godard should direct a johnny thunders biopic starring adrian brody. it could be like breathless but instead of bogart the idol is dion. and its junk not guns that gets the hero in the end.
Friday, May 30, 2008
The Fall Carrybag Man
i have wanted to post this video for quite some time but this news cycle is just right. 'the carry bag man' god bless the white house press spokesman and his forthrightness. curses to faulty microphones.
The Fall live in Paris having a few technical problems. circa 2006.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
the most important story of the summer
Scott McCllelan did write the most important story of the summer. it will swamp the conventions and be all over the debates. two hours ago michael hirsh at newsweek posted a great summary of 'what happened' and it's relationship to punditry.
---------------------------------------below web exclusive from newsweek------------------------------
THE WORLD FROM WASHINGTON | MICHAEL HIRSH
'The Truth Shall Set You Free'
Bush's own spokesman is acknowledging his error on Iraq. Why can't the media?
By Michael Hirsh | Newsweek Web Exclusive
May 29, 2008 | Updated: 4:43 p.m. ET May 29, 2008
The punching bag is punching back. During his three-year stint as White House press secretary, Scott McClellan was perhaps best known for his fumbling responses to questions from TV correspondents performing for the cameras. Now, with his new book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan is hitting back hard. Not only does he accuse himself and his boss, George W. Bush, of getting the War on Terror wrong, he faults the media for buying into the Iraq invasion too readily. As McClellan writes in his preface: "History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided—that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."
The media, for the moment, is focused on the extraordinary spectacle of a fellow Texan and Bush loyalist accusing his president of deception and incompetence. The Bush White House and its acolytes are suggesting that McClellan may have gone off his rocker. ("This is not the Scott I knew," current press secretary Dana Perino said with studied sadness today.) But the words of the supposedly "disgruntled" McClellan seem chillingly sane. And they are accurate: polls do show that most Americans have decided that the turn to Iraq was a mistake and a distraction from the real war against Al Qaeda. McClellan is also correct in recording that in the run-up to the Iraq invasion the U.S. news media were, for the most part, "complicit enablers" who focused more on "covering the march to war instead of the necessity of war."
The question I have is: why do we have to hear this from him? What's really extraordinary is how few prominent pundits and columnists have gone even half the length that McClellan has in acknowledging that they got things utterly wrong when they gave their full-throated support to Bush's still-unexplained turn toward Saddam after America's "victory" over the Taliban in Afghanistan. Consider just one example: The New York Times's Thomas L. Friedman, one of the most famous columnists in America and maybe in the world today. Here is Friedman writing on March 13, 2003, seven days before the Iraq invasion: "This war is so unprecedented that it has always been a gut call—and my gut has told me four things. First, this is a war of choice. Saddam Hussein poses no direct threat to us today. But confronting him is a legitimate choice—much more legitimate than knee-jerk liberals and pacifists think. Removing Mr. Hussein—with his obsession to obtain weapons of mass destruction—ending his tyranny and helping to nurture a more progressive Iraq that could spur reform across the Arab-Muslim world are the best long-term responses to bin Ladenism."
Many Iraq hawks have encouraged the pleasant myth that because most of the nation's most prominent pundits, like Friedman, backed Bush's shift to Saddam, everyone was equally fooled and gulled. But this is demonstrably false. Just check the record. Though they were a drowned-out minority, a small number of columnists and reporters—none of them "knee-jerk liberals" or "pacifists"—saw clearly beforehand that the Iraq invasion was a fatal distraction from the real enemy, Al Qaeda, which was known at the time to be a unique product of the anti-Soviet jihad in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here, for example, is Friedman's colleague across the Times op-ed page, Maureen Dowd, writing a day earlier, March 12, 2003: "It still confuses many Americans that, in a world full of vicious slimeballs, we're about to bomb one that didn't attack us on Sept. 11 (like Osama); that isn't intercepting our planes (like North Korea); that isn't financing Al Qaeda (like Saudi Arabia); that isn't home to Osama and his lieutenants (like Pakistan); that isn't a host body for terrorists (like Iran, Lebanon and Syria)." (In case anyone is wondering, I myself was on the record calling the case for war in Iraq a "crock" during a panel discussion at Yale University on Nov. 6, 2002.)
