Monday 27 August 2012


Went to 'drum workshop' w/Ginger Baker. Consisted of no plan, nonsensical answers to questions, and the odd burst of messy drum hitting.

The Flaming Lips and Amanda Palmer - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face


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Following the to do with Erykah Badu here's the remake with Amanda Palmer.

Pussy Riot sued by Siberians for ‘moral suffering’

There's an asshole in El Paso obviously!

That's Michael Collins NOT Neil Armstrong!
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Aw!


Sylvain Chauveau & Stephan Mathieu - Chosen One

HA!

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Two Pussy Riot members flee Russia


Permission to Engage: Victims' families and an ex-US soldier unpick the Wikileaks film that showed US forces killing Iraqi civilians in 2007

Filmmaker: Shuchen Tan
On July 12, 2007, the US military shot several Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, an event that shocked the world when footage of the attack was later released by Wikileaks. "The attack took place on a Thursday, when residents of the area had gone to a local market," explains filmmaker Shuchen Tan. "When they saw helicopters hovering over, they ran to their houses, thinking they'd be safe in there but it was those very houses that were blown up." Permission to Engage traces the people involved in that fateful day and hears their versions of what happened.
Those killed included a young Iraqi photojournalist and his assistant, a father out with his children and some neighbours who were caught in the attack while trying to help the wounded.
"It was quite challenging to track down the victims and their families. We didn't have names, didn't have addresses, we didn't have anything," explains Tan.
"And when we found them, most of them didn't want to share their stories. They felt they had been left by the West and not treated well."
The families of the victims and a disillusioned former US soldier who was serving in Iraq around that time unpick the footage in forensic detail and relate their accounts of what happened.
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5 Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions

Meanwhile...

JG Ballard: Neil Armstrong Remembers His Journey to the Moon

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Interzone, #53, November 1991
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(Thanx Simon!)

Pink Floyd's Gilmour Recalls Jamming to the Moon Landing

Fantastic Four #98 (May 1970)

Words by Neil Armstrong and Stan Lee. Art by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott. Lettering by Artie Simek
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Sunday 26 August 2012

HA! (The Firm)

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