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[25 Apr 2008|05:49pm] |
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The problem with new converse is that it takes an age to get them looking good.
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[05 Oct 2007|05:43pm] |
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Pere Ubu - Blue Velvet |
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Oh yeah, life's good and cisco got hooky's autograph yesterday
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| fuck yes!!! |
[05 Oct 2007|05:32pm] |
finally some proper music comes to manchester -
James Chance & Les Contorions @ Saki Bar (End of my road!) 11th October
admittedly it is on the same night as my situationist course but i can manage both i'm sure
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[04 Apr 2007|12:09am] |
bloody hell!
it's been a long long time but i'm back.
back with the internet.
back in manchester.
lots and lots has happened, new friends made old friends gone and one big city behind me.
now i'm home and our new home is really cool (cisco will confirm this ;o) )
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[01 Jun 2006|10:52pm] |
hey, just a plug for my friend's blog - http://1001albums.blogspot.com/
he's listening to the '1001 albums you must hear before you die' and then reviewing them. you should all check it out and support his efforts.
damn lazy post-graduate students with too much time on their hands ;o)
x-posted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rehab_doll and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) uk_indie
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| Y'all be jealous y'hear |
[01 Jun 2006|10:06pm] |
I just booked two tickets for this -
John Zorn - Crowley At The Crossroads
Featuring Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron & London Sinfonietta
18 June 2006 / 19:30
Barbican Hall
Aleister Crowley's reputation as an outsider, poet and magician is infamous. Tonight Zorn invokes the spirit of Crowley in two startling and very different world premieres for voice and ensemble.
Evocation of a Neophyte and How the Black Arts were Revealed unto Her by the Demon Baphomet brings the mystery of Enochian Ritual into the Barbican through a beautiful new work for soprano soloist, mixed choir, harp, contrabassoon and percussion, performed by musicians from the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Brad Lubman.
Moonchild, Zorn's most recent work, is a hardcore song cycle scored for voice, bass and drums. Featuring vocalist Mike Patton (Faith No More, Fantomaf) singing in preverbal language accompanied by two longtime Zorn alumni, Trevor Dunn and Joey Baron, and conducted by Zorn himself, this is an intense new compositional direction for Zorn, and takes rock to some startling new places.
Also featured in the evening is a new film of Crowley paintings and drawings by the legendary Kenneth Anger.
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| job hunting continues |
[13 May 2006|12:49pm] |
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It's Immaterial - Young Man |
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Young man
Seeks an interesting job
Will do anything legal
Young man
Who is caged just like a bird
Wants to fly like an eagle
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[04 May 2006|11:49pm] |
behold, one of the greatest album covers in history
a very nice day was had today, i spent much of the day with anna in a park in bethnal green where wine was consumed and i was introduced to tom and things were spoken about and the sun shone.
such a nice day was it that i actually got a bit of a headache from sitting in the sun too much but all was made better with pills.
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[07 Apr 2006|08:43pm] |
not done a proper update in fucking ages so here goes. going back to uni after a year out was fairly interesting. i'd forgotten about the lower levels of hygiene need to survive as a student but i have been doing pretty well considering i've not really had any moeny since we got back from SA.
We both miss SA so much, the most amazing place we've been to. I particularly miss the long warm evenings in BsAs, wandering the streets and sitting in cafes talking about stuff with nia. I miss our little bookshop/cafe and the wine and cigarettes. I don't miss the huge bugs though.
Now it looks like we're going to be stuck in London for maybe upto a year which will test our resolve. fucking southerners! Nia's got a job there in a press agency and i will be joining her as soon as i've got these last three essays and single exam out of the way. (i should have everything done by the end of the month) i was down there this weekend and we had such a good time, i think it was because we were together rather than the setting, in one weekend i seem to have exhausted all the cool things to do in london. when i get a job too we'll both be working so hard that i doubt we'll have much time to go out but at least we'll be able to save some money for our return up north.
the talk lately has been about moving to paris so maybe there will be a slight detour before i return.
other places to go:
Lisbon (i will come vanda, i promise, i just don't know when)
Barcelona (I'm coming to smoke all your weed Kiko)
Venice (i'd like to save this for the honeymoon, although actually i'd prefer somewhere like milan or florence but we'll see)
I NEEEEEED to go back to Buenos Aires, i'd like a year in SA and then we could spend a good 8 months in BA and four months going back to Lima to see francis and santiago and vina to see carlos and gisella)
I'm so excited about all the political developments over there, the list of left leaning governments keeps growing and you can see the americans looking scared.
