“Alright now, I wanna talk to you all about this song, the name of this song is Dominance and Submission. Now along about this time every night I like to get down with a little Dominance and Submission, tell you all about it. Now,
Dominance and Submission, why that can mean a lot of things in your life. Some of them bother me, some
of them bother you. I‚ll tell you about two of ’em here tonight. Only because this is so close to my heart and I’m sure it’s close to yours too. Tonight I want to talk to you about getting high a little bit.

[cheers] Now, from what I understand, all my friends here, all 14-15,000 of you people here tonight, get a little hassled on the way in. Maybe somebody’s taken away something from you that you paid some good money for just to get high for the show. [bass blast] Now that’s not so unusual considering how close to Washington DC this place is. I wanna ask you a question, you tell me if this is true: You ever wonder why the price of good Colombian keeps getting higher all the time? [cheers] I’ll tell you why, here’s the answer, it’s very simple: it has to do with all those people who work there in those big buildings in Washington DC.

Some of you people, you might think there’s nothing you can do about it but you’re wrong, there’s plenty you can do about it, I’ll tell you what. You know, here we are in Maryland playing a little rock n roll for you people, you don’t want to… In the whole world, there‚s no place better to play rock n roll in than the United States of America. [cheers] We played everywhere. Without a doubt, I will tell you. We’ve been to Scandinavia, we’ve been to Germany, we’ve been to Spain, we’ve been all over Europe. United States of America is the greatest country in the whole world. [cheers] And I’ll tell you why. I’ll tell you why. That‘s because this is a true democracy. This is where the majority of the people say what’s happening. Why, do you know how much power you really have? Half the population in the United States is under the age of 25 years old. [cheers] All you have to do, you have to let the people down there in DC, you have to let em know the way you feel.

So I got an idea, why just about two more weeks, we got Mr. Carter coming down here to live. Maybe after the
concert tonight you’ll go home, get out a paper. And a pen. You write a letter [inaud] Georgia, you say ‘Dear Mr. Carter, Me and my friends, Mr. Carter, me and my friends are sick and tired of getting hassled. [cheers] A matter of fact, Mr. Carter, a matter of fact, me and my friends, we wanna get high and we don’t want to go to jail for it. [bass blast] Yeah, right on! Whoo. Yeah! Yeah! Just remember I’m talking to you tonight right here all about Dominance and
Submission.

I’ll tell you one more thing while I’m thinking about it. Here’s another one that bothers me, something you can put right there in that letter. I’ll tell you, this bothers me almost as much as all those repressive drug laws. I’ll tell you what it is. I AM SICK AND TIRED–I AM SICK AND TIRED, EVERYBODY! OF THE 55 MILE PER HOUR SPEED LIMIT! [cheers, bass blast]

I mean I want to get my motor running! I mean, what’s the point of having a hog sitting in the garage and it can’t go over 55?!? [cheers, bass blast]

Yeah! Alright, Dominance and Submission! Don’t forget now, now we’re gonna sing it, we gonna sing it,
let‚s get a groove on!…”

19 MAR 02: “ICEBERG B-22
CALVES OFF THWAITES ICE TONGUE,” OR “NEW GIANT ICEBERG ON THE LOOSE!!!!!”

FROM
CNN:

Iceberg B-22 is visible
in a satellite photo modified to highlight the berg.

New giant iceberg adrift
near Antarctica

March 19, 2002 Posted: 11:54
AM EST (1654 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new
iceberg — one roughly twice the size of the state of Rhode Island — is
adrift in the icy waters off Antarctica, the National Ice Center says.

    The iceberg
— designated B-22 –broke off from the Thwaites Ice Tongue, a peninsula
of ice and snow extending from the mainland of Antarctica into the Amundsen
Sea, in the region of Antarctica closest to the mid-Pacific Ocean.

    The new
iceberg is about 53 miles long and about 40 miles wide. It is currently
located at 74.56 south latitude and 107.55 west longitude.

