Volume 76
21 Oct 2006
Now I'm watching The Fifth Element. Much better....... That was fantastic and I don't even like Bruce Willis.
Watching xXx - what wonderful hocum. I love the image of decadent Europe where people smoke and nightclubs have techno and flames and tesla coils and all the women are modelled on Louise Brooks. Of course everyone is evil apart from the American. Lots of rather too obvious product placement. Sadly it lost its impetus and just became weak. In fact pathetic. Terrible ending.
Dim Mak - all the diggers and tubers are arguing like mad about htis and not a single person has pointed out that Dimmak is of course the martial art that Robert Rankin invented in his books......
20 Oct 2006
So there is the game show where people have to pick someone who gets a million quid, so surely you all just agree to pick one person and then split it 9 ways after? Or is that just too obvious?
I just watched Pimp My Ride UK. How bizarre. I'm just about to watch Pimp My Ride the US version. I expect that to be even more bizarre, though in a quite different way.....Oh my lord, it's worse than I thought
19 Oct 2006
I note this page doesn't seem to render particularly well in IE7. Some of the stuff that didn't work in IE6 now seems to work, but where are all the comment images? Feh.
BTW if you hover over the time for a posting you will see its title...(assuming I have given it one)
I am now using tinymce as the editor for comments rather than HypertextArea.
18 Oct 2006
I broke comments this morning. They are still a tad shaky, but should be postable again.
17 Oct 2006
Louis Armstrong in the 30s - fantastic clip. Wonderful horn playing. All those smears and things.
Just watched the steel clip again. Still wonderful music, but what's with the weird mariachi band uniforms, and there is something very odd about his hair.
Wonderful steel - best steel I've heard for a while, and it's nice to actually see him playing it in a steady shot. (via Daily Jive)
I love Sleepy John Estes' Milk Cow Blues. Nice mandolin from Yank Rachel too.
16 Oct 2006
Anyone else think that the new BBC Robin Hood is just Star Wars with bows and Arrows (OK, I know that Star Wars is just Robin Hood with light sabers). Listen to the music. Look at the vaderesque armour the Sheriff's men wear. Look at the laboured script....
I have been getting complaints. About the lack of titles on the RSS feed. Of course, I don't have titles anywhere. Do people want titles? Or perhaps I should just randomly generate things and drop in the title field? I could do clever things like grabbing the title from the page that was linked and using that. Is there a call for this sort of thing? Inquiring minds want to know.
15 Oct 2006
14 Oct 2006
RIP Freddy Fender
It was a nice day today - crazy to be working in the garden in a T-shirt in October. Cleared a lot of beds, planted garlic and some green manure.
13 Oct 2006
12 Oct 2006
Lovely sunset this evening
I do like the It's All About the Stragglers by Artful Dodger. Woman Trouble is such a great track.
11 Oct 2006
"randomatious" only has (had) one hit on google which strikes me as surprising. The fact that it was a myspace page was not surprising though.
Amazing - that really is the funniest thing I have seen all week. You have to watch it to the end as well.
10 Oct 2006
9 Oct 2006
8 Oct 2006
7 Oct 2006
No idea, not the remotest clue. Film viral? Millenialist nonsense? What happens in 38 days or so? Over to you guys...
The South Park/WoW episode is very funny. Watch it if you can find it.
6 Oct 2006
I have to confess to being not nearly as impressed by this as everyone else seems to be. It's really not that hard if you have the equipment, in particular the claims of "understanding" are just bogus.
5 Oct 2006
4 Oct 2006
RIP Josh Graves
Nice to be prepared. I suspect if they put it in the right savings acount the interest might build nicely.
F&S do Bjork (pretty funny, but not exactly hilarious as it is described. Iceland is a frozen food store in the UK by the way)
3 Oct 2006
RIP Henry Townsend & Dewey Redman
2 Oct 2006
The Horizontal Way - I wonder if I should go horizontal? You could have a really thin window then. ALmost a ticker tape in fact.
I managed to give away 5 marrows yesterday in the space of 30 minutes which is pretty good going, given the normal desirability of marrows.
1 Oct 2006
I've realised why I never get review freebies - the delivery people have collided with the crush of publishers trying to sign me up for a book and nobody can get through. That must be it.
Which composer (I suspect they mean songwriter really) I came out Tom Waits which I don't think is accurate since I am not a huge fan, but there again I don't know what the other possibilites were.
