Miscellania (including the weekend)
Feb. 11th, 2004 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotzDick Dale's playing Edinburgh in March or so. mclusky are going to be in Glasgow soon. The Fall are being supported by John Cooper Clarke shortly. Pixies will be at T in the Park.
Am I missing anything important?
In other news, I had a lovely weekend. On Thursday evening we stayed in. On Friday we had lunch, and in the evening went to Dead & Buried.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sheridanwilde was there, and so was bootpunk, so we chatted to them both (all too) briefly. The former insisted on dragging over John and Jackie from Devilish Presley so I could say hello and apologise for not staying to see them play. They were very good about it, and seemed very good people generally, but unfortunately the Tyranny of the Last Train Home forced us out into the cold and dark before they went on. I've heard a couple of tracks and some other clips since, though, and they sound rather fine. One to promote up my Seek list, I think. They were asking whether I or anyone puts gigs on up here . . . well, I don't, but some people do.
Saturday and Sunday were fairly lazy. The extra documentary with the Near Dark DVD is very interesting. Lance Henriksen is indeed scarily scary and obviously off his head. It hadn't clicked that three of the cast had been in Aliens together the previous year. And then there's the interesting case of the disappearing Jenny Wright.
On the way back up, I passed a loco (we do still cal them locos, don't we?) stopped in a station somewhere near Stafford. It was named after Brains from Thunderbird
Terry Jones has a good series on at the moment, about why the middle ages were much more interesting and worthwhile than the poxy renaissance. This week was about peasants. The next few will be about different walks of life. Recommended.
uk.music.alternative is quite funny at the moment. If you're as easily amused as I am, anyway.
Ian Rankine has a new Rebus novel out, called A Question of Blood. It features Goths. Quite why he should choose to include such disgusting creatures is quite a mystery, but include them he did. Only one, though, is really a significant character. Interestingly, she is stated to be one ofsibelian's little friends from outside the livingroom window. sibelian himself, unfortunately, does not appear.
And on a related topic, an aged local ex-teacher who was jailed a few years ago for abusing pupils sexually has been found dead in a garden not too far from here. Or possibly in several gardens not too far from here, as he had been deprived of his physical coherence as well as his metabolic status. What a charming world we live in. I imagine the detectives and forensics bods are working hard as we speak on getting the perp nailed.
Raise the Graf Spee? Seriously?
I have some friends who are in the habit of, when hungry, announcing that they "need some fud". I always find this amusing. It means something different up here.
On a tangential wander from there, I've just dug up again the name of James Balfour, sixteenth-century Lord President of the Court of Session, unhappily dubbed "the most corrupt man of his age". What a way to be remembered. Still, I believe he died in his bed, which is more than you can say for most of the people he was associated with.
Apparently my Plextor is just unsupported under the particular xmms plugin I'm using. So I have to use a different one instead . . . not a huge imposition.
I see the vrms package still exists. Excellent. *Install*.
I've installed rather a lot of kit. Ardour starts, but it's going to take some more tweaking to get it to run usefully.
Fiona's got a version of Sweet Home Alabama, performed by the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Chorus. How cool is that?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/28/1075088090949.html. Just look. I'm not going to explain.Perfectly work-safe. One photo, and an accompanying article.
Thought for the day:
Now beneath this lonely junction on the northbound M6
We spray our words of signature on the concrete bridge
And between the words of wisdom and the slogans of despair
Someone's just gone and written 'I'm sorry' there [NMA]
Am I missing anything important?
In other news, I had a lovely weekend. On Thursday evening we stayed in. On Friday we had lunch, and in the evening went to Dead & Buried.
sheridanwilde was there, and so was bootpunk, so we chatted to them both (all too) briefly. The former insisted on dragging over John and Jackie from Devilish Presley so I could say hello and apologise for not staying to see them play. They were very good about it, and seemed very good people generally, but unfortunately the Tyranny of the Last Train Home forced us out into the cold and dark before they went on. I've heard a couple of tracks and some other clips since, though, and they sound rather fine. One to promote up my Seek list, I think. They were asking whether I or anyone puts gigs on up here . . . well, I don't, but some people do.Saturday and Sunday were fairly lazy. The extra documentary with the Near Dark DVD is very interesting. Lance Henriksen is indeed scarily scary and obviously off his head. It hadn't clicked that three of the cast had been in Aliens together the previous year. And then there's the interesting case of the disappearing Jenny Wright.
On the way back up, I passed a loco (we do still cal them locos, don't we?) stopped in a station somewhere near Stafford. It was named after Brains from Thunderbird
Terry Jones has a good series on at the moment, about why the middle ages were much more interesting and worthwhile than the poxy renaissance. This week was about peasants. The next few will be about different walks of life. Recommended.
uk.music.alternative is quite funny at the moment. If you're as easily amused as I am, anyway.
