Some classic live music downloads to remind you all that the interweb’s still all about bootlegging – in a good, victimless kind of way of course.
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream release party, Tower records Chicago July 26, 1993. From a time when the Pumpkins were on top of their game and Billy still had hair, it’s easy to forget how good they were.
Jane’s Addiction, King County Fairgrounds, Washington, August 28, 1991.
From 1983 the Smiths’ legendry lost Troy Tate sessions, recorded for their first Rough Trade record and rejected.
A beautiful Cat Power performance from Western Washington University, May 14, 1999. This has everything that makes her great, a real favourite of mine.
all from the incomparable rbally
From Rhizome every death in the Friday the 13th series, 7 minutes worth back to back in chronological order
Similar is Jamie Shovlin’s print Every Victim and Manner of Death in the Friday the 13th film Series
and of course the McCoys sublime Every Anvil which does a similar thing with Looney Tunes.
Via Rhizome
Photographs of a space shuttle launch taken from the ISS.
via linkbunnies
From the autumn update at the great UbuWeb Bruce Nauman’s Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square available to download. I saw this during the summer at the excellent Mouvement des Images exhibition at the Pompideau in Paris and it really is worth the download.
From a nice new batch of graffiti on Moss St in Dublin
New Scientist reports that researchers have unveiled a working invisibility cloak that works in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum
The cloak works by steering microwave light around an object, making it appear to an observer as if it were not there at all. Materials that bend light in this way do not exist naturally, so have to be engineered with the necessary optical properties.
Smart Telecom the disaster that keeps on screwing you. I had my broadband with BT and my line rental and phone with Smart, when Smart went bust I switched my phone to BT where I was already an internet customer, this was on the 5th. Almost two weeks later after many phonecalls, many excuses and promises including Eircom refusing an application to transfer my line (even though I haven’t been an Eircom customer for years)complaints to Comreg (who promise to ring back and don’t) I’m still not connected and Smart lines are going tomorrow. It’s more then likely that I’m going to be cut off and I have no idea when I’ll be reconnected. Judging by the sheer scale of ineptitude by BT and their complete we-don’t-give-a-shit attitude it may never happen or it may only be a day away so I’m left wondering should I cut my loses and dump BT and restart the entire saga with someone else or stick with it on the basis that they can hardly screw it up anymore and on balance I’ll have my line sooner this way, tough one. Then to top it all off Smart send me a letter (the first official communication from them )saying screw you loser (roughly paraphrased)we’ll be sending you a bill. Lovely.
There’s a weapons amnesty being advertised on posters around Dublin with a dedicated website which shows some of the weapons you can hand in including this one
which is a little worrying. I’d also wonder about the closing date, I mean would you want to be unarmed on Halloween when the other guy has one of those?
From the Late Late Show, Eamonn Delaney editor of Magill takes on George Galloway (the exchange starts at around 9 minutes in) By any standards Delaney gets trounced and loses the crowd (again). You have to wonder why, if Delaney fashions himself as the champion of the invasion of Iraq, is he so ill prepared for such an encounter? Is he really the best they can come up with back at Castle Greyskull?
If you are interested in US support for Saddam have a look at these documents about Donald Rumsfeld’s meeting with Saddam. The documents ( which are all declassified US Government documents obtained by George Washington University under the freedom of information act)show that during this period of renewed U.S. support for Saddam, he had invaded his neighbor (Iran), had long-range nuclear aspirations that would “probably” include “an eventual nuclear weapon capability,” harbored known terrorists in Baghdad, abused the human rights of his citizens, and possessed and used chemical weapons on Iranians and his own people. The U.S. response was to renew ties, to provide intelligence and aid to ensure Iraq would not be defeated by Iran, and to send a high-level presidential envoy named Donald Rumsfeld to shake hands with Saddam (20 December 1983).
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