Thursday, 11 December 2003
man alive i enjoy being a pompous twat on this blog.
i just saw a bloke walk past he looked like a Tory backbencher! another colleague looks like Urian Rennie.
the camaraderie of workmates, the swearing you wouldn't do elsewhere, the values, the mordant humour, it's superb.
it's going dark already.
anyway, probably get back to yous on the nana ting.
i just saw a bloke walk past he looked like a Tory backbencher! another colleague looks like Urian Rennie.
the camaraderie of workmates, the swearing you wouldn't do elsewhere, the values, the mordant humour, it's superb.
it's going dark already.
anyway, probably get back to yous on the nana ting.
obviously chest'ya marcello for that list in addition to the ones below.
ONE THING THAT IS GOOD
- alan patridge singing 'wuthering heights'
another thing that is good
- stickers on bananas.
MORE ON that 1 LATER.
ONE THING THAT IS GOOD
- alan patridge singing 'wuthering heights'
another thing that is good
- stickers on bananas.
MORE ON that 1 LATER.
football goss
fans of english soccer will doubtless be aware of the rumours linking man united midfielder nicky butt to leicester, to newcastle, to spurs, to everton (him plus 8 million for Rooney in Jan., say some united fans i know, tho' Moyes would be stupid to take that obv.)
but DID YOU KNOW
the reason why united boss alex ferguson is gonna rest wunderkind cristiano ronaldo for that purported three week break is because during a bad tackle in training, Butt is alleged to have then twatted Ronaldo?
certainly gives credence to all those 'decks are being cleared for Butt on his way out...' stories circulating pre-derby weekend
fans of english soccer will doubtless be aware of the rumours linking man united midfielder nicky butt to leicester, to newcastle, to spurs, to everton (him plus 8 million for Rooney in Jan., say some united fans i know, tho' Moyes would be stupid to take that obv.)
but DID YOU KNOW
the reason why united boss alex ferguson is gonna rest wunderkind cristiano ronaldo for that purported three week break is because during a bad tackle in training, Butt is alleged to have then twatted Ronaldo?
certainly gives credence to all those 'decks are being cleared for Butt on his way out...' stories circulating pre-derby weekend
there have been some absolutely superb lists on the nerdosphere (i suppose here is the only place that still uses that term) of late.
so re-enthusing for jaded twats like myself.
so far, MASSIVE shouts to -
Jess
Matt
Mickey Tufluv (is it mickey sorry mate?!)
Stelfox
also nice to see AusPicFish represennin for Dave Douglas there
obviously one list is best, y'all know who...
so re-enthusing for jaded twats like myself.
so far, MASSIVE shouts to -
Jess
Matt
Mickey Tufluv (is it mickey sorry mate?!)
Stelfox
also nice to see AusPicFish represennin for Dave Douglas there
obviously one list is best, y'all know who...
whatever happened to vive le difference?
can they not chant for the glory of heterogeneity, freedom of expression, cheery arguments done often and well, the pride (& beauty) of uniqueness?
strange indeed______
[via silverdollarcircle]
can they not chant for the glory of heterogeneity, freedom of expression, cheery arguments done often and well, the pride (& beauty) of uniqueness?
strange indeed______
[via silverdollarcircle]
this monbiot article i've previously linked to is all fine and dandy on the whole if a little too 'woo! i'm hard being a realist' but the last paragraph is a straw meeting some clutching hands waving at it.
costs versus benefits is a moral argument to have its true but monbiot's rectitude and surety leaves a little to be desired.
don't get me wrong though good lad for stating some things plainly.
saw monbiot speak at a people and planet conf. at warwick once and to be honest was not that impressed. of course we were looking forward to it but his darling of the environmental left status makes for the odd casual statement that deserves rigorous challenging (of course the rub is he wasn't).
david korten has always been rousing whenever i've seen him (to be reasonable, so has Arthur Scargill)_
costs versus benefits is a moral argument to have its true but monbiot's rectitude and surety leaves a little to be desired.
don't get me wrong though good lad for stating some things plainly.
saw monbiot speak at a people and planet conf. at warwick once and to be honest was not that impressed. of course we were looking forward to it but his darling of the environmental left status makes for the odd casual statement that deserves rigorous challenging (of course the rub is he wasn't).
david korten has always been rousing whenever i've seen him (to be reasonable, so has Arthur Scargill)_
must take issue with Cohen (see link in previous post) on one point however.
Infant mortality in the Kurdish independent statelet in northern Iraq, which was protected from Saddam by the RAF and USAF, was half the rate of the rest of Iraq, even though it had to cope with the same UN sanctions.
now Cohen probably does know the score here actually he just doesn't bother explaining but everyone knows the reason why the stats were better in the north was because there were far more NGOs operating there. all those agencies wanting to help has something of an ameliorating effect (whatever your views on the nu colonialism of the big aid agencies etc., any politically suspect compromises therein)
Infant mortality in the Kurdish independent statelet in northern Iraq, which was protected from Saddam by the RAF and USAF, was half the rate of the rest of Iraq, even though it had to cope with the same UN sanctions.
now Cohen probably does know the score here actually he just doesn't bother explaining but everyone knows the reason why the stats were better in the north was because there were far more NGOs operating there. all those agencies wanting to help has something of an ameliorating effect (whatever your views on the nu colonialism of the big aid agencies etc., any politically suspect compromises therein)
Nick Cohen on the sanctions
an interesting read, but unfair on some on 'the Left' - John Pilger was anti-war true, but didn't Cohen see his series of programmes for ITV disdaining the sanctions regimen?
of course, the noble CASI were the original and best.
an interesting read, but unfair on some on 'the Left' - John Pilger was anti-war true, but didn't Cohen see his series of programmes for ITV disdaining the sanctions regimen?
of course, the noble CASI were the original and best.
i'm not sure about Marcello on dubplates tho, you have to reward the eager-eyed truffle hunter, it's no good bolshy types EVERYWHERE else going 'tut tut tut London-centric tosser!' it's not someone's fault if they ARE at the source, and that should be included.
totally agree about downloading though, that's just all a tad jejune ain't it (yes, maybe i'm a snob, or just ironic, who can say heh), far too many numpties i know do that without the old thrill of the chase.
[a dinosaur writes...]
totally agree about downloading though, that's just all a tad jejune ain't it (yes, maybe i'm a snob, or just ironic, who can say heh), far too many numpties i know do that without the old thrill of the chase.
[a dinosaur writes...]
reading Marcello's lists reminded me of a formulation here ah it's all tongue in cheek fun of course so no worries.
it goes like this, it's a coolness quotient
you have normal female s/s -
joni mitchell
carole king
middlebrow -
laura nyro
jane siberry
hipster -
linda perhacs
just because something is cooler doesn't mean it's better, eg 'blue' the joni album not the rock band or the boyband (\although that's fair enough like) remains better than anything nyro did for instance, not that i have a copy of blue these days but nevermind.
anyway i could have fun with all this stuff i rate.
it goes like this, it's a coolness quotient
you have normal female s/s -
joni mitchell
carole king
middlebrow -
laura nyro
jane siberry
hipster -
linda perhacs
just because something is cooler doesn't mean it's better, eg 'blue' the joni album not the rock band or the boyband (\although that's fair enough like) remains better than anything nyro did for instance, not that i have a copy of blue these days but nevermind.
anyway i could have fun with all this stuff i rate.
cons for Yanks riding roughshod Iraqi construction offers: -
lack of transparency,
free trade?!
pros for them: -
the security sitch line i actually buy, how naive i am?! the opponents cry heheh
victors pay for the reconstruction (historical rule, in general, ergo...
