HAIRDRESSERS

HAIRDRESSERS
Neon Sign Paul Conneally 2010
appropriated art work and poem

permanent exhibition

Great Malvern

UK

Teeing Off On The Moon

Teeing Off On The Moon
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Moongolfer
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Moon Golfer Commander Tim Wright by his space craft.

Tim Wright's Urban Moon Golf Odyssey

Golf On The Moon / Gonzo Trail Number One Slide Show

As the PGA played out at Wentworth the real golf action took place across the streets of London as Play Golf On The Moon (with David Bowie)Commander Tim Wright led on by navigator Gonzo Geographer Loopzilla (Gordon Joly) played Golf on the Moon from Pudding Mill DLR to arnold Circus.

Gonzo Trail Number One provides the perfect Earth practice Golf On The Moon faiways, rough and green as Commander Tim Wright prepares for the time when he will leave Earth and fulfil his dream of playing golf on the moon with David Bowie.

Gonzo Trail Number One / Golf On The Moon Hole Two is the first truly splacist urban exploration of London.

Psychogeography is dead.

The Gonzo Splacist Revolution has begun.

The Sound Of Moon Music

Commander Tim Wright today played golf on the moon from Pudding Mill DLR to Arnold Circus and here is the wonderful sound of that welcomed him to the moon hole at Arnold Circus.


Congratulations to Commander Tim and to Loopzilla who planned out the course and all who supported the valiant splaceman moon golfer along the way.

Towards A Splacist Manifesto On The Use Of PowerPoint Presentations

Paul Conneally spoke briefly with psychologist and one of the original developers of the psychic profiling of perpetrators of crime, David Canter, after his talk in the quad at RADAR Loughborough last year.

David's talk given in an outdoor space rather than in a lecture theatre or hall was illustrated not with a PowerPoint but by a live string quartet playing sections from a piece composed by David himself that brought a different dimension to his words.

This led Conneally to think a little and make moves towards a splacist manifesto on the use of PowerPoint slide shows:

We encourage all university lecturers, school teachers, business people and others to consign the PowerPoint presentation as most commonly currently used to the trash bin.

The only times these p(e)rveyors of usually seconhand thought should use PowerPoint presentations are when they use a previously unseen randomly downloaded PowerPoint slide show to illustrate whatever it is that they wish to pontificate on to their captive audience.

Students and other audience members should boo any speaker using a PowerPoint made by the speaker themselves or one that though not made by the speaker has been obviously rehearsed to by the speaker before hand.

The use of dance, music, boxing or any other performative act is actively encouraged in place of PowerPoint presentations.

Paul Conneally
May 2010

Don't Leave Space To The Professionals

Commander Tim Wright Golf on the Moon Tee, Arnold Circus, London

Join Gonzogeographer Gordon Joly (Loopzilla) and Commander Tim Wright on Sunday 23rd May to explore London by walking and playing golf on the moon Pudding Mill DLR to Arnold Circus.

Sunday's walk is now offically a Moongolf Practice Session. Tim Wright has been working on the putting green and the fairway, and it looks like being a fine day. Tim will also be documenting the day.

See http://bit.ly/cji8p0

Tee off at 12 noon, Pudding Mill DLR Station, Sunday 23rd May.

P.S. Our mascot for the day will be the man in the orange
suit. Wenlock and Mandeville are busy elsewehere....

Invigilator Malvern - Nikki Pugh GPS Trace

Paul Conneally and Nikki Pugh's INVIGILATOR:MALVERN saw the two artists stand back to back outside Malvern Train Station and set off on the codified left, rights and straight ons common to all the INVIGILATOR series. This time they were accompanied by Nathaniel Pitt (walking with Conneally) and Jean Baynham (walking with Pugh).

Conneally and Pugh each held a GPS device that logged their positions relative to each other as they explored Malvern using the Invigilator walk to work instructions.

Back in her technosplacist lab Pugh used the cross-referenced points in time and space to map out a trace of the artists walks relative to each other across Malvern.

The resulting trace is produced as a limited edition print and here as a pdf.

Conneally & Pugh continue to explore space place and time through splacist interventions.

In May 2010 Conneally and Pugh rejected psychogeography as an irrelevant term in the 21st century to describe artistic spatial, temporal and psychological urban suburban rural and all points between exploration proposing a new splacist revolution.

