....they'd kill us all to make a buck.
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...on the street named after Champollion we listen to the next door guest, whose face and origins, politics and problems, we know nothing of, as he or she plays the music of Luther Vandross loud. For a while in the North African late afternoon it makes us want to love each other.
After the Pyramids
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Original Soundtrack - Life and War with Mikey 'Fatboy' Delgado
Opening credits - Intro Douha Alia - cheb mami - segue - mikey dread - Break down the walls
Soldier and Police War - Jah Lion and Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Cheb Khaled - Chebba
Rockers Dub - Augustus Pablo
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Allah Hoo
Gal Costa & Tom Jobim - Dindi
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Sonny's Lettah -
middle section Enta Omri - -Zehava Ben
Domingo - - Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa
Dost - Ahmet Kaya
closing section Al Atlal - Om Kalsoum
Closing credits - Money Dread - - Mikey Dread
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Soundtrack #2 Life and War with Mikey 'Fatboy' Delgado
Shinehead - - Who the cap fits
Noura - Ain El Kerma
Nouhad Fattouh - Abed Al Nawm
Fairuz - Habaytak BiSayf
Dalida Rahme - Chabbahouni Fik
Chaba Noria - Kayen Rebbi
Shinehead - Billie-Jean
Warda - Madritouche
Wadad Chiha - An Al Awan
Fairuz - Addeysh kan fi nass فيروز ... أديش كان في ناس
Stina Nordenstam - When Debbie's back from Texas
Stina Nordenstam - Crime
Claude Ciari Habbeytak Bessayf
Zohar Argov - Ima, Ima
Cheikh Smith The white man's balafon
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Soundtrack #3 Life and War with Mikey 'Fatboy' Delgado
Massive Attack v Mad Professor - Radiation ruling the nation
Kareem Al Iraqi - Al Ghurbeh
Tamally Maak - Amr Diab
Jai Uttal - Guru Bramha
Etti Ankri Eshebo
Jah Wobble/Najma Akhtar - Om Namah Shiva
Massive Attack v Mad Professor - Moving Dub
Zehava Ben - Mah Yehiye
Massive Attack v Mad Professor - I Spy
Itzik Kala - HaZohar le'Argov
Massive Attack v Mad Professor - Backward Sucking
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Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs Vol 4 (Number One at The Inbox)
track listing
Colourbox featuring Lorita Grahame - Baby I Love You So
Gregory Isaacs - Tribute to Wa De
Tristan Palma - Butti fi true
Madoo - Hands in the air
Natural Ites - Picture on the wall
Eek-A-Mouse -Operation Eradication
Augustus Pablo - Brace A Boy
Dr Alimantado - Gimme Mi Gun
Colourbox - Looks like we're shy one horse
Winston Reedy - Dim the lights
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they put each other on their existential wounds ______
mikey dread is the music master, king tubby is the dub plate master, prince jammy is the mixing master.
Nice it out. ____________
e-mail _____________
...et, sans savoir pourquoi, disent toujours: Allons! ____________
...this invention, this invented world, the inconceivable idea of the sun. _____________ the way our lives are sealed off to us but suddenly, in time, open up momentarily.
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Life and War with Mikey Fatboy Delgado
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
....to bring us back to the truth, to a consciousness of what we need,
to those deep desires for justice and meaning, for respect and commonality,
for freedom from debt, from the monomaniacal ideology that creates
the plantation and calls it the world.
.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
In Spring
Luciano has passed away – sign on the café door.
Don’t close your eyes in Spring, even for a second.
So much happens. Just for a day I missed
the ornamental cherry where the paths meet
and now the fat baubles of blossom are gone,
laying as petals at the crosspath like pink-tinged snow
on the long-trumpet daffodils.
In the café the gardeners have made a gift of primroses.
Every table has one. They are for Luciano.
At the Gaggia machine which makes too-strong coffee
Lydia sees primroses everywhere she looks.
Her sadness is unrelenting. The counter
is a barrier to holding her.
It makes me ashamed to be happy
in front of her and the primroses
when I remember that Luciano has gone.
At the table I am composing a letter
to Ali in Mosul. I am saying Yes. Spring.
The lesser celandine, now it’s everywhere,
the big-starred and the little-starred.
