Not a full house for this gig on 8th October 1979 but it was still quite lively. Buzzcocks did come up with a few punk-pop classics in their day and it was great to hear these gems blasting out across the Caird Hall. The crowd at the front of the stage were pogoing and gobbing like it was a punk gig from 1977 but the support band, Joy Division, was proof that music had moved on to it's next phase, almost 1980, and now the post punk/new wave era. I can remember hearing the sound coming from the electric drum on "She's lost control" and thinking how futuristic it seemed to be. I've still got the image of Ian Curtis doing his agitated dance movements in my mind!
I used to have the Caird Hall poster for this gig on my wall. Printed in maroon yellow colours. The poster did have Joy Division on it, whereas the ticket didn't. I ended up chucking it out though when I moved house.
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I ask that todays election will go smoothly. I pray against dishonest balloting. I pray for judges of election to have strength and courage for the long day ahead. I ask you, Lord, for a clear conclusion to this campaign, without delay, and without the devastating divisiveness of corruption. I pray for supernatural honesty and integrity even in our media, dear Lord.
For whichever candidate loses todays election, I pray for a gracious and quick concession speech, one that will help heal the breach in our nation.
For whichever candidate wins, I pray for humility in victory. I pray for a White House and Congress and Judiciary that governs with an eye on that day when each one stands before you for evaluation. I pray that you will give us the economy, the government, and the freedoms that will most further the gospel. I pray that our hearts would align with your Word in areas of liberty, morality, conscience, compassion for the poor and outcast, and righteousness. I pray for our troops, that you would grant safety, victory with honor, and a soon return from the fields of battle. I pray for those war-torn nations who so desperately need peace and help and your Word. Grant a miracle there and let the blessings of the gospel and your healing power for broken bodies, hearts, and lives, flow liberally and freely in lands that have for so long opposed the gospel.
You say, The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes (Proverbs 21:1, NKJV). Lord, turn our new Presidents heart toward righteousness as you define it. Turn his heart toward true compassion and true courage.
We do not look to government for our blessing, we look to you. Our help comes from the Lord.
God, most of all, I pray that your people, the Church, the Bride of Christ, will come Back to the Bible. You say, Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord (Ps 33;12). Draw the hearts of your people away from legalism, away from superficial or activistic Christianity, and away from materialism. Cause us to grow deep and strong in Christ. Give us a hunger for Scripture and prayer. Give us a compassion for people who are groping after Christ (Ac 17:27). Give us a holiness borne of grace. Give us a zeal for the Lords house, a joy in praising and exalting your name, and a love that flows from the life of Christ living through us. Give us the heart of pilgrims, sojourners who are on a journey to our lasting home in the heavens, one whose maker and builder is God. Revive your chuch. Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down to your own people, with fresh power, both heat and light. Turn your people back to yourself, Lord, and heal our land.
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For whichever candidate loses todays election, I pray for a gracious and quick concession speech, one that will help heal the breach in our nation.
For whichever candidate wins, I pray for humility in victory. I pray for a White House and Congress and Judiciary that governs with an eye on that day when each one stands before you for evaluation. I pray that you will give us the economy, the government, and the freedoms that will most further the gospel. I pray that our hearts would align with your Word in areas of liberty, morality, conscience, compassion for the poor and outcast, and righteousness. I pray for our troops, that you would grant safety, victory with honor, and a soon return from the fields of battle. I pray for those war-torn nations who so desperately need peace and help and your Word. Grant a miracle there and let the blessings of the gospel and your healing power for broken bodies, hearts, and lives, flow liberally and freely in lands that have for so long opposed the gospel.
You say, The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes (Proverbs 21:1, NKJV). Lord, turn our new Presidents heart toward righteousness as you define it. Turn his heart toward true compassion and true courage.
We do not look to government for our blessing, we look to you. Our help comes from the Lord.
God, most of all, I pray that your people, the Church, the Bride of Christ, will come Back to the Bible. You say, Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord (Ps 33;12). Draw the hearts of your people away from legalism, away from superficial or activistic Christianity, and away from materialism. Cause us to grow deep and strong in Christ. Give us a hunger for Scripture and prayer. Give us a compassion for people who are groping after Christ (Ac 17:27). Give us a holiness borne of grace. Give us a zeal for the Lords house, a joy in praising and exalting your name, and a love that flows from the life of Christ living through us. Give us the heart of pilgrims, sojourners who are on a journey to our lasting home in the heavens, one whose maker and builder is God. Revive your chuch. Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down to your own people, with fresh power, both heat and light. Turn your people back to yourself, Lord, and heal our land.