"spaces transform us and in turn are transformed a process of exchange" Paul Conneally 2007

Gonzo Splacist Walk - London Sunday May 23rd 2010

The Strand Ley - A London Ley Line terminates at Arnold Circus site of Paul Conneally and Tim Wright's For A Better World Play Golf On The Moon golf tee.

This Sunday 23rd April Digital Guru Tim Wright will join Gonzogeographer Gordon Joly on a splacist exploration from Pudding Mill DLR Station (12 noon) to Arnold Circus. You could join them FREE.

Proposed Exploration:

• Meet at Pudding Mill DLR station - 12 noon, Sunday May 23rd, 2010


• The Olympic Park - The View Tube


• Greenway


• Hertford Union Canal
  
  
  
  • passing Victoria Park, where the walking events for the 2012 Games will take place.


• Regent's Canal


• Mile End Park
  
  
  
  • Ecology Pavilion
  
  
  • Art Pavilion (last day the current exhibition)


• Meath Bridge - crossing the Regent's Canal


• The Cranbook Estate


• Bethnal Green - Weaver's Fields


• Arnold Circus

After the walk, the brand new Shoreditch High Street Station is the closest station for departure home by train (Overground). Buses - various including 8 which goes to Liverpool Street.

The new Dalston Junction to West Croydon starts on Sunday 23rd May!!

On 23rd May, the Baishakhi Mela will be held in Brick Lane and Weaver's Fields. There will also be an event at the Bandstand in Arnold Circus.

• Baishakhi Mela


• Arnold Day – in honour of Arthur Arnold, social campaigner – with the Pavilion Brass Band

OBEY THE NEW WAVE - Post-Punk Classics

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David Beckham Out Of World Cup Achiles Tendon Ruptured

England soccer superstar David Beckham has crashed out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

Beckham pulled up injured with what appears to be a ruptured Achilles tendon in AC Milan's match against Chievo at the San Siro.

If it is a ruptured Achiles tendon then his chances of playing in the World Cup for England in South Africa are virtually nil according to doctors.

Beckham's dream was to become the only English soocer player to have represented his country at 4 World Cup Championships.

Beckaham returned to the starting eleven for AC Milan against Cheivo after a good performance against old club Manchester United in the Champions League.

Craig David Is Back! One More Lie (Standing In The Shadows) Video

UK Soul phenenomemom Craig David is back and this time he's taken the rewind back to 1966 and The Four Tops Standing In The Shadows Of Love. Craig does not do a cover of the Motown classic but the theme underpins his new song One More Lie.

After an absence from the charts this track looks set to be a hit both sides of the Atlantic with its hooky chorus and irresistable dance beats.

It's sure to be one for the remixers. Out on 15th March 2010.

One More Lie (Standing In The Shadows)- Craig David

Pink Floyd Win Court Battle With EMI

PINK FLOYD win court battle with EMI over online sales.

Pink Floyd band members argued that their contract with EMI stipulated that their albums should not be split up and sold as individual tracks without the band's permission. They claimed that albums such as The Dark Side Of The Moon.

The Judge agreed with the band saying their contract had a clause to "preserve the artistic integrity of the albums".

EMI will have to pay the band an initial sum of £40,000 with more to follow.

This ruling will now set a precedent for other artists such as Garth Brooks and AC/DC who have also argued that their albums should only be sold as full albums and not as online individual tracks from sites such as iTunes.

Here's Money by Pink Floyd

Curtain Show - Birmingham Eastside Projects New Exhibition

The latest exhibition at Birmingham's Eastside Projects gallery space is Curtain Show.

It opens on the 13th March and promises to continue down the innovative path that curator Gavin Wade, here with Céline Condorelli, has led the art world of Birmingham and beyond.

"Curtain Show revolves around Lilly Reich’s Silk and Velvet Café at the Women’s Fashion Exhibition in Berlin, in 1927.

The trade fairs of the 19th century and early 20th century were places of great innovation in the fields of art and design, and a phenomenal example is Reich’s ‘Café’; but they were also inevitably sites of alliance between political power and design.

Reich’s bold exposition of gold and silver silk and black, orange and red velvet draped over chromed-steel tubular frames created a maze of spaces in which visitors and traders were enveloped in a pioneering example of a temporary environment formed by the content of the exhibition.

Starting from the installation’s complex spatial position and ambiguous political one, Curtain Show unfolds this dual role as curtains form background and foreground in a meeting of curtain works."

