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Despite the original meaning of the picture, i look at it more positively now. I was holding on to something that didn't exist, and now i have found something that actually does
The village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll in Anglesey, home to a ridiculously long named railway station and tourist shop.
"The Smiths are the worlds greatest group."
A bold proclamation!
And arguably correct. Maybe not at that moment, but they would soon claim that crown. Who else was there? U2 had sold their soul for the yankee dollar, REM still hadn't got out of the States, Echo and the Bunnymen were beginning to fray at the edges and Simple Minds were becomming bloated.
Signed reverse of ticket stub by Morrissey of The Smiths. The poor hand writing was because he signed it standing up.
This was from the SFX, Dublin, first of two nights that they would play on their debut album tour (not their first Irish gig - I was at that in Trinity College 9 December 1983), Friday, 18 May 1984. Number 036, costing £6.00. That's the basic facts out of the way. They were touring a slightly underwhelming debut album (I was bitterly disappointed when it came out, having championed them previosly), albeit with some earthshatering singles and hidden away was some deep and meaningful melacholic tunes.
But they were relaxed and beginning to get on top of their game.. Yada, yada... it was obvious that they were destined for greatness. Shortly after, in fact less than a month, they went into the studio and recorded How Soon Is Now and became the default cool teenage idol group. Met up with them afterwards, backstage where they were very relaxed and open. I reckon this was their happiest time, they were on the up and there was no financial or inter-band squabbles.
See what the Johnny Marr wrote on my other ticket stub.
Setlist:
1. Hand In Glove
2. Sill Ill
3. This Charming Man
4. This Night Has Opened My Eyes
5. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
6. Miserable Lie
7. I Don't Owe You Anything
8. Barbarism Begins At Home
9. Reel Around The Fountain
10 What Difference Does It Make?
Encore:
11 These Things Take Time
12.Hand In Glove
13.You've Got Everything Now
14.Handsome Devil
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First draft of a piece I wrote as part of the April writing challenge on Creative Nonfiction Writing Forums. The final text is also available at Silver Bullets.
i can't make it stop..
repeat, repeat,
the cycle never ends..
i'm so sick, i'm making me sick..
there's been something else talking in my ear..
someone save me.
oh God, my hands are shaking again..
ghostbones, free texture. thank you.
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Darkday has made an exciting discovery of some Courier Mail newspaper sheets from 1962 that's permanently stuck into the concrete ceiling of the underground storm drain. Possibly it's left over from the construction of the underground rcp storm drain. This has prompted Darkday to call this storm drain - Back in '62
James Clough and Chiara Scattolin’s survey on the history of wood type in Italy is finally printed! Published by Tipoteca Italiana.
Honesdale, PA, Olympus E-M5, Sigma 60mm, f2.8 lens
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a strange habit I have, writing poetry and lyrics on my the bottom of my foot. I guess that it could be said that my soul bleeds through my soles.
(lyrics by Dexter Holland)
Explore: July 9, 2006
This is what happens when your father decides he needs to steal your camera for a project before you've had a chance to take any pictures.
A small piece that I hand-lettered for my daughter, who loves to bake bread. The original is now in a frame, hanging on her kitchen wall in Manchester, UK.
At the bottom of the back there is some writing which may be name of the sitter, but it is very difficult to read
I have struggled with understanding, especially in the last couple years since I received my promotion. I struggle more so not in my understanding of things or of others, but in getting others to understand me and my world. It’s hard to explain why I work the hours I do and to get others to understand why yes, it is very difficult in my day to find time just to go to the bathroom or find a minute to eat something. One of my supervisors asked me the other day, “Do you eat? I never see you eat.” I just smiled on the outside and said “Of course I eat, can’t you tell??” but when the laugh faded, inside I was crumbling…
Sure, there’s the psychological side that says “Maybe that’s the way I want my life to be. I built my life to be this way on purpose for _______ reason….”, but I don’t quite buy that. No- correction: I don’t buy that whatsoever.
I wish I had a better means to bring understanding of my world and of my mind to those close to me: what I am going through, what my world is like, what millions of thoughts race through my mind. I wish I had the time to explain, be transparent, and be understood. But I have the feeling I will be chasing that elusive understanding for some time…
Theme: Musings And Ramblings
Year Six Of My 365 Project
In December 1956, in Portuguese Angola the Angolan Communist Party (PCA) merged with the Party of the United Struggle for Africans in Angola (PLUA) to form the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola with Viriato da Cruz, the President of the PCA, as Secretary General.
During 1975, before the official Portuguese withdrawal, the civil war in Angola intensifies. In fighting for control of the capital city, Luanda, the MPLA succeeds in driving out both its rivals. UNITA, which claims to enjoy wider popular support than the other groups, argues that Portugal must fulfil its last colonial duty and supervise elections.
But the Portuguese, eager to leave as quickly as possible, abandon the country without formally handing over control to any succeeding government. The MPLA, in possession of the capital and with guaranteed support from the USSR and Cuba, declared itself the government of independent Angola. Agostinho Neto, a distinguished poet who had led the MPLA since 1962, became president.
The Soviet Union supported the MPLA-PT as a liberation movement before independence and formalized its relationship with the MPLAPT government through the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation and a series of military agreements beginning in 1975. Once it became clear that the MPLA-PT could, with Cuban support, remain in power, the Soviet Union provided economic and technical assistance and granted Angola most-favored-nation status. In 1976 MPLA adopted Marxism-Leninism as the party ideology. It maintained close ties with the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc, establishing socialist economic policies and a one-party state.
For the first decade after independence, trade with communist states was not significant, but in the late 1980s dos Santos sought expanded economic ties with the Soviet Union, China, and Czechoslovakia and other nations of Eastern Europe as the MPLA-PT attempted to diversify its economic relations and reduce its dependence on the West. In October 1986, Angola signed a cooperative agreement with the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), a consortium dedicated to economic cooperation among the Soviet Union and its allies. As part of the Comecon agreement, Soviet support for Angolan educational and training programs was increased. In 1987 approximately 1,800 Angolan students attended institutions of higher education in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union also provided about 100 lecturers to Agostinho Neto University in Luanda, and a variety of Soviet-sponsored training programs operated in Angola, most with Cuban instructors. Approximately 4,000 Angolans studied at the international school on Cuba's renowned Isle of Youth. More Angolan students were scheduled to attend the Union of Young Communists' School in Havana in 1989.
Cuba's presence in Angola was more complex than it appeared to outsiders who viewed the Soviet Union's Third World clients as little more than surrogates for their powerful patron. The initiative in placing Cuban troops in Angola in the mid-1970s was taken by President Fidel Castro as part of his avowed mission of "Cuban internationalism." Facing widespread unemployment at home, young Cuban men were urged to serve in the military overseas as their patriotic duty, and veterans enjoyed great prestige on their return. Castro also raised the possibility of a Cuban resettlement scheme in southern Angola, and several hundred Cubans received Angolan citizenship during the 1980s. Cuban immigration increased sharply in 1988. In addition to military support, Cuba provided Angola with several thousand teachers, physicians, and civilian laborers for construction, agriculture, and industry. Angolan dependence on Cuban medical personnel was so complete that during the 1980s Spanish became known as the language of medicine.
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