Sunday, August 10, 2008
Twinning Baltimore with Basildon
I haven't posted an mp3 (for sampling purposes) in a while, but this one caught my ear when I stumbled across it recently:
Charli Baltimore - 'Lose It' mp3
Philadelphia rapper Charli Baltimore, working with Producer Scott Storch, samples Yaz(oo)'s 1982 US dance number one, 'Situation', for a radical reworking of what was Alf and Vince's biggest hit Stateside.
RED ALERT: The lyrics are a bit risque. (Put it this way; I can't see Alison Moyet doing a cover of the 'cover') but, for all that, it's still a hundred times better than the recent Hercules And Love Affair remix of 'Situation' on the Reconnected EP and, I'm guessing, that this is the toned down PG version of the track.
Saturday, August 09, 2008
August 9, 1938 . . . August 9, 2008
The people behind the Orwell Prize have hit upon the bright idea of publishing Orwell's diaries in blog form.
The first entry, from this day seventy years ago, finds Orwell back in Britain after his experiences in Spain. He's convalescing in a sanatorium in Kent where he and his dog- which goes by the name of Marx - discover a large snake in the grounds.
All I can I say is that that snippet of information is eerily uncanny because, on August 9. 2008, our Boston Terrier - who goes by the name of Martov - decided to puke his dinner up all over Kara's snake-like pregnancy pillow. It took me all of SIDE A of Martin Newell's 1993 classic, 'The Greatest Living Englishman', to put the bastard cover back on the pillow after putting it through the hot wash.
Be sure to check out the Orwell Diaries each and every day as they are published, and look on in wonderment as every shade of the political blogosphere decided to claim as Eric Arthur Blair as one of their own.
Martov? Put it this way: if the wee git pukes up on our bedding and pillows again, he's going in the dog crate of history.
Mixing Pop and Politics (12)
Obscure Factoid of the Day
Blogger's dilemma.
Which name will generate the more random google hits: Hannah Montana or Miley Cyrus? And what happens if I throw in Billy Ray Cyrus and Disney's High School musical for good measure? (Nothing, except the fact that it renders this post as something that has just jumped a hundred yards past the shark.)
Back to the matter at hand. The obscure mixing pop and politics factoid of the day is that Miley Cyrus's paternal grandfather, Ron Cyrus, was the Secretary-Treasurer of the Kentucky AFL-CIO. The AFL-CIO? The American version of the TUC.
Granted the factoid is not as obscure or hipsterish as the previous disclosure on the blog about Beck and the ILGWU, but that's only because Miley isn't as obscure as Beck.
Friday, August 08, 2008
Thursday, August 07, 2008
'Your name's not on the guestlist, your book is not getting in'
Funny incident recounted by 'PaulOK' over at Urban 75's UK politics, current affairs and news forum:
Anybody read Steel's new book, "What's Going On?"Supposedly he gives a real literary kicking to his former comrades in the SWP?
I popped into Bookmarks near Tottenham Court Road yesterday and asked the assistant if she had it in stock. She looked at me as if I was something stuck to her shoe before answering "No, We haven't nor will we be getting it"!.
Looks like Steel is now an "un-person"
Guess it's Amazon.
There's an extract of the book over here at The Independent. I loved Reasons To Be Cheerful but, if the extract is anything to go by, his new book looks a bit more sombre. Maybe it's just extract selected. I'll have to see if I can get a copy of the book itself.
The toffeemen and the diddymen
Jose Baxter? Love the name, but the bloke's from Bootle!
Chelsea Everton
The Guardian thinks that Chelsea will end the season as champions. They won't even finish in the top three.
Mediafire Marxian Socialism
Still looking for a couple of the Coleman 'Socialist Thinkers Series' talks to repost but, in the meantime, I've been pleasantly surprised so far by the response to the posting of the Socialist Audio Files:
And at least it tides me over whilst I continue to be in the midst of the current bloggers block.
Damn, too far down the line to just go ahead and delete the blog. Not too far gone that I can consider submitting the blog to the Smithsonian Institute for preservation for future posterity.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Padding out the entourage at Ewood Park
News just in: Kevin Dillon has signed for Blackburn Rovers.
At the time of posting, Matt Dillon was unavailable for comment.
Special K
Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (58)
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the 58th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.
We now have 1316 friends!
Recent blogs:
Poles Apart? - The Arctic, Capitalism and Global Warming The Curse of Money History as mystery
Quote for the week:
"Et non dicatis aliquid proprium, sed sint vobis omnia communia": 'Call nothing your own, but let everything be yours in common'. [St. Augustine, ca. 400AD.]
Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!
Robert and Piers