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The playlist for Monday 9 Febuary 15 9pm to Midnight Pacific Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres
~~ What Did Burning Flowers Smell Like? ~~
1 - Bollywood Brass Band -- Urvashi Urvashi
2 - Kabul Work Shop -- Trigana
3 - Olasonic -- Neda
4 - GoJam Group -- Periplanisi
5 - Karsh Kale -- Instinct
Station Break
6 - The Shaolin Afronauts -- Shira
7 - Incredible Bongo Band -- Apache
8 - The Budos Band -- Turn And Burn
9 - Lafayette Afro Rock Band -- Soul Makossa
10 - Super Mama Djombo -- Julia
Station Break
11 - Birch Book -- The Trip Goes On
12 - Current 93 -- Hourglass For Diana
13 - Novy Svet -- A Mort
14 - O Paradis -- Tenerte a Mi Lado
15 - Novalima -- Ritmos Negros
Station Break
16 - Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - The Love and Defiance of Being Alive
17 - Paper Dollhouse -- Daisies
18 - Spiritual Front -- We Could Fail Again
19 - Barbarossa Umtrunk -- Winter Reign
20 - Sigur Ros - Glosoli
21 - Rainstick Orchestra -- Waltz for a Little Bird
Station Break
22 - The Clash -- Spanish Bombs
23 - Hossein Alizadeh -- Vernal Presence
24 - Kiran Ahluwalia -- Vo Kuch
25 - Tinariwen -- Imidiwan Matanam
26 - Quantic -- Time Is The Enemy
27 - Budos Band -- Hidden Hand
Station Break
28 - Zero 7 -- Give It Away
29 - Tosca -- Rosa
30 - AKmusique -- Ocean Drive 707
31 - Montefiori Cocktail -- Anamaria
32 - Omara Portuondo -- Canto lo Sentimental
33 - La Caina -- Bailando Va
34 - Rosalia de Souza -- Bossa 31
Who luvs ya, baby?
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(12-String Ovation Balladeer Astoria, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Back before color threaded
the world, when everything
was in black-and-white, I was
the only pagan at school, hiding
my breath with its curry and accent,
mouthing words to prayers I didn't
understand. I wondered why there
were always holy men but so few holy
women. I wanted to be enchanted,
to steal the baby Jesus from the Christmas
play and keep him hidden in my closet,
pull him out when I needed to be saved.
I wanted to be the blue Madonna holding
all the pieces of her son together.
Half a world away, girls my age came
as close to God as anyone could be.
They were already throwing their bodies
over their husband's funeral pyres, flung
out like blankets over the flames, chanting
Ram, Ram like a nursery rhyme. My mother
told me it was a holy mantra, the more I said
it, the holier I would be, but I never really knew
how or why, just that it was supposed to happen.
Once I tried saying it as many times as I could
in fifty seconds, but nothing. No miracle,
no halo of thorns around my head. And all I
could think about were those girls, widows
at fifteen. What did burning flowers smell like?
Something terrible, something holy?
-- Vandana Khanna
"Blue Madonna"
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(Field of Tournesol Normandy, France / copyright Justice Putnam
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Voices and Soul appears on Black Kos Tuesday's Chile; poetry chosen and critiqued by Black Kos Poetry Editor, Justice Putnam.
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(Cut Stones and Arch St Ceneri, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Chateau de Valicourt Montmorancy, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Question: Who is your audience? What are you here for?
Answer: Tribal Alliances, Heart-felt Convictions, Passionate Reason, Random Abandon, Sustainable Civility and a kiss; to comfort the sad and the mad Ones; the Ones roaming the International section of the American Supermarket at night; or roaming the neglected streets looking for an angry malaprop to sink their teeth into; the Ones who seek without seeking and learn as much as they teach; the Ones who embrace and kiss and embrace again; the Ones who sing the song of the city and the ballads of the forest; the Ones who chant the rhythm of the sea and hum the melody of the desert; the Ones who sing the prayer of Her name and Her name is the World. Yes, those are the Ones. -- JP
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(Man, Girl and Broken Window Klamath Falls, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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So that explains it... !
Sunlight and Water Pitcher Muir Beach / copyright Justice Putnam
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... Or does it?
(Holy Bible and 3 in 1 Oil Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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I took another small sip of water as the next questioner rose, this time by the stacks of French novels. She was cute; red hair, tall, maybe 5'9" or 5'10", well proportioned. Had to be another doctoral student in Comparative Literature at Cal; so even at 24 or 25, was too young for my wandering eye.
"You stated," she stated determinedly, "and I quote; 'Comedy, Poetry and Fiction are only effective and only become Art if there is a Truth behind the humor, the verse and the lie.'"
"Yes," I uttered to fill the small silence.
"In your writing; in your humor, verse and lies, are you telling a Truth about yourself?" she asked, "or are you telling a Truth about the Culture and Society as a whole?"
"Yes," I answered.
--Justice Putnam
"Conversations With The Audience"
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(Chair, Floor and Electric Cord Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
"The most unostentatious, the most inexpensive, the most ridiculous chair, if a chair can be ridiculous, which could be devised. Brassai chose precisely this insignificant chair and, snapping it where he found it, unearthed what there was in it of dignity and veracity. THIS IS A CHAIR."
-- Henry Miller
"The Eye of Paris"
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(Rail Road Crossing Sonoma, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Farm Road Olema, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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"Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises."
-- Horace
"Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand."
-- Charles Kingsley
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(Lamp and Post Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(House Ruins of Poet St Pol Roux Brittany, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Simonides of Ios
by
Justice Putnam
On the fields of Marathon
Lay the withering
Brave
Farmers and boys
In a flowering
Grave
(Markris Yialos—Crete, Greece)
from: "The Nature of Poetics Collapsed Outside My Window"
© 2006 by Justice Putnam
and Mechanisches-Strophe Verlagswesen
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Rest in Peace Aaron Schwartz
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(Morning Fog And Surf, Muir Beach, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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