JULY 5 AND SEPT 20.

CHARLIES,

HARTER STREET.

9PM - 4AM, £3.

SPANDECKS ROCKS

 

 

 

sportsday megaphone

teutonic kaboom

keanouraves

(this last one is a dj. what a name)

am planning a list of bands with the word s**t in the title, but it's taking time to get it spot on.

 

Fuck Buttons (Bristolian noize duo)
Fuck Pony (on Ellen Allien's bpitch control label.)
Holy Fuck (Canadian trendsters)
Hate Fuck Trio (what does this name even mean?)
Fuck The Facts (from Cleveland, self described as sounding like 'thrash punk warfare'; )
Fuck...I'm Dead (a 'goregrind / grindcore band from Melbourne, Australia' according to www.foxymusic.com)
Pretty Fuck Luck (fans of Captain Beefheart, from Madrid!)
Fuck (indie band, San Francisco, last record: Those Are Not My Bongos, making for the sentence, Fuck, Those Are Not My Bongos.)

gay for johnny depp
gay against you
gay death probe (electronica double act from southampton)
gay band
gay army (from guernsey)
gay dad (britpop)

man this blog is sooo boring. i miss myspace. i wish people didn't like facebook so much. i think it sucks. this is so interesting isn't it, up there with a discussion about white murders in somalia, and the US election.

ANYHOW, back to RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT MY LIFE.

these are:

1. its necessary to party hard in this world. humans have been having fiestas since at least the year 1000. they probably did it when jesus was building cribs for his neighbours too, but i gave up histpry when i was 13 so i don't actually know. giving up history is one of my life's major regrets alongside being mean to my cat when i was 7, not telling my gran i loved her before she died in case i cried in front of a nurse, and buying a mac. you can see by this train of thought that i should clearly be in jail.

2. music is like maths. when you examine it closely, you can see how it's done, which is unsettling. what's more unsettling is that like maths, i still have no idea how to actually do it.

3. i am trying to run more in order not to be the person who dies in the the great manchester run.

4. the future of music is house. if we don't have a massive violent, vibrant and filthy sick house music revival in the charts in the next year, i am a dick. i am totally convinced that pounding beats are back.

I've just been working in madrid, it was 25 degrees and everyone was smiling. it was sooooo cool. anyhow, some things i noticed;

1. the prado museum extension
this is a mental thing, its this old museum, which has been extended underground and taken over this crumbling old cloister of a church next door, like a mole might, by tunneling underground, rising up and covering the whole cloister with red brick, sounds weird; it is.

2 spanish dogs are big.
(here are some other dogs talking dogwidge)

3. kids playing at being butchers.
I bought this chop chop chicken cos animals in spain (except yon dogs) are for dinner, not imitating.

4. la latina
this area is home to rocking young people. although unlike here, where your dad might feel out of place in joshua brooks, spain's wrinkled folk get down with the youthes. we met a lovely girl called stella , and she worked in matika - which is a tea salon. it's so weird, the spanish seem to get down with breakfast cereals and tea! they think they are ace. i guess like we think rioja is classy, they probably think it's for washing up only, or something. ok, and finally...

5. Ocho y Medio.
the guy who owns this film book shop is called jesus and he is a don. man, to be called jesus. except he didn't understand me when i called him jesus, i had to say 'heyzeus' and that seemed to work. anyhow. he has all these signed things, and people like quentin tarantino just hang out with him cos he is so cool. he says things like; "i don't really feel passionate about film. you know if i was and someone said they liked fellini, i might just f**king kick them out."

Hum. I have had RSI from spending so much time writing crap on the internet, so I have had to take a break. This gap has made me realise how much I love the internet.

Ok. so news... I an DJING at the FAIRHAVEN PARTY HOUSE in chorlton tomorrow. I will be playing a mix of daft punk is playing at my house by soulwax, which I found in my record bag when I left the record shop - AND DIDNT BUY! I DIDN'T NICK IT EITHER - WHAT A FREAKIN BLESSING plus ... your little hoodrat friend by the Hold Steady, and Holly Holy, by Neil Diamond.

well, I am going to say much more on the subject of new orleans, but today I found out the following:

1. when the storm came, many people had to abandon their pets (and grans, and children, it was entirely awful) Anyhow, those who left pets told the ASPCA (american soc for the prevention of cruelty to animals) where they were and those people went around rescuing them, which is a nice story i think.

2. Of all the zoo animals, nothing at all happened. they were all fine as their part of the city didn't flood. One otter swam off, but who can blame him. Unfortunately after a week of so, the animals were bored out of their brains, and missing the public, so the authorities reopened the zoo for free, so that rescue workers could go there in the brief moments they had to relax, and to cheer up the elephants and stuff.

3. all the fish in the aquarium died, as the pumping systems failed in the aftermath of the storm.

4. New animals came to the city too: shortly after the storm, dolphins and sharks were spotted in the freshwater lake, as they had been washed in. No one knows if they still live here.


5. One man, named Todd from the St Bernard district of the city didn't evacute his house when the storm came, and the flood forced him onto the roof of his house. After one night up there, he saw a man sailing past in a boat "Would you like some help rescuing people?" he asked the other guy, named Chas or something equally amercian. Chas said, "why sure!", and so the duo spent two weeks shipping people from their roofs to the levee, which was high ground and not flooded. During this period, the brave twosome slept on Todd's roof, and they witnessed deer jumping from roof to roof, aligators crawling onto their roof for respite alongside dogs, cats, wild boar, nutrina (a type of water rat), giant brown recluse spiders, bears, and the fatally dangerous water moccasin snake, which would creep up on them unawares. These animals were all wiped out in the flood.

So basically, the animals that weren't in the zoo had a bad time.