I've been neglecting my music listening lately but here's what's been on my playlist lately:
Pretty Girls Makes Graves - Elan Vital (i'll have to give another couple of listens but it's not as good as new romance)
John Martyn - Solid Air/Inside Out (a couple of golden oldey records but quite beautiful in a mumbly way)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abatoir Blues (i've rediscovered my love for Nick cave after reading And the Ass Saw The Angel)
Ikara Colt - Chat and Business (this takes me back to those heady days of 2002 when music held so much promise, and what happens, fuck all)
Barry Adamson - Moss Side Story (bassist for Magazine and the Bad Seeds, for those of you who don't know, Cisco, you should check this guy out)
It's John's birthday weekend from tomorrow until we pass out and so I will be taking a break from essay writing. (The representation of magical books in Marlowe's Dr Faustus, Authorship of Carole Reed's The Third Man and Literary Games In Georges Perec's Life: A User Manual) It should be good to see some of the old guys and see how they're getting on.
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[03 Mar 2006|02:16pm] |
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"mirrors and copulation are abominable because they multiply the number of men"
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[20 Jan 2006|11:06pm] |
i'm so so bored. i've been in york almost 2 weeks now and it's still as shit as it ever was. i managed to live in manchester for 6 months without a tv and i was never bored. i did have several things there that are missing here though:
1) my girlfriend
2) a job
3) friends
4) money
5) good bars/nights out
dammit!
anyway, here's tonight's playlist
1) Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers
2) Scout Niblett - Where Are You?
3) Herman Dune - Big Bad Man (Scout Niblett cover)
4) Lilliput - Heidi's Head
5) The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
6) The Breeders - Off You
7) Pretty Girls Make Graves - Chemical, Chemical
8) Throwing Muses - Epiphany
9) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mystery Girl
10) Pavement - Stereo
11) The Postal Service - This Place is a Prison
12) The Faint - Agenda Suicide
13) Goldfrapp - Train
14) Juliette and the Licks - Got Love to Kill
15) Quickspace - Quickspace Happy Song #2
16) Jason Loewenstein - Codes
17) x-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
18) The Selecter - On My Radio
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[01 Dec 2005|12:46pm] |
| Your Birthdate: January 6 | 
You tend to be a the rock in relationships - people depend on you.
Thoughtful and caring, you often put others needs first.
You aren't content to help those you know... you want to give to the world.
An idealist, you strive for positive change and dream about how much better things could be.
Your strength: Your intuition
Your weakness: You put yourself last
Your power color: Rose
Your power symbol: Cloud
Your power month: June |
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[11 Nov 2005|01:25pm] |
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had my first near death experience the other day. i was trekking through the sierras near cordoba on horseback and my horse lost its footing, i slipped off the back and it nearly fell on me. this sounds like someone else´s life but it´s mine :o)
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| Last night at the Pixes |
[31 Aug 2005|12:32pm] |
here's the set list:
Head On
Wave of Mutilation
Is She Weird
Caribou
Bone Machine
mr. grieves
Planet Of Sound
Island De Encanta
Monkey
Gouge Away
Broken Face
Tame
Hey (fucked up), played Dead instead
Debaser
Here Comes Your Man
Holiday Song
Nimrod's Son
I Bleed
La La Love You
UMass
In Heaven/Wave UK
Winterlong
Vamos
Where Is My Mind
Encore 1: Gigantic
Encore 2: Hey
Sleater-Kinney tomorrow
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[30 Jul 2005|12:58am] |
had a really good night out with liam. we danced like motherfuckers.
just so you all know, there seems to be some urban myth going around and i want to clear things up:
EMO IS NOT PUNK, IT'S NOT ALTERNATIVE, IT'S BAD, BAD POP MUSIC.
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