Oh yeah, everything’s not going to be alright this morning… I forget the obligatory Youtube link. No video but a very cool song.

Oh yeah, I was busy putting my Beatle boots and getting ready for work earlier and forget to mention: garage punk dot com[/url]

The Born Bad series did a pretty good job at cataloguing the Cramps direct influences (hooks that Ivy used, songs they covered, songs they combined). I’ve loved 60s punk and psychedelia for well, jeez, 25 years or so now directly because of the Cramps and the 80s neo-psychedelia (Plasticland, TellTale Hearts, etc).

Check out Ugly Things[/url] – currently one of the best mags on this kind of stuff (although I don’t share their love of late 70s power pop). And also check out the 60s Comp Database link. Nuggets was just a starting point. Over the years people unearthed many seriously unhinged bits of vinyl.

You might also like to checkout the late 80s/early 90s Liverpool psych band Walkingseeds, esp. their ‘Upwind of Disaster, Downwind of Atonement’ album for one the better latter stabs at postpunk garage/psych. ‘Louie, Louie, Louie’ is stunning 🙂

Some of the stuff reviewed here might tickle yer fancy – not exclusively folk and little straightforwardly traditional folk like the stuff in your link but some v.good contemporary psychedelic folk and people working in the trad. folk tradition (such as the superb Sharron Kraus).

Woven Wheat Whispers used to be a superb web resource but, in a familiar story…

The folk music download store Woven Wheat Whispers, has closed its virtual doors for the last time.

Woven Wheat Whispers was the target of a hacker attack and was taken offline to safeguard customer data. During the closure Mark Coyle reviewed the service and decided to close the store permanently. Diminishing sales and general apathy were amongst the reasons given for the closure.

Have a click here

Pagan Dawn – Brain Donor…… but only if she’s called Dawn, obviously.

MediaMonkey – it does cost actual money (or it can be found from the usual download sources). I’ve chosen it over iTunes simply because it does everything better rather than through necessity.

That’ll be because sabs are law breaking **** looking for a fight who don’t give a sh1t about animal welfare and hunt followers are not.

LOL!! Hello masterfishfart, this is reality calling ! There are members of both sides in this who are thick **** spoiling for a fight. There are sabs who care *deeply* for animal welfare, there are hunters who care *deeply* about, um, whatever it is they’re trying to prove.

Anyway. The gyro/heli debate isn’t as simple as transport/extravagant weapon. Straightforwardly, I wouldn’t get in a heli with Noel Edmunds and Mr Blobby. But then I wouldn’t run up to a landing gyro piloted by a crusty.

Well, my missus says that she was my mid-life crisis but I disagree: I was only 35/36; she’s only 13 years younger than me; I was leaving my ex-wife anyway; my two boys from my first marriage love her dearly and also are enamoured by their new sister. So, less of a crisis and more of joyous life change.

Give me a few years and I might get a three grand bike though.

Andrew, do you work on Timeteam?

Lol, that is wonderful and today’s Facebook status decided.
Yes, DezB my manly breasts are quite prominent in my birthday jumper.

Not sure if linking directly from Facebook will work. Here goes…

Taken by my six year old son 🙂

No no no, you’re getting mixed up. You can be Christian but not believe the Bible.

So how are you a christian with out following the will of god? And how do you know the will of god?* Is there a separate “Even Newer Testement…no, this is really the real one, Honest” that has come to light?

Genuinly interested on this point.

SSP

(Just butting in here: I know of people calling themselves Christians who set more store by the Nag Hammadi Library (mostly Gnostic Christian texts) than the New Testament (and only then in the Coptic versions) or, alternatively, other Apocryphal books.

These threads are endlessly entertaining. At first i always start of quite indignant at the usual “Religion should be banned” statements and the use of Dawkins as a serious commentator on anything except evolutionary biology: on theology and the philosophy of science he is, to be honest, a bit of a thicket to anyone who has read anything other than, um, Dawkins on the subject.

Bad religion led to the horrors of the inquisition and countless wars.
Bad science led to the horrors of the gas chambers and the gulag (and, arguably, provided the justification for the horrors of the slave trade).

The common feature of both? Humans. Eventually we’ll wipe ourselves out and the ends of natural selection will have been served.

The other one is “almost killed”. Exactly how near death was he? 10% chance of survival?

As near to death as any made up character used to allow someone to rant about their pet hate could ever be I’ll bet.

No, I think that’s pretty obviously assault.

God help you if you ever stumble across the real world.

Greatest Metal track, EVER.

Pffft.

32, 36, 37.

It has suited me just fine; thoroughly love being a dad.

(Though I’m still waiting for my 700see from Matt Chester, so I might be a kiss of death.)

