THIS IS NOT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL!!!!
Midlife-Crisis Man
Traded my wife of 30 years in
For a younger sleeker bit
And tho the conversation sucks
So does she and she don’t spit
Chorus
Midllife-crisis man
I’m Midllife-crisis man
Got a daughter older than my girlfriend
Midlife-crisis man
Bought myself a silver Boxster
And man is it the shit
The only problem is arthritis
When I try to sit in it
Midlife crisis man
Driving through a Midlife crisis man
My car pulls more chicks than I can
Midlife crisis man
Look at me, my hair is growing
It’s getting thicker by the day
They aren’t plugs, it’s a wide parting
No way, it ain’t a toupee!
Midlife Crisis Man
I’m a Midlife hairless man
My chest has more hair than my head now
Midlife crisis man
And though I know you think I’m sad
With my girlfriend and my car
I don’t care,
Because I’m better off by far
I didn’t need that silly marriage,
House or dog or wife
I just watch the money disappear
And count the blessings of my life
Midlife broken man
Midlife broken man
My checkbook has more fun that I do
Midlife no cash man
My girlfriend says she now is pregnant
And yes she swears its mine
I guess it true what they say about Viagra
The Doc says its not my fault, don’t whine
Chorus to end
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Saturday, January 22, 2005
I'm sorry I haven't posted dahlinks - been a stressful week (how is it that a four day week feels more stressful than a whole week?) and course work is sucking all my free time.
Anyway, on to the business of the day:
Track Of The Week:
Tits On the Radio, Scissor Sisters (from the album Scissor Sisters)
Cause you can't see tits on the radio
I'll give you five fingers for a one man show
Fasten those pants for the lap dance
Take a shot now this may be your last chance
OK, these guys are going to be huge, take it from me. They have all the right ingredients for pissing off Bush-era Middle of Road-Lets Not Upset Anybody-plastic-rock. Although their lyrics have a certain amount of shock value, there's a retro 70's-80's camp attitude that owes more to Elton John than the Tubes, but don't let that put you off. Standout tracks on the album include the slow-prom-dance disco ball ballad Mary, Lovers In The Backseat which could come straight off a Wang Chung album and a totally surreal version of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb (imagine the song sung in Bee Gees falsetto to an Eye of the Tiger back beat and funky disco guitar and keyboards. I shit you not! It took until the chorus for the fact to register that the title was was not just coincidental). Now Scissor Sisters are neither revolutionary or evolutionary but they kick ass and that's the key for me. If fact, I would say go buy the album (they have it on Itunes with a bonus track). Anyway, Tits has that special quality, that 3:00am can't sleep going through your head quality.
Anyway, on to the business of the day:
Track Of The Week:
Tits On the Radio, Scissor Sisters (from the album Scissor Sisters)
Cause you can't see tits on the radio
I'll give you five fingers for a one man show
Fasten those pants for the lap dance
Take a shot now this may be your last chance
OK, these guys are going to be huge, take it from me. They have all the right ingredients for pissing off Bush-era Middle of Road-Lets Not Upset Anybody-plastic-rock. Although their lyrics have a certain amount of shock value, there's a retro 70's-80's camp attitude that owes more to Elton John than the Tubes, but don't let that put you off. Standout tracks on the album include the slow-prom-dance disco ball ballad Mary, Lovers In The Backseat which could come straight off a Wang Chung album and a totally surreal version of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb (imagine the song sung in Bee Gees falsetto to an Eye of the Tiger back beat and funky disco guitar and keyboards. I shit you not! It took until the chorus for the fact to register that the title was was not just coincidental). Now Scissor Sisters are neither revolutionary or evolutionary but they kick ass and that's the key for me. If fact, I would say go buy the album (they have it on Itunes with a bonus track). Anyway, Tits has that special quality, that 3:00am can't sleep going through your head quality.
Monday, January 17, 2005
GAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
There are times when life is sweet and then there times that life blows chunks. This weekend was a positive vomitorium. First, I inadvertantly clicked yes instead of no to a "Do you want to install the spyware that is going to fuck your PC, and therefore your life, for a long time" dialog because I was trying to do too many things at once - do schoolwork, fix my son's PC and watch TV. With that one fatal click, my life was ruined for basically 12 hours. Because I clicked yes instead of no, I ended up with a pile of useless crap installed that I couldn't remove, some of which seemed to be removed but then came back on reboot. But worse, much worse than that, was that Explorer wouldn't connect to anything. In fact, if I hadn't of had my son's PC next to me, I would have been royally shafted because I ended up having to donwload stuff on to his PC and then copying it to mine.