CONCLUSION:-
bit cheeky really, still doesn't exercise me as much as their attitudes to the ICC
lack of transparency,
free trade?!
pros for them: -
the security sitch line i actually buy, how naive i am?! the opponents cry heheh
victors pay for the reconstruction (historical rule, in general, ergo...
CONCLUSION:-
bit cheeky really, still doesn't exercise me as much as their attitudes to the ICC
it was really foggy yesterday; everywhere, tendrils creeping all over the place.
eerie.
i wonder if it's this scary on the set of 'sleepy hollow' (i saw master and commander the other night, which was a laff - i've seen loads of the films in UNCUT'S list of films of the year, and i won't be ranking most of them in my faves muahaha and there was a trailer for ewan mcgregor in the new tim burton, does auteur mean static and staying the same {perhaps he knows when he's on to a good thing actually...} as his aesthetic just doesnt seem to change_).
today it's just pissing it down.
eerie.
i wonder if it's this scary on the set of 'sleepy hollow' (i saw master and commander the other night, which was a laff - i've seen loads of the films in UNCUT'S list of films of the year, and i won't be ranking most of them in my faves muahaha and there was a trailer for ewan mcgregor in the new tim burton, does auteur mean static and staying the same {perhaps he knows when he's on to a good thing actually...} as his aesthetic just doesnt seem to change_).
today it's just pissing it down.
i can see where Carmody is coming at in his attack on Stelfox's views, and i wonder if Barthel (clapclap) will make similar points.
but i suppose Stelfox is appealing for clemency in wanting to link context with specifically JA music
you don't really need to know about anything about anything to appreciate it, that's not what they're saying,
but perhaps a little insight into JA politics can help you aid the wondrous madness that is Stelfox's vibe, whereas listening to a Canterbury Scene artist or some crew from Dunedin will not necessarily be enhanced by having spent time on the dole in Kent or the South Island.
it's the poverty etc innit, tho this is all simplistic and i'm just backchatting really
but i suppose Stelfox is appealing for clemency in wanting to link context with specifically JA music
you don't really need to know about anything about anything to appreciate it, that's not what they're saying,
but perhaps a little insight into JA politics can help you aid the wondrous madness that is Stelfox's vibe, whereas listening to a Canterbury Scene artist or some crew from Dunedin will not necessarily be enhanced by having spent time on the dole in Kent or the South Island.
it's the poverty etc innit, tho this is all simplistic and i'm just backchatting really
And it was at that age...Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating planations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.
And I, infinitesmal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke free on the open sky.
_Pablo Neruda
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating planations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.
And I, infinitesmal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke free on the open sky.
_Pablo Neruda
instances of not being worthy
Marcello's round up, pt.1
e crunk is disappointed
Matt offers out Beatniks (what would Jon D. say?)
he really is too good innit
i'm pleased to see the stelf-ox and others taking a more critical look at jay-z's reputation. you know, when a rapper keeps on telling you he's the best to ever do it, it's worth taking his claims with a pinch of salt. it's a fact that jay-z would struggle to make it onto a list of the top ten MCs working today. (certainly if i was compiling it) also people are confused about his strongest album. it's not volume three and it's not the blueprint. the order goes-volume two, volume three, reasonable doubt, the blueprint. he's got a genius for spotting trends and upcoming producers, his beats set the hiphop agenda for that year, a genius for writing hooks and is often astonishingly good at getting his words to hug the beat, liten to 'n***a what, n***a who', liten to that beat, how fucked it is, then listen how he just rides it perfect, that is sick, i'm listening to it now, you listen to that and you say, ahhh, jay-z is BIG! then you listen to all other things and go, yeah, but he's still shit. you see what i mean? he's talented, he can do things a lot of people can't do, he's got a few good lines but his voice is annoying, he's a lazy lyricist, and his crew is shit, plus he's got a bad attitude, i don't like him. from Luke it all has to be quoted in full, tho have to agree to differ, reasonable doubt my fave hova elpee, still he knows more than me and is better, so really i'm acquiescing.
later on i might post some more TRUE apologies for being lax and shite of late i NEVER DO POST WHAT I WANT at this crapola
still it beats a shitty stick being stuck to your fuzzy duffle-coat (thats if you've got one, i don't hold with them myself indieboy cliche in my experience)
Marcello's round up, pt.1
e crunk is disappointed
Matt offers out Beatniks (what would Jon D. say?)
he really is too good innit
i'm pleased to see the stelf-ox and others taking a more critical look at jay-z's reputation. you know, when a rapper keeps on telling you he's the best to ever do it, it's worth taking his claims with a pinch of salt. it's a fact that jay-z would struggle to make it onto a list of the top ten MCs working today. (certainly if i was compiling it) also people are confused about his strongest album. it's not volume three and it's not the blueprint. the order goes-volume two, volume three, reasonable doubt, the blueprint. he's got a genius for spotting trends and upcoming producers, his beats set the hiphop agenda for that year, a genius for writing hooks and is often astonishingly good at getting his words to hug the beat, liten to 'n***a what, n***a who', liten to that beat, how fucked it is, then listen how he just rides it perfect, that is sick, i'm listening to it now, you listen to that and you say, ahhh, jay-z is BIG! then you listen to all other things and go, yeah, but he's still shit. you see what i mean? he's talented, he can do things a lot of people can't do, he's got a few good lines but his voice is annoying, he's a lazy lyricist, and his crew is shit, plus he's got a bad attitude, i don't like him. from Luke it all has to be quoted in full, tho have to agree to differ, reasonable doubt my fave hova elpee, still he knows more than me and is better, so really i'm acquiescing.
later on i might post some more TRUE apologies for being lax and shite of late i NEVER DO POST WHAT I WANT at this crapola
still it beats a shitty stick being stuck to your fuzzy duffle-coat (thats if you've got one, i don't hold with them myself indieboy cliche in my experience)
Wednesday, 10 December 2003
three more items from the Beeb (i do spend a lot of time asskissing them, apologies) from round my way
the good
the bad
er, the quirky
i'm tempted to describe the last item as 'go on my son' but my brief has said i'm enough trouble as it is following the Dunwoody Incident.
the good
the bad
er, the quirky
i'm tempted to describe the last item as 'go on my son' but my brief has said i'm enough trouble as it is following the Dunwoody Incident.
