Declaring his intention to become disciplined and focused, scorzonera goes on to record a free-ranging, unfocused podcast touching on the fragility of large scale infrastructures and the dependence of many on food imports and exports.
The Future Of The Cookbook – BBC R4
Salad slaves – who really provides our vegetables?
The pioneering Sheffield Abundance project
Incredible Edible Todmorden plus a short video
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As he kneads bread dough, scorzonera revisits the influence radical movements of the late 20th century had on his diet, not realising that running the tap whilst recording is a poor idea.
LINKS
The Whole Earth Catalog online
The Ecologist, recently merged with Resurgence
The Radical History of Hackney
“Plant a Tree in 73” – the reason for using an allotment to grow trees
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The local churchyard seems to be alive with psilocybe cyanescens – if I’m identifying correctly. There are pounds of them, no joke, following the mower going over the grass last week and a wet, warm spell. Impressive, but I find day to day life weird and disjointed enough without the need for psychoactives.
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Trailer for Permaculture: The Growing Edge
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Extract from Permaculture: The Growing Edge showing remarkable research being done with fungi.
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Brighton Permaculture Trust at Stanmer Park
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The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream – a multi-media extravaganza and “be-in” staged as a benefit for IT (International Times) magazine and widely acknowledged as the first mass expression of the psychedelic underground in the UK.
45 years ago, only 10 years after “All Shook Up” and just over 10 years before the Pistols split up. That’s a scary thought.
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“What Is A Happening?” The 30 minute Man Alive documentary in three parts.
http://youtu.be/WxtCXYMbMKI
“Excuse me, I wonder if I can wake you up for a moment?….Why are you asleep?”
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Extract from Pink Floyd’s set
Floyd footage from “Tonight Let’s All Make Love In London”
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Colour and B&W footage from the “A Technicolor Dream” dvd (2008)
…and more…
…and the official trailer…
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First hand accounts of the event ………
Extract from “Syd Barrett:Lost In The Woods” by Julian Palacios
Accounts from ukrockfestivals.com including a piece by John Crosby, the US journalist who invented the “Swinging London” concept.
A personal account by Pink Floyd fan Colin Turner
The front page of the 21-28th April edition of IT, which organised the event
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I wasn’t there (I was about three miles away) but this made me feel like I was. Superb film.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3083984598139385367=en
“You’re an architect, right?”
“I’m a constructivist.”
Screened as an episode of Channel 4’s Late Shift – 1988, this is one of the better festival films, using performances as punctuation for the scenes of festival life and community, rather than the focus of the documentary. Directed by Nicolas Roeg and, later, Peter Neal, and produced by David Puttnam, the quality of the film making really shines through, even though this Google Videos embed is hardly good quality (and the embed isn’t working – click on “Google Video” ➜ “Go to Google Video” bottom right of screen).
The shots of the construction of the Pyramid Stage, temporary living domes, tree houses and of vehicles being maintained are a reminder that revolution, or the building of an alternative lifestyle, means work. Hard work. That doesn’t mean that hard work is unpleasant – working towards a shared ideal will always be more rewarding than working to make a profit for others.
David Bowie’s headline set was dropped from the final cut along with Hawkwind’s, which is a shame. To the best of my knowledge, the running order of live acts in the film is as follows. Let me know if I’m mistaken.
Pink Fairies drum march
Terry Reid with Linda Lewis
Fairport Convention
Magic Michael ?
Family
Melanie
Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Mighty Baby?
Gong – as background music only.
Traffic
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Refrain:
We’re all living in America,
America is wunderbar.
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
Wenn getanzt wird, will ich führen,
auch wenn ihr euch alleine dreht,
lasst euch ein wenig kontrollieren,
Ich zeige euch wie’s richtig geht.
Wir bilden einen lieben Reigen,
die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen,
Musik kommt aus dem Weißen Haus,
Und vor Paris steht Mickey Maus.
We’re all living in America…
Ich kenne Schritte, die sehr nützen,
und werde euch vor Fehltritt schützen,
und wer nicht tanzen will am Schluss,
weiß noch nicht, dass er tanzen muss!
Wir bilden einen lieben Reigen,
ich werde Euch die Richtung zeigen,
nach Afrika kommt Santa Claus,
und vor Paris steht Mickey Maus.
Refrain:
We’re all living in America,
America is wunderbar.
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
We’re all living in America,
Coca-Cola, Wonderbra,
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
This is not a love song,
this is not a love song.
I don’t sing my mother tongue,
No, this is not a love song.
We’re all living in America,
Amerika is wunderbar.
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
We’re all living in America,
Coca-Cola, sometimes WAR,
We’re all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
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