I ran my virus software but it takes way too long to do a scan and I'm not convinced how good it is with Adware/spyware crap anyway based on last nights experience. Fortunately, Microsoft's new Antispyware program, which is currently in a public beta and free, is suprisingly good at cleaning up this crap (it found 47 additional dubious bits of code in my son's PC despite all the other stuff I tried saying it was clean). Sure enough it removed everything and a couple of bouts of restarts proved that stuff wan't reinstalling. BUT still no explorer. EYEBALLS ... BULGING. After searching on the web, I found instructions on how to potentially fix the problem by re-registering dlls (didn't help) or rescanning the entire system to make sure that the stuff that was installed was kosher microsoft (also didn't help). TEMPLES ... THROBBING. As a last resort, I found a couple of suggestions, neither of which were particulary attractive - reinstalling explorer or repairing the windows installation. I tried the first but that proved tricky because its almost impossible to remove explorer, espescially if you have SP2 installed. I managed it but it did no good, same problem as before. So I pulled out my XP install disk and tried the repair installation route. Twice. It crashed the first time after 40mins. MUST ...UNCLENCH......FISTS.
The second time it ran all the way through. I logged in. I loaded Explorer. It still didn't connect. MUST ...l NOT ... SCREAM ....SCARE....SPOUSE. Now I am a great believer that no matter how obscure a problem is with Windows, most if not all have been experienced before you and most likely solved. So back to Google and I eventually found a random comment in an obscure forum that mentioned something called winsockfix. God bless the persons or people who made this obscure little app because sure enough, back came explorer and all the other stuff that had slowly stopped working. Of course, since i reinstalled windows effectively (I take issue with Microsoft's definition of "repair") I am back to pre-service pack 1 so I have spent pretty much the time since 10:00am this morning re-installing XP patches (I am now up to SP2). RUBS...EYES...LIKE...A...LITTLE...GIRL.
So, my wife is in the shower and I am walking down the stairs that lead from my office to the yard (our house is two stories but seem like four when you're going down to the yard because we are on a hill) when I hear running water. Now the sound of running water round Bozz Manor is not unheard of the last couple of weeks, what with the incessant rain and all, but it hasn't rained for a couple of days and this sounds like a water flowing river-like down the hill. I look down and what do I see? Raw sewage flowing out of the bleed hole and down the hill in said river-like motive, which means the sewer is blocked. Bad but not too bad - we have a home warranty which covers such things so I call them and they contact a plumber. He comes, takes one look and tells me he needs the guys with the heavy kit and they'll be out tomorrow (Monday) morning. Still Ok. They turn up and start snaking the line and here's where things start going bad. Firstly they pull up a big clump of roots. From the sewer line. Now I may not be Handy Andy but I know that roots and sewer lines do not mix. However, he tried one more time to at least clear the line down to the main sewer but just keeps pulling more and more roots up. So not only in the sewer blocked, its obvious that its comprised beyond just a simple snake. Now I have hordes of guys with picks and shovels digging a nasty long trench down my yard.
Update:
They have left for the day - sewer is still not fixed but they have the ditch dug so hopefully it shouldn't be too long tomorrow. Its 5:15pm and NOW I have to work on the two assignments that I was going to have done tomorrow.
Like I said, GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
There are times when life is sweet and then there times that life blows chunks. This weekend was a positive vomitorium. First, I inadvertantly clicked yes instead of no to a "Do you want to install the spyware that is going to fuck your PC, and therefore your life, for a long time" dialog because I was trying to do too many things at once - do schoolwork, fix my son's PC and watch TV. With that one fatal click, my life was ruined for basically 12 hours. Because I clicked yes instead of no, I ended up with a pile of useless crap installed that I couldn't remove, some of which seemed to be removed but then came back on reboot. But worse, much worse than that, was that Explorer wouldn't connect to anything. In fact, if I hadn't of had my son's PC next to me, I would have been royally shafted because I ended up having to donwload stuff on to his PC and then copying it to mine.
