Saturday, May 28, 2011
Psychedelic Pioneers: The Zombies
The Zombies
The Zombies, an English rock band, formed in 1961 in and led by Rod Argent on piano and keyboards and Colin Blunstone on vocals, the band scored US hits in the mid- and late-1960s with "She's Not There", "Tell Her No", and "Time of the Season".
Their 1968 album Odessey and Oracle, comprising twelve songs by the group's principal songwriters, Argent and Chris White, is ranked 80 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
The group was formed while the members were at school. After winning a beat-group competition sponsored by the London Evening News, The Zombies signed to Decca and recorded their first hit, "She's Not There". Were then sent to the United States to tour behind their new hit single to a screaming hysterical audience full of teenage girls.
By the time Odessey and Oracle was released in April 1968, the group had disbanded. The album sold poorly and was only given a U.S. release because musician Al Kooper, then signed to Columbia Records, convinced his label of the album's merits. An album track, "Time of the Season", written by Argent, was released as a single and eventually (1969) became a nationwide hit (Billboard #3).
What Johnny Rotten sees when he looks in the mirror
What I see in the mirror: John Lydon
'Dental hygiene wasn't something that featured in the Lydon household. The only time I saw a toothbrush was when my dad was cleaning his boots'
'My favourite thing is cotton buds – like safety pins, they have a thousand uses. I love to poke them up my snozzle.' Photograph: Rex Features
When I look in the mirror, I notice spots, blackheads and zits. I have a favourite occupation: I love to squeeze 'em. The mirror of choice is magnification to the nth degree. The skin looks like a lunar landscape.
The real colour of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in LA, and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.
My nickname – Rotten – came from my teeth, because they had a thin line of green mould. Dental hygiene wasn't something that featured in the Lydon household. The only time I saw a toothbrush was when my dad was cleaning his boots.
In later years I had all kinds of illnesses and I never knew I was ill because my teeth were poisoning my whole system. Just before the Pistols 96 tour, I had to have a major operation in my jaw because I had bone rot. I do floss now, but I have found something better – I love plastic shopping bags, particularly the handle, because I can really get that bit in between the teeth.
My favourite thing is cotton buds – like safety pins, they have a thousand uses. I love to poke them up my snozzle – to get the bits you can't quite blow out.
I am 54 and I have no problems with age, none at all. I view myself as being only half a century young, with some short change.
• Mr Rotten's Scrapbook, a limited edition photographic book, is available from concertlive.co.uk/mrrottensscrapbook/, priced £379.
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New Tool album May 15 (or 22) 2012.
TOOL NEWSLETTER
MAY 2011, E.V.
| Undaunted by the recent prediction of the apocalypse on Saturday, May 21st, 2011 by ‘fringe’ radio evangelist Harold Camping, members of TOOL (again, despite the impending doom!) continued to write new material for their next recording. Before continuing with a progress report (and special announcement), I would first like to personally give kudos to the guys for (unanimously!) not succumbing to all the media-driven fear surrounding Christ’s return during Oprah’s last days. But as for Mr. Camping and his crestfallen flock of gas-wasting puppet underlings, shame on all of you for frightening ‘the people down the street’, especially for scaring little girls and Scott Stapp half to death with your “end of the world” baloney! What the hell were you thinking! – you lethargic liver spot hoping to smuggle scrotal pearls into the promised land!.. Just like all those prophets of doom with their mothballed Raptures, we ‘the beer drinking public’ have a good mind to deal with Mr. Camping hickory stick fashion! If not taking turns kicking him with galoshes in his bony shin, then at least let’s give the gibbering skid-mark a black dunce cap and put him on the ducking stool! Jesus Christ on a unicycle, somebody slip some geriatric pharmaton in this chap’s Jell-O cake before terrified believers start committing suicide. What’s that you are saying: The old codger isn’t to blame. He’s just another poor misguided soul… Well, suppose the reports are true that he renewed his radio contract just days prior to his Judgement Day prediction (date)? Then would it be okay to dip his rectal suppositories in Tabasco sauce… as well as to verbally crucify all the idiots that he took (extorted?) money from? And now what’s this latest prediction for world annihilation in October by this dawdling teratoid? Can’t you just see this flabbergasted fossil (still taking donations!) with a Bible and bottle of strawberry Ensure, re-calculating on his Panasonic 850 with quivering brittle brown-flecked fingers looking like some disgusting appetizer from the Claim-Jumper! False! Inaccurate! False! (At least those guys from “Jars of Clay” are still here. It would have sucked to climb out of the rubble and see just