Monday 28 April 2014

The Rise & Fall of The Clash (Danny Garcia 2012)


'The next wave of revolutionaries?' 
'I saw them as terrorists getting away with murder?'
Hmmm...there is a lot of bumph spoken by grown men who really should know better in this not bad doco, but there is a fair amount of footage that I have never seen before. 
Garcia's new film is about Johnny Thunders
(Thanx Joly!)

Friday 25 April 2014

Cassetteboy VS Tony Blair: 'I say lies'

HA!


Come celebrate TOTAL FREEDOM at BUNDYFEST, just across the street from the Cliven Bundy Ranch, in Bunkerville, Nevada! 240 bands, 24 hours a day, for a SOLID ROCKIN' MONTH!!!!
*NO PERMITS REQUIRED
*CAMP ABSOLUTELY ANYWHERE
*FULL NUDITY NOT A PROBLEM
*GAY-FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE
*PENIS ERECTION CONTEST: Erect the largest penis in the open desert, win valuable prize! (tbd)
BACKGROUND: For years, we paid permitting fees to hold Burning Man on the beautiful Playa in Northern Nevada. But now, Cliven Bundy has shown us a NEW WAY! ABSOLUTE FREEDOM! Bundy has declared the entire area surrounding Bundy Ranch as a TOTALLY RULES-FREE ZONE! ANYTHING GOES! WOO-HOO!!!
Why should Burning Man end on September 1st? Swing down to Vegas for a few days for some R&R, a few good buffets, and then HEAD ON UP TO BUNDYFEST! All 50,000+ Burning Man participants are invited to attend -- and as many more as can make the trip from anywhere in the world! 100,000? 250,000? THE SKY IS THE LIMIT AT BUNDYFEST! The desert surrounding Bundy's ranch is LIMITLESS! :)

Monday 21 April 2014

Happy Muslims and Digusting Responses

Saturday 19 April 2014

The real price of stopping the boats

The Cambodian Space Project - The Boat



This video details the working process where iconic Australian singer songwriter Paul Kelly works 'across the waves' with The Cambodian Space Project, to write and record "The Boat" - a song created for The Key of Sea Project - an initiative that brings artists from vastly different backgrounds together to create songs that respond to the asylum seeker debate in Australia.
theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/refugees-must-not-be-left-to-languish-offshore-warns-un-20120815-249dk.html
thekeyofsea.com.au
The Key of Sea is an album which explores a different perspective on the raging political debate on refugees and asylum seekers. Musical collaborations between artists that you know and love, and artists who have brought their incredible music to our country

Syd The Scarecrow (1967)


Tuesday 15 April 2014

The Many Lives of Tom Waits


Unedited audio: VBR ZIP

HA!


Death From Above: How American Drone Strikes Are Devastating Yemen

Fuck The Poor?

Imagine the Band On The Run

BIG congrats to The Attackerman and James Ball


Edward Snowden: A Vindication for the Public - The Guardian and Washington Post Win the Pulitzer Prize

I am grateful to the committee for their recognition of the efforts of those involved in the last year's reporting, and join others around the world in congratulating Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, Ewen MacAskill, and all of the others at the Guardian and Washington Post on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Today's decision is a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation, including the forced destruction of journalistic materials, the inappropriate use of terrorism laws, and so many other means of pressure to get them to stop what the world now recognizes was work of vital public importance.
This decision reminds us that what no individual conscience can change, a free press can. My efforts would have been meaningless without the dedication, passion, and skill of these newspapers, and they have my gratitude and respect for their extraordinary service to our society. Their work has given us a better future and a more accountable democracy.
Via

Today's example of how NOT to use social media (NSFW)

Luckily it wasn't Virgin Airlines

Like A Rolling Sex Machine

Sunday 13 April 2014

John Pilger: South Africa - Twenty Years of Apartheid by Another Name

I don’t know how to cover the NBN anymore

How Hatred of Islam Creates Strange Bedfellows of Christians and Atheists

Refugee Remix (No One Is Illegal)


Not enough money for welfare? Then why the amnesty for the richest tax avoiders, Australia?


Patti Smith - Live @Fes Festival (2013)

‘An Addict With Friends’

Tom Gauld: Ballard The Bear


Friday 11 April 2014

Smells like...


Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic share old stories about Nirvana and Kurt Cobain

DNA, James Chance and the Contortions and Boris Policeband - X Magazine Benefit (1978)

Excerpts from benefit for Colab's X Magazine, 1978/2010, super8mm transfer to digital, bl/wt, sound, 11:34 minutes. Film by Coleen Fitzgibbon and Alan Moore

WARNING!


Patti Smith on writing poetry

Kathy Acker: Come Taste My Hand


Come Taste My Hand is a video tribute to Kathy Acker created by Lance Olsen, Andi Olsen, & Trevor Dodge. It appropriates and manipulates a very short sequence of Jonathan and Felicity Dawson's 1997 documentary, No One Can Find Little Girls Anymore: Kathy Acker in Australia, while pla(y)giarizing passages from Acker's novel Blood and Guts in High School and chapter 17 of James Joyce's Ulysses. Come Taste My Hand premiered at the Nobodaddies International Festival of Postmodern Piracy & Transgendered Subjects at Kent State University, April 14 1999.
If you're not doing anything wrong(™) you have nothing to fear(™)

Thursday 10 April 2014

Frankie Boyle & Glenn Wool: Freestyle 1-3





The Lyman Family's Holy Siege of America

A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World

The Triffids - The Night of The Triffids (Live @Paddington Town Hall Sydney 1984)


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(Thanx Chuck!)
Adam Curtis: Suspicious Minds - Why No One Trusts People In Authority

XAMBUCA - Joulupukki / カムィ



See also this release


Superhuman cyborg drummer plays his first live gig


Through the lens darkly: Peter Whitehead and the Rolling Stones

Sturridge and the kids

(Thanx HerrB!)