Curtain Show

13 March – 17 April 2010

Launch: 6-9pm Friday 12th March 2010
Open Thursday 12-6.30pm, Friday-Saturday 12-5pm

Céline Condorelli, Tacita Dean, Douglas Gordon, Barbara Holub, Hannah James, Grace Ndiritu, Lilly Reich, Erik Satie, Ines Schaber, Albrecht Schäfer

art architecture space place time

Lost Boy Corey Haim Dead at 38

Corey Haim the star of The Lost Boys and Lucas has died aged 38.

After a bright career as a child actor look set for big things Corey found it difficult to maintain the momentum of his early promise.

The nineties were a disaster for Haim with almost every film he made going straight to video. This led to a new millennium marked by stints in rehab as he tried to get his life and film future sorted. The sad thing is that this year was stacking up to be his best for years with 10 projects lined up. Some of these are already in the can and are reported to be some of his best work.


A spokeswoman for LAPD said Corey Haim passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at Providence St Joseph Medical Centre.

Unconfirmed sources report Haim collapsed in the bedroom of his mother's apartment and four prescription bottles were found nearby.

A post-mortem will determine the cause of death and no other details have been released as yet.

Lindsay Lohan And The White Stuff

No it's not a brand new band and it doesn't refer to white powder. It's milk! LINDSAY LOHAN has taken huge offence to an advert that was shown during the Super Bowl.

The advert showed a 'milkaholic' baby called Lindsay. Ms Lohan believes that everyone that saw it thinks its a reference to her and her reported past problems with drugs and drink. She is so wound up about it that she is suing the company concerned, E-Trade,the online stocks and shares company, for £67 million.

Wow just think of all the white stuff she could buy with that!

Lohan claims that the company have illegaly used her name 'Lindsay' maybe forgetting that there are millions of Lindsays worldwide. She's got hot lawyers:

“Many celebrities are known by one name, and E-Trade is using that knowledge to profit,” Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said in a statement to the New York Post . “They’re using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn’t they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody’s talking about it and saying it’s Lindsay Lohan"

Most will probably think 'Grow up Lindsay'. Why on earth would an advert featuring a cry baby addicted to white stuff make anyone think of you? Skin After Skin certainly didn't - well not until you mentioned it...
Heres the E-Trade Video:

Pink Floyd Sue EMI Over Online Sales

Pink Floyd are suing the band's record label EMI over online royalty payments.

In the High Court in London the band stated that their agreement with EMI was that their songs should only be sold as song 'bundles' rather than as individual tracks.

They believe that the agreement which was written before online sales were even dreamed of still stands.

In addition to the comercial concerns the band believe that the ad hoc selling of tracks compromises the artistic integrety of albums such as Dark Side Of The Moon.

The case continues.

Lily Allen Breaks Down In Tears At Violence and Retires From Music

LILY ALLEN broke down in tears during her O2 gig when she saw two middle aged men fighting in the audience.

The star left the stage only returning after the two men had been thrown out saying: "That's the worst sort of violence. It's fucking sick and you lot should be ashamed of yourself."

Laying her political cards on the line Lily dedicated her song 'Fuck You' to Tory leader DAVID CAMERON. Cameron said last week that he has banned his daughter from listening to Lily's music as it contained words unsuitable for young people.

The gig, which also featured DIZEE RASCAL, was meant to be her last ever gig. The Fear star Allen announced that she was giving up pop to become a vintage clothes shop owner. It seems however that she can't bear the thought of giving up music at the moment and immeadiatly after the show announced plans to support US rap star Jay-Z in Hyde Park in July. She later Tweeted that the July show wil definately be her last ever performance as 'Lily Allen'.

Lily is still opening her clothes chop which will be called Lucy In Disguise at the Vintage. She will launch the venture at the Goodwood Festival in August.

Dizzee Rascal who supported Lily at the O2 announced last week that he is to write a book - his autobiography. It will be published in October. Dizzee Rascal Writes Book

Botox Barbie - Woman Who Injected Child With Botox Runs Sex Parties

A woman who bragged to the press about how she injected her 15-year old daughter with botox admits that she is an international sex party organiser.

The Daily Star reports that 'Human Barbie' Sarah Burge calls herself Madame Pink and charges £500 an hour to 'be whatever you want me to be'

Madame Pink claims to organise glamorous parties where guests, says Burge, are "Young, beautiful hipsters. Rich. Cool. The kind of people everyone wants to have sex with.”.

