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Cuarto de Mayo (sketchboy01)
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Monday 12 January 2015
An 'expert' apologises
Steven Emerson on Birmingham row: 'I deserve what I got'
At least Steve Emerson who runs the Investigative Project on Terrorism didn't try and deflect the blame onto others. He might have to think about a new career though. Maybe not as here's another time he got it spectacularly wrong and then there is thisBlack Cab - Live @John Curtin Hotel Melbourne (11/1/15)
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(An all covers set)
Tracklist:
The Living End (JAMC)
Frankie Teardrop (Suicide)
Dream Baby Dream (Suicide)
5-8-6 (New Order)
Ghost Rider (Suicide)
Robert Crumb on the Paris shootings
I showed it to her, and she said, “Oh, my God, we’re going to have to go into hiding.” [Laughs.] So, then Aline had this idea for another cartoon, which we also sent to Liberation, a collaboration, that’s showing her looking at the drawing saying, “Oh, my God, they’re going to come after us! This is terrible…I want to live to see my grandchildren!” And then she has me saying, “Well, it’s not that bad. And, besides, they’ve killed enough cartoonists, maybe they’ve gotten it out of their system.”
Sunday 11 January 2015
Brinsley Schwarz - Cruel To Be Kind
On a bit of a pub rock kick after just watching the Beeb's 70's rock shows. The BBC, however, said Cruel To Be Kind was a Brinsley's B side...
1 We Can Mess Around (Lowe) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
2 Cruel To Be Kind (Lowe/Gomm) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
3 As Lovers Do (Lowe) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
4 I'll Take Good Care Of You (Berns/Ragavoy) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
5 Hey Baby (There Playing Our Song) (Holvay & Beisber) Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
6 Do The Cod (The Thirty Pounder) (Lowe/Andrews/Gomm/Rankin/Schwarz) Instrumental
7 God Bless (Whoever Made You) (Lowe/Gomm) Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
8 Everybody (T.Rowe) Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
9 Private Number (T.Jones/W.Bell) Bob Andrews and Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
10 Give Me Back My Love (Lowe/Gomm) Nick Lowe - Lead Vox
11 It's All Over Now (B.Womack) Ian Gomm - Lead Vox
There does appear to be another version of Brinsley Schwarz doing Cruel on an album of live and studio sessions recorded for the BBC
Pete Frame's account of the disastrous Brinsley Schwarz American launch (Zigzag 1970)
...and the winner of the 2015 'Humblebrag o'the Year' goes to...
- Ben Frost...But you get into dangerous territory when you start thinking about your audience.
I don’t want Michael Gira thinking about me when he makes records. I don’t want Nick Cave wondering how I’m going to feel when he starts working on something. You’ll be cheating me. I just want it to be exactly what it is you want it to be. At least, that way it’s honest.
Saturday 10 January 2015
Gnidrolog: Check out this obscure 1970's UK prog group
...well actually don't! The reason some records are obscure is that they are unmitigated crap. Not even a 5.1 surroundsound version and smoking a ton of weed would make these sound any better. Gnidrolog's Goldring brothers then went on to form the second worst ever band 'The Pork Dukes' after complaining how inept punk musicians were.
'Proper' musicians eh?
See also Bo Hannson's 'Lord of The Rings'
Friday 9 January 2015
Michel Houellebecq VS William Burroughs (Quotes)
Oil on Canvas: “William S. Burroughs 3″
Christiaan Tonnis (1999)
Michel Houellebecq — the misanthropic, caninophilic French novelist — and William Burroughs both deploy thorough visions of the world. They proffer more or less elaborate cosmologies, ethics, and particularly critical assessments of humanity. And both view the act of writing in general, and their own writing in particular, as an active force doing some kind of battle, performing some kind of negotiation, with the powers of stupidity, evil, greed, and banality. Both understand the human universe as being at the mercy of non-human laws — for Houellebecq, it’s all species, biology, physics; for Burroughs, it’s biology, physics, magic.
But whereas Houellebecq sees a world of absolute bleakness, Burroughs sees a world of plenitude — filled with shit and bile and semen and stupidity and cruelty but full nonetheless. If Houellebecq offers a world heading to zero, Burroughs offers a world of infinite complexity.
On Society
Houellebecq
I don’t like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.
Burroughs
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
The Future of Humanity
Houellebecq
Few beings have ever been so impregnated, pierced to the core, by the conviction of the absolute futility of human aspiration. The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A figure in transition toward chaos. That is what will finally prevail. The human race will disappear. Other races in turn will appear and disappear. And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure ‘Victorian fictions.’ All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact, and radiant.
Burroughs
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
Youth and Dreams
Houellebecq
Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.
Burroughs
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.
Influence
Houellebecq
I’ve lived so little that I tend to imagine I’m not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.
Burroughs
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
Sex
Houellebecq
But whereas Houellebecq sees a world of absolute bleakness, Burroughs sees a world of plenitude — filled with shit and bile and semen and stupidity and cruelty but full nonetheless. If Houellebecq offers a world heading to zero, Burroughs offers a world of infinite complexity.
On Society
Houellebecq
I don’t like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.
Burroughs
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
The Future of Humanity
Houellebecq
Few beings have ever been so impregnated, pierced to the core, by the conviction of the absolute futility of human aspiration. The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A figure in transition toward chaos. That is what will finally prevail. The human race will disappear. Other races in turn will appear and disappear. And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure ‘Victorian fictions.’ All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact, and radiant.
Burroughs
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
Youth and Dreams
Houellebecq
Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.
Burroughs
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.
Influence
Houellebecq
I’ve lived so little that I tend to imagine I’m not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.
Burroughs
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
Sex
Houellebecq
In a perfectly liberal sexual system, some people have an exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.
Burroughs
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
Love
Houellebecq
Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.
Burroughs
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is. LOVE.
Burroughs
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
Love
Houellebecq
Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.
Burroughs
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is. LOVE.
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