McClellan, far from descending into madness, seems to have embraced divine sense. In calling Iraq a blunder because it was "not necessary," he has returned the debate about war to its moral and rational origins. According to the theory of war going back to St. Augustine, "just wars" are always necessary wars. This is true even if they are waged only for humanitarian reasons (such as against Yugoslav autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in the '90s to stop ethnic cleansing). Force, in other words, may be used only after all peaceful and viable alternatives have been seriously tried and exhausted or are clearly not practical. (Patently not the case with Saddam, who by February 2003 had opened up all his palaces and other sites to U.N. inspectors.) By contrast, to start an unnecessary war with insufficient provocation—a "war of choice"—is, almost by definition, a war crime. Indeed, Count 2 of the indictment at the Nurembergwar crimes trial in 1945 cited "crimes against peace including planning, preparing, starting or waging aggressive war." This seems uncomfortably close to what America did in Iraq, especially if Saddam was, as Friedman wrote, known to be deterrable and pose "no direct threat to us today."
But let's not heap all the blame on Tom Friedman. There are many other prominent pundits who have failed to make commensurate confessions. They know who they are. This is more than a matter of correcting the historical record—or even purging a few guilty souls. Though many Americans have come out against the Iraq War, too many still seem confused about exactly why it was the wrong approach to the challenge of 9/11. A few prominent confessionals, like the one we've heard already from Peter Beinart in his book "The Good Fight," would help the national debate immeasurably. And perhaps help to guide us to a clearer consensus on how long we need to stay in Iraq now that we are there (which should be another debate entirely). And today, with more than 4,000 American families bereaved of their young, with tens of thousands more Americans living out the nightmare of lives without limbs or faces or with other disabilities, with tens of thousands Iraqis suffering similar fates—and with Afghanistan so unfinished—is it really too much to ask of these able-bodied pundits to acknowledge that they were complicit in one of the great strategic disasters in American history.
Scott McClellan seems to have undergone a genuine reckoning with himself, one that has eluded many of the lords of the media. In the opening words of his book McClellan notes that carved above the south entrance to the tower at the University of Texas—where McClellan went as an undergraduate and where his grandfather was dean of the law school—is a quote from the Gospel of John: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." He writes of those famous words: "Not until the past few years have I come to truly appreciate their message. Perhaps God's greatest gift to us in life is the ability to learn from our experiences, especially our mistakes, and grow into better people." Better pundits, perhaps, are too much to ask for.
© 2008
---------------------------------------below web exclusive from newsweek------------------------------
THE WORLD FROM WASHINGTON | MICHAEL HIRSH
'The Truth Shall Set You Free'
Bush's own spokesman is acknowledging his error on Iraq. Why can't the media?
By Michael Hirsh | Newsweek Web Exclusive
May 29, 2008 | Updated: 4:43 p.m. ET May 29, 2008
The punching bag is punching back. During his three-year stint as White House press secretary, Scott McClellan was perhaps best known for his fumbling responses to questions from TV correspondents performing for the cameras. Now, with his new book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan is hitting back hard. Not only does he accuse himself and his boss, George W. Bush, of getting the War on Terror wrong, he faults the media for buying into the Iraq invasion too readily. As McClellan writes in his preface: "History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided—that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."
The media, for the moment, is focused on the extraordinary spectacle of a fellow Texan and Bush loyalist accusing his president of deception and incompetence. The Bush White House and its acolytes are suggesting that McClellan may have gone off his rocker. ("This is not the Scott I knew," current press secretary Dana Perino said with studied sadness today.) But the words of the supposedly "disgruntled" McClellan seem chillingly sane. And they are accurate: polls do show that most Americans have decided that the turn to Iraq was a mistake and a distraction from the real war against Al Qaeda. McClellan is also correct in recording that in the run-up to the Iraq invasion the U.S. news media were, for the most part, "complicit enablers" who focused more on "covering the march to war instead of the necessity of war."
