"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."

--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher PM Press/noir enthusiast
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Friday, October 20, 2017

Stop the Idiocy! Stop the Mattis-ness!

The (revised) toll in lives was: 36, 546 US soldiers, an estimated 1.5 million Koreans on both sides of the parallel (mostly civilians), 200,000 Chinese soldiers, and another 4000 soldiers from armies that allied themselves with the United States.  In addition, there were more than one million wounded and/or missing.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/20/stop-the-idiocy-stop-the-mattis-ness/

Thursday, August 27, 2015

If Daydream Sunset:60s Counterculture in the '70s had a playlist, this would be it



“I’m Free”----The Who from Tommy
“Good Times, Bad Times”----Led Zeppelin
“The Israelites”---Desmond Dekker and the Aces
“Gimme Shelter”----Rolling Stones from Let It Bleed
“Okie From Muskogee”---Merle Haggard
“New Speedway Boogie”---Grateful Dead from Workingman’s Dead
“Luv & Haight”---Sly and the Family Stone from There’s a Riot Goin’ On
“For Everyman”---Jackson Browne from For Everyman
“I Threw It All Away”---Bob Dylan from Nashville Skyline
“God”---John Lennon from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
“Them Changes”---Jimi Hendrix from Band of Gypsys
“Ohio”---Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
“Out of Gas”---Prairie Fire
“H₂0 Gate Blues”----Gil Scott Heron/Brian Jackson from Winter in America
“Hurricane”---Bob Dylan and Rolling Thunder Revue from Live 1975
“Break It Up”---Patti Smith Group from Horses
“Before the Deluge”---Jackson Browne from Late For the Sky
“Rebel, Rebel”---David Bowie from Diamond Dogs
“Backstreets”----Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band from Born to Run
“Simple Man”---Lynyrd Skynyrd from (Pronounced 'LÄ•h-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
“Red Headed Stranger”---Willie Nelson from Red Headed Stranger
“Sitting In Limbo”---Jimmy Cliff from The Harder They Come
“White Riot”---The Clash
“Rebel Music”---Bob Marley and the Wailers from Natty Dread
“Long Hot Summer”---Tom Robinson Band from Power in the Darkness
“God Save the Queen”---The Sex Pistols
“Less Than Zero”---Elvis Costello and the Attractions from My Aim is True
“What About Me?”---Quicksilver Messenger Service from What About Me?
“Estimated Prophet”---Grateful Dead from Dick’s Picks Volume 15/Live Englishtown, NJ 9/3/1977
“Respectable”---Rolling Stones from Some Girls
“Vicious”---Lou Reed from Transformer
“The Pretender”---Jackson Browne from The Pretender
“Factory”---Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band from Darkness On the Edge of Town
 “Jimmy Jazz”---The Clash from London Calling
“California Über Alles”---Dead Kennedys
“You Gotta’ Serve Somebody”---Bob Dylan from Slow Train Coming
“Comfortably Numb”---Pink Floyd from The Wall
“US Blues”---Grateful Dead live 1/15/1980 Cambodian Refugees Benefit, Oakland, CA.