FIDLAR, GIRLS ALOUD, TITUS ANDRONICUS, RZA

FIDLAR: http://youtu.be/OPT6-8q-3h4

For reviews on these brand new tracks follow this link:
http://www.nme.com/reviews/various-artists/13812?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onrepeatreview&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=supergroupsblog

For information on these acts click accordingly:
http://fidlar.tumblr.com/
http://www.girlsaloud.com/
http://www.titusandronicus.net/
https://twitter.com/RZA

SYLVIA KRISTEL (Emmanuelle)

There can be few film actors so closely associated with one role as was Sylvia Kristel, who has died of cancer aged 60. The title role of the sexually adventurous housewife in Emmanuelle (1974) became a reference for every part she played subsequently. This was not surprising, as the Dutch star did play a character called Emmanuelle, with few variations, many times over.

In the original film, Kristel portrayed the bored wife of a French embassy official in Bangkok, urged by her libertine husband to explore all the possibilities of sex. Thereupon, she finds herself in bed with, among others, a lesbian archaeologist and an elderly roué. Directed with some grace by Just Jaeckin, this glossy soft-porn package, dressed up as art-house erotica, was a huge international hit, becoming the first X-rated film to be released in the US. Lushly photographed and with a certain level of character development, its appeal went beyond the raincoat brigade. The success was also put down to Kristel's underestimated performance.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/oct/18/sylvia-kristel?CMP=twt_fd

LISTEN TO HILARY MANTEL

Hilary Mantel has made Man Booker prize history by becoming the first woman and the first British writer to win the literary award twice.

Receiving the prize, Mantel joked: "You wait 20 years for a Booker prize and then two come along at once." Bring Up the Bodies, the blistering and bloody second instalment of her trilogy charting the life of Thomas Cromwell, was also the first sequel to triumph in the prize's 43-year history. The first instalment, Wolf Hall, won three years ago.

The chairman of the Booker judges, Sir Peter Stothard, called Mantel "the greatest modern English prose writer" working today, and said she had "rewritten the book on writing historical fiction".
"We are very proud to be reading English at the time she is writing. I don't think I've read any English novelist in recent years who has such complete control over the way she uses prose to do what she wants to do, like a singer or a pianist," Stothard said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/16/hilary-mantel-wins-booker-prize?intcmp=239

LISTEN TO SYLVIA PLATH

Plath’s poetry is often associated with the Confessional movement, and compared to poets such as her teacher, Robert Lowell, and fellow student Anne Sexton. Often, her work is singled out for the intense coupling of its violent or disturbed imagery and its playful use of alliteration and rhyme.

Although only Colossus was published while she was alive, Plath was a prolific poet, and in addition to Ariel, Hughes published three other volumes of her work posthumously, including The Collected Poems, which was the recipient of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize. She was the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize after death.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11
http://www.sylviaplath.info/
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4379.Sylvia_Plath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath

“Mad Girl's Love Song
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
Sylvia Plath

Canadian Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day in Canada is linked to the European tradition of harvest festivals. A common image seen at this time of year is a cornucopia, or horn, filled with seasonal fruit and vegetables. This represents the "Horn of Plenty", which was a symbol of bounty and plenty in ancient Greece. Turkeys, pumpkins, ears of corn and large displays of food are also used to symbolize Thanksgiving Day.

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/thanksgiving-day
http://blog.oup.com/2012/10/canadian-thanksgiving/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(Canada)

International Teacher's Day

“Take a stand for teachers!” is the slogan of World Teachers’ Day 2012 (5 October) which UNESCO is celebrating along with its partners, the International Labour Organization, UNDP, UNICEF and Education International (EI). 

Why take a stand for teachers? Because the profession is losing status in many parts of the world. World Teachers’ Day calls attention the need to raise the status of the profession - not only for the benefit of teachers and students, but for society as a whole, to acknowledge the crucial role teachers play in building the future.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/international-days/world-teachersday/

http://www.5oct.org/2012/index.php/en/
http://www.unesco.org/pv_obj_cache/pv_obj_id_96880E82D5299CDDD3F1DFE31B20F56D3F960000/filename/teachersday2012.pdf
http://www.teacher-appreciation.info/

World Animal Day

World Animal Day was started in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence as a way of highlighting the plight of endangered species. October 4 was chosen as World Animal Day as it is the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.
Since then, World Animal Day has become a day for remembering and paying tribute to all animals and the people who love and respect them. It's celebrated in different ways in every country, with no regard to nationality, religion, faith or political ideology.

http://www.worldanimalday.co.uk/
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/world_animal_day_2009.html
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=855715&publicationSubCategoryId=64
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Animal_Day

BOOKS WE MUST NOT READ? WHY?

I must admit I have already read some of them and I feel fine. No evil side effects.

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

Banned and challenged classics: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics

"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
(George Bernard Shaw) http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Bernard_Shaw

"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist."
(Charles Bukowski)    http://bukowskiquotes.com/

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/01/literary-icons-on-censorship/

Famous Authors’ Funniest Responses to Their Books Being Banned:
http://www.flavorwire.com/333790/famous-authors-funniest-responses-to-their-books-being-banned?all=1