tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30099584207301982082024-03-06T02:56:03.249+01:00The TyBurn Tree
the lives & times of JoHnny Haddo ~Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.comBlogger299125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-11391144242918874442020-06-11T00:45:00.000+02:002020-06-11T00:45:53.905+02:00KINDA got lost along the way, took a byway home that went on forever_<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiuPT7JTBhwO3iV2Htqw_dwStrG6BQ1skhTZ1PJZoB47AprfXh8TNtiAQHy7qrwxH30wZ917kMgqZLcWvqR6brdcq8Z_8BoH5HRhYIpJdT1pGmYiFbBtMx4ugjHj2uyFbv3gc-5n3DfU/s603/foolscap+Charles+Henry+Bennett_.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="603" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiuPT7JTBhwO3iV2Htqw_dwStrG6BQ1skhTZ1PJZoB47AprfXh8TNtiAQHy7qrwxH30wZ917kMgqZLcWvqR6brdcq8Z_8BoH5HRhYIpJdT1pGmYiFbBtMx4ugjHj2uyFbv3gc-5n3DfU/s320/foolscap+Charles+Henry+Bennett_.PNG" width="320" /></a></div> </div>Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-71787311336207433952020-06-11T00:41:00.000+02:002020-06-11T00:41:18.906+02:00BE THERE SOON!!<div><font color="#d52c1f"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#d52c1f"><br /></font><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrmAeNnIpvV_sevb7oudt4vvSLtMkQm-Vb7VHu8tDsb2iVwN2Lcyj47EtenVp2KXHWoLd4ztu9o0HPcBBjwAjzelWMN_cP1v8XDi5POz3DF9rm1Dg5TqC2syLnKZ5vszmqoya4trK_x4/s411/and.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="411" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrmAeNnIpvV_sevb7oudt4vvSLtMkQm-Vb7VHu8tDsb2iVwN2Lcyj47EtenVp2KXHWoLd4ztu9o0HPcBBjwAjzelWMN_cP1v8XDi5POz3DF9rm1Dg5TqC2syLnKZ5vszmqoya4trK_x4/s320/and.PNG" width="320" /></a></div></div>Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-47094647707477433062017-08-01T22:12:00.002+02:002017-08-01T22:12:45.845+02:00<h2 class="western">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";">England's Shame: Managing Risk and Uncertainty</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";"><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><i>Oz Hardwick</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";">Jerry sat awkwardly in the brown leather armchair in The Princess of Prussia, his stiff limbs refusing to sink into its soft curves. The air smelled of fresh cut onions. He cast his eye along the neat row of stools, hard against the bar, remembering the arses that had occupied them last time he’d been here, some time in the previous century. Some, he reflected dispassionately, he had fucked, while others – figuratively, at least, though occasionally literally – had fucked him. Had times, on balance, been any better then? They had certainly been a bit clearer, for all the millennial entropy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";">He fumbled in the pocket of his crushed velvet jacket, and pulled out a dented silver case, monogrammed with his initials and a cheeky crucifix and Playboy bunny motif. It had once stopped a bullet in a war, though he couldn’t recall which war. Perhaps this one. He shook loose one of his few remaining gold-tipped cigarettes and hung it loosely from his cracked lower lip. Any port in a storm. At the third strike, his Lucifer guttered to a yellow light, the whiff of sulphur at least providing a momentary sense of security. He hadn’t noticed when smoking, like so much else, had become illegal but, if he’d thought at all, he’d have considered there was little chance of customers, even, much less a raid.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";">A shadow passing the fake Victorian glass made him tense briefly. A mitre? But no-one came in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";">The walls told the tired story of Empire. A Toby jug in the shape of Shakespeare. Adverts for soap, with fat children and a cat. Why is there always a cat? Posters from the Varieties, with acts he faintly remembered, and to whom he thought he may be related: strippers, dog trainers, acrobats and blues guitarists. A plastic Union Jack, with the Saltire painted out, drooping from an ice bucket.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";">At last the door opened. The man who entered was smooth-skinned, with a fixed expression of surprised concern that somehow resolved itself into an avuncular grin. His tie was loose, but he was still clearly uncomfortably hot, sweat glistening across his forehead.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Mr Smiles?” asked Jerry flatly, neither standing nor offering his hand.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">You can call me Dave,” he said, lowering himself into the seat opposite and presenting his moist palm.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";">The brief hiss beneath the table was barely noticeable, nor was the sharp expiration as the needle pierces the dummy’s groin. The face looked no more surprised, but began to collapse on itself, growing first baggy, then sinking into a broad smirk, then twisting through an ugly sequence of ever more grotesque metamorphoses as the body crumpled over the chair. Leaning forward, Jerry regarded the sparkling, dead eyes of what now resembled nothing more or less than the Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";">Jerry drew on his cigarette, stood up, and turned to leave.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Where do you think you’re going?” nagged a voice behind him.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";">He turned to look, and saw the puppet standing, ungainly, legs splayed too wide, head nodded like a movie zombie.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "helvetica neue" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">On second thoughts,” she spat, “call me Theresa. And I can assure you, Mr Cornelius, that a change is coming. A very big change.”</span></span></span></div>
Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-3852334752291207752016-11-18T23:38:00.000+01:002016-11-18T23:38:16.618+01:00<header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: calluna-1, calluna-2, serif; font-size: 18.9px; margin: 0px 54px 0px auto; max-width: 474px; padding: 0px 30px 12px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: arvo-1, arvo-2, serif; font-size: 33px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.09091; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">
INFINITE WORLDS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COMIC BOOK MULTIVERSE</h1>
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<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22633" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 474px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/map-of-the-multiverse.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Map of the Multiverse" class="wp-image-22633 size-full" height="364" sizes="(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/map-of-the-multiverse.jpg?w=474&h=364" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/map-of-the-multiverse.jpg?w=474&h=364 474w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/map-of-the-multiverse.jpg?w=948&h=728 948w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/map-of-the-multiverse.jpg?w=150&h=115 150w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/map-of-the-multiverse.jpg?w=300&h=231 300w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/map-of-the-multiverse.jpg?w=768&h=590 768w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="474" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">A map of the new DC multiverse</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Both DC Comics’ <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Multiversity</em> series and Marvel Comics’ <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edge of Spider-Verse</em> event showcase characters from multiple parallel universes (that is, a “multiverse”). These two series are not the first time that the multiverse concept has been used by DC and Marvel. Over the years, the publishers have each established a multiverse of parallel universes in their respective comics, and the concept has become a popular element of superhero comics.</div>
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<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22653" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 474px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-earths.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Multiverse Earths" class="wp-image-22653 size-full" height="405" sizes="(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-earths.jpg?w=474&h=405" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-earths.jpg?w=474&h=405 474w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-earths.jpg?w=150&h=128 150w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-earths.jpg?w=300&h=256 300w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-earths.jpg 675w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="474" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">A multiverse contains many parallel worlds.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