Tuesday, 9 December 2003
glorious schtuff
however,
me and a mate who saw Macca many times were respectfully discussing him last night over calzone and carbonara, it must be owned.
still~
however,
me and a mate who saw Macca many times were respectfully discussing him last night over calzone and carbonara, it must be owned.
still~
below is some Rilke.
interesting to think on, maybe.
how shall i keep my soul
from touching yours? how shall
i lift it over you toward other things?
ah, i would like to lodge it
in the dark with some lost thing
on some foreign silent place
that doesn't tremble, when your depths stir.
yet everything that touches you and me
takes us together like a bow's stroke
that from two strings draws one voice.
across what instrument are we stretched taut?
and what player holds us in his hand?
o sweet song.
interesting to think on, maybe.
how shall i keep my soul
from touching yours? how shall
i lift it over you toward other things?
ah, i would like to lodge it
in the dark with some lost thing
on some foreign silent place
that doesn't tremble, when your depths stir.
yet everything that touches you and me
takes us together like a bow's stroke
that from two strings draws one voice.
across what instrument are we stretched taut?
and what player holds us in his hand?
o sweet song.
might go and watch a soccer match on the tv now, but before one does, here's a quick NOTE
world of stelfox's initial thing about dancehall and context etc. i read and thought not too much more of, very interesting though as he always is, then read a clapclap reply.
because i'm such a huge fan of mike clap the way he phrased his stuff well, that was quality to me.
but then read tufluv's views which were put gloriously, so alive, and to top it all off, dave's second piece on the issue (wonderful stuff, irish catholic liverpool, beating human heart, political, context, inclusive, all that).
now i notice - at time of writing - another reply may be forthcoming from clapclap.
it's all good fun. can't wait.
my own two penn'orth might be that reggae in the UK is a special case, purely because of proportionately (and possibly actually, for all i know) higher rates of migration between Jamaica and the UK modern-historically, than between the USA and Jamaica. realise that's a bit of a daft, exclusionary thing to observe, but have been thinking about it before, must say.
world of stelfox's initial thing about dancehall and context etc. i read and thought not too much more of, very interesting though as he always is, then read a clapclap reply.
because i'm such a huge fan of mike clap the way he phrased his stuff well, that was quality to me.
but then read tufluv's views which were put gloriously, so alive, and to top it all off, dave's second piece on the issue (wonderful stuff, irish catholic liverpool, beating human heart, political, context, inclusive, all that).
now i notice - at time of writing - another reply may be forthcoming from clapclap.
it's all good fun. can't wait.
my own two penn'orth might be that reggae in the UK is a special case, purely because of proportionately (and possibly actually, for all i know) higher rates of migration between Jamaica and the UK modern-historically, than between the USA and Jamaica. realise that's a bit of a daft, exclusionary thing to observe, but have been thinking about it before, must say.
good eggs Geeta
(1) hurrah!
(2) actually now convinced me the other end
over Marcello and Rob Young, 'fraid.
(1) hurrah!
(2) actually now convinced me the other end
over Marcello and Rob Young, 'fraid.
a {short} review of popular beat combo, Blur, my rocky bruv.
Blur, superb as ever, Damon good with the banter too "Last time we played here, it was with the JAMC, Dinosaur Jr, and MBV, we were bottom of the bill and we got bottled off stage". Ended again with "This is a low" off Parklife, a quality number.
a [short] review of some other ‘things’, including popular beat combo/dour leftist comedians, Radiohead (ibid).
Went out into Fallowfield after, to meet S and L, but they were with some of S’s workmates, and fuckin everywhere in Fallowfield is NUS only on weekends, so just ended going back to this blokes flat in Chorlton-turns out he was a big City fan and he let me leaf through this book "City's 100 greatest ever players", purely one guy's opinion but nicely illustrated and great pen pictures-we could do with some of these blokes-Colin Bell, Roy Paul, Peter Barnes now in the bloody team.
Satday, got up and SP and me met M in the refubed KG at 1:30, we had buy one, get one free on Carlsberg so that was cool. Interesting banter with Kenny, trying to explain about the poor woman who got hit by the fireworks at Wolves before they kicked off against the toon. Then the place was getting to full up with horrible yellow shirted scousers so we retired to our bar, Krony in there is very much to my liking. Gate was 711, Scouseport must had 100 there-no City or Utd yday probably helped. Still shows our support for our level is excellent-second highest gate by far in the Trophy yday. (Weymouth first with 876 and they are top of the Doc Martens too). We were full value for 1st half lead, they threw everything at us in 2nd but with Coburn in net we just look a lot more solid at the back really. Chants of "Yellows, yellows" from then under the Golf Road in the 2nd (not enough people there for segregation really) but aside from that sod all, good vocals from our boys as ever. As soon as game was over, KT picked me up from outside then back to Nottm, went to sleep when we got back to KT's and didn't actually leave hers til 8:15 tho luckily found parking space well near Arena. Walked straight in and the 'head were already on-slightly surreal but good,missed ADF as support tho. Played lots of good old stuff "Street Spirit", "The Bends", to temper the new electronic bleepings.
The guinea fowl outside the security fence are a good alarm, because they start making a noise at 4.45 am
_David Evans, 38, farmer, northern Zimbabwe.
High Fat Cat Content
Triple Cream
Glaxo Smith Kline
2000 Jobs Lost!
Share Price Down!
NO PAY HIKE FOR GARNIER
sorry this blog’s been so shite of late (what do you mean, of late?), got shifted sideways at work (well, am a temp) and internet access not really anymore, and other than that, just being a shite poohead. apologies all round, to any one that still bothers to read this.
Well Fuck, just watched blues piss their lives again, still was lost in the 1st leg really, quite blatant anti-City commentators (as with BBC3) ON C5 it would seem, they seem to think we should be the rags or Chelski, then they be just as biased, cunts.
Off to Rileys later and Mike the selfish cunt is not driving so he can drink, will certainly make him pick you up from the station - it’s just self, self, self with him…you can't escape the fucking rags tho’ there are more lurcals who are Scousers in Hull. Funny moment last nite went to the pub with Diebs n Alf, Diebs left early to go to AU nite at Uni and happened to mention to Alf you were coming up soon, he then asked what we'd be doing, said Piper on Fridy nite (without thinking) Alf then says "Oh I won't be going there then" OH NO, What a fucking loss that isn't.
Alf got barred from the Piper for – I SWEAR I’M NOT MAKING THIS UP but he is from ROMFORD which the Norfolk Windmills posse would remind us is not discussed enough during musicological debates about the ardkore continuum – breaking the actual ceramic seat of the lav. he’s a big, strong guy, but he clearly must have used the toilet roll holder or something, i mean otherwise his foot would be broken.
Joss Stone actually supporting Erykah Badu on Erykah’s current tour, fancy that!
Qasim was telling me about diver scallops, these are the ones where they dive for them individually and suchlike, no dredging for these beauties, all that nasty sand. a bit of a rum do perhaps but i should imagine a quick feel of the quality is all you need.
also, what was that puffpiece written by Bob Geldof’s daughter about ‘Thirteen’, it’s an average to nothing specially good film about teen issues and actually not done that cop (oh! but she’s thirteen! - RIMBAUD), we’re not talking ‘Tokyo Story’ here. speaking of ‘Tokyo Story’, the Sunday Telegraph film critic Anne Bilson (dunno if that’s right spelling; needless to say, a personal fave film crit, very nice lady) apologised – or rather said she had no need to apologise – in her magazine listing for recommending two Japanese films in the same night on her weekly televisual listings section comment bit.
one wouldn’t feel the need to apologise for offering up two American flicks, so why bother with Japanese. for shame.
