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Jan-01-08
 | | Domdaniel: <Every single thing anyone has done since 1955 is now available on <YouTube>.> I'm not.
El hombre invisible. |
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Jan-01-08
 | | Open Defence: <Dom> you are El Nomad Idle |
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| Jan-01-08 | | mack: Sigh.
'Horrible life! Horrible town!' --Baudelaire
& each chime phonier than the last / forced like a kidney stone through a metal detector / Gibson's stellar necropolis for hearts & ideas: peopled by amateur liver transplants & their Roundhead wives & 'baby, i love your memorandum' who chortles herself sick & shares the photos... with spools of a soundtrack to life so sweet as to be deemed hateful / where solipsists are encouraged to show they have rhythm / & dancing stalactites, unwelcoming, ever still... 'refrain illumination' & 'regimented fun' so tie yourself to the track & sup echoes of poison like everyone else though your tastebuds are devilish & your legs better shaven... now: realise the town you paint for what it is, a ready-made abyss into which to throw yourself... O whistle long-forgotten disappointments & catalogued glum to the tune of a popular folk arrangement / be happy at break-neck speed because everyone else is & lose your pockets of artificial light & crave unseemly things with those you do not love / crying out for an onion barber / sitting in a khaki world with only floating barrel-ends for company: why open your eyes at all? ===============
Ahem. Or, to put it more crudely: I hate bloody new year's eve. Wish I'd spent it with the cyber coven. |
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Jan-01-08
| | Domdaniel: And it's still only 1st Jan. Quel flying start, bestpostwise. I like new year's Eve ... All About Eve, which I watched on TV. Then I went to an appalling pantomime on my own. Life has such stark contrasts sometimes. The Entropantomime is real. |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Amphisbaena. I think that's the creature with a head at each end. Not worms, apart from New Zealand flatworms. Which have a bottom at each end, I suppose. And as <ee cummings> taught us: "A politician is an arse upon
Which everything has sat except a man."
That was BH, Before Hillary, of course... |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Mon Semi-bubble! Mon frere! Hope you're feeling better. Or not, actually, if it results in such splendid writings. May I suggest popping over to YouTube, doing a search for 'Vivian Stanshall' and viewing everything that comes up: Aunt Florrie, Crank, The Sean Head Showband, the works. |
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Jan-02-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Do you mean <Sir Edmund Hilary>, who was killed by the <abominable Snowman> after discovering <Richard Burton> at the head of the <Nile>? Jess
A-historical Department
Frogspawn Univeresity Chair Kickinghorse pass |
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Jan-02-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Annapurna...
a bunch of Frenchmen without warm clothes...
No defence!
From the Department of History in Very Poor Taste. |
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Jan-02-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> exciting news! <mack> has finally unravelled the mystery of the <mack didn't really call you a miserable git> mystery. The relevant info is at my house and <Chez Godzilla's>. |
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Jan-02-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Ok <Dom> I accept the <YouTube> challenge of <Mr. Sparkle>. Here is the greatest "jangly guitar song hit" ever with AMAZING SOUND. Play this video loud.....
"to you, across the floor,
My love i'll send..
I just hope and pray
That I'll find the way to say...
can I dance with you?
BUM bum BUM bum BUUUUUM
bum bum BUM bum BUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijSx... |
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Jan-02-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: I believe it's an original live performance by <The Froggs> If I'm not mistaken. |
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Jan-02-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Ok you guys you HAVE to see this cuz it's an incredibly random find. really.
Ok when you first heard
"I'm living in a silent film,
portraying Himmler's sacred realm
Of dream reality....
Don't believe in yourself
Don't deceive with belief,
Knowledge comes with deaths' realease"
What was he REALLY singing about?
Well, a <Children's Blitz game> Not kidding. This is priceless
David Bowie and chess. Who knew?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pe9...
