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The Living Dead

Posted by Stephen on November 29, 2009 at 2:30pm

new website!

Posted by Dani on November 29, 2009 at 3:18am

Hello to all,If you've got some moments spare, have a gander at my new website here

Bitterness and life

Posted by ღ ℂℏ℟ḯʂ ღ on November 26, 2009 at 5:00am

So I cry in the darkness of the room, I'm crying because I'm mad at you.How could you leave me like this?Without any sort of explanation, without saying goodbye.So I spend the next days angry, without saying your name.However I think of you all the time.Time passes by but I'm still confused...Now i understand you (or at least i try) and I realize how selfish I was.But...why didn't you ever tell me anything?You never told me that you were feeling bad...the lack of communication is the worst enemy for a couple or for any relationship.I thought that I was giving you my best.I thought i was good enough for you.You were in my mind all the time so..what else did you need?So I smoke the last cigarette, now I'm listening to your favorite song, crying because I never understood you.I'm disappointed in myself and of our relationship.I started to blame myself for everything that happened and there isn't anything that makes me forget that...I dream about it, I go to work thinking about it...So one day a light appears in my mind. It opens my eyes and makes me realize that I should start living right now because I know that you'd love to see me happy; because if i did this to you, the only thing that I can do to solve it is doing what you want.I eat my favorite food again, I hear music as happy as I used to before, i go out with our friends.So I'm talking to you tonight as I will all the remaining nights of my life.I'm not angry, sad, nor happy.I'm just crying because finally i decide to live once again with you, even when you aren't here...by my good friend Ximena Navarro Esquivel

CHEMICAL SISTER SPACE - EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC - NO RADIOHEAD but AMAZING

Posted by Lady Newell & Friends on November 25, 2009 at 11:53pm

2009/11/25: Sonic Youth Noise Perfomance

http://www.sonicyouth.com/ Sonic Youth Happenings: sans Lee Ranaldo, closed the Saturday portion of NO FUN FEST in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. http://www.nofunfest.com/ Noise Perfomance on WASTE http://www.waste-central.com/video/sonic-youth-live-at-no-fun-1 http://www.waste-central.com/video/sonic-youth-live-at-no-fun

The Stone Roses

Posted by Stephen on November 25, 2009 at 9:46pm

The Stone Roseslead singer/lyricist Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire,bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield and drummer Alan “Reni” Wren became just that with this, their self titled debut.It opens with what sounds like a train coming to a stop (or is that just guitar feedback?) then opens with the snaking bassline of “I Wanna Be Adored.” Attitude and plenty of it seems to be first on the agenda for the Roses as Brown brags about not needing to sell his soul to the Devil ‘cuz “he’s already in me” then simply proclaiming “I Wanna Be Adored.” How’s that for confident? The bands proceeds to turn that snaking bassline inside out with a rough groove that still never loses its swaggering cool. All the while Brown still demands the audience to adore him (and that’s just the first song.) The rollicking yet ethereal train ride continues as “She Bangs The Drums”, “ElephantStone” and “Waterfall” rocket by with equal parts gusto andneo-psychedelic cool. When Brown sings “Kiss me where the sun don’t shine the past was yours but the future’s mine” on “She Bangs The Drums” you know he means EVERY word of it. Every song here seems to be a kiss-off to any critics and/or a celebration of The Stone Roses and their lifestyle.And the guitar playing here is just dazzling. John Squire comes very close to Will Sergeant/Johnny Marr-like fluid guitar genius. Perfect examples being those 3 songs I mentioned where he melds upbeat and melodic (and sometimes eerie) electric guitar lines with intriguing acoustic guitar undertones. And yet the Rosesstill find time to experiment. They must’ve amused themselves plenty with “Don’t Stop” as they basically play “Waterfall” backwards and write another amazing dreamy song over it. And the ego-fest still doesn’t stop as Brown keeps knocking the haters down singing “What you just asked me you are an imbecile” while enjoying their time in the sun with the chorus “Don’t stop isn’t funny how you shine?” Did The Stone Roses have THAT many criticsbefore this album was made or what?“Elizabeth My Dear” is a very short bitter pill for the RoyalFamily and still sounds genius even though its melody isbasically sampled from the traditional “Scarborough Fair” (yes the same one Simon & Garfunkel covered.) “Bye Bye Badman”, “(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister”, “Made Of Stone”, “Shoot You Down”, “This Is The One” all sound like one classic mini neo-psychedelic guitar concerto masterpiece after another. Mani and Reni hold thegroove perfectly in a loose cohesion along with Squire’s liquid riffing. And if that wasn’t enough they end the album with “I Am The Resurrection” an honest to goodness 8 minute 12 second guitar freakout (with bongos no less.)John Leckie must also be thanked here for stellar production. This is one of the best things Leckie has ever produced. He worked as a Tape-Op for the Beatles and then graduated to producing artists like Magazine and The Fall can you believe it? And THEN he went on to produce this and another classic, Radiohead’s 2nd LP The Bends. And although I wasn’t too impressed with their 2nd LP Second Coming what was said and done here still sounds like a blinding flash of guitars and good, free vibes.Before I go, please look for The Complete Stone Roses compilation album. It adds a whole lot of cool pre-debut LP stuff if you’re looking for more treats.

taken from: solanas' 1967 s.c.u.

