Dr Who Meets Abbey Road

Clara would never walk barefooted!  Just sayin'...

David Bowie & Klaus Nomi - The Man Who Sold The World (SNL - 1979)

Broadcast live on the 15th December 1979 in New York, David Bowie performed "The Man Who Sold the World" on Saturday Night Live, with extraordinary guest appearances from Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias.  Bowie was lifted and positioned in front of the microphone by Klaus and Joey in a costume that rendered him immobile, while his man-handlers provided extraordinary backing vocals.

This was an important broadcast and it seems to have had a similarly persuasive effect on a lot of young Americans that "Starman" on Top Of The Pops in 1972 and the BBC’s 1975 "Cracked Actor" documentary had on UK teenagers.

Excellent Article About Kangaroo Culling

A couple of points to consider:

• Australia’s kangaroo industry is one of the best-managed wildlife harvests in the world. It is based on a sound understanding of the ecology of kangaroos, in particular the way their populations fluctuate in Australia’s variable climate.
• The harvest strategy is appropriate for variable environments and robust to uncertainty.  It is not fixed (as many other quota's are) and fluctuates according to environmental factors and population density.
• Endangered species are NOT harvested.

Read more here: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/10/05/comment-bans-kangaroo-products-are-case-emotion-trumping-science

Vinyl & Record Player Accessories

More shit to waste your money on items to enhance your record collection with: Vinyl & Record Player Accessories.

Everything You've Been Told About Drug Addiction Is Wrong

Everything you thought you knew about addiction is wrong – and your government is lying to you.
These are the secrets Johann Hari believes underpin the "catastrophic failure" of the global war on drugs.

There are places that have tried what your government is doing and all those places saw addiction get worse.
Johann Hari.

The author and drug reformer says there is no greater example of this failure than Australia's battle with ice.
"What Australians have been told about ice is really misleading and wrong and the solutions you are being offered will make the problem worse," he told Fairfax Media.
"Methamphetamine addiction is a real tragedy but we have to step back and look at the facts. Only 15 per cent of people who use ice will become addicted. That's about the same rate as alcohol."

Read More: http://m.theage.com.au/national/chasing-the-scream-author-johann-hari-explains-why-we-cant-win-the-war-on-ice-20150911-gjkqjt.html

Howard Goodal Confirms Everything You Thought About The Beatles

Ever wondered if The Beatles really WERE as important as your obsession asserts?  Wonder no more.  Howard Goodall, renowned musicologist, writer and composer devotes part one of four BBC programs to the impact of The Beatles on the musical landscape of the Twentieth Century.   Spoiler alert: they were massively influential not just to popular music but also precipitated a renaissance of classical music.

 If you're interested in Howard Goodall's other output you'll be interested to know you've already heard several of his compositions: the themes to Blackadder, Vicar of Dibley and Red Dwarf.  He's also been featured in several influential documentary's: Howard Goodall's Big Bangs and Howard Goodall's Twentieth Century Greats. You really should watch his doco on the late great Bernard Herrmann.

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