On the stereo while making fish pie

1. Big Youth, Gregory Isaacs and Leroy Sibbles - Hot Stock
2. Franco and Sam Mangwana - Cooperation
3. Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes - Domingo No Parque
4. Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
5. Ghostface Killa - Cherchez La Ghost

London Bloggers

The more eagle-eyed amongst you, dear readers, may have noticed that a link to this site has appeared on this blog recently. It makes very interesting reading, browsing by Tube line (or, god forbid, National Rail), or by locales you know. It also reveals the breadth of blogs, from the denizen of Oxford Circus reviewing the 'masseuses' he has visited, to the Lewisham Tory. Triumph in diversity?

Google Earth

Is the most incredible programme. I spent hours playing with it last night - this is an image of my childhood home taken from Google Earth. They are composite satellite images, most of them taken last summer, but as you can see, even on an older laptop with a poor graphics card, the images are detailed. We have run this on a new P4 XP machine with DirectX and it is incredible. Google are adding address search, local services, etc to this. It is the future, so download it and start playing...



Please post your images here...

Letter in The Guardian

"David Irving need not worry too much. I've researched the matter thoroughly and concluded that the prison in Vienna doesn't exist, never did exist and certainly no one was incarcerated there."

David Rosenberg
London

Sinner or winner

For those of you who have used Oxford Street, Mr Sinner or Winner has relocated to Sydney. How he managed to afford a ticket is beyond me. Very interesting interview with the man himself here.

Thank you for the music

RIP Ray Barretto. Acid - one of his best.

D yoof ov 2day

Speak a language unknown to me.

Sorry

Me and inebriation lead to my flat and this blog turning into a shebeen.

Money in my Pocket

Money in my pocket but I just can't get no love
Money in my pocket but I just can't get no love
I'm praying for
A girl to be my own

Soon you said she coming but I don't believe a word she say
Cause she run away and left me one rainy day
She made me had in mind
That her love would never die
And now I'm alone, so alone
So alone, yeah, yeah

Money in my pocket but I just can't get no love, oh no
Money in my pocket but I just can't get no love
The love I had in mind
Was very, very hard to find, oh

It's hard for a man to live without a woman
And a woman needs a man to cling to
You'll see what love can do
After making me feel blue
Ain't that a shame, woah baby
Ain't that a shame, yeah, yeah, yeah
To make me feel blue, woah yeah, yeah
Ain't that a shame, baby
Ain't that a shame...

Dennis Brown

The Tide is High

The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kinda man who gives up just like that, oh no

It's not the things you do, that really hurts me bad
But it's the way you do the things, you do to me
I'm not the kinda man who gives up just like that oh no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one

Every man wants you to be his girl
But I'll wait my dear 'till it's my turn
I'm not the kinda man who gives up just like that, no

The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one

Thank you to John Holt, The Paragons and Blondie (especially Debbie Harry).

Slavic romanticism

It may just be my inebriation (early, I know, dears), but it was bliss to be on the bus trapped between two young Ealing Polish couples. In fact, it wouldn't matter if they were from any other Slavonic nation. I adore understanding vague (and not so vague) parts of conversations, adverts, labels on food, websites, itd. The longer I spend in Ealing, the greater my pan-Slavist/Slavophile/slightly/bonkers ideas become. Can a non-Slav have these ideas?

29 today

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

Hamsters

are very photogenic.

Ordnance

I had arrived in Riga to visit a woman friend. Her house, the town, the language were unfamiliar to me. Nobody was expecting me, no one knew me. For two hours I walked the streets in solitude. Never again have I seen them so. From every gate a flame darted, each cornerstone sprayed sparks, and every streetcar came toward me like a fire engine. For she might have stepped out of the gateway, around the corner, been sitting in the streetcar. But of the two of us I had to be, at any price, the first to see the other. For had she touched me with the match of her eyes, I should have gone up like a magazine.

Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street

Sylvia Plath

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

Neologisms

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's {2005} winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

12. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

Sex, Sex, Sex

Now I've got your attention, this cartoon made me laugh:
























Here are two samples from the album. See if it has the same effect on you:

Dance of the vampires
Blood on his lips

Fedor Mikhailovich

Dostoevskii:
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

A cartoon

Thanks to moderntoss.com

Some links for you

Lazy, I know, but here are a links to sites I have enjoyed (if that is the right word) recently:

Despair, Inc
NASA Solar System Simulator
Flow
Mortadella TV
Modern Toss

Akhmatova translated

He loved three things in life:
Evensong, white peacocks
And old maps of America.
He hated it when children cried,
He hated tea with raspberry jam
And women’s hysterics.
…And I was his wife.
November 9, 1910, Kiev

Thanks to EINY

Listening to

Jedi Mind Tricks
Senor Coconut
Candi Staton
Genius GZA
Dennis Brown

Seventeen years ago yesterday

King Tubby was murdered.

Going Underground

two links about the closed stations/unused routes, etc on the Tube:
Underground History and Abandoned Tube Stations