I ran my virus software but it takes way too long to do a scan and I'm not convinced how good it is with Adware/spyware crap anyway based on last nights experience. Fortunately, Microsoft's new Antispyware program, which is currently in a public beta and free, is suprisingly good at cleaning up this crap (it found 47 additional dubious bits of code in my son's PC despite all the other stuff I tried saying it was clean). Sure enough it removed everything and a couple of bouts of restarts proved that stuff wan't reinstalling. BUT still no explorer. EYEBALLS ... BULGING. After searching on the web, I found instructions on how to potentially fix the problem by re-registering dlls (didn't help) or rescanning the entire system to make sure that the stuff that was installed was kosher microsoft (also didn't help). TEMPLES ... THROBBING. As a last resort, I found a couple of suggestions, neither of which were particulary attractive - reinstalling explorer or repairing the windows installation. I tried the first but that proved tricky because its almost impossible to remove explorer, espescially if you have SP2 installed. I managed it but it did no good, same problem as before. So I pulled out my XP install disk and tried the repair installation route. Twice. It crashed the first time after 40mins. MUST ...UNCLENCH......FISTS.
The second time it ran all the way through. I logged in. I loaded Explorer. It still didn't connect. MUST ...l NOT ... SCREAM ....SCARE....SPOUSE. Now I am a great believer that no matter how obscure a problem is with Windows, most if not all have been experienced before you and most likely solved. So back to Google and I eventually found a random comment in an obscure forum that mentioned something called winsockfix. God bless the persons or people who made this obscure little app because sure enough, back came explorer and all the other stuff that had slowly stopped working. Of course, since i reinstalled windows effectively (I take issue with Microsoft's definition of "repair") I am back to pre-service pack 1 so I have spent pretty much the time since 10:00am this morning re-installing XP patches (I am now up to SP2). RUBS...EYES...LIKE...A...LITTLE...GIRL.
So, my wife is in the shower and I am walking down the stairs that lead from my office to the yard (our house is two stories but seem like four when you're going down to the yard because we are on a hill) when I hear running water. Now the sound of running water round Bozz Manor is not unheard of the last couple of weeks, what with the incessant rain and all, but it hasn't rained for a couple of days and this sounds like a water flowing river-like down the hill. I look down and what do I see? Raw sewage flowing out of the bleed hole and down the hill in said river-like motive, which means the sewer is blocked. Bad but not too bad - we have a home warranty which covers such things so I call them and they contact a plumber. He comes, takes one look and tells me he needs the guys with the heavy kit and they'll be out tomorrow (Monday) morning. Still Ok. They turn up and start snaking the line and here's where things start going bad. Firstly they pull up a big clump of roots. From the sewer line. Now I may not be Handy Andy but I know that roots and sewer lines do not mix. However, he tried one more time to at least clear the line down to the main sewer but just keeps pulling more and more roots up. So not only in the sewer blocked, its obvious that its comprised beyond just a simple snake. Now I have hordes of guys with picks and shovels digging a nasty long trench down my yard.
Update:
They have left for the day - sewer is still not fixed but they have the ditch dug so hopefully it shouldn't be too long tomorrow. Its 5:15pm and NOW I have to work on the two assignments that I was going to have done tomorrow.
Like I said, GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Its TRACK OF THE WEEK time
Let Go by Frou Frou (from the albums Details and the Garden State Soundtrack)
It gains the more it gives
And then it rises with the fall
So hand me that remote
Can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow
Inclusion of this track on the Garden State soundtrack has raised Frou Frou's visibilty somewhat in this country. Frou frou are Imogen Heap and Guy Sigglesworth: Heap is better known as a solo artist, at least in Britain - she has a new album due out this year and a track from it was featured on the OC before Christmas. Clip from it here. Sigglesworth has had a number of gigs, musical director for Bjork's live show, co-writing credits with Seal and Madonna, but this is his first major personal collabaration. The stuff they do as Frou Frou is classified as trip-hop but that, to me, is like calling Tori Amos solo vocal and piano - at one level yes, but at so many other levels it misses the point. Although computers play a major role in the production of their albums, they are used as a way to enhance the instruments that they both play rather than dehumanize them. This is smart stuff - at first listen it seems like trippy bubblegum pop, but you find yourself revisiting it time and again and then it buries into your unconcious, annoyingly popping up at 3am running around your brain. Something like Vertigo by U2 but without the beneift of Ipod ads.