Posted by Stephen on November 23, 2009 at 10:33pm

The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is a walking abortion; aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.quote by: valerie solanas (1936-1988)

'as the landscape dissolves...'

Posted by w.a.s.t.e. on November 23, 2009 at 9:53am

1. Prelude in D Major, Op. 23 No. 4>> Vladimir Ashkenazy & James Walker Rachmaninov: Preludes
2. There's A World [Live At Massey Hall 1971]>> Neil Young from Neil Young Archives Volume I [1963 - 1972]
3. CELLZ>> Doom from BORN LIKE THIS
4. RN2-09 PT1 + PT >> AOKI Takamasa from ununtrium / RN-RHYTHM-VARIATIONS
5. Magnetfeld>> Feadz from 10 Years of BPitch Control
6. Everyone>> The Aliens from Luna
7. Hyper (Instrumental)>> Illum Sphere from Incoming Ep
8. Ghost Train Acid>> Ceephax Acid Crew from Bainted Smile - EP

Super Furry Animals— Mwng

Posted by Stephen on November 22, 2009 at 8:00pm

I will use this space to inform you of some of the things I get up to when I think I'm not looking and I shall also spread rumours here - some of which may be true. My duties also include the supply of Radiohead and musical related links and recommendations to items of intrest in outer-radioheadspace. This page will be updated conscientiously, nay religiously on a random and very irregular basis.

Super Furry Animals— MwngIf i was absolutely forced to compare Super Furry Animals to another band, i would probably go for Oklahoman psych-pop confectioners The Flaming Lips. Of course, i may be in the minority 'round HH parts as a member of their fanclub (so to speak), but hear me out: both started out as noisy, mischievous punk rockers with a sentimental side which came to the fore as their scope of ambition widened. They've both, to varying degrees, embraced electronic elements as well as unashamedly referencing the cooler end of prog. The main difference, though, is the absence of a career-defining album in the case of SFA. The Lips most likely hit their peak with 1999's orchestral pop opus 'The Soft Bulletin', a record to these ears so disconcertingly emotional that much of their material since has felt like an attempt to cover their tracks by peddling looser lyrical cliches and an errant musical muse (well, some of Yoshimi's pretty great, but that's another story). Gruff Rhys and co, however, have not been stuck with such a weight around their shoulders. They have undoubtedly released some fascinating and highly enjoyable albums since 1996's 'Fuzzy Logic', but critics are yet to wholeheartedly leap on an album, grandly declare it their highpoint, and scupper the creative momentum which got them there. 2001's 'Rings Around The World' felt like an attempt at such an LP, but the press didn't let it happen, praising it conditionally on account of its glossy production not a million miles from the 'Moon Safari's of this world.Almost forgotten, then, is the previous year's 'Mwng', an album entirely consisting of Welsh songs and made on a relatively tiny budget. The press did jump for this album, but primarily to highlight the supposed novelty of a songwriter singing in his first language. This culminated in a mention in the House of Commons praising the band for its contribution to the culture of their homeland. Of course all of this detracted from the fact that Super Furry Animals had recorded one of the strongest, most charming collections of songs in at least the past decade.Following on from 1999's 'Guerilla', a highly accessible, if slightly overcooked mix of glam, pop and techno, 'Mwng' predictably represented a (to use a hideous cliche) back-to-basics approach - flashes of horns appear here and there, but at the core is a band letting Gruff's songs breathe. Cian Ciaran, keyboardist and electronics fiddler of considerable repute, who had arguably been given a little too much opportunity to varnish on recent efforts, makes much gentler, almost subliminal, contributions here. Bunf, Daf and Guto follow suit, knowing where to go and where to stop but at the same time making the most of the liberty offered by such a basic setting. The renowned Furry harmonies appear throughout, sounding even more assured and sedcutive than ever before.All of this could amount to very little but then there's the songs... good grief. Although most listeners will have next to no idea what Gruff is singing about, the melodies transcend such silly boundaries in their expression of joy, abjection, playfulness, humour, regret, longing - the list goes on. They're so deeply human and touching when you're in the right mood that it's hardly worth trying to describe them. Here goes nothing then...1. Drygioni (rough translation - 'drug badness') - The album opens deceptively with its most disposable track. That's not to say that it's not great fun, an 85 second burst of the Roxy-go-Nuggets odd-pop perfected on 'Fuzzy Logic' and 'Radiator'.2. Ymaelodi A'r Ymylon ('join the periphery' - don't think for a second i haven't got the song titles right in front of me) - A pop melody with a dark bite worthy of Cope in the late Teardrop era. The harmonies are positively angelic here.3. Y Gwyneb Iau ('liverface') - Beautifully dejected keyboards and a sad, solitary horn recall 'Radiator' highlight Demons. The fragile vocals amost crack under the weight of feeling.4. Dacw Hi ('there she is') - Brief respite with a simple, quite lovely guitar melody and, yep, more wondrous harmonies.5. Nythod Cacwn ('beehives') - A positively chilling acoustic guitar and wonderful, plodding drums back a haunting Gruff melody imagining, of all things, drummer Daf being attacked by bees.6. Pan Ddaw'r Wawr ('when dawn breaks') - Feels almost medieval with its pulsing harmonium and creepy acoustic undertow, only to switch to a bouncy pop singalong to finish.7. Ysbeidiau Heulog ('sunny intervals') - As with the first track, this seems like an obvious concession to those hoping for the frivolous guitar-pop of their early work. Which is fine by me when the tune's so bloody catchy.8. Y Teimlad ('the feeling') - This cover of a Datblygu song (nope, me neither) may pass by unimpressively at first, but further listening reveals a quite beautiful folk melody given the ideal, simple backing.9. Sarn Helen - Apparently about a roman road, the music brilliantly echoes the subject matter in its evocation of ancient ruins and epic travel. Whatever the hell that means!10. Gwreiddiau Dwfn / Mawrth Oer Ar y Blaned Neifion ('deep roots / a cold march on the planet neptune') - The album closes with its strongest track, which would definitely be SFA's finest moment if 2003's 'Slow Life' didn't exist. Even the beauty of the preceding songs pales somewhat next to this perfectly realised composition. The first part is an overwhelmingly sad ballad, a singalong for the unbearably melancholy, whilst the closing instrumental soars on lilting brass, graceful keys and metronomic drums.For me, this album stands as the band's finest achievement, but gains from its lack of exposure as an 'important work'. It happliy nestles in their back catalogue, ready for smart folk like those found 'round 'ere to discover and fall in love with. Their other albums are all worth hearing, containing numerous moments of pop brilliance, but this, whilst possibly not the best place to start, is the one that gets me most.