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Over one trillion dollars of wealth was lost by the time the markets closed on Monday. And it wasnt just the wealth of a few CEOs or Wall Street executives. The 401Ks and retirement accounts that millions count on for their familys future are now smaller. The state pension funds of teachers and government employees lost billions upon billions of dollars. Hardworking Americans who invested their nest egg to watch it grow are now watching it disappear.
But while the decline of the stock market is devastating, the consequences of the credit crisis that caused it will be even worse if we do not act and act immediately.
Because of the housing crisis, we are now in a very dangerous situation where financial institutions across this country are afraid to lend money. If all that meant was the failure of a few big banks on Wall Street, it would be one thing.
But thats not what it means. What it means is that if we do not act, it will be harder for you to get a mortgage for your home or the loans you need to buy a car or send your children to college. What it means is that businesses wont be able to get the loans they need to open new factories, or hire more workers, or make payroll for the workers they have. What it means is that thousands of businesses could close. Millions of jobs could be lost. A long and painful recession could follow.
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TVOTR's Dear Science, Real LeakNormally, I wouldn't do this, but one thing I learned from last week's financial meltdown is that the rich, like the poor, do whatever the f*$k they want while all us middle class suckers do our best to follow rules, laws, what have you.No more!! I say it's time for a little wild wild west action. Why should I try to do the right thing? Where has it gotten me? I have very little faith left in the government and all its rules and regulations.Someone sent me a link to a zip file with all the tracks from TV On The Radio's latest LP Dear Science,. It's really good and I want you to be able to download it for free. I'm sure after last week, you can't really afford it now anyway, right?? If the bankers aren't being sent to jail for stealing billions from us, then I feel prettys safe that I won't go to jail for this.Enjoy!!!You can also buy it, you middle class rule following sucker!.
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- Music:Coldplay
A new video by Jonathan Beamish for the earliest recorded version of the song produced as a John Peel Session for the BBC in 1979. The original band footage is a mixture of a performance video shot by the band for the single release (minus the damaged shots) and live concert excerpts from Plank, Brussels and the Apollo, Manchester. . We needed to do some tricky retiming and editing to sync it up with the footage which is from completely different versions of the song. Odd to discover that much of the original performance video done for the single release wasn't edited properly with much of the shots of the band playing not cut accurately to the audio.
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- Mood:Playing
- Music:The Doors
James Tate - The Radish
I was holding this really exemplary radish in my hand. / I was admiring its shape and size and color. I was imagining / its zesty, biting taste. And when I listened, I even thought / I could hear it singing. It was unlike anything I had ever / heard, perhaps an oriental woman from a remote mountain village / singing to her rabbit. She's hiding in a cave, and night has / fallen. Her parents had decided to sell her to the evil prince. / And he and his thousand soldiers were searching for her everywhere. / She trembled in the cold and held the rabbit to her cheek. She / whispered the song in a high, thin voice, like a reed swaying / by itself on a bank above a river. The rabbit's large, brown ears / stood straight up, not wanting to miss a word. Then I dropped / the radish into my basket and moved down the aisle. The store / was exceptionally crowded, due to the upcoming holiday. My cart / jostled with the others. Sometimes it pretended we were in a cock- / fight, a little cut here, some bleeding. Now the advantage is mine. / I jump up and spur the old lady, who's weak and ready to fall. / I spot a mushroom I really want. It's within reach. You could / search all day and never find a mushroom like that. I could smell / it sizzling in butter and garlic. I could taste it garnishing my / steak. Suddenly, my cart is rammed and I'm reeling for my balance. / I can't even see who the enemy is. Then I'm hit again and I'm / sprawling up against the potatoes. I've been separated from my / cart. I look around desperately. "Have you seen my cart?" I ask / a man dressed in lederhosen and an alpine hat. "I myself have / misplaced my mother's ashes. How could I know anything about your / cart?" he said. "I'm sorry to hear about your mother," I said. / "Was it sudden, or was it a long, slow, agonizing death, where / you considered killing her yourself just to put her out of her pain?" / "Is that your cart with the radish in it?" he said. "Oh, yes, / thank you, thank you a thousand times over, I can't thank you / enough," I said. "Schmuck," he said. The mushroom of my dreams, / of course, was long gone, and the others looked sickly, like they / were meant to kill you, so I forged on past the kohlrabi and / parsnips. I hesitated at the okra. A flood of fond memories / overcame me. I remembered Tanya and her tiny okra, so firm and / tasty, one Christmas long ago. There was a fire in the fireplace / and candlelight, music, and the crunch, crunch, crunch of the okra. / I have never been able to touch okra since that sacred day. / We were in the Klondike, or so it seemed to me then. Tanya had / a big dog, and it ate the roast, and we had a big laugh, but now / I don't think it's funny. I remember the smell of that roast, / as if it were cooking this very minute, and I can see Tanya / bending over to check on it. How did we ever get out of there / alive? and what happened to Tanya? I look around, peaches and / plums. I'm buffeted from behind. "Watch it," I say to no one in / particular. Eight eyes are glaring at me. "I'm moving," I say. / But I can't move. The rabbit says, "Tonight we will meet our / death, but it will be beautiful and we will be brave and not / afraid. You will sing to me and I will close my eyes and dream / of a garden where we will play under the starlight, and that's / where the story ends. with me munching a radish and you laughing." / I can't move," I said.
