Episode 2 of the monthly photography podcast that I run is available to play/download. A far cry from punk rock, but easier to achieve than finding a drummer and getting a new band together.

Yes good people, I’m now doing a regular podcast via the film-only photography website - filmwasters.com - that I run with some friends. We’ve decided to get together via Skype and natter about photography-related stuff for an hour every month. Well, it keeps us off the street. I tend to keep the photography guff off edwenn.com, but thought I’d make an exception just this once.

Anyway, the URL is filmwasters.com/podcast and you can subscribe to the show here.

Pity the Nation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti as heard on Sept 3rd’s edition of Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.

Stumbled across another great alternative news site this week (inevitably based in the USA); Truth Dig is an informative read and well worth subscribing to. Amy Goodman’s regular column gets published there for instance. The real attraction for an audiophile like myself however is the great section of netcasts they have available for download. I’ve been trawling through them and the highlight so far has been the fantastic interview with Dr. Dahlia Wasfi (see photo), The Lose-Lose War. This one really blew me away and made me wish that we heard voices like this more frequently (at all) on the BBC.

This shocked me when I saw it on Daniel from Dead Metaphor’s Flickr stream. That’s the Adolescents’ bassist in a photo taken in July 2006. Hmmm.