Let Go by Frou Frou (from the albums Details and the Garden State Soundtrack)
It gains the more it gives
And then it rises with the fall
So hand me that remote
Can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow
Inclusion of this track on the Garden State soundtrack has raised Frou Frou's visibilty somewhat in this country. Frou frou are Imogen Heap and Guy Sigglesworth: Heap is better known as a solo artist, at least in Britain - she has a new album due out this year and a track from it was featured on the OC before Christmas. Clip from it here. Sigglesworth has had a number of gigs, musical director for Bjork's live show, co-writing credits with Seal and Madonna, but this is his first major personal collabaration. The stuff they do as Frou Frou is classified as trip-hop but that, to me, is like calling Tori Amos solo vocal and piano - at one level yes, but at so many other levels it misses the point. Although computers play a major role in the production of their albums, they are used as a way to enhance the instruments that they both play rather than dehumanize them. This is smart stuff - at first listen it seems like trippy bubblegum pop, but you find yourself revisiting it time and again and then it buries into your unconcious, annoyingly popping up at 3am running around your brain. Something like Vertigo by U2 but without the beneift of Ipod ads.
Friday, January 14, 2005
Congratulations to everybody involved in the Huygen's Probe landing on Titan. Details Here. I am, and always have been, a huge space geek and I find this kind of thing inspiring. Alphonso Diaz, a NASA somebody, said that "There will only be one first successful landing on Titan, and this was it,". While I hope that is not true perputally, I believe it may be the case in my lifetime.
I came to an astounding realization this morning, while typing up an email for my MBA class, that I no longer write stuff. My spelling has got so bad (partly because I have got lazy over the years and rely on spell checkers way too much) that the best I can hope for is to suggest to Word what words to use and leave the decision up to it!
Ok, its not quite that bad - the thoughts are still mine and I ultimately have command over the words that are used. At least I think I do.
Ok, its not quite that bad - the thoughts are still mine and I ultimately have command over the words that are used. At least I think I do.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
HUNGER
I can taste you on my lips
Feel you on my hands
Smell you on my clothes
When I look in the mirror
You are always walking away
Sensual, beautiful, elegant
My body pulses to your heartbeat
My breath caught short by your presence
I am haunted by you
Shadowed, taut and distant
I can feel you deep inside me
I can feel myself deep inside you
We are one and yet seperate
We are two and yet joined
copyright 2005 Bozz
Its amazing what a piece of music that you haven't heard for a long time can do.
I can taste you on my lips
Feel you on my hands
Smell you on my clothes
When I look in the mirror
You are always walking away
Sensual, beautiful, elegant
My body pulses to your heartbeat
My breath caught short by your presence
I am haunted by you
Shadowed, taut and distant
I can feel you deep inside me
I can feel myself deep inside you
We are one and yet seperate
We are two and yet joined
copyright 2005 Bozz
Its amazing what a piece of music that you haven't heard for a long time can do.
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Jack Bauer: What a man!
WARNING: SEASON OPENER SPOILERS - IF YOU TIVO'ED DON"T READ
Within two hours he has successfully identified a terrorist suspect hiding in a dry cleaners from a cameraphone*, his girlfriend and her Dad have been kidnapped, he has illegally tortured a terrorist suspect by shooting him in the leg with a gub he stole from a CTU security guard the he knocked out, his partner of maybe twenty minutes has been shot and as we speak, he is pursuing another terrorist suspect who has kidnapped the witness that Jack was supposed to protect.
(* No, he wasn't hiding FROM the cameraphone, Jack used the cameraphone to find him)
Say what you like about Jack but don't, DO NOT, have ANY kind of relationship with him! Can't wait for the second part tomorrow night.
Its going to be a great spring season for TV - 24 (if I was a woman, I would be hot for Kiefer), Alias (rawr), Battlestar Galatica (its hokey but I actually thought the opener was good), Depserate Housewives (guilty pleasure), Boston Legal (I wanted to be James Spader every since Secretary) and Carnivale on HBO. And that's just the returning stuff. I made have to get a bigger harddrive for my Tivo, especially now that a lot of the stuff is in HD. By the way, does anybody know why Fox doesn't transmit in HD on DirectTV when ABC and CBS do? Its really frickin' annoying! There's a reason I have satellite - I can't get terrestrial signals where we live.
UPDATE:
(From the Directv press release)
The Fox HD programming, from WNYW in New York and KTTV in Los Angeles, will be available to eligible DIRECTV customers in markets where Fox owns and operates stations
SF has a Fox station but its an affliate not owned by Fox.
WARNING: SEASON OPENER SPOILERS - IF YOU TIVO'ED DON"T READ
Within two hours he has successfully identified a terrorist suspect hiding in a dry cleaners from a cameraphone*, his girlfriend and her Dad have been kidnapped, he has illegally tortured a terrorist suspect by shooting him in the leg with a gub he stole from a CTU security guard the he knocked out, his partner of maybe twenty minutes has been shot and as we speak, he is pursuing another terrorist suspect who has kidnapped the witness that Jack was supposed to protect.
