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.

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.

These are the tunes that coloured my iPod last monthà...

Without You I'm Nothing Placebo
Don Alfonso Mike Oldfield
Foreign Affair Mike Oldfield
Radioactivity 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...

My brain is like a sieve, did sing the very underrated Thomas Dolby on a sunny day once, but today Felix suddenly had a heroine-like-flash of memories from, what he thought were, his anarchic student days. Try to visualise young Felix Atagong, pimple faced jam jarred glassed weirdo who was frenetically trying to belong somewhere, anywhere, but has always been too afraid to do so.

The Cromwellian existed since 1964 or 1965 and in the autumn of that year jazz-singer, writer, critic and generally bad tempered journalist Georges Melly wrote a piece about the place, that was later re-printed in his excellent account of the pop art days in Britain Revolt Into Style. In contradiction with most flower power studies his book did not appear two decades or more after the facts happened. Melly wrote his essays when Swingin’ London was still swinging although it was slightly running out of breath.

Starring in the latest post from The Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit (in order of appearance): Georges Melly Roy Harrod Bart Kimber Georgie Fame The Zombies The New Faces Jonathan King Dusty Springfield The Beatles The Rolling Stones The Animals Princess Margaret Lord Snowdon Jimi Hendrix Syd Barrett

and... introducing...

Iggy the Inuit

Some days ago I got a mail from an Internet publicity agency that wanted to use my site to promote a new online golf simulation game. I politely thanked for that, not that I’m rich enough but a cent per click will not pay me for a Ferrari, and I meant the sunglasses. But I promised I would have a look at the game. Promise kept.

(...)

Gimme Golf made my appetite for online golf grow again and so I tried it, simple as that. The website promises thousands of players, more than 500 tournaments and hundreds of winners. But whenever I logged in there were never more than a dozen players around. I literally mean a dozen, like in twelve. It made me feel like Judas on the last supper, read Felix Atagong's Unfinished Projects why.

Rejoice, dear followers of the Esqimau, as The Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit celebrates its first birthday. On the eight day of the eighth month of the eight year of the second Millenium the Church was born.

In the summer of 2006 Denis Combet, professor at Brandon University, wrote a collection of poems as a tribute to the musician and painter Roger Keith Barrett who passed away in Cambridge on the 7th of July 2006. The poems describe fragments of Barrett’s life, his youth, his hometown, his friends and relatives and one of them is all about Ig.

The poem From Quetesh to Bastet and its (unpublished) French counterpart De Quétesh à Bastet can be found on The Holy Church of Iggy the Inuit.