The question I have is: why do we have to hear this from him? What's really extraordinary is how few prominent pundits and columnists have gone even half the length that McClellan has in acknowledging that they got things utterly wrong when they gave their full-throated support to Bush's still-unexplained turn toward Saddam after America's "victory" over the Taliban in Afghanistan. Consider just one example: The New York Times's Thomas L. Friedman, one of the most famous columnists in America and maybe in the world today. Here is Friedman writing on March 13, 2003, seven days before the Iraq invasion: "This war is so unprecedented that it has always been a gut call—and my gut has told me four things. First, this is a war of choice. Saddam Hussein poses no direct threat to us today. But confronting him is a legitimate choice—much more legitimate than knee-jerk liberals and pacifists think. Removing Mr. Hussein—with his obsession to obtain weapons of mass destruction—ending his tyranny and helping to nurture a more progressive Iraq that could spur reform across the Arab-Muslim world are the best long-term responses to bin Ladenism."
Many Iraq hawks have encouraged the pleasant myth that because most of the nation's most prominent pundits, like Friedman, backed Bush's shift to Saddam, everyone was equally fooled and gulled. But this is demonstrably false. Just check the record. Though they were a drowned-out minority, a small number of columnists and reporters—none of them "knee-jerk liberals" or "pacifists"—saw clearly beforehand that the Iraq invasion was a fatal distraction from the real enemy, Al Qaeda, which was known at the time to be a unique product of the anti-Soviet jihad in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here, for example, is Friedman's colleague across the Times op-ed page, Maureen Dowd, writing a day earlier, March 12, 2003: "It still confuses many Americans that, in a world full of vicious slimeballs, we're about to bomb one that didn't attack us on Sept. 11 (like Osama); that isn't intercepting our planes (like North Korea); that isn't financing Al Qaeda (like Saudi Arabia); that isn't home to Osama and his lieutenants (like Pakistan); that isn't a host body for terrorists (like Iran, Lebanon and Syria)." (In case anyone is wondering, I myself was on the record calling the case for war in Iraq a "crock" during a panel discussion at Yale University on Nov. 6, 2002.)
McClellan, far from descending into madness, seems to have embraced divine sense. In calling Iraq a blunder because it was "not necessary," he has returned the debate about war to its moral and rational origins. According to the theory of war going back to St. Augustine, "just wars" are always necessary wars. This is true even if they are waged only for humanitarian reasons (such as against Yugoslav autocrat Slobodan Milosevic in the '90s to stop ethnic cleansing). Force, in other words, may be used only after all peaceful and viable alternatives have been seriously tried and exhausted or are clearly not practical. (Patently not the case with Saddam, who by February 2003 had opened up all his palaces and other sites to U.N. inspectors.) By contrast, to start an unnecessary war with insufficient provocation—a "war of choice"—is, almost by definition, a war crime. Indeed, Count 2 of the indictment at the Nurembergwar crimes trial in 1945 cited "crimes against peace including planning, preparing, starting or waging aggressive war." This seems uncomfortably close to what America did in Iraq, especially if Saddam was, as Friedman wrote, known to be deterrable and pose "no direct threat to us today."
But let's not heap all the blame on Tom Friedman. There are many other prominent pundits who have failed to make commensurate confessions. They know who they are. This is more than a matter of correcting the historical record—or even purging a few guilty souls. Though many Americans have come out against the Iraq War, too many still seem confused about exactly why it was the wrong approach to the challenge of 9/11. A few prominent confessionals, like the one we've heard already from Peter Beinart in his book "The Good Fight," would help the national debate immeasurably. And perhaps help to guide us to a clearer consensus on how long we need to stay in Iraq now that we are there (which should be another debate entirely). And today, with more than 4,000 American families bereaved of their young, with tens of thousands more Americans living out the nightmare of lives without limbs or faces or with other disabilities, with tens of thousands Iraqis suffering similar fates—and with Afghanistan so unfinished—is it really too much to ask of these able-bodied pundits to acknowledge that they were complicit in one of the great strategic disasters in American history.
Scott McClellan seems to have undergone a genuine reckoning with himself, one that has eluded many of the lords of the media. In the opening words of his book McClellan notes that carved above the south entrance to the tower at the University of Texas—where McClellan went as an undergraduate and where his grandfather was dean of the law school—is a quote from the Gospel of John: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." He writes of those famous words: "Not until the past few years have I come to truly appreciate their message. Perhaps God's greatest gift to us in life is the ability to learn from our experiences, especially our mistakes, and grow into better people." Better pundits, perhaps, are too much to ask for.