(* No, he wasn't hiding FROM the cameraphone, Jack used the cameraphone to find him
Say what you like about Jack but don't, DO NOT, have ANY kind of relationship with him! Can't wait for the second part tomorrow night.
Its going to be a great spring season for TV - 24 (if I was a woman, I would be hot for Kiefer), Alias (rawr), Battlestar Galatica (its hokey but I actually thought the opener was good), Depserate Housewives (guilty pleasure), Boston Legal (I wanted to be James Spader every since Secretary) and Carnivale on HBO. And that's just the returning stuff. I made have to get a bigger harddrive for my Tivo, especially now that a lot of the stuff is in HD. By the way, does anybody know why Fox doesn't transmit in HD on DirectTV when ABC and CBS do? Its really frickin' annoying! There's a reason I have satellite - I can't get terrestrial signals where we live.
UPDATE:
(From the Directv press release)
The Fox HD programming, from WNYW in New York and KTTV in Los Angeles, will be available to eligible DIRECTV customers in markets where Fox owns and operates stations
SF has a Fox station but its an affliate not owned by Fox.
Saturday, January 08, 2005
I wrote this song when my two best friends broke up somewhat acromoniously. I was kind of stuck in the middle because I remained very close to both of them and understood both sides of the story.
FADE AWAY:
I never thought I had the answers
I never thought I'd feel this way
This story's hardly started
Its the first act of this play
But they've already killed the hero
and the villain saved the day
the bad guy is the winner
yet everything's ok
Chorus:
and I miss you
but I can't tell you
there's nothing to do
but fade away
How I want you
And how I need you
And how I love you
fade away
So roll the closing credits
As we slowly fade to gray
I can see our lips are moving
But I can't hear what we say
Ch.
Although the story's over
Its this ending I can't take
What happened to our hero?
What wrong choices did he make?
But who could blame him
Because he wants you
He knows he can't have you
So he fades away
God I miss you
No matter what I do
I still love you
fade away
And if my heart breaks
From all this heartache
I'll always love you
Fade away
Ch. (repeat to end)
copyright 2004-05 Bozz
FADE AWAY:
I never thought I had the answers
I never thought I'd feel this way
This story's hardly started
Its the first act of this play
But they've already killed the hero
and the villain saved the day
the bad guy is the winner
yet everything's ok
Chorus:
and I miss you
but I can't tell you
there's nothing to do
but fade away
How I want you
And how I need you
And how I love you
fade away
So roll the closing credits
As we slowly fade to gray
I can see our lips are moving
But I can't hear what we say
Ch.
Although the story's over
Its this ending I can't take
What happened to our hero?
What wrong choices did he make?
But who could blame him
Because he wants you
He knows he can't have you
So he fades away
God I miss you
No matter what I do
I still love you
fade away
And if my heart breaks
From all this heartache
I'll always love you
Fade away
Ch. (repeat to end)
copyright 2004-05 Bozz
TRACK OF THE WEEK
And now (fanfare please), a new weekly feature! I am going to put a single track up here that I have played during the week and that I think deserves wider attention. It could be new, old, obscure, well known or just plain mad. I am doing this because its my blog, nobody reads it and I can!
Track Of The Week:
Worn Me Down by Rachael Yamagata (from the album Happenstance)
Worn me down like a road.
I did everything you told.
Worn me down to my knees.
I did everything to please you.
But you can’t stop thinking about her.
No, you can’t stop thinking about her.
I am sometimes shallow and I make no apologies for it. I originally started listening to the album because I liked the photo of Rachael that adorned the cover (B&W and very sexy). This was the standout track for me on this album - most of us have been in a realtionship where either you or the other person are more focused on somebody they have lost than on the person that your with. I would like to apologize to Nichole - it was too soon after Pam's death and I thought you understood that.
And now (fanfare please), a new weekly feature! I am going to put a single track up here that I have played during the week and that I think deserves wider attention. It could be new, old, obscure, well known or just plain mad. I am doing this because its my blog, nobody reads it and I can!
Track Of The Week:
Worn Me Down by Rachael Yamagata (from the album Happenstance)
Worn me down like a road.
I did everything you told.
Worn me down to my knees.
I did everything to please you.
But you can’t stop thinking about her.
No, you can’t stop thinking about her.
I am sometimes shallow and I make no apologies for it. I originally started listening to the album because I liked the photo of Rachael that adorned the cover (B&W and very sexy). This was the standout track for me on this album - most of us have been in a realtionship where either you or the other person are more focused on somebody they have lost than on the person that your with. I would like to apologize to Nichole - it was too soon after Pam's death and I thought you understood that.
