Strangely Perfect

Jillian has left on her first expedition of the year. This time it’s to Austria where she will be teaching English. Funnily enough, she went into various local bookshops to get a Rough Guide and a phrase book for the country – but there weren’t any. However, there were plenty for Australia, including a phrase [...]

Discussion of Iggy Pop painting by Alistair Campbell. If contact can be made, I’d like Alistair to do the new covers for the forthcoming releases.

These are pictures taken yesterday (12 Jan 2008) looking south over an area called “The Meads” in Bridgwater on the Ordnance Survey maps but usually called “the levels below Fairfield wot gets wet in winta” by the local people. I’m now calling it Lake Bridgwater. I’ve never seen it this flooded and it gives an [...]

It’s Holly in a frock tripping the light fantastic. Nice figure and hip wiggles at the beginning Holly, so no change there then. Just like Crawling Chaos in their frocks and tops wearing days. I don’t think the video has been on youtube long. I think it was made last year and features just the [...]

I’ve just been reading the myths page and realised I’d better put the source for the Tony Bully reference in. Well here’s one on YouTube taken from a separate tv show about the Sex Pistols & punk a while back, I think. Grundy was a fuckin’ rotter with his pervy comment and all, but I [...]

For those that don’t know, these are some of my top tunes that won’t go away. All the time, they just bubble under the surface of my conciousness yet never ever become oppressive or irritating. For me, that’s a good enough definition of a good tune. My favourite Can track of all time has to [...]

I’ve cleaned up the above track a bit although it’s still 14Meg in size and lasts quarter of an hour. It’s classed as Crawling Chaos although only two members took part in this version. This version of Zombie Dance is part of a commission given to Rees and Jeff by some chums, Zyclon B Zombies, [...]

I saw Roger Edwards from Purple Ear today. Roger was a major influence when I started this Buddhism lark and was one of the original SGI people in Somerset. We had a very pleasant day following an invigorating Kosen Rufu Gongyo in Taunton, today being November 18th and 77 years since the Soka Gakkai was [...]

One of my favourites for all time – I am this tune. I’m glad someone’s chucked a few videos out. The live one from Antoine de Caunes’s French show is substantially different – apart from his throat filled with flem it isn’t Zoot Horn Rollo (Bill Harkleroad) on guitar, and it shows. This one here [...]

Jillian is having far too many adventures for her own good. I’ll be getting her off the airplane soon enough though, so coming back to Britain will be a bit of a chilling shock for her (she hasn’t got a coat!). I’ll catch up with things in more detail, I think, as it’s probable that [...]

Fucking great! Tricky – Black Steel. What more can I say. The sound, style, pace and performance are great behind the creative wunderbar that is Tricky. Tricky – Pumpkin Tricky – Overcome Tricky – Aftermath Tricky “Black Steel” (Live) All tracks from Maxinquaye, but you knew that already!

- lyrics source update And Yes! It really has started. This article shows the “scandal” erupting because he’s made art from having a weird bit of surgery done to himself. He’s had and ear grown from a bit of cartilage and then had it sewn onto his arm. Bizarrely, this is happening in Newcastle. Even [...]

Here’s a sequence of notes that are always in my head. Originally I used to just have the Beethoven bits (and it’s still the best) but then I got the Handel bit (which is where Beethoven got it from, Handel being his favourite dude), and then found out he nicked it from Bach anyway. Ho [...]

On a theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaugh Williams. I’ve been especially attached to this tune since I was 13 when I heard it at a neighbours house and asked to borrow their LP (this was a big deal then). They had to ask for it back – I would’ve kept it! The recorded [...]