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24/11/2006
Sweet Home
The World Turned Upside Down Nottingham Clarion Choir
What Keeps Mankind Alive Tom Waits Orphans (Disc 3): Bastards
Matzoh Balls Slim Gaillard 1939-40
Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Ni Hao! Gorgeous
Burnt Klubgirl Lid Tone Nels Cline & Thurston Moore Pillow Wand
Robbin’ Banks Michael Hurley, The Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Frederick & the Clamtones Have Moicy!
Thicker Than A Smokey Six Organs of Admittance School Of The Flower
This Way Out John Zorn Music for Children
Tomorrow Comes A Day Too Soon Flogging Molly Within A Mile Of Home
Direct download: windy.mp3
One Fine Day Above Boulder
Robert Adamson, myself, Anselm Hollo: Spring 2006
photo by Juno Gemes
Zama Zama
from The Guardian, November 17th.
In South Africa, where unemployment runs at more than 40% and social welfare benefits are low, it is not unusual for people to go to exceptional lengths to try to make a living.
How strange.
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4/11/2006
From My Window
5.15 P.M.
3/11/2006
Occupied
Apologies: with flu and stuff I don’t have the energy for more than this:
Introduction to Rum and Coca-Cola Lord Invader
The Way You Look Tonight Johnny Griffin, John Coltrane A Blowin’ Session
LDN Lily Allen Alright Still
Bedbug The Mighty Spoiler
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2/11/2006
Animal Harm
Extracted from today’s New York Times’ article Tending a Fallen Marine with Skill, Care and Fury.
In one course, an advanced trauma treatment program he had taken before deploying, he said, the instructors gave each corpsman an anesthetized pig.
“The idea is to work with live tissue,†he said. “You get a pig and you keep it alive. And every time I did something to help him, they would wound him again. So you see what shock does, and what happens when more wounds are received by a wounded creature.â€
“My pig?†he said. “They shot him twice in the face with a 9-millimeter pistol, and then six times with an AK-47 and then twice with a 12-gauge shotgun. And then he was set on fire.â€
“I kept him alive for 15 hours,†he said. “That was my pig.â€
“That was my pig,†he said.