The first scientific study of the human cost of the Iraq war suggests that at least 100,000 Iraqis have lost their lives since their country was invaded in March 2003.
More than half of those who died were women and children killed in air strikes, researchers say.
(Source: The Independent)
One hundred thousand dead. One hundred thousand.
Nearly a [...]
Archive for October, 2004
This isn’t a proper biography or eulogy. For that, click here.
When I found out today that Peelie had died, I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t, to be honest. It just feels a bit unreal. Like one of the terrible sick jokes after Christopher Reeve died. I keep waiting for the unfunny punchline so I [...]
The Invisible Cities. Neither invisible nor cities…cuh!
Tonight’s top new tune was ‘Instaglo’ by The Invisible Cities, taken from their cracking debut album, ‘Watertown.’ It’s a classic indiepop album, full of thrumming geetars and honeyed boygirl singing. It’s also very varied and full-sounding for a debut, sounds to me more like a third album in terms [...]
Some people are like wasps
Haplodiploid in their hatred
Of creatures better feted
By smiles and kisses, the fleeting embraces
Of lonely apes clinging to each other
On a mudball whirling through nothing
Some people are like wasps
They’ll sting you on the dancefloor
They’ll sting you at your desk
They’ll sting you in your bed
You can’t avoid it: your joy is sugar
Yeah, some [...]
Tonight, I stayed in. I had a lot of writing to do. Plus, this film is starting in twenty minutes:
What can I say about François Truffaut? There are many scholarly books written about the Nouvelle Vague and its protagonists, Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer. There are books about Truffaut and books by Truffaut. No film fan [...]
The war in Iraq probably helped boost al-Qaeda recruitment, according to a report from leading Western think-tank.
The report, the annual Military Balance by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, does not dwell on the causes of the war.
But it does consider its effects and has some highly critical comments.
It says that the risks [...]
McCarthy - Write To Your MP Today
Cex - Destination: Sexy
Statik And Nat III - 50-50 1 Mc 1 DJ
Refused - Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine
The Lucksmiths - Camera-Shy
Atom - He110
Strife - Grey
Caroline-Paris Studio Group - Accroche Toi
Plans And Apologies - Eggbound Mutebone
Masta Ace - Conflict Ft. Guru
Eight Miles High - Latein
Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day
Wilco [...]
October 17th Antiwar March: Give Them Sport And Soaps Instead
Published by October 18th, 2004 in Antiwar and Photos.It’s 1.38pm. I’m watching a special live broadcast from Trafalgar Square. There’s a pitifully tiny crowd, a few thousand at best, being assaulted by some terrible live music. It’s some Olympic bullshit.
But it’s obviously very important. Hence the live broadcast. My licence fee money has gone towards covering this event about the British 2012 [...]
(There is zero point in reading the following if you’re under thirty. )
McCarthy - really saying something
So you know how it goes…
…you’re googling around the cyberwent, just passing time till the dishwasher finishes and you can get blasted in the face by eggy steam as you open it, when…
You find a fabulous page about a [...]