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Mine arrived yesterday - big brick of a book which I'll be battering into this weekend. Sure there'll be plenty of funny nutzoid behaviour and loads of smelly hippies to loathe. Nice Jon Savage-style listening guide at the back too, featuring Lee Perry and the Ramones.

Wow, I was blissfully unaware of that. Yeah, total rip-off. Did WSB actually sanction that or did someone throw it together after he died?

The nadir:

Imagine the awkward banter between the 'MC' and 'schoolgirl dancers' between takes. Gave me a cringe rash.

I only lived there between '89-'94, and went back up a few times between '96 - 2001 to see friends, a girl, a dying dad, etc. So I might not be the best person to ask. But as Neil Transpontine hasn't turned up (he was busy learning Gaelic folk songs, last time I checked Facebook), guess I'll...

Sure (re PM), only if it's no hassle - much appreciated. Will have a scout around. Good to know about the cloud access - last thing I need is for work to suddenly access a rant about macaque gangs, or weird 'noise nutter' shit...

Cheers - sucks about the rental model. I could ask work for licenses, but worry that anything I write on Word, design on PS, etc, could get viewed by work via the cloud (maybe this can't happen, but I get para about these things)... Used to have a Macbook, was that blocker called Little Snitch...

OK, back with more tech-unsavvy pleas for help... I'm getting a new PC laptop as this one's 11 years old and falling to bits. Thing is, I want Photoshop, Adobe PDF reader/maker and InDesign. These were put on my PC by a work IT guy who possibly didn't secure licenses for them, but it's a bit...

I grew up in a suburb of NW London, though never felt isolated from the city as there was a tube station nearby and Camden/Kings X were only 20 mins away on the Northern Line. Aunt and uncle lived in Stratford and we saw them often, it was cheap/easy to get around. Then I ended up in Luton...

Stevie Nicks opening up her heart to her loveless husband on "Silver Springs" Sinead shedding a tear on "Nothing Compares 2U" The Gerogerigegege having an extended live amplified wank over a drum machine

Special commendation should go to Smell & Quim for getting an entire weekend noise festival in Leeds shut down in the first half hour, after coming onstage in rubber pig masks, wielding machetes and a sledgehammer, and hacking up/attempting to set light to a (real) pig's head. The fact the...

I saw a pretty messy Whitehouse gig in 2001. Some goth girl made the mistake of sitting on the stage with her back to the group when they came on, so Peter Sotos (Whitehouse's 'Bez', if Bez had been a fat Bluto lookalike in a dirty old man raincoat) walked over and booted her in the back - she...

I feel it's important to be consistent on this and oppose attempts at censorship whenever they crop up. I've always had this 'all bets are off' mentality when it comes to 'the arts': like you say, something you find valuable could well get banned 'n' canned because of one dodgy line or...

My first WTF encounter with this happened last year, at DSEI (disclaimer: I wasn't dealing weapons): I saw a big missile company's promo video, churning out the usual "Innovation...dedication" buzzwords but, instead of showcasing the actual miltech, they were accompanied by footage of a Pride...

I thought it was some sort of bird she'd skinned and was hanging out to cure. But, knowing the surrealists, could have cervical connotations, I guess?

Yonks ago - late '90s? - I went to the Tate with a girlfriend. It was her idea. We were looking at YBA shit like Sarah Lucas' "Sod You Gits" and I was taking the piss out of the descriptions while she pouted and told me I was closed-minded. I didn't care, I'm not a big fan of galleries - I find...

I hadn't but ta for the link. Our is more of a heavily researched piece on nutrition and enrichment.

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Everything recorded by This Heat. It's almost like they can sense I'm letting down my guard and actually enjoying what they're doing, so they have to suddenly fuck the song up to prove me wrong.