© 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Anna Domino - Land Of My Dreams
the other day i emailed dr. hook's sharing the night together to my friend bethany in great britain and she emailed me back the great underrated andrew gold track 'never let her slip away' which is proto magnetic fields by the way. that became apparent when i shared the andrew gold song with my friend william who is from london and he said he loved it and that it sent him right to anna domino who i only know from her great work with steven merritt's own personal tribute band the 6th's but this song is pretty good too.
Dr. Hook - Sharing the night together (1977)
the summer of dr. hook continues. this band has an unending fountain of hits. i am not kidding.
hall and oates at the troubadour -'had i known you better then'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDqE-3jul9s
i tried to post the above video but it wouldnt work but you should go watch it yourself. tonight on this great great news day, heartfelt tributes to syndey pollack, thelma keane and dick martin are all around. scott mcllelan dropped one of the greatest washington tell alls in history, and lindsay lohan just maybe marrying her celeb dj girlfriend samantha ronson. there are so many stories to follow. however my favorite is this clip of hall and oates at the troubadour in LA first time performing there in 35 years. also they play my favorite song off of abandoned luncheonette -'had i known you better then'. john oates sings lead wonderfully it makes you wonder why this is the very first tiomme they ever performed it live. i almost saw hall and oates live at the tower theater but in the end i treated my parents which was only rightly so since it is their copy of abandoned luncheonette that i still play to this day. firsthand account of the troubadour show follows via NME:
NME News
Hall & Oates return to LA's Troubadour after 35 years
Hall & Oates returned to the Troubadour for two sold-out gigs this week -- their first shows at the legendary Los Angeles venue since the Philadelphia duo played their first shows in the city 35 years ago.
The band were in high spirits during their two-hour set Friday night (May 23), which saw them playing hits including 'Maneater', 'She's Gone' and 'Rich Girl' as well as Daryl Hall's solo material and some obscure numbers.
"We've never played this one outside Atlantic Records," Hall said before the band launched into 'Had I Known You Better Then', a melodic ballad on which John Oates sang lead vocals.
The duo drew a diverse crowd ranging from the senior set to 20-something indie kids, possibly due in part to younger bands including Death Cab For Cutie, Fall Out Boy and Flight Of The Conchords name-checking them as influences in recent months.
Hall & Oates were backed by a tight five-piece band featuring musicians such as Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk, with whom they've played for years.
The house lights were turned up throughout their entire set, giving the proceedings an intimate, community vibe. "I see you all smiling, that's good," Hall said -- smiling himself throughout the entire night.
Adoring fans cheered and sang along to nearly every song, including a man who proudly displayed a license plate that read 'HNO4EVR'.
Hall & Oates returned to the stage for two encores, concluding the night with a rare performance of their massive 1981 hit 'Private Eyes'.
Hall & Oates played:
'Everything Your Heart Desires'
'When The Morning Comes'
'Family Man'
'Say It Isn't So'
'Uncanny'
'Had I Known You Better Then'
'She's Gone'
'Getaway Car'
'Cab Driver'
'One On One'
'Sara Smile'
'Maneater'
'Out Of Touch'
'Rich Girl'
'Kiss On My List'
'You Make My Dreams'
'Private Eyes'
--By our Los Angeles staff
i tried to post the above video but it wouldnt work but you should go watch it yourself. tonight on this great great news day, heartfelt tributes to syndey pollack, thelma keane and dick martin are all around. scott mcllelan dropped one of the greatest washington tell alls in history, and lindsay lohan just maybe marrying her celeb dj girlfriend samantha ronson. there are so many stories to follow. however my favorite is this clip of hall and oates at the troubadour in LA first time performing there in 35 years. also they play my favorite song off of abandoned luncheonette -'had i known you better then'. john oates sings lead wonderfully it makes you wonder why this is the very first tiomme they ever performed it live. i almost saw hall and oates live at the tower theater but in the end i treated my parents which was only rightly so since it is their copy of abandoned luncheonette that i still play to this day. firsthand account of the troubadour show follows via NME:
NME News
Hall & Oates return to LA's Troubadour after 35 years
Hall & Oates returned to the Troubadour for two sold-out gigs this week -- their first shows at the legendary Los Angeles venue since the Philadelphia duo played their first shows in the city 35 years ago.
