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  1. Posted

    Praise be! There is a God after all. Had forgotten the name of my DDP team as well as the team itself but there he was just waiting for his chance to shine. Maybe there'll be a late surge among the Bobbies and the Teddies but I suspect not the Seve who seems to be doing quite well.

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    I spent a portion of last summer (not a big portion) watching pigeons eat bits of brick. The bits of brick perform the same function - aiding digestion - as gastroliths in dinosaurs.

     

    Would a single bit of grit from a brick be sufficient to pass muster as minimalist, or do we need to become molecular? Robert Pirsig wrote about this stuff in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, not a great book but quite good on reductionism.

     

    I'm afraid bricks aren't molecular (= discrete entities, in the solid state held together by intermolecular forces i.e. everybodies favourite, Van der Waals). Bricks are made of clays/minerals so we'd have to go crystallite.

     

    A geographer at uni used to say all maths is addition, mainly to wind somebody up but it never worked seeing as all geography is colouring in. I'm going to take that on board and say all arts boil down to science. Pigments, harmonics, bricks and pigeons. Science as they say in ancient Rome is knowledge and knowledge is power, mwah ha ha 1.gif (nabbed from honez)

    Discrete entities in solid state? I've just passed one and I assure you it was molecular. :blink:

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    I spent a portion of last summer (not a big portion) watching pigeons eat bits of brick. The bits of brick perform the same function - aiding digestion - as gastroliths in dinosaurs.

     

    Would a single bit of grit from a brick be sufficient to pass muster as minimalist, or do we need to become molecular? Robert Pirsig wrote about this stuff in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, not a great book but quite good on reductionism.

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    Ooo, lots of homework here. I like those Mono tracks, not sure about Napalm Death MPFC, might be able to live without that one. Heard of hardly any of HmcN's, will have to put the list before son for analysis.

     

    Have just done a playlist from what I have:

     

    Sex on fire - Kings of Leon

    Perfect Day - Lou Reed

    Slaughter on 10th Avenue - Mick Ronson

    Love Me Tender - Elvis

    Love is in the Air - Tom Jones

    White Flag - Dido

    If You Don't Know Me By Now - Marvin Gaye

    Moulin Rouge - Aretha Franklin

    While My Guitar Gently weeps - Eric Clapton

    Let it Be - Beatles

    No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley

    Swing Low Sweet Chariot - Eric Clapton

    Knockin on Heaven's Door - Eric Clapton

    All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

    House of the Rising Sun - Animals

    Light My Fire - Doors

    She's Not There - The Zombies

    I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself - White Stripes

    You can't Hurry Love - The Supremes

    Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison

    Street Fighting Man - Rolling Stones

    Everybody Hurts - REM

    The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana

    Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

    Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics

    Lady D'Arbanville - Cat Stevens

    The Lily of the West - Mark Knopfler

    I Will Find You - Clannad

    She Will Find me - Dougie Maclean

    Vincent - Don McLean

    The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel

    Mother and Child reunion - Paul Simon

    I'll Sail This Ship Alone - Beautiful South

    Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

     

     

     

     

     

    Mostly old stuff but nice for a long car journey. Forgot Dylan on original 10 album list, probably Blood on the Tracks instead of Sgt Pepper.

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    OK, breaking the rules, my top 10 from any era (excluding classical, most jazz, folk and Danny Williams):

     

    Beatles - Sgt Pepper

    Wishbone Ash - Argus

    Simon and Grafunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

    Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman

    Genesis - Nursery Crime

    Van der Graaf Generator - The Least we can do is wave to each other

    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

    Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

    Billie Holiday - 16 classic tracks

    