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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.