Wednesday 23 January 2013

President of the Whole Country

Tuesday 22 January 2013

♪♫ Tack>>Head - Funky President

Rehearsal in New York City (March 22, 2009) before a show at the Highline Ballroom

Tom Tom Club - Downtown Rockers

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Richard Hell: I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp (An Autobiography)

The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll...
From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. His father died when he was seven, and at seventeen he left his mother and sister behind and headed for New York City, place of limitless possibilities. He arrived penniless with the idea of becoming a poet; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, starting such seminal bands as Television, the Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids—whose song "Blank Generation" remains the defining anthem of the era. Hell was significantly responsible for creating CBGB as punk ground zero; his Voidoids toured notoriously with the Clash, and Malcolm McLaren would credit Hell as inspiration for the Sex Pistols. There were kinetic nights in New York's club demi-monde, descent into drug addiction, and an ever-present yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art.

Preorder @Amazon HERE
RICHARD'S MARCH READINGS/SIGNINGS: for I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, include (all free):
--Mar 14: NYC Barnes & Noble, Union Sq. (hosted interview)
--Mar 15: Huntington (LI) NY Book Revue
--Mar 19: NYC Bookmarc
--Mar 21: Seattle WA Rendezvous Bar (hosted interv.)
--Mar 23: Portland OR Powell's Books
--Mar 25: San Francisco CA City Lights
--Mar 27: Los Angeles CA Skylight Books...
For more details, see HarperCollins page. We expect there'll be added a reading in Minneapolis ca. March 30, and one in Chicago for early May.
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Truth

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Monday 21 January 2013

Lupe Fiasco Thrown Off Stage At Inauguration Concert After Bashing Obama

Far Right Poses As Much Danger To The U.S. As Radical Islam

Home schooling the equivalent of Islamic madrassas?

Terrorist attacks and related incidents in the United States

Darkstar - News From Nowhere (Albumstream)

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(Pulp) Fiction

When fact becomes fiction: Manly librarian grabs headlines around the world with Lance Armstrong sign

David Lynch

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David Lynch and Laura Dern Have a Mysterious Project in the Works

Old Woman in a Casket

Einstürzende Neubauten and Butoh collective DaiRakudokan - Halber Mensch (1986)

For the boy in Bruges XXX

Precedent Ford

Girlz with Gunz #59395

(Thanx Walker!)

Faking waves: how the NRA and pro-gun Americans abuse Australian crime stats

The Sandy Hook massacre and President Obama’s response to it has refocused attention on impact of regulation on American gun crime. Crime statistics before and after the implementation of gun laws provide a quantifiable measure of their impact. As a consequence, Australia’s gun laws and their impact have become part of the American gun debate.
In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre and Monash University shootings, the conservative government of John Howard introduced a series of gun laws. These restricted who could own guns and the type of guns they could own.
While the impact of the Australian gun laws is still debated, there have been large decreases in the number of firearm suicides and the number of firearm homicides in Australia. Homicide rates in Australia are only 1.2 per 100,000 people people, with less than 15 percent of these resulting from firearms.
Prior to the implementation of the gun laws, 112 people were killed in 11 mass shootings. Since the implementation of the gun laws, no comparable gun massacres have occurred in Australia.
Remarkably, American pro-gun advocates try to use the impact of the Australian gun law reform to make a case that reform “doesn’t work”. This seems amazing given the homicide rate in the United States is 5 per 100,000 people, with most homicides involving firearms.
When gun advocates use Australian crime stats, they sometimes employ a number of misleading tricks and sleights of hand. These tricks are common to several politically charged debates, and are a form of pseudo-science. Lets look at these tricks in action...

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