Strangely Perfect

Yup!  It’s true. Apparently, the only way that PWW et al can now made any headway is by asking inane questions on the very websites that are trying to close them down!!! Comment Spam from Kevin Hoeffer This is the content of a comment added to an old post I made on this website about [...]

I saw some news today that apparently gives some creedence to the idea that music is what makes us human.  It’s here: ‘Oldest musical instrument’ found The academic in charge, Nicholas Conard, said that the development of music probably helped social cohesion in our ancestors, making their survival and our own existence, possible!  This is [...]

I Wish I Was a Girl – by The Pink Fairies Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat Ironic or what? Oh I tripped down the street in my fashion, Arousing Ladies passion, But they misunderstand my eyes, They don’t know that I’m just after their guys. The instrumental and vocal bit after the verse above [...]

OCO Satellite Fails Of course, the title could be applied to anything.  But today’s disappointing news that a space rocket didn’t make it into orbit,I think, may turn out to be something that will be very greatly missed over the coming years. Failure hits NASA’s ‘CO2 hunter’ The failure of the OCO satellite to make [...]

Chinese Censorship: As part of the BBCs “take” on the international views on the new, 44th President of the United States, their China correspondent Michael Bristow has reported that his inauguration speech was censored in China. Apparently, the English version on the Xinghua News site is okay, but the Chinese version for the locals has [...]

In a post a while back,  I mentioned that I’d like to see the version I saw on telly where these geezers in period costume using real period instruments played The March while wandering around the cloisters…  Well this is nearly it! I’m not sure that this is a live recorded video as microphones are [...]

Gary Glitter, former prince of glam-rock; Paul Gadd, convicted paedophile.  They’re one and the same. Now wait, recent events around Gadd-Glitter remind me of happenings a long time ago in Ancient Egypt…. Most folk have heard of King Tutankhamun, the boy-king with the gold death mask. Not so many know that his (probable) dad was [...]

There’s a neat book just been released by a Nobel prize winning author Joseph Stiglitz, and Linda Bilmes of Harvard, that counts the true financial cost of the Bush conspired conflict. This is a BBC article and a similar one on The Guardian written by Aida Edemariam who met him. It’s a truly staggering piece, [...]

Showing how the excuse to shoot down a spy satellite is a cover story for bravado and secrecy. This is proved by reference to the two, very public, Shuttle disasters, comparing at a simple science level the logic behind certain statements.

In last week’s webcast from Collective Voice (7 Feb 2008), presenter Rory mentioned that Joe Meek, the iconic gay gun-toting creative genius couldn’t read or write music notation or even play an instrument. Yet he somehow made iconic tunes that most people will recognise even if they don’t know who did what. This is the [...]

Fear and loathing of music and sounds made me clear out all Crawling Chaos memories from my house – and life.

We had a visit on Saturday from Mahmoud (Mark) Benzahia who was popping back from Saudi to collect his family. I feel very privileged that he stopped by and found time to see us in his lightning fast schedule . He exchanged ideas with my wife on systemic education and management and we reminisced about [...]

I’ve just been glancing down through the Anecdotes page on the Crawling Chaos site – on the Penmaenmawr gig Clinka really did take a cardboard guitar. I’ve never quite come to terms with this as his reason at the time was a bit vague and is getting more so as time goes on. I mean- [...]

This site, by Mark Ayres, gives a description of the Doctor Who theme as it was created by Delia Derbyshire from the Ron Grainer score. In conversation with Paul yesterday, I was recalling how I started music by recording short or medium wave radio tuning, heterodyning and interference sounds onto a cassette and then chopped [...]