While I walked in the woods today
I sent thoughts to you of blackbirds and robins.
As they flitted from tree to tree I imagined
orange and yellow tracer fire across the path.
But it was quiet there, not like war at all, just as loud
as the fluttering wings of birds on branches.
I am writing at the café table. In my arms
is my sweet baby who took her first steps
when I was looking the other way. I missed them.
She has soft brown hair and the sweetest nature.
People looking at her almond eyes
ask if there is any Chinese in the family.
They crowd around us, cooing about life
in the shadow of Lydia’s grief. Oh Lydia,
keep your sweet faith. Don’t die inside.
..
Friday, April 13, 2012
Willesden Short Story Prize 2012: RESULTS by Steve Moran
(film recording from Katy Darby's You Tube channel)
The very affable and amiable Stephen Moran announces the winners of this
year's competition. Stephen is a great champion of the short story form and
through his founding of the competition, and via many other venues, he has
given great encouragement and support to many others, including myself.
Buy the book here
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Thursday, March 01, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
There is about half a white moon tonight
There is about half a white moon tonight
against that exquisite blue the colour
of bottled ink. It sits over the bus shelter
by the all-night shop where boys will fight
later over drugs or girls. In the early morning
the unremitting boldness of a few drops
of some fool’s blood pressed from his lips
by other lips, or by a fist without warning,
will look blue against the pavement stone,
and later as the sky lightens to its autumn white
some commuter may see these drops are shot
through like small red scattered leaves thrown
by an oracle from a cave, and that each leaf
is lettered with the story of itself.
I was lost in the sight of the moon.
The moon was beautiful, careless, and aloof.
…
Mikey Delgado
from the Pretend Genius Press anthology
Last Night’s Dream Corrected
Friday, February 10, 2012
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
...they tell me if I don’t show them how to link it up to the tv
they’re going to send my toes back to Danville in the box that
the highly durable, quality feel, sports attachments came in.
.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
doorway, rye, east sussex
mfd
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.
RM Rilke
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Monday, December 05, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize
Get your entries in, the deadline is approaching,
the trophy has been polished and shined and put on public display.
Closing date for entries : 16 Dec. 2011
"It's time to bring those wild stories down from the high mountain passes,
throw a bucket of water over them, and lead them into town for the annual
gala. They don't have to be wild horses, they might be butterflies or bottles
of moonshine - surprise us.
The judge for this year is the incomparable Roddy Doyle. So please let us have
your finest new short stories. Thanks."
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The woman skating reminds us of the white dust
somehow, of the powdered bones in the rutted field.
......
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sunday, August 07, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Willesden Herald
New Short Stories 5
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Monday, April 04, 2011
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Friday, December 17, 2010
Skanking to Captain Ska in the kettle.
via dvorakoa
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Original Captain Ska video and download links here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQFwxw57NBI
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Gregory Isaacs, The Cool Ruler - R.I.P
Brixton Academy 1984
Front Door
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Slave Master
Everytime I hear the music and I make a dip........
(All 13 parts of this, from the late golden age of reggae,
are here in the uploads list - big up Betopoa09
http://www.youtube.com/user/BETOPOA09 )
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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Life and War with Mikey Fatboy Delgado
Before Hutton, before Butler, before Chilcot,
Mikey Fatboy Delgado was looking into the matter...
In the spring of 2003 the Iraq war is underway and
Mikey is almost all in favour of it. It makes for good
television and is improving his sex life. If only the BBC
would sort out those green pictures of fighting in the
dark he might even be prepared to cough up for a licence.
And if only corrupt policing and the amount that Blair grins
weren't so unsettling he would be able to relax and enjoy
watching the highlights of the fighting more.
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“Saddam has bitten the kids and pissed on
the mat and eaten our ganja and he won’t
stop fucking barking, so bosh, ta-ta, thanks
for all the fish, and fucking goodnight Irene.
Your services are no longer required, Saddam.
You are going up the motorway, pal.”
“You’re a nasty fucker. We’re nasty fuckers.
We’ve got the big battalions, you’ve got fuck
all. Out you go. Goodnight Irene.”
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Monday, November 09, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Friday, February 06, 2009
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Monday, December 03, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
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