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What are you listening to right now? Post Video links please.

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Spent all day listening to the audio book of Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test and it's absolutely enthralling. Read it/listen to it -makes you realise that the majority of psychology is utter garbage.
 
osymandus said:
Keep meaning to get that . Garbage ? How so ?
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Far too much to put in here mate, but throughout the book it's amazing how much it really is just guess work, psychologists trying to make a name for themselves, dishing out drugs like Ritalin to kids who are just being kids (no, they're bipolar/personality disorder etc).

The main one that struck me was the trial of Colin Stagg for the murder of Rachel Nickell, where the feted criminologist (apparantly a model for Robbie Coltrane's Cracker) got an undercover policewoman to try and get Stagg to confess by the most underhanded means possible when he was guilty of being no more than a lonely virgin with an interest in the occult.

Patients who are seen as treatable are held indefinitely (even if that's as simple as having a conversation in the canteen with a nurse) so these "doctors" can try and find some kind of cure - those who don't respond, such as Michael Stone who went on to kill Lin and Megan Russell, are released back into the community as they're seen as untreatable, and therefore no interest to these "doctors" who won't be able to go down in history as having found a cure.

I can't recommend it highly enough Osy.
 
[video=youtube_share;h462yQ8oCBw]http://youtu.be/h462yQ8oCBw[/video]
This is the first track on the incomparable Jackie Leven's last cd Wayside shrines and The code of the Travelling Man.
Excellent.He's better than Nick Drake you know.:tease:
 
The album "Stereo Typical" by the Rizzle Kicks.

I think this was their first single but, as ever, could be wrong.


[video=youtube;8ip8OsExLJs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ip8OsExLJs[/video]
 
BarnaBlue said:
[video=youtube_share;h462yQ8oCBw]http://youtu.be/h462yQ8oCBw[/video]
This is the first track on the incomparable Jackie Leven's last cd Wayside shrines and The code of the Travelling Man.
Excellent.He's better than Nick Drake you know.:tease:
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This has somehow reminded me of a Phil Burdett story regarding Jackie Leven, who he was on the same bill with the day when the news of John Martyn's death came through. Phil was lamenting Martyn's death but Jackie was strangely unsympathetic and expressed his views quite belligerently ... as Martyn had made a pass at his wife a few years before.

Oh yes ... the link is that Martyn loved Nick Drake. They were Island stable-mates and he wrote the song 'Solid Air' about him.
 
Shrimpero said:
This has somehow reminded me of a Phil Burdett story regarding Jackie Leven, who he was on the same bill with the day when the news of John Martyn's death came through. Phil was lamenting Martyn's death but Jackie was strangely unsympathetic and expressed his views quite belligerently ... as Martyn had made a pass at his wife a few years before.

Oh yes ... the link is that Martyn loved Nick Drake. They were Island stable-mates and he wrote the song 'Solid Air' about him.
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Yeah,I knew this and love the song.No accounting for a writer's inspiration,is there?:whistling:
 
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