The band were in high spirits during their two-hour set Friday night (May 23), which saw them playing hits including 'Maneater', 'She's Gone' and 'Rich Girl' as well as Daryl Hall's solo material and some obscure numbers.
"We've never played this one outside Atlantic Records," Hall said before the band launched into 'Had I Known You Better Then', a melodic ballad on which John Oates sang lead vocals.
The duo drew a diverse crowd ranging from the senior set to 20-something indie kids, possibly due in part to younger bands including Death Cab For Cutie, Fall Out Boy and Flight Of The Conchords name-checking them as influences in recent months.
Hall & Oates were backed by a tight five-piece band featuring musicians such as Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk, with whom they've played for years.
The house lights were turned up throughout their entire set, giving the proceedings an intimate, community vibe. "I see you all smiling, that's good," Hall said -- smiling himself throughout the entire night.
Adoring fans cheered and sang along to nearly every song, including a man who proudly displayed a license plate that read 'HNO4EVR'.
Hall & Oates returned to the stage for two encores, concluding the night with a rare performance of their massive 1981 hit 'Private Eyes'.
Hall & Oates played:
'Everything Your Heart Desires'
'When The Morning Comes'
'Family Man'
'Say It Isn't So'
'Uncanny'
'Had I Known You Better Then'
'She's Gone'
'Getaway Car'
'Cab Driver'
'One On One'
'Sara Smile'
'Maneater'
'Out Of Touch'
'Rich Girl'
'Kiss On My List'
'You Make My Dreams'
'Private Eyes'
--By our Los Angeles staff
Friday, May 23, 2008
SLICK RICK PARDONED
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 23, 2008
GOVERNOR PATERSON ANNOUNCES PARDON OF
RICKY “SLICK RICK” WALTERS
Governor David A. Paterson announced today that he has granted Ricky Walters a full and unconditional pardon of his 1991 attempted murder and weapon convictions, in order to allow Walters to seek relief from deportation from the federal immigration courts. Mr. Walters, who was born in the United Kingdom, was lawfully admitted to the United States at age 11, and he was raised in the Bronx. At the time of his crimes, Mr. Walters was a newly-famous hip-hop artist known as “Slick Rick,” who has since been credited with being a pioneer in the development of hip-hop as a mainstream musical genre. Walters was incarcerated for six years, and was released from prison in 1997.
“Mr. Walters has fully served the sentence imposed upon him for his convictions, had an exemplary disciplinary record while in prison and on parole, and has been living without incident in the community for more than 10 years,” said Governor Paterson. “In that time, he has volunteered at youth outreach programs to counsel youth against violence, and has become a symbol of rehabilitation for many young people. Given these demonstrated rehabilitative efforts, I urge federal immigration officials to once again grant Mr. Walters relief from deportation, so that he is not separated from his many family members who are United States citizens, including his two teenage children.”
Mr. Walters faces deportation under a federal statute that mandates the removal of a lawful resident alien upon conviction of an aggravated felony or a weapon offense. For certain offenses removal can be avoided by a Governor’s pardon, but for weapon offenses, even after receiving a pardon, a non-citizen must seek discretionary relief from deportation from the immigration court. Mr. Walters was granted such relief by an immigration court in 1995, but that decision was later vacated because the Board of Immigration Appeals issued its decision 33 days after the expiration of a statutory deadline. Mr. Walters has been unable to re-apply for discretionary adjustment of his immigration status because of his attempted murder convictions, but he will be eligible to do so as a result of the Governor’s pardon.
In 1991, Mr. Walters pleaded guilty in Bronx County Supreme Court to two counts of attempted murder and eight weapons offenses arising from an incident in which Walters shot his cousin and an innocent bystander, both of whom survived the shooting. Walters’ cousin had made previous threats against Walters, and Walters believed his cousin had arranged at least one previous attempt on his life. Mr. Walters, who was 25 years old at the time of the incident, was sentenced to a term of 3? to 10 years in prison. He was released to parole in 1997, and was discharged from parole supervision in 2000.
