Sunday, June 26, 2016
Uprising - Muse.
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Uprising - Muse | Текст и перевод песни | Слушать онлайн | Lyrsense
The paranoia is in bloom,
The PR, the transmissions, will resume,
They'll try to push drugs to keep us all dumbed down,
And hope that we will never see the truth around,
SO COME ON!
Another promise, another scene,
Another package not to keep us trapped in greed,
With all the green belts wrapped around our minds,
And endless red tape to keep the truth confined,
SO COME ON!
They will not force us,
They will stop degrading us,
They will not control us,
And we will be victorious!
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Sculpture by the Lakes: 'Gloriously wild' .
Sculpture by the Lakes: 'Gloriously wild' - Telegraph
Admirers of great British sculpture gardens - whether classical parks such as Chatsworth House or inventive institutions such as the Jupiter Artland estate near Edinburgh - should brace themselves before visiting the country's latest "sculpture park". Sculpture by the Lakes is nothing like the grand estates set up by wealthy families to show off their vast estates or (often pretty eclectic) collections of art. And a grand National Trust property it most certainly is not.
Located on the outskirts of Pallington village in Dorset (whose main claim to fame is that T.E. Lawrence is buried nearby), the entrance is set in a lane of ordinary English cottages. An odorous farm lies next door, and giant electricity pylons loom ominously over its grounds.
But the appeal of this place, I soon discover, on parking alongside modern barns at the end of a gravel drive, is that it is the antithesis of anywhere else in Britain - and deliberately so. It is gloriously wild, and refreshingly different.
Unlike most sculpture parks, this one is devoted to the art of just one man: the owner, Simon Gudgeon. When the Yorkshire-born sculptor and his wife, Monique, bought the 26-acre property in 2007, it was a fishery surrounded by almost-derelict land.
Admirers of great British sculpture gardens - whether classical parks such as Chatsworth House or inventive institutions such as the Jupiter Artland estate near Edinburgh - should brace themselves before visiting the country's latest "sculpture park". Sculpture by the Lakes is nothing like the grand estates set up by wealthy families to show off their vast estates or (often pretty eclectic) collections of art. And a grand National Trust property it most certainly is not.
Located on the outskirts of Pallington village in Dorset (whose main claim to fame is that T.E. Lawrence is buried nearby), the entrance is set in a lane of ordinary English cottages. An odorous farm lies next door, and giant electricity pylons loom ominously over its grounds.
But the appeal of this place, I soon discover, on parking alongside modern barns at the end of a gravel drive, is that it is the antithesis of anywhere else in Britain - and deliberately so. It is gloriously wild, and refreshingly different.
Unlike most sculpture parks, this one is devoted to the art of just one man: the owner, Simon Gudgeon. When the Yorkshire-born sculptor and his wife, Monique, bought the 26-acre property in 2007, it was a fishery surrounded by almost-derelict land.
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Sally Brampton, author of Shoot the Damned Dog.
Sally Jane Brampton (15 July 1955 – 10 May 2016) was an English journalist, writer and magazine editor. She was the founding editor of the British edition of the French magazine Elle in 1985.
It is believed Brampton "walked into the sea at St Leonard's" during 10 May 2016.
She was 60.
Sally Brampton interviewing Monty Don in 2005.
- My friend Sally Brampton, and why we need to talk about mental health
- In Memory of Sally Brampton, author of Shoot the Damned Dog
- Staying Sane Archives - Sally Brampton Sally Brampton
- I told myself: 'Get over yourself. Stop snivelling. Stop whining...' - Telegraph She tells her story.
It is believed Brampton "walked into the sea at St Leonard's" during 10 May 2016.
She was 60.
Sally Brampton interviewing Monty Don in 2005.
- My friend Sally Brampton, and why we need to talk about mental health
- In Memory of Sally Brampton, author of Shoot the Damned Dog
- Staying Sane Archives - Sally Brampton Sally Brampton
- I told myself: 'Get over yourself. Stop snivelling. Stop whining...' - Telegraph She tells her story.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Wilko Johnson.
