I made my first random 7" single purchase last week off of the Rough Trade website. I say random, but it was slightly swayed by the fact that the a side track was titled "Arse Road". Imagine my delight when it arrived and one of the B sides was called "Titwank".
It (by look look (dancing boys)) already felt like something John Peel would play. This whole feeling was added to when I played it and couldn't be sure if I was playing it at the right speed (I'm still not sure now).
I'm not sure if I could handle an entire album, but for three songs its a great listen. Sadly I can't find the lyrics online, but I can say with confidence it couldn't be further from progressive rock if it tried.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Losing Pounds
"Good news everyone" - I've lost 6lbs in the past few months. I've not been trying as such, but I have certainly been eating healthier. I'm still some way from the11st back when I worked in Wickes though.
Some shocking news though. Yesterday we had a letter through the post to say that the price of our home and contents insurance has changed. Don't worry it said, you don't need to do a thing! Well thank god for that - my kind of letter! Luckily I glanced at the new price, and a good job I did too.
If it had gone up by a few quid a month, I could have lived with that. If it had gone up a tenner, I'd start to question it. When it goes up from £23/mo to a whopping £63/mo, I'd have no other choice than to believe it must be a typing error! Nope, it was for real. When I spoke to the lady on the phone she didn't really hesitate in telling me that maybe its time for us to leave them. "We obviously won't want to lose your custom, but it might be in your best interest to cancel your account with us.". Damm straight.
I have a horrible feeling its going to backfire in 7 years time (when my only memory if this incident lies in reading this entry), and the house has just flooded, but we've opted to go with Tesco. It's half the price we were previously paying, and lets just hope we don't pay for it in the long run.
Some shocking news though. Yesterday we had a letter through the post to say that the price of our home and contents insurance has changed. Don't worry it said, you don't need to do a thing! Well thank god for that - my kind of letter! Luckily I glanced at the new price, and a good job I did too.
If it had gone up by a few quid a month, I could have lived with that. If it had gone up a tenner, I'd start to question it. When it goes up from £23/mo to a whopping £63/mo, I'd have no other choice than to believe it must be a typing error! Nope, it was for real. When I spoke to the lady on the phone she didn't really hesitate in telling me that maybe its time for us to leave them. "We obviously won't want to lose your custom, but it might be in your best interest to cancel your account with us.". Damm straight.
I have a horrible feeling its going to backfire in 7 years time (when my only memory if this incident lies in reading this entry), and the house has just flooded, but we've opted to go with Tesco. It's half the price we were previously paying, and lets just hope we don't pay for it in the long run.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
More Peel Quotes
Some Peel quotes for your reading pleasure. Thanks to Rossall for these:
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After Morrissey's falsetto wailing at the end of 'What Difference DoesIt Make?': "Ah, the sound of distant seagulls"
If Elvis were alive today, I think he'd really understand happyhardcore."
People like Mike Read and DLT would often complain that they couldn't goanywhere without being recognized, but of course would go everywhere ina tartan suit carrying a guitar, so they would have attracted attentionin a lunatic asylum. In the streets of London, people would go, "Who thef**k is that? Isn't that that Mike Read bloke?"
From when he was presenting Top of the Pops. After a video of the dismalAretha Franklin/George Michael duet (i forget it's name), it cuts backto Peel who says:"You know, Aretha Franklin can make any old rubbish sound good, and ithink she just has."
Show starts.A motorcycle revving noise.Some guitars being very loud and heavy.Then some guitars being very loud and heavy with a man shouting. alllast about five seconds."Three tracks from Napalm Death, there, in session tonight..."
In 1993 Peel took over the lunchtime slot for a week afterthen-controller Johnny Beerling was challenged by someone at aconference. He'd obviously been told "Look man, we don't want tocompromise your show, but remember there will be a different audiencelistening, and we do have a daytime playlist to follow... just bear thatin mind, OK?" First record - "Why Are People Grudgeful?" by The Fall,followed with the obscure reggae original version of the same song. Hethen continued in the same vein, playing a lot of hard-trance, the oddBeefheart classic and making snide comments about most of the playlist.For instance, the Chris Issak which included the line '...and you can'tdo a thing to stop me' to which Peel retorted, "Yes I can, mate, I cantake your awful CD out of the machine and throw it as far away from thisstudio as possible." For a brief moment, we thought we'd won. Next week,he was back on the night-shift. Bet off.
Peel's compering debut on TOTP: "In case you're wondering who this funnyold bloke is, I'm the one who comes on Radio 1 late at night and playsrecords made by sulky Belgian art students in basements dying of TB."
They sound like somebody's been given a good kicking - set to music.
Another TOTP classic, after a particularly dismal Duran video:JP (jaunty): Well that was the best song I've heard since...well, teatime. Mind you, I had a late tea.
"Janice has just phoned to ask if I can play some Whitney Houston.Haven't got any Whitney tonight, Janice, but here's Bolt Thrower"
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After Morrissey's falsetto wailing at the end of 'What Difference DoesIt Make?': "Ah, the sound of distant seagulls"
If Elvis were alive today, I think he'd really understand happyhardcore."