In June 1995, an immigration judge terminated deportation proceedings against Walters and granted him a waiver of inadmissibility and an adjustment of status that allowed Walters to remain in this country despite his convictions. The judge’s decision was based on, among other things, the “unusual and outstanding equities” of his case. Later that year, the Board of Immigration Appeals found that this relief “appears to be in the best interest of the country,” but the Board later vacated its decision on a technical ground – that it had no authority to act because on the day of its decision, Walters had served five years and 33 days in prison, 33 days more than statutorily permitted for a waiver of inadmissibility. Walters’ legal challenges to this decision have been unsuccessful, and he could soon be deported, unless the immigration courts agree to reconsider his request for adjustment of status in light of the Governor’s pardon.
Mr. Walters, who is now 43 years old, has lived in the Bronx without incident since his release from prison in 1997. He is presently employed as a landlord and rap musician. Mr. Walters has a wife and two children, all of whom are American citizens.
May 23, 2008
GOVERNOR PATERSON ANNOUNCES PARDON OF
RICKY “SLICK RICK” WALTERS
Governor David A. Paterson announced today that he has granted Ricky Walters a full and unconditional pardon of his 1991 attempted murder and weapon convictions, in order to allow Walters to seek relief from deportation from the federal immigration courts. Mr. Walters, who was born in the United Kingdom, was lawfully admitted to the United States at age 11, and he was raised in the Bronx. At the time of his crimes, Mr. Walters was a newly-famous hip-hop artist known as “Slick Rick,” who has since been credited with being a pioneer in the development of hip-hop as a mainstream musical genre. Walters was incarcerated for six years, and was released from prison in 1997.
“Mr. Walters has fully served the sentence imposed upon him for his convictions, had an exemplary disciplinary record while in prison and on parole, and has been living without incident in the community for more than 10 years,” said Governor Paterson. “In that time, he has volunteered at youth outreach programs to counsel youth against violence, and has become a symbol of rehabilitation for many young people. Given these demonstrated rehabilitative efforts, I urge federal immigration officials to once again grant Mr. Walters relief from deportation, so that he is not separated from his many family members who are United States citizens, including his two teenage children.”
Mr. Walters faces deportation under a federal statute that mandates the removal of a lawful resident alien upon conviction of an aggravated felony or a weapon offense. For certain offenses removal can be avoided by a Governor’s pardon, but for weapon offenses, even after receiving a pardon, a non-citizen must seek discretionary relief from deportation from the immigration court. Mr. Walters was granted such relief by an immigration court in 1995, but that decision was later vacated because the Board of Immigration Appeals issued its decision 33 days after the expiration of a statutory deadline. Mr. Walters has been unable to re-apply for discretionary adjustment of his immigration status because of his attempted murder convictions, but he will be eligible to do so as a result of the Governor’s pardon.
In 1991, Mr. Walters pleaded guilty in Bronx County Supreme Court to two counts of attempted murder and eight weapons offenses arising from an incident in which Walters shot his cousin and an innocent bystander, both of whom survived the shooting. Walters’ cousin had made previous threats against Walters, and Walters believed his cousin had arranged at least one previous attempt on his life. Mr. Walters, who was 25 years old at the time of the incident, was sentenced to a term of 3? to 10 years in prison. He was released to parole in 1997, and was discharged from parole supervision in 2000.
In June 1995, an immigration judge terminated deportation proceedings against Walters and granted him a waiver of inadmissibility and an adjustment of status that allowed Walters to remain in this country despite his convictions. The judge’s decision was based on, among other things, the “unusual and outstanding equities” of his case. Later that year, the Board of Immigration Appeals found that this relief “appears to be in the best interest of the country,” but the Board later vacated its decision on a technical ground – that it had no authority to act because on the day of its decision, Walters had served five years and 33 days in prison, 33 days more than statutorily permitted for a waiver of inadmissibility. Walters’ legal challenges to this decision have been unsuccessful, and he could soon be deported, unless the immigration courts agree to reconsider his request for adjustment of status in light of the Governor’s pardon.
