Jason Brooks: Control the World (Very strange video!)
New York DJ Jason Brooks sets off on a fantasy stroll, sorting out bad guys and generally puttting the world to rights, before ending up in a club where everybody suddenly starts formation dancing. Only in America…. (though a good solid house track…., well worth checking….
Egyptian Cleric Launches Footwear Fatwa
Thigh high boots; click to buy (not in Egypt)
Top Salafi preacher Mustafa al-Adawi branded high heels a ‘source of seduction for men’ this week, as he announced a fatwa prohibiting the saucy shoes.
“A woman can only wear high heels for her husband,” the Egyptian cleric decreed, “but she is not to do so outside her house,” he ordered. (English Alarabiya: http://bit.ly/v6hsiw )
News of the high heel ban emerged just two weeks after top Saudi religious policeman Sheikh Motlab al Nabet ordered women to refrain from showing ‘tempting’ eyes, in addition to the face and hair-covering headscarves they’re already forced to wear.
The Sheikh (from Saudi Arabia’s Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice) reportedly issued his decree after a husband got into a fight with one of his religious cops, after the policeman ordered his wife to cover her attractive eyes, Asia News reported (MuslimWomenNews: http://bit.ly/tY8neq )
In more high heel shoe news, the New York Times reported that fashion conscious male hipsters are increasingly adopting platforms, such as Mr Black regular Jeff Piace.
“I wish society was more acceptable of men wearing heels,” Mr Piace told Times reporter Trish Romano last month, “I think it’s fun. I think it makes a statement.”
Ageing English soccer star David Beckham previously tried to spark a revival in 2007, impressing Times critic Matthew Syed (though not so many others) for ‘changing the contemporary notion of masculinity, softening it, smoothing it, widening it, diversifying it’.
“He has also made it possible to be a real man and sensitive,” the Times columnist declared, “To be a real man and concerned about one’s appearance; to be a real man and to cry in public; to be a real man and to wear dresses and high heels.”
Jonty Skrufff: http://listn.to/JontySkrufff
Nina Hagen; New York New York (video)
12 inch dance mix:
Lou Reed: Street Hassle (1978)/ Heroin (1974) Youtube
Three of Lou Reed’s greatest masterpieces: live….
Life, Death & Danceteria Mash-Ups
Ludlow street, Lower East Side
20 odd years ago, Jonty lived and almost died in New York City, suffering a horrific lift accident at seminal 80s club Danceteria (where he worked at the time). Crushed and literally dragged between the base of the lift and the wall of its shaft, he suffered six normally mortal injuries, receiving the Last Rites some 40 minutes later as he waited outside a hospital operating theatre for the anaesthetic to kick in . . .
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