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Apr-17-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Well you know what about that. Not to mention that about what. The Brit DJ who quite literally gave <Marc Bolan> his entire career- regarded the unfortunate Hippie's electrification into some <Glam Rock> Bowie wannabe as a descent into mediocrity. But just tell that to 90,000,000 pasty faced teens who lost their virginity to "Bang a Gong" with it's borrowed <stolen> guitar riff of irresistable catchynessability. The Brit DJ loved the wierdness and frequently off-key folk caterwauling of <Marc> and his <Bongo buddy> sitting on the stage with all of the Flower Kids. Nobody on earth except for Hippie vinyl heads even has those records, and <Tyrannosaurus Rex> made a dozen or more. The moral of the story?
<Never go to a second location with a Hippie> CASE CLOSED
(Guess who recently viewed a rather excellent BBC-funded documentary film on the likeable, ill-fated Hippie in question) |
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Apr-17-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: BTW if you're up for a Laff and there are no <Benny Hill> reruns on tonight, <Deffi> dropped the YOU! YES YOU! TUBE video of the <Tap bong> mystery in my forum. I think it's "X" rated, but I never understood what the "X" was supposed to signify. "X-rayed"?
"X-Calibrated"
I demand an answer. |
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Apr-17-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: And speaking of <irresistably catchy> dinosauric Hippie tunes, here is the <Ultrasaurus> of them all. With pristine digital remastering.
From <Woodstock>,
With flute and melody and lyrics borrowed <stolen> from a long forgotten, and insanely talented black American bluesman, "I'm goin' up the country,
Bee bee buh beee bummm"
Not to be missed... Oh my God this is fine.
No need to make any more music after this moment. Coulda froze time right here. Only CRABBY PEOPLE dislike this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0D... |
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Apr-17-09
 | | Domdaniel: <Sarcophagosaurus> Yup, seen the TAP SUM Bong video already. I don't sit about all day on my sit-upon waiting to be invited, you know. Eeh, I pokes about, I does ... The image that tap-some-bong conjured up for me was slightly different, admittedly. Rather than just a question of sharing a water-pipe (one with a big cylinder thing for inhaling lungfuls, unlike the more discreet hookah) I imagined a bong with an illicit faucet set into it. Whereby one could siphon off foul evil-smelling liquid. Hippies. We fought a war for 'em and this is how they repay us ... bring on punk, I say. And what was that about a discreet hookah? My chaps could use some R&R ... Colonel Knut |
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Apr-17-09
| | Domdaniel: On Latvia
Nimzo, Tal & Shirov
Quite a tally
Like Joyce, Picasso & the Kirov
Ballet. |
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| Apr-19-09 | | madlydeeply: urine in the bathwater HA that's one of those lies that could almost be true and so pass unnoticed and integrated unconsciously very sly DD very very sly.... |
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Apr-19-09
| | Domdaniel: <madlydeeply> -- Would I tell a lie? No way, not if the alternative is a vast tottering edifice of multiple lies... - You're evading!
- I'm evading-room vino from visconsin...
"The soul of Carmen Miranda
Had captured the minds of men
Eclipsed like her generation
By the sound of a can-can."
- John Cale |
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| Apr-19-09 | | mack: Humph. Have we decided on the best way to pay tribute to Ballard yet? |
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Apr-19-09
| | Domdaniel: <m> He hasn't, had he? I think you just told me something I hadn't heard but was expecting ... too wrapped up comparing videos of Burroughs' Thanksgiving Prayer and practicing my mortician voice. Thanks for Princess Margaret's Face Lift.
Thanks for whispering into my microphone because you were saving your voice.
Thanks for Coma, Kline, Xero.
Thanks for Murey's Chronograms and scrapings from the thorax of Jeusus Christ.
Thanks for the crystal.
Thanks for Shepperton.
Thanks for Crash.
Thanks for The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy considered as a Downhill Motor Race.
Thanks for the signature.
Thanks for the body odours of Princess Diana.
Thanks for lagoons, drained swimming pools, dead pilots, and prison camps.
Thanks for the world's longest city, sprawled along the Mediterranean littoral.
Thanks for suburbia.
Thanks for Zodiac 2000, the sign of the Psychopath & the sign of the Computer. |
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Apr-19-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> <mack> Sorry to hear about the death of one of you guy's main heros. <Dom>- apropossly, your defence of the <duty> of <actual art> critics to SLAM <saccharine crap> whenever you can smell it- Very much appreciated.
