El Pibe

"You'd be hard pushed to find a finer real ale pub in London Bridge." For all Nicholson's sins they do do good beer selection, but with the Market Porter round the corner you're not really hard pushed!!!

posted this up on fb recently utterly improbable collaboration of Tom Jones, Leslie Rankin (of silverfish 'fame') and Mark Walk from Skinny Puppy!!

it's genuinely difficult to watch. I guess Ashes to Ashes was my first exposure to him and loved it, that (and tin machine) made my attitudes somewhat ambivalent

yes kids, it REALLY happened...

Oh ffs, even rentaghost will tell you. Don't go into the cellar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoying The Inkeepers, in a big, empty, cavernous, echoing house with the wind whipping through the trees and the sheet metal outside. Thank god nothing seems to actually happen, thus far. It's a refreshing take on horror after all the recent post 80s excesses. Also lovely, knowing, pastiche of the shining.

he's right about that web site. hideous.

jump on a cheap easy jet flight to verona and walk in the dolomites, NOW you're talking scenery!!!

ignoring 'intro' again this counts I guess. RIP Mark Bell.

interstingly a week before that It's a typically fsol work, if there is such a thing but at least there are apparently some new influences absorbed (alot of jan garbarekesque nordic jazz stuff going on, Bob, run for the hills), though it's in danger of, dare i say it, getting a bit......new agey?

"However he's an eccentric Englishman which is a very good thing and I prefer him to just about every politician." nicely put.

like any columnist (for that is what he is really) he has good days and bad days. On the no voting thing I think he was a bit misunderstood. He was saying the current crop of self-interested shag-sacks do not deserve the validation that a vote directly implies. He was saying that there are other ways to engage politically, and that one of them should be campaigning for genuine political reform. He was promoting benign civil disobedience rather than apathy. Actually he was sputing a lot of rubbish, but being generous to him i think this was what he was trying to get at. I'm not entirely against the idea, either you engage those that feel disenfranchised with a workable alternative that they *will* vote for or you attack the system that entrenches power in vested interests. UKIP very successful at the former, even if they're tilting at the wrong windmills, blame the EU for he ravages of globalism on one of the few bodies working to protect the little people from it, whilst championing the usual suspects that are at the root of it all, deregulation, privatisation, end to workers rights, minimum wage and so on.

One hit wonder!!

was that a wire reference in a spectator article? http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/alex-massie/2014/10/the-sad-but-inevitable-downfall-of-kevin-pietersen-a-tragedy-in-two-innings/

If we're getting all post-punk, i actually really liked simple minds, pre john hughes at any rate.

I'll cheat a bit and ignore the intro ditty at the start of Back in the D.H.S.S.

More Byrds than bladders at this point, an underrated album in their canon too.

great opener for a wonderfully eccentric album. 392 views huh? Not filling the O2 any time soon then.

...monty python's flying circus?

how weird miga, i almost posted jesus biult my hotrod on fb the other day, but settled on some dismemberment plan instead. not really like for like thinking about it.

This is a fantastic version by a london youth choir.

I once receivd a salad that was literally a heap of rocket...you have to be joking, inedible, there wasn't even any dressing!!!!!

Turkey really is an absolute arsehole of a state isn't it (gov't wise). Oppress minority, when they get riled, oppress them even harder, bomb their villages etc. Eventually make fragile peace. Get worried that resurgent minority nationalism in neighbouring states as a result of power vaccuum will cause you difficulties, so leave them to the mercy of really rather evil murderers because that benefits you on two policy fronts. Ignore international pressure to intercede on bahalf of threatened minoritym then start bombing them yourself when they're doing well against evil murderers on another front. Cite the fact that they're taking up arms against you, or 'the israeli gambit' is it's now known. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29611582

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Otta Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > And this one, whilst not typical of the rest of > the (very good) album, it certainly got my > attention! > > ahem... sixth album.. Ha ha, now who's shifting the goal posts ots? ;-)

I think rocket benefits from less is more. Used sparingly it has a wonderfully peppery flavour. Crammed in to anything it overpowers anything and is indeed horribly bitter. See Louisa's favourite, pret for the worst offender, although it takes that much to overpower the sickening amounts of mayo they drown everything in.