Gerrard Winstanley, ‘A Watchword to the City of London’, 1649

Posted by Stephen on November 22, 2009 at 7:51pm

“Yet my Mind was not at rest, because Nothing was Acted, and thoughts run in me that Words and Writing were all Nothing and must Die, for Action is the Life of all and if thou dost not Act, thou dost Nothing” — Gerrard Winstanley, ‘A Watchword to the City of London’, 1649

И ещё из печати. И пресс-конференции.

Posted by Alina on November 21, 2009 at 7:34pm

"Лучшие компьютерные игры" 12' 2009:" ... если в голосовом чате какой-нибудь высоколобый эстет нагоняет тоску нетленками Radiohead... " (Team Fortress 2)Зануда, но хороший парень - вот характеристика, данная ТЙ БГ в пресс-конференции последнего в Уфе.

Album Review - Dogman Star- Suede

Posted by Stephen on November 21, 2009 at 7:00pm

I will use this space to inform you of some of the things I get up to when I think I'm not looking and I shall also spread rumours here - some of which may be true. My duties also include the supply of Radiohead and musical related links and recommendations to items of intrest in outer-radioheadspace. This page will be updated conscientiously, nay religiously on a random and very irregular basis.Album Review - Dogman Star- Suede

Suede:Brett Anderson - Singing, some instrumentsBernard Butler - Guitars & ThingsSimon Gilbert - DrumsMat Osman - Electric BassAll Songs Anderson/ButlerProduced by Ed BullerNOTE - Dog Man Star remains an interesting record and quite odd and too rich for the mainstream at the time, I’m arguing it’s lost and warrants rediscovery – I’m not arguing it’s as obscure as some In-Kraut-stuff or something…and something from the 1990s and the UK is interesting too…well, we’ll see….GLAM-RACKET. Suede had a lot of hype, which wound many up as much as their androgynous image – boys looking like girls was a Glam-Racket according to Mark E Smith and Steve Coogan-as-Paul Calf targeted them (“Diamond Dogs?...Bag of shite…”). In many ways Calf was predicting Oasis…and ironically Suede led to Britpop, which wasn’t a good thing, but hardly their fault…LOVE AND POISON. As detailed in the warts-and-all official biography ‘Love and Poison’ by David Barnett (Andre Deutsch), Suede were completely fucked up – the romance of a certain kind of lifestyle and music had combined and would end with crack and heroin addiction and the pissing away of a career.MANSION. Anderson embraced the darkness here, holed up in a Victorian-mansion with a religious cult and probably making his Berlin after they failed to crack America. Butler had become estranged from the band, though off his face on coke and dope it was hard to buy his censure of the others for being off their faces on drugs. The career-thing was getting in the way and he decided he didn’t want to play old songs like “The Drowners” anymore, as well as deciding he disliked Anderson’s vocals, that Anderson was a paedophile (mentioned many times in ‘Love and Poison’ and something to do with a joke made by Anderson when on crystal meth in LA), and how he wanted to direct the band. Butler also began to dislike the songs whose lyrics appeared to romance junkies…Weirdly the composition would work out OK, Butler posting music to Anderson, holed up in the mansion, who would work on the material over the next few days and post back…Anderson & co had recently hooked up with Derek Jarman for a performance and seemed to take things very seriously – now in a gothic mansion Anderson was embracing the dark stuff and Dog Man Star was the result…DOG MAN STAR. Anderson explains in L&P, “I scrambled my brains on acid, coke and E and out came Dog Man Star…I deliberately isolated myself…It was like, “I’m going up to Highgate and writing a fucking album…So I spent a lot of time on my own just watching Performance every day of my life. I was starting to go a little bit nuts. I was kind of having visions about songs. Lots of the songs were about visions, songs like “We are the Pigs.” I was actually having visions of Armageddon and riots in the streets and inventing insane things, living in this surreal world. & out came Kenneth Anger, William Blake, and Alestair Crowley – an influence of books on sex and witchcraft was emphasised. Anderson continues in L&P, “I was kind of aware that everything was getting slightly strange. I was quite into all these people that had visions and were slightly off their nuts, people like Lewis Carroll. I was quite into that whole idea of becoming the recording artist as lunatic. I was quite into that extremity, but I was definitely living it. It was good fun!”MISERY. Dog Man Star, whose working titles had been Misery and Sci-Fi Lullabies (later used for a compilation of b-sides), was a strange