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" and Bob Dylan's "Don't Look Back", the less glamorous side of the touring band lifestyle, getting as close to this enigmatic act as anyone is ever likely to get. LoudQUIETloud captures the Pixies in a once in a lifetime chance at rock n roll redemption. Original soundtrack by Daniel Lanois.

Bonus:

'Gouge' (2002)