The concept of “parallel worlds” – defined by <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/parallel_worlds" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Science Fiction Encyclopedia</em></a> as “another universe situated ‘alongside’ our own, displaced from it along a spatial fourth dimension” – has a long history that predates science fiction. The parallel world concept can be found in ancient philosophy (for example, Platonism), religion, folklore, and myth (Heaven, Hell, and Asgard can be described as parallel worlds), and literature (Lewis Carroll’s <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Through the Looking Glass</em>).</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22634" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 474px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-marvel-land-of-surrealism.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Captain Marvel Land of Surrealism" class="wp-image-22634 size-full" height="438" sizes="(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-marvel-land-of-surrealism.jpg?w=474&h=438" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-marvel-land-of-surrealism.jpg?w=474&h=438 474w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-marvel-land-of-surrealism.jpg?w=150&h=139 150w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-marvel-land-of-surrealism.jpg?w=300&h=278 300w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-marvel-land-of-surrealism.jpg 736w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="474" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">In CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES #80, Captain Marvel will soon journey to a parallel world where the artist’s surreal creations are real.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Stories featuring parallel worlds were popular in pulp science fiction magazines and the concept was also used in comic books. For example, in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Captain Marvel Adventures</em>#80 (1948), the comic’s titular superhero travels to a parallel world where a painter’s surrealist creations are real. More significantly, in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wonder Woman</em> #59 (1953) Wonder Woman is transported to a parallel Earth when her lasso is struck by lightning. There, Wonder Woman encounters her twin, a superhero named Tara Terruna. For the first time, a superhero met another version of herself on a parallel world.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22636" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 400px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/terra-terruna2.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Tara Terruna2" class="wp-image-22636" height="176" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/terra-terruna2.jpg?w=400&h=176" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/terra-terruna2.jpg 338w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/terra-terruna2.jpg?w=150&h=66 150w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/terra-terruna2.jpg?w=300&h=132 300w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="400" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">Wonder Woman meets Tara Terruna.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
In 1956, DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz oversaw the revival of the comics character The Flash. First appearing in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flash Comics</em> #1 (January 1940), the original Flash was Jay Garrick, who gains the power of super-speed after inhaling hard water vapors. The character’s adventures continued through the 1940s, the period labeled by comics historians as the “Golden Age of Comics”, and ended in 1951, when superhero comics lost their commercial appeal and were replaced by other genres like Westerns and horror comics.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22637" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 474px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-meets-flash.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Flash Meets Flash" class="wp-image-22637 size-full" height="483" sizes="(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-meets-flash.jpg?w=474&h=483" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-meets-flash.jpg?w=474&h=483 474w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-meets-flash.jpg?w=147&h=150 147w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-meets-flash.jpg?w=294&h=300 294w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-meets-flash.jpg 650w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="474" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">The Silver Age Flash (left) meets the Golden Age Flash (right).</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Schwartz kept the superhero’s name and superpowers, but changed The Flash’s design and alter-ego. The Flash was now Barry Allen, a police scientist who gains super-speed when he is soaked in lightning-charged chemicals. The new Flash debuted in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Showcase</em> #4 (October 1956). Significantly, the comic acknowledges the original character’s existence; indeed, Barry Allen is inspired to assume his superhero identity because he reads the fictional comic book adventures of the Golden Age Flash.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22638" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 333px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-read-flash-comic.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Flash Reads Flash Comic" class="wp-image-22638 size-full" sizes="(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-read-flash-comic.jpg?w=474" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-read-flash-comic.jpg 333w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-read-flash-comic.jpg?w=150 150w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-read-flash-comic.jpg?w=300 300w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">Barry Allen reads the comic book adventures of the Golden Age Flash.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
The new Flash was commercially successful, reviving reader interest in superhero characters and comics; The Flash was the first superhero of the period comics historians label the “Silver Age of Comics”. At DC Comics, The Flash was soon joined by Silver Age superheroes The Atom, Hawkman, and Green Lantern; all of these heroes were based on past Golden Age superhero characters.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22639" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 300px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-123.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Flash 123" class="wp-image-22639 size-full" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-123.jpg?w=474" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-123.jpg 300w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-123.jpg?w=104 104w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/flash-123.jpg?w=207 207w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">Cover for THE FLASH #123</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Comics fans were eager to see the return of the Golden Age Flash, and DC Comics obliged. The two Flash characters first met in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Flash</em> #123 (September 1961) in the story “Flash of Two Worlds”, using the parallel world concept; the Silver Age Flash vibrates his molecules at a different frequency at super-speed and is accidentally transported to a parallel world, where the Golden Age Flash fought crime in the 1940s and is now retired.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22641" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 474px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/earth-x.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Earth X" class="wp-image-22641 size-full" height="540" sizes="(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/earth-x.jpg?w=474&h=540" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/earth-x.jpg?w=474&h=540 474w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/earth-x.jpg?w=132&h=150 132w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/earth-x.jpg?w=263&h=300 263w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/earth-x.jpg 500w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="474" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">Earth-X was the home of Golden Age characters like Uncle Sam and Phantom Lady.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
This parallel world (identified as “Earth-Two” in future stories) was the home of Golden Age characters like The Flash, The Spectre, and The Sandman, while Barry Allen’s world (“Earth-One”) was the home of the modern DC Comics superheroes. Soon, DC Comics added other parallel worlds, like Earth-Three (the home of supervillain versions of the Justice League of America), Earth-S (the home of Captain Marvel and other Fawcett Comics characters purchased by DC), and Earth-X (where the Quality Comics characters purchased by DC – Uncle Sam, Black Condor, etc. – fought the Nazis, who won World War II on that world). DC Comics soon had a robust fictional multiverse.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22642" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 474px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-britain-corps.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Captain Britain Corps" class="wp-image-22642 size-full" height="322" sizes="(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-britain-corps.jpg?w=474&h=322" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-britain-corps.jpg?w=474&h=322 474w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-britain-corps.jpg?w=150&h=102 150w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-britain-corps.jpg?w=300&h=204 300w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/captain-britain-corps.jpg 588w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="474" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">Marvel’s Captain Britain Corps guards the multiverse.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
While DC Comics’ multiverse grew to include many parallel worlds, DC’s primary competitor, Marvel Comics, was slow to utilize the concept. Although Marvel featured stories with parallel worlds (such as the Negative Zone in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fantastic Four</em>, Asgard in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Mighty Thor</em>, or the dimension of the Squadron Supreme – superheroes based on DC Comics characters – in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Avengers</em> ) it was not until 1983, when writer Alan Moore created the Captain Britain Corps in the pages of the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Captain Britain</em> strip, that a multiverse of parallel worlds – protected by the Captain Britain Corps – is identified. The strip’s titular hero is the Captain Britain of Marvel’s primary Earth, identified as Earth-616.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22643" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 474px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-flash-image.jpeg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Multiverse Flash Image" class="wp-image-22643 size-full" height="288" sizes="(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-flash-image.jpeg?w=474&h=288" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-flash-image.jpeg?w=474&h=288 474w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-flash-image.jpeg?w=150&h=91 150w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-flash-image.jpeg?w=300&h=183 300w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/multiverse-flash-image.jpeg 618w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="474" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">The many Flash characters of the DC multiverse.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