Ian Rankine has a new Rebus novel out, called A Question of Blood. It features Goths. Quite why he should choose to include such disgusting creatures is quite a mystery, but include them he did. Only one, though, is really a significant character. Interestingly, she is stated to be one of
sibelian's little friends from outside the livingroom window. sibelian himself, unfortunately, does not appear.And on a related topic, an aged local ex-teacher who was jailed a few years ago for abusing pupils sexually has been found dead in a garden not too far from here. Or possibly in several gardens not too far from here, as he had been deprived of his physical coherence as well as his metabolic status. What a charming world we live in. I imagine the detectives and forensics bods are working hard as we speak on getting the perp nailed.
Raise the Graf Spee? Seriously?
I have some friends who are in the habit of, when hungry, announcing that they "need some fud". I always find this amusing. It means something different up here.
On a tangential wander from there, I've just dug up again the name of James Balfour, sixteenth-century Lord President of the Court of Session, unhappily dubbed "the most corrupt man of his age". What a way to be remembered. Still, I believe he died in his bed, which is more than you can say for most of the people he was associated with.
Apparently my Plextor is just unsupported under the particular xmms plugin I'm using. So I have to use a different one instead . . . not a huge imposition.
I see the vrms package still exists. Excellent. *Install*.
I've installed rather a lot of kit. Ardour starts, but it's going to take some more tweaking to get it to run usefully.
Fiona's got a version of Sweet Home Alabama, performed by the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Chorus. How cool is that?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/28/1075088090949.html. Just look. I'm not going to explain.Perfectly work-safe. One photo, and an accompanying article.
Thought for the day:
Now beneath this lonely junction on the northbound M6
We spray our words of signature on the concrete bridge
And between the words of wisdom and the slogans of despair
Someone's just gone and written 'I'm sorry' there [NMA]
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*pssst*
Date: 2004-02-10 06:59 pm (UTC)That'd be![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sheridanwilde (just watch me get my own username wrong now)
About time that Near Dark was re-released - I remember reading somewhere that the video was deleted and unailable. Also, job my memory - which were the other two from Aliens?
Must agree with Mr. Jones re: the interest of the dark ages over renaissance (which apparently didn't affect Britain until it was all over anyway). Sometimes makes me wish I had a TV (but only sometimes).
Rebus - would that be the police detective that Radio 4 keep making radio plays of?
Oops, just realised I said dark ages instead of middle ages. Well, them as well - anything's better than the age of reason...
Not entirely sure about your musical taste, but now I know such a thing exists I feel tempted to look for it (then again I've been listening to Prince for the last half hour)...
np: Prince - When Doves CryRe: *pssst*
Date: 2004-02-11 12:52 am (UTC)Bill Paxton (Severen/Hudson) and Jenette Goldstein (Diamondback/Vasquez).
The master of Near Dark was lost at one point, there's some blurb about it in the booklet that comes with the DVD, but the video seems to be freely available, although that may be because they found the master.
Not entirely sure about your musical taste
Pah! Graham's taste is impeccable! And if you mean the Leningrad Cowboys you should check it out, it's great stuff. :)
Re: *pssst*
Date: 2004-02-11 02:13 am (UTC)Re: *pssst*
Date: 2004-02-11 02:14 am (UTC)Re: *pssst*
Date: 2004-02-11 02:26 am (UTC)(Assuming I can make it work.)
Re: *pssst*
Date: 2004-02-11 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-11 01:38 am (UTC)Rebus - not to my knowledge, although one (The Falls) has been adapted for Radio 4, and another one for TV. And as for Sweet Home Alabama . . . well, I like it a lot more then the original, personally.
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Date: 2004-02-11 01:55 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-11 09:18 am (UTC)I saw the others, and they were very good.
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Date: 2004-02-11 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-11 01:49 am (UTC)And, where has Jenny Wright disappeared to?
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Date: 2004-02-11 02:05 am (UTC)Jenny Wright wasn't in the documentary on the second disk, although they talked about her briefly. Adrian Pasdoe asked her to get in touch if she saw it, so presumably when she left the film business she didn't leave a forwarding address. I don't think she's disappeared disappeared, though. It sounds more like she's just not in touch.
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Date: 2004-02-11 02:25 am (UTC)Absolutely :-)
I enjoyed the first show and thought it made a lot of sensible points in an engaging way. I've also seen the book of the series and he's going to be covering some interesting material - including a programme on women which features him in a blonde wig...
A friend of mine was at a big Chaucer conference a few years ago at which he was the guest speaker - and very good he was too apparently. I think the paper he gave was the beginnings of his current Chaucer was murdered book.
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Date: 2004-02-11 02:34 am (UTC)