The truth is that Burge and her ilk are old fashioned Madames who exploit sad and lonely clients by promising them sexual happiness whilst taking their money from them. That's fine but somehow Skin After Skin feels unhappy that on the make Burge is called the Human Barbie. Barbie was made for finer things than sleazy sex parties for losers in Phuket.

Barbie has always and will always be a Park Lane girl with a degree in art from Goldsmith's tucked neatly in the pocket of her silk knickers.

As for Sindy she's a political activist living in Croydon teaching teenagers how to use The Web as weapon.

Burge could take a leaf out of old Madame Cyn's book, buy a semi in suburbia, accept luncheon vouchers and earn enough money to put her daughter through University.

Tuppaware parties I'm sure would be even more fun and help us on the road to economic recovery and cut the chance of contracting venereal disease of the moment Chlamydia at the same time.

Does anyone still get the Betaware man calling round? And no it's not a gambling addiction charity.

Mickey Rourke Sleeps With 14 Women in One Night

Actor and old soak Mickey Rourke claims to have slept with 14 women in one night on a visit to the UK.

Rourke made the claim as he dissed football love rats such as Chelsea FC players Ashley Cole and John Terry who are dominating UK soccer and celebrity headlines with stories of their infidelities.

Hollywood hell raiser Rourke tells soccer star wives and girlfriends (WAGs)that the sexual antics of Premier League Soccer stars are nothing compared to movie stars.

Rourke said "British footballers have got nothing when it comes to women"

Chelsea left back Ashley Cole is said to be devastated after wife Cheryl Cole left him after finding out about his latest sexting revelations and is currently licking his wounds both football and love in a French clinic.

Skin After Skin doesn't know who is sadder Mickey Rourke for feeling the need to brag about sleeping with 14 women or the 14 women for sleeping with Mickey Rourke.

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.” - Guy Debord

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Dizzee Rascal Writes Book

That funster funkster rap star London's own Dizzee Rascal is to write his autobiography and promises to give a real insight into his upbringing and the world of London's UK Rap, Grime and Garage scenes.

The book will be a co-production between Dizzee's Dirtee Stank label and publishers Canongate.

The book is provisionally titled The Dizzee Rascal Story - come on Dizzee you can do better than that!

It will be out in hardback in October.

Bonkers!

Dizzee (real name Dylan Mills) was brought up in Bow, East London, where he was born in 1985 making him 24 by my reckoning.

Yes! Dizzee is still only 24 but seems to have been around forever. He was 17 when he won the Mercury Music Prize with his first album Boy in Da Corner.

Skin After Skin has a feeling he'll be around a long time more so maybe he'll come up with a better title for the 2nd installment of his life story out in maybe five or so more years time.

Go for it Dizzee!

Composer Plays Piano From The Grave

George Gershwin died aged 38 in 1937 but he has been heard playing his famous piano solo from Rhapsody in Blue on stage in Florida.

His ghost was summoned up by the Florida Orchestra who took to the stage without a live piano player but took with them a Yamaha Disklavier Grand Piano.

The Disklavier had been programmed up with a midi file made from a piano roll recorded by George Gershwin himself in 1927. Because the file was made from a piano roll rather than an audio recording some of the subtleties of touch and emotion that the the great American composer brought to the piece were preserved.

It was the first time since his death from a stroke that his piece Rhapsody in Blue has been heard with the piano solo more or less exactly as Gershwin himself played it.

The mix of live and digitally played music is commonplace in pop and dance music but not in the classical music hall. For some it's a step too far but the novelty of hearing the ghost of Gershwin play the piano alongside a full live orchestra is a sure crowd puller.

George Gershwin with his brother Ira Gershwin he wrote some of the best loved songs in the American song book. True music legends.

George and Ira Gershwin Official Site

George Gershwin at American Masters

Geoorge Gershwin Brought Back To Life

I Will Renew Wedding Vows with Cheryl - Ashley Cole

Chelsea FC love rat Ashley Cole has vowed to regain wife Cheryl Cole's love by offering to renew their marriage vows.

Speaking from his medical clinic in Biarritz, France, Cole told friends that he would make the offer when he talks to Cheryl next week in London.

Meanwhile Cheryl flew from Heathrow to Copenhagen, Denmark, last night looking sad but stylish in a £1,000 T-shirt. Cole is appearing on Denmark's version of the X-Factor and hopes to wow them with her performance as she prepares for a forthcoming European tour.