In 1985, DC Comics destroyed its multiverse in the crossover event <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crisis on Infinite Earths</em>, which revised DC’s narrative history so that there was now only one Earth; the Golden Age characters appeared in the 1940s and retired in the 1950s, but inspired the modern superheroes that came after them. However, DC Comics revived the multiverse concept in its weekly <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">52</em> comics series (2006) and the subsequent <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flashpoint</em> crossover event (2011), so that there are now 52 parallel Earths. These parallel Earths will be explored in the upcoming<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Multiversity</em> series.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22644" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 474px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/uc-spider-man.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="UC Spider-Man" class="wp-image-22644 size-full" height="728" sizes="(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/uc-spider-man.jpg?w=474&h=728" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/uc-spider-man.jpg?w=474&h=728 474w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/uc-spider-man.jpg?w=948&h=1456 948w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/uc-spider-man.jpg?w=98&h=150 98w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/uc-spider-man.jpg?w=195&h=300 195w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/uc-spider-man.jpg?w=768&h=1181 768w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="474" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">Miles Morales is the Spider-Man of Earth-1610.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Marvel Comics’ multiverse continues to be well-utilized by creators. Earth-1610 (identified as the “Ultimate Universe”, the home of 21st century updates of the classic Marvel characters) has been the setting of several popular comics titles. Marvel’s upcoming <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edge of Spider-Verse</em> series will showcase versions of Spider-Man from across the Marvel multiverse.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22646" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 250px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/darwyn-cooke-rip-hunter.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Darwyn Cooke Rip Hunter" class="wp-image-22646 size-full" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/darwyn-cooke-rip-hunter.jpg?w=474" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/darwyn-cooke-rip-hunter.jpg 250w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/darwyn-cooke-rip-hunter.jpg?w=113 113w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">DC Comics time traveler Rip Hunter addresses concerns about potential reader confusion caused by stories set in a multiverse.</figcaption></figure><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
The comic book multiverse is a narrative convention that allows for a huge range of fascinating stories, often featuring altered versions of familiar characters. Although some might argue that a comic book multiverse is confusing to new readers (as some DC Comics editors argued in the 1980s), the multiverse remains a popular concept among many comics fans.</div>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" data-shortcode="caption" id="attachment_22645" style="color: #767676; margin: 7px auto; max-width: 100%; width: 250px;"><a href="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/darwyn-cooke-rip-hunter1.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.9px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Darwyn Cooke Rip Hunter1" class="wp-image-22645" height="372" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" src="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/darwyn-cooke-rip-hunter1.jpg?w=250&h=372" srcset="https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/darwyn-cooke-rip-hunter1.jpg 184w, https://nothingbutcomics.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/darwyn-cooke-rip-hunter1.jpg?w=101&h=150 101w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="250" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5; margin: 9px 0px;">Rip Hunter explains the real science behind the comic book multiverse.</figcaption></figure><blockquote style="border: 0px; color: #767676; font-family: inherit; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.26316; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-57993734895892981842016-01-13T10:11:00.001+01:002016-01-13T10:11:28.470+01:00<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Man_in_a_Headscarf_(originally_The_Procurer)_Lucien_Freud.jpg" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><img height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Man_in_a_Headscarf_%28originally_The_Procurer%29_Lucien_Freud.jpg/220px-Man_in_a_Headscarf_%28originally_The_Procurer%29_Lucien_Freud.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="142" /></a><br /><i><span style="color: #274e13;">David Litvinoff, </span><span style="color: #660000;">The Procurer</span><span style="color: #274e13;">, by his friend Lucian Freud.</span></i><br /><br />Among those who reportedly provided young boys for the top people in the UK government were David Litvinoff (David Levy) and his half-Jewish friends the Kray Twins.<br /><br />Litvinoff "was the Faginesque head of a small group based at the Temperance Billiard Hall, 131-141 King's Road, Chelsea."<br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Litvinoff's niece Vida described Litvinoff as "the court jester to the rich, smart Chelsea set of the sixties".</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">
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<i><span style="color: #274e13;">Litvinoff.</span></i></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Litvinoff, of Russian-Jewish origin, was born in Whitechapel in London.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">In </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Notorious</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">, John Pearson writes that Litvinoff procured boys for top people.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Theatrical agent </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mim_Scala" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Mim Scala</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> said "what Litvinoff liked best were little boys, particularly naughty, runaway Borstal boys."</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Litvinoff#cite_note-Scala-13" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">[13]</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Pheasantry-152_Kings_Road.JPG" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/The_Pheasantry-152_Kings_Road.JPG/220px-The_Pheasantry-152_Kings_Road.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Pheasantry-152_Kings_Road.JPG" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"></a><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The Pheasantry, once home to Litvinoff.</span></i><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">In 1968, shooting started on the gangster film </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_(film)" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Performance</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">, written by Litvinoff's friend </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Cammell" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Donald Cammell</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> and co-directed by Cammell and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Roeg" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Nicolas Roeg</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">, and starring </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fox" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">James Fox</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Mick Jagger</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Litvinoff got the job of "dialogue coach and technical adviser".</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Litvinoff introduced the cast and crew to London's underworld.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Litvinoff#cite_note-Wood-11" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">[11]</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Marianne Faithfull</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> said "They hired real gangsters ... and a genuine mob boss as adviser. This was David Litvinoff."</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Litvinoff#cite_note-Wood-11" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">[11]</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHlUSOkpWhw_g4noL_CIL-jjhoqPmX7pp24WgB7yIZrl-M8Nhbym5JL5wkuccZuHFrFJTlMq0kagryXiRk6VlZ8igFKKt5RYXlDxQzc8ppqjltRyUEbOmxynkmgyJmqK3UI9dMQ2oGYUrH/s1600/Jimmy+Saville,+Cardiff+Rd.+1971.JPG" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: #0000ee; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" width="320" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #660000;">Jimmy Savile and the military in Wales.