The Lord of the Drones: The President and the White House Fly By Heathcote Williams
A new Heathcote Williams poem up on Counterpunch.
Song of the Old Man of the Hills
What do I care for the force of written words?
Let no one heed the shifts of sun and moon.
When the twisted tree at last shall be my body
Then I shall begin to live out my natural span.
Meng Chiao
Calque itself
Calque” itself is a loanword from a French noun, and derives from the verb “calquer” (to trace, to copy),[1] while loanword is a calque of the German “Lehnwort”, and loan translation — a loan translation of “Lehnübersetzung”.[2]
there have been so many solemn tributes about the Beastie Boys and all they contributed and I agree with it all but I do love a hardy, irreverent thwack from a kid who doesn’t know and doesn’t give a shit about what came before.
TO THE ETERNAL NOW!
PLOW YOUR CART OVER THE BONES OF DEAD, YOUNG COLDPLAY FAN!!
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Still hunting Phillinganes down through Discogs - this bit of disco-funk for Carrie Lucas when he was 20.
On Thursday September 13, the day before the run on Northern Rock started, the BoE embarked on a two-day conference – the event is now deleted from the BoE’s website – entitled “On the sources of macroeconomic stability”.
A Twenty-third Fiery Flying Roule
A Twenty-third Fiery Flying Roule is about jail and includes an uncollected poem from 1956 by Robert Creeley that is not owned by the Regents of the University of California and (sadly) is news that stays news you can use. This song recorded by Alan Lomax nine years earlier on Parchman Farm offers a rather different application of the instrument in question. You can tell him I’m gone, you can tell him I’m gone. #M1GS
SCHAKALE UND ARABER (Jackals and Arabs) - Jean-Marie Straub, 2011
(Source: youtube.com)
Conceived as a ‘poem video’ the work is a collaboration between artist Vanessa Hodgkinson and poet Marianne Morris.
The film is a mixture of a shoot at Leighton House Museum, London, where the artist is recreating Ingres’ Le Bain Turc, surrounded by her own personal ‘Orientalist’ objects that tell her story, and footage from a British documentary on the storming of the Iranian embassy in Iran in the early 1980s, as well as YouTube footage of more recent activities at the embassy in London, but also the British Embassy in Tehran.
Rome is Burning (Portrait of Shirley Clarke). 1970. d. Noël Burch.