    It is
designated B-22 because it is the 22nd iceberg researchers are tracking
in the Amundsen/Eastern Ross Sea (designated Quadrant “B” by the National
Ice Center).

    The National
Ice Center does ice analysis for the military and the private sector. It
is operated by the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

    Researchers
have noticed an unusually high number of icebergs calved from Antarctica
in recent years, prompting some observers to speculate on a possible connection
to global warming…”

FROM
OUR GOVERNMENT’S NATIONAL ICE CENTER:

Iceberg B-22 Calves Off
Thwaites Ice Tongue

March 15, 2002, Washington
D.C.– The National Ice Center (NIC) confirms an iceberg newly calved from
the Thwaites Ice Tongue (Figures 1 & 2). The Thwaites Ice Tongue is
a large sheet of glacial ice and snow extending from the Antarctic mainland
into the southern Amundsen Sea. This new iceberg is named B-22 and is currently
located at 74.56S/ 107.55W. Iceberg B-22, roughly 46NM long and 35NM wide,
covers an area of approximately 2,120 square statute miles. National Snow
and Ice Data Center scientist Dr. Ted Scambos notified NIC of a large crack
in the Thwaites Tongue discovered by Jennifer Bohlander (also of NSIDC)
using MODIS data from February 10th, 2001. The crack was found to have
significantly widened in MODIS data from March 8, 2001. Analyst Judy Shaffier,
of the National Ice Center, confirmed the calving of Iceberg B22 using
the satellite images shown above from the Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program’s (DMSP) Operational Line Scan (OLS) Visible sensor (Figure 1)
and NOAA’s AVHRR sensor (Figure 2), both dated March 11, 2001.

    Iceberg
names are derived from the Antarctic quadrant in which they were originally
sighted. The quadrants are divided counter-clockwise in the following manner:

A = 0-90W (Bellinghausen/Weddell
Sea)

B = 90W-180 (Amundsen/Eastern
Ross Sea)

C = 180-90E (Western Ross
Sea/Wilkesland)

D = 90E-0 (Amery/Eastern
Weddell Sea).

    When
an iceberg is first sighted, NIC documents its point of origin. The letter
of the quadrant, along with a sequential number is assigned to the iceberg.
For example, B-22 is sequentially the 22nd iceberg tracked by the NIC in
Antarctica between 90-180 (Quadrant B).

    The National
Ice Center is a tri-agency operational center represented by the United
States Navy (Department of Defense); the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration Department of Commerce); and the United States Coast Guard
(Department of Transportation). The National Ice Center mission is to provide
world-wide operational ice analyses for the armed forces of the United
States and allied nations, U.S. government agencies, and the private sector.

18 MAR 02: BEEFHEART
SPEAKS

In the brand new issue of
MOJO, the one with Elvis on the cover:

“Photographer Anton Corbijn
places a conference call with old pals

Bono and Don Van Vliet,
aka Captain Beefheart, to jaw about the Pope, painting,

fish, mud and skeletons.”

17 MAR 02: “WE’RE ALL
DEAD AMERICANS NOW.”

Sunday March 17, 2002

The Observer

Six months that changed
a year

Introducing an absolute atrocity special
by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris

9/11: The planes strike –
as Martin Amis memorably describes them – ‘sleeking in

like harsh metal ducklings’.

    Tony
Blair publicly drains every drop of blood from his wife to help the injured

of New York.

    Taking
his time, George W. Bush formulates a measured response – which turns out

to be the most expensive
bollocking ever unleashed against shepherds.

    But are
we starting to forget?

    Figures
show that even as the second tower fell, people were switching off their

televisions, complaining
they’d seen it all before.

    Today
in these pages, we help you make up your own mind about the absolute

necessity of fighting the
ongoing war that is Operation Improving Bloodbath.