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with affectionate nods to E. A. Poe, S. King
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
—-Gustave Flaubert
EPITAPH (2006, revised 2008)
a cold and dreary rain fell
upon the looming hill
gainst her still face dusk and I went—
bearing burdens none may tell
a tale, half-remembered, filled my weary brain as I forged on up the dark and steep moraine…they say…
she keeps her garden
protected from the dawn
under coven spell
and tells no one
where she goes
between walls
hides her love
in a bottomless well
of slain tomorrows
donning for each sorrow
an alabaster shell
collects each tear that forms
a strand of her gossamer cell
glides between shadows of a private hell
and whispers of dawn
a borrowed smile put on
like a finger-puppet
now thrust in thorn-lined pocket
for safe keeps
while afternoon tea
past midnight steeps,
the minute hand leaps
and just beyond the door …the other waits
“Ehlysssahhhhhhhh”
so the wind cried it’s torture in the willows
shattering the dormant dream of an unknown dell
their long slender limbs danced and billowed
amidst the forlorn toll of a distant bell
somber knell for two born to become as one
apart too long had grown
(Dream interlude, she remembers):
memory of haunting eyes
stilled by fate, and scorn
half-open once would linger
soft, upon her delicate form
to travel each beloved curve
with grateful finger
broken promise
side of the road
hidden place, all overgrown
knelt once to soothe her satin skin
to trace her silken down
now a lantern dim aloft she held in hand
as she bent and wove through tangled broom and fen
cursing fate yet praying that path would never end
the pounding in her breast become a desperate demand
so overcome at times that she stopped and really shook
and wondered if the howling wind was her own voice mistook
thus was her state, flesh and ghost, electric to the core
when at last she came…..before the darkened door
each leaf now sprouted tongues which all surrounded
each quaking fiber of her soul rang and resounded
with the choral din no mortal being could ignore
yet through the din a solitary voice implored
“Ahhhhh…..Ehlyysssahhhhhhhhhhh”
(he suddenly hears himself speak in the voice of a young woman. she of the tale?)
“phantom,
why dost idle
before the hallowed bower
with your moonlit lantern
on its silver chain
your knotted cane
with handle of pearl
your cloak of art noir woven
by a lady of Spain
in a room lit by a candle?”
(phantom, unseen as yet, speaks): “but who among them could know my name
their tenement windows
glow and wane
who of them discover
my least design
as they scurry down the screaming corridors
of the terminally sane
who’ll tell the hours tale?
who cradle the flame?
