Guitarist and songwriter Jon Gomm from Leeds does his thing: simultaneous drum, bass and melody from one guitar. This is Passionflower. Sez he:
This song is about I plant a grew in my 10-feet-square backyard in the Leeds inner city. I put the seeds in a tiny tub, but it grew like a Roald Dahl story until it took over the whole yard, then one day the sun shone extra hard and 100 flowers all went “Pop!”. It was amazing, so I wrote a song for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IckmX8vwdWc
Apple: Always plugging one thing or another.
To date, Activision’s Call Of Duty series has grossed over $6 billion. That’s impressive. But not as impressive as the retail sales total for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the latest outing.
$775 million+ in five days. More than any movie. Any album. Any thing.
In five days.
Occupy Dame Street has today learned from media organisations and An Garda Síochána that the Central Bank of Ireland plans to seek a Court Order tomorrow (Monday) morning in an attempt to stop the legal, legitimate and law abiding protest taking place. We have at all times sought to engage the banks in constructive dialogue about our concerns about the plight of the Irish people and society and remain ready to do so.
The campers intend to seek audience at the hearing and stand up for their rights to protest peacefully in what is considered a public place.
We need people at the Four Courts in the morning, Monday the 21st of November 2011 at 9.30am, for support. Meet outside the main entrance.
The camp has been up and running for 6 weeks and we have been good neighbours and have met many good neighbours. We do not know what has changed?
via Occupy Dame Street on Facebook
Occupy Dame Street To Face Legal Action (RTE)
(Hat Tip: Paul)/(Photocall Ireland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjnR7xET7Uo
Less than a week after police were recorded beating students with batons at the University of California, Berkeley, here’s the unedifying sight of Lt John Pike casually dousing peaceful protesters with military-grade pepper spray at the UC Davis campus on Friday.
According to an open letter to the University’s chancellor Linda Katehi by English professor Nathan Brown, the brutality didn’t end there:
Police used batons to try to push the students apart. Those they could separate, they arrested, kneeling on their bodies and pushing their heads into the ground. Those they could not separate, they pepper- sprayed directly in the face, holding these students as they did so. When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper- sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty- five minutes after being pepper- sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.
Yesterday, Chancellor Katehi, who initially approved Friday’s police action, received an epic helping of the silent treatment from still-protesting students as she walked to her car.
Now that’s free speech.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjq-T5mXkmY&feature=youtu.be
Sheet music, that is.
Your favourite TV and radio themes.
All done by ear.
By David Higgins:
0:00 The Late Late Show
0:36 Sky News
1:16 TV3 News
1:37 Marian Finucane
1:55 Midday
2:10 RTÉ News
2:33 Prime Time
3:04 The Frontline
3:22 Vincent Browne
3:43 The Week in Politics
4:03 Pat Kenny