Inside: Highlights of
our award-winning coverage:

Polly Toynbee: My 14 months
undercover in an al-Qaeda training camp

Peregrine Worsthorne: How
I parachuted with the Marines into Kabul and found a

bearded Polly Toynbee shouting
anti-American obscenities

Robert Fisk: How I smashed
my own face in shouting ‘Don’t help me, I deserve

this’ in front of thousands
of bewildered refugees

Christopher Hitchens: How
to drink Kabul dry in 72 hours and still keep your

forelock fetchingly draped
over your forehead

Decca Aitkenhead: How I got
spazzed off my baps on Afghan Spangles to the sounds

of DJ Smack Poppy’s bangin’
US Barrage

Arthur Smith: How I missed
the plane

Piers Morgan: How I became
the new Hugh Cudlipp by digging up James Cameron and

Malcolm Muggeridge and sitting
their corpses behind desks at the Mirror

Julie Burchill: How I liberated
Kandahar with the news that Tony Parsons is a

bastard

Also…

The resurgence of Kenneth
Branagh since 11 September: pure

coincidence?

15 FEB 02: “WOW!
THAT IS REALLY OLD.”

Bush
wrote a note in 1997 wishing Enron exec Ken Lay a happy birthday: “55
years old. Wow! That is really old. Thank goodness you have such a young,
beautiful wife. … Laura and I value our friendship with you.”

14 FEB 02: OLD MAN BURROUGHS
ON PRECISION WRITING

from Burroughs
Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997:

“It’s a question of getting
a sufficient degree of precision.

If I really knew how to
write, I could write something that

someone would read and it
would kill them.”

13 FEB 02: WATT SPOTS
MAGPIES IN SALT LAKE CITY

from mike
watt‘s current Banyan tour diary:

“pop to find the strangest
sight outside the window, a

swimming pool piled high
w/snow. don’t find that too much when you

pop in pedro! magpies are
darting all over, another missing in pedro.

they’re pretty smart, one
will distract don’s two dogs while another

will chow from the dog bowl,
then they switch roles. poor dogs never

do figure it out.”

12 FEB 02: WALTER BENJAMIN
ON HASHISH

from some Benjamin bio,
via Adam Mortimer:

There is an interesting gloss
on “politeness” in the essay “Hashish in

Marseilles”, which describes
how Benjamin, after smoking hashish, succumbed to

hunger, which required a
visit to Basso’s restaurant. Here he ordered oysters

from the menu, and a local
dish as a main course. The waiter returned to say

that his choice of main
course was unavailable, and offered him the menu a

second time. Benjamin’s
finger hovers over the previously chosen dish, then

settles on the dish directly
above it, which he orders. Then he orders the dish

above that one, and the
next dish, and the next, all the way to the top of the

menu. “This was not just
from greed, however,” Benjamin comments, “but from an

extreme politeness toward
the dishes, which I did not wish to offend by a

refusal.”

10 FEB 02: INTRIGUING
NEW RECORDS, RECORDS, RECORDS.

from recent editions of
the Forced Exposure ‘new releases’ bulletin:

SOUL JAZZ RECORDS (UK):

VA: In The Beginning, There
Was Rhythm CD (SJR 57 CD). “This record

features the groups that
grew out of Punk and embraced dance music.

These groups reflected the
changing face of a British multi-cultural

society in the aftermath
of Punk, taking on new musical influences

such as Black American dance
music, Reggae and Electronic music. A

Certain Ratio were one of
the first groups to be signed to Factory

Records in Manchester, the
first band to make the connection between

punk and US Black dance
music. It was A Certain Ratio who went to New

York to record their first
album that managed to mix a sparse

Manchester bleakness in
their sound along with US funk/dance

elements. A Certain Ratio’s
early cover of the US group Banbarra’s

‘Shack Up’ features the
amazing funk drumming of new recruit Donald

Johnson. ‘Knife Slits Water’
is a classic extended disco mix that

managed to bring the punk
7″ into the world of the dance 12″.