People like Mike Read and DLT would often complain that they couldn't goanywhere without being recognized, but of course would go everywhere ina tartan suit carrying a guitar, so they would have attracted attentionin a lunatic asylum. In the streets of London, people would go, "Who thef**k is that? Isn't that that Mike Read bloke?"
From when he was presenting Top of the Pops. After a video of the dismalAretha Franklin/George Michael duet (i forget it's name), it cuts backto Peel who says:"You know, Aretha Franklin can make any old rubbish sound good, and ithink she just has."
Show starts.A motorcycle revving noise.Some guitars being very loud and heavy.Then some guitars being very loud and heavy with a man shouting. alllast about five seconds."Three tracks from Napalm Death, there, in session tonight..."
In 1993 Peel took over the lunchtime slot for a week afterthen-controller Johnny Beerling was challenged by someone at aconference. He'd obviously been told "Look man, we don't want tocompromise your show, but remember there will be a different audiencelistening, and we do have a daytime playlist to follow... just bear thatin mind, OK?" First record - "Why Are People Grudgeful?" by The Fall,followed with the obscure reggae original version of the same song. Hethen continued in the same vein, playing a lot of hard-trance, the oddBeefheart classic and making snide comments about most of the playlist.For instance, the Chris Issak which included the line '...and you can'tdo a thing to stop me' to which Peel retorted, "Yes I can, mate, I cantake your awful CD out of the machine and throw it as far away from thisstudio as possible." For a brief moment, we thought we'd won. Next week,he was back on the night-shift. Bet off.
Peel's compering debut on TOTP: "In case you're wondering who this funnyold bloke is, I'm the one who comes on Radio 1 late at night and playsrecords made by sulky Belgian art students in basements dying of TB."
They sound like somebody's been given a good kicking - set to music.
Another TOTP classic, after a particularly dismal Duran video:JP (jaunty): Well that was the best song I've heard since...well, teatime. Mind you, I had a late tea.
"Janice has just phoned to ask if I can play some Whitney Houston.Haven't got any Whitney tonight, Janice, but here's Bolt Thrower"
Cbeebies and the smell of fresh shit..
Me and Becky had our nephew round for the night last night. Its the first time we've had him overnight and although it was stressful (you can never really relax), it was great fun with it. He's 18 months old and at the great age where he's not only really good fun (anyone who can kick a ball instantly become fun, and its great when he uncontrollably giggles!) but he doesn't chat back either - not at least with anything I can make sense of.
In much the same way I wonder how people survived without tv remotes and mobile phones, just how did people get by before the TV channel Cbeebies came about? Sure you had kids tv, but never quite on demand like it is now. I'd love to know the science behind how it works, as they've managed to engineer the content on the channel so it instantly grabs the kid's attention (much like that Whiskers advert use to with cats). There was a show on there being narrated and presented by Martin Clunes (of Men Behaving Badly fame). I'm sure my nephew didn't have a clue what Clunes was chatting about, but he was gripped. Yet I can be sure that if I flicked the channel over to ITV1 so Doc Martin was on (also starring Clunes) he wouldn't want to know about it.
I realise there is a lot of talk in the media at the moment about kids watching too much tv, but I can hardly blame the parents. Cbeebies is like the magic bullet for almost any situation. If he's getting restless or agitated, flick it on and he's happy. Whats more, it looks like it's designed to teach as well - bonus!
One final thing.. nothing - not even numerous amount of visits to dodgy Glastonbury Festival toilets - can prepare you for the task of changing a nappy after a kid has really gone to town in it. Heck, I was only watching. That was bad enough! Poor old becks was changing it and I don't think she knew whether to laugh or cry. She chose hysterics.
In much the same way I wonder how people survived without tv remotes and mobile phones, just how did people get by before the TV channel Cbeebies came about? Sure you had kids tv, but never quite on demand like it is now. I'd love to know the science behind how it works, as they've managed to engineer the content on the channel so it instantly grabs the kid's attention (much like that Whiskers advert use to with cats). There was a show on there being narrated and presented by Martin Clunes (of Men Behaving Badly fame). I'm sure my nephew didn't have a clue what Clunes was chatting about, but he was gripped. Yet I can be sure that if I flicked the channel over to ITV1 so Doc Martin was on (also starring Clunes) he wouldn't want to know about it.
I realise there is a lot of talk in the media at the moment about kids watching too much tv, but I can hardly blame the parents. Cbeebies is like the magic bullet for almost any situation. If he's getting restless or agitated, flick it on and he's happy. Whats more, it looks like it's designed to teach as well - bonus!
One final thing.. nothing - not even numerous amount of visits to dodgy Glastonbury Festival toilets - can prepare you for the task of changing a nappy after a kid has really gone to town in it. Heck, I was only watching. That was bad enough! Poor old becks was changing it and I don't think she knew whether to laugh or cry. She chose hysterics.
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