one as it hadn’t been finished when Bernard Butler walked out of the band in a big-ass fashion. Butler had pretty much taken over the arrangements/production and wanted to oust producer Ed Buller from the record. Butler had become alienated from the band and in final performances would play riffs at odds with each song, as if to undermine the rest of the band…flicking V’s at band members also added to the tension. Like Spinal Tap, a “Him or Me”-moment occurred and Butler collected his guitars (rumoured to have been dumped out on the street by the rest of the band – who deny that) and apart from a contractual contribution to “Black or Blue” (recorded in a separate studio), that was the end of Butler and Suede.SGT PEPPER. By now Suede-insiders were describing Dog Man Star as their Sgt Pepper, session musicians added to it and Scott Walker-associate/brother of Bamber Brian Gascoigne added strings (Tessa Niles appears, as well as brass, strings and children’s choir!). One of the sticking points was Butler’s intended 18-minute “The Asphalt World” – which was trimmed by 50% - though Butler claims he was going to edit it. He seemed to have gone prog and would appear in a BBC programme on the Floyd around this time…Butler had been writing lots of additional minor-pieces and was absorbed in complex arrangements – so it would be interesting if any of the material before it was tweaked would ever surface (the extended “Asphalt World”, the original end for “The Wild Ones”, which was less poppy etc). Dog Man Star isn’t the album it should have been, but is no less interesting for that…THE HOLY BIBLE. Dog Man Star is dense, potent stuff like Berlin and Closer – though Anderson was enamoured with Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom – and it had a companion in the form of Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible. Dark shit from British acts isn’t that common, Dog Man Star seemed to influence Radiohead’s second and third albums, and I think was probably influenced a bit by Jehovhakill (I know associate band Strangelove were fans of Jehovahkill). The overloaded guitars etc on “Daddy’s Speeding” aren’t that far from the freak-out part of “Upwards…/Know” – maybe not even far from the fractal Thrones & Dominions of Dylan Carlson or Sylvian’s drones on Blemish…SULK. Dog Man Star was eventually released to rave reviews, getting to #3 in the album chart, but falling quickly thereafter as Blur and Oasis eclipsed them commercially…in the years since it’s fallen off the radar, the debut LP making all the lists etc. I guess like Sulk by Associates it’s one of those very odd albums to puncture the Top 10?OTT. Dog Man Star is quite a ridiculous OTT album, even a 1990’s Scott Walker noted the bombast when interviewing around Tilt. Maybe the Children’s Choir was supposed to be like the kids on Talk Talk’s The Colour of Spring…though it made me think of The Mission’s Children! & a co-worker just said when ‘We are the Pigs’, “We are the Dead” – which pointed to certain obviousness. & Dog as in Diamond, Man as in The Man Who Sold the World, and Star as in the Prettiest Star? Bowie had even asked them to re-record “Lady Grinning Soul” or “Time” for a record that never came out…& Anderson's lexicon was a bit trying (animals, dogs, pigs...the whole damn farm) at times. A shame he never penned a song called "Valium Urban Clearaway"...though 1996's "Picnic in the Motorway" is close...HEROINE. Also, it was irritating when Anderson sang about doves and ecstasy while denying in a free-flexi with one of the weeklies that “Heroine” was about Heroin. He does claim not to have taken up smack at that point; though I think it likely as he did everything else….apparently alcohol was a primary influence too! Some of the lyrics are appalling when read, but make sense against the immense soundtrack that backs them...ENO. “Introducing the Band”, later remodelled by Brian Eno, was the odd opener – a bizarre electronic chant with some added guitar as Anderson reels off drug-inflected nonsense. He certainly had the Bowie-thing apparent on Station to Station here; though playing with fire can’t be a good thing, and like Bowie, Anderson became clean and lost whatever he had. I guess you have to square great art with a fucked up life? A looped/backwards vocal contrasts against dark lyrics like “Get him shacked up, bloodied up, and sucking on a gun” – which was odd to hear in a song about the time Suede-fan Kurt Cobain took his own life. A reality, however fucked up, was being reflected….RAY OF LIGHT. “We are the Pigs” was the bizarre comeback single that threw people – a dark anthem with a very strange promo (burning crosses, masks, riot squads, subways...sort of