</span></i><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">In 1968, Litvinoff rented a cottage in Llanddewi Brefi in Wales.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Among those who allegedly stayed at the cottage were </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Eric Clapton</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Bob Dylan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Jimi Hendrix</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Yoko Ono</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">In 1977, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Julie" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Operation Julie</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> busted a large </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">LSD</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> manufacturing and distribution network operating partly from Llanddewi Brefi.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Davington_Priory,_Kent,_c._1910.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Davington_Priory%2C_Kent%2C_c._1910.jpg/220px-Davington_Priory%2C_Kent%2C_c._1910.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Davington_Priory,_Kent,_c._1910.jpg" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;"></a><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #660000;">Davington Priory, c. 1910.</span></i><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">From 1972 until his death in April 1975 'from an overdose of sleeping pills', Litvinoff lived at </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davington_Priory" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Davington Priory</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> in Kent.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Davington Priory is currently the home of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Geldof" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Bob Geldof</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Litvinoff#cite_note-23" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">[23]</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">One witness recalls Litvinoff speaking on the telephone to a confused </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jones" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; 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Through Ronnie Kray, Litvinoff met Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud who were friends and used to gamble at Esmerlada's Barn, the gambling club in which the Krays had a stake.<br /><br />According to Christopher Gibbs, the man in Freud's painting Man in a Headscarf (originally The Procurer) (1954) was Litvinoff before he was slashed across the face in an attack (sometime before 1968) by an unknown assailant.<br /><br />The Krays were happy to take the credit for the attack as it bolstered their reputation. Pearson claims that Freud gave the work its original name in reference to Litvinoff's function. The painting sold for £1,156,500 at Christie's in 1999.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDavid_Litvinoff&ei=C2FwVLzBNMPqaO75gPAJ&usg=AFQjCNHACmWUnTqWGLWw5cObRVbYQndY2g&sig2=vws18fuIv9DPmtt0xZO77A&bvm=bv.80185997,d.d2s" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">David Litvinoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #ec0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Here's a band that truly does deserve<br />it's cult reputation. Combining comedy, 30's-style music-hall sounds and the wacky, bizarre humour of the band's two major figures <span style="color: #ec0000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall</span>, the Bonzo's had their best time in the late 60's, when they filled large-halls and even had a hit single with "I am the Urban Spaceman".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Red-haired as Calvert (discretely hidden on the photo you see on the left), and certainly as eccentric (possibly even more), <span style="color: #ec0000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vivian Stanshall</span>, famous comedian - musician; front-man of the Bonzos; the "court-jester of the underground scene" as John Peel described him. </span></div>
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<tr><td align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">"The quintessential art school band, <span style="color: #ec0000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Bonzos</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>were a chaotic mixture of music hall, rock parody and Dada nonsense. Resolutely English, Stanshall & co. brought an absurdist sense of humour to a scene that was already beginning to take itself too seriously."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img align="left" alt="Stanshall + Moon as the Adolf-Twins" height="210" hspace="14" src="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/images/bonzos/stanshall-moon-hitlers.jpg" vspace="1" width="150" />To shed some light on his somewhat bizarre and outrageous sense of humour: he obviously took delight in cruising through the pubs of London with his good friend <span style="color: #ec0000;">Keith Moon</span> - wearing Nazi uniforms. What fun! (Read more on Stanshall's career in the <a href="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/index.htm#article">article</a> below.)</span><br />
<span style="color: #ec0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Stanshall</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> made a significant contribution to Calvert's <a href="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/slides/codia15.htm" target="coldia">Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters</a> album, performing most of the lead character's in the sketches that appear between the songs, accompanied by <span style="color: #ec0000;">Tom Mittledorf, Richard Ealing, Jim Capaldi and Calvert</span> himself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img align="RIGHT" alt="Vivian alive" border="0" height="350" hspace="12" src="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/images/bonzos/vivian3g.jpg" vspace="4" width="161" />And <span style="color: #ec0000;">Calvert</span> obviously knew that <span style="color: #ec0000;">Stanshall</span> was THE man for this: Here you can hear <span style="color: #ec0000;">Stanshall</span> in top-form, making full use of the whole range of his famous "posh talk" -<br />writes Pete Dooley: </span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">"Stanshall was apparently forcibly taught BBC English by his father, who returned from the war "a changed man". It might have worked out well, but the Stanshalls lived in the East End of London, and so Viv's cultured tones set him apart from the norm at an early age."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">On <a href="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/slides/codia15.htm" target="coldia">Captain Lockheed...</a> <span style="color: #ec0000;">Stanshall</span> impersonates all sorts of characters: from the mad-fat German then defense minister Franz Joseph Strauss to a neurotic test-pilot, whose mother crashed while she tried to cross the atlantic single-handedly...and they only found her false eye-lashes, floating on the waves...and that's why he is wearing mascara....for her sacred memory...all clear?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Well, get an audio taste of it here - <b><a href="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/audio/var/testpilots.ram">LISTEN</a></b> to:<br /><a href="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/audio/var/testpilots.ram">Two Pilots discussing the Starfighter's performance</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">However, the strange way <span style="color: #ec0000;">Calvert and Stanshall</span> got to know each other did not point to a later collaboration - quite on the contrary....: Read the hilarious story of the <a href="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/oncalvert/calon.htm" target="top">first meeting of Calvert and Viv Stanshall</a> on the QUOTES pages - told by <a href="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/menus/collmen11.htm" target="colmenu">Arthur Brown </a>who introduced them to each other. <span style="color: #ec0000;"><</span></span><br />
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<tr><td><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="article"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">More on Vivian Stanshall</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> - taken from a -shortened- <span style="color: #ff0927;">article by Pete Dooley</span>:</span></b></span><br />