Well, a 1st rate weekend as ever spoilt by City, tho I hear at least we were unlucky and played a lot better than recent games, unlike the rags who were crap from start to end-we gave Chelski a much harder game at the Bridge, Diego Forlorn living up to his nickname, ridiculous pre-game hype in the MUEN I saw yday, big headline about "Chelsea's mercenaries", utter shit as usual from that one eyed twat Mathieson. Seems to think that people sign for Ragworld PLC for noble reasons and not for huge pots of cash, a club that manages to spend £28m on "His name is Rio, he misses the drugs tests" more of the United myth, bollox.
[Stuart Mathieson is the completely biased Manchester United correspondent for local paper, Manchester Evening News.]
to be fair, i thought United were alright in what i saw of them at the Bridge (only caught up to Lampard’s goal and then the last few minutes), there was one schoolboy error from Ferdinand, but apparently Terry made mistake after mistake.
actually heard quite a bit of the Joss Stone debut and do really like it (certainly a lot better than the undeniably talented by half Alex Parks sadly getting done over by her company getting her to release an album of largely unfortunate covers, presumably in time for Christmas), but did i read Marcello (plus points for mentioning Murnau btw) right? trounces ‘Dusty in Memphis’ did he say? not sure, not throwing that out as an accusation or anything, but that is certainly a claim (not accurate of course, if that were the case). still, ‘appen.
The building was in terrible condition and I couldn’t imagine how they could live there. They were basically living on bread and potatoes. I think the father had gone, looking for work.
_ Beso Uznadze.
find it slightly seedy, some of the online comment one can find about Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth?
not going to link to anything here but you can probably find yourself easily enough – if you’re bothered – reams of ‘classic’ comments on the issue on the sort of message boards everyone knows and lovingly laughs at. generally particularly enjoy people from, say, North America, who like to say things (glaringly simplified parody for satiric effect AHEAD) such as ‘why is Britain behaving like a bunch of colonialists again, bossing around a bunch of Africans?’
of course it’s not worth arguing about on an online forum (well, obviously it is, but you know what i mean…), but don’t you just want to shake such people by the virtual lapels sometimes? empty a virtual bucket of icy water over their heads? well, alright, maybe just me…
would like to ask questions such as ‘yes, but do you actually know what goes on in Zimbabwe? do you know what the government there has been doing to ordinary people, to its opponents? what do you know of the economic and social situation for the average Zimbabwean? can you actually locate Zimbabwe on a map of the world?’
i apologise if this sounds like frustrated, and possibly puerile/naïve losing of temper, but there we have it.
QUEER EYE apology
spotted the following one line advert (rough paraphrase follows) It’s the Eighties on the phone. They want their haircut back..
excellent!
Henry Cooper hit me so hard he didn’t just shake me, he shook my relatives in Africa.
- Muhammad Ali.
my favourite Ali poster HAS to be the ‘First round, first minute’, y’all know the one.
as for Ali postcards and smaller prints, i do like the ‘I’m so fast that last night I switched off the lightbulb and was in bed before room got dark’ type one, which’s good dat.
LONG OVERDUE
EQUALLY IMPORTANT BUT NOT PIGS BLADDER bread and circuses
Wednesday were poor and their away support of over 3,000 very quiet. When Plymouth came they
bought 3,500 and did not shut up even at 3 0. I am hoping that we can pull away from the also rans now. Kevin Gallen is being watched by Ireland and so likewise is Martin Rowlands. Good win for Alty as
well.
that’s right you know. Alty won again the other day, 4-1. their current form is nothing short of startling. conceded about 2 (well, you know, but something daft like that) in the last 11, and not lost in that time. heh-heh.
~GOOD AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN, THE NAME’S BILL GARDNER.
The last Grapes gig was fantastic. Really interesting use of songs v electronics by Corringham / Cusack, and a good melt of performance and electronics by Schimpfluch. Those of you who missed the "chairs" piece really missed something! The latter group played to 150 people in Leeds, and to 15 in Sheffield......
Next up:
Wednesday 10th December 2003
PAUL HUBWEBER - trombone
JOHN JASNOCH - guitars, mandolin, ud
First chance to see this fine German player in Sheffield
together with our own JJ, following on from their German tour.
Also
SWUNG-DASH
Phil Morton - accidents and treatments
Adam Webster - bass guitar, cello
Phil Lucking - trumpets
Budgie - drumset
Periods of serene psycho-ambience to moments of crashing
intensity whilst calling at many places in between
The Grapes,Trippet Lane, Sheffield
8.30 pm. £5 full / £3 concession, all tickets on door _Martin Archer, Discus Recs.
OK, bit late.
i saw a poor FA Trophy match between Stafford Rangers and Spennymoor; Stafford are away to Scarboro the next round; this was last week. the first half mainly consisted in an inexplicable lead being protected by the (piss-poor and dull) visitors into the break. the second half mostly consisted of different factions of Stafford fans lamping the heavenly shite out of each other (there was a lot of blood, and a lot of clueless stewarding). my beloved Altrincham beat their bitter rivals Southport one nil in the same competition (the wonders of txt msg!) so one was chuffed with that. drank an awful lot of booze that night, smoked a lot of weed, lot of that glorious drunken banter that is best not repeated on the whole. and the next day (and Friday night had a few, come to think of it) totally the same, except with added Millwall fan/rawwk gig glamour. perhaps it was a shame various Guardian columnists or the like weren’t here, as they could be getting off on that middle-class (i’m middle-class, but you know what i mean, i mean the 28K salary Waitrose middle-class) supposed obsession with foolish and mindless football violence. of course that’s a harsh caricature but you know, what’s a body to do.
it makes me laugh when clueless top flight pundits like Mark Lawrenson were predicting the likes of Wednesday would go up from the 2nd easier than Strummer’s boys at the start of the season. it’s not like Lawro is a particularly useful summariser for the Prem either, but you would have thought a cursory bit of homework would have helped. apparently not. at least with Big Ron you can say he has those poor man’s Stuart Hall flights of lyrical fancy to describe the cavalier upfield stroll; i suppose the consolation with Lawro is you normally know Peter Schmeichel and his glorious Manc/Danish-hybrid of an accent will not be far away.
still, the difference between a footy pundit who knows what they’re on about – e.g., the telegraph’s patrick barclay, and mark lawrenson is rather similar to the differences between GZA and Vanilla Ice.
personally i thought the rags were okay at chelski (but only saw the opening 25 and last 5 minutes due to extenuating circumstances) and obviously it was a penalty. sure makelele and terry are quality (tho’ ronaldo had the measure of the former it seemed) but people like gallas are a bit of a liability - indeed, there was a bloke the spit of gallas in a litten tree pub in Stafford where we saw the first 30 or so; (you can tell the new breed of clueless Chelsea glory hunter by their blanket {wrong, natch} assertions that their defence overall is supreme [though they’re clearly not quite as clueless as the Liverpool fan i know who persists in calling Biscan a better player than Gary Neville?!?; incidentally how much of a diving chump is Pongolle?]). he was a chelsea fan, which left me, him, and two of my mates supporting the blues. it was quite galling to see all the locals (their ‘second team’ is presumably either Wolves or Stoke?) with their united shirts but we cheered nice and fucken loud when Lampard scored. obviously i hope Chelsea or the Gooners stuff United to the title cause i’m an embittered Man City fan. the sooner Wes Brown comes back and Ferdinand stops making forced schoolboy errors (somedisco passim) the better for the red devils.
