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| Friday, September 4th, 2009 | | 3:59 pm |
| | Friday, August 28th, 2009 | | 11:11 pm |
grrr
you need to get yourself together darling, join the human race | | 10:49 pm |
Russian mp3 bootleg cd FAIL
 Bernie & Kosmo finally achieve their dream of reforming the band with a new line up (and you've got the punk as fuck male model (x2 - guy on left is very Simmo, nice New York Dolls and skull&crossbone shirts), the open shirt and a bit sensitive rock god, the hip hopper, the goofy looking one and the hard punk guy (v Clash mark II) - so just like The (true) Clash then ;-)
Found while brousing gemm - thinking of signing up to try and flog some of my music collection.
Current Mood:  happy | | Friday, April 24th, 2009 | | 11:23 pm |
| | Monday, April 20th, 2009 | | 1:46 am |
| | Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 | | 6:53 am |
watched Star Wars episode IV: A New Hope friday night....
via the "origanal trilogy for the last time ever" just about to be deleted for good no really honest remastered video scored all three for a tenner off the local market a while back - he tried to flog me the box of the not actually that special really editions at the same time - for more money lol.
as posted on twitter (i can has twitterings - http://twitter.com/hrzine) "'last time ever' (lying cunts) VHS origanal/real non 'special' edition Hans shoots first Star Wars (IV) for the Win."
and yeah HANS SHOOTS FIRST!1! got shouted at the screen in triumph at the appropiate point :blush:
first time for the non special edition apart from stray moments but grew up with the ideas of the films/their presecence always being their - remember seing a headline some point in the 80s on/in the( Newspaper my grandad was reading at the time (probably the Telegraph, possibley sitting on the floor looking up at him) re Reagan's (?) Star Wars missle plan and wondering why the President was talking about the films.
flashback to primary school playground games - being Daft Vader (not a typo and not my choice) :-( and really, really wanting some of the figures but the closest I ever got was a broken Han Solo with his legs damageds/missing forget which now, that I found at the side of the road I treasured it though - untill it mysteriously got lost. The video being non widescreen seems strangely right, like this is proper Star wars just like my memories of of summer/bank hollidays, being at mums and 'Star Wars' always on ITV (but somehow never getting to watch either of the three films all the way through).
random observations
- burnt corpse skeleton and severed arms in a U rated film? why/how does C3PO know about the princess and her previous escapes right at the begining but not reconise her on teh clip & how does Luke sudenly know that 'the princess' that R2 is talking about having found is the same person? how come Wookies tend to rip peoples arms off if they loses at 3d cartoon monster chess but totally ignore being called a walking carpet?
totally thrown by Tusken Raiders not being called tusken raiders on screen
(wiki - actually the star wars wikia/wookiepedia(lol) says that was invented for the novel, must've been used for the toys - I mean you could hardly sell action figure 'Sand People' really could you? - I could swear I knew they were called that long before reading any fan/geek articles etc.
How did James Earl Jones get so famous for being the voice (but not the body or face or the earlier incarnations and at least one of the ghosts) of Darth Vader when he's NOT CREDITED AT ALL - at least not on the first/fourth film (fuck you Lucas, fuck you for making things so complicated.) - well the 95? video anyway.
random lols
the confused Stormtroopers right at the back of a whole troop who've just marched on, who decide to stop in front of an archway to have a chat about the fact neither of them have a fucking clue about what going on but think it's probably yet another drill - love the idea of them ocasionnly moaning to each other when nobodies looking about not understanding their orders or how many more drills there's going to be. Alec Guiness being all twinky eyes (way ironic knowing for years since his autobiography extracts being in the torygraph arts ande books how much he hated Star Wars afterwards, telling that kid to never watch it again) - it's all fun and games untill somebody loses an arm. teh cantina - I don't like you and my friend doesn't like you - that plus the very late 70s/80s working class northern? bar tender stroke pub darts team man
Darth Vader standing on Ben/Obi Wan 's mysteriouly empty cloak after he's been 'struck down' like he's trying to work out where his body went. Was the idea either that Darth's increased power of the dark side combine with pos deliberete sacrafice vapourised him, Obi Wan deliberetly becoming "stronger than you'd ever imagine" by instantly becoming one with 'the force' instead of normally dying (buddhists should sue) or just improvised as the resualt of Alec Guiness refusing to be a corpse (not based on any evidence just pure sleep deprivation inspired speculation)
Peter fucking Cushing under chief space Nazi man looking like he's just wondered in off a BBC historical drama about a U-Boat captain Peter Cushing + felllow space Nazis apparently having stereotypical tech nerd/geek pens stickingf out of pockets as part of their uniforms. Current Mood:  hyper | | Friday, August 15th, 2008 | | 9:52 pm |
| | 9:35 pm |
Doing a bit of digging
it turns out that was stolen from elsewhere on the net http://www.vincentchow.net/1615/how-beijing-olympic-got-its-logo - spot the pro China propagandists looks like screenshots from an activist animation/commercial from that blog " Tony Says: Cartoon aside, I do not know what are you, Chinese posters so proud of. That you live in a country that is committing cultural genocide in Tibet, that you keep occupying Tibet even thou the people of Tibet speak a different language, look different then you and have completely different culture than you. That you are sending people that speak against the government into reeducation camps without a trial, that the guy who stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen square died recently in jail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ What exactly are you proud of? That IOC allowed you to host 2008 Olympics after your government lied that they will improve their human rights record and allow free internet access? Now they claim that they are blocking certain websites because it’s not good for the children of China. What a joke. Even the opening ceremony was a lie." & the idea was inspired from here  - details & more activist posters: http://www.flickr.com/photos/graphiste/2328400675/ | | 9:14 pm |
| | Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | | 5:00 am |
fuck the DWP/Job Center/government whatfuckingever
got their incapacity for work form in the post this yesterday (Sat) morning
- last I had any contact with an adviser they claimed I was offically unemployable
ha!