(the tale continues.to batter his ears, to pummel his shivering form, a spiraling,tumultuous crescendo sung by wind and trees)
some beast was woken by the clamor, this much could she tell
she tried to run but she was frozen, locked in a demoniac spell
all dark enchantment was it, wrapped within a greedy nest of vines
and these same clung all about the ancient frame, horribly entwined
she stood amazed as if upon a fabled shore
all senses gripped with wonder
ravaged nerves come torn asunder
oh, her heart like unto thunder
crawling, crawling toward that door
Nell giggled. She licked a crumb from the corner of her mouth, calmly folded the newspaper and read on:
“…this peculiar poem was found on a scroll clutched in the dead man’s left hand. Inexplicably the words had somehow been burned into the paper. The man’s body, as yet unidentified, was found a few days after his death, as evidenced by the degree of decomposition. Later two witnesses came forward to say they had seen him enter the dense forest looking “spooked” or “half-deranged”. The body had been eviscerated. The skin and flesh were massively lacerated and torn. Bone fragments protruded at odd angles from the mangled mass. No clothing was found, but beside the body a message had been hastily scratched into the caked dirt. Some of the message had been made unreadable during the man’s death struggle. But the final sentences remained almost untouched. They read,
If you see her give her my love.
Whatever happens, please give her all m…
The rest had been disturbed and was not legible.
Nell grinned slyly and chuckled. Nothing got her off like a good story of human suffering and mutilation. “Served ‘im right didn’t it?”, she said as cascades of laughter shook her nimble form. She rose quickly off the park bench then and, stretching the youthful body, still giggling, she brushed a few crumbs off her blouse. With a smile of satisfaction she rolled up the paper and tossed it into the trash can at the end of the bench. Then she strolled, really floated and danced, the two blocks back to the office.
When she was out of sight the stranger, who’d been watching furtively from a bench on the opposite side of the walkway, approached and lifted the paper from the trash. He read the article, skipping the long tedious poem. He’d been there when it was written hadn’t he? But he read the remainder of it including the two final paragraphs which Nell had missed: Following discovery of the mutilated body, it reported, while police were investigating the surrounding area, the corpse had disappeared. Someone had stolen it behind the backs of the several members of the crime unit who stood huddled against the early morning chill not 20 feet away. Then, about an hour after the disappearance, a witness called the local police to report that what appeared to be a savagely battered and blood-drenched man had just crossed a rural road in front of his truck. This happened just a few miles to the north. Captain Zelmo Radley said both incidents were unsolved and being aggressively investigated.
The stranger was quietly pleased. Abruptly he looked up and focused on a nearby cloud mass. He changed rapidly into vapor, one of the newer ones he’d been experimenting with lately, the clothes falling in a heap upon the boots. The vapor swiftly ascended.
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- Music:Muse
CD1:
01. The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (4:43)
02. Bionikworld - Schwingin' (Nick Thayer's 2003 Remix) (2:06)
03. Rainer Weichhold - Very Nice (Michoacan Remix) (4:01)
04. Roland Klinkenberg - On My Mind (Bumper Mix) (3:11)
05. Dinah Washington - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (Rae Christian Remix) (4:54)
06. Danger - 11H30 (datA Remix) (3:19)
07. Sébastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear (SebastiAn Remix) (2:38)
08. Trafik - Cut Your Teeth (Phonat Dub) (4:28)
09. Bag Raiders - Fun Punch (3:18)
10. Freeez - I.O.U. (3:53)
11. T-REK - Favourite People (2:22)
12. Jay Shepheard - Last Days (Of Cou Cou D) (3:10)
13. Faze Action - Stratus Energy (Special Disco Mix) (3:24)
14. Couture feat. Rachelle - Afterglow (Original Mix Acapella) (3:41)
15. Bermuda - Galaxy Race (5:06)
16. Ikon - The Dove (Kraak Smaak Remix) (3:07)
17. Tom Middleton - Beginning Of The Middle (5:11)
18. The Pines - Cold (5:43)
19. Mint Royale - The Effect On Me (3:53)
CD2:
01. Eelke Kleijn - Defining The Pattern (0:26)
02. Jay Lumen - In Love (Last Atlant Remix) (4:15)
03. Pako Frederik - Rib Cage (1:51)
04. Will Saul - 3000AD (3:19)
05. Kevin Griffiths - Jaguar Shoes (Ripperton Mix) (4:31)
06. Geddes - Trial (H.O.S.H. Mix) (3:58)
07. Gregor Tresher - Painkiller (3:27)
08. Alex Dolby - Ushuaia (1:19)
09. Motorcitysoul - Phantasy (6:04)
10. Modunique - Formbar (Trauma Duo Remix) (4:15)
11. autoKratz - Its On (4:39)
12. Alter Ego - Beat The Bush (Ewan Pearsons Slow NRG Edit) (4:14)
13. Kevin Swain - Baby Wants To Ride (3:54)
14. Silas (2) - BiPolar (3:40)
15. The Droyds - All I Ever Wanted (Dusty Kid Needs Love Mix) (3:09)
16. Peter Katafalk - Pacific 202 (5:28)
17. Tomboy - Flamingo (Trentemøller Remix) (2:14)
18. CJ Bolland - Horsepower (1:18)
19. Kevin Saunderson feat. Inner City - Til We Meet Again (Carl Craig Remix) (9:11)
20. Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin (Jori Hulkkonen Remix) (5:54)
21. Culprit 1 - Strings Outro (1:56)
CD3:
01. STUX - Kris Shendo (Mortal Edit) (4:15)
02. Thomas Sagstad - Crystal Pipeline (9:29)
03. Derek Howell - Stretch These Legs (7:46)
04. Trafik - Indestructible (KiRA and James Warren Instrumental) (6:58)
05. MOS - Intimate Output (8:22)
06. Spieltape - Lonely Places I've Never Been (8:10)
07. Logiztik Sounds Mauricio Duarte - Past Lifes (7:39)
08. Edwin Mulder, Ferdy Sebastian Davidson - 77th Street (Dub Mix) (8:05)
09. Federico Epis - Is Time (7:09)
10.
