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May 21, 2023: "Blood on the rise it's following me..."
Links to Ben Ehrenreich's work: Sea of Troubles: Inside the effort to rescue Europe’s unwelcome immigrants--https://newrepublic.com/article/155271/europe-migrant-crisis-mediterranean-rescue-boat-alan-kurdi Hope and Fear: How the Fortunes of Five L.A. Immigrants Have Changed Since Trump Took Office--https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/hope-and-fear-how-the-fortunes-of-five-l-a-immigrants-have-changed-since-trump-took-office-121582/ At the Checkpoint in Hebron--https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n13/ben-ehrenreich/short-cuts Letter from Ramallah--https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/letter-ramallah/
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The Doors | Peace Frog/Blue Sunday | Morrison Hotel | Elektra | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Dead Shaman | Night Godess | Under The Influence | Sixteentimes Music | 0:11:07 (Pop-up) | ||||||
HTRK | Straight to Hell (Version) | Death Is A Dream | N&J Blueberries | 0:11:09 (Pop-up) | ||||||
SONS OF ZOKU | Believe and Transcend | SÜN | Self-Released | 0:14:28 (Pop-up) | ||||||
The Smiths | Oscillate Wildly | Louder Than Bombs | Sire/Rough Trade | R.I.P.: Andy Rourke: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/bass-guitarist-andy-rourke-smiths-britains-influential-bands-99452014 | 0:21:44 (Pop-up) | |||||
The Smiths | Asleep | Louder Than Bombs | Sire/Rough Trade | 0:25:05 (Pop-up) | ||||||
n/a | Clip: Sky News-World to reach 1.5C temps by 2027 | n/a | n/a | 0:29:56 (Pop-up) | ||||||
A Certain Ratio | Holy Smoke | 1982 | Mute Artists Limited | 0:30:14 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Special Interest | My Displeasure | Endure | Rough Trade | 0:34:12 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Blank Account | Pass | Smatter | Blank Account | 0:39:36 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Velvet Underground | Heroin | Velvet Underground and Nico | Verve | 0:50:40 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band | Have We Mistaken the Bottle for the Whiskey Inside? | Dreaming in the Non-Dream | No Quarter | 0:57:58 (Pop-up) | ||||||
n/a | Clip: Al Jazeera-Greece changes approach to migrants | n/a | n/a | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/world/europe/greece-migrants-abandoned.html | 1:04:35 (Pop-up) | |||||
Dirtmusic | Bi De Sen Söyle (feat. Brenna Mac Crimmon) | Bu Bir Ruya | Glitterbeat Records | 1:06:01 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Ben Ehrenreich reading from The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine | ||||||||||
Interview with Ben Ehrenreich | ||||||||||
Ben Ehrenreich reading from The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine | ||||||||||
Ben's Set |
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Smog | Rock Bottom Riser | A River Ain't Too Much In Love | Drag City/Domino | 2:04:36 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Pharoah Sanders | Love Is Everywhere | Wisdom Through Music | Impluse! | 2:11:24 (Pop-up) | ||||||
MIchael White | Land of Spirit and Light, Part 2 | Land of Spirit and Light | Impluse! | 2:16:26 (Pop-up) | ||||||
n/a | Clip: NewsNation-Migrants brave dangerous train journey to reach US | n/a | n/a | 2:19:49 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Donald Byrd | Where Are We Going? | Black Byrd | Blue Note | 2:21:23 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Yusef Lateef | Woodward Avenue | Yusef Lateef's Detroit | Atlantic | 2:25:58 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Sons of Kemet | My Queen in Nanny of the Maroons | Your Queen Is A Reptile | Impulse! | 2:28:15 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Sun Ra (w/ June Tyson) | Somebody Else's World | My Brother The Wind, Vol II | El Saturn | 2:34:56 (Pop-up) | ||||||
n/a | Clip: DW-Italy floods | n/a | n/a | 2:39:02 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Anthony Santos | Ábreme la Puerta | Corazon Bonito | Platano Records | 2:40:14 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Gang Starr | Take A Rest | Step in the Arena | Chrysalis/EMI | 2:48:52 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Mohamad Zatari Trio | Gankino Hora | Istehial | Zehra Music | 2:53:10 (Pop-up) |
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Got my average score for the 18 not great, not crap
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But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me, not you guys
Or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
On a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man cannot be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainline to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off than dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim's in this town
And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds
'Cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I'm good as dead
Then thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know
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And yeah, his essays are great.
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Infinite Jest got me in trouble because recommending it was considered harassment
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https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/13/far-right-anti-immigration-activists-take-credit-for-burning-dublin-refugee-camp
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morphe':
Was in a small bookshop in Ireland and two elderly woman were wandering about - no intention of buying... seemed like they had just come from their weekly afternoon tea meet up.. They were chatting about all kinds of stuff, including the "new Cadbury" biscuit..
One said "Sure Cadbury never does anything wrong.." They happened upon a stack of Finnegans Wake and one said ".. Joyce himself didn't know what it is about.."
"At Swim Two Birds" by Flann O'Brien is another rough one ... Highly reccomend O'Brien's "Third Policeman..' especially if ya ride a bike-cycle... great couple of pages about the transfer of molecules from bike to rider and rider to bike...
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Hanan Ashrawi: Palestinian champion of women’s rights
https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/hanan-ashrawi-palestinian-champion-of-womens-rights
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in my Master's at Hunter, CUNY - I was the only one who chose to deal with both Ulysses
and Tristram Shandy.... The Tristram Shandy film within a film is worth a watch ...
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
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Did the show include Brother D and the Collective effort [Bklyn early 80s] "How Ya Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise"
".. Agitat, Educate and Organize!!!
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