February 13, 2007 – 9:20 am
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to sing “We’re Going To Hang Out The Washing On The Siegfried Line” through a megaphone while standing in a barrel of custard outside the Houses of Parliament. Submitted by Tez Burke of Gun-totin’ Badgers for Jesus”
“You want a left-wing government? How about a Marxist one? That’s Groucho-Marxist, folks. Anyway, singing “We’re Going To Hang Out The Washing On The Siegfried Line” through a megaphone while standing in a barrel of custard outside the Houses of Parliament is a considerably more rational thing to do than, for example, the introduction by stealth and lies of the most intrusive surveillance system in the “free” world, or the illegal invasion of another sovereign state”
This is a pretty amusing petition. Newsnight were asking viewers whether they would actually add their signatures to such a petition since they started their own that opposes the government’s proposed new travel legislation (which includes 1984-style vehicle tracking and a ‘travel tax.’)
February 13, 2007 – 9:19 am
drben cuts sick on music thing:
“its an interesting bit of emotional economy, isn’t it?
by the time you’ve paid for the import duty, the royal mail skanky extra charge on top of the import duty, and the postage, it’s a hundred quid, by which time you would have a perfectly servicable jen sx1000 from the sos small ads///
BUT:
that would look like other peoples’ lame jen sx1000s, whereas you can put this in a cigar box and pretend you are a creative electronic genius loser instead of an avaricious synth buying loser, and clearly represents the better deal.
(from my forthcoming monograph “the psychopathology of the synthporn fantasist”).”
fantastic
For many years, vague rumours circulated of a Portishead split. Beth Gibbons worked on an album with Rustin Man, while Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley did production/session work, but nothing much of any great import was communicated to ‘fans’ (bar the odd mailing list announcement every now and then couple of years). Had they split and just forgotten to inform the greater world? Well it seems not. Geoff is posting on myspace and it sounds like they are currently working on a third album. Mind you, the way he is talking, it might be that he has gone bonkers over the last few years and all of this is a grand delusion. (Did Portishead’s domain name lapse?) I guess we will see..
portishead on myspace
Portishead were certainly never MTV material, but they could quite easily have cranked out a handful of lukewarm albums after all the critical acclaim they received (Mercury etc.). Of course they didn’t, and their legacy has remained fairly strong, even now that the “Trip-Hop” scene is barely recognisable from its Bristol Triangle days.
bbc - look around you
Absolute gold from the BBC - memories of the language labs back in high school sigh.
the first ‘look around you’ music lesson
While you are there, check out the TRELM for some awesome synth action
