Time		Artist		Song		Album		Label
8:55		Calexico		Yours And Mine		Garden Ruin		Quarterstick
		DJ Comments: live on KEXP Fri. 4/14 at 11am
8:55		Band Of Horses		I Go To The Barn Because I Like The		Everything All The Time		Sub Pop
8:51		Drive-By Truckers		Little Bonnie		A Blessing And A Curse		New West
		DJ Comments: new release
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8:43		Black Rebel Motorcycle Club		Restless Sinner		Howl		Red / Echo
		DJ Comments: live on KEXP Sun. 3/19 at 4:30pm, live @Showbox Mon 3/20
8:41		Devendra Banhart		Queen Bee		Cripple Crow		XL
8:37		John Prine		Pretty Good		John Prine		Atlantic
8:32		The Be Good Tanyas		Waiting Around To Die		Chinatown		EMI
8:27		Freakwater		Annabelle Lee		Dancing Underwater		Thrill Jockey
8:23		The Crooked Jades		Fly Around		The Unfortunate Rake Vol. 1		Copper Creek
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8:17		Muddy Waters		Honey Bee		The Chess Box		Chess

RIP MIX BURN: BOOT LIQUOR RADIO

"Progress and love have got nothin' in common; Jesus healed the blind man's eyes with mud" - Peter Case from Poor Old Tom

"With the blood from my body I could start my own still." - George Jones

"Maybe the moonshine was used for communion wine" - Julie Lee from Stillhouse Road

National Geographic: "Stitched together from 21 images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, this enhanced-color picture of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows the south pole region rife with fractures that hint at mysterious turbulence below the surface. Tectonic forces may be driving the liquid-water geysers that scientists say are spraying from the icy crust. "

this is another day

GIANT SQUID WATCH: The Mad Scientist

City Pages - The Mad Scientist PZ Meyers: As befits a biologist's journal, Pharyngula follows assiduously the latest scientific findings regarding the sexual habits of creatures such as the giant squid. (As it turns out, giant squid mate by firing bulletlike globs of sperm at anything that resembles another squid, male or female, often leaving the paramour injured). Myers is prone to lengthy scientific tangents on such matters, and occasional unscientific ones: 'Just imagine it—great pelagic orgies, the males thrusting wantonly with their massive penile arms, promiscuously inseminating any nearby slickly molluscan body. Perhaps they end up sated and exhausted from their frenzied exertions and, oblivious and insensate, drift ashore to die content. Forget March of the Penguins. There's a great documentary to be made here: Squid Gone Wild. Cephalopod Sex Party. I want to see Michael Medved review it.'

Pharyngula

"Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!"

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."

Shakespeare - Henry V

this is the day

falling back to earh

from
Ballardian: The World of J.G. Ballard » Myths of the Space Age: Joe Kittinger

I’m sure you can read Ballardian imagery into this if you want…the world’s forgotten ‘astronaut’, he was to all intents and purposes the first man in space, only to be completely overshadowed by Yuri Gargarin and Neil Armstrong.

As BLDGBLOG says: “In 1960, U.S. Air Force pilot Joe Kittinger flew 30km straight up into the sky using a pressurized, high-altitude balloon. This very nearly made him the first man in space.

He then jumped.


Kittinger free-fell for over twenty kilometers – at which point he was moving so fast he broke the sound barrier. He had all but left the earth’s atmosphere; the sky around him was pitch black; he could see the outlines of entire continents; and the haiku-like abstraction of his available reference points – earth, balloon, space – made it impossible to tell if he was really falling. Luckily, there’s a film”.

Indeed. Kittinger carried a camera with him, and you can see the film here.

Mind blowing.



First man In Space - Skydiving from the edge of the world - Google Video

Nabeel's Cosmos

BLDGBLOG: Falling back to earth, alone

the sound of the tv after sign-off

with these hands block and receive

into the blur looking back tripping

40,000 horse power cant be wrong

over my head it's loud and clear

no maps for this place

just yellow tape

“It is a vulgar and barbarous drama, which would not be tolerated by the vilest populace of France, or Italy …one would imagine this piece to be the work of a drunken savage.” —Voltaire on Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

Like a mute without a voice
With a bottle in my hand, make some noise
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead "All Saints Day"

Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
- Homer - The Iliad

Je suis marxiste tendance Groucho.
I am a Marxist of the Groucho tendency.

Le patron a besoin de toi, tu n'as pas besoin de lui.
The boss needs you, you don’t need the boss.

Nous ne voulons pas d’un monde où la certitude de ne pas mourir de faim s'échange contre le risque de mourir d’ennui.
We don't want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
- Henry Rollins

Sous les pavés, la plage!
Beneath the pavement, the beach!