13th May 2010
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QUOTE: "Politics is supposed to be the 
        second-oldest profession. I have 
        come to realize that it bears a 
        very close resemblance to the 
        first.  
        ~ Ronald Reagan
        
        
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THE LINKS WE LIKE
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     BOGGLING: if Communism is good for 
     anything, it's the gymnastics. These 
     Chinese fellows are amazing 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AXWLwf4K_s

     SLEEVAGE: want to know what the geeks 
     in IT Support are doing right now? 
     They're animating album covers
http://animatedalbums.tumblr.com/

     WOOF: meet Loukanikos, the Greek riot 
     dog. He lives on the streets, and he 
     appears to like riots very much
http://snurl.com/riotdog

     MASHUP: it's the Sex Pistols versus
     the Muppets, and it's NSFW, unless you
     work in a swearing factory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGLNYAgL-8

     APPLE: a visual history of the iPod.
     There's some thought-provoking stuff 
     here
http://mashable.com/2010/05/10/ipod-revolution-infographic/

     FACT: add the phrase "Christ, what an
     asshole" to all cartoons, and they're
     funnier than they used to be
http://www.robertsinclair.net/comic/asshole.html

     iPLAYER CHOICE: brilliant 1959 
     documentary in which an American 
     journalist attempts to explain UK 
     politics to a US audience
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s9fcg/

     DIMENSIONS: the great movie critic 
     Roger Ebert on why he hates 3-D films,
     and why you should too
http://www.newsweek.com/id/237110/output/print

     BIRTHDAY: Stevie Wonder is 60 today. 
     Jeff Beck called this "the riff of the 
     century"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE
  
 
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FROM THE WORD WEBSITE
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     NEW DOWNLOADS - this week, The Word's
     David Hepworth submits a review 
     containing the word "negligees", while
     reader Mr Drayton talks about the 
     album we've all been talking about
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/downloads

     TIME: we've all been short-changed at
     concerts, but is the opposite 
     possible? Ever had much too much of 
     a good thing?
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/ever-been-long-changed-a-band

     STUFF: things you might be expected to 
     have done at some point in life but 
     never have
http://snurl.com/tattoosandstuff


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ON THE CD
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     HARPER SIMON
     Most pop progeny tend to leap into the 
     limelight as soon as they possibly can 
     but Harper Simon, son of Paul and his 
     first wife Peggy Harper, has been wise 
     enough to wait 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx521RCKX00

     ELI "PAPERBOY" REED
     Reissue mania has meant that the 
     classics of past soul and R&B are 
     perhaps more present and available to 
     us than even when they were first 
     created. This raises the question: why 
     don’t they make records like they used 
     to? Bostonian soul man Eli “Paperboy” 
     Reed does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5_p3iLqChQ

    
     MORE
     The complete listing from this month's 
     'Now Hear This' CD can be found on our
     website     
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/now-hear