somedisco goes D LIST CELEB spotting {unintentionally}
Carroll and Richardson (my mate said he saw Richardson score an exquisite goal in a friendly at Chesterfield once) and Kleberson were all good for United at Albion in midweek. the pub i was in watching the last minutes contained Coronation Street ‘star’ Kevin LeVell (is that his name) and former Granada (the northwest version of whatever regional ITV any English readers have in their region) weatherman, Fred Talbot. my mate Sinagola, his uncle knows Fred, amateur astronomers together. i’m pretty sure it was Fred’s boyfriend he was with, Fred was the first ‘famous’ gay man that us 9 year old boys were exposed to (as it were, so to write) in a provincial, suburban culture of borderline homophobia simmering at all times, so i have a special place for him always in my heart (pass the sickbag, Ernest, but no seriously, you should have seen him leaping around Liverpool’s Albert Dock on his weathermap-cum-boat ting, simply MARV).
as for Albion themselves, well, a good mate of mine is a Baggie fanatic and a more informed, nuanced bloke to discuss the beautiful game with (and rugby, too) you couldn’t hope to meet. i must however agree with my best mate (United fan) that the Prem portents for any team that has a midfield that plays like that, are – of course – not good.
Just seen a great farce, it's called Titus Bramble and is a satire on Barclaycard Premiership centre-halves. He and Jonny Woodgatey have just managed to crash into each other and given the Murph an easy goal. And i was thinking that Liverpool's only hope of a goal was to get Pongo inside the penalty area so he can do his traditional dying swan act.
Blur, superb as ever, Damon good with the banter too "Last time we played here, it was with the JAMC, Dinosaur Jr, and MBV, we were bottom of the bill and we got bottled off stage". Ended again with "This is a low" off Parklife, a quality number.
a [short] review of some other ‘things’, including popular beat combo/dour leftist comedians, Radiohead (ibid).
Went out into Fallowfield after, to meet S and L, but they were with some of S’s workmates, and fuckin everywhere in Fallowfield is NUS only on weekends, so just ended going back to this blokes flat in Chorlton-turns out he was a big City fan and he let me leaf through this book "City's 100 greatest ever players", purely one guy's opinion but nicely illustrated and great pen pictures-we could do with some of these blokes-Colin Bell, Roy Paul, Peter Barnes now in the bloody team.
Satday, got up and SP and me met M in the refubed KG at 1:30, we had buy one, get one free on Carlsberg so that was cool. Interesting banter with Kenny, trying to explain about the poor woman who got hit by the fireworks at Wolves before they kicked off against the toon. Then the place was getting to full up with horrible yellow shirted scousers so we retired to our bar, Krony in there is very much to my liking. Gate was 711, Scouseport must had 100 there-no City or Utd yday probably helped. Still shows our support for our level is excellent-second highest gate by far in the Trophy yday. (Weymouth first with 876 and they are top of the Doc Martens too). We were full value for 1st half lead, they threw everything at us in 2nd but with Coburn in net we just look a lot more solid at the back really. Chants of "Yellows, yellows" from then under the Golf Road in the 2nd (not enough people there for segregation really) but aside from that sod all, good vocals from our boys as ever. As soon as game was over, KT picked me up from outside then back to Nottm, went to sleep when we got back to KT's and didn't actually leave hers til 8:15 tho luckily found parking space well near Arena. Walked straight in and the 'head were already on-slightly surreal but good,missed ADF as support tho. Played lots of good old stuff "Street Spirit", "The Bends", to temper the new electronic bleepings.
The guinea fowl outside the security fence are a good alarm, because they start making a noise at 4.45 am
_David Evans, 38, farmer, northern Zimbabwe.
High Fat Cat Content
Triple Cream
Glaxo Smith Kline
2000 Jobs Lost!
Share Price Down!
NO PAY HIKE FOR GARNIER
sorry this blog’s been so shite of late (what do you mean, of late?), got shifted sideways at work (well, am a temp) and internet access not really anymore, and other than that, just being a shite poohead. apologies all round, to any one that still bothers to read this.
Well Fuck, just watched blues piss their lives again, still was lost in the 1st leg really, quite blatant anti-City commentators (as with BBC3) ON C5 it would seem, they seem to think we should be the rags or Chelski, then they be just as biased, cunts.
Off to Rileys later and Mike the selfish cunt is not driving so he can drink, will certainly make him pick you up from the station - it’s just self, self, self with him…you can't escape the fucking rags tho’ there are more lurcals who are Scousers in Hull. Funny moment last nite went to the pub with Diebs n Alf, Diebs left early to go to AU nite at Uni and happened to mention to Alf you were coming up soon, he then asked what we'd be doing, said Piper on Fridy nite (without thinking) Alf then says "Oh I won't be going there then" OH NO, What a fucking loss that isn't.
Alf got barred from the Piper for – I SWEAR I’M NOT MAKING THIS UP but he is from ROMFORD which the Norfolk Windmills posse would remind us is not discussed enough during musicological debates about the ardkore continuum – breaking the actual ceramic seat of the lav. he’s a big, strong guy, but he clearly must have used the toilet roll holder or something, i mean otherwise his foot would be broken.
Joss Stone actually supporting Erykah Badu on Erykah’s current tour, fancy that!
Qasim was telling me about diver scallops, these are the ones where they dive for them individually and suchlike, no dredging for these beauties, all that nasty sand. a bit of a rum do perhaps but i should imagine a quick feel of the quality is all you need.
also, what was that puffpiece written by Bob Geldof’s daughter about ‘Thirteen’, it’s an average to nothing specially good film about teen issues and actually not done that cop (oh! but she’s thirteen! - RIMBAUD), we’re not talking ‘Tokyo Story’ here. speaking of ‘Tokyo Story’, the Sunday Telegraph film critic Anne Bilson (dunno if that’s right spelling; needless to say, a personal fave film crit, very nice lady) apologised – or rather said she had no need to apologise – in her magazine listing for recommending two Japanese films in the same night on her weekly televisual listings section comment bit.
one wouldn’t feel the need to apologise for offering up two American flicks, so why bother with Japanese. for shame.
Well, a 1st rate weekend as ever spoilt by City, tho I hear at least we were unlucky and played a lot better than recent games, unlike the rags who were crap from start to end-we gave Chelski a much harder game at the Bridge, Diego Forlorn living up to his nickname, ridiculous pre-game hype in the MUEN I saw yday, big headline about "Chelsea's mercenaries", utter shit as usual from that one eyed twat Mathieson. Seems to think that people sign for Ragworld PLC for noble reasons and not for huge pots of cash, a club that manages to spend £28m on "His name is Rio, he misses the drugs tests" more of the United myth, bollox.
