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jazz/socialism (was: Re: books on my bedside table)
by Ben Axelrad 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

If I could piggyback on this thread.... I was wondering if there are any substantial ties between the improv musicians in Europe and socialism/communism. A week or two after purchasing one of Paul Rutherfords ISKRA cds, I came across the word ISKRA in Lenin's "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder." Apparently it is the name of a pre-Revolutionary journal edited by Lenin, Plekhanov, and others. Anyone have more info (maybe Bill Ashline if he is still around)? I grew up in the 80s and recall sitting in a movie theater watching "Rocky IV" and the whole audience erupted in a "USA! USA!" chant during the big fight. But even that seems naive when compared with to the pre-Fascist times we live in now. I am addicted to news punditry and like to check out right-wing talk shows when travelling. The worst I've heard is Michael Savage, who advocates imperialism (his words) in the Middle East and South Africa (which he claims is the world capital of "infant rape". Apparently in the Savage world, Nelson Mandela is a "thug", and while he (S) is not for apartheid, clearly "these people don't know how to run their own country"). The Arabs are "diaperheads" who run around in "dirty bedsheets" and the college students against the war "Should go back to their bathhouse, we know what their agenda is." Thanks, Ben >From: "Caleb T. Deupree" <cdeupree(a)erinet.com> >To: "Benito Vergara" <bvergara(a)sfsu.edu>, "Zorn List" ><zorn-list(a)lists.xmission.com> >Subject: Re: books on my bedside table (no JZ content) >Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 19:37:29 -0400 > >For my recent non-fiction slogging, I'm slowly working through Francois >Furet's Passing of an Illusion, a history of the idea of communism. I grew >up in the USA in the 50s and 60s, where the worst thing you could call >someone was a commie. This book gives me an extremely interesting context >for that attitude, although so far (just finishing WWII) it has been much >more Eurocentric than directly related to events in the US. It's a very >nice addition to the series of 'history of the 20th century' books I've >been reading over the last few years, including the likes of Hobsbawm and >Johnson. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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Re: jazz/socialism
by Yuriy Gurzhy 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

>There is a great interview of Tom Waits in the Onion: > > http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3820/avfeature_3820.html > >Where he quotes a Soviet propaganda poster of the 1930's that says: "Today you >will play jazz, tomorrow you will betray your country." Of course, he could >very well have made this up, but it's a great quote anyway. > He didn't make this up, it's absolutely true - Segodn'a on igraet jazz, a zavtra rodinu prodast.

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New Otomo mailinglist/website (OT)
by Marco Pronk 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hey all, Firts of all sorry for the maybe OT spamming, but we would like to take a minute of your time to read this e-mail Today we @ The Noise Commando started a mailinglist at Yahoogroups dedicated to Otomo Yoshihide called Ground-0tomo @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ground-0tomo Also we have plans to later in this year also start off a website dedicated to Otomo, but we sure can use help from other people too. So if anybody overhere is intrested in joining this mailinglist or can help us anyfurther with providing information or helping us out please feel free to contact us at the following e-mail address noise_commando(a)hotmail.com Any help/info will be much appricated and thanks for your time reading this, The Noise Commando crew