A Clockwork Orange-meets-V-for-Vendetta) and sleeve that was probably too rich for many who had liked their earlier, catchier songs. “Heroine” consolidates the debut material, perfecting the 3-minute odd Suede song and focusing on Marilyn Monroe and Frida Kahlo. “The Wild Ones” should probably have been a “Fake Plastic Trees” or “Wonderwall”, but was lost – I think the repetition (“Oh, if you stay”) at the end is quite charming and a ray of light on a dark record.HOLLYWOOD BABYLON. “Daddy’s Speeding” is a bizarre song where Anderson imagines he’s James Dean’s son and the car crash which killed Dean – a case of too much Ballard and romancing the dark stuff? “The Power” is quite poppy, finished with session musicians working to Butler’s composition and at the end offering a glimpse of the shallow pop of next-phase Suede. The centre of the album is again quite poppy – another anthem in the form of flop-single “New Generation” (which the record label wanted as the first single) and “This Hollywood Life,” where Butler’s guitars are almost grungy and Anderson sounds like he’s thoroughly ingested Anger’s Hollywood Babylon…FLOYD. The final four tracks are where the album goes really dark – maybe the reason why this is a fan’s favourite – odd that the critics’ raves seem forgotten now, a few years later Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins would rave over this record, which already seemed forgotten. “The 2 of Us” is a piano-led ballad where Butler injects suitable pomp and a glam-solo; while “Black or Blue” is a shorter piece that sounds like Morrissey if produced by Eno in the 70s. This leads naturally onto the epic “The Asphalt World” which was about a dysfunctional relationship or two Anderson had with the ladies at the time. It gets away with a Velvets-cliché (playing on “How does it feel…”) and has a post-Syd/pre-Dark Side-Floyd wig-out…what does the 18-minute version sound like? Finally there is the gorgeous “Still Life,” which is truly lovely – the strings at the end are quite ridiculous and possibly as Spector a problem as that of Let It Be by The Beatles. Taking in the Eno-remix and b-sides like “Killing of a Flash Boy” (“We Care a Lot” meets “We are the Dead”) and “Whipsnade” (where Butler fuses dub and glam rock), creatively Suede were in a very interesting place.THE LAST PARTY. But the split changed all that – Butler went into default Spector-lite setting for his subsequent work and Suede made the 1990’s equivalent of Duran’s Seven and the Ragged Tiger with Coming Up (a good record if in a shallow mood, I guess). Crack and smack would unhinge Suede, whose personnel would shift as they attempted to record albums a few times – their swansong A New Morning offering a straight-Anderson to a world that didn’t seem to want them anymore. Butler, who had since worked with Sparks, Neneh Cherry, David McAlmont, The Verve (briefly between the 2nd and 3rd LPs until his ego collided with Richard Ashcroft’s), Edwyn Collins, and as a solo-act, had apparently offered to compose songs for Suede towards the end of their career (see The Last Party by John Harris).DOG MAN STAR. Strangely, Anderson & Butler reunited following Suede’s hiatus – The Tears seemed a bit obvious, though like the Go-Betweens when they returned, it might have taken a few records to really make a classic equal to the past. The Tears’ flopped and that’s all over – Butler now working with Rough Trade’s Duffy and the former Texas-singer Sharleen Spiteri (sp?). Anderson has gone on to make two solo records, both quite dark and the latest Wilderness the closest thing he’s done to Dog Man Star. The problem is he’s mellowed and isn’t fucked up – which makes for OK records and a great life, which I’m sure he prefers over great records and a fucked up life? His solo tour was fairly unattended, like The House of Love’s return a few years ago, and the latest LP has had average to dismal reviews (like Bowie in the 1990s, Anderson is trying and who knows…he might do it again!). But it’s notable Anderson is playing lots of material from Dog Man Star now – “The 2 of Us,” “The Wild Ones,” “Still Life,”, “The Asphalt World” – so maybe he can get back to that place and keep his mind in-tact?THE 1990’s. Dog Man Star may have been made by a band in the mainstream, but it’s very, very strange and kind of lost. I guess if they hadn’t carried on with new members and vanished it might be regarded more than it is now? Certainly a record that deserves the to be heard by those beyond the faithful fans…& one of the last times British music was challenging in the 1990s – completely at odds with the Britpop that would follow; certainly one of the reasons why the 1990s ended in 1994 in the UK…