Wilko Johnson says he is 'cancer free' - BBC News
Wilko Johnson: "If there's a moral to this story, it's that you never know what's going to happen"
Former Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson has said he has been "cured" of the terminal pancreatic cancer with which he was diagnosed in 2012.
The 67-year-old was initially given 10 months to live after rejecting chemotherapy, but had radical surgery to remove the tumour earlier this year.
"It was an 11-hour operation," he said at the Q Awards in London.
"This tumour weighed 3kg - that's the size of a baby," he continued. "Anyway, they got it all. They cured me."
The guitarist went on his "farewell tour" in 2013 and recorded an album with The Who's Roger Daltrey.
"I thought that was going to be the last thing I ever did," he told BBC News entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson after the ceremony on Wednesday.
'Calmly accepted' fate
Then, at the end of last year, a doctor got in touch and said "something strange" was going on because he was still alive.
Johnson went to see a cancer specialist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and it was discovered that he had a rare form of tumour. He then had the surgery in April.
After the initial diagnosis, he was "absolutely convinced that this thing would kill me," Johnson said. "I accepted it. I didn't lose a minute's sleep about that."
The musician said he had spent a year "calmly accepting the idea that I was going to die".
He said: "I decided that was the way to deal with it - not to curse it or fight it or anything like that. Just try and enjoy the time left, which I'd done.
'It's gone'
"In order to do that, you have to accept, yes you're going to die, which in itself was quite an experience because it gives you a whole different way of looking at things.
"And then for someone to come up and say 'We can fix it'... When they first said they could operate, I was thinking, 'What are they saying? They may be offering me two or three more months life?'
"But no they weren't, they were saying they could get rid of the tumour, and that's what they did. And it's gone. And I don't have cancer.
"It's so weird and so strange that it's kind of hard to come to terms with it in my mind. Now, I'm spending my time gradually coming to terms with the idea that my death is not imminent, that I am going to live on."
He said he was still recovering from the operation. When asked what he would do next, he replied: "I don't know really."
Johnson's declaration came as he accepted the Icon Award at the Grosvenor House ceremony on Wednesday.
Johnson's operation also involved the removal of his pancreas, spleen part of his stomach, small and large intestines and the removal and reconstruction of blood vessels relating to the liver.
- The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson is a film that confronts our worst nightmares of impending death, confounding expectations and turning them upside down.
It tells the extraordinary, yet universal story of legendary musician Wilko Johnson who, diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and given a few months to live, managed to accept his fate with uplifting positivity and defy the death sentence handed down to him.
- Book Review: Wilko Johnson – Looking Back At Me
Musician, actor, amateur astronomer: Wilko Johnson is many things but one thing that he certainly is not is boring.
Alongside author Zoe Howe, Johnson’s life is laid out in typically hilarious honesty in his autobiography, Looking Back At Me.
- Marcus Berkmann reviews Wilko Johnson's memoir | Daily Mail Online
Don't You Leave Me Here is the story of his life in music, his life with cancer, and his life now - in the future he never thought he would see.
Monday, May 23, 2016
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Jenny Diski.
Jenny Diski (8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer.
- Jenny Diski - Literature
- Jenny Diski - blog.
The English writer is facing death the only way she knows how: line by line.
- Jenny Diski on Doris Lessing: ‘I was the cuckoo in the nest’ | Books | The Guardian
Writer Jenny Diski was taken in by Doris Lessing in 1963 when she was a teenager, but the relationship soon soured.
Now Diski, recently diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, has finally decided to tell her side of the story.
Lessing suggested she simply write down her life story: “It’s interesting enough, and there are editors who can deal with sorting out your sentences and that kind of thing.”
Diski need not have had that concern. Nothing she writes ever sounds like it could have been written by someone else.
