Thursday 16 June 2016
Swans’ Michael Gira On Dissolving His Band’s Current Lineup
Vanity Fair: When you announced The Glowing Man’s release and touring schedule, you said it would be the final offering from this particular lineup of Swans. What went into that decision?MORE
Michael Gira: Um, seven years of being in the same place with the same people all the time. [laughs] It’s been a very fruitful relationship, at least from my point of view. And it has produced some of the best music in which I’ve ever been involved. I just feel like as a band -as a classic formation “band” where it’s the same members all the time -it’s kind of running its course. And I think we all agree
Here's Glowing Man from the new album's accompanying DVD via Dangerous Minds. NB Ron that the film is just under two hours of which this is just one track
The rehearsals have just started for the world tour and I look forward to the Swans machine rolling down to Australia early next year
Wednesday 15 June 2016
Oh dear...
Genesis Breyer P'Orridge for Marc Jacobs
UPDATE: INSPIRATION
Thank you all for being so nice. Those platforms were hell to walk in though the young professional models made it look easy. We have to praise the 2-3 make up people, the two hair stylists, even the manicurist. Everyone spent a very fun few hours prettying me up‼️and Marc and Michael, all the fashion crew and photographers were really nice to me. It was the first time in ages we truly felt attractive since Lady JAYE dropped her body. We felt as if s/he was illuminating me. It was fascinating to see once again how much intense WORK goes into each image. We were and are grateful to Marc for this experience🙏😍😍Via
UPDATE: INSPIRATION
5 photographs related to Gysin and Burroughs' Cut-Ups for sale on ebay
Photographs printed 1982, sheet sizes 204 x 254mm., silver bromide prints
From David Dawson's archive exhibited in 1982 at the Final Academy
£125 HERE
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From David Dawson's archive exhibited in 1982 at the Final Academy
£125 HERE
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Tuesday 7 June 2016
Brass Tacks: Punk Rock (BBC 1977)
'Over the last twelve months punk rock has become almost a battle cry in British society. For many people it's a bigger threat than Russian communism or hyper inflation'
Obama on Ali
Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. Period. If you just asked him, he’d tell you. He’d tell you he was the double greatest; that he’d “handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.”
But what made The Champ the greatest – what truly separated him from everyone else – is that everyone else would tell you pretty much the same thing.
Like everyone else on the planet, Michelle and I mourn his passing. But we’re also grateful to God for how fortunate we are to have known him, if just for a while; for how fortunate we all are that The Greatest chose to grace our time.
In my private study, just off the Oval Office, I keep a pair of his gloves on display, just under that iconic photograph of him – the young champ, just 22 years old, roaring like a lion over a fallen Sonny Liston. I was too young when it was taken to understand who he was – still Cassius Clay, already an Olympic Gold Medal winner, yet to set out on a spiritual journey that would lead him to his Muslim faith, exile him at the peak of his power, and set the stage for his return to greatness with a name as familiar to the downtrodden in the slums of Southeast Asia and the villages of Africa as it was to cheering crowds in Madison Square Garden.
“I am America,” he once declared. “I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me – black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me.”
That’s the Ali I came to know as I came of age – not just as skilled a poet on the mic as he was a fighter in the ring, but a man who fought for what was right. A man who fought for us. He stood with King and Mandela; stood up when it was hard; spoke out when others wouldn’t. His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing. It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled, and nearly send him to jail. But Ali stood his ground. And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognize today.
He wasn’t perfect, of course. For all his magic in the ring, he could be careless with his words, and full of contradictions as his faith evolved. But his wonderful, infectious, even innocent spirit ultimately won him more fans than foes – maybe because in him, we hoped to see something of ourselves. Later, as his physical powers ebbed, he became an even more powerful force for peace and reconciliation around the world. We saw a man who said he was so mean he’d make medicine sick reveal a soft spot, visiting children with illness and disability around the world, telling them they, too, could become the greatest. We watched a hero light a torch, and fight his greatest fight of all on the world stage once again; a battle against the disease that ravaged his body, but couldn’t take the spark from his eyes.
Muhammad Ali shook up the world. And the world is better for it. We are all better for it. Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family, and we pray that the greatest fighter of them all finally rests in peace
Owen Jones meets Yanis Varoufakis: 'Europe is staring into the abyss'
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Yanis Varoufakis: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
Monkey Heists Cash from Indian Jewelry Shop
A monkey raided a jewelry shop in eastern India, escaping with a bundle of cash worth about 150 US dollars. Surveillance footage shows the monkey pushing open the glass door, stealing the money and running away
Monday 6 June 2016
Miles Davis Septet - Live @Stadthalle Vienna Austria (3/11/73)
Tracklist
1 Turnaroundphrase 11:44
2 Tune In 5 5:41
3 Ife 12:46
4 Right Off 3:17
5 Funk 5:52
6 Calypso Frelimo 23:25
Congas, Percussion - James "Mtume" Forman
Drums - Al Foster
Electric Bass - Michael Henderson
Electric Guitar - Reggie Lucas
Electric Guitar, Percussion - Pete Cosey
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute - Dave Liebman
Trumpet - Miles Davis
Michael Parkinson interviews Muhammad Ali (1971)
Watch the full interview HERE
Three heavyweight encounters: when Ali met Parkinson
The 1976 Muhammad Ali Celebrity Roast can be seen HERE while THIS however is just sad and painful to watchSunday 5 June 2016
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