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This is pretty much a blag; I completely missed Piracy Funds Terrorism. Where the hell can I - without spending big money - get a copy? Either a gmail or just a link to someone selling it... And, y'know, what do people think of it/her?

Yeah, don't take the abuse too personally - I liked the review. Where, incidentally, is that awesome dialogue sample at the end of Cock Back (keel ef'ry bloodclot..) from?

They sound uncannily like Birdland to me. Only not as good

Actually maybe that was actually the Bishop of Brighton. You never knew in the '90s...

I reckon pretty much the only way to do this is to be a "character" - like this guy that used to always turn up at places in Edinburgh in the 90s - he wore black tights and a black "doublet" type garment, and had one of those King Charles pointy-beard and 'tache combos. He danced like Jethro...

Thing is with the Lithuanians, how does sucking the smoke through a bit of pipe make it better? If it was water to cool it down, yeah I can understand that, but just a manky bit of pipe? Does that get you more stoned? I haven't seen it, but the further your lips are from the fire the cooler the...

I'll go further and say that pretty much all the most interesting stuff around in the UK is made by/about "chavs" right now, from Mike Skinner to Shameless.

My post wasn't meant to be read as "you are a snobbish cunt", BTW. Which is obv. how it does read, so sorry... As for the subject itself, I've only heard Cha Ching of Lady Sov's stuff, and I love it, but then I've always had a soft spot for bubblegum versions of genres that are quite...

Stelfox OTM here. Both about the chav thing (it's not just the upper classes who are snobbish cunts) and about the whole duespaying bullshit.

establishing shot = Shot of the outside of the house to "establish" that the next scene is in the house. montage = set of images cut to music; the bit at the start Singing In The Rain where Gene Kelly tells the stotry of their rise to fame over the quick wordless scenes is a good example. But...

It is, I think, a fairly common part of anthropology fieldwork and I believe the big anthro museums in the UK have massive archives. Might be worth contacting EG the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers in Oxford or the Cambridge Arch and Anth museum.

Older kids I get - although there can be few thornier ethical dilemmas than your niece asking for a Linkin Park CD for her 12th birthday - it's pre-language babies I was wondering about mostly. Does Simon's son, for example, love a bit of Grime? Do the little Woebots have mobiles which play...

Music for babies Because I'm about to have one, I've been thinking about this. What sort of music do babies like? Why? The focus tends to be on the (bizarre, snobbish, Frasier Craneesque) Baby Mozart phenomenon which argues that if you give your baby a soft toy which plays Beethoven's 9th on...

To go back to surfing (cos, really, there's nothing more to say about what happened in Asia. It's too big to engage with), this <i>I hate surfers, though. Surf culture is really dismal. You know, they have this great lifestyle, and they ruin it by wearing terrible shorts and listening to...

the rest is sort of kids of fame This is so OTM it hurts. I hadn't thought of the comparison. When I first heard them - which was when Peel played the Floyd and SS versions of numb back to back - I was ridiculously excited. But their own compositions are nowhere near as great.

Some of the senior writers on Buffy and Angel used to show up on buffy talkboards, and there was certainly a complex relationship; some writers were very clearly pandering to the fans, while others made deliberate efforts to break the cosiness that had grown up. This was complicated by that...

Re Quicksilver: I know what you mean, but the terrifying thing is that the first 2 books - IE the first 2000-odd pages - are just the setup for System of the World. I'm about halfway through SotW, and it look like Stephenson's going to pull the whole thing off.

I find the whole powerpoint thing bizarre in the opposite way, too. The number of meetings I attend which consist of people essentially reading out a set of PP slides. I'd rather just read the bloody things myself.