their cloths lying there). As most of us know, the actual date for the apocalypse is December 21, 2012. That’s December 21, scrotum-face! Even dead elephants know that! Haven’t you read Daniel Pinchbeck? Even a box of doorknobs knows that! The return of Quetzalcoatl, not a catastrophe you shale in your shoes shit for brains! (Note: Readers of this website will recall a trip to the Yucatan where Adam, after buying his guide a Coke, was personally shown the tell-tale Maya calendar stele at Coba.) All right, moving forward. No matter how many new TOOL tunes are currently complete, I will personally guarantee that the new CD will be released on MAY 22, 2012 (or MAY 15, 2012). And unlike that old f**k rattling the shingles with his cauliflower and mini-Cheddars flatulence, my calculation is not based on some preposterous coded Biblical numerology. Instead, it comes from a credible source who, himself, obtained the information via trance-contact (which was written down on a scratch pad) from an interplanetary avatar (and sector commander) named ZEMKLA JR. from the city of Farlon on the planet Selo (in the Bernard’s Star System). Thus having been contacted, SEMKLA JR. traveled to the earth in a vortex device (equipped with “anti-God controls”) that he called “an extra Gamma-traversing spheroid” (whose sighting was officially listed by a general at Luke Air Force Base as “a supersonic flight of Canadian geese.”) After first warning of the dangers of indole poisons (pork, spinach, bleached flour, etc.), and demonstrating the amazing power of a Temkla pencil, Zemkla (who resembled a “Missouri Mexican wearing what looked like an astral tennis outfit, and was accompanied by beautiful women who appeared like they just stepped out of a Greek painting”), revealed the all-important date, afterwards uttering “Ino Pazis Gnurum.” Go ahead and listen to the alzur agents if you want (wearing their black dunce caps), but I’ll bet anyone a crystal glass of Plobium and 100 green trading disks that the date is correct. Feel free to spread the word anyway you want: Billboards, posters, digital bus displays, or smoke signal apps on your iPhone… In fact, braving Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio (who I’m sure would love to put any interplanetary avatar resembling a Missouri Mexican into a pink jumpsuit!), tomorrow I’m going to drive to the “BELL” portal in Sedona, Arizona with hopes of meeting ZEMKLA JR. for myself. I’m going to this extra trouble in order to double-check the calculation of the TOOL CD release date (but don’t ask me what color his socks were, if a Javelina Decimator leaves a mess behind, or how many bolts are in the vortex device!). If, like Mr. Camping, I’m “just a little off”, come MAY 23rd, I don’t want to have to hole up in some Motel 6 with mobs of angry ToolArmy members banging on the door. POST SCRIPT: In a possible tangential and/or MIB encounter, shortly after finishing the newsletter, while eating at a local TACO BELL, I noticed an elderly fellow with a strange flashlight stuffed into his back pocket STANDING IN LINE. When it was HIS TURN TO ORDER, he told the woman at the counter that he was going to go outside a smoke a cigarette. He then asked what would be the latest time that he could return and order a “delicious bean burrito?” After leaving to smoke the cigarette (I assume), he returned and ordered FOR HIMSELF two bean burritos – one with NO ONIONS, the other with EXTRA ONIONS. He then turned to the person standing behind him and asked if he was a Mexican American? The reason he wanted to know (so he said) was that he wanted to learn the correct way to say “Hola”… Honestly. For a minute I thought he was going to say, “I BE ZEMKLA JR…” HAPPY TRAILS BLAIR JUSTIN DANNY MAYNARD ADAM |
How Asian Cleavage is Made
(If only breasts made that noise every time they were squished together.)
Joplin Tire Receipt Found In Indiana, 525 Miles Away, Could Be Largest Recorded Journey of Debris From A Tornado
Joplin receipt's 525-mile journey may be record
A Purdue University professor says a piece of paper from the tornado-devastated city
of Joplin, Mo., may have blown 525 miles to a town not far from Lafayette, Indiana.A couple in Royal Center, 45 miles northeast of Lafayette in Cass County,
reported finding a receipt from Joplin Tire on their porch Wednesday.
If no other explanation can be found, it would be the longest recorded journey of
debris from a tornado, according to Ernest Agee, a Purdue University professor of
earth and atmospheric sciences.
The previous record was a canceled check that traveled 210 miles after the 1915
tornado in Great Bend, Kan., he said.
According to a Purdue news release, homeowner Tia Fritz contacted Agee after she and her husband discovered the receipt dated May 13 from Joplin Tire.
The receipt had been folded into a quarter of its original size. It is not known exactly how long the receipt was on the porch before it was discovered.
"This paper traveled more than twice as far as the longest distance recorded for debris from a storm," said Agee, who now has the receipt.
"The distance paper travels is directly proportional to the intensity of the tornado.
This paper's journey is a testament to the strength of the d tornado that struck Joplin
and what that city went through."