English Phrase of the Week: BOLLOCKS pr: Bhol-ohx
Literally testicles. Can be used in a number of ways:
Literally testicles. Can be used in a number of ways:
- noun Ow, you just kicked me in the bollocks you bastard (more normally pronounced as "Oooopppphhhh" with copious groanings and tears)
- As a replacement for things of a dubious nature: "Excuse me but aren't you talking bollocks?"
- Descriptive expletive "Ohhh bollocks!"
- Can also be used in a positive way: "Gosh, that new car is the bollocks". Also often used in conjunction with "dog": "I had a curry last night that was the dog's bollocks"
Thursday, January 06, 2005
(Taken from from The New York Times article by Bill Carter on CNN cancelling Crossfire and "ending its relationship" with Tucker Carlson)
Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at "Crossfire" when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were "hurting America."
Mr. Klein said last night, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise."
I like John Stewart, I think he's smart and funny without been too intellectual. I also have a suspicion that a number of people watch the Daily Show and don't realize its fake, but that may just be paranoia on my behalf. However, if your justification for ending a show on your network is because some comedian who runs a FAKE new show critizes your show, and not because your a news channel that wants to focus on the NEWS rather than on some partisan shouting match, you need to seriously condsider your priorities.
Actually, I think CNN feels it is losing a war that it can't win. That bastion of level headed, unbiased news reporting, Fox (I'm sorry, did I say unbiased, I meant right wing reactionist. My bad.) has stolen considerable market share from CNN. So CNN has chosen to move battlegrounds away from commentary and back towards news - what next, MTV playing music videos?
Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at "Crossfire" when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were "hurting America."
Mr. Klein said last night, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise."
I like John Stewart, I think he's smart and funny without been too intellectual. I also have a suspicion that a number of people watch the Daily Show and don't realize its fake, but that may just be paranoia on my behalf. However, if your justification for ending a show on your network is because some comedian who runs a FAKE new show critizes your show, and not because your a news channel that wants to focus on the NEWS rather than on some partisan shouting match, you need to seriously condsider your priorities.
Actually, I think CNN feels it is losing a war that it can't win. That bastion of level headed, unbiased news reporting, Fox (I'm sorry, did I say unbiased, I meant right wing reactionist. My bad.) has stolen considerable market share from CNN. So CNN has chosen to move battlegrounds away from commentary and back towards news - what next, MTV playing music videos?
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
(taken from http://vortexia.blogspot.com//)
"on an average day, about 3.3% of the world's population has sex"
Which just goes to prove my contention that at least 96% the world are wankers!
"on an average day, about 3.3% of the world's population has sex"
Which just goes to prove my contention that at least 96% the world are wankers!
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Life Swap CD Pt2.
After thinking about it for a while, I don't believe I did my life swap CD justice. Not because I disagree with any of the tracks, but because there was more tracks that should have been included. So I have decided that my life swap cd is a double album!
CD 2
Life On Mars, David Bowie
Although I've been a Bowie fan dating back to high school (my best friend then, David Green, had all his albums, including the rare double album with The Laughing Gnome on it). However, I saw Bowie about five years ago as part of Moby's Area festival. He walked out on stage and belted this out. It was too beautiful for words.
Yellow, Coldplay (from the album Parachutes
My best friend's brother was stuck in Thailand and fading away from some combination of bad diseases and bad habits. She sent him this song to try to make him understood she loved him and wanted him to live (which he did). Later we sat in my house, played the track over and over and drank way too much port.
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd (from the album Wish You Were Here)
We're just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl, year after year
Floyd are just one of those bands that feel like a comfortable pair of shoes that you keep for years and wear occaisionally just to remember. First song I learnt to play on the guitar!
Come Together, The Beloved (from the album Conscience)
There are some songs that you listen too because they just make you feel good. This is one of those.
She's The One, World Party (from the album Egyptology)
A nine hour drive across the west Texas desert. Dry thunderstorms. Laughing at the lot lizards. Happiness beyond belief. Yeah I cry every goddamn time I hear it, you got a problem with that?
Purple Rain, Prince (from the album Purple Rain)
If you look past the hyperbole and the high heels, you find one of the most talented song writers. Look past that and you see an amazing guitarist. I hope you got to see his stage show last time he toured because it could be your last opportunity.
The One I Love, REM (from the album Document)
They wrote some of the most intelligent three minute pop songs. Its nice to see a return to form with their new stuff.
