The Ambler

Monday, February 13, 2006

To Tuesday already
Mood:

crushed out
In continued commemoration of Black History Month, Machs Cafe is pleased to be able to aid in helping to promote the following artist...

I s a b e l l e D e b r o s s e

You can visit her site here

Posted by mach1231 at 9:07 AM PST

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Its for you ladies
Mood:

flirty
A song like this is immortal. To say it gives a man
strength is a patent lie. But a good way to
say to the world: yeah you chewed me up and out and
this way and that but you know what..
I have more than just my pride..I have the truth.

And you cant
read the lyrics and not hear the music and
call your self a man all at the same time...its
like, statistically impossible. Well, I can
but you try. Try it.

You can find and listen to a full version of Tears for Fears - Woman in Chains here as well as a powerful rendition played sans vocals.

Phil Collins played drums on this track.

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You better love loving and you better behave
You better love loving and you better behave
Woman in chains, woman in chains

Calls her man the great white hope
Says she's fine, she'll always cope, ooh
Woman in chains, woman in chains

Well, I feel lying and waiting is a poor man's deal (A poor man's deal)
And I feel hopelessly weighed down by your eyes of steel
(Your eyes of steel)
Well, It's a world gone crazy keeps woman in chains, woh woh woh
Woman in chains, woman in chains

Trades her soul as skin and bones
(You better love loving and you better behave)
Sells the only thing she owns
(You better love loving and you better behave) ooh ooh
Woman in chains (the sun and the moon), woman in chains

Men of stone, men of stone, hey baby, no no no, ooh
Well, I feel deep in your heart there are wounds time can't heal
(The time can't heal)
And I feel somebody somewhere is trying to breathe
Well, you know what I mean
It's a world gone crazy keeps woman in chains

It's under my skin but out of my hands
I'll tear it apart (somebody somewhere is trying)
But I won't understand (to breathe)
I will not accept the greatness of man
It's a world gone crazy keeps woman in chains
Gone crazy keeps woman in chains

So free her, so free her, so free her
So free her, so free her (the sun and the moon)
So free (the wind and the rain) her, so free her
So free her, so free her, so free her, so free her
So free her, so free her (the sun and the moon)
So free (the wind and the rain) her, so free her

Posted by mach1231 at 1:21 AM PST

Updated: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:52 AM PST

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Saturday, February 11, 2006

Mood:

not sure

We need more legislation to protect children and not less.

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In British Columbia, the government
waived the requirement for a person under the age of 16 (basically a child) to have both parents signed permission and consent before allowing children to work for a living.
The question is: why?

Posted by mach1231 at 12:44 PM PST

Updated: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:21 AM PST

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Black History Month continues
Mood:

blue
Topic: Crime and Punishment

In order to help commemorate Black History Month, in arm in arm solidarity to our cousins in the South, with plenty of hand holding...OK, maybe not all that..but for todays special Machs Cafe is serving up a tribute of sorts to American photojournalist, author and filmmaker Gordon Parks.

Mr. Parks was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in 2002.

He was the first black photographer to shoot for Life and Vogue magazines. Parks is also an accomplished movie director and music composer. He directed the movie "Shaft" in 1971 and has composed a piano concerto, a symphony, two sonatas, a ballet and three film scores. He is currently at work with cellist Yo Yo Ma on another composition.

For the photo below, Mr.Parks risked life and limb taking photos in a volatile South in steeped atmosphere of vapid and often violent racism

Yestreday, Friday, Feb. 10, Mr. Parks was honoured as the recipient of the William Allen White Foundation's 2006 National Citation, whost past recipients include
James Reston, 1950; Walter Cronkite, 1969; Arthur O. Sulzberger, 1974; James J. Kilpatrick, 1979; Helen Thomas, 1986; Charles Kuralt, 1989; Bernard Shaw, 1994; Bob Woodward, 2000; Molly Ivins, 2001; Cokie Roberts, 2002; and Gerald F. Seib, 2005.

A list of past recipients is available at www.journalism.ku.edu.

And Mr.Parks thought provoking and illustrious body of work can be sampled here

http://www.pdngallery.com/legends/parks/

Parks has also just released two books, "Hungry Heart," a new memoir, and
"Eyes With Winged Thoughts", featuring his poetry and photographs.

"Gordon Parks: No Excuses,"
a children's book by Ann Parr of Lindsborg,
comes out next month

Posted by mach1231 at 11:25 AM PST

Updated: Saturday, February 11, 2006 1:43 PM PST

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Thursday, February 9, 2006

Where were you in '84?
Mood:

caffeinated
Hahahhaha Mulroney.

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Theres on old saying in politics: "Once a Turner guy...always a Turner guy."

