black me out.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

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key-child: Vulpes Vulpes Vulpes - by birds
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youaintpunk: The riots also offered a glimpse into how photographs can be used out of context: ‘Sir: In last week’s article about the poll-tax riot in Trafalgar Square (‘THE MOB’S BRIEF RULE’, 7 April) there is a large photograph labelled ‘A West End shopper argues with a protester’. The woman in the photograph is me, and I thought you might like to know the true story behind the picture. I was on my way to the theatre, with my husband. As we walked down Regent Street at about 6.30pm, the windows were intact and there was a large, cheerful, noisy group of poll-tax protesters walking up from Piccadilly Circus. We saw ordinary uniformed police walking alongside, on the pavement, keeping a low profile. The atmosphere was changed dramatically in moments when a fast-walking, threatening group of riot-squad police appeared. We walked on to the top of Haymarket, where the atmosphere was more tense and more protesters were streaming up Haymarket from the Trafalgar Square end. Suddenly a group of mounted police charged at full gallop into the rear of the group of protesters, scattering them, passers-by and us and creating panic. People screamed and some fell. Next to me and my husband another group of riot-squad appeared, in a most intimidating manner. The next thing that happened is what horrified me most. Four of the riot-squad police grabbed a young girl of 18 or 19 for no reason and forced her in a brutal manner on to the crowd-control railings, with her throat across the top of the railings. Her young male companion was frantically trying to reach her and was being held back by one riot-squad policeman. In your photograph I was urging the boy to calm down or he might be arrested; he was telling me that the person being held down across the railings was his girlfriend. My husband remonstrated with the riot-squad policeman holding the boy, and I shouted at the four riot-squad men to let the girl go as they were obviously hurting her. To my surprise, they did let her go – it was almost as if they did not know what they were doing. The riot-squad policemen involved in this incident were not wearing any form of identification. Their epaulettes were unbuttoned and flapping loose; I lifted them on two men and neither had any numbers on. There was a sergeant with them, who was numbered and my husband asked why his men wore no identifying numbers. The sergeant replied that it did not matter as he knew who the men were. We are a middle-aged suburban couple who now feel more intimidated by the Metropolitan police than by a mob. If we feel so angry, how on earth did the young hot-heads at the rally feel?’ Mrs R.A. Sare, Northwood, Middlessex Source
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myrecordcollections: Cat Stevens Catch bull at Four @1972. US Pressing ********* It is unfortunate that many reviewers of ‘Catch bull at four’ have tended to regard it as a poorer quality album than its two predecessors ‘Tea for the tillerman’ and ‘Teaser and the Firecat’. I feel that this does the album a great injustice; no artist should be expected to remain unchanging in style, and if he had simply stayed with a winning formula after the success of ‘Teaser’ Cat Stevens could have rightly criticized. However, Stevens demonstrated integrity and vision throughout the early years of the 1970s, with each of his first five Island Records albums showing a clear progression and artistic development, even if on occasions (perhaps most notably ‘Foreigner’) this was not always commercially successful. After achieving a very focused and concise style on ‘Teaser’, Cat Stevens understandably wanted to experiment with more unusual song structures and ambitious arrangements, and the result is a somewhat more stylistically diverse album than its predecessors. As a result it is, if anything, a stronger, more musically satisfying album, and includes new elements such as electric guitar, synthesizer, female backing vocalists and the accomplished keyboard work of Jean Roussel. At the same time, the album retains much of what made Cat’s earlier work appealing, and also includes the welcome re-appearance of the bouzouki to add its distinctive sound to ‘O Caritas’. The mood of the album is at times somber, reflecting Stevens’ continuing spiritual pilgrimage at this time, and his deep feelings perhaps show through most in the opening track ‘Sitting’ and the bleak closing song ‘Ruins’. Though there are a couple of weaker tracks (such as ‘Boy…’ which has a pleasant arrangements but a rather tedious, over-long lyric, and ‘Angelsea’ which is perhaps too dominated by synthesizer sounds), these can be appreciated as valid musical experiments, and are more than compensated for by other very appealing up-tempo tracks (such as ‘Sitting’, ‘Can’t keep it in’ and ‘O Caritas’). The album contains several lovely ballads, such as ‘Sweet scarlet’ and the madrigal-like ‘Silent sunlight’, whilst the more complex song structure of ‘18th avenue’, with its orchestral interlude and changing rhythms, hints at the direction Cat would take with his next album ‘Foreigner’. The whole package is enhanced by the crystal clear remastering, and restoration of the stylish original album artwork. Altogether, ‘Catch bull at four’ can be regarded as a very satisfying album which, along with ‘Tillerman’ and ‘Teaser’ ranks among Cat Stevens’ best work.
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myrecordcollections: Cat Stevens Buddha &amp; the Chocolate Box @1974 HK Pressing ********** WhileForeignerwasCat Stevens’ fifth consecutive gold album and his fourth straight Top Ten hit, it actually marked a small drop commercially and encountered critical resistance for the lengthy suite that took up all of side one. Eight months later,Buddha and the Chocolate BoxfoundStevensback in England and back with producerPaul Samwell-Smithand second guitaristAlun Davies. It also marked a return to the simpler style of earlier albums. No song ran much over five minutes, the arrangements were sparer and featured more acoustic guitar, and the lyrics did not take off into discursive ruminations about the state of the universe. It was very much as ifStevenswas deliberately trying to make an album likeTeaser and the Firecat, his commercial and artistic apex. Having begun the album with an ode to “Music” and its potential for reforming the world, he ended with “Home in the Sky,” in which he sang, “Music is a lady that I still love.” Such statements of renewed commitment added to the sense that the album was consciously crafted as an attempted second wind for the singer, who had been recording and performing at a torrid pace since returning to the music business full-time four years before. But that was not to say that he had abandoned the spiritual nature of his creative quest, and the songs were, as usual, littered with religious imagery.Stevens’ fans responded warmly toBuddha and the Chocolate Box’s stylistic return to form. “Oh Very Young” became his first Top Ten hit in two years, and the album was held out of number one only by The Sting. The album’s tone, however, suggested thatStevenswas once again wearying of being a pop star, even as he delivered a record that maintained that status. AMG
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leslieseuffert: Bruce Omori

Hysteric (Acoustic)- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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bizarrereverie: Vincent van Gogh, Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity) 1890
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gnostic-forest:

neweyed-wilderness:

Once I built an ivory tower so I could worship from above
When I climbed down to be set free, she took me in again

This is on my profile, It’s so amazing 

Hard Sun- Eddie Vedder

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