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Current Mood: amused

Meme time
Made me laugh anyway

On the twelfth day of Christmas,

hano sent to me...

Twelve delgados drumming

Eleven catholics piping

Ten candyskins a-leaping

Nine films dancing

Eight swans a-milking

Seven cats a-reading

Six pogues a-drinking

Five ci-i-i-ivil rights

Four twin peaks

Three factory records

Two pc games

...and a drama in a history.

I Blame Ian Mackaye...
He taught us all that actions speak louder than words. Ultimately, we have a choice; we either sit on our arses and whinge about how crap everything is, or, we get stand up be counted and fucking do something
Hence:

Ladies and Gentlemen it gives me great pleasure to announce:

SONGS OF PRAISE and BLACK LAVA PROMOTIONS, in association with Yankeeboy Promotions and Misadventures in Media..... proudly present.......

THE SWINDON SHUFFLE

Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd July 2007

Acts Confirmed:

BUSWELL, THE STURGIS ARMORY, ELECTRIC CITY HEIGHTS, SEVEN YEARS ON, SIMON HALL
THE CARTER AFFAIR, CHOKESLAM, VEER LUTH, 2 SICK MONKEYS, TRUTH BE TOLD, THE JULIA SET,
JON TROWBRIDGE, FROM THE CARNIVAL OF HORRORS, RAG DOLL GIRL, BLACK EYED DOG, DOZA
BLACK CAT, MARK MY WORDS, PAUL DAVIS....... plus BlokesPlayingRecords

Venues Confirmed

The VIC, THE FURNACE, THE BEEHIVE, THE 12 BAR, THE ROLLESTON

All proceeds to the Prospect Foundation - http://www.prospect-hospice.org.uk/

The Swindon Shuffle - Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd July 2007
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Humbly, this one goes out to John Peel

Game on, as another inspiration, Gordon Mac said to me on a different but still auspicious occasion in another life.
Nimnae!

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Pere Ubu - Dubhousing

SOP Minus 1
Songs of Praise
Setlist:
Mark E Moon
The Stooges - Search and Destroy
Boxtops - The Letter
Love - A House is not Amobel
Them - Gloria
Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Roadruner
Grateful Dead - The Golden Road
Led Zepplin - Communication Breakdown
Brian Driscoll & the Trinity - Indian Rope Man

Hano
Hoover - Cable
Fugazi - Bed for the Scraping
Guided By Voices - Everywhere with Helicopter
Shellac - Fight Song
Asian Dub Foundation - Naxalite
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Regiment
REM - Inside Out

Mark E Moon
New York Dolls - Trash
MC5 - Shakin Street
Rolling Stones - Last Time
The Who - I can't explain
Velvet Underground - Waiting for the man
Jimi H - Crosstown Traffic
The Sonics - Have love will travel
Questiomark - 96 Tears
Chaos Brothers - 1977

THE STURGIS AMOURY
(the only good band in this godforsaken town)

Hano
MC5 Ramblin Rose
Stooges - Search & Destroy
Television - Marquee Moon
Patti Smith - Gloria (Live at the Festival Hall 2005)
Gang of Four - i Found that Essence Rare
Yo La Tengo - Shaker
Neu - Isi
Motorpsycho & The Jaga Jazzist Horns - Theme de Yoyo

(i appreciate some song titles etc aren't spelled right - I can't read Rich's bloody handwriting :-) )

Comments please. And yeah, the REM track didn't fit. Shrug. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

A good night for everyone i think :-) :-)

The Brits - a suggestion
Instead of a statue, can the winners be given a cheap dildo from Anne Summers so they can go f**k themselves?
Especially James Blunt? Actually I'd like to meet the sadist who signed him and do painful things to him involving the complete works of Mick Hucknall and a cattle prod. What a load of unexpurgated, mindless, vomit inducing, banal drivel.

Current Mood: angry
Current Music: Spaceman 3 - Translucent Flashbacks

linkage
the Londonist celebrates ~~rampant commercialism and rip offs~~ Valentines Day with a selection of political lonely hearts ads
Scaryduck gives us some suitable verse on the true meaning of Valentine's Day
Those of you who've read Cryptonomicon will recall one of the central plot strands involves vast quantities of gold looted by Japan during WWII. this article gives some interesting background, assuming of course that you can put aside the more obvious looney conspiracy sections.
Future Feeder carries news that researchers have confirmed an earlier UCLA experiment that produces tabletop fusion at room temperature
Max Boot, discussing QDR, summarises the disquiet most analysts have with the way the Pentagon's "lines of business" are mindlessly investing in the programs they want, rather than those needed for the wars they're actually fighting.
Hope y'all got lots of appropriate cards. Or not as the case may be.

Current Mood: tired

I want one. Now.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce the winner of our 2006 Gadget of the Year Competition! I give you The Beer Pouring Robot. Nothing, and I mean nothing, can top this :-)

Current Mood: Thirsty
Current Music: The Frames - For The Birds

Better late than never
A very happy birthday to

crossbonesdj!
Hope you get lots of cool records presents :-)

Oh. My. God.
This is so unbelievably horrible I just had to share it with you:

via The Londonist
"We've gone on about it before but clearly our dismay and disgruntlement was not heard, and the musicals industry has come up with yet another incredulous second career for a popstar for whom "star" is rather redundant.

