Thursday, January 18, 2007

Graft.

Thought I'd share with you the bestest bit of kitch I've recieved.

I give you 'The Anacondas Snow Globe'.




It's so cool I wet myself every time I see it.



Sunday, January 14, 2007

Bragg Podcast


Billy Brag has a podcast.

Well worth the download. He's up to Taxman.

Hispanic on the streets of London


So, Morrissey is reported to be in talks to write England's next Eurovision entry. Seems the Smiths is cool again, not too sure when that happened, apparently he’s very big with the emo kiddies. Morrissey also has a pretty mega following in the Hispanic community in California and Mexico – go figure?

The Smiths box set still has to materialise, a bogus track list was posted recently on Morrissey-solo.com but quickly shot down. Rumour’s abound that it will contain cleaned up versions of the Troy Tate sessions as well as B-sides and some live cuts. There is a 12 minute version of ‘The Queen Is Dead’ that Marr has been talking about recently, and Andy Rourke has been playing selected live tracks on his Manchester radio show.

I left the south (again), travelled north (again).

(I got confused I killed a nun…)

So its goodbye to the Gold Coast and hello to Wilston again. Same phone number as before but a new PO Box. Suzanne’s still working on ‘the American Feature Film’ and I’m, how they say, between engagements. Gave Suzanne my word that I will ‘simplify my life’ and get rid of much of the crap that I’ve been dragging around for the last 13 or so years. Problem is much of that stuff hasn’t seen the light of day for 12 of those 13 years and much time has been wasted pouring over old photocopies and rediscovering mail art not seen since 1990.


What I did discover in my rummage was an old C-90 of ‘Tears for Fears’ b-sides. A few years ago I converted these to MP3 and have been sitting on the ipod. I was at JB HiFI last week and discovered (on special) of the re-issued 2 disk ‘Songs From the Big Chair’ with the same B-sides, but without the 20 year old tape hiss and vinyl pops and hiss.