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14 July 2010: Gil Scott-Heron & Mayer Hawthorne @ Somerset House (London)

I understand, from CaroleHarvey who saw Gil Scott-Heron & Mayer Hawthorne this week, that some of the songs played were as follows (w/ KantaJo1 (YouTube)'s videos interspersed):

1. The Bottle
   Promo @ YouTube.com/watch?v=_b2F-XX0Ol0
2. Winter in America
3. We Almost Lost Detroit
   Some chat on the origins of jazz
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5. Better Days Ahead
6. Pieces of a Man

Any updates in the set-list, Mayer Hawthorne's set or YouTubes available - most welcome! (Pls, comment.)

Following Fly Things Come In Threes? - Another in my occasional series of articles about spooky goings-on, on my profile.

Here's a screen-cap' of my three month's top eight artists, today ...

Notice anything odd? There're a few strange coincidences about this line-up. Here's a key image, to illustrate ...

Chaps grouped in the centre & ladies on the flanks. Julieta Venegas is about to be pounced on, by a bunny. Whilst Shara Worden is holding a bunny. Simian Mobile Disco bring a monkey (class of 'higher primates', to be precise), in their name. Run Toto Run are named after a cute li'll' running doggie. The Stranglers are riding a dragon. Then We Are Wolves and ... It's the Wolf! It's the Wolf!

What's the role of Imogen Heap & Massive Attack?

My Current Fav'e Releases / Tracks From These Artists

Julieta Venegas Otra Cosa / Amores Platónicos (other plays)
Simian Mobile Disco Cruel Intentions / Cruel Intentions (Greg Wilson re-edit) (other plays)

Massive Attack Heligoland / Babel (other plays)
Shara Worden The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton / Cocodrillo (other plays)

Run Toto Run Plastic Gold EP / Hater (other plays)
The Stranglers BBC In Concert (23rd April 1977) / Sometimes (BBC In Concert 23/04/77) (other plays)

We Are Wolves Invisible Violence / Paloma (other plays)
Imogen Heap Ellipse / Wait It Out (other plays)

What's the message in these tea leaves? I think this calls for an expert in Chinese astrology, or some-such! :/ %)

Something odd happened, to me, yesterday! Most of you will be aware that subscribes see Recent visitors to their profiles, at about 15:30, my profile page looked like this ...

... grey lines mark where irrelevance is cut out.

Zooming on the 'Recent Visitors' section, we see ...

... three flying people!

Now, I am well known to have a special fondness for all things faerie-like - do Shantella, Keyser & Kika have some conspiracy ...

... or is it just about time there was a group called, something like, Monty Python's Flying Scrobblers?

Answers on a postcard, pls - or just comment below :) Ian

Recently at last.fm, someone seems to have been able to get into user accounts, and make postings completely at odds with what the poster was known to do, when they were active @ last.fm.

Specifically, I noticed the account of the user 'obbrio' which has been in disuse for about 7 months, and now suddenly is posting shouts about about some promotion that sony is doing. Otherwise, there's no activity on that account, in other words, no scrobbling, et cetera.

Earlier this week, someone hacked into my facebook account, and although facebook locked my account until I changed my password, I find it worrying since I have used strong passwords on all accounts for the last 15 years online, and there have been no successful intrusions or hacks into my accounts, ever.
I am compelled to conclude that someone on the facebook side of things, ie, on their administrative side, accessed, permitted someone to access, or perhaps they were hacked into on the server and administrative side.

If I see more of this activity, I will be compelled to close my social networking accounts, since having that type of uncertainty with my online presence is intolerable.

What have you noticed?

What have you done about it?

I regret to feel this way, since I can say many good things about last.fm and facebook. But, perhaps it is a time for a positive change.

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Next week features Ecuador.

while listening to Prog by the bad [lus I thougt it would be nice to have a tag dedicated to some nice piano sounds, one with a little Jazz slant but also with some Classical, Blues, Bossa nova] and pop thrown in.
right now it ranges from Glenn Gould to Brad Mehldau via Jelly Roll Morton, Champion Jack Dupree and Sergio Mendes.
Hopefully, someday te music of Maurice El Mediouni will be streamable too (right now there's one track by him as Maurice El Mediouni (Algeria) for some reason).
oh, and of course not forgetting Charles Aznavour

so, by all means tirez sur le piansite
Additions, as always, are welcomed:)