“She Thinks I Still Care” Teddy Thompson
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Even Stevens
“The last Supreme Court term, which ended in June, was the stormiest in recent memory, with more 5-to-4 decisions split along ideological lines than at any time in the court’s history. In a series of controversial cases about abortion, racial integration in schools, faith-based programs and the death penalty, the court’s four more conservative justices prevailed, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy providing the crucial fifth vote. The four more liberal justices were often moved to dissent in unusually personal and vehement terms. ‘It is my firm conviction,’ Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the case striking down race-based enrollment policies in public schools, ‘that no Member of the Court that I joined in 1975 would have agreed with today’s decision.’ According to the gossip among Supreme Court law clerks, the level of tension among the justices is higher than at any point since Bush v. Gore in 2000…”
A Fascinating profile of Justice John Paul Stevens from the New York Times magazine a couple of weeks ago.
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So, we meet again.
Justices Begin Work on a Polarizing New Docket
” The Supreme Court has so many polarizing cases on the docket for its new term that the deep ideological divisions that characterized the last term are all but certain to remain on display after justices reconvene on Monday.
The conservative majority under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. drove the court to the right in a series of high-profile rulings during the term that ended in June. That performance, as well as a series of books and articles by and about justices, has placed the court in an unusually bright spotlight as the new term opens…”
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Sweet soul music
She’s Not Anybody’s Backup Act
“There is an elephant in the room at the Brooklyn headquarters of Daptone Records — a skinny, British elephant with an enormous beehive hairdo and a knack for getting her picture in the tabloids…”
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A Mix
Rainbows are the Shadows of a Presence So Divine
1 Ex Models – The Password Is Pelican
2 Pelican – Lost In the Headlights
3 Mission of Burma - Secrets
4 A Place To Bury Strangers – Another Step Away
5 The Mars Volta – Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
6 Porcupine Tree – The Creator Has a Mastertape
7 Litmus – Psychic Projection
8 Wooden Shjips – Shine Like Suns
9 Animal Collective – For Reverend Green
10 Al Green – It Ain’t No Fun to Me
11 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Stranded In Your Love
12 The Brunettes – Stereo (Mono Mono)
Download the continuous mix MP3.
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Jobs taketh away
Downgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2: With Caveats
And, for those left with a dead, hacked iPhone after upgrading. Spoiler alert! The caveat is that you still will not be able to use your device as a phone.
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Jobs giveth
Higlights some undocumented features of the upgrade including the ability to change your voicemail password. Learn something new every minute.
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Terry Riley
At Play in the Fields of the Mind: 1968 – 1986
“Colfax, California, 1935. Who in that NoCal hamlet would’ve guessed that a major influence on modern music had just been christened? Unlike religious icons, angels don’t appear when artists leave the womb and commence their slog through the muck of the world, but that’s where Terry Riley nonetheless saw his advent, soon trafficking along a childhood not terribly dissimilar to that of most other young males in America.”
An interesting overview of Riley’s career by Mark S. Tucker
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