<img align="LEFT" alt="the Bonzo's" height="268" hspace="13" src="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/images/bonzos/bonzos2.jpg" vspace="3" width="275" /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">"Viv's first brush with fame came with the Bonzo Dog Band. Everyone knows 'The Urban Spaceman', but don't be fooled. That was Neil Innes' baby.<br />Turn the single over, and you'll hear Stanshall's bloated-Presley flavoured 'Canyons Of Your Mind', complete with camp intro and atrocious Innes guitar solo, which actually pre-dated the genuine fat-Vegas-Elvis by a couple of years. Maybe Elvis heard this song and thought it was a good idea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">From 1965 to 1970, over four albums, the Bonzos flirted with a variety of musical styles, beginning with 1920s novelty songs and ending with psychedelic mini-operas, spawning hordes of imitators along the way. What Monty Python didn't steal from Spike Milligan, they stole from the Bonzos. They even eventually stole Neil Innes, in person. The Bonzos were also feted regulars on John Peel's Top Gear show, producing many sessions that were superior to their officially-released versions. I recommend them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;"><img align="RIGHT" alt="bonzo-scape" height="220" hspace="14" src="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/images/bonzos/bonzos-live.jpg" vspace="0" width="289" />In 1970, the Bonzos went their separate ways. Viv Stanshall immediately launched Big Grunt, who recorded little more than a session for John Peel (and a damn fine one, at that) before Viv suffered a massive, and much-publicised, nervous breakdown.<br /><br />As a result, Stanshall became tranquiliser dependent, a condition he wrestled with for the next twenty years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;"><img align="right" height="220" hspace="14" src="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/images/bonzos/viv-micro.jpg" vspace="3" width="207" />Stanshall re-emerged a year later, filling in for a few weeks on John Peel's radio show. Vivian Stanshall's Radio Flashes, a mix of sketches and music, ran for four episodes and a Christmas special. It was enormously popular and the BBC asked for more. Viv, still recuperating, had looked upon the enterprise as a favour for Peel, felt he couldn't handle the pressure, and declined. Twenty years later, Victor Lewis-Smith, who'd obviously heard Radio Flashes, was doing much the same thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">During 1972 a single, Suspicion, an effective demolition of the Presley tune, was a minor hit. Also in 1972 the Bonzos briefly reunited for their contractual obligation album, 'Let's Make Up And Be Friendly'. Less a Bonzos album than a Stanshall/Innes collaboration, it was still surprisingly good. 1974 saw the release of Viv's masterpiece, 'Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead', a both hilarious and chilling work, reflecting Stanshall's own troubled state at the time. Two years and a label change later saw the release of the single 'The Question' (worth searching out for its b-side, a Boris Karloff Frankenstein remake of The Young Ones).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">Stanshall was still appearing regularly on Radio 4's Start The Week and producing sessions for John Peel. It was from the latter that Viv's next album originated, released in 1978.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;"><img align="right" height="220" hspace="14" src="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/images/bonzos/viv-bonzo-live.jpg" vspace="3" width="282" />'Sir Henry At Rawlinson End' was the bizarre, sprawling saga of that last bastion of decent English lunacy, Sir Henry Rawlinson, and his various warped relatives and deranged servants. The Rawlinson saga proved to be one of the more popular post-Bonzos projects, spawning a film, a stage play and a book, and it continued to run away with itself on radio right into the early nineties.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">1981 saw a return to more musical things with 'Teddy Boys Don't Knit', a collection of wonderfully tasteless tunes, concerning variously senility, sudden death, alcoholism and uncontrollable sneezing. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">1983 saw the release of 'Sir Henry At N'Didi's Kraal', a below-par offering of highly-lavatorial hi-jinks, which in Stanshall's own words "should never have been released".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;"><img align="right" height="220" hspace="14" src="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/images/bonzos/viv-bonzos-live2.jpg" vspace="3" width="269" />The rest of the 1980s saw Viv's work confined largely to radio, but in 1991 after successfully battling his various demons, Stanshall embarked upon a marathon UK tour to packed houses and rapturous audiences; particularly memorable was a show in Manchester, at which Viv was "adored" by a section of the audience prostrating themselves at his manly feet. Shortly afterwards, his short play Crank was broadcast by the BBC's Late Show.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">In 1992 and 1993, Stanshall was plagued by ill-health, the results of his tranquiliser addiction and alcoholism, which saw him spend a couple of lengthy periods in hospital.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">By 1994, somewhat rejuvenated, he embarked upon gathering new material for a prospective new album. By his own estimate, he had 90 or songs lying around "waiting for some bugger with the money". He also made an appearance (somewhat the worse for drink) in Pulp's film 'Do You Remember The First Time?', and in the final months of the year Viv completed another nostalgic autobiographical piece for Radio 4, in which he reflected upon his early life and environment. It was almost as if he knew.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;"><img align="right" height="220" hspace="14" src="http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/collab/images/bonzos/viv-eyes.jpg" vspace="3" width="240" />By the beginning of 1995, Viv had clinched the album deal that had eluded him for so long, and a new album of Rawlinson End material was on the cards. Whether or not anything had been recorded, and if it'll be released, remains to be seen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, mono; font-size: x-small;">Viv Stanshall died in a fire at his London flat sometime during the early hours of March 6th, 1995."</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Forget Bob Dylan's mauling by the critics and fans for his move into electric rock in the mid sixties; if there’s one man who has suffered more from the ire of his peers it has to be Miles. Hindsight shows us that his move from modal jazz to dirty street funk between 1968 and 1975 was an inspired evolution of a musical genius, but from the release of <em style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden;">In A Silent Way</em> onwards Davis was frequently misunderstood and brutally chastised for daring to change. The culmination was <em style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden;">On The Corner</em>. A huge part of his fanbase took it as a genuine insult, directed at those who had stuck with him even through the drastic reinvention of <em style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Bitches Brew</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Here was an album that seemed to kowtow to the demands of a younger, hipper audience (just check the truly awful cover art for starters), eschewing soloing for the groove, yet even funk rock fans had a hard time getting it. As a result it was his slowest selling album of his entire career at Columbia. Nowadays it’s a different story. We now know that the dark undertow of these relentless jams along with the revolutionary cut and paste approach to their 'construction' from hours of sessions prefigured and in some cases gave birth to nu-jazz, jazz funk, experimental jazz, ambient and even world music.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">This, the last deluxe box set to collect outtakes, original un-mixed masters and un-edited takes, is not just a document of the sessions that came to make up <em style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden;">On The Corner</em>, it also collects sessions from between '72 and '75 of the work that made up <em style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Big Fun </em>and <em style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Get Up With It</em>. Here we find the originals of some of Miles' most pivotal work, not least the incredible "He Loved Him Madly" which was once cited by Brian Eno as changing his entire view of music.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Over six cds we get the complete picture of Davis’ last effort to re-contextualise electric instrumentation within modern music. Here musicians checked their egos at the door and were asked to subsume their skills in service to brooding repetition and flurries of colour splashed over skewed vamps. The real heroes of the piece in fact may just be Michael Henderson - on whose staccato, minimalist fender bass riffing every workout hangs - and of course, producer Teo Macero, whose interest in Stockhausen and tape manipulation allowed him to piece together this material in such challenging ways.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Miles himself barely appears on some cuts, his muted trumpet squawking intermittently while a stellar cast whips up a storm. The cuts often feature up to five percussionists demonstrating how Miles wanted to connect with a street vibe that by the early 70s signified not only musical radicalism but also a political stance that connected his muse back to the ghetto. This is above all Black music, devoted to rhythm but steeped in confrontational voodoo. As if to underline the cultural rhetoric he throws into the heavy gumbo the Eastern flavours of sitar and tabla as on "Chieftain" and "Black Satin".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">John Mclaughlin’s guitar bites and shimmers in a wah-wah frenzy, as does Pete Cosey’s. Both Dave Liebman's and Sonny Fortune's sax and flute frills add pathos…the list goes on and on, but above all the groove holds sway.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">For Miles fanatics, hours could be spent identifying the source materials and players who make up each track. Luckily a fabulously comprehensive set of sleevenotes and annotations by mixer Bob Belden does the job perfectly. There’s also an insight into the process of recording by electric cellist and sessioneer extrordinaire, Paul Buckmaster.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">It still sounds fearless and almost wilfully formless, but it’s also still some of the greatest music ever recorded. Without this modern music just wouldn't be the same, it’s as simple as that. For this reason alone this may be the most important box set of all released under Miles' name. Every home should have one.