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Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division, Peel Session, BBC Maida Vale Studios, London, 26 November 1979.
as far as i know, this is the earliest of three recordings of the song that have actually been released. this is rough and fast and energetic (like their unreleased album), the second (the b-side to the single) is a little slower, and the third (the singles a-side itself) is slower still.
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as far as i know, this is the earliest of three recordings of the song that have actually been released. this is rough and fast and energetic (like their unreleased album), the second (the b-side to the single) is a little slower, and the third (the singles a-side itself) is slower still.
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- Music:Arctic Monkeys
I bought this record because
1. It is by SCOOTER.
2. I had read on the BBC News that it had become the UK's number one best selling album, knocking Madonna off the top stop.
3. It came with a limited edition bonus CD of the greatest hits of SCOOTER.
Yeah. If you are a person of discernment you will be familiar with SCOOTER, the teutonic techno sensations. The group comprises three fellows Rick J. Jordan, H.P. Baxxter the MC (who also goes by the names Dave, MC Dave, Whistling Dave, and The Chicks Terminator), and the mysterious other guy. They keep the mystery of the other guy fresh by changing him every couple of albums, with the current model being one Michael Simon, third or fourth replacement of the early line-up's Ferris Bueller.
Anyway, Jumping All Over The World is SCOOTER's umpeenth album and represents something of a change of direction for the band. Fatherhood and general ageing have led to a new maturity, with H.P. Baxxter's raps now covering environmental degradation, the problems of the Middle East, and questions of where the human race is going. Or so you might think, but you would be wrong. In fact this record is just like all the others by the band, full of stonking dancefloor classics that make you want to riggetty riggetty rock all night long. It is hard to really say much about this record other than IT IS AWESOME GO AND BUY IT.
Yeah. The other thing you can say about SCOOTER is they really love to reference other musicians' work in a totally random manner. My theory is that the SCOOTER lads are actually total musos with a vast musical knowledge, getting a kick out of throwing in pastiches and homages of things you would never expect to come across on something as cheesetastic as a SCOOTER album. On the main album itself you get covers, samples, or snippets to such artists as OMD, Kim Wilde, Limahl, The Sisters of Mercy, and Status Quo, while the greatest hits record throws in East German folk, Supertramp, Billy Idol, and The Shamen; this is of course not including the endless nods to the KLF.
Yeah. Two men in a boat, with three cigarettes and no matches. How do they smoke.
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First off, I am not a huge Girl Talk fan, or Easter Egg, or anybody like that. The music is interesting and every once in a while I might throw one on at a party if I think I can pull it off. So I get this DJ who sends me his mix and calls it in the fashion of Girl Talk, so I looked over it. I think I checked out one tune and kept it moving. A few months later I get another email recommending the same dude and his mixtape, probably somebody in his camp, anyhowslow day in the office so I check out his mixtape, every track. Found a few that are pretty dope but the last jam on the tape, took me for a surprise. Man it started and chills shot up and down my body I kid you not. KILLER! So Autorock, well done. And sorry for not putting you on from the get go. The tune is Dead Prez Hip Hop over three tracks. First is Joy Divisionss Love Will Tear Us Apart. The next two are on the tip of my tongue, but I cant come up with them right now.o well thats what I have Vuji for. For more from Autorock of course check out his myspace or the whole Mass Appeal mixtape.
