Tree Folk

Last of the evening's music posts , and sticking with that folk feel, a track by Trees called Murdoch from the On The Shore album.

Enjoy.

Deferrals

I noticed that poliphilo had plans scuppered on a return journey to Oldham. In a way my plans were this week due to problems with getting paid on time and having to do some jobs late. I was meant to be having my DJ night on the Wednesday ans had planned to have the lunch club the following day. Oh well, c'est la vie!

So lunch club will now be deferred towards the end of this month as too the next gig , depending on the outcome of an interview i have this Wednesday.

As an addendum to my discoveries blog , much of this is based on pure luck combined with a good, albeit very good, knowledge of record labels,the genre or artist/s ,  spotting something unusual, and a gut feeling. For example, the last time i was in Sussex i found a Dan Fogelberg 4CD set for a quid in Burgess Hill , a guy you never see in charity shops normally, and a few months later sold it for £28 on Discogs. I knew of the artist , his music, and genre, and took a punt which turned out very well.

In other news, i have looked at the Cineworld website as i still have cinema visits to do, and noticed that the Dr. Who Capaldi season starter is being shown in the cinema on the August 23 along with a Q & A session afterwards. Oh wow , i am tempted by the full screen cinema experience of this!

Wars Lies And Audiotapes

So it looks like the Vietnam War started on a lie.The anniversary of this useless war is on Monday.

The war between the United States and Vietnam cost over 58,000 American and more than one million Vietnamese lives. It left one country physically devastated and the other socially splintered. It began, President Lyndon Johnson told the world, with an "unprovoked attack" on American ships on the night of August 4, 1964.

What we know today is that the incident that was reported to have taken place in the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam didn't ever happen. Yet three days later it was cited as the justification for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which authorised "the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression."

The Gulf of Tonkin was the crucial turning point. In 1960 there were 900 American troops in Vietnam - by the end of 1965 there were over 200,000.

Did President Johnson take his country to war on a lie, or was he misled?

Journalist and historian D D Guttenplan explores these dramatic events through archive recordings and new interviews with the key players, bringing all the evidence together for the first time. Taped White House phone calls transport us back to that day - we'll listen in on President Johnson as he discusses the situation with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and hear the situation unfold through conversations between key military personnel.

Daniel Ellsberg remembers being in the Pentagon receiving reports of the incident on the day, and Jim Stockdale tells us how his father was flying above the USS Maddox when the attack supposedly happened.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04c9lp4

Firefly

Another bargain picked up in the Fleurs Bookshop Faversham, and only for fifty piece, yes fifty pence, the complete series of the woefully axed Firefly on DVD , all fourteen episodes.