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">In today's <strong>encore</strong> selection -- total recall, the ability of someone to remember every word they read or hear, has often been lauded as tantamount to a high level of intelligence. The opposite is more often the case. Those with total recall often have difficulty making decisions, and more readily miss understanding the overall point of a book or lecture --because they get enmeshed in an undistinguishable mass of irrelevant details. Forgetting, it turns out, has enormous value for concise understanding and for emotional health:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">"Solomon Shereshevsky could recite entire speeches, word for word, after hearing them once. In minutes, he memorized complex math formulas, passages in foreign languages and tables consisting of 50 numbers or nonsense syllables. The traces of these sequences were so durably etched in his brain that he could reproduce them years later, according to Russian psychologist Alexander R. Luria, who wrote about the man he called, simply, 'S' in <em>The Mind of a Mnemonist</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">"But the weight of all the memories, piled up and overlapping in his brain, created crippling confusion. S could not fathom the meaning of a story, because the words got in the way. <em>'No,' [S] would say. 'This is too much. Each word calls up images; they collide with one another, and the result is chaos. I can't make anything out of this.'</em> When S was asked to make decisions, as chair of a union group, he could not parse the situation as a whole, tripped up as he was on irrelevant details. He made a living performing feats of recollection.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">"The emerging data provide the first scientific support for Sigmund Freud's controversial theory of repression, by which unwanted memories are shoved into the subconscious. The new evidence suggests that the ability to repress is quite useful. Those who cannot do this well tend to let thoughts stick in their mind. They ruminate, which can pave a path to depression. Weak restraints on memory may similarly impede the emotional recovery of trauma victims. Lacking brakes on mental intrusions, individuals with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are also more likely to be among the forgetless (to coin a term). In short, memory -- and forgetting -- can shape your personality."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">The Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot in the head by the Taliban has been discharged from a Birmingham hospital as an inpatient.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Malala Yousafzai, 15, was being treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB) after being transferred following the attack in October.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">She will continue rehabilitation at her family's temporary West Midlands home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">The Taliban said it shot Malala, a campaigner for girls' education, for "promoting secularism".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">The shooting, in a school bus, sparked domestic and international outrage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Malala was returning home from school in the north-western Swat district on 9 October when gunmen stopped her vehicle and shot her in the head and the chest.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">She received immediate treatment in Pakistan where surgeons removed a bullet which entered just above her left eye and ran along her jaw, grazing her brain.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">The teenager was then flown to the UK and was admitted to the QEHB on 15 October to receive specialist treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Over the past few weeks, Malala has been leaving the hospital on home visits to spend time with her father Ziauddin, mother Toorpekai and younger brothers, Khushal and Atul.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said doctors believe she will continue to make good progress outside the hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">The schoolgirl is due to undergo cranial reconstruction surgery in late January or early February.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Dr Dave Rosser, the trust's medical director, said: "Malala is a strong young woman and has worked hard with the people caring for her to make excellent progress in her recovery.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">"Following discussions with Malala and her medical team, we decided that she would benefit from being at home with her parents and two brothers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">"She will return to the hospital as an outpatient and our therapies team will continue to work with her at home to supervise her care."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Since the shooting, Malala and her father have had threats made against their lives by the Taliban.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Foreign Secretary William Hague tweeted: "Delighted #Malala is well enough to leave hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">"The future Pakistan she dreams of is one we must support."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">Malala came to prominence when, as an 11-year-old, she </span><span style="color: lime;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7889120.stm" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: initial;" title="Malala's diary">wrote a diary for BBC Urdu</a>, </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: red;">giving an account of how her school in Mingora town dealt with the Taliban's 2009 edict to close girls' schools.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Her love for education, and her courage in standing up to the Taliban, made her an icon of bravery and earned her a national peace award in 2011.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, visited Malala at the hospital on 8 December and assured the family his government would meet the expenses of the treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br />Mr Yousafzai has been appointed education attache at the Consulate of Pakistan for at least three years.</span>On Wednesday, the Pakistan government announced that Malala's father had been given a job in Birmingham.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">The family has received thousands of cards, gifts and messages of support from well-wishers since arriving in the UK.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">In a statement in November, her father said the family "deeply feel the heart-touching good wishes of the people across the world of all castes, colour and creed".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">He added: "I am awfully thankful to all the peace-loving well-wishers who strongly condemn the assassination attempt on Malala, who pray for her health, and support the grand cause of peace, education, freedom of thought and freedom of expression."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">Tens of thousands of people have also signed a petition calling for Malala to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">West Midlands Police said it continued to work with the hospital and the family "to provide support and liaison as Malala recuperates from her injuries".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red;">The force said it would be inappropriate to comment on the ongoing policing operation.</span></div>
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follow the link_ <span style="color: lime;">http://testpressing.org/</span>Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-40148602333400661712013-01-02T20:47:00.002+01:002013-01-02T21:35:45.771+01:00Brothers & Sisters ~with no fear and a full stomach, I don't care how shite your life appears to be, these children need your help, get off your fat arse & do something, if only ya rattle the tin with a ten-pence piece _<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tens of thousands of people have fled Goma as rebels took over the city on Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Save the Children staff on ground report that children have been separated from their parents in the rush to escape the rebel advance, and could face recruitment from armed groups operating in the area.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Any child separated in the rush to flee the fighting is at grave risk of being recruited by any one of several militias in the area,” said Rob MacGillivray, our country director in the DRC.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A team of Save the Children staff is poised to enter Goma as soon as the security situation allows vital humanitarian work to recommence.</span></div>
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<a href="https://secure.savethechildren.org.uk/donate/emergency?Amount=0&sourcecode=A12011001" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please donate so we're ready to help children in the DRC</span></strong></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rob MacGillivray added: “We know that these groups have had few qualms about forcing children to join in the past and have no reason to suppose they will take a different approach now.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The situation is extremely chaotic, with some families being displaced more than once, and we can only imagine how confused and frightened children caught up in this violence will be.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An estimated 400,000 people live in Goma, and the surrounding area is home to another 300,000 displaced people, according to the UN.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tens of thousands of people have already fled the area, with children particularly vulnerable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“In any refugee crisis children face a range of risks, including separation from their families, abuse and exploitation, but the long-term insecurity in the eastern DRC means children are in a particularly dangerous situation,” MacGillivray continued.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“They may be alone in an area where armed groups often recruit children, have witnessed terrible things, and without basic supplies like food and clean water.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We call all sides to ensure that children are offered the protection they are owed and that they can be reunited with their families as soon as possible.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">it's time to help your BrotherMan, put your hand where your mouth is !</span></div>
