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Sunday, November 08, 2009
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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.
When you enter the restaurant the walls no longer depict frescos from
past Italian pastimes, including wrong anatomical representations of
fishermen and their fishes, but stuffed goat heads and other satanic
paradigms. But the menu, probably out of habit, still has spaghetti
carbonara and so that is what you are heading for.
The meal arrives and you start eating, as you are very hungry, which is
why you entered the restaurant at the first place. The bites go in
smoothly and it is only after a while that you remark a foul aftertaste
in your mouth. The taste grows with every chew until you are so
disgusted that you slide the plate apart swallowing down the bad taste
with the cheap Chianti that was probably left over by the previous owner.
You pay, say that the food was delicious out of politeness and hastily
leave the place.
The city will never be the same again.
You might never have guessed it, but the latest post at Felix Atagong's Unfinished Projects is in fact about the sixth Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy book: And Another Thing...
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
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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
The 4 prints show Syd Barrett in his apartment and date from The Madcap
Laughs photo sessions where both Mick Rock and Storm Thorgerson showed
up.
¤ the pictures date from 1969, not 1974 ¤ belong to the
Hipgnosis photo shoot (not Mick Rock's)
...and introduces a new photo gallery called StormWatch, dedicated to
the fine art of Mr. Storm Thorgerson.
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
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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.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
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Thingamablog recently resurfaced with a new beta version after nearly two years silence.
Since September Thingamablog, TAMB for short, has issued four beta versions in the 1.5 series and hopefully we will see a RC (release candidate) soon, but as there are still some bugs to sort out, it can still take a little while.
The strong point about TAMB is that it creates static webpages that behave like a dynamic blog.
In a recent interview on Uhusnest, Bob Tandlinger, the developer of TAMB, shares some of his viewpoints about TAMB and I happen to share most of these as well.
# I think this is the niche that Thingamablog fills. An easy to use blogging platform that you are in complete control over.
# It's fairly easy to use and has a small learning curve. If you can use an email client, you can use Thingamablog.
# It works anywhere regardless of what is supported on the server side. If you can FTP to it, Thingamablog will most likely work with it.
# It's easy to experiment with and make blogs look how you want. No need to learn a new programming language just to edit a template. The template syntax is straight forward easy to understand.
# You can maintain multiple blogs on multiple different servers from a single program.
# Your blog data lives on your computer, not on some server in the cloud. (This is either a good thing or not depending on your point of view.)
The rest of my entry contains a rant, but to read that you have to go to Felix Atagong's Unfinished Projects...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
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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...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
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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’.
The news was vague and titillating enough to make all kind of
assumptions. Did this mean that LX & DG were attempting a Fireman
trick à la Youth and Mc Cartney? Perhaps Alex had finally lured Dave in
his spider web with a little help from Guy Pratt who can be found as
bass player and co-composer on several Orb, Pink Floyd and David Gilmour
records from the past? (Pratt and Paterson also teamed up in a band
called The Transit Kings.)
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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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
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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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...
Until now. My machine that goes ping when important messages arrive did
ping. The message read:
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.
New features in (the beta version of) TAMB are the use of keywords,
descriptions, 'extra fields' and labels on each post and intimi will be
glad to see that new tags have been added. Here is a quick rundown of
the new tags (they need to be included on the page templates in order to
be published)...
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Saturday, September 05, 2009
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When JenS, who may well have been the person who introduced Ig to Syd Barrett, told the Church that they both went to a Dusty Springfield party the Reverend was absolutely certain that he had found a solid path to unravel more about Ig’s past.
The Church found it relevant to investigate if there really had been an Ig – Dusty – Ready Steady Go! connection somewhere and if some witnesses still remember her...
The latest post at The Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit contains testimonies from: Douggie Reece, bass player (and singer) of Dusty's 60's band The Echoes and Vicki Wickham, friend, manager and author of Springfield's biography.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
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These are the tunes that coloured my iPod last monthà... Without You I'm Nothing Placebo Don Alfonso Mike Oldfield Foreign Affair Mike Oldfield Radio activity Kraftwerk Church Of The Poison Mind Culture Club Underneath The Weeping Willow Grandaddy Five Miles Out Mike Oldfield The Picture Son Volt Hot Love Marc Bolan & T.Rex Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana The graph at Felix Atagong's Unfinished Projects...
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