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Re: overdue DVD reissues/HERZOG
by Ben Axelrad 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Can anyone comment on Herzog's audio commentary for the DVD releases on Anchor bay? I've been very tempted to buy some of these, especially after seeing parts of "Burden of Dreams" on the Sundance channel. Herzog is either a genius or a lunatic, that documentary was best when they just let Herzog ramble: "When God created this land -- if we can say that God exists -- surely he created it in anger...." (paraphrase) Glad Stroszek was finally released. Rivals some of Fassbinder's films for best ending ever. Is this really me? Ben >From: "josephneff" <jneff(a)visuallink.com> >To: <zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com> >Subject: overdue DVD reissues >Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 01:59:26 -0400 > >Hello, > ...in the spirit of the current thread, what would folks like to see >make it to DVD? Here's some of mine.... > >"The Phenix City Story" (Phil Karlson) >"Contempt", "One Plus One", "Band of Outsiders", + early shorts (J L >Godard) >"Dog Star Man" (Stan Brakhage) >"Who's That Knocking at My Door?", "Italian American", & "The King of >Comedy" (Scorsese) >"The Blues According To Lightnin' Hopkins", "Hot Pepper", "Burden of >Dreams", "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" (Les Blank) >"The Mother & the Whore" (Jean Eustache) >"Solaris" & "Stalker" (Tarkovsky) >"Paris, Texas" (Wenders) >"Why Does Herr R. Runn Amok?", "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul", "In the Year of >13 >Moons" (Fassbinder) >"The Killers" (Siegel) >"Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!" & "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" (Russ >Meyer) >"Zabriskie Point" (Antonioni) >"Point Blank" John Boorman) >"Le Samourai", "Les Enfants Terribles", Bob le Flambeur" (Melville) >"Love Affair", "WR: Mysteries of the Organism", "Sweet Movie" (Makavejev) > >I remain... > >Joseph > >NP: Nino Rota- "Original Soundtrack Recording- La Dolce Vita" LP >NR: William H. Gass- "The Tunnel' > > >_______________________________________________ >zorn-list mailing list >zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Overdue releases
by Edgar Lee 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Jim They had more releases than that. The Limited Entertainment EP came out on Y records. /www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Limo/8385/g/uk80g.htm Thanks Edgar NP Not drowning waving re Braving the deep waters, Edgar wrote to zorn-list: E> It would also be nice to have compilations of some of the other E> groups on Dick O'Dell's Y label out on CD too such as the Glaxo E> babies and Maximum Joy. Glaxo Babies had a record on Y? The only ones I know about (_Put Me on the Guest List_ and _Nine Months to the Disco_) were both on Heartbeat ... both of which are long overdue for exhumation. -- Jim Flannery http://www.sold.com.au - The Sold.com.au Big Brand Sale - New PCs, notebooks, digital cameras, phones and more ... Sale ends June 12

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re: portishead
by Darti Bastamai 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

>Has anybody heard anything from these guys? Last time I heard anything >was >"Live at Roseland" and the "To Kill a Dead Man" soundtrack. Does >anyone >have >word from the inside? >kasra george ahmadi Last I heard, they were working on a new album in Australia, but that was at least 6 months ago, and I haven't heard a thing since. The website still says they are "taking a break" _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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DVD Encoding
by Bill Ashline 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

I recently bought a powerbook and have now discovered this particular problem with encoding when i watch DVDs. I live in region 3 and can watch most region 3 DVDs on region 1 encoding. But the problem comes with distribution of international releases. I can get a fair bit of good stuff in Region 3, but a lot of it I will need to buy and have bought on the net, including the latest Im Kwon Taek release, Chunhyang, which I got from Amazon (not available in Region 3 yet). Unfortunately, I only have 5 switches on the DVD player, after which, I won't be able to watch some of the DVDs I actually own. What do you folks do about this? Why the hell was this particular technology rigged in this way? Sorry to bug the list about this, but I'm curious if there might be a solution other than having to buy two DVD players. BTW, congrats to Im Kwon Taek on his winning best director at Cannes. Highly deserved. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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Overdue CD releases
by Edgar Lee 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

Are there any plans to reissue the 3 Pop Group LPs on CD again? They've been released on CD before but are very difficult to track down. It would also be nice to have compilations of some of the other groups on Dick O'Dell's Y label out on CD too such as the Glaxo babies and Maximum Joy. I'd also like to see many of the records that came out on one of New York's best ever labels, Michael Zilkha's Ze records, out on CD. I haven't seen Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Cristina on CD at all. Edgar NP Austrian Choir Live in Melbourne 1981-2001 http://www.sold.com.au - The Sold.com.au Big Brand Sale - New PCs, notebooks, digital cameras, phones and more ... Sale ends June 12

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portishead
by Kasra George Ahmadi 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

Has anybody heard anything from these guys? Last time I heard anything was "Live at Roseland" and the "To Kill a Dead Man" soundtrack. Does anyone have word from the inside? kasra george ahmadi

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summer festivals
by Gavin Dunne 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

Hey all, I'm travelling through europe this summer and am looking to hit a few festivals. Could anyone reccommend anything? and is the Warsaw fest on this summer? thanks, Gav __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

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