Headphobe
This is my bro (the one on the left) on stage as headphobe.
Feel free to support him and the indie label he's on (http://www.1manarmyrecords.co.uk).
mobile in my trousers?
I'm considering purchasing a new mobile telephone.
I know some people find them obnoxious, tedious devices, I think they're pretty handy. The question is: which one to get?
There are three options:
1 completely old school (IE shit and featureless, but makes me look pretentious).
2 modern but looks quite old school (IE makes me look pretentious, costs 50 bucks extra).
3 modern, with gadgets, including (but not limited to) camera, diary, capability to post photos direct to here while on the move, bottle opener, phone (IE makes me look unduly obsessed by new technology, costs at least 150).
3>>>I know which one I want. 
2>>>or this one.
is this working?
I have set a 'favicon' for this page… meaning that if added to your favourites/bookmarks (CTRL-D), it should have a little icon of its own.
It looks something like this:
Can yer see it?
Also… any recommendations for a mobile phone? I'm considering the Nokia 3650. I kind of like the idea of the camera/mobile thing.
Share ThisAssos Hits 6 : BOMBAST
…is complete:
Introduction:
"The audience are like … GINGER in my hands…"
"…Putty."
Kraftwerk: Tour de France 99
Super Furry Animals: Out of Control
Belle & Sebastian: The State I Am In
The Raveonettes: Attack Of The Ghost Riders
Bob Dylan: Hurricane
The Postal Service: Sleeping In
Pussy Galore: Cunt Tease
Anne Murray: Another Sleepless Night
The Fall: Bombast
The Flaming Lips: Haloween On The Barbary Coast
Stereolab: Enfer Les Formes
Reeves and Mortimer: The Donkey Song
Assos Hits compilations are not available to buy.
Share ThisA nice picture of mi niña
Gemma on our terrace this spring.
Taken by Tom
wooha
oh this is good. i can do images now and titles and everything
this is the cover art for assos hits 5…
Child Killers
The USA's claim to be 'the land of the free' has taken yet another clobbering during the last couple of weeks, with Amnesty launching an attack on America's rate of execution of child offenders:
"Two thirds of the world's known executions of child offenders in the past decade occurred in the USA, including the only four in the past 18 months," Amnesty International said. "This is now the only country that openly continues to carry out such executions within the framework of its regular criminal justice system."
For a nation built on justice, liberty and human rights, the USA has clearly lost sight of what is important. A soicety which executes its children is probably beyond external assistance. Only Americans themselves can have any effect on a regime increasingly turning against its own citizens.
Amnesty has also highlighted and criticised the use of torture by US forces in Iraq. (Torture, in all modern definitions, includes: sleep deprivation by bright light, sleep deprivation by loud noise, being forced to remain in uncomfortable positions for long periods of time, hooding and the threat of summary execution; all crimes being perputrated by the US military authority in Iraq since the official end of hostilities following Iraq's liberation). It is certain that Saddam Hussein used such practices, and probably even worse, but that is no excuse for continuing with them. The United States has a disturbing history of cynicism when it comes to human rights. In the recent conflict, the White House and Dept of Defense both complained about US prisoners of war being shown on Iraqi television, while 'detainees' at Guantanamo Bay are not even legally defined as prisoners of war, so as to afford them fewer rights even than a POW.
Share ThisBowling for Columbine again
We saw the film on Monday evening… and it was better than I expected.
I had read some weak reviews of it, and foolishly believed them: since when did critics ever get anything right?
It had more depth and was more shocking than I expected. In a scene depicting the results of US unilateralism played to Loiuis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World, his long "Oh yeah…" at the end was marked with the collision of the second plane during the World Trade Center attack. It made me shudder, in a way that those images that I have seen hundreds of times never have before.
What I liked is that Michael Moore is clearly a US patriot of sorts, but says "Let's make this place better!" instead of spouting the deadly conservatism and "It's in the constitution" nonsense that nearly everyone he meets does. So what? Change the constitution!
It was funny too. In an interview with a twentysomething high-school dropout, he asked why he was kicked out of school. The response was something like:
"Oh , I pulled a weapon on this kid I didn't like. They told me I couldn't come to school for like 360 days. Or 180 days. Or whichever one is a full academic year…." Well, I laughed.
More on conservatism and fear soon….. oh and patriotism too.
New Layout
I've finally settled on a return to the*badrash for my new blog.
Thus, the address is different, the parents won't be informed, and I've gone back to bold black and white.
What do you think?
Bowling For Columbine
At long last, we're going to see Michael Moore's Oscar winning documentary tonight.
I expect that I will enjoy it, in that sort of sad way you do.
Cine Verdi, C/Floridablanca 1830. VOSE
Share ThisBBC - Wales - Phantom Power (Sony: July 2003)
BBC - Wales - Phantom Power (Sony: July 2003)
I'm still not convinced………. but we'll see.
Bush for President in 2004
GWBush04.com
In the vein of The Onion, another staple: this looks to be a good site to follow.
Dr David Kelly
Much is being made on the boards of the death of biological weapons expert Dr David Kelly, near his home on Friday.
It seems that he comitted suicide after being 'outed' by the MOD as the mole in the Gilligan affair. He was forced to give evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee this week, and was reportedly angry and stressed about the whole fiasco.
Now the argument is: who's to blame? Is it the BBC for their 'obsession' over the case of Alistair Campbell? Or is it the Government, with its attempts at reducing press freedom and its general behaviour connected with the non-existent weapons of mass destruction?
Of course, the culprit is in a way irrelevant. The fact is that the dodgiest war in a while has claimed one more victim. The BBC is practically a gov't agency anyhow. Owned by the people, under strict rules at times of war, it is essentially the ministry of information that we don't have in Britain.
And then there's the … lets say… the 'conspiracy' angle. He emailed a journalist in the US just a day or two before his suicide saying there were 'many dark actors playing games'… is this about Morgan Freeman, or is it more sinister??? I'm getting my tin foil hat… etc
No, the truth is that the government did kill him, but only by making him depressed, fearful, paranoid, stressed and angry.
So that's ok then.
WE'RE going to the Raval tonight.
This is Alex's last weekend in Barcelona, so we're 'gonna' have a party!
PLUS - we're going to Benicasim this year. Molt exciting!
Share ThisGuardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Mystery of last, lonely walk
This is a pretty sad business. It seems that an innocent man has been driven to suicide by the actions of the government and the MOD. All because Downing Street lied to us about WMD. Does it matter? Well it does now.
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