Nice Allmans essay: "When the Allman Brothers Band set out to make its first record, the world was falling apart. The Beatles were in their death throes. Led Zeppelin had introduced its savage, Druidian form of the blues. American pop music was swamped in psychedelia. Motown had been Spector-ized, and jazz was disoriented by the cerebral experiments of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. What the musical landscape needed was a revival, a movement that gathered up the fragments and gave meat to the poor in spirit. "

The Savage Rose - wonderful Danish anarchist band I loved in the 70's

blissblog: "And Jack White, for sure, excels at what he does--in the same way that a cabinet-maker, or an engraver, or someone who has mastered the art of crafting magic lanterns, excels at what they do. It’s just that there’s not that much call for it anymore. You can listen and feel your ingrained reflexes responding to the tug of that certain way of building with riffs and spacing, builds and dynamics. But then every so often (I find) one's old modernist instincts resurge and it’s like you’re in some dank old cellar and the music has the shuddery sensation of cobwebs on your skin, and you’re like ‘eeurrgh, yukyuk, get it off me get it off me’."

Advertising Posters from 1930's Shanghai

Okanagan Mountain Fire

"According to the preliminary plan, that means soaking the photos and clippings in the bleach and vinegar, shredding them, wrapping them in plastic and duct tape, and disposing of them at a location not yet chosen."

John Coplans, 83; Art Critic Who Turned Photographer Late in Life

LIFE Classic: Rock Parents

re Alan Gilbert: free downloads from DJ /rupture

& Muslimgauze

The Century Dictionary Online in DjVu ( little plug in you have to download is worth it)

Late Birthday prezzie from Rose. And from Lis a red tin Chinese restaurant cocktail tray sporting a carp wielding tot. I'm off under the plum trees.

nicest surprise on Steve Evans' reading list gathering is Alan Gilbert's choice of DJ /rupture and Muslimgauze

Where is Raed ?: "G. my friend got beaten up by US Army last night, he was handcuffed and had a bag put on his head. he was kicked several times and was made to lie on his face for a while. All he wanted to do was to take pictures and report on an attack, he works for the New York Times as a translator and fixer. He got more kicks for speaking english.
his sin: he looks Iraqi and has a beard.
story will be told, I need to get him drunk enough to get the whole thing out of him he doesn't want to talk. "

Trouts and Seasons of The Mountain Village - Paper Craft

Still Life With Bowl of Citrons

Sour Orange, Terrestrial Mollusk, and Larkspur

Egg

lime tree greener and handsomer than ever

The Julie/Julia Project--she's cooking her way through "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"

"Couch-surfing Rule No. 1 is that sometimes you're the surfer, sometimes you're the wave," he says.

Underground History - Disused Stations on London's Underground

"We feel it's a very solid case for some sort of mixed fermented beverage," says Mr. McGovern, a senior research scientist at the museum.

sheet music

Claudia Roden's Middle Eastern Orange Cake

2 large oranges, washed
6 eggs, beaten
250 g. ground almonds
250 g. sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder


Boil oranges in a little water in a covered saucepan for 2 hours. Allow to cool, then cut open, remove pips and chop roughly.

Preheat oven to 190ºC and butter and flour a springform tin.

Blend oranges and remaining ingredients thoroughly in a food processor. Pour batter into prepared tin. Bake for 1 hour. If cake is still very wet, cook a little longer. Cool in tin before gently turning out

vivid memoir of Steve Carey sent by Peter Cummings in Tsawassen

Music as speech

Eureka!

mermaids, merman, and sea nymphs

Bienvenue dans le monde fantastique des photographes Pierre & Gilles

As Brooklyn Slowly Drunkened (Ftrain.com)

The MacGillivray Art Collection

electric shepherd

Blackout Moon and Mars

Naturally anarchic hives contain a few dozen laying workers, and seem to function well. But by selective breeding, Oldroyd and his colleagues have got the egg-layers up to about 40% of the workforce. In these hives, breeding workers neglect their chores and the hives become decadent to the point of collapse. "They can barely feed themselves, and they do weird things like trying to raise queens out of male larvae," Oldroyd says.

Studdy-ing with Bonzo; A Site Dedicated to Bonzo Dog and George Studdy

New Wave Photos by Philippe Carly

Salon.com | The right wing's summer of hate: "decay ... failure (fail) ... collapse(ing) ... deeper ... crisis ... urgent(cy) ... destructive ... destroy ... sick ... pathetic ... lie ... liberal ... they/them ... unionized bureaucracy ... 'compassion' is not enough ... betray ... consequences ... limit(s) ... shallow ... traitors ... sensationalists ...
'endanger ... coercion ... hypocrisy ... radical ... threaten ... devour ... waste ... corruption ... incompetent ... permissive attitudes ... destructive ... impose ... self- serving ... greed ... ideological ... insecure ... anti-(issue): flag, family, child, jobs ... pessimistic ... excuses ... intolerant ...
'stagnation ... welfare ... corrupt ... selfish ... insensitive ... status quo ... mandate(s) ... taxes ... spend(ing) ... shame ... disgrace ... punish (poor ... ) ... bizarre ... cynicism ... cheat ... steal ... abuse of power ... machine ... bosses ... obsolete ... criminal rights ... red tape ... patronage.' "

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