Tag: Iran
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RC 374: Midnights Are The New Afternoons / Black Sheep
BAH says the Black Sheep! Many midnights to (re)create this podcast…This podcast went wrong many times – first all but the last 2 1/2 songs were distorted on the recording so had to remix everything. I also had problems losing all my iZotope RX presets and plugins cos I uninstalled some software and it took…
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RC 371: Don’t Truss it / Kings & Queens
Aka a Tale of Two Lizzes…. one Liz leaves as another arrives as I go away for a month and we get not only a new Prime Minister Liz Truss but a new monarch? So of course I have to start with God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols not Elgar – they cancelled the…
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Rocket Man
This new animated video for Rocket Man is just beautiful and sad, made by Iranian filmmaker and refugee Majid Adin. (via David K)
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The gradual acid drip of fascism
Something I’ve always struggled with it certain labels, certain accusations towards the UK government and security services. ‘Police state’ ‘Nazi’ ‘Fascism’ ‘Stasi’ – all very easy to blurt out and demean the original usage, and when using them you think about some cold grey depressing country (oh it is the same!) in Eastern Europe with…
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First Ugandan Pride
Great to hear that about 100 brave LGBTQ activists in Uganda held their very first Pride on Saturday! According to this blog post and the New Yorker article it was in Entebbe and mostly went off without hitch, apart from police arrests later on in the day because someone complained there was either two men…
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Megaupload gets a better song, WW3 doesn’t happen (yet)
I’m sure most people have been haunted by that Megggaaa MEgaaaUpploaddd… song that reportedly cost 3 million (!!! Was it extra for a decent tune? Apparently Kim dotCom is releasing an album? Not sure how he’d do that from prison, then again rappers have managed it in the past…) but Dan Bull comes up trumps…