Based on wind speeds and the distance traveled, Agee estimated the receipt was carried by the jet stream for 12.5 hours after being sucked skyward by the tornado that hit Joplin Sunday evening.
The death toll from the massive tornado that devastated Joplin reached 132 today, according to the Associated Press, while the state worked to pare down the list of people missing and unaccounted for since the storm.
The tornado is considered the deadliest to hit the United States in 65 years.
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This is a copy of the receipt blown 525 miles from Joplin Mo. |
A Purdue University professor says a piece of paper from the tornado-devastated city
of Joplin, Mo., may have blown 525 miles to a town not far from Lafayette, Indiana.A couple in Royal Center, 45 miles northeast of Lafayette in Cass County,
reported finding a receipt from Joplin Tire on their porch Wednesday.
If no other explanation can be found, it would be the longest recorded journey of
debris from a tornado, according to Ernest Agee, a Purdue University professor of
earth and atmospheric sciences.
The previous record was a canceled check that traveled 210 miles after the 1915
tornado in Great Bend, Kan., he said.
According to a Purdue news release, homeowner Tia Fritz contacted Agee after she and her husband discovered the receipt dated May 13 from Joplin Tire.
The receipt had been folded into a quarter of its original size. It is not known exactly how long the receipt was on the porch before it was discovered.
"This paper traveled more than twice as far as the longest distance recorded for debris from a storm," said Agee, who now has the receipt.
"The distance paper travels is directly proportional to the intensity of the tornado.
This paper's journey is a testament to the strength of the d tornado that struck Joplin
and what that city went through."
Based on wind speeds and the distance traveled, Agee estimated the receipt was carried by the jet stream for 12.5 hours after being sucked skyward by the tornado that hit Joplin Sunday evening.
The death toll from the massive tornado that devastated Joplin reached 132 today, according to the Associated Press, while the state worked to pare down the list of people missing and unaccounted for since the storm.
The tornado is considered the deadliest to hit the United States in 65 years.
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Iceland is the world’s most peaceful nation, Somalia worst; US improves to 82nd, behind Gabon and just ahead of Bangladesh
Iceland Ranked World’s Most Peaceful Nation, Somalia Worst; U.S. Improves to 82nd
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
The 2011 edition of the Global Peace Index, produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, concludes that the levels of world peace have dropped three years in a row. This year is shaping up to be another bad one in part because of the turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa.
But there are bright spots regardless of the overall global outlook. Iceland passed New Zealand to become “the country most at peace.” Other nations ranked high on the peace scale were Japan, Denmark, Czech Republic, Austria, Finland, Canada, Norway and Slovenia.
At the other end of the scale were the least peaceful nations, with Somalia at the very bottom. Others close to the war-torn African country were Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, North Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, Pakistan, Israel and the Central African Republic.
The United States placed 82nd in the ranking, behind Gabon and just ahead of Bangladesh. According to the Institute, “If the U.S. moderately reduced its violence to the same levels as Canada its economy would realise savings and additional economic activity of approximately US$360 billion. By reducing violent crime, incarceration and homicide, U.S. governments could save billions by lowering expenditure in correctional services, healthcare and preventing lost taxation revenue, while the general economy would save billions through preventing productivity losses that occur due to lost work days from violent crime and homicide.”
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Fact Sheet Global Peace Index (Institute for Economics & Peace) (pdf)
2011 Methodology, Results & Findings (Institute for Economics & Peace) (pdf)
Nighttime stroll through the woods
Just for clarification, the picture was taken in daytime, with the night sky added in afterwards. The EXIF data states that it was taken at 3:49PM. Take note of the shadows on the ground and the illumination on the trees. You also won't see a sky like that anywhere on earth. That is an image of a nebula, not the Milky Way. Neat picture, but not reality.
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Naked In The Park
This is a photo
"As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams". -Phil Hartman (1948-May 28, 1998)
Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman best known for his deadpan antics and celebrity impersonations on Saturday Night Live.
Hartman signed on with SNL as a writer and actor in 1986 and stayed on as a regular with the show until 1994, winning a shared Emmy along the way.
On May 28, 1998, Hartman's wife, Brynn, shot Hartman to death while he was sleeping in their Encino, California, home. She shot herself shortly after, leaving behind a son and a daughter, Sean and Birgen.
Phil Hartman best known for his deadpan antics and celebrity impersonations on Saturday Night Live.
Hartman signed on with SNL as a writer and actor in 1986 and stayed on as a regular with the show until 1994, winning a shared Emmy along the way.
On May 28, 1998, Hartman's wife, Brynn, shot Hartman to death while he was sleeping in their Encino, California, home. She shot herself shortly after, leaving behind a son and a daughter, Sean and Birgen.
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