"...well that's my story and i'm sticking to that. So let's have another drink and let's talk about the blues. Blues is about dignity, it's about self-respect, and no matter what they take away from you - that's yours for keeps. I remember how it was, how every medium - T.V. and papers and radio and all those people were saying: 'you're on the scrap-heap, you're useless', and I remember how easy it was to start believing that. I remember how you'd hear people take it for granted that it was true - just 'cause someone with an ounce of power said so. And that's a problem now, too many oddballs, too many pocketbook psychologists and would-be philosophers with an axe to grind. But there's a solution, it's not easy, but it's a matter of coming to terms in your heart with situation you're in, a matter of choosing how things go for you and not having things forced upon you. There are plenty of forces against you, forcing you against your will, your ideals - you've got to hope for the best, and that's the best you can hope for - you've got to hope against hope... I remember something Sal Paradise said, he said: 'the city intellectuals of the world are divorced from the full bodied blood-of-the-land and are just rootless fools'. So listen, when the smile, the condescending pat-on-the-back comes and says: 'we're sorry, but you're nothing, you've got nothing for us and we've got nothing for you', you say: 'No', and say it loud: "NO!", and remember, people who talk about revolution and a class-struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth..."
Current Music: Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA (LP - yeah vinyl) | | 1:05 am |
| | Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 | | 3:59 am |
Poetry and a mixtape for Joe
(google alerts for the win)
Beautiful, moving poem inspired by watching The Future Is Unwritten) captureing Joe's journey through life, pain to acceptence (making the connections between the patterns of his life and Joseph Campbell's The Heroes Journey/Hero with a thousand faces - or whatever it's other name is - the book that inspired Star Wars)
"...even though he had some tortured years and pushed away a lot of his friends, he was authentic, and he was a very generous human being. I found the film inspiring in many ways.
When he died at 50 (of a congenital heart defect he knew nothing about), he had come full circle and found peace and happiness in his community..."
http://theaccidentalnovelist.blogspot.com/2008/05/monday-poetry-train-for-joe-stummer.html
Tracklisting w/reasons for a muxtape (online streamed mixtape thing)
http://ripitup.org/wordpress/?p=239
far too late to listen to it all now but it looks good - nice mix of Clash, solo & Meskies/ live & obscure tracks.
The mix itself: Punkrock Warlord
Another blog post on The Future Is Unwritten - "The raw energy coming off that guy could power 60 homes"
+ info and stream of Billy Childish's song Joe Strummer's Grave (uses/borrows - at least at the start - the Who's Can't Explain just like Clash City Rockers & Guns On The Roof did) Current Mood: enthralled | | Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | | 11:16 pm |
Now this is how to cover a song - Nina Simone does Leonard Cohen
Nina Simone - Suzanne I love the original - it's always been one of those songs that (unlike Hallelujah) is so perfect I've never even considered anyone else even trying to record it but she completely transforms it into something that's a total celebration of love & living - even the lines about Jesus that seem full of dispair become something positive (I don't mean in a shallow cheesy not-understanding-the-song-and-it's-mean ing ultra pop cover way) and the whole song sounds so fucking alive. Leonard Cohen's original Her Just like Tom Thumb's Blues is stunning too - she gives it a whole new layer of fragility. better than Dylan? Current Mood: happy | | Saturday, April 26th, 2008 | | 5:58 am |
bollocks to that
Voxant newsroom embeded video doesn't work on livejournal they keep fucking deleting the code grr Current Mood:  pissed off | | Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 | | 7:45 pm |
| | 1:29 am |
Not Mick (afaik) but Paul (with GB&Q) to play Love Music Hate Racism/RAR carnival!
----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- (reposting from myspace)
From: The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Date: Apr 20, 2008 9:41 PM
Jerry Dammers brings The Good The Bad and The Queen to LMHR
Specials Founder Jerry Dammers is hosting the LMHR Carnival '08 Finale, which will feature a set from Paul Simonon (The Clash), Simon Tong (The Verve), Tony Allen legendary afrobeat drummer) and Damon Albarn (Blur) - playing music from their The Good, The Bad and The Queen" album.
