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American Rock Band Singing Akira Kurosawa

''...the strength of the Kurosawa images is stunning. The editing of the video really enhances the rhtyhm of the tune.'' One of the first comment in last nights official Youtube release of Ben Miller Bands latest track Akira Kurosawa from their new album 'Choke Cherry Tree,' available Jan 26.

  
The Ben Miller Band was formed in 2005 in Joplin, Missouri.The Band combines elements of folk, blues, bluegrass, and country into their music. Originally, their sound had been self-described by the band as "Ozark Stomp" but in reference to their label, is now referred to as "Mudstomp"

Love Letters Of Wild Mary

‘With you I can become the person I really am – and bearing the grave in mind be buried as such. Dear love consider yourself kissed’
Mary, 30 October 1944

 

Mary Wesley before her engagement to her first husband, 1936

 

 

‘I find you brave and amusing, understanding and beautiful, simple and sophisticated, and I love you. More than that, I mean to get you’

Eric, 5 December 1944

British Pirates In Bangladesh

Nasrin-Joya Haq Writes :

Let's be very carefull about British profiteering agents working in Bangladesh and other 3rd world countries.Namely BBC, BRITISH COUNCIL, OXFAM , SAVE THE CHILDREN, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, JAMES FINLAY.Let's also be very clear none of these are governed by the broader ethical engagement rules of EEC anymore.

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Queen of the tax evaders.That's why she needed Brexit.

Britney Spears Just Sold A Flower Painting

There she is, casually painting flowers on the balcony of her multi million dollar mansion, set to Mozart.

Nearly five million people watched the instagram video, in which the pop singer paints flowers on a canvas outdoors. Now, the piece has found a buyer!

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Blood And Guts Club Travell To Stockholm Metro

Neko Case‏ @NekoCase Oct 6

''Just got trolled by 3 bots horrified of a drawing of period blood. They found THIS joyful drawing threatening. Therein lay the power. Well done, Liv Stromquist!''

Liv Stromquist and her work at the Slussen station, Stockholm

David R. Carroll‏   Replying to @NekoCase

''Joyful indeed. Would it be disrespectful to Liv Stromquist if I turned her art into a clock?''

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Carolee Schneemann And The Naked Meat Joy

"I take the position that I do not ask anyone else to do what I myself would not do and using myself as subject . . ." Carolee Schneemann.

 Meat Joy, a performance that Carolee Schneemann debuted at the Festival of Free Expression in Paris in 1964, the artist and several of her friends writhed on the floor while rubbing raw fish, chicken, and sausages across their half-naked bodies. chromogenic color print of the performance in New York, 5 × 4″ (© 2017 Carolee Schneemann, courtesy the artist, P.P.O.W, and Galerie Lelong, New York, photo by Al Giese)

Kevin Spacey fired On Sexual Misconduct Charges

Netflix, said on last Friday via Variety that it would not move forward with any version of “House of Cards” that includes Spacey — and that it would cancel the Gore Vidal biopic, “Gore,” which was set to star the two-time Oscar-winning actor.

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Charlie Hebdo Stands Where Daily Californian Cowers

Anti Israel, anti Islamist cartoons keep attracting the usual sorts of arguements which would otherwise be used to oppress freedom of expressions.

Karim Doumar, senior editorial staff of the University of California’s student newspaper issued an apology for publishing a cartoon by Joel Mayorga last week criticising Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz.The paper eventually withdrew the cartoon evidently under presssure from the UC Berkeley Chancellor.

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Lorca, Resurrected With A Poor Translation

''The clock says “When will it be morning?”
The sun says “Noon hurt me.”
The river cries with its mouthful of mud
And the sea moves every way without moving.''

Above requiem by Ted Hughes says how much Lorca was and still is a major poet of the poets!

Federico Garcia Lorca was an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements, such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism into Spanish literature.Lorca was executed at 38 by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.His body has never been found.

The Partition Museum

Installation In Amritsar Partition Museum

Novelist, journalist Kishwar Desai, the driving force behind the first  museum wholly dedicated to the partition of India, told Hindustan Times “In the 50th year of Independence and Partition, I started working on Manto’s stories for television. It was then that I thought there should be a museum to Partition and it has taken me two decades to translate this dream into reality,”.

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October Is Sylvia Kristel

Sylvia Kristel, 28 September, 1952 - 17 October, 2012

There can be few film leads so closely associated with one role as was the Dutch actress and model Sylvia Kristel, (28 September 1952 – 17 October 2012).The title role of the sexually adventurous housewife in Emmanuelle (1974) became a reference for every part she played subsequently.

Naga: The Native Indian Cobra That Beaten Both Krshna And Buddha

In Bengal you would find the ancient serpent goddess Manasha, who was supposed to be a Kobra or a Nagin!Manasha was there even before the Vedic people came to India.Would The following picture where Vedic Godking Krshna dancing on the snake Kalya's head mean the subjuagation of pre-vedic deities!

Nāga (Sanskrit: नाग, IAST: nāgá, Burmese: နဂါး, ngar, Indonesian: naga, Javanese: någå, Khmer: នាគ neak, Chinese: 那伽) is the Sanskrit and Pāli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very great snake—specifically the King Cobra, found in Hinduism and Buddhism.

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Girija Devi : The Queen Of Thumri

Girija Devi, 8 May 1929 – 24 October 2017,  is regarded as the "Queen of Thumri" or "Thumri Samraggi" of this era.

Devi performing in Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (July 2015)

Pinned Reading By Pin-Up Marilyn Monroe

"It is better to have pinned and forgotten than to have never pinned at all." Elliott Erwitt: Marilyn Monroe reading, New York City, 1956.

Mona Lisa Lips And A Fresh Book On Gay Da Vinci

Walter Isaacson, who has written on Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, says da Vinci is the ultimate example of combining art and science, whose insights, innovations and inventions were often decades, centuries and sometime half-a-millennia ahead of their time.

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Bhupen Khakhar Can Be Pleasing To Some!

You Can’t Please All,was one of the iconic work of late Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar.

You Can't Please All, 1981

Pussy Riot Protest at Trump Tower

On Monday,23rd October three members of the Russian activist group and punk rock band Pussy Riot staged a demonstration in Trump Tower to support the political prisoner Oleg Sentsov. They unfurled a banner that read “Free Sentsov” and rained down pamphlets with information on the detained Ukrainian-Russian filmmaker.

Book Thief And The Reader

Both as books and movies 'The Reader' and 'The Book Thief' deal the delights, abilities and disabilities evolving around reading.

The Book Thief, a 2005 historical novel by Australian author Markus Zusak and is his most popular work. Directed by Brian Percival and starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and Sophie Nélisse the book became a war drama keeping the same name in 2013.

Felicite : African Movie Got 92% Rating In Rotten Tomatoes

Félicité is a Congolese singer who desperately needs money after her 14-year-old son Samo suffers a serious accident. She soon finds financial and emotional support from Tabu, one of the regulars in the bar where she performs.

Lincoln in the Bardo wins 2017 Man Booker Prize

Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders is named winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Lincoln in the Bardo is the first full-length novel from George Saunders, internationally renowned short story writer.

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Singing The Intimate Shots!

Adele, by Theo Wenner.November 19th, 2015.

''For her 3rd Rolling Stone cover wenner wanterd a simple, stripped-down look, one that dreaw it's power completely from Adele.When complimented on the results, Adele replied with a Beyonce reference, '' I woke up like this.'' and let loose one of her distinctive belly laughs.''