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Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-25348520937265760042013-01-01T20:14:00.002+01:002013-01-04T21:38:09.298+01:00flap dragon ~<span style="font-size: large;">wot happen Pippa..??</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the silence betrays ya..</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with an a bootle & glass as hot as your's & a sister in high places</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">you don't need to show any respect, your an 'un-equal' citizen</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but tell me, how much did the 'get outta jail card' cost..??</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">money don't talk, it fuckin' swears..Happy New Year my dear!</span><br />
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Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-36653459054108608182012-12-31T11:21:00.000+01:002013-01-01T09:55:24.165+01:00cold calling ~<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: lime;">...it's time to accept..the long term achievement reward for benefit fraud ~</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although an aristocrat by birth, Shelley became a rebel, a passionate revolutionary, whose life’s purpose was to attack tyranny and injustice in state and society. His career of rebellion began at Oxford, from where he was expelled for atheism at the age of 19. From this crucial starting-point, Heathcote Williams provides us with a new account of Shelley’s message and gives us back the real Shelley, the intellectual revolutionary free of the romantic stereotype. In <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shelley at Oxford</i>, we have a raw and incendiary wild-child brought to life in a piece of writing that shows exactly why Shelley is thought of as so scorchingly subversive some two centuries later.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heathcote Williams is an anarchist, magician, and writer. His unique form of polemical poetry, which questions and challenges established power and authority, is in the great tradition of visionary dissent. In many ways Williams is Shelley’s modern-day heir.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that means, they're both rich, privilege fuckers, but don't hold that against 'em!</span></div>
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Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-77535727782218535132012-12-30T11:01:00.001+01:002012-12-30T22:22:57.349+01:00zip it kid ~<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">never trust your betters' otherwise all kinds a mischief could befall ya!</span><br />
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Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3009958420730198208.post-79413215825673551482012-12-28T20:34:00.000+01:002012-12-28T21:17:27.469+01:00songs of faded love ~<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2012 was just another year in paradise..here's the the best bit,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The</span><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;"> pale moon rose in its glory</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Out o'er the Western town</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">She told a sad, sad story</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Of the great ship that went down</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">T'was the fourteenth day of April</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Over the waves she rode</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Sailing into tomorrow</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">To a gilded age foretold</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1090435" href="http://rapgenius.com/1090435/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-night-was-black-with-starlight-the-seas-were-sharp-and-clear" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The night was black with starlight</a><br /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1090435" href="http://rapgenius.com/1090435/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-night-was-black-with-starlight-the-seas-were-sharp-and-clear" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The seas were sharp and clear</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Moving through the shadows</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The promised hour was near</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Lights were holding steady</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Gliding over the foam</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">All the lords and ladies</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Heading for their eternal home</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The chandeliers were swaying</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">From the balustrades above</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The orchestra was playing</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Songs of faded love</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1093569" href="http://rapgenius.com/1093569/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-watchman-he-lay-dreaming-as-the-ballroom-dancers-twirled-he-dreamed-the-titanic-was-sinking-into-the-underworld" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The watchman, he lay dreaming<br />As the ballroom dancers twirled<br />He dreamed the Titanic was sinking<br />Into the underworld</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1086407" href="http://rapgenius.com/1086407/Bob-dylan-tempest/Leo-took-his-sketchbook" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Leo took his sketchbook</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He was often so inclined</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He closed his eyes and painted</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The scenery in his mind</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Cupid struck his bosom</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">And broke it with a snap</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The closest woman to him</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He fell into her lap</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He heard a loud commotion</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Something sounded wrong</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">His inner spirit was saying</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">That he couldn't stand here long</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He staggered to the quarterdeck</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">No time now to sleep</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Water on the quarterdeck</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Already three foot deep</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Smokestack was leaning sideways</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Heavy feet began to pound</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He walked into the whirlwind</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Sky splitting all around</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The ship was going under</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The universe had opened wide</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The roll was called up yonder</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The angels turned aside</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Lights down in the hallway</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Flickering dim and dull</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Dead bodies already floating</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">In the double bottom hull</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1090439" href="http://rapgenius.com/1090439/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-engines-then-exploded" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The engines then exploded</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Propellers they failed to start</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1090442" href="http://rapgenius.com/1090442/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-boilers-overloaded" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The boilers overloaded</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The ship's bow split apart</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Passengers were flying</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Backward, forward, far and fast</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">They mumbled, fumbled, and tumbled</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Each one more weary than the last</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1142972" href="http://rapgenius.com/1142972/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-veil-was-torn-asunder" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The veil was torn asunder</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">'Tween the hours of twelve and one</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">No change, no sudden wonder</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Could undo what had been done</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The watchman lay there dreaming</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">At forty-five degrees</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He dreamed that the Titanic was sinking</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Dropping to her knees</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Wellington he was sleeping</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">His bed began to slide</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">His valiant heart was beating</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He pushed the tables aside</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Glass of shattered crystal</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Lay scattered roundabout</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He strapped on both his pistols</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">How long could he hold out?