THE CIA: NOTHING IS TRUE UNTIL WE ADMIT THAT IT’S TRUE, AND EVEN THEN WE'RE PROBABLY LYING

You’ve probably heard by now that the CIA has finally admitted there is such a thing as Area 51.

That’s not all they’ve been copping to, though. The also admitted helping stage the 1953 Iranian coup that put the Shah into power.

AND they’ve owned up to starting a file on Noam Chomsky after decades of denying any such file existed. Of course, that file has since been destroyed, but at least they admitted there used to be one.

Progress!

The Area 51/Iran admissions are, of course, somewhat humorous given the fact that they were among the worst-kept secrets in the CIA for decades. But it also says a lot that the CIA has a long, broad history of denying things that later turn out to be true.

And they wonder why no one believes their claim that Area 51 has nothing to do with aliens.

Because that’s what they WANT you to think, you dig?

I’ve got a secret,

This is dF

LISTEN TO IT #84: ARE YOU GEMMA RAY?

Until this year, I had no idea who Gemma Ray was. Now I do, and I’m a better man for it. 

That’s probably exaggeration. But I have a copy of her new album, Down Baby Down, and I’m digging it.

Ray, if you don’t know, is a multi-instrumentalist who takes cues from Link Wray, John Barry, Sinatra/Hazlewood and Ennio Morricone, and distills them into atmospheric songs with a mid-60s feel and lots of vibrato guitar. Think Anna Calvi without the drama and you get the idea.

Down Baby Down is more instrumental than Ray’s previous albums, with the same set of lyrics resurfacing every so often to build a kind of theme.

It’s the kind of thing you can almost imagine David Lynch sticking onto a movie soundtrack (if he still made movies) if it was a little more noir.

Anyway, just listen.

"Gemma Ray - Baby Goes Bad" (Watch on YouTube)

"Gemma Ray - No Star" (Watch on YouTube)

Going down,

This is dF