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And then, at the other end of the scale:

To be fair, some of 'Toxic' was shot in space. Black-hair Britney was worth it, anyway. Think there was some serious money laundering going on with the MC Hammer vid. And $1 mil of the Mariah Carey vid cost was getting her to show up.

He was actually there on the day, handing out leaflets about levitating the Houses of Parliament.

Yeah, this one

Woofah Fanzine was an independent music zine that focused on reggae, dub, and sound system culture. It was first published in 2003 by a group of enthusiasts who felt that these genres were not getting enough coverage in mainstream music publications at the time. Woofah Fanzine was a handmade...

Asked it to write a short story about Shabba Ranks becoming an undertaker: Shabba Ranks had been a world-renowned reggae artist for years, performing to adoring crowds all over the globe. But as he approached his 50th birthday, he started to think about the future. What would he do once his...

I sometimes get this too. I had a really horrible one last year. I dreamed I was in court, representing a mutant in a wheelchair. The mutant had let his able-bodied infant son play near a pond, but the kid had fallen in. A young couple standing nearby had filmed the kid and were laughing as he...

Trying this on 0.5 playback on Youtube but it's glitching so much, it's ruining the (potentially great) effect.

Yeah, me and Chris H recorded a 20-track tape in 1991 – him on Flying V, me on Zenta guitar with the top string detuned (to simulate ‘a bass’), and a mate who was into NWA (and thought punk was ‘gay’) playing screwdrivers on a Tupperware box. I was trying to be Crass with even worse lyrics, but...

My favourite's the Basílica Menor de la Santísima María de la Esperanza Macarena - no cathedral or mosque can compete. It's the epicentre of Catholic bling. It contains a wooden mannequin of the Virgin Mary that's 5'7, which slightly contradicts Jesuit accounts that she measured 6'+ in real...

On the Ryukyu island chain (an arc from Kyushu to Taiwan including Okinawa), if you kill a cat with a car, the car will be haunted by the cat’s dead spirit. To counter this, bury the cat at the edge of the town with cooked rice, bean paste and salt. On the same islands, cats are sometimes eaten...

Best = USA and Hong Kong. Worst = France and Japan.

Put it this way... Coil put a curse on Stevo. Sleazy and Balance are dead. Stevo's not. I wouldn't fuck around.

Couldn't you have decreed this before 'Pictures Of Starving Children' came out?

I reckon, yeah. Think he was winging it like the rest of them. Agreed, though Citizen Fish runs them close.

I'm sure he was out to sell SEX clobber in their first few months playing clubs, before it spiralled beyond his control - I meant more like his claims to have stage-managed a situationist hoax and swindled his way to the top are mostly horseshit. Just thought of another example - Iggy Pop's...

The person who told me he was there and saw it happen wasn't always the most, er, reliable narrator. And I've never seen another reference to it ever happening. But I like to believe, in this case, it's gospel.

Dunno...I think that's what Malcolm McLaren would have liked everyone to believe. Weirdest was probably when British Airways nearly ran an ad campaign using "Theme" but that's sadly lost media now. Lydon also covered "Route 66" for a Mountain Dew advert, so he had form way before the butter ad...

I don't believe these sites or companies know what they're talking about. How can they compare DNA samples when they didn't even have that technology before the 1980s? "Your great great great grandfather was a Sioux blacksmith in Chattanooga" - who's going to contradict them? I can't exactly...

I don't know why you picked Houston? If it's possible to change that part of your trip, I'd advise it. Houston's like Milton Keynes but unpleasantly humid, and pretty much deserted on weekends. About 80% of it's just motorway. The Astrodome isn't all that. Also, they have weird local licencing...