[Stuart Mathieson is the completely biased Manchester United correspondent for local paper, Manchester Evening News.]
to be fair, i thought United were alright in what i saw of them at the Bridge (only caught up to Lampard’s goal and then the last few minutes), there was one schoolboy error from Ferdinand, but apparently Terry made mistake after mistake.
actually heard quite a bit of the Joss Stone debut and do really like it (certainly a lot better than the undeniably talented by half Alex Parks sadly getting done over by her company getting her to release an album of largely unfortunate covers, presumably in time for Christmas), but did i read Marcello (plus points for mentioning Murnau btw) right? trounces ‘Dusty in Memphis’ did he say? not sure, not throwing that out as an accusation or anything, but that is certainly a claim (not accurate of course, if that were the case). still, ‘appen.
The building was in terrible condition and I couldn’t imagine how they could live there. They were basically living on bread and potatoes. I think the father had gone, looking for work.
_ Beso Uznadze.
find it slightly seedy, some of the online comment one can find about Zimbabwe and the Commonwealth?
not going to link to anything here but you can probably find yourself easily enough – if you’re bothered – reams of ‘classic’ comments on the issue on the sort of message boards everyone knows and lovingly laughs at. generally particularly enjoy people from, say, North America, who like to say things (glaringly simplified parody for satiric effect AHEAD) such as ‘why is Britain behaving like a bunch of colonialists again, bossing around a bunch of Africans?’
of course it’s not worth arguing about on an online forum (well, obviously it is, but you know what i mean…), but don’t you just want to shake such people by the virtual lapels sometimes? empty a virtual bucket of icy water over their heads? well, alright, maybe just me…
would like to ask questions such as ‘yes, but do you actually know what goes on in Zimbabwe? do you know what the government there has been doing to ordinary people, to its opponents? what do you know of the economic and social situation for the average Zimbabwean? can you actually locate Zimbabwe on a map of the world?’
i apologise if this sounds like frustrated, and possibly puerile/naïve losing of temper, but there we have it.
QUEER EYE apology
spotted the following one line advert (rough paraphrase follows) It’s the Eighties on the phone. They want their haircut back..
excellent!
Henry Cooper hit me so hard he didn’t just shake me, he shook my relatives in Africa.
- Muhammad Ali.
my favourite Ali poster HAS to be the ‘First round, first minute’, y’all know the one.
as for Ali postcards and smaller prints, i do like the ‘I’m so fast that last night I switched off the lightbulb and was in bed before room got dark’ type one, which’s good dat.
LONG OVERDUE
EQUALLY IMPORTANT BUT NOT PIGS BLADDER bread and circuses
Wednesday were poor and their away support of over 3,000 very quiet. When Plymouth came they
bought 3,500 and did not shut up even at 3 0. I am hoping that we can pull away from the also rans now. Kevin Gallen is being watched by Ireland and so likewise is Martin Rowlands. Good win for Alty as
well.
that’s right you know. Alty won again the other day, 4-1. their current form is nothing short of startling. conceded about 2 (well, you know, but something daft like that) in the last 11, and not lost in that time. heh-heh.
~GOOD AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN, THE NAME’S BILL GARDNER.
The last Grapes gig was fantastic. Really interesting use of songs v electronics by Corringham / Cusack, and a good melt of performance and electronics by Schimpfluch. Those of you who missed the "chairs" piece really missed something! The latter group played to 150 people in Leeds, and to 15 in Sheffield......
Next up:
Wednesday 10th December 2003
PAUL HUBWEBER - trombone
JOHN JASNOCH - guitars, mandolin, ud
First chance to see this fine German player in Sheffield
together with our own JJ, following on from their German tour.
Also
SWUNG-DASH
Phil Morton - accidents and treatments
Adam Webster - bass guitar, cello
Phil Lucking - trumpets
Budgie - drumset
Periods of serene psycho-ambience to moments of crashing
intensity whilst calling at many places in between
The Grapes,Trippet Lane, Sheffield
8.30 pm. £5 full / £3 concession, all tickets on door _Martin Archer, Discus Recs.
OK, bit late.
i saw a poor FA Trophy match between Stafford Rangers and Spennymoor; Stafford are away to Scarboro the next round; this was last week. the first half mainly consisted in an inexplicable lead being protected by the (piss-poor and dull) visitors into the break. the second half mostly consisted of different factions of Stafford fans lamping the heavenly shite out of each other (there was a lot of blood, and a lot of clueless stewarding). my beloved Altrincham beat their bitter rivals Southport one nil in the same competition (the wonders of txt msg!) so one was chuffed with that. drank an awful lot of booze that night, smoked a lot of weed, lot of that glorious drunken banter that is best not repeated on the whole. and the next day (and Friday night had a few, come to think of it) totally the same, except with added Millwall fan/rawwk gig glamour. perhaps it was a shame various Guardian columnists or the like weren’t here, as they could be getting off on that middle-class (i’m middle-class, but you know what i mean, i mean the 28K salary Waitrose middle-class) supposed obsession with foolish and mindless football violence. of course that’s a harsh caricature but you know, what’s a body to do.
it makes me laugh when clueless top flight pundits like Mark Lawrenson were predicting the likes of Wednesday would go up from the 2nd easier than Strummer’s boys at the start of the season. it’s not like Lawro is a particularly useful summariser for the Prem either, but you would have thought a cursory bit of homework would have helped. apparently not. at least with Big Ron you can say he has those poor man’s Stuart Hall flights of lyrical fancy to describe the cavalier upfield stroll; i suppose the consolation with Lawro is you normally know Peter Schmeichel and his glorious Manc/Danish-hybrid of an accent will not be far away.
still, the difference between a footy pundit who knows what they’re on about – e.g., the telegraph’s patrick barclay, and mark lawrenson is rather similar to the differences between GZA and Vanilla Ice.
personally i thought the rags were okay at chelski (but only saw the opening 25 and last 5 minutes due to extenuating circumstances) and obviously it was a penalty. sure makelele and terry are quality (tho’ ronaldo had the measure of the former it seemed) but people like gallas are a bit of a liability - indeed, there was a bloke the spit of gallas in a litten tree pub in Stafford where we saw the first 30 or so; (you can tell the new breed of clueless Chelsea glory hunter by their blanket {wrong, natch} assertions that their defence overall is supreme [though they’re clearly not quite as clueless as the Liverpool fan i know who persists in calling Biscan a better player than Gary Neville?!?; incidentally how much of a diving chump is Pongolle?]). he was a chelsea fan, which left me, him, and two of my mates supporting the blues. it was quite galling to see all the locals (their ‘second team’ is presumably either Wolves or Stoke?) with their united shirts but we cheered nice and fucken loud when Lampard scored. obviously i hope Chelsea or the Gooners stuff United to the title cause i’m an embittered Man City fan. the sooner Wes Brown comes back and Ferdinand stops making forced schoolboy errors (somedisco passim) the better for the red devils.
somedisco goes D LIST CELEB spotting {unintentionally}
Carroll and Richardson (my mate said he saw Richardson score an exquisite goal in a friendly at Chesterfield once) and Kleberson were all good for United at Albion in midweek. the pub i was in watching the last minutes contained Coronation Street ‘star’ Kevin LeVell (is that his name) and former Granada (the northwest version of whatever regional ITV any English readers have in their region) weatherman, Fred Talbot. my mate Sinagola, his uncle knows Fred, amateur astronomers together. i’m pretty sure it was Fred’s boyfriend he was with, Fred was the first ‘famous’ gay man that us 9 year old boys were exposed to (as it were, so to write) in a provincial, suburban culture of borderline homophobia simmering at all times, so i have a special place for him always in my heart (pass the sickbag, Ernest, but no seriously, you should have seen him leaping around Liverpool’s Albert Dock on his weathermap-cum-boat ting, simply MARV).
as for Albion themselves, well, a good mate of mine is a Baggie fanatic and a more informed, nuanced bloke to discuss the beautiful game with (and rugby, too) you couldn’t hope to meet. i must however agree with my best mate (United fan) that the Prem portents for any team that has a midfield that plays like that, are – of course – not good.