Sheffield became a focal
point for DIY-electronic groups at the end

of the 70s. The two most
successful were Cabaret Voltaire and The

Human League. Whilst Cabaret
Voltaire stuck to their roots, signing

to, and staying on, a fledgling
new label, Rough Trade Records, The

Human League would go on
to international stardom as their

experimental late-70s electronic
music turned into 80s synth-pop. At

the beginning, both these
groups were interested in electronic music

and how this music could
be created within a punk ethos.

Consequently, the all-electronic
‘Being Boiled’ was created on a

two-track tape recorder
in mono! The Pop Group were the forerunners

of what came to be known
as The Bristol Sound. Other groups that have

come out of this chain include
Rip, Rig and Panic, Maximum Joy,

Massive Attack and Portishead.
The Pop Group mixed Punk, Funk, Disco

and Reggae influences into
a sound that many future bands would

emulate. Out of Leeds came
The Gang of Four. Again mixing Punk with

dance and a large dose of
Marxist philosophy, The Gang of Four were

initially released on the
Edinburgh based independent label, Fast (as

were The Human League).
This Heat. An early inspiration to many of

the groups here, Camberwell’s
finest ’24 Track Loop’ is an incredible

precurser to electronic,
industrial music which sounds like an early

version of Jungle. The concept
of Industrial music would be taken a

stage further by Throbbing
Gristle who released music on their own

Industrial Music label with
the intent of pushing the boundary

between music and noise.
23 Skidoo’s interests stretched as far as

Kung Eu, Gamelan Music,
Language and Semiotics. Apart from this, they

also managed to combine
their musical influences like no-one else. On

their classic album, Seven
Songs, Dance music, Experimental noise and

Gamelan music combine in
equal measures. ‘Vegas El Bandito’ is taken

from this record. ‘Coup’
is one of the definitive dance records from

this period. Finally, The
Slits were possibly the closest of these

groups to The Sex Pistols.
‘In The Beginning, There Was Rhythm’

(produced by Dennis Bovell)
was indeed a prophesy of the music to

follow Punk, where Punk
would meet Funk, Reggae and Disco.”

Tracklisting: 1. A Certain
Ratio – Shack Up 2. 23Skidoo-Coup 3. Gang

Of Four – To Hell With Poverty
4. The Human League – Being Boiled 5.

The Slits – In The Beginning,
There Was Rhythm 6. This Heat -24 Track

Loop 7. Throbbing Gristle
-20 Jazz Funk Greats 8. A Certain Ratio –

Knife Slits Water 9. Cabaret
Voltaire – Sluggin For Jesus 10. The Pop

Group – She Is Beyond Good
And Evil 11. 23 Skidoo – Vegas El Bandito.

$18.00

 

OCORA (FRANCE):

AISSAWA CONFRATERNITY, THE:
Confriérie des Aïssawa: Morocco CD (OCORA

560140). “First formed in
the 16th Century and among the most

celebrated Sufi ensembles
in Morocco, the Aïssawa Confraternity bring

particular spark to their
rituals through a capella psalmody,

religious poetry, trance
dances accompanied on powerful musical

instruments (such as ghayta
oboes, duff framed drums, etc.).”  $15.00

MI (UK):

HAWKWIND: In Search of Space
CD (EMI 30030). New mid-line EMI reissue

from 2001 of the second
Hawkwind album (originally issued by UA in

1972), with deluxe 24-page
booklet of photos & credits, plus a

complete repro of the original
album booklet: The Hawkwind Log (“a

collage of texts and photos
— supposedly a found log-book of a

spaceship, containing the
cryptic last notes and contemplations of

it’s travellers through
space – another seed of Calvert’s concept of

the soon to come Space Opera
– Space Ritual”). With three bonus

tracks: original single
versions of “Seven By Seven”, “Silver

Machine” & “Born To
Go”. “ISOS established Hawkwind’s style of

hypnotic free-flowing improvisations,
accompanied by tribal rhythms –

in contrast with some acoustic
guitar based pieces, remnants of

Brock’s busking days, often
with a melancholic touch.” Line up of:

Nik Turner (saxophone, flute,
audio generator, vocals); Dave Brock

(vocals, electric &
acoustic guitar, audio generator); Dave Anderson

(bass, electric & accoustic
guitar); Del Dettmar (synthesizer); Terry

Ollis (drums, percussion);
Dik Mik (audio generator); Robert Calvert

(vocals).  $13.00

 

HAWKWIND: Hall Of The Mountain
Grill CD (EMI 30035). Reissue of the

classic 5th Hawkwind album,
following Doremi Fasol Latido & Space

Ritual. Originally released
by UA in 1974. This new mid-line reissue

features 4 bonus tracks
(single versions of “You’d Better Believe

It”, “Psychedelic Warlords”,
& “Paradox”, plus “It’s So Easy”). Lemmy

Kilmister is now on bass,
and contributes “Lost Johnny” (co-penned

with Mick Farren), a track
he would also record numerous times with

Motorhead.  $13.00

FOLLOW ME (FRANCE):

GHETTO BLASTER: People LP
(FM 108). “Whether in New York or Lagos,

ghetto blasters/portable
stereo systems are the heart and lungs which

give rhythm to the streets.
The story of Ghetto Blaster started in

1982 when two French musicians
back from New York decided to go to

Lagos to shoot a film telling
the story of a meeting between African

and European artists. Despite
a journey full of setbacks, which

forced them to sell almost
all their possessions including their car,

they reached Lagos where
they formed a group called Ghetto Blaster.

Some of the musicians of
Ghetto Blaster came from the Fela and Sony

Okossun’s bands. Their music
reflected their ambitions: funk with a

Nigerian twist and furious
afro beat saxophone sound. In 84 they

signed with Island for an
EP. They toured with James Brown, Archie

Shepp, Manu Dibango and
Fela. Aftery years of work they released

their LP People in 1986
which gained the group a wider audience. Due

to tragic events the group
separated, but it is now reforming (a new

album is coming up for 2002.)” 
$14.00

WILD PLACES:

HOLY RIVER FAMILY BAND:
Earthquake Country CD (WILD 010). “Stunning

new CD from this amazing
Swedish band with Spacious Mind and Cauldron

members. Running time is
over 76 minutes. Incorporating psych, deep

folk psych and beyond. A
true gem.” From Tom Rapp’s liner notes: “To

me, music is psychedelic
if it has the unmistakable presence of magic

and it helps you to open
up your heart and your mind. The Holy River

Family Band, in this new
CD, is wonderfully psychedelic, and this CD

is a Psychedelicatessen.
Come on in and help yourself.”  $14.00

SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS:

VA: Havana, Cuba, ca. 1957:
Rhythms And Songs For The Orishas CD (SF

40489). “Recorded in Havana
in 1957, the ritual rhythms and songs

collected by Lydia Cabrera
and Josefina Tarafa feature the batá

drums, used by practitioners
of Santería to salute and summon the

gods (orishas). The disc
includes a complete cycle of batá salutes to

the orishas, called the
orú de igbodú, as well as rhythms played

during ceremonies to mark
the presence of an orisha. With origins in

Yoruba religion in West
Africa, this disc serves as a hub of

Afro-Atlantic music, with
ties to related religions in New York,

Miami, the Caribbean, and
Brazil.”  $15.00

VA: Matanzas, Cuba, ca.
1957: Afro-Cuban Sacred Music From The Countr

CD (SF 40490). “Recorded
in Matanzas in 1957, these ritual rhythms

provide a direct link to
the music of 19th-century colonial Cuba, and

provide a window into the
religious life of the first generations of

Africans who worked the
sugar mills. Collected by Lydia Cabrera and

Josefina Tarafa, these recordings
preserve extremely rare bembé

lukumi ritual drumming used
by practitioners of Santería to summon

the gods or salute Cuba’s
African nations. It is remarkably different

from the urban style heard
today in Havana, although some of the same

songs were sung in both
city and countryside. With origins in Yoruba

religion in West Africa,
this music reveals the roots of today’s

Afro-Cuban ceremonial practices.” 
$15.00