I duly want to apologize to the person of the Isabel helpdesk for shouting at him, on Monday morning, that he could fuck himself just before I smashed down the phone.


I had already lost over 45 minutes and finally I decided to contact the helpdesk that we can call because we pay a small but substantial monthly fee for that. The Isabel helpdesk computer started with a series of menus that I had to run through: the first time I must have pressed the wrong button somewhere because the machine advised me to consult the FAQ on their website and abruptly ended the communication.

In a previous post at The Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit the Reverend tried to catalogue the different pictures that were made in Syd Barrett’s flat for the so-called The Madcap Laughs sessions.

You are in this city, that isn't your own but that you visit once or twice a year, and you know this nice little resto where they serve an excellent spaghetti carbonara. Let's have a spaghetti carbonara you hear yourself say and you stroll towards the square where the bistrot is located. The house is still there but instead of Il case di Vitollino (or something similar as you have a problem remembering the exact positions of vowels in Italian names) the place has now been called The Bull's Bollocks.

Last week a professional rock memorabilia seller put some pictures for sale that he described as:

4 X ORIGINAL MICK ROCK PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN AND PRINTED IN 1974 SHOWING SYD IN HIS FLAT WITH PAINTED BOARDS

My iPod hasn't been playing a lot in October, but a few songs were chosen more than others...

Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo (I admit, the guy is a wanker, but this tune is some weltschmerz de luxe)

Máttaráhku Askái - Ulla Pirttijärvi ('the primal sound of joik music', send to me by a dear (did I just say deer?) Northern friend of the Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit)

Lucy Rider - Alberta Cross (one of my 3 stars song, so quite average)

White Room - Cream (a classic with a great C)

Open The Kingdom (Liquid Days, Part 2) - Philip Glass (another one of these weltschmerz de luxe tunes, play this on my funeral, will ya?)

Where We Start - David Gilmour (David is in love and we may know it, this tune is amongst the best he has ever written)

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane (a classic with a great C)

Another Rolling Stone - Kevin Ayers (generally underrated, but not by me)

Hanging Around The Day Part 2 - The Polyphonic Spree (quite nice actually)

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye (a classic with a great C)

You can see the nifty graph on my blog, which is still alive and kicking at hash titi pee atagong dot com.

It has been the most wonderful week. After I had read a favourable review of Douglas Coupland’s Generation A in the newspaper I bought me the book and I am in the middle of reading that one now...

This week the new Orb album also landed on my desk. It is called Baghdad Batteries and was a pleasant surprise. It isn’t a masterpiece but I found it pretty cool that they have returned to their ambient roots. It is pleasantly soothing...

And I also purchased me – what is officially titled –

DOUGLAS ADAMS’S
HITCHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
PART SIX OF THREE
AND ANOTHER THING

The book is written by Eoin Colfer, with a name like that you become either a science fiction writer or an Irish folk dancer, I guess, but Eoin didn’t take the easy way out. But the book will have to wait until I finish Generation A...

Keep on reading, the complete text can be found on Felix Atagong's Unfinished Projects...

Some exciting news arrived last weekend through a Pink Floyd portal. Alex Paterson, head spinner of the band The Orb, said in an interview that he and David Gilmour had entered a studio ‘to work on an album’.

My iPod was on random continuous play in September and these are the top 10 songs that little apple picked for me...

Broken Heart    Spiritualized
Electricity    OMD
Manik Shamanik    System 7
Echo Beach    Martha & The Muffins
Gangsters    The Specials
Death Of A Clown    Dave Davies
Church Of The Poison Mind    Culture Club
What's Going On    Marvin Gaye
Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)    Grandaddy
All You Need Is Love    The Beatles

The graph: Felix Atagong's Unfinished Projects

Those that peek behind the green door of this blog may have noticed that it has been conceived with blogging software called Thingamablog. I have consecrated a few posts to the program before but these all date from quite a while ago. The reason is simple, the last update from the application dates of December the 2nd, 2007 and since then nothing happened...

Thingamablog 1.5: A Call For Testers and Translators!

Thingamablog is back from the dead with a new release (version 1.5) right around the corner. The forums will be back soon as well. Everything is moving to a new, more flexible, web host at thingamablog.com which should provide for some interesting stuff in the future.