30 Sep 2006
Why is Second Life filled with placenames taken from the Lake District?
I have to say that Second Life seems pretty dull to me. Perhpas I just haven't found the action yet (however currently I am sitting in a chair in a BDSM club. This activity (or inactivity) earns me money, of which I have none)
29 Sep 2006
I fiddled with comments again so tell me if they are broken. I am thinking about taking out the captcha and using an enforced preview as an anti-spam measure. Need to think about it.
There was a *VERY* weird comedy programme tonight on C4 which was 30 minutes just taking the mickey out of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. Very bizarre and very funny.
Watch the video about the Macon wreck - that hangar ia amazing and they are planning to knock it down!
28 Sep 2006
Lovely playing, but not ideal for Montreux. I wonder why they booked him (other than for the reason that he was a great musician)?
27 Sep 2006
: Das Rivet
26 Sep 2006
Someone suggested that we use Second Life as part of one of our courses so I signed up for it - what a pain that was. It all seems a little weird - any of you know much about it?
Chy, mail me about the captcha system.....
Why can't you buy sandwich bags that are not made of plastic? it really annoys me.
25 Sep 2006
24 Sep 2006
23 Sep 2006
Mementoke (I have never heard of Memento so the parody is lost on me, but it is funny anyway)
22 Sep 2006
Just watched a 1974 performance by Oscar Peterson with Barney Kessel and that Scandinavian bass player whose name I can't spell. You know the one I mean - he died a little while ago. Anyway it was fantastic - Peterson in his prime. I was have expecting it to be loaded onto youtube by now, but it's not.
I see that J-Walk got a offered a free bean bag chair for a plug on the weblog. How come I don't get offers like that? I can play the banjo too, and I have a proper beard. How often have I offered to review the latest Apple equipment? Have I heard anything? Huh.
I looked at KittenAuth - I might make my own RivetsAuth based on the idea.
Pay attention guys! You aren't filling in the captcha so your comments are dropping on the floor!
21 Sep 2006
I saw one of these a while ago and thought it was neat, but it is way to expensive to actually buy one for the amount I would use it.
More good stuff - Jerry Douglas and then a seque into the Dallas String Band playing the Dallas Rag. The random numbers are coming up good today. Oh, and then Morton Gunner Larsen playing Sensation.
Ah, Arthur McBride by Planxty - one of my favourite songs. Lovely tune they use for it too. The bozouki playing works really well on it. Clicks play again...
There have been 6436 comments made to this weblog. Please note that there I have the added the start of a captcha mechanism to the comment page. I don't like to do it but I am getting sick of the moronic spammers. I had one this morning that looked as though they had actually looked at the link, so now either they are paying real people to type in the comment spam by hand (which you can't easily beatr) or else they are looking for people linking to particualr pages and generating a comment for that page and spamming it round. Which also sounds like hard work for a spam message that nobody will read. I have no clue why they think that comment spam gets them any audience share at all. Quite bizarre. Some of it doesn't even have any advertising material in it all.
I just saw something on the net described as "myspace for cricket fans".....sorry I must have nodded off there.
20 Sep 2006
Horribly windy here tonight.
oh, now it's Tony Rice and Co. playing Birdland Breakdown. Gorgeous. (Sam Bush again)
Lovely Sam Bush/David Grisman duet called 'Cept Old Bill
19 Sep 2006
I get really annoyed when emusic won't let me download some album "that is not available" in my country. Why the hell not! Grrrr.....
18 Sep 2006
17 Sep 2006
16 Sep 2006
Just watched the first two episodes of Entourage. I have to say I can't decide if it is any good or not. It might be a young persons programme.
Actually, I'm absolutely lacquered - I was cladding the inside of the summerhouse. Clearly the answer is licquor.
15 Sep 2006
Oooh, Mulvhill's and the Dawn from Mist Covered Mountain by De Dannan. Stonking tunes.
I suspect that iTunes 7 is buffering enormous amounts of tune in memory : everytime you come to the end of a track, the whole machine freezes.
- follow the link for hugeness
Hmmm - he did have his Tai Chi master with on stage of course. Oh, I was wondering about the secret of HUNG MEN. I'm guessing that that is in reality a Chinese name, but I bet it brings of lots of hits to this particular item....
The thing that always worries me about foreign movies, particularly funny ones, (see yesterday) is all the cultural jokes that I know I am missing. This is particularly true of Almodòvar who has all kinds of jokes to do with accents and things.