The best part of this is that the Chess game is excellent-- very interesting K and P endgame-- |
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Jan-02-08
 | | Stonehenge: <jess>, believe it or not, but I know the guy who has put this on YouTube. It really is a small world. |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: <Henge> Of course it's a small world. The password is 'chess' and we're all mad. <Jess> I'd be delighted to dance with you as long as I don't have to do the 'bum' thing. Meanwhile, I found some top-level weapons-grade chess info you should know: - When Castling, it is proper to say "WOOOOWOO WOOWOOWOO WOO WOOWOO WOO!" - Alert your opponent of your impending pawn Promotion by going ... "RRRRRARF ARFARF ARF!" - After capturing a pawn En Passant, you are allowed one eye-poke, or En Eyepoke. - A proper Checkmate is always called, thusly ... "CHECKMATE - NYUK NYUK NYUKNYUK!" [*cartoon illustrations of these situations, by Rich Tennant, exist*] As for David Bowie ... hmm. Pour me out another phone. Let's call and see if your friends are home. Perhaps the strange ones in the dome can lend us a book on the Alekhine-Chatard attack which we can read up alone. "Pest Control to Major Dom ... " |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: If only HG Wells had invented the internet in 1895 instead of diddling about with time machines and Jack the Ripper ("The Grim Ripper Will get you! Wooooo!") I just spent a fascinating afternoon following Ye Olde Hastyngs Cheffe Tourney ... four live games, each a plucky Brit versus a Johnny Foreigner of the Bulgarian or Ukrainian sort. Frankly, I thought all four local lads were going down the plughole, until Greet snatched a win, and Pert, Conquest and Hebden drew. Which shows how much I know. Thrilling stuff. |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <Ok you guys you HAVE to see this cuz it's an incredibly random find. > You cut! You pasted! That way lies googlerizing and smoking meths. |
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| Jan-02-08 | | mack: <David Bowie and chess. Who knew?> Well, there is of course this famous-ish photo of the Dame playing with Michelle Deneuve: http://www.angelfire.com/film/thehu... It even looks like the black square is in the left-hand corner. That boy sure knew how to play! Of interest too is Jim Plaskett - everybody's favourite quite rich GM - waffling on for ages about Bowie and stuff: http://www.eadon.com/coincidences/p... 'What a jolly boring thing to do...' |
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| Jan-02-08 | | mack: <Michelle>
Interesting way to spell 'Catherine'. |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess, mack> In the 70s Bowie had all those interesting changes of 'identity' (as we call it in the trade) - Ziggy Stardust, A lad in Seine, Thin Pale Toff, etc. Finally came Germanic cerebralness and Brian Eno. Then he got dull ... just around the time that Steve 'interesting' Davis began to win world snooker championships. I believe that the chess-loving Davis is a Bowie 'project' which proved so appealing that it stuck. And they found some guy in a tribute band and hired him to play the Dave of Tin Machine, glass spider, usw. "His text is you and me, boy." |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: The 70s are best summed up by the tune 'Meaningless Songs (In Very High Voices)'. All together now ... "And we'll sing
Meaningless songs
In very high voices
Until the record ends
Until the record
Ends." |
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| Jan-02-08 | | achieve: Damn it, <Dom> - I was just about to post on Bowie's "supposed" many identities and that I was convinced he was one of those insanely, hyper-intelligent, talented artists that reached their pinnacle with his earlier work and only went for different "packages" after that, as he knew there was not to be anything new under the sun -- ie. every invention/new trend is just a (bad) variation on the theme... His lyrics seem to support that assumption-- but admittedly this is just a theory I had upon getting interested in Bowie's earlier work, with which I was catching up in the late 80s, if I remember correctly... |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: ... and now I suppose I'll have to dig out my rancid videotape of Stanshall's 'Crank' and 'burn' it onto one of those Deuced Venereal Disc things. For ease of access in old age. Or when I fall off me platforms, whichever is soonest. I can't have a hip replacement, though, cos nobody else is hip enough. "When your ship is sinking he's the bung in your punt" But I'd like a Throwaway Heart for the Transplant Age, please. And replaceable paper lungs. Cough, splutter, yelp, gasp, wheeze, etc. |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Hmm, yes. Are Bowie and Dylan the only (male) pop artistes who have 'periods'? Bob's last longer, of course. And come from somewhere else. |
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| Jan-02-08 | | mack: What-ho frogs, and a bearable new year to all those I've not already salty saluted. <Dom> Thanks for your, er, concern, which certainly perked me up. Self-pity is a terrible thing, and I was fortunate that your message coincided with a text I received from a friend of mine who has a beard: 'It's very trying being a misanthrope at this time of year. Everyone is so bloody cheerful. I like to do my best to make them realise that a priori, there can be no light without darkness, as the one defines the other. It is, however, like micturating into a hurricane.' How wonderful is that? Then I raided YouTube for anything and everything Viv related - including that creepy Ruddles advert, which I don't think I'd seen before - and whadda know, I had a smile on my face. The final step on the road to recovery was a nice glass of sherry and an overdose of Edward Said. Sorted. |
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Jan-02-08
| | Domdaniel: < <Michelle> Interesting way to spell 'Catherine'.>
I had girlfriend trouble with these parameters once.
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