Tarkus The Otter
Over the last few months, since playing live again, I’ve had this growing feeling. And now I can put it into words:
I want to join a prog band.
As you may know, I’m rubbish on guitar. But I’m excellent on synths, both programming and playing them. Sometimes, I’ll just sit round idly soloing through [...]
Archive for January, 2006
Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown [University] today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.
(Source: Insomnia)
The pic above has really cheered me up. There’s [...]
The best new track tonight was ‘All For U’ by Aceyalone and RJD2. It’s from the forthcoming stunna, ‘Magnificent City.’ I’d normally stick a load of links in here to various related sites but I can’t find one goddamned site that isn’t hobbled by the CANCER OF THE WEB KNOWN AS FLASH. GAAAAH!
…and relax..
Anyway, even [...]
This is taken from a transcript between and Israeli commander and his troops:
SENTRY: We spotted an Arab female about 100 meters below our emplacement, near the light armored vehicle gate.
HEADQUARTERS: Observation post “Spain,” do you see it?
OBSERVATION POST: Affirmative, it’s a young girl. She’s now running east.
…
HQ: Are you talking about a girl under ten?
OP: [...]
Via Popgadget.
Has anyone told Dr. Robert?
It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computers’ new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for ‘Such Great Heights’ made by the same filmmakers responsible for the original. We did not approve this commercialization and are extremely disappointed with both parties that this was executed without [...]
Rambling round the web, I just stumbled on the above: a little musicbox movement that you can program to play your own music by punching holes in tape. And it’s only £25.
This hand cranked 20 note Musical Movement plays by punched paper strips. Easy to use, the movement has a range of 20 natural notes [...]
Mikkel Metal… so very nearly Metal Mickey….
In a shock development, tonight’s top new tune was not by a Swede! Yep. It was ‘Align’ by the extremely lustrous Mikkel Metal who is… Danish. ‘Align’ is gorgeously sparse minimal electronic music and it’s taken from Mikkel’s album, ‘Victimizer,’ which is released in twelve days. Get your pre-orders [...]
You can measure the number of terrorist attacks. Well, that’s gone up sharply under the Bush administration, very sharply after the Iraq war. As expected — it was anticipated by intelligence agencies that the Iraq war would increase the likelihood of terror.
And the post-invasion estimates by the CIA, National Intelligence Council, and other intelligence [...]
Picked the wrong goddamn week to give up staying on the ground
Airport ‘79 is on telly!
How can you go wrong? The Concorde, Alain Delon, Robert Wagner, plane-related mishaps! Of course, I’ve long had a fascination with Alain Delon:
Next to Cary Grant, he’s the bloke I most wish I looked like. Instead of Boss Nass. [...]