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Crikey, I think you're the first person I've ever met who's actually read the Captain Cobweb books. They were brilliant. I seem to remember the last one, Red Transistor, being the best & nastiest although the one with the pirates had that amazing evil captain who'd peck people to death with...

Holy avant-garde ... ... THAT is what I call music!!!

Plus, Kele would beast Lydon in a fair fight. 'Real man' indeed.

I dunno ... three of Lydon's entourage beat up a stuttering black gay fan in an unprovoked apparently racially-motivated assault & his response was to ask the victim to 'learn to be a true man'? I don't think they need to throw in 'homophobic' - it's the sting in the tail of the whole sorry...

Sold out :( I'll by projecting my awesome jealousy towards the pool tomorrow so I hope I don't ruin it for everyone :eek:

"Hey, Steven, show us a move!" "How's this for a move?" *KISSES GIRL* :eek::mad::mad::mad::eek:

The remake of 'The Wicker Man', which I saw in the cinema on its UK premiere. Even <i>scaphism</i> would be too good for the people involved. Oh, & about 99% of the power-fantasy overblown anime 'masterpieces' people have made me sit through over the years, like, I dunno, 'Ghost in the Shell'...

I dunno, I used to think they were alright :D The points are valid but "this music like all other music is originated on african/black experience" is overegging the proverbial, surely. Is he really saying that black people 'invented' music, or 'own' it as some kindof racial inheritance, with...

A friend lend me a copy of 'Gone to Earth' recently. Very very offputtingly expensive-sounding. The Sting comparison was apt ... all Les Paul Customs & vintage microphones, & the effortlessness of people with the studio time & cash to get things spot-on. I could hear the keys to the Porsche...

Even Nigel Tufnel isn't Nigel Tufnel!

Yeah, or unsettling. It's easy to see why people compare him to M J James. When I was a kid, all his books were out of print & my copies were treasured jumble-sale 'finds', which made reading them seem even more deliciously illicit. 'The Hungry Moon' is next on my list, actually ... 50 more...

He's great. My favourite is 'Incarnate' ... the way it builds momentum is brilliant. Genuinely disquieting writer I think ... disempowerment, betrayal, loved ones turning on you. Beautiful allegories of madness.

Very sad news. 'Diddlin' will never die.

Nah, Jan Kounen's "Renegade" ... now THAT is a Peyote Western.

You're telling me, LOL!!

Jesus fuck, the UNUTTERABLE GHASTLINESS ...

The documentary 'Dig!' is brilliant to watch with all this in mind. Anton Newcombe playing his romantic doomed trajectory to the hilt versus Coutney Taylor-Taylor, pragmatic cynic travelling to his musical office in rock-star drag. (Both twats.)

Loved the Manics book when I was a kid ... bit cringey now with all the clumsy straight-boy attempts at romanticised homoerotic dribbling, particularly over Richey's "beauty beyond lust" & James's "coveted body", although I guess it's in context given the Manic's own clumsy straight-boy attempts...

Sad to admit it, but the first song on Arcade Fire's first album, 'Tunnels', with the tsk-tsk disco beat, the track-long build of momentum & the lyrics about becoming feral snow-children, was kindof amazing. They were pottering along quite nicely until that second album when it became...

& did anyone else think the end of Hard-boiled Wonderland was amazing, as time kindof ticks down to infinity??? Murakami just kindof matter-of-factly made all of that seem perfectly plausible. Blew my mind for days.