In 1994, the Chinese newspaper Guangxi Daily reported that a man, Wang Tianbao from Henan province was fined 3,000 yuan after his wife gave birth to her third child (a son, after two daughters), in violation of China's "one child per couple" population control laws. The father supposedly made a joke about the high cost of finally having a male heir, saying: "A 3,000 yuan fine just for this little penis! We should just cut it off." This prompted the two daughters, ages 6 and 7, to sliced off the infant boy's penis with a paring knife and leave him to bleed to death while their father was away tending the fields. Upon his return, the father flew into a rage and clubbed the two girls to death with a shovel, then committed suicide by drinking insecticide. His wife "went into hysterics upon seeing the calamity, running naked through the streets screaming the names of her dead husband and children.This incident was also reported by the San Jose Mercury News of California, and the Orlando Sentinel of Florida.

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his stuff from the cityscapes series is mighty cool.

got to make a top 25 albums ever list!

1. boredoms - vision creation newsun
2. john fahey - god time and causality
3. captain beefheart - ice cream for crow
4. wire - pink flag
5. harry partch - collection volume 2
6. slint - spiderland
7. slowdive - pygmalion
8. cerberus shoal - chaiming the knobblessone
9. glenn branca - the ascension
10. autechre - draft 7.30
11. gastr del sol - upgrade/afterlife
12. sun city girls - torch of the mystics
13. mr. bungle - disco volante
14. thinking fellers union local # 282 - mother of all saints
15. photek - modus operandi
16. the fall - grotesque after the gramme
17. pil - metal box
18. hot snakes - suicide invoice
19. stars of the lid - ballasted orchestra
20. joy division - unknown pleasures
21. tangerine dream - phaedra
22. omni trio - even angels cast shadows
23. sonic youth - confusion is sex
24. thinking plague - early plague years
25. kazuki tomokawa - fault of flowers

just missed being included: gang of four - solid gold, klaus schulze - timewind, technical itch - diagnostics, shellac - at action park, polvo - today's active lifestyles.

atsonic, I'm suprised you picked confusion over murray street. you always talk so highly of it. but still awesome that SY was able to make yer lsit.

I'll be a sheep and copy atsonicpark:

Top 25 albums ever (no particular order except for the first four):

1. - Sonic Youth - A Thousand leaves
2. - Stooges - Funhouse
3. - Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
4. - Nirvana - Unplugged
5. - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
6. - Scratch Acid - The Greatest Gift
7. - MC5 - Kick out the James
8. - Patti Smith - Horses
9. - Black Flag - Damaged
10. - Led Zeppelin - 1
11. - Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
12. - Glenn Branca - Lesson no. 1
13. - Sex Pistols - NVTBHTSP
14. - Jimi H. - Are You Experienced?
15. - James White and the Blacks - Off White
16. - Poison Idea - Feel the Darkness
17. - L7 - Hungry for Stink
18. - Melvins - Houdini
19. - Earth - Pentestar
20. - Earth - Hex
21. - Television - Marquee Moon
22. - New York Dolls - s/t
23. - Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments
24. - Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea
25. - Dead Boys - Young, Loud, + Snotty
26. - Meat Puppets - II
27. - Shellac - 1000 Hurts
28. - Venomous Concept - Retroactive Abortion
29. - Hole - Live Through This
30. - The Microphones - Mount Eerie
31. - Nirvana - Bleach
32. - No Trend - Teen Love
33. - Big Black - Songs About Fucking
34. - Sunn 0))) - Black One
35. - Soundgarden - Superunknown
36. - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
37. - Butthole Surfers - PCPPEP
38. - Richard Hell + the Voidoids - Blank Generation
39. - Johnny Thunders - So Alone
40. - Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
41. - RL Burnside - First Recordings
42. - Pussy Galore - Dial M
43. - To Live and Shave in LA - Noon + Eternity
44. - Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
45. - Patti Smith - Easter
46. - Misfits - Static Age
47. - Alice Cooper - Killer
48. - Ramones - S/T
49. - Band of Gypsies - Band of Gypsies
50. - Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
51. - The Wipers - Is this real?
52. - Thurston Moore/Nels Cline - Pillow Wand
53. - Beck - Sea Change
54. - DNA - DNA on DNA
55. - Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
56. - Neil Young - Harvest
57. - Lee Ranaldo - Broken Circle/Spiral Hill
58. - Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
59. - Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
60. - Sun Ra - Space is the Place
61. - Black Flag - My War
62. - The Wipers - Over the Edge
63. - Crass - Feeding of the 5000
64. - Charles Mingus - Ah Hum!
65. - Skip James - Today
66. - Iggy Pop - The Idiot
67. - Iggy Pop + James Williamson - Kill City
68. - Jimi Hendrix - Blues
69. - Ron Asheton's New Order - Victim of Circumstance
70. - Mississippi John Hurt - The complete recordings
71 - White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music vol. 1
72. - Throbbing Gristle - The First Annual Report
73. - Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
74. - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
75. - David Bowie - Space Oddity
76. - Robert Johnson - You know, all those compilation albums covering all his tunes.
77. - The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
78. - T. Rex - Electric Warrior
79. - Flipper - American Graffishy
80. - Wylde Ratttz - That album that's never been released but should be
81. - Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones (best thing they ever recorded 'sides Superfuzz)
82. - Howlin' Wolf - The Howlin' Wolf Album
83. - Vangelis - Blade Runner Soundtrack
84. - Jesus Lizard - Head/Pure
85. - The Slits - Cut
86. - PiL - Metal Box
87. - Rocket from the Tombs - The Day the Earth met....
88. - Crass - Penis Envy
89. - The Velvet Underground - The VU + Nico
90. - Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
91. - Lou Reed - Transformer
92. - Deerhunter - Turn it up faggot
93. - The Dead Weather - Horehound
94. - Sonic Youth - CIS
95. - Notekillers - Notekillers
96. - Husker Du - Zen Arcade
97. - Bad Brains - The Youth Are Getting Restless
98. - Death - For The Whole World To See
99. - Sonic Youth - Nurse
100. Magik Markers - Boss

OK, I went a bit overboard....but, almost time to go home so mission accomplished.

I've just come back from the Blonde Redhead show here in Brussels and it was truly perfect.

FUCK damn fuck I missed them to go and see some friends playing their first show ever (I don't regret this, coz they're a great band and great people and I had loads of fun, it's my jinx I damn), and now you and a pro-photographer I know said me their live was supernice...

setilist, please?
all new stuff or some oldies too?
I like the new album, great production.

Only recent stuff.

Black Guitar
Here Sometimes
Dr. Strangeluv
SW
Love or Prison
Will There Be Stars
Oslo
Falling Man
23
Spring and by Summer Fall

Encore:
Not Getting There
(We Are a Real Team) Harry and I
Penny Sparkle

23 is awful! Blonde Redhead's worst.

Haha, funny, it's my favorite one. I'm much more into their recent stuff than their early noise rock stuff so my favorite albums are pretty much 23, Penny Sparkle and Misery Is a Butterfly. :)

what! 23 is pretty solid!


but man......I don't think I like the direction they're taking. I listened to Penny Sparkle only once so far and didn't really blow me away upon first listen....

oh yeah and must spread rep to FoxBen. thanks for the setlist!

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Misery is a Butterfly is great, 23 just bores the shit out of me. Which is odd, since I love every LP before it. I haven't given Penny Sparkle a full listen yet though.

there's a snake in my garage!

theres a snake in my boots

everything posted here is relevent!

Does anyone else here like turtles?

very interesting and very confusing for me. Please explain how it's done?
thanks