There's Always Tomorrow

Posted by PrttyBrd on November 20, 2009 at 7:33am

Gray clouds block the sunIts rays struggle to shine through the cracksWill the sun reign and blue skies prevailOr will the black thunder bring lightning strikesTime takes foreverAnd the rain begins to fallThe sun sets unnoticedNo beauty reflected in the rainbow skyThe moon now hidden by the stormThe night is black and chills the soulWindburned cheeks hold on to tearsThough the wet is quickly driedThe salt lines remainRemnants of sadness and lingering painFor once the heartbreak is for othersTo see their losing battleTo watch it play out from the sidelinesHelpless to change their pathTheir journey is their ownYet the heart is still brokenThe laggard storm clouds slowly scatterThe moonlight shows through just before dawnThe sun unceremoniously begins to rise

Protest Lynne Stewart’s incarceration!

Posted by redlotus51 on November 19, 2009 at 1:27pm

Dear Friends of Justice,There has been a terrible injustice against Atty Lynne Stewart and against the right of the accused to have credible legal representation.See announcement of a San Fransisco rally below and the Defense Committee at http://www.lynnestewart.org/Radical human rights attorney Lynne Stewart has been falsely convicted of helping terrorists while defending an accused terrorist at Guantanamo . The seventy year old attorney scheduled for breast cancer surgery in early December has had the Second Circuit order the original trial Judge, Judge Koeltl , to revoke Lynne's bail and have her ordered to surrender forthwith November 18th at 5 pm to begin her sentence.This is an obvious attempt by the U.S. government to silence dissent, curtail vigorous defense lawyers, and install fear in those who would fight against the U.S. government's racism, seek to help Arabs and Muslims being prosecuted for free speech and defend the rights of all oppressed people.Please send letters of support to the Defense Committee athttp://www.lynnestewart.org/. Also consider sending letters of protest to :Judge Koeltl , 2nd Circuit Court, House and Senate judicial committees , The Office of the Attorney General, Perhaps even, the Obama administration that circles the globe preaching "democracy" ?Knowing that this atrocity of injustice is widely known and that it exposes the hypocrisy of U.S. 'justice' may help put pressure on these official to stop this railroading of a lawyer because she defends the legal rights of those the system systematically oppresses.Thanks,Bronson and Carol----- Forwarded Message ----From: Jeff MacklerLynne Stewart in Jail!Protest Lynne Stewart’s incarceration!San Francisco Federal Courthouse, 7th and Mission, SFMonday, November 23, 5:00 pmDear Friends of Lynne Stewart, I just got off the phone with Lynne Stewart a few minutes ago, that is, late Wednesday (early Thursday, November 19, New York time) . She bravely told me that she has been ordered to report to U.S. Federal Marshals to be imprisoned at 5 pm, Thursday, November 19. There will be a 4 pm NY rally of her supporters, who will escort her to the courthouse for imprisonment.In San Francisco, we will rally on Monday, Nov. 23 to protest Lynne’s frame-up trial and imprisonment. Be there! (See above.)Background:Following the November 16 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit that rejected Lynne Stewart’s appeal of her 1995 frame-up conviction on five counts of aiding and abetting terrorism, Lynne’s legal team as well the federal district court were in a quandary as to how to proceed. [Lynne has been a leading civil and human rights attorney for 30-years. She is a member of the National Lawyers Guild and a member of the Continuations Committee of the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations. ]The Second Circuit made what amounted to an unprecedented decision to not only affirm her conviction and reject her appeal but to order that her bail be revoked and that she be remanded to prison. But lacking clear orders as to who would carry out this decision and when it would happen, the last two days have seen Lynne appear, along with her supporters at two rallies in her defense and numerous press conferences and interviews while judges and lawyers tried to ascertain what to do. That decision has been made and Lynne will begin serving a 28-month prison term.However, the Second Circuit’s 2-1 decision also remanded the issue of the length of Lynne’s sentence back to Judge John Koeltl’s Federal District Court ordering Koeltl to reconsider the 28-month jail sentence that he originally imposed. Obviously furious at the relatively short duration of the sentence, the Second Circuit accepted the prosecution’s assertion that Koeltl had not properly considered the question of whether or not Lynne has perjured herself during her trial. If that were to be determined, according to the Second Circuit, the length of Lynne’s sentence could be extended. The single dissenting judge went further – expressing his outrage at Lynne relatively short sentence and suggesting that a qualitatively longer sentence be imposed than the majority contemplated.The government originally demanded a 30-year sentence! Still fighting, Lynne’s attorney’s will ask the Second Circuit for a delay in her incarceration based on Lynne’s scheduled December surgery. Here too, Lynne guesses that this will be denied, with the court holding that prison facilities are adequate for any medical needs that Lynne, a diabetic with hypertension and recovering from breast cancer surgery, may have.Meanwhile, a new sentencing hearing before Judge Koeltl is scheduled for December 2 at the Foley Square Courthouse. Federal prosecutors are expected to ask for the maximum sentence possible. Also appearing in court will be Mohammed Yousery, Lynne’s innocent co-defendant and translator. Koeltl was also ordered to reconsider Yousery’s 20-month sentence. The prison term of a third defendant in Lynne’s case, Ahmed Sattar, who was sentenced to 20-plus years, was not challenged.At this point we can only speculate as to whether Judge Koeltl will stand by his original sentence or be pressured by the Second Circuit to extend Lynne and Mohammed’s sentence. The judge is known to carefully consider his sentences. Close observers believe that he is unlikely to bend and impose a longer sentence. Should Koeltl refuse to add additional years to Lynne’s prison term, the government is expected to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Government prosecutors and obviously the Second Circuit are outraged that a “convicted terrorist” has been walking around the streets for the past five years, free to champion her own cause and those of all others who suffer political repression.It was clear from Judge Koeltl’s short sentence and high praise of Lynne’s record as an attorney and human being, a “credit to her profession,” said Koeltl during the sentencing hearing, that he felt compelled to take his distance from the government’s desire to put Lynne, 70, in prison for what would amount to the rest of her life. Lynne will appeal the Second Circuit’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. She has repeatedly stated that her prosecution and persecution are consciously orchestrated by the government to chill the defense bar, that is, to instill the fear of government prosecutions into any attorney who seeks to afford alleged terrorists or others who are victims of unjust government persecution, a vigorous and dedicated defense. Lynne points to the upcoming U.S. prosecution efforts of Guantanamo prisoners as a prime example. Again, join us on Monday, November 23 at 5:00 pm at the San Francisco Federal Courthouse, 7th and Mission.For further information contact: Jeff Mackler, Coordinator, West Coast Lynne Stewart Defense Committee 510-268-9429 jmackler@lmi. net Mail tax free contributions payable to National Lawyers Guild Foundation. Write in memo box: “Lynne Stewart Defense.” Mail to: Lynne Stewart Defense, P.O. Box 10328, Oakland, CA 94610.

