Archive for August, 2007
“It was a golf cart. How it ended up in this predicament I don’t know,”
The predicament the golf cart found itself in was being under Bill Murray.
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I’ve missed Kaiju Shakedown:
Bollywood’s Salman Khan has hair plugs, washboard abs and a unique knack for getting in trouble. Whether he’s abusing his girlfriend (Aishwarya Rai), poaching an endangered species, or running over homeless people and killing them, it seems that every time you turn around poor Salman is doing something hideous. But for once it looks like he’s the victim, both of his own tackiness and of thin-skinned Catholics. For some bizarre reason, in a recent interview Salman claimed that he was going to paint a version of “The Last Supper” featuring the family of Amrita Arora, whose sister is married to his brother, in the poses of Jesus and the Twelve Disciples. No one is quite sure why he wants to do this since the two aren’t romantically linked, neither of them are Christian and he’s not a painter, but no matter.
I’ve always had a soft spot for cosplayers. Growing up as a metal head when everyone else was into The *spit* Smiths meant putting up with a lot of crap. Although I never felt ridiculous backpatched and longhaired when every other silly fucker was wearing dungarees and had dead flowers hanging out their backside.
I have no idea how much grief these kids got today for living the dream:
More pics here. They were on Oxford Street for an Anime Day @ HMV. Sadly I had no idea that Electric Eel Shock were playing instore or I would have got there earlier myself.
Bank Holiday Monday sees another kind of costumed fan take to the streets as the dead walk. I’ll be checking that out too.
Interesting interview with Alan Moore on Anarchism:
if we were to take out all the leaders tomorrow, and put them up against a wall and shoot them— and it’s a lovely thought, so let me just dwell on that for a moment before I dismiss it—but if we were to do that, society would probably collapse, because the majority of people have had thousands of years of being conditioned to depend upon leadership from a source outside themselves. That has become a crutch to an awful lot of people, and if you were to simply kick it away, then those people would simply fall over and take society with them.
He also puts his boot into the V for Vendetta movie again.
People keep asking me about the next Twitter Meetup. I’ve only just got my head around the fact that the last one went ok, but yeah I’m thinking that there will indeed be another one. Those mad bastards in Australia do ‘em monthly apparently. September is out for me. I have to start freeing up time for the London Film Festival and I have a couple of friends staying with me from DC through three weeks of September so the month is jammed enough. I will start making plans for October though.
There’s also some kind of Kwint launch to organise (I know, shut up) and maybe a movie screening I want to host. We’ll see.
This week (and if Jess can get me in) I’m hoping to go to Thursday’s Girl Geek Dinner. Been meaning to check that out for ages.
And now the bad news. Well not so much bad as a tad disappointing. Aside from the hitch with the screen for Twittervision we also went into the filming a little unprepared. Richard and Jess spent a big portion of their weekend editing all the footage that was shot, but the sound quality was pretty bad. That means it won’t run as planned on GETV because they have standards and stuff 
I however have none which means the footage will surface (and there’s still a chance that maybe some of the better quality snippets will still feature with Irina’s mob). We only ever intended to let four minutes loose anyway so we have lots of stuff to go up… somewhere. I’ll keep you posted.
And it looks like we’ll be going to the Zombie Walk world record attempt - this time with a decent microphone. Nothing worse than a low quality mumble of braaaaaaains.
Not only do they not make ‘em like this anymore ‘they’ never really did:
Thankfully Zappa was never one of ‘them’.
Check out this Newsnight clip from 1983 where Zappa’s music is dismissed as an ‘expensive hobby’ and he gives his opinion on the then newly completed Barbican. Great stuff. Conductor, Kent Nagano, goes on to say:
In some ways this music, I think the fact that we’re documenting it on recording, could be one of the most historical events of this particular century…
YouTube footage via Zappa Internet Jam Sessions.
I just learned that someone was turned away from Thursday night’s Twitter meetup because of a lack of wheelchair access. While Ishtar is a great restaurant and is accessible from the street, our event took place in the basement dining area and I have to admit that the fact that this was a problem never occurred to me.
I really am a dumb fuck sometimes.
No excuse for lack of thought and awareness on my part and no passing the buck. While I’ll ensure that any future event I run is open and accessible to everyone it doesn’t fix that I pissed off Christiane on the night. Suddenly the fact that so many people enjoyed themselves means very little if even one person was angry over the event.
An apology is about all I can do at this point, so I’d like to express just how sorry I am.
If Christiane gets back in touch I’ll do my best to make amends.
The guys at Spike Magazine interviewed Tony Wilson a couple of years ago:
I remember going to a Rory Gallagher gig in 1975 at the Free Trade Hall and there was two thousand people and one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine people fucking hated me. And I just thought ‘What the fuck have I done to these fuckin people? What shits they are.’ And then about a year and a half later along came punk and suddenly I’m at The Circus and all these kids are like ‘Hey Tone, thanks for putting Costello on, thanks for putting Iggy Pop on.’ I realised I found my generation and they weren’t my fucking generation. So people shouting abuse has happened for a very long time and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.
You should also check out Spike’s ever fantastic Splinters blog.
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