Plan B - Writings On The Wall - Live from Cafe de Paris

Plan B continues to show versatility as this soul soaked live performance of Writings On The Wall shows.

See it as the next installment of 'The Defamation Of Strickland Banks' Plan B's new album.

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Plan B - Writing's On The Wall (Live from Cafe De Paris)

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Little Boots Steps Gently - Acoustic Set from Blackpools Finest

Victoria Heskith is Little Boots.

The geeky music obsessed teenager from Blackpool has become one of the UK's brightest young stars. Little Boots makes beautifully crafted pop songs with an electronic production that sees kids stomping to Little Boots hits in clubs the across the globe.

In this just realeased video of Little Boots performing an acoustic selection of her hits including Stuck On Repeat and Remedy we see just how good the songs are beyond the dance floor. We also get a version of the Kate Bush classic 'Running Up That Hill'.

See NowPublic From Geek to Goddess for more.

Bullying - a Growth Industry

Bullying is a growth industry.

It's always been around and was accepted as something that happened in playgrounds and schoolyards - a part of growing up.

Perhaps ten years ago things started to change.

Schools started to introduce anti-bullying policies and have embraced, with a little pushing from government, 'emotional health and wellbeing'.

The Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) are now well and truly built into the U K's primary school curriculum with secondary schools also implementing 'SEAL strategies'.

Countless consultancy companies have been set up to service the training needs of teachers and advisers as they strive to refine anti-bullying policies and charters.

Sub-genres emerge with courses on combating cyber, homophobic, girl-on-girl and racist bullying taking place all over the country.

Workplace bullying is now shaping up to be the next big money spinner for consultants on the back of the allegations that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is a bully - a workplace bully.

All over the country self-styled educational and management gurus are quickly amending their school anti-bullying training materials to address the not new but now out-there and in your face issue of how to tackle and eradicate the workplace bully.

Bullying is a spiteful and belittling activity that should not be tolerated at school, work or at home.

If the 'Gordon Brown's a Bully' furore opens up the workplace bullying issue to scrutiny then at least something good will come out of it.

Me? I'm sitting down to pen new materials for a workshop supporting small businesses develop Workplace Anti-Bullying Policies. I'd best be quick its a dog eat dog world!

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wow and flutter

we have some excellent big museums – even the old dinosaurs feel alive these days – new build refurb and touch at often huge cost to provide wow…

maybe the need for ‘wow’ is overstated or what we believe ‘wow’ might be/should be/is

that other ‘wow’ the one that’s not wham bam thank you ma’am but that ‘wow’ those ‘wows’ that come after engaging with something maybe something quite insignificant at first sight when after giving it some attention it begins to whisper to us and then ‘wow’ …

this kind of personal wow maybe stays with us longer than the the more manufactured universal wow perhaps even a lifetime

engagements that encourage new interpretations new thinking new learning rather than big bold brassy buildings and these engagements digital or not let them be from the heart to the heart as much as mind to mind

of course a role for museums as tourist attractions and maybe tourist attractions as museums…

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from table to table
a catkin wind

response to Bridget Mckenzie out of her proposed presentation to the British Council in Moscow "The English Obsession wit the New"

Playing Musical Instruments Improves Reading and Language Skills

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Learning and Playing a Musical Instrument Improves Reading

Children who learn to play a musical instrument may have an advantage when it comes to reading.

Professor Nina Kraus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois found that a part of the brain stimulated in musicians when they play music is also important in reading.

Professor Kraus found that people that can pick out harmonies and timing in sounds are better at reading.

Many chidren in the UK are entering secondary school with reading ages below that expected for their age and some are asking if music was given a higher position within the curriculum would reading improve?

Although all UK pupils up to the age of 14 have to have at least one lesson of music education a week very few pupils actually learn to play a musical instrument.

Music education and learning how to play a musical instrument are not the same thing.

The number of children learning musical instruments has decreased since free music instrument tuition for all was withdrawn from state education. Most pupils have to buy an instrument and pay for private lessons and for many families this is an expense that they just can't afford.

A curriculum that features more strongly learning how to play a musical instrument might bring real benefits for improving reading and language skills.

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"Schools which fail to make music a core subject are making a mistake, because it has advantages for the growing brain and would help all children, including those with dyslexia and autism, neuroscientist Professor Nina Kraus said yesterday."

Source: independent.co.uk

"Words and music, such natural partners that it seems obvious they go together. Now science is confirming that those abilities are linked in the brain, a finding that might even lead to better stroke treatments"

Source: google.com

"Musical experience can enhance everyday listening and language tasks. We are making new strides in understanding what changes happen in the brain with musical experience."