She is the author of 10 novels that often seem capable of anything – ventriloquising Old Testament prophets, communing with orangutans, 16th-century love triangles, mining the deep psychology of motherhood and adolescence.
For all these fictional gifts, though, the essay form – part digressive memoir, part journey of exacting critical discovery – has always seemed her natural home.
She cites the essays of Michel de Montaigne and the fact and fantasy of Moby-Dick as her models (and you wouldn’t begrudge her either).
She has an uncanny ability to connect wildly disparate ideas and make them spark, to take readers on vivid mystery tours along her own neurological pathways, authorial umbrella held aloft.
Her essays are often survival stories.
And Diski has survived a great deal.
She survived parents who abused each other and her, physically and emotionally; her father, a professional conman and womaniser, walking out when she was 11; her mother’s subsequent overdoses and hysterical self-obsession.
She survived being raped by a stranger when she was 14.
A boarding school, St Christopher’s – she was fiercely bright and Camden council thought that the answer – which she escaped from.
She survived suicide attempts and various psychiatric hospitals.
She lived to tell tales of the 1960s and 1970s and sometimes disastrous experiments with drugs, sex, feminism, politics, employment in a shoe shop, teaching and repeated bouts of depressive illness.
- Jenny Diski’s End Notes - The New York Times
- Jenny Diski · Diary: Rape-Rape · LRB 5 November 2009
- (36) @diski - Twitter Search
- Roger Diski obituary | Travel | The Guardian
She married Roger Diski in 1976, and their daughter Chloe was born in 1977; the couple separated in 1981 and divorced.
Her later partner until the end of her life, Ian Patterson, known as "the Poet" in Diski's writings, is a translator and director of English Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge.
- Jenny Diski - Literature
- Jenny Diski - blog.
The English writer is facing death the only way she knows how: line by line.
- Jenny Diski on Doris Lessing: ‘I was the cuckoo in the nest’ | Books | The Guardian
Writer Jenny Diski was taken in by Doris Lessing in 1963 when she was a teenager, but the relationship soon soured.
Now Diski, recently diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, has finally decided to tell her side of the story.
Lessing suggested she simply write down her life story: “It’s interesting enough, and there are editors who can deal with sorting out your sentences and that kind of thing.”
Diski need not have had that concern. Nothing she writes ever sounds like it could have been written by someone else.
She is the author of 10 novels that often seem capable of anything – ventriloquising Old Testament prophets, communing with orangutans, 16th-century love triangles, mining the deep psychology of motherhood and adolescence.
For all these fictional gifts, though, the essay form – part digressive memoir, part journey of exacting critical discovery – has always seemed her natural home.
She cites the essays of Michel de Montaigne and the fact and fantasy of Moby-Dick as her models (and you wouldn’t begrudge her either).
She has an uncanny ability to connect wildly disparate ideas and make them spark, to take readers on vivid mystery tours along her own neurological pathways, authorial umbrella held aloft.
Her essays are often survival stories.
And Diski has survived a great deal.
She survived parents who abused each other and her, physically and emotionally; her father, a professional conman and womaniser, walking out when she was 11; her mother’s subsequent overdoses and hysterical self-obsession.
She survived being raped by a stranger when she was 14.
A boarding school, St Christopher’s – she was fiercely bright and Camden council thought that the answer – which she escaped from.
She survived suicide attempts and various psychiatric hospitals.
She lived to tell tales of the 1960s and 1970s and sometimes disastrous experiments with drugs, sex, feminism, politics, employment in a shoe shop, teaching and repeated bouts of depressive illness.
- Jenny Diski’s End Notes - The New York Times
- Jenny Diski · Diary: Rape-Rape · LRB 5 November 2009
- (36) @diski - Twitter Search
- Roger Diski obituary | Travel | The Guardian
She married Roger Diski in 1976, and their daughter Chloe was born in 1977; the couple separated in 1981 and divorced.
Her later partner until the end of her life, Ian Patterson, known as "the Poet" in Diski's writings, is a translator and director of English Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge.
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