i got it

Posted by Steve Rowe on November 18, 2009 at 8:41pm

15 steps and then a straight drop

Island

Posted by N on November 18, 2009 at 4:30pm

Beyond the door is the sea
That gnaws at the rocks like a dog
On a chain. O you, can it be

That I will never touch you?
Above me the wheels and the cogs
Reel, keeping time in a blue

Sky that is timeless. The storms
That have yet to punctuate wait,
Thick as fear beyond far horizons,

The only event in this place.
An ocean as deep as a heart
Will roil up in anger apace.

Here there is nowhere to start,
There is nowhere to go. The pounce
Of the waves fizzles, parts.

In the distance white ships toss;
I watch the wild foam break.
When the dark consumes the gloss
I want to be your lighthouse.

Stephen is very excited about his new PS3 which arrived today. This is quite possibly the best thing he’s ever bought. Shame he won’t have time to play with it until Saturday. (Talking about himself i

Posted by Stephen on November 17, 2009 at 9:50pm

Stephen is very excited about his new PS3 which arrived today. This is quite possibly the best thing he’s ever bought. Shame he won’t have time to play with it until Saturday. (Talking about himself in the third person seems weird to Stephen, but he hears it’s how you’re supposed to use W.A.S.T.E, so whom is he to argue with the rules?)

as i sweep up the last of the leaves

Posted by w.a.s.t.e. on November 17, 2009 at 9:56am

and the autumn sun is out

1. Intro + Gold Love Riddim by Tapes from Hissing Theatricals
2. Herzog by Clark from Warp20: Chosen
3. Square Footage by Luke Vibert from We Hear You
4. Take A Ride Version by Dub Specialist from Studio One Dub
5. Incredible by M Beat General Levy from Rumble in the Jungle
6. Quiet Dog by Mos Def from The Ecstatic
7. Dinamo by Nathan Fake from Dinamo
8. Drane by Autechre from Warp20:Chosen
9. Nordic House by Ceephax from Exidy Tours