Thanks for that post. |
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Apr-20-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Slam saccharine crap? Moi? Usually I put the saccharine in my coffee and dunk my stale ciabatta in it. For is it not written that the slam is the deadly enemy of the dunk? Also, I have a poor sense of smell. |
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| Apr-20-09 | | Ziggurat: Thanks for always finding ways to use the words "perimeter" and "canopy". (This is not tongue in cheek - I always got a little thrill from reading those words in unexpected contexts in Ballard's works) |
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| Apr-21-09 | | mack: What is the earliest anybody has ever seen a pawn promote via a queen capture? I'm staking a claim for the world record after this otherwise uninteresting game in the London League as black last night: 1.e4 g6 2.Bc4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 a6 5.Be3 b5 6.Be3 Bb7 7.Nbd2 Nf6
8.0-0 0-0 9.e5 Nd5 10.exd6 Nxe3 11.dxc7 Nxd1 12.cxd8=Q Rxd8 13.Raxd1
Bxd4 14.Nxd4 Rxd4 15.Nf3 Rxd1 16.Rxd1 Nc6 17.Rd7 Rd8 18.Rxd8 Nxd8
1/2-1/2 |
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Apr-21-09
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: Abbott vs Sonne, 1981 Though I strongly suspect further research would reveal a game NN-Krabbé, ICC 3 0, April 1998, in which it happened on move 5... |
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| Apr-21-09 | | mack: <SwitchingQuylthulg> Bah. Do you have to answer *everything* I throw at you quite so quickly? |
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Apr-22-09
| | Domdaniel: <mack> You think you have cause for paranoia? I just heard Mark Quinn on the radio talking about chess, olympiads, being an IM, blah blah. It seems he's writing a thesis on, gulp, Gravity's Rainbow. Should I tell him that I got there 27 years earlier? |
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Apr-22-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <"X-Calibrated"> <I demand an answer.> For X-calibrated, you deserve one. Or several.
One theory is that an X is a hieroglyphic or diagram of a kiss. You may need to squint, or just have unusually pointy lips. Another theory, loved by xtian fundies, is that X stands for crossing out, or erasure. So people who say Xmas for Christmas are literally rubbing out Christ. Come to think of it, Derrida had a thing about erasureheads as well. "I'm in love with Jacques Derrida
Read a page and I know I need to
Take apart my baby's heart"
... as the Scritti Politti song goes. I bet that Green Gartside never managed to read *more* than a page. |
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Apr-23-09
| | Domdaniel: <Ziggurat> "His eyes traced the perimeter of her XXXX, as his YYYY found sanctuary beneath the canopy of her ZZZZ." That sort of thing? Ballard, of course, would have used the proper medical terms for XXXX etc. I *think* that a 'tongue in cheek' action is a labiobuccal one ... but I don't have *micro soft orifice* to look it up. Ultimate pseudo-Ballardian sentence fragment: "Later, as he roasted the dog over a fire of hypermart packaging, Dr Bullard noticed that the cannibals on the upper floors had overloaded the balconies with old femurs." |
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| Apr-23-09 | | Ziggurat: <Ballard, of course, would have used the proper medical terms for XXXX etc.> He was fond of the term "pudendum", if I'm not misremembering. Yes, your sentence fragment could serve as a Twitter summary of High Rise. |
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Apr-23-09
| | Domdaniel: <Zig> Naturally, I've been rereading Ballard. I met him three times: once as a fan, once when I accosted him and turned the conversation into an interview, and once for an official interview that wasn't printed cos the magazine went bust. In *The Atrocity Exhibition*, in *plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy*, circa 1967, I find: "The role of Mrs Kennedy, and of her stained clothing, requires no further analysis". And I think of Ms Monica Lewinsky and Mr Bill Clinton ... history repeating itself as farce? As a radio producer once said to me after a particularly surreal week on the world news front, "it looks like God has been reading Ballard again". Now, of course, if either of them still exists, they can have a one-one-one interview. |
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Apr-23-09
 | | Open Defence: Is the French Burn Variation line Frogspawn heresy ? or hearsay ? |
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Apr-23-09
| | Domdaniel: It's the Joan of Arc Variation: "The flames, they followed Joan of Arc ..." Speaking of combustion, Blackburne is back. And this time she's called Su: search "Blackburn" |
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Apr-23-09
| | Domdaniel: No, not 'search'. Who ever heard of anyone named Search? I mean Su Blackburn |
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Apr-24-09
 | | ChessBookForum: <Dom> Please visit ChessBookForum chessforum As this moves forward, we would greatly appreciate your support. We would not only be happy for you to take an active role in answering questions, we would also be happy to direct appropriate questions your way. Ideally, we would like post in our header a link to your forum along with some indication of the sorts of questions in which you are most interested. Thanks. |
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Apr-24-09
| | Domdaniel: <HMS & JFQ> Great idea. I will certainly try to think of something helpful to say ... |
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