Nothing

[dino]

She explained to us one day that when Alan meant "music" he said "Italy". It touched me that he said "Italy" very often.

of course

[owen]

"It turned out that Lomax, now 85 years old, had suffered a severe brain haemorrhage."

thats what that negro music does to you

[manho]

hillary cried again. funny how the tears only well up the day before an important vote, right?

[dino]

she is thinking to Monica too much

[owen]

will the female voters fall for it again?



"fool me once..im a fool...fool me twice.....shame...fool...."

[manho]

"will the female voters fall for it again?"

is paris a city?

[cripes]

I hear that it's gonna take a long time to count the votes from the only state today that *matters*.

[manho]

they say obama is home and hosed in cal. i'll be following the vote tonight on italian tv and through the new york times site. nothing would give me more pleasure than to see hillary get her rich white ass kicked. like, what's the fucking point of giving the opposition ammunition to destroy you (the crying: let's face it she's almost as whingeing as george) in the real election before you even get elected as candidate?

possible video idea for hill to counter the jesse obama thing: chelsea singing (with the usual crew: eric, sting, bono, etc), "while my ol' ma gently weeps".

[manho]

there's really only one song to listen to today...

pery como, delaware:
www.sendspace.com/file/cfo5op

tho i guess you could listen to stan freberg's yellow rose of texas as a companion piece.

[cripes]

Huckabee addresses the nation:


'Surprise surprise surprise!'

[cripes]

'California, New York...even fuckin' Jersey...y'all can now kiss my black ass'.

[bart]

It's far from over, friends. In the Democratic primaries, the delegates get divied up by districts. So, "winning" a state doesn't mean squat. This battle is likely to drag on for months. It looks like the Republicans are going to get stuck with that demented old man, McCrabby, however.

[manho]

looks like the mexicans dumped obama big time. i guess they prefer a candidate with a moustache.

[dino]

god the idea to see that bitch everywhere in the next 4 years makes me............

[Steve]

www.electoral-vote.com/

Best election website

[manho]

cool site, len thanks.

[dino]

sound like a bakinakwa contest

www.votenumber1.com/votebestrocksongsever.html

[cripes]

looks like the mexicans dumped obama big time

Mexicans don't like black people....I think it's cuz black people pronounce it 'mes-kins'.

[cripes]

...and don't get me started on how much Asians don't like black people.




Can we call him 'Bar' now?

[owen]

saw a doc on tv about scott walker last nite. sounds like an interesting guy..... anyway was looking at some reviews on amazon and came across this great review:


'Fair' - could have been better [ considering the 'heavyweights' involved ], 7 Oct 2007
By Antonius Block

If you are one of the few who admire Scott Walker for his actual work [ both original & more recent ], rather than the clichéd `cult-status' that many seem to wallow in, then this DVD can only be described as `fair' - if that.

It boasts collaborations from or interviews with some of the most irrelevant no-marks & has-beens that ever existed & most of whom look like they had just been dug-up especially for the occasion [ or perhaps to resurrect their waning `careers'...? ]. `Lulu', for instance, rambles-on like your Aunty after a few sherries about how `gorgeous' Scott Walker was [ sigh... ]; then there is the tedious, whingeing, middle-England `Radiohead' [ who are far from `gorgeous' - it has to be said ) ], hiding behind their gravity-defying fringes... & who contributed little other than the proverbial `skinny-white-boy' naval-gazing, staring at old dog-eared album-covers, occasionally mumbling something... or other... of insignificance - like spotty adolescents ogling at a scan-mag; then you have the self-styled lower-middle-class hero, Jarvis Cocker, with that [ contrived to the extreme ] `jaded pop-star' look - as inarticulate as any modern Sociology drop-out of Sheffield Polytech could possibly be, punctuating every other word with `you know', `sort of', `kinda', `like', `dunno, really...' - very informative, indeed. Then, the equally-talentless Marc Almond... who comes over as just a pastiche of a pastiche [ tho, he always did, come to think of it ]. Brian Eno, too... [ known perhaps more for the quantity of his work, rather than its quality...? ]; tho', he's not exactly Mr. Personality & it's a little like listening to an Open University professor talk about cavity wall insulation or something. Then there's David Bowie - making a cameo-appearance, as it were... but he seems to be lost for words [ somehow I can't believe that `the Duke' is as inarticulate as the other degenerates he paid beer-money for appearing on his DVD - so, one is left with the distinct impression that maybe... just maybe... he's just a little... `jealous' of Scott...? ], as he glibly remarks about the `extraordinary' sound of the bass on Scott's `The Old Man's Back Again'...

Such insight...

At this point, I also have to ask [ myself ] why [ the most over-rated egg-head in creation, ] `Sting' is included on this DVD - as he sits at the opposite end of the musical spectrum to Scott Wallker: his `de-doo-doo-do, de-dah-dah-da' just about sums-up his contribution here [ which has less than negative value, to be honest ].

[ there also are a number of other interviewees, who I'd never heard of - & never hope to hear of again, actually - some of whom looked like they'd escaped from Rampton - & so no further comment is warranted on either ].

The only people that were perhaps not worthy of editing-out completely were Damon Albarn & Neil Hannon [ mainly because they were just a little more articulate than a six year old ]... tho' Neil admitted he didn't understand that in true art there is no ego... [ hmmm... ].

Which reminds me... maybe Julian Cope, who was conspicuous by his absence, was probably the catalyst for a lot of this [ rather sickening ] `god-like' devotion that we see here [ with his compilation `Fire Escape In The Sky' that came out of the blue a few years back ], introducing Scott Walker to those who were hitherto ignorant as to what music was - or could be. He was probably one of the few who truly `got it' with Scott Walker ... & so he stayed well away & politely declined to appear on this `mutual-appreciation-society' DVD [ whether that's because he makes Keith Richards look suave, I wouldn't like to say - but, it's a pity some of the other creatures featured here didn't follow in his footsteps ]. But, unlike most of the people included on this DVD, who are at best talentless imitators & wannabes - at least Julian Cope has a good appreciation of the musical `aesthetic' - having also written books about `Krautrock' & more recently `Japrock' - so, I am more inclined to understand why he didn't appear, given the nature of Scott Walker's music [ & his `personality' ] - perhaps out of respect - in contrast to this kind of sycophancy that we have here by contemporary so-called `artists' [ & I use the term loosely - very loosely ], which is not why I bought this DVD, anyway - especially at the expense of actual footage, either old or new, of Scott Walker, himself... of which this DVD contains very little.

All in all, not only do I wish I'd never bought this [ for the simple reason that it was a complete waste of time & money ]... I wish it had never been made... as it attempts to take away the mystery of something/someone that the director clearly only has a superficial understanding.

Thankfully, tho' it even fails on that count, too...