If you have your head in your hands at this point, it may be best to keep it there as what follows could disturb theatre-goers and music lovers.

Ginger dreadlocked pop crooner of the 80s and 90s Mick Hucknall of Simply Red, who was famous for being red-haired and a bit grim looking (as well as having a few songs in the charts) is in the process of creating a new musical for the London stage.

The musical will feature all of Simply Red's best hits. Yes, those "hits" will be the medium through which a specially written love story, interwoven with events from Cuban history, is conveyed. All the Simply Red songs will be re-worked to have a Latin feel. Apparently, there will be a lot of salsa in the previously middle of the road chart ballads. The musical will be called Simply Cuban.

It sounds like it will be a Simply Red tribute show as if performed by the Buena Vista Social Club.

An opening date is still to be confirmed. We hope it stays that way.

Please, whoever encourages this ongoing assault on the sensibilities of the theatre-going public, just... don't. London is always under threat of streets awash with vomit, chaos and agression: please don't add to it by putting on production after production of this kind of thing. The popstars have had their day, their songs have had their airplay: why not let them rest and let the rest of us get on with pre-booking tickets for a decent musical."

Being the selfless and generously public spirited person that I am, I volunteer to form and lead the lynch mob to hunt Hucknall down and violently beat him to death with vinyl pressings of his own records…. (there’s bound to be a few in a Woolies sale bin somewhere…)
Please, don't let this happen - just £1.50 can buy a bullet to end this madness forever...

Current Mood: distressed
Current Music: Smiths - How Soon is Now

Question
imagine a vampire in a Catholic church. Pre-supposing that the whole cruxifix thing doesn't affect them, they've turned up cos they've heard of this transubstantiation business and think that they'll be given real blood at the appropriate moment. Question is, when the 'blood' turns out to be cheap merlot, can they sue under the Trades Descriptions Act?

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Arcade Fire - Funeral

Right Girls
A friend of mine receivd the following text message from an ex-boyfriend last night: 'I am sat in a pub in Portugal talking about breasts and would you send a picture of yours (no face) and the guy next to me has acheived it. Any chance you can help my street cred?'
Suggested responses please? She is not amused, in fact rather upset by this...

ETA He's apologised.
'Morning all. sorry for last night, hope I did not offend if I did let me know and will buy you a small gift.'
Shovel anyone?
Note the 'morning all' bit... he's not doing himself any favours is he?

Current Music: Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion

Doom n Gloom
Insurgency 101 courtesy of armsandinfluence. mainly for the benefit of

ninebelow and

communicator if they haven't read it already. Its depressing cos the lessons are so obvious and yet no one is listening. If you aren't down enough after reading that there's always Ken Macleod to cheer us all up further comparing the present climate to early 1914. I've yet to see a reason to disagree with hm.

Current Music: Stooges - Fun House

rumours that error msgs like these will be native to Windows Vista have yet to be confirmes or denied :-)

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Led Zepplin - Dazed and Confused

QQ RSS Aggregators
What would people suggest is the best Mozilla extension RSS News reader - its for my office. We'd need something that displays items as one continuous feed a'la LJ. Ta

Current Music: none

Double Nickels on the Dime
In memory of D.Boon 1958-1985
Nowt to say that others haven't already. just, y'know, remembering
The day we stop remembering is the day it stops being important.
Hey, it matters to me....

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: What do you think?

WOOT!
I GOT THE FUCKING JOB! YAY!

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: dEUS - Stop Start Nature

Congratulations to

susumu and

pinkpinstripes on this their wedding day. Have a brilliant day :-)

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: She moved through the fair (trad)

Quick question
As some of you can testify I'm barely human until I've mainlined my first coffee hit of the day so did I imagine it, or was The Today Program playing The Ramones' 'Sheena is a Punk Rocker' around 7:45 this morning? It's a sign I tell you. Either that or I've slipped into a a wonderful parallel universe where they play punk rock at breakfast time. Now if only we can persude Radio 1 to do the same instead of that useless tosser Chris Moyles.....

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Arcade Fire - No Cars Go

Exam Questions I'd like to see: part the next
The Rapture draws inexorably closer. Do the BBC know what they're letting themselves in for? I mean, Mark E Smith is reading the football results on november 17! Is this another sign that the End Times are approaching? What next? Shaun Ryder reads the Six O 'Clock News? Tony Wilson is publicly lynched by a mob whipped up into a frenzy by the ghost of Martin Hannett? Someone finally takes Shane Macgowan to the dentist?
Truly, these are the last days* and we're all fucked. Traditionally the end of the world is accompanied by all manner of horrors like plagues of locusts and something to do with sheep. Frankly as these things go, they suck. Besides, wouldn't you be annoyed if you're being eaten by said locusts in the full knowledge that the fundamentalist arseholes where in fact correct and the Book of Revalations wasn't just some dodgy mushrooms at a party in Thessalonia circa AD70. So, given a choice, what signs of the approaching apocalypse would you like to see? Thatcher being reincarnated as a snail at a bijou yet chic restaurant just north of Toulouse? Noel Edmonds constantly having to do a motorbike jump over Death Valley without the benefit of clean underwear? An episode of Eastenders where people actually look like they're happy?** You get the idea.
What do you all think?

*

ninebelow isn't the only one to referance GSYBE in his posts
** almost certainly impossible

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: MC5 - Shakin Street