Source: telegraph.co.uk

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The Internet has Killed Rock Stars

Kasabian's Tom Meighan says the internet is "killing rock stars"

The singer with Leicester's Brit Award rockers Kasabian feels that rock stars reveal too much about themselves on the internet. Meighan feels that stars who constantly update news about their lives on Twitter, Facebook and other blog sites have no mystique.

He says that people read rock stars blogs and think "Wow, what rubbish"

Kasabian are nominated for 6 awards at next weeks Shockwaves NME Awards 2010.

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A Biting of Words

world summit to bring you weapons

a big fan not just of peace

these women never die grubby

once upon a future true heroes

finding joy in the gathering

curious love splash

blood and conservation make a bright ballet

seasonal monotone delights

poetic train giving tourists new voice

hand in hand a biting of words

This piece is from the 'shreadline' series 2005. Headlines from newspapers are cut up and placed in a bag - they can be from a particular paper on a particular day or a mixture. Five fragments are picked out at random. The player has to create a new line using at least three of the fragments. This series were all ten line poems. Each line is a 'shreadline'. Another action is to take each 'shreadline' and use it as the 'headline' for a new story.

The process is one of physical literary detournement.

I have run intervention pieces using the 'shreadline' process both on the street and other settings - passers-by being encouraged to pick out fragments and make a shreadline sticking it directly on to a sheet of cardboard to make a collaborative piece that works both visually and as a piece of text - a poem.

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The Frequent Flyer

Henry Rollins starts the European leg of his massive spoken word world tour tonight in Dublin - he's all energy and The Skinny has a good wide ranging interview with him:
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/98316-regarding-henry

He talks beyond the normal American showbiz line - here's his answer to a question on why so many Americans appear to be against free health care:

"You would be against it if you were in bed with big insurance, or you would be against it if you are inherently against the idea of equality. What would happen if there was a better education system in America? What if America was number five in literacy, not number 46? It would mean a lot of non-white people with college education, and you know what that means? It means the prisons would be empty and it means that the next time we have a fake war with a sovereign nation, like the invasion and occupation of Iraq, millions of Americans would go "ahhh, NO!" you wanna go to war? I’m not showing up to work today.”, “I’m throwing my rifle on the ground and you'll have to court-martial me and 300 000 other guys because we're not going; because we are educated, we know our history and we're not going for this blood lust.” And that’s why this country fears the education and fears the equality of health care. Because, heaven help us if we had a whole bunch of healthy people making wise decisions; we might just have peace and posterity. I think there is a concerted effort to keep some people where they are and I think that is the inherent thing about the health care system. I don’t want my Americans to lose their home because momma gets cancer, because I like people and I like my countrymen, and I want them happy and well. Because if they are happy and well, our factories work better, our roads are better, quality of life is better. You don’t feel like robbing a liquor store or slugging your wife. Things get better."

Henry, who fronted Black Flag from 1981 is in Leicester on Thursday. On his radio show he plays Dum Dum Dum from time to time and we're planning to link up sometime on Thursday if only for a few minutes as I'd promised to send him an original copy of the Dum Dum Dum EP from 1979/80 and never got round to it - so no excuses this time - must get up into the loft and find it first though!

The Haiku Parrots

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A linked hypertext work by Paul Conneally featuring work by George Waring, hortensia anderson, Debra Woolard Bender, Sheila Windsor, Max Verhart, Robin Estil and Robert Wilson.

The source text is an extract from: FREE-RANGING PARROT POPULATION OF HAIKU DISTRICT, MAUI, HAWAII by George Waring. Conneally sets up a colloborative linking process that sees readers encouraged to engage with and interpret the original academic paper in new ways.
Acting in ways similar to the sabaki or master poet does in the renga process Conneally brings together a group of disparate poet artists to engage, link and shift with Waring's piece. What was initially an academic paper 'FREE-RANGING PARROT POPULATION OF HAIKU DISTRICT, MAUI, HAWAII by George Waring' now becomes something much more whilst remaining the same. A detournement takes place encouraging reading across and between different media.

Clicking on any one of Waring's paragraphs in the PDF download starts the journey.

38 Haiku - The Bach Flower Remedies

cherry plum
the coroner declares
impulsive suicide

38 Haiku - The Bach Flower Remedies
Paul Conneally 2009