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A little later the homeless and the sporty move

A sympathetic priest heard his confession and provided absolution for what he was about to do.

(from a piece in The Spectator about the assassination of Admiral Darlan by Fernand Bonnier on Christmas Eve 1942

Thanks to Andrew Robinson

Read more on Mother Jones here.

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It was appropriate that The Seldom Seen Kid and Build a Rocket Boys in the Giant General Knowledge crossword this morning led me to Elbow, as an hour later Doug’s book arrived and flicking it open I hit immediately page 14 line 3 “Not so much Elbow (a relatively obscure band)”. An excellent collection to read and to re-read. More than 100 pages of a vademecum cornucopia of how it is, why, and who does it. I don’t know where you’ll get a copy except from Primary Writing Books, 2009 Belmont Road NW, Number 203, Washington, DC 20009. ISBN 978-0-9837679-1-6 $15.

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Poor Old England Billy Williams (1909) (A Song by Fred Godfrey) 78
Charlie Parker Interviewed by Paul Desmond and John McLellan Boston Radio 1954
Please Stay The Cryin’ Shames (1961)
John Fennimore The Now Show BBC
Nomad Dave Brubeck Quartet Bennett & Brubeck: The White House Sessions
The Night I Appeared As MacBeth Billy Merson (c.1920) 78

Direct Download: histeach.mp3

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John Godfrey’s Tiny Gold Dress
Andrew Crozier’s Thrills and Frills: Selected Prose

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Brighton, Sunday June 9th. 2013
Or click here, for full set on Flickr

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Two Italian poets I like are Francesco Giusti (also a visual artist) who lives in Venice, and Pier Franco Uliana who lives further north in the Veneto, towards the alps. Both write in their local dialects as well as in Italian. Both are published by what we would think of as small presses, with little distribution. Somehow I am reminded of the poems of Ralph Mills and G.F.Dutton, two English-language writers I also like. The two books here by Uliana have little “web presence”, though Guisti’s Accanto ai denti dell’eterno can be found here. Ingens Silva was published by Aucupis Editiones, Mogliano, Veneto, Italy in December 2007 (no ISBN number): Pizzoc Panopticon by Dario De Bastiani Editore in 2012, ISBN 978-88-8466-259-0. It can be found, with a few others of his books, on this Italian bookstore site.

NOTE (June 7th. 2013) There are poems and extracts from Pier Franco Uliana’s books here on this site.

The government had initially argued that all liabilities for the torture by colonial authorities had been transferred to the Kenyan Republic upon independence in 1963 and that it could not be held liable now.

(The UK government is to apologise and pay compensation to those tortured during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s.)

Unfinished Business Jim Hall & Paul Desmond Concierto
Wild World Jimmy Cliff Icon
Stardust Hoagy Carmichael 1942:Stomp Stomp
Chena/Back To Your Heart Divided Kingdom Republic Munyaradzi
My Heart Tells Me Charlie Parker (1942) Complete “Birth of the Bebop”
See See Rider (Take B) Wee Bea Booze Sammy Price & The Blues Singers
E Lucevan Le Stelle Enrico Caruso Caruso: 21 Greatest Opera Recordings
You Can’t Go Home Again Chet Baker & Paul Desmond Together

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There’s an exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris on Guy Debord.Un art de la guerre. I just received this:

(a pdf of the catalogue is here .)

You can have your own copy of this poster (plus four others) for a mere 1,800 Euros.

So many ironies in one feu.

Jim Nisbet’s “Snitch World” is available here.

William Fuller’s Quorum is available here.

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Aha Begena Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Friends Moa Anbessa
The Gipsy Louis Armstrong & his All Stars Barcelona 23rd.December 1955
Rollercoaster Ride The Whitest Boy Alive Rules
Joy 3 Horatiu Radulescu Lao Tzu Sonatas
El Borrado Chuy Quintanilla
Prick Up Your Ears Yeah Yeah Noh Fun on the Lawn Lawn Lawn
Lose Yourself To Dance Daft Punk Random Access Memories

Direct download: audittories.mp3

Sorry, but at present I’m not up to more than adding occasional music and pictures. TR

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Jim Nisbet‘s new novel, Snitch World

available here

Claude Royet-Journoud’s book is available here.

Ta Lianotragouda Fleury Dandonaki & Dimitris Psarianos O Megalos Erotikos
Unfriendly World Iggy & The Stooges Ready to Die
Inno Nazionale Teresa de Sio Tutto Cambia
Different Pulses Asaf Avidan Different Pulses
Mack the Knife (takes) Lotte Lenya & Louis Armstrong Kurt Weill’s American Theatre Songs
Quando Saro Vecchio Lorenzo Jovanotti Cherubini Ora

Direct download: economies.mp3

until after May 10th.

Chérie Christine Adjakpon Rockyves & L’Orchestre African Sunshine Editions My
Museum of Lost Keyboards Armando Iannucci & Django Bates Between the Ears
Twilight Time Willie Nelson & Family Let’s Face the Music and Dance

Direct download: fastbreak.mp3

for sending me this glimpse of Bill Griffiths from back then:

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… this week

Anselm Hollo would have been 79 today.