Biko, Pater Gabriel (from the album Peter Gabriel IV)
Everybody has some artist that they love that nobody they now cares about. For a long time that was Gabriel for me. Biko used to be the way he ended his stage show, usually combined with falling into the audience and been transported around the crowd on their hands. PG has always had a tremendous sense of theater and also of the world outside of western borders - he formed WOMAD long before people knew what world music was.
Tainted Love, Soft Cell.
My first year of college this was EVERYWHERE. It was derigeur at student parties and the juke box in the student union had to have the single replaced roughly every two months because it kept get warped from the heat of the mechanism playing it over and over again. I hated it then but find myself osmewhat nostalgic when it comes on now.
Someday Soon, Journey (from the album Deperature)
The dark if before the dawn
open your eyes
Someday soon
There will be a better day
I remember talking to this old guy who used to go to my local pub in England. He was really cool and he told me how he used to be really into Jazz until he went to a club in London one night on a whim to see a young american guy called Hendrix. He sadi within weeks of that gig how he had changed, listening to different music, dressing differently etc. In my middle years of high school there was one brand of music and it was called heavy metal, it was the only thing that my friends and I listened too. Then my two closest mates, Pete and Jim, started listening to this obscure US band called Journey (obscure in England anyway). At first I ignored them but Pete, who was perceptive, forced me to listen to the album because ("its a big world Bozz"). Within weeks my musical tastes widened considerably and I never looked back.
Solid Air, John Martyn (from the album Solid Air)
When I first left college I went to live in the south of England. I rented a room in a house owned by a guy called Kipper (there is a whole blog in the stories from that period alone). Kipper had a brother, who's nickname was Mankey, who played John Martyn incessantly and, more by osmosis than design, I started to listen to him to. A couple of years later, I am hanging out with friends up in London at the Mean Fiddler and we are waiting fro JM to play a gig. Its a smallish club, the crowd is rocking and as the night goes on, it only gets more electric. JM is late ("flight delays" apparently) which only adds to the expectation. JM finally comes on stage two hours late, launches in to the first number and it is obvious that both him and the badn are going to be on fire. Obvious that is, right up until the second chorus, when JM vomits on stage and the rest of the gig is cancelled! He played a make-up gig at the Town and Country but it wasn't the same.
Are Friends Electric? Gary Numan (from the album Down In The Park)
Now the light fades out
And I wonder what I'm doing
In a room like this
There's a knock on the door
And just for a second I thought
I remembered you
Early middle school years. All night parties. Amateur fumblings in the dark. Embaressment. Ecstasy. Excitement. Early morning trains home.
Something's Got Me, Lori Carson (from the album Everything I Touch Runs Wild)
Something's got me, and its got me good
I used to be known as the king of obscure goodness when I lived in England. I had a knack for discovering tracks and bands that nobody had heard of but that a lot of my friends turned on to. It wasn't that I really had a talent just that I had more disposable income and no girlfriend so something had to fill up the time! :)
I decided to load Rhapsody today and, while typing email at work, just randomally try stuff I hadn't heard before. This is an amazing track and stands out on the album although Snow Come Down has a beautifully wistful quality (Every time I see your face, I can hardly breathe).
I Want You, Elvis Costello (from the album Blood And Chocolate)
We happened to be in Reno at a basketball tournament having missed EC in San Francisco two nights earlier. Although it wsn't a great concert (casino halls are not the best venues) the room lit up when he did this.
After thinking about it for a while, I don't believe I did my life swap CD justice. Not because I disagree with any of the tracks, but because there was more tracks that should have been included. So I have decided that my life swap cd is a double album!
CD 2
Life On Mars, David Bowie
Although I've been a Bowie fan dating back to high school (my best friend then, David Green, had all his albums, including the rare double album with The Laughing Gnome on it). However, I saw Bowie about five years ago as part of Moby's Area festival. He walked out on stage and belted this out. It was too beautiful for words.
Yellow, Coldplay (from the album Parachutes
My best friend's brother was stuck in Thailand and fading away from some combination of bad diseases and bad habits. She sent him this song to try to make him understood she loved him and wanted him to live (which he did). Later we sat in my house, played the track over and over and drank way too much port.
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd (from the album Wish You Were Here)
We're just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl, year after year
Floyd are just one of those bands that feel like a comfortable pair of shoes that you keep for years and wear occaisionally just to remember. First song I learnt to play on the guitar!
Come Together, The Beloved (from the album Conscience)
There are some songs that you listen too because they just make you feel good. This is one of those.
