Ya nos andábamos poniendo bastante densos (o irreverentes) con las últimas canciones. Es por eso que, siguiendo con esto de los covers, les ofrecemos la siguiente joya. Desde Australia, Brad Shepherd , nos entrega su versión del homenaje de Paul Westerberg a su ídolo Alex Chilton. Power pop en su mejor expresión.

Brad Shepherd – Alex Chilton (mp3)
I’m In Love With That Song (out of print)
Various Artists, Shock Records, 1999

Este pasado miercoles, se cumplierón 10 años de la muerte del connotado loko, astrónomo, científico, escritor, futurista, astrobiólogo y ser humano que fué Carl Sagan; un 20 de diciembre de 1996.

A manera de remembranza la Planetary Society, creada por él, le brinda una sección especial en su sitio de internet.

Esperemos que gracias a Carl Sagan, el espíritu de aventura que ha acompañado al hombre desde que tuvo conciencia de su entorno continue hacia el océano cósmico en las nuevas generaciones y contribuya a tratar de detener la espiral de destrucción en la que nos encontramos actualmente.

The Baiji was a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China. Nicknamed “Goddess of the Yangtze” the dolphin was also called Chinese River Dolphin.

Although efforts were made to conserve the species after its population declined drastically in recent decades, the mammal was declared “functionally extinct” after an expedition in late 2006 failed to find any in the river.

Yangtze River Dolphin

“From 1954 to 1959, Mao was the Chairman of the The People’s Republic of China. During this period, Mao was called Chairman Mao or the Great Leader Chairman Mao. The Communist Party assumed control of all media in the country and used it to promote the image of Mao and the Party. The Nationalists under General Chiang Kai-Shek were vilified as were countries such as the United States of America and Japan. The Chinese people were exhorted to devote themselves to build and strengthen their country. In his speech declaring the foundation of the PRC, Mao announced: “The Chinese people have stood up!”- Mao bio

Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China (mp3)
Camper Van Beethoven (bio)
Telephone Free Landslide Victory (cómprenlo!), 1985, Rough Trade/IRS

In all of human history the night skies have been a source of awe and wonder. Since the dawn of man we have looked up to the sky.

In fact it was early man’s desire for the understanding of something so beautiful and so vast (our sky), that has led to the development of math, navigation, geography, the understanding of seasons and just now, the exploration of space and time. Our evolution is not over, we thrive on chaos.

We stand before a watershed event today, just as the understanding of our world was irrevocably changed when we first gazed upon a picture of the whole Earth taken during an Apollo mission to the moon. Children born after 1969 could look to the night sky and see the unknown, but look at the moon and say, “we’ve been there!”

From this day forward the International Space Station shall shine in the night sky as a brilliant moving star. Children born beyond today will no longer be able to look upon the unknown, they can ponder the beauty and vastness of the stars, but must say, “we made that one!”

A fundamental change in human understanding begins tonight.

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