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- Music:The Beatles
Paul Mawhinney should be able to be empathized with by nearly every single person who visits this site on a regular basis. He's made music his life and a song -- probably many songs -- make him cry softly. He's accumulated a collection of recorded material that's beyond compare and what fool wouldn't want to be able to have what he has -- a lifetime's achievement -- lined up neatly and silently until called upon. The smell in that room has to be one of glorious age and delectable entropy, of coiled up energy -- an archive of masterpieces according to few and some according to all. I'd buy it in a heartbeat, without really caring what was there. We should all be able to appreciate this man and there's nothing sadder than his having to sell his wonderful collection. This is a beautiful video. Please enjoy. -- Sean Moeller
http://www.veryapeproductions.
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From the New York Times;
Trying to Save a Link to a Legend and an Era
By JAKE MOONEY
JOHN BENZ FENTNER, a lawyer from Unionville, Conn., is a serious Marx Brothers fan, if the word can properly be applied to devotees of that madcap comedy family. Mr. Fentner can name all six brothers a true litmus test of Marx fandom, he said and collects even underwhelming Marx Brothers movies like the 1968 Otto Preminger flop which featured Groucho as a crime boss named God.
So it was understandable that a few years ago, on a trip to New York with fellow Marx Brothers fans, Mr. Fentner found his way to 179 East 93rd Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues, to the stoop of the house where the brothers spent much of their youth around the turn of the previous century.
s like going to Gettysburg just to stand on the battlefield, Mr. Fentner said the other day. s a slight difference in quality there, but its the same kind of pilgrimage. If youre really interested in something, you want to go and stand on the ground.
The house is one of the few remaining links to the brothers in the area, since the old theaters and vaudeville houses where they got their start are almost entirely gone.
Now, residents of East 93rd Street, unhappy about new development that they say is changing the character of the area, are seeking to have the block where the Marx Brothers house is located added to a nearby historic district to keep it, too, from changing.
Susan Kathryn Hefti, a chairwoman of the 93rd Street Beautification Association, hopes her group can persuade the Landmarks Preservation Commission to extend the Carnegie Hill Historic District, which currently ends just to the west of the block. And in a more symbolic move, the neighbors of the house hope to have the block ceremonially named Marx Brothers Place.
According to Ms. Hefti, the association formed in response to the demolition of two town houses from the 1880s that were across from the Marx Brothers house. A third house on the block was later torn down.
We were all out on the sidewalk, Ms. Hefti said. Most of us didnt know about it until it happened, and most of us were just in a state of shock. Without landmark protection, she added, the Marx Brothers house could, theoretically, go down tomorrow if it were sold.
That possibility was enough to alarm the filmmaker Woody Allen, who is a former resident of the area and a Marx Brothers devotee. In a letter to Ms. Hefti, Mr. Allen wrote that in countries that place a high value on cultural contributions as opposed to simply bulldozing things in the name of progress, the Marx Brothers home would remain standing and affixed with a plaque.
But Barry Rice, the architect whose firm designed the seven-story condominium that is replacing the three demolished town houses, said that extending the historic district might not provide the control over development that residents expect. New development in such a district is still possible, he said, if care is taken with design and scale.
My conscience is clear, Mr. Rice said. I didnt knock down the Marx Brothers house, and I think Im doing something thats in context with the street.
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Newser gives you more news in less time. We search for the best and most important stories all over the web, read them for you, and deliver concise and sharp summaries—along with links to the full text. Newser provides a way to stay on top of an ever-expanding horizon of news and opinionpolitics, sports, business, trends, technology, personalities, crimes, and controversies. Newser keeps you not just better informed, but, with our signature graphic interface and smart condensed format, more enjoyably informed.
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- Music:The Doors
Famous English graphic designer, Peter Saville, designed a limited-edition Zune player for Microsoft to celebrate the DVD release of "Joy Division", the critically acclaimed documentary. Joy Division tells the story of the seminal post-punk band through the perspective of surviving members and the people who worked with them during the short-lived high power existence.
The limited-edition players will come pre-loaded with the documentary and will be etched with a reinterpretation Saville's artwork for Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasure" album. Only 500 will be made and will be available the same date as the DVD release, June 17th.
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