Wonderful performance and cover by Tricky of Public Enemy’s “Black Steel”. One thing about most of Tricky’s music is the intensity, usually an undercurrent, but always present.
The same government agency that has publicly admitted that they fabricated terror threats in order to increase their surveillance powers is now urging ISPs to keep logs of every website their customers visit.
It’s for your own safety, of course. The FBI says this’ll help them catch child pornography and other serious crimes. Never mind the ability to keep tabs on folks who add “questionable” items to their Amazon wishlist.
I‘ve been thinking about chickens. The kind that cross the road and put Colonel Sanders on the map. Although somewhere between the chicken’s last cluck and the time you take a bite the Colonel does a whole lot of shit to the chicken to give it that oh so greasy and non-chicken-like flavor. The kinds of things that happen when we allow multinational corporations to tend our food supply. So, I’ve been thinking about getting a few chickens.
See, the closest we get in the West to our food source is the local supermarket where it comes wrapped and packaged with colorful labels. While living in a remote village in Thailand I learned another way … and got down and dirty with it.
Digging in the crates for this one from GBH…
