Tag: Egypt
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The Man Who Took A Lobster for a Walk: Status Anxiety
Watched all 6 episodes of Philosophy of Happiness series by Alain de Botton and the documentary Status Anxiety (which unlike the others seems to accessible in the UK). I really recommend them, especially the latter which includes Native Americans, Televangelist, The Theory of the Leisure Class, duels, Orwell, John Ruskin, naturists, Marx, members of Crass,…
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RC 241: Afro-Arab Part Two – Desert Blues
Much delayed upload of the second of the Afro-Arab shows of music mostly from Sahel region, Egypt and Southern Africa. Here we go into the desert and here more of the blues/rock and downtempo songs from the Sahara and other dusty sandy places. (Photo taken in Egypt 2011, in the desert region north of Abu…
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RC 239: Afro-Arab Part One – Cellphones & Icecream
Recently I’ve been checking out what has been called Electro Chaabi (or Cha’abi/Shaaby/Cha3by/mahragan aka ‘festival music’), the new-ish underground hiphop/pop music in Egypt, which led me back to the show I planned after going to Egypt and South Africa in 2011. In fact this music wasn’t new to me, it was all over Egypt blasting…
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Welcome to the hamster wheel
Popstar does a not very obscene gesture. People – well journalists and professional bloggers who aren’t really ‘people’ they are paid to pretend to be – get upset about it. Others get upset about that. And so the cycle continues. Is this the best humanity can do? This has a crushing depressing inevitability of PR…
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Mashups Wot I Forgot To Post – Wedding Hounds and Golden Mirror
Although I’ve been quiet about my mashups it doesn’t mean I wasn’t creating any…just forgetting to post them in the Xmas/Egypt rush. Firstly is the ‘prequel’ to my latest mashup, the Golden Mirror…really a tbc mashup in all senses, it sees me mash Elbow (yes, I know) and their Mirror Ball with Fleetwood Mac’s Gold…