Mr. Walters, who is now 43 years old, has lived in the Bronx without incident since his release from prison in 1997. He is presently employed as a landlord and rap musician. Mr. Walters has a wife and two children, all of whom are American citizens.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Woody Allen entrevista a Billy Graham 01
jina valentine to me:
hey . can you do a good woody allen?
i need a woody allen impersonation for my nietzsche class!
xo j
me to jina:
i was once told rather affectionately by a former lover that i was the perfect combination of woody allen and bill callahan aka smog. which is one of the most flattering comments i have ever recieved, however it is lovelife poison in a sense because that is not the kind of guy many girls can spend a lot of time with let alone co-habitat with. however in the short term and cracking jokes while we cross the street, or late night urban camping in bushwick with bodega candles and presidentes well it is so cinematic and oh just think the stories one can tell. but no, sorry, i am no longer an actor, i've retired from all of that.
thanks!
so, ant'ny, in the end, my stand by woody allen impersonator didn't work out either.
but i did manage to find --and just in the nick of time-- this interview with woody allen
and billy graham . priceless . (allen=nietzsche, graham=all others railed against...wagner maybe?)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a6iAaxOAHCM
xx jv
Primal Scream - Accelerator @ Jools Holland 2000
as much as i love the screamadelica record and i mean i LOVE the screamadelica record. this is my favorite Primal Scream kevin shields from my bloody valentine on guitar, mani from the stone roses on bass, innes, etc - just a perfect lineup. i bought this record right before i moved to nyc and when the towers fell and the f-16s flew over my apartment and i slowly lost my mind this record and particularly this song was the soundtrack for the war on terror. 21st century stooges, no doubt.
This Is Carry On Screaming
half hour audio documentary about Primal Scream from 8/05/06
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/060508_carryon.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/060508_carryon.shtml
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Love Messages From Overseas
make love not war . . no more nukes . . . we all need some more leoncie right now! say yes to today (and tomorrow) over and over.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
My Bloody Valentine, Only Shallow
i posted this video before on the willow house blog and i posted the tour details just below this post. but last night talking to rubens about this my bloody valentine tour the tale came up how one summer long ago at the beach i spent every night sleeping to my bloody valentine's loveless. my younger brother and i shared a room and somewhat musical tastes, we came to agree on this record loveless and at my brother's wedding a year or so ago he said how the sound of the beginning of this record still conjours the feeling of sand between his toes.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
MBV:
06-20 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-21 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-22 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-23 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-24 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-28 Manchester, England - Apollo
06-29 Manchester, England - Apollo
07-02 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
07-03 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
07-03-06 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-09 Paris, France - Zenith
07-17-20 Benicàssim, Spain - Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
07-25 Naeba, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival
08-08 Oslo, Norway - Øya Festival
09-05 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-19-21 Monticello, NY - Kutshers Country Club (ATP New York)
09-22 New York, NY - Roseland
09-23 New York, NY - Roseland
09-25 Toronto, Ontario - Ricoh
09-27 Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
09-30 San Francisco, CA - The Concourse
10-01 Los Angeles, CA - Santa Monica Civic
10-02 Los Angeles, CA - Santa Monica Civic
06-20 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-21 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-22 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-23 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-24 London, England - The Roundhouse
06-28 Manchester, England - Apollo
06-29 Manchester, England - Apollo
07-02 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
07-03 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland
07-03-06 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-09 Paris, France - Zenith
07-17-20 Benicàssim, Spain - Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
07-25 Naeba, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival
08-08 Oslo, Norway - Øya Festival
09-05 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-19-21 Monticello, NY - Kutshers Country Club (ATP New York)
09-22 New York, NY - Roseland
09-23 New York, NY - Roseland
09-25 Toronto, Ontario - Ricoh
09-27 Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
09-30 San Francisco, CA - The Concourse
10-01 Los Angeles, CA - Santa Monica Civic
10-02 Los Angeles, CA - Santa Monica Civic
Monday, May 05, 2008
Outrageous Cherry - Our Love Will Change The World
great great band from detroit. they have a killer song from around 2003 called 'pale frail lovely one' i listened to hundreds of times.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
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