Just seen a great farce, it's called Titus Bramble and is a satire on Barclaycard Premiership centre-halves. He and Jonny Woodgatey have just managed to crash into each other and given the Murph an easy goal. And i was thinking that Liverpool's only hope of a goal was to get Pongo inside the penalty area so he can do his traditional dying swan act.
Monday, 8 December 2003
Friday, 5 December 2003
in the paper the other day some woman was banging on about that Josh Stone bird is it, and also Amy Winehouse and Terri Walker (all very nice i'm sure, and not a case of the emperor's new clothes in the case of the former surely) but they had the gumption to question the authority of the even the first ones from the likes of Erykah Badu and Angie Stone.
this is just not on.
alright, so Badu hasn't done owt since the debut but the debut! what worth!
and Jill Scott's debut! talk about good.
as you may know, i can't get with bilal in the field of all this neo-soul bluster.
this is just not on.
alright, so Badu hasn't done owt since the debut but the debut! what worth!
and Jill Scott's debut! talk about good.
as you may know, i can't get with bilal in the field of all this neo-soul bluster.
Thursday, 4 December 2003
i wuv my mate Q, discussing him and his bezzie man like Rod Marques going to one of the posher restaurants in Manchester he observed that Man I was so drunk I ordered white bleedin' wine with steak!
he also sez I ate at The Italian in town a couple of weeks ago which is where we were gonna go and it's my fav italian restaurant in town, it pisses on the Stock
which is more like a fancy seafood and steakhouse.
I read a bit on your blog about Fatman Scoop, I think
that guys a legend! That record is so on top nothing
cheers me up more then to hear him shouting 'If you've
got a hundred dollar bill put your hand up!'
good, and indeed, eggs.
he also sez I ate at The Italian in town a couple of weeks ago which is where we were gonna go and it's my fav italian restaurant in town, it pisses on the Stock
which is more like a fancy seafood and steakhouse.
I read a bit on your blog about Fatman Scoop, I think
that guys a legend! That record is so on top nothing
cheers me up more then to hear him shouting 'If you've
got a hundred dollar bill put your hand up!'
good, and indeed, eggs.
When will Brits realize that this is 2003 and give up on 'Royal British Empire' once and for all? Wake up, it's gone. Let Mugabe lead his country for better or worse. So long as he does not attack British citizens or attack the UK, don't get involved with Zimbabwe's internal affairs.
Simon, New Jersey, U.S.
hmm.
Simon, New Jersey, U.S.
hmm.
i suppose my earlier point about coldplay and no doubt (because i do like them, well, i mean i certainly adore the odd no doubt single, esp. ones with a foolish amount of basswankery) was that, yunno, if 'a rush of blood to the head' was going to be put in wherever it was (472 or so) they could at least have put sarah vaughan with clifford brown in at number 473 (or so).
but apparently not to be.
but apparently not to be.
below are links to stunningly lovely bits of blogging i've noticed recently that are giving me much joy, or making me laugh out loud, or made me think, or something like that.
Nirav on nicedisk
andro turtle discusses turtles (and the like)
isn't she lovely [aka Ian Fractionals on Bjork]
distorting the medium on internet books
ronan on, ooh, quite a lot
Stelfox chanting for desi beats
Nirav on nicedisk
andro turtle discusses turtles (and the like)
isn't she lovely [aka Ian Fractionals on Bjork]
distorting the medium on internet books
ronan on, ooh, quite a lot
Stelfox chanting for desi beats
i'm now wasting time more efficiently at work (it's called the internet) as they've foolishly put me on a better computer.
this one even has a stereo attached.
i did nearly get fired yesterday afternoon when i went to some house site and it started playing its wares.
the beats were submerging everyone's convo from here to Risk Management.
this one even has a stereo attached.
i did nearly get fired yesterday afternoon when i went to some house site and it started playing its wares.
the beats were submerging everyone's convo from here to Risk Management.
well i can't read and i can't write
but that don't really matter
cause i'm a swindon town fan
and i can drive a tractor
a colleague of mine reckons swindon is the armpit of the country. clearly a nonsense, melinda messenger is from swindon and she promotes decent family values without the kissoff of little englander daily express nonsense type tropes.
little englander used to have the opposite meaning i
think, it used to mean some internationalist sophisticate.
but that don't really matter
cause i'm a swindon town fan
and i can drive a tractor
a colleague of mine reckons swindon is the armpit of the country. clearly a nonsense, melinda messenger is from swindon and she promotes decent family values without the kissoff of little englander daily express nonsense type tropes.
little englander used to have the opposite meaning i
think, it used to mean some internationalist sophisticate.
Wednesday, 3 December 2003
purely on the subject of england
you remember that banter that some bloggers had about london versus the provinces a bit ago? it might actually have been london versus the rest of britain and/or the uk, but that would blow my theory out of the water (sure there are always exceptions to the rule, such as the folk in Glasgow), let's stick with england eh.
basically all the best music/nerd/wirey circle {clearly i don't know about politics circles, or crochet circles, or postmodern literature circles; i mean folk who know and are familiar with Simon Reynolds' ouevre, or at least know SR}
bloggers are in London, well most of them anyway.
if you don't believe me, i think or know for sure or at least believe with some, that all the above below i mean, live within the orbital. click on the link for Smoke funnfrolics.
It would probably be worth getting lung cancer just to wander around one for an afternoon
Hey! I've just thought of the title for my book: Pretending I'm Not a Cunt
well good fires aren't they? looking at them, feeding them, playing with them
I love jays the're like funky crows
quality.
you remember that banter that some bloggers had about london versus the provinces a bit ago? it might actually have been london versus the rest of britain and/or the uk, but that would blow my theory out of the water (sure there are always exceptions to the rule, such as the folk in Glasgow), let's stick with england eh.
basically all the best music/nerd/wirey circle {clearly i don't know about politics circles, or crochet circles, or postmodern literature circles; i mean folk who know and are familiar with Simon Reynolds' ouevre, or at least know SR}
bloggers are in London, well most of them anyway.
if you don't believe me, i think or know for sure or at least believe with some, that all the above below i mean, live within the orbital. click on the link for Smoke funnfrolics.
It would probably be worth getting lung cancer just to wander around one for an afternoon
Hey! I've just thought of the title for my book: Pretending I'm Not a Cunt
well good fires aren't they? looking at them, feeding them, playing with them
I love jays the're like funky crows
quality.