Time For Some Black Sky Thinking

Posted by Stephen on November 16, 2009 at 10:56pm

When there's a man-made disaster like, say, an oil-tanker leaking over a wide area of coastline and sea, questions are asked quite broadly: of the shipping company, of the insurers, of international regulations, of government agencies, of all the different companies involved. Why, then, does nothing like that happen even after two months of extreme weather events ranging more widely still, from Bangladesh to the China plains, from Florida to Grenada and Jamaica?Why, for example, does no-one now stick a microphone under, say, Richard Branson's nose and ask, 'So in the light of these floods and hurricanes and heavy rains are you going to abolish some flights, then? At least until such a time as humans have figured out a way of doing them which doesn't wipe out half of the arable crops in Bangladesh and England?'Who will now put pressure on the EU to rescind the licences of Go and Easy Jet and Ryan Air? That these airlines are grounded until such time as the Arctic is crunchy not sloshy is in the scheme of things a rather modest measure. Hey, let's wait, until the permafrost's sphagnum moss has stopped growing trees, then we'll review the Ski Weekend Option, whaddyasay?Why doesn't the Guardian say, 'Right, we will no longer run adverts for weekends away in Barcelona or Vienna? There is no excuse for flying short-haul - for leisure purposes, certainly - and we have to see to it that before too long this fashion this becomes seen as being fully as naff and verboten as wearing a mink stole or smoking while pregnant or listenig to Take That.'Why isn't someone from the government asked to defend its support for BP's Baku-Ceyhan pipeline project which will release 365 million cubic tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year? (A pretty dodgy project anyway, if you ask me. The BP pipelines will take oil and gas from Baku Azerbaijan to Ceyhan in Turkey. Transparency International has listed Azerbaijan as 'the world's third most corrupt regime'. Although there's some speculation that Azerbaijan may have fixed the result by slipping a bung to Colombia to swap second place.)Why isn't someone from the government asked to defend its support for BP's Baku-Ceyhan pipeline project which will release 365 million cubic tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year? (A pretty dodgy project anyway, if you ask me. The BP pipelines will take oil and gas from Baku Azerbaijan to Ceyhan in Turkey. Transparency International has listed Azerbaijan as 'the world's third most corrupt regime'. Although there's some speculation that Azerbaijan may have fixed the result by slipping a bung to Colombia to swap second place.)Why isn't the BBC asked whether, following these extreme weather disasters, they are going to axe those, ugly, fossil-fuel dinosaurs Jeremy Clarkson and Quentin Willson. Just out of repect for the dead. And the living.(And, given Quentin Willson's family resemblence to Dracula, the Undead. I mean, it's not 1958 anymore outside of White City. This is no time for a broadcaster to 'balance' those who complain of cyclists on the pavement with people who don't like SUV's and 4x4's. No, the time we live in now is one where - at the every least - all cyclists (especially ones whose first name begins with R ) should be given a daily stipend of £250 - paid to them by owners of aforesaid vehicles as a kind of retrospective carbon-credit - since those drivers were among those who claimed carbon-trading would work if we just left things how they were!Still, if governments are not going to go after climate criminals, big or small, then we have to make sure crime don't pay another way.The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, the IPCC, concluded that 'there is a discernible human impact on climate'. In terms of scale and responsibility we might talk about a corporate impact on climate. Now that the Pentagon and the UK government's chief scientific advisor are warning that climate change is the greatest threat to the world, then the debate should have moved on to how much reparations Ford or General Motors or Cargill (or any and all oil-intensive operators) are going to have to start paying the rest of us, once they've settled out of court with the farmers and growers and communities they are wiping out.Wild-eyed though my suggestion may sound to you, gentle reader, it is, in fact, rather a quaintly conservative and already outdated proposal, for it pretends to a normalizing and stabilizing of the crisis, and that is not going to happen under the present economic system. Or anything like it. But if we think about this issue in terms of what needs to be done for the survival of the species rather than in terms of where the debate is now and what people are likely to countenance tomorrow morning, then we come to rather more exciting conclusions, rather more difficult questions. How much worse, for example, will it have to get before we think seriously about the Dissolution of Corporations? Wait too long and there will be a State of Emergency which will only entrench the fuckers.Politically unrealistic? Ah, but here's the central epistemological truth of our time. Never so suddenly ripped a chasm between what is 'politically realistic' and reality itself than that opened up by climate change.Time for some black sky thinking, everybody.Rob Newman

still cant work out how this works I got a mail saying somone left a comment, but cant find out where..............

Posted by shaun burns on November 16, 2009 at 10:30pm

still cant work out how this worksI got a mail saying somone left a comment, but cant find out where..............

i hate everything about you!!

Posted by Power on November 15, 2009 at 9:21pm

-mirame a los ojos, ya no me quieres verdad?-no creo que, y tu sabes porque.-sabes que fue una tonteria-no, no lo fue, para ser honestos, esto es solo un pretexto-lo sabia-si, pero de cualquier forma ya lo sabes-puedo hacer algo?-no, creo que no y aunque lo hicieras no me importa-eso es todo verdad?-supongo, no se que va a pasar-por lo menos podrias esperar?- a que? no hay nada por que esperar-por mi, sabes que yo te sigo queriendo, sabes que estare ahi, en todo, y para lo que quieras.-como es posible? te acabo de decir que ya no te quiero-si, lo se, pero eso no cambie mis sentimientos por ti.-no puedo creerlo.-creelo, sabes que pase lo pase, yo estare aqui........."It's always best when the light is offI am the pick in the iceDo not cry out or hit the alarmYou know we're friends till we die"radiohead

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