Love this font...

I don't know what it's called but I love the font on this album by Swedish or Danish (I really don't know anything about them) prog. rock band Euclid. I bet they did carry some heavy equipment. Seem like a nice bunch of guys all the same.

David Henry Thoreau...

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817– May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist anarchist. Though Civil Disobedience calls for improving rather than abolishing government– "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"– the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: “‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.” (source; Wikipedia)

Mrs. Chippy..

This was the tabby cat who went to the Antarctic with Sir Ernest Shackleton on The Endeavour in 1914, which eventually was crushed by the pack ice and sank in the frigid Antarctic waters.  Shackleton shot  poor Mrs. Chippy (who was actually a tom cat, but was so called for his habit of following Harry MacNeish the ships carpenter around like a wife)  when they had to make a dash across the ice for their lives... Apparently MacNeish never forgave Shackleton for killing Mrs. Chippy and reportedly said "Shackleton killed my cat" or words to that effect on his death bed. He's pictured with the ships  stowaway! on the books cover.
Anyway, like most cats, he was a total individual and seemingly one of the heroes of the whole saga. In this little book, there's so much more going on than just a story about "A Ships Cat"... So, I recommend that you read the book "Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition - 1914-1915". It may change all of our sad human existences, and teach us something about ourselves, I hope.

Os Mutantes...

F**k what that Scientology loving ass Beck says, this is quite simply the greatest thing to come out of Brazil and the Tropicalia scene. If you haven't got a copy of the album "Os Mutantes", released in 1967, you ain't living baby!!! Here's a trailer for the upcoming doco about the band (it seems to have stalled in production). Enjoy, it's impossible not to.

Chris Watson, Nature Sound Recordist...

Check out this guys site. Chris Watson has been recording the strange and wonderful sounds of the natural world since 1981. Born in Sheffield, Northern England, Chris was a founding member of experimental music group 'Cabaret Voltaire'. His love of sound and the natural world combine and the results are truly startling. His LP. 'Weather Report' has been voted one of the essential 1,000 albums you must here before you die, by The Guardian newspaper. His site is full of amazing sounds and images, and he looks like a thoroughly nice chap into the bargain...check him out at http://www.chriswatson.net/