This is funny.

The Right Honourable
John Napier Turner

News Conference to Call an Election - July 9, 1984

Q: BOB EVANS (CTV News) -- Prime Minister, while he was out west, Brian Mulroney mentioned on several occasions that he was driving a truck in Baie Comeau, while you were dancing with Princess Margaret. I was wondering weather you consider that a trivialization of politics and if not which would you consider the image that has more vote-getting character, being a truck driver or ballroom dancer.

A. I like the question but I am really going to be sticking to the issues.

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Maclean's December 1, 1997

Author BRUCE WALLACE

The Canadian Encyclopedia ? 2006 Historica Foundation of Canada

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John Turner once privately predicted no prime minister would ever put (Lloyd) Axworthy in foreign affairs because the newspaper clippings file was too thick with quotes from Axworthy bashing Washington.

Global Commons, touchy-feely "people power" language that can still evoke sneers from the clubby diplomatic elites who insist they still shape the world. In Ottawa, the skeptics are already whispering that Axworthy is overestimating Canada's weight in the world. It will all come crashing down on this crazy small-arms control plan he is floating, they say. Not sexy enough. You might reduce the number of small arms, but you will never get rid of them. "We'll see," says Axworthy with a tight smile, still dreaming in a cynical age where the realists are writing him off again already.

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Tuesday, February 7, 2006

far flung off tidbits
Mood:

accident prone
flotsam and jetsam etc

NEW! ! !LINKS...NEWS

Lets play name that headline

recently added to the World Monument Fund's 2006 Watch List of the 100 most endangered sites on earth.....

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The existence of this species was reported by Dr. Jared Diamond in Papua New Guinea in 1981, and since then it became a topic of discussion among mammal experts for 25 years.....

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found wooden boxes, covered with gypsum, bearing the inscription "Wonders of the land of Punt."

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"Anyone who goes there will come back with a mystery"
a reference to the 'lost world' recently discovered in PNG, but easily just as attributable to any visitor to Machs Cafe-lol

Posted by mach1231 at 9:09 PM PST

Updated: Tuesday, February 7, 2006 9:26 PM PST

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Topic: Crime and Punishment
Who is more slower here? The writer of the article
or the person who posted it. I guess 'normally'
I wouldnt be recriminating, BUT!, since they enjoy continually bringing it up...

My point is that the article writer may be wide eyed and scratching his arm pits like King Kong and pounding his chest but authorities have been concerned about GPS devices enabling stalking for years.

This guy does something on a lark, gets dizzy contemplating Pulitzer and scratches out an article
meanwhile this type of thing has already been done
in rl applications in exactly the method ascribed.

Oh well kudos to him for raising awareness about this issue. Hope he cashes in the
loot from his Pulitzer prize wining article by
buying rounds for his mates at the local pub.

Why doesnt he go for the Pulitzer by writing about
sex trafficking in the UK and tweenies using heroin.

And then MiketheHack can follow-up by making a post about it.

Amidst a story about a 100lb pound haul of crystal meth and a James Bond film director cross-dressing, one 13-year-old Quebec girl who went into a coma after apparently experimenting with the drug ecstasy has died.

That really sadly summarizes the state of our world doesnt it?

But speaking of fictional spy's, cameras rolling but no action for Bond.

(Lee Tamahori may all of James Bonds quips visit you in prison-joke,joke)

Posted by mach1231 at 10:39 AM PST

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Mood:

party time!
Topic: Entertainment
Always wanted to sing ''Sweet Home Alabama'' along with Lynyrd Skynyrd?

http://www.ebay.com/grammy

Posted by mach1231 at 3:42 AM PST

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Sunday, February 5, 2006

I went to see a film called 'Darwins Nightmare' last night.

In between frames and the blinking of my eye, I tried to recollect a few frames for my own reference
to a book I am ploughing and trudging through
called The Culture of Defeat.

It seemed irrevelant and revelant at the same time.
I guess because when trying to be immersed in a
film and gather its message small factoids the brain interjects at once seem both bothersome and inevitable.

It makes me thing of how potent movies are with
their distinctly visual medium. If Darwins Nightmare was a boook, would anyone read it>?

Would the imagination be even capable of contemplating the depth of impovershedness suffered
by the people of Tanzania on one side and the scale of thought required on the other to reach what might be called a pinnacle of sheer irony? And rest easy?

Anyway, in the morning , I surfed around and found this.

Posted by mach1231 at 12:33 PM PST

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Friday, February 3, 2006

Topic: Crime and Punishment
Floated to me via Warren Kinsella and his blather, pardon me, bloggerings..

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Globe and Mail also runs a story about the incident

Posted by mach1231 at 2:48 PM PST

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