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(Morally) Dead Flowers
2008-06-20 13:40:00 The wingnuttia representative from the Philadelphia Daily News told us the following today (from here ? re: the Boumediene v. Bush Supreme Court ruling)?(By the way, I?m going to try and winnow through the layers of freeper agit-prop and get to the heart of her argument, which is ridiculous enough.)?five justices?held that the Guantanamo detainees are entitled to a full rainbow of constitutional rights, including habeas corpus, (and) have taken it on themselves to strip the executive and Congress of the right to determine foreign policy and, more important, national security.Well, that was predictable.The phrase ?a rainbow of constitutional rights? is just bad writing; I think Flowers was going for ?a cornucopia of constitutional rights? or something like that. Either way, she?s wrong, of course; I didn?t see anything addressed in the Boumediene ruling except the issue of habeas corpus rights for Guantanamo detainees and civilian review.And she goes on, of course?In other words, fiv...
Supermarket worker forced to leave after giving away dead flowers
2008-04-25 12:27:00 A supermarket supervisor has been told by an HR department to 'jump or be pushed' after giving away a bunch of out-of-date, 75p flowers to a regular customer. Mary Whitner, 59, who was days away from
One Year of Dead Flowers
2007-11-07 17:17:00 Let me thank all the people that have visited Dead Flowers this past year--I've had a lot of fun with the site. It started out as merely a vehicle for youtubes--I thought I had had enough of rock journalism after my last site, Glamorama. Much to my surprise, as the site has developed, I have rediscovered my love for writing about music. Hopefully that's coming through in the reviews and other
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Send Me Dead Flowers
2007-09-28 05:19:00 Tiny town of Blanchard Washington State,USA.....vestige of better days....
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The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers (1971)
2007-05-12 03:45:00 By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title. As the self-consciously dangerous alternative to the bouncy Merseybeat of the Beatles in the British Invasion, the Stones had pioneered the gritty, hard-driving blues-based rock & roll that came to define hard rock. With his preening machismo and latent maliciousness, Mick Jagger became the prototypical rock frontman, tempering his macho showmanship with a detached, campy irony while Keith Richards and Brian Jones wrote the blueprint for sinewy, interlocking rhythm guitars. Backed by the strong yet subtly swinging rhythm section of bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts, the Stones became the breakout band of the British blues scene, eclipsing such contemporaries as the Animals and Them. Over the course of their career, the Stones never really abandoned blues, but as soon as they reached popularity in th...
Dead Flowers Interviews Amiina
2007-03-16 00:00:00 Maria Huld Markan, Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir, Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir, and Hildur Ársælsdóttir, together known as Amiina, are a group from Iceland. Their debut LP "Kurr" will be released on March 21st. Many initially got to know the group as Sigur Ros' string section, and they share that band's adventurous approach to music and instrumentation. Listeners who enjoyed the more contemplative sections of
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Dead Flowers Interviews Matt from Foreign Born
2007-03-07 02:09:01 Matt Popieluch is the lead singer in Foreign Born, one of Los Angeles' very best bands. In the group, he's complimented by Ariel Rechtshaid's melodic bass playing, Lewis Pesacov's distinctive effects-laden guitar, and Garrett Ray's innovative drumming. They have had one proper release, the "In the Remote Woods" EP on Startime, and have had their debut LP "On the Wing Now" available to buy at shows for the past few months.I got in contact with Matt because "On the Wing Now" is the best LP I've heard in years, an unusually confident mix of rock influences that never retreats into nostalgia. While "In the Remote Woods" showed promise, "On the Wing Now" realizes the band's potential on songs like "In the Shape" and "Letter of Inclusion".Matt also performs solo under the moniker Big Search. Big Search's debut "Mysticism vs Classicism" was released in 2003. Dead Flowers: As I understand it, you recorded "On the Wing Now" without label support, and then shopped it around. Can...
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Dead Flowers Interviews Pete from Adorable
2007-02-28 14:01:05 Pete (Piotr) Fijalkowski was the lead singer of the Creation Records band Adorable in the early 90's. Their first single, "Sunshine Smile", was NME's single of the week in May 1992. They went on to record the phenomenal debut record "Against Perfection", which unfortunately failed to live up to the success of their debut single. Another record, "Fake", followed in 1994, but testy relationships
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