Not that money is necessarily equated with style, mind you - on our visit, all the men appeared to be wearing rugby shirts, while all the ladies looked like Hollyoaks stars on their way out to the opening of an envelope.
_Andrew Fraser wades in at the opening of a new Italian in leafy Wilmslow, Cheshire.
_Andrew Fraser wades in at the opening of a new Italian in leafy Wilmslow, Cheshire.
it's quite good that rolling stone 500 albums list, in the sense there's no surprises at all and lots of albums i love (and lots you don't, clearly) which is eminently fair enough like.
apart from no doubt at #441 and coldplay at #473.
my mam often says don't bother saying it if you've got to be rude, so i shall take her advice for once in this instance.
apart from no doubt at #441 and coldplay at #473.
my mam often says don't bother saying it if you've got to be rude, so i shall take her advice for once in this instance.
it beats me why they give out knighthoods and honours and such to the likes of David Beckham or Mick Jagger.
do these people deserve knighthoods?
of course they fucking don't.
via the pumpkin publog, i found two blokes who do though : - they are Edmund Featherstone and his chum, a Colin Price (though like Tim H, i find it very hard to believe there are only two pubs in all of SE28?!)
do these people deserve knighthoods?
of course they fucking don't.
via the pumpkin publog, i found two blokes who do though : - they are Edmund Featherstone and his chum, a Colin Price (though like Tim H, i find it very hard to believe there are only two pubs in all of SE28?!)
over at the freaky trigger pumpkin publog (fast becoming my number one fave archive site anywhere on the nerdosphere) John McGhee wondered if there was a Manchester Tavern in Manchester.
i can confirm there was a boozer called the Mancunian in Hulme but this was closed down some time ago due to trouble (drugs, IIRC).
i can confirm there was a boozer called the Mancunian in Hulme but this was closed down some time ago due to trouble (drugs, IIRC).
anyway, below are some interesting news links {one or two are a day or two old} : -
Shelved EU study of anti-Semitism goes on net
REPORT ON ANTI-SEMITISM :
COMMISSIONED BUT NOT PUBLISHED [the report itself, PDF]
BBC views on anti-Semitism
27 years for Srebrenica massacre
Trial of senior Bosnian Muslims
Shelved EU study of anti-Semitism goes on net
REPORT ON ANTI-SEMITISM :
COMMISSIONED BUT NOT PUBLISHED [the report itself, PDF]
BBC views on anti-Semitism
27 years for Srebrenica massacre
Trial of senior Bosnian Muslims
whew!
leaving behind yesterday's faux-liberal hand-wringing, i must first note i txted Ingram yesterday but since it was the first txt i'd sent him for about 6 months, to request some Lil Wayne or Cheikh Lo was probably a bit cheeky, cracking set as it happens, note the move from Cornell Campbell to Scientist, very swish.
leaving behind yesterday's faux-liberal hand-wringing, i must first note i txted Ingram yesterday but since it was the first txt i'd sent him for about 6 months, to request some Lil Wayne or Cheikh Lo was probably a bit cheeky, cracking set as it happens, note the move from Cornell Campbell to Scientist, very swish.
Tuesday, 2 December 2003
there now follows
A sincere and humble apology to any somedisco readers with half a brain
last thursday i posted a very half-arsed rant about the tv show queer eye for the straight guy that could easily have been read along the lines of a venomously shite 'ooh, gay people! let's act straight eh....some of my best friends are gay BUT_' type-trope.
firstly i would like to big up both
Angus for his public response, (and a very good comment in his comments box by some Lysana gal; her website is excellent btw), and Jon who privately mailed me at length.
basically i was clearly chatting out of my backside if you go back and read what i said and i can see that. it's a bit worrying that even at the time as i was writing what i did though, that i thought this is casually lazy and borderline dodgy, but still carried on. i have absolutely no explanation as to that anomaly which is of course distressing.
as Jon reminded me, stereotypes of queers on telly etc. - why are they there?
and all that jazz. so i'm having a bit of an internal conversation about that at the mo.
he asked me would i prefer no gay characters on the tv and pointed out - quite reasonably i think - what i wrote could easily be interpreted as Liberal (in the sense of John Howard's party of government) masquerading as liberal.
essentially i have no idea why i posted the utterly wrong-headed bobbins that i did, which is quite worrying, as you might say all this flaggelating i'm doing now is just the rantings of a falsely modest 'liberal' who's been caught with his trews down and is trying for a little hand-wringing PR.
perhaps i was thinking of some subconscious thesis of mine that thought most queer characters i see on the tv are acting in the supposedly stereotypical fashion i so totalitarianally (and dourly) upbraided, but then i recalled some of the few gay characters on shows i've enjoyed in the past (e.g. the secret life of us or this life) not being so. etc.
Jon even mentioned he's heard some negative comment in the past to the effect that (this is a rough paraphrase) he knows people who watched 'this life' who slag off the queer character (Warren) bcos he 'doesn't act gay'. or somesuch.
anyway, to any reader who was disappointed with my boneheaded wading in, i'm afraid you'll just have to trust me that i'm not a bigoted tosser and am trying to work out why i delved into the file marked FUCKWIT so easily.
if you've got this far and are still reading, cheers for swimming through this onanistic gloop/
A sincere and humble apology to any somedisco readers with half a brain
last thursday i posted a very half-arsed rant about the tv show queer eye for the straight guy that could easily have been read along the lines of a venomously shite 'ooh, gay people! let's act straight eh....some of my best friends are gay BUT_' type-trope.
firstly i would like to big up both
Angus for his public response, (and a very good comment in his comments box by some Lysana gal; her website is excellent btw), and Jon who privately mailed me at length.
basically i was clearly chatting out of my backside if you go back and read what i said and i can see that. it's a bit worrying that even at the time as i was writing what i did though, that i thought this is casually lazy and borderline dodgy, but still carried on. i have absolutely no explanation as to that anomaly which is of course distressing.
as Jon reminded me, stereotypes of queers on telly etc. - why are they there?
and all that jazz. so i'm having a bit of an internal conversation about that at the mo.
he asked me would i prefer no gay characters on the tv and pointed out - quite reasonably i think - what i wrote could easily be interpreted as Liberal (in the sense of John Howard's party of government) masquerading as liberal.
essentially i have no idea why i posted the utterly wrong-headed bobbins that i did, which is quite worrying, as you might say all this flaggelating i'm doing now is just the rantings of a falsely modest 'liberal' who's been caught with his trews down and is trying for a little hand-wringing PR.
perhaps i was thinking of some subconscious thesis of mine that thought most queer characters i see on the tv are acting in the supposedly stereotypical fashion i so totalitarianally (and dourly) upbraided, but then i recalled some of the few gay characters on shows i've enjoyed in the past (e.g. the secret life of us or this life) not being so. etc.
Jon even mentioned he's heard some negative comment in the past to the effect that (this is a rough paraphrase) he knows people who watched 'this life' who slag off the queer character (Warren) bcos he 'doesn't act gay'. or somesuch.
anyway, to any reader who was disappointed with my boneheaded wading in, i'm afraid you'll just have to trust me that i'm not a bigoted tosser and am trying to work out why i delved into the file marked FUCKWIT so easily.
if you've got this far and are still reading, cheers for swimming through this onanistic gloop/
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