She's The One, World Party (from the album Egyptology)
A nine hour drive across the west Texas desert. Dry thunderstorms. Laughing at the lot lizards. Happiness beyond belief. Yeah I cry every goddamn time I hear it, you got a problem with that?
Purple Rain, Prince (from the album Purple Rain)
If you look past the hyperbole and the high heels, you find one of the most talented song writers. Look past that and you see an amazing guitarist. I hope you got to see his stage show last time he toured because it could be your last opportunity.
The One I Love, REM (from the album Document)
They wrote some of the most intelligent three minute pop songs. Its nice to see a return to form with their new stuff.
Biko, Pater Gabriel (from the album Peter Gabriel IV)
Everybody has some artist that they love that nobody they now cares about. For a long time that was Gabriel for me. Biko used to be the way he ended his stage show, usually combined with falling into the audience and been transported around the crowd on their hands. PG has always had a tremendous sense of theater and also of the world outside of western borders - he formed WOMAD long before people knew what world music was.
Tainted Love, Soft Cell.
My first year of college this was EVERYWHERE. It was derigeur at student parties and the juke box in the student union had to have the single replaced roughly every two months because it kept get warped from the heat of the mechanism playing it over and over again. I hated it then but find myself osmewhat nostalgic when it comes on now.
Someday Soon, Journey (from the album Deperature)
The dark if before the dawn
open your eyes
Someday soon
There will be a better day
I remember talking to this old guy who used to go to my local pub in England. He was really cool and he told me how he used to be really into Jazz until he went to a club in London one night on a whim to see a young american guy called Hendrix. He sadi within weeks of that gig how he had changed, listening to different music, dressing differently etc. In my middle years of high school there was one brand of music and it was called heavy metal, it was the only thing that my friends and I listened too. Then my two closest mates, Pete and Jim, started listening to this obscure US band called Journey (obscure in England anyway). At first I ignored them but Pete, who was perceptive, forced me to listen to the album because ("its a big world Bozz"). Within weeks my musical tastes widened considerably and I never looked back.
Solid Air, John Martyn (from the album Solid Air)
When I first left college I went to live in the south of England. I rented a room in a house owned by a guy called Kipper (there is a whole blog in the stories from that period alone). Kipper had a brother, who's nickname was Mankey, who played John Martyn incessantly and, more by osmosis than design, I started to listen to him to. A couple of years later, I am hanging out with friends up in London at the Mean Fiddler and we are waiting fro JM to play a gig. Its a smallish club, the crowd is rocking and as the night goes on, it only gets more electric. JM is late ("flight delays" apparently) which only adds to the expectation. JM finally comes on stage two hours late, launches in to the first number and it is obvious that both him and the badn are going to be on fire. Obvious that is, right up until the second chorus, when JM vomits on stage and the rest of the gig is cancelled! He played a make-up gig at the Town and Country but it wasn't the same.
Are Friends Electric? Gary Numan (from the album Down In The Park)
Now the light fades out
And I wonder what I'm doing
In a room like this
There's a knock on the door
And just for a second I thought
I remembered you
Early middle school years. All night parties. Amateur fumblings in the dark. Embaressment. Ecstasy. Excitement. Early morning trains home.
Something's Got Me, Lori Carson (from the album Everything I Touch Runs Wild)
Something's got me, and its got me good
I used to be known as the king of obscure goodness when I lived in England. I had a knack for discovering tracks and bands that nobody had heard of but that a lot of my friends turned on to. It wasn't that I really had a talent just that I had more disposable income and no girlfriend so something had to fill up the time! :)
I decided to load Rhapsody today and, while typing email at work, just randomally try stuff I hadn't heard before. This is an amazing track and stands out on the album although Snow Come Down has a beautifully wistful quality (Every time I see your face, I can hardly breathe).
I Want You, Elvis Costello (from the album Blood And Chocolate)
We happened to be in Reno at a basketball tournament having missed EC in San Francisco two nights earlier. Although it wsn't a great concert (casino halls are not the best venues) the room lit up when he did this.
Saturday, January 01, 2005
On just one website - Amazon.Com - people have donated $11,033,019.20 to the Red Cross for disaster relief related to the Tsunami. This is roughly one third of the total amount that the US initially donated, althoughthey have subsequently upped the initial amount by a factor of ten. This mean that the per capita spending of the US is about $1.20 (up from the 12 cents of the initial amount). Qatar's per capita contribution is approx. $16. Meanwhile we spend millions of dollars on a missile defense system that doesn't work.
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