Jerry and The Specials played the last-ever Rock against Racism carnival in 1981, and Jerry has played a leading role in the LMHR =campaign; Jerrysaid: "Love music hate racism; always say that you don't have to love music, it's the second part that's important! Hating racism should be as natural as liking music, or breathing air for that matter. Anti racism is not "political" it's normal. Please support Love music Hate Racism and help correct the hysterical lies and distortions of the B.N.P.
Paul Simonon also played the 1978 concert, as bass player in The Clash and is also a supporter of LMHR, "It is what it is... musicians against racism. I was against it then and I still am today".
LMHR Carnival '08 is timed to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the iconic 1978 Rock Against Racism (RAR)/Anti Nazi League (ANL) carnival and march. As with the original event there will be an Anti Nazi League-organised march against racism and fascism on the day, assembling at 10am at Weavers Fields London E2. coaches will be bringing groups from around the country to the event.
MORE INFO ON THE OFFICIAL RAR SITE:- http://www.lmhrcarnival.com/ | | 12:48 am |
| | 12:45 am |
Forget what they said on their advert - The truth about the BNP
from http://www.uaf.org.uk/theBNP.aspThe truth about the British National Party - The BNP is a fascist organisation
- The BNP has terrorist and criminal connections
David Copeland, who carried out the London nail bombings in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho said: “My aim was political. It was to cause a racial war….then all the white people would go and vote BNP.” At the general election, they stood gang rapists and drug dealers as candidates in some seats, only removing them when they were exposed as criminals. - The BNP is racist
The BNP stand for an all white Britain, which could only be achieved using violence. The BNP leader Nick Griffin and two other leading members are currently facing charges for incitement to racial hatred. - The BNP denies the Holocaust
Six million Jewish people were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust. In total over 15 million Jews, trade unionists, gypsies, Slavs, black, lesbian, gay and disabled people were murdered as a result of Nazi Germany’s murderous policies. Nick Griffin was convicted for inciting racial hatred after a BNP magazine he published denied the reality of the Holocaust. - The BNP is opposed to our welfare state
The BNP wants to end income tax, which would mean the end of vital public services that we all value like schools, hospitals and pensions.
| | 12:33 am |
Stop the BNCUNTINGP - don't let them win in the London/local elections
Ways you can Act NOW against Fascism! (slightly edited to remove out of date information)
from http://www.uaf.org.uk/news.asp?choice=80301
Text the fascists away:
copy the following text into one message and send it to all your contacts.....by 30th April reminding them to vote on May 1st
"The fascist BNP want a London assembly seat in May use your vote to stop them on May 1st
- pass it on!"
The anti-fascist email virus:
copy this text into your email program where you would usually have a signature, so that every email you send is raising awareness around the threat of fascism
"*** On May 1st the fascist BNP will target the London Assembly and local council elections. We have been able to stop them by using our votes - make your vote count against fascism *** "
Days of Action:
- Help us raise awareness and work with others in the anti-fascist movement. Dates are :...26/27 April
In the last two weeks before the election UAF will be mobilising the vote.
"Keep the London Assembly Fascist Free Fortnight" will include a protest against their party political broadcast. The Love Music Hate Racism Carnival will also take place on 27 April. If you would like to participate or can help contact us.
<a href="http://www.uaf.org.uk" target=blank">Unite Against Fascism</a/>
http://www.stopthebnp.org.uk/
http://www.lovemusichateracism.com/ | | Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 | | 11:34 pm |
This is Public Radio Clash
Found this browsing Gather:
Musicheads talk about The Clash - "Are they the only band that matters? Danny Sigelman and Mark Wheat join me to discuss The Clash at what was arguably their peak in the late 70s and 80s, and we cover the two albums they came out with at that time. First Mark Wheat packs in the seminal "London Calling", which he finds captured the Clash full of confidences and souped-up on their punk credibility. Danny claims they upped the ante on punk with this album, and then drops to the next record, Sandinista! Sandinista!, their triple album with 36 tracks (including my pick of the record, "The Magnificent Seven") covered so much musical ground. It included streaks of R&B, Hip-hop, American Routes music, and Reggae. They've given me so much music. What did you discover because of The Clash?" ( discussion includes readers/listeners thoughts on Sandinista + the presenters memories of nearly getting crushed while seing the band play at the St. Paul Civic Center - supported by Shangoya)
The follow up - broadcast last week (Show details and podcasts: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/programs/musicheads/ )
From the discussion: "The Clash made me believe that I could make a difference and that I should get out of my chair and stand for something, whatever that something might be. They had me back then when they first arrived and they still have me today, whether it is the old stuff, The Mescaleros, and now Carbon/Silicon."
There's a Carbon/Silicon discussion in the shows archives too. |
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