Apr. 25th, 2006

tinhuviel: (Doomsday Clock)

  • If you voted for Herr George W. Bush, you have absolutely no right to gripe about gas prices, especially if you also have an SUV. In fact, you deserve all the financial pain you're suffering right now, having brought it on yourself and visited it on the rest of us. Thanks a lot, asshole.

  • Plain bagels with honey nut cream cheese create a party in one's mouth and is strongly suggested.

  • The icon used for this post is The Doomsday Clock, which is currently set to 7 minutes before Midnight. If it changes, I'll change the icon....unless it reaches Midnight, at which time I will be dead along with the rest of you.

  • If memory serves, Zydeco comes from "les haricots," which is French for beans. The music began on the front porches of Cajun country while people sat out there snapping beans and singing songs.

  • That bit of information came up because I just saw a Bruce Springsteen video of a Zydeco song.

  • Shriekback performed an acoustic Zydeco/Rancher-flavoured version of "Nemesis" for a radio station back in the early '90s. It was called "Cayenne Sisemen," and features Barry Andrews on accordion and Kat Evans (no relation) on fiddle.

  • Kat Evans was the featured violin player in the movie Starship Troopers so, when you see Jake Busey playing violin, it's really Kat Evans.

  • The existence of the Miami Sound Machine was a sign of the coming Alpaca Lips.

  • What's 20 feet long and smells of urine? The Conga line at an old folks' home.

  • Tim Curry is not a handsome man, but there's something about him that makes me want to wrap around him like an alien face hugger.

  • I have drunk the blood of two people and shared my blood with one person, who asked of it of me in order to make the Cakes of Light.

  • Paula Abdul's with the reprehensible Scat Cat was also a sign of the coming Alpaca Lips.

  • I find myself growing weary of the terms and practices of polyamoury, hooking up, online love, and all that general hoo-ha. Maybe it's because I've been burned by online love in the past. Maybe it's because all the polyamoury I've ever seen is simply swinging being called another name by people who don't want to admit they're swinging. Maybe I'm just getting too old for this shit. Maybe I'm jaded beyond my ability to tolerate what I consider to be hoo-ha. This isn't directed any one on my FL, by the way. It's simply an observation about the Internet in general and personal observations of real life individuals. So don't anyone get their undershorts in a knot.

  • The man in Live's video "Freaks" is one of the prisoners on Fiorina Fury in the movie Alien 3.

  • In the video "Freaks," Ed Kowalczyk comes dangerously close to embodying the living spirit of Cadmus Pariah.

  • Yesterday, it almost reached 90 degrees. That means that, by July, our temps should be in the vicinity of 200 and our humidity will constantly be over 50%. Everyone here will die. Me first.

  • Cajun roast beef is the only deli roast beef one should ever buy and consume.

  • Eating contests (hot dog, pie, watermelon, whatever) should be outlawed as they exhibit our country's extreme sense of privilege and causes people to just hate us even more, especially if they're going hungry.

  • The people who still support Dubya after all the bullshit he's put us through since 2001 are either morons, evil, or evil morons.


The end.
tinhuviel: (Nemesis)
I can't seem to access my FTP page, so I'll just do the update for Barry's site here for now.

You may download the free
Shriekback Song of the Month by clicking here.



24 April, 2006



April:: a Cruel but Fair Month

Bazzer in the Belfry

In another one of those 'isn't-life-strange?' moments I find myself recently ensconced in
a recording studio underneath the clocktower of Swindon Town Hall trading as a 'Musician
in Residence'. My function is as yet fairly nebulous but it seems will orbit around the
twin poles of inspirational instruction and developing the place as a bona fide recording
studio. Sweet.



I'm using my own justly famous 'On-the-Hoof' mobile studio and the Boro' of Swindon's
studio space. All this takes place under the umbrella of an august body known as 'cre8'
and its bossman Stuart Webb whose mission it is to bring the digital black arts to the
good folks of Swinnners.



So far we recorded King Strut (Paul and Tash Griffith's band) and Martyn came up to put
some drums on new material for the next Shriekback album -yes, that's right, you
encouraged us now we're going to follow you home..



So anyway: I'm looking for interesting projects to do -recording, writing, people who'd
like to learn about making music with machines, what have you. My personal idea is to get
a bit of a Civic Cultural Renaissance going: a bubbling cauldron of creativity seething up
under these ancient rafters.



If anyone wants to propose something or wants a bit of moral/musical guidance please get
in touch on (44) 01793 463228.





UT No More

UT the freeform project with Andy Partridge and Martyn Barker is being mixed as we speak
and the idea is mooted to do an accompanying album of savagely recycled treatments from
the source material by Swindon producer/musicians Stuart Rowe and Merv Carswell.



But -bummer- Andy found out that the name had already been nabbed by a bunch of American
girls in the 80's. So we're nameless again. Ideas?



Song of the Month
is a bit late, but it will be worth the wait by God
-mystery guest vocalist.



Contain yourselves, dammit.. all in good time..

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