Blimey! Not just me then! I think in the end I decided that Matt Chester had picked me out at random to take a dislike to and not send me my mag/s.

Good news about the book!

The one that BigYin mentioned (‘Learning to Ride’) tugs at my heart strings every time I see it. Also any which feature standing stones, stone circles, tumuli and walking hills (So ‘The Mendip Brothers’ is well loved) 🙂

“guns, germs and steel”

sounds quite interesting. I agree about libraries to an extent – I love going with the children – but my hoarding instinct is too strong. It’s even been justified recently with my missus picking up and thoroughly enjoying an old copy of Fahrenheit 451 I forgot I had.

Edale’s not a bad starting point: up Chapel Gate, along Rushup Edge (or any other route over Mam Tor so the right hand BW from Greenlands is viable). Cut across Windy Knoll, down the farm track to the top of Cave Dale (or what i think of it as being) Down Cave Dale. Hearty lunch in Castleton. Up Mam Tor. Down Mam Tor. Home.

Don’t drive so my bike’s, um, worth infinitely more?

Mind you, the missus and I have a mission to get our licences before the end of the year Although I suspect that the bike will still be worth a great deal more than any car we buy.

That’s more like it for my short term reading needs, ta MrNutt 🙂

neilsonwheels: I think it’s Discovery Road? (from Googling, ‘australia africa bicycle book lol)

Anne Mustoe’s Cleopatra’s Needle: Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo looks quite good too.

I wonder why it is that it’s mostly women authors/riders?

Both sound grand and will definitely be on the ‘to read’ list. Cheers 🙂

Inbred.

Mind you I keep finding myself giving admiring glances to my Prince Albert 🙂

Who would buy Howies?

Patrick Bateman and the vapid wealthy.

Pure commodity fetishism; the schtick is everything and reality a distant memory.

We love chillies and we love chocolate.

Chocolate with chilli – can either ruin good chocolate or distract from iffy chocolate.
Chilli with chocolate – No. A good meal ruined. I used to have a *superb* Mexican cook book from the 60s (ie. a cook book actually from Mexico) and no mention of choccy chilli. fast forward a generation and a history reclaimed and pukey heritage meals are everywhere.

but hey, never mind, each to their own 🙂

Alex Rankin has made some of my favourite mountain bike films. Earthed 5 was great. And this? Lovely editing, reasonable soundtrack, but not very much to work with in terms of content. It all ends up being just a bit dull.

Best releases of 2009 so far:

Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Æthenor – Faking Gold and Murder

Forget Duffy. Our brains are fading fast. Don’t waste time your neural pathways’ time.

1991. Al Carter Pro or something along those lines. Al Carter Professional? I’ll have to check next time I go to my mam and dad’s as it’s still in the shed there

South Derby which is relatively close depending on which bit of Leicestershire you’re in.

CK: Absolutely superb page, thanks for making it available to us all 🙂

Ah! i thought it was a thread about the navy 456, which is very nice.

I think I’d sooner see one of these built up. In my blurry mind it just merges with other white On Ones.

bacon, sausages n eggs.

Dirty bastard.

😆

Could be wrong.

All sorts of answers. ‘Just’ a power trip? Nothing wrong with power games sometimes. If they’re all you play then I guess no one will want to play the same game all the time.

The pleasure of the kink/transgression for the sake of it can be fun too.

It’s a bit like cake: save the really sticky chocolate cake for special occasions because vanilla slice is yummy too.

Red’s not an option then?

You like lipstick on yours ?

There are other options for the bloody-minded.

A couple of links: click and a lengthy extract from Jon Ronson’s encounter with them and their ‘exposers’: click.

Ever heard of them? Mr Blair joined them in the forest several times

The Bilderberg lot meet every year in various luxury resorts around the world; it’s been quite well reported in recent years with even the broadsheets giving it a few column inches. The main bugbear of the conspiracy gang is that what goes on at these meetings is that details of discussions within the meetings are kept secret – plenty of scope for “They’re planning the next 12 months or all our reality, making presidents etc” (Obama was a recent guest as was Blair before becoming PM etc). The official line is that it’s a meet and greet on a grand scale.

The “in the woods” reference, I would guess, is to teh ‘Cremation of Care’ holiday at Bohemian Grove. Lots of rich and powerful types meet, burn ‘care’ at a huge owl altar and leave their cares behind for a week. Make small talk. Drink gin. Wee on trees. Alex Jones is your number one ranting US conspiracy nut for this one.

But yeah, Icke is priceless. A great British eccentric.

We’ve just finished eating some chilli and lemon potato things and awatching Serial Mom – John Waters films rock 🙂

That does look nice :-0