</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">His men and his companions</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Were nowhere to be seen</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">In silence there he waited for</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Time and space to intervene</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The passageway was narrow</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">There was blackness in the air</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He saw every kind of sorrow</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Heard voices everywhere</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Alarm-bells were ringing</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">To hold back the swelling tide</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Friends and lovers clinging</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">To each other side by side</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Mothers and their daughters</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Descending down the stairs</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Jumped into the icy waters</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Love and pity sent their prayers</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1090419" href="http://rapgenius.com/1090419/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-rich-man-mister-astor-kissed-his-darling-wife" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The rich man, Mister Astor<br />Kissed his darling wife</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He had no way of knowing</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Be the last trip of his life</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1093502" href="http://rapgenius.com/1093502/Bob-dylan-tempest/Calvin-blake-and-wilson" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Calvin, Blake, and Wilson</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Gambled in the dark</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Not one of them would ever live to</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Tell the tale or disembark</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Brother rose up 'gainst brother</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">In every circumstance</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">They fought and slaughtered each other</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">In a deadly dance</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">They lowered down the lifeboats</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">From the sinking wreck</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">There were traitors, there were turncoats</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Broken backs and broken necks</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1237736" href="http://rapgenius.com/1237736/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-bishop-left-his-cabin-to-help-all-those-in-need-turned-his-eyes-up-to-the-heavens-said-the-poor-are-yours-to-feed" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The bishop left his cabin<br />To help all those in need<br />Turned his eyes up to the heavens<br />Said, "The poor are yours to feed"</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Davey the brothel-keeper</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Came out dismissed his girls</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Saw the water getting deeper</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Saw the changing of his world</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Jim Backus smiled</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He never learned to swim</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Saw the little crippled child</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">And he gave his seat to him</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1068550" href="http://rapgenius.com/1068550/Bob-dylan-tempest/He-saw-the-starlight-shining-streaming-from-the-east" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">He saw the starlight shining<br />Streaming from the East</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Death was on the rampage</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">But his heart was now at peace</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">They battened down the hatches</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">But the hatches wouldn't hold</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">They drowned upon the staircase</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Of brass and polished gold</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Leo said to Cleo</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">I think I'm going mad</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">But he'd lost his mind already</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Whatever mind he had</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He tried to block the doorway</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">To save all those from harm</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Blood from an open wound</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Pouring down his arm</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Petals fell from flowers</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Til all of them were gone</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">In the long and dreadful hours</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The wizard's curse played on</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The host was pouring brandy</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He was going down slow</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He stayed right to the end and he</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Was the last to go</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1090425" href="http://rapgenius.com/1090425/Bob-dylan-tempest/There-were-many-many-others-nameless-here-forever-more-they-never-sailed-the-ocean-or-left-their-homes-before" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">There were many, many others<br />Nameless here forever more<br />They never sailed the ocean<br />Or left their homes before</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The watchman, he lay dreaming</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The damage had been done</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He dreamed the Titanic was sinking</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">And he tried to tell someone</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1325009" href="http://rapgenius.com/1325009/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-captain-barely-breathing-kneeling-at-the-wheel-above-him-and-beneath-him-fifty-thousand-tons-of-steel" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The captain, barely breathing<br />Kneeling at the wheel<br />Above him and beneath him<br />Fifty thousand tons of steel</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He looked over at his compass</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">And he gazed into its face</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Needle pointing downward</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He knew he lost the race</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">In the dark illumination</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He remembered bygone years</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He read the Book of Revelation</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">And he filled his cup with tears</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">When the Reaper's task had ended</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Sixteen hundred had gone to rest</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The good, the bad, the rich, the poor</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The loveliest and the best</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">They waited at the landing</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">And they tried to understand</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">But there is no understanding</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">For the judgment of God's hand</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The news came over the wires</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">And struck with deadly force</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">The love had lost its fires</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">All things had run their course</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><a class="state-accepted" data-id="1090429" href="http://rapgenius.com/1090429/Bob-dylan-tempest/The-watchman-he-lay-dreaming" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The watchman he lay dreaming</a><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">Of all the things that can be</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="color: red; line-height: 26.383333206176758px;">He dreamed the Titanic was sinking</span><br style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;" /><span style="line-height: 26.383333206176758px;"><span style="color: red;">Into the deep blue sea...</span><span style="color: lime;">Bob Dylan</span><span style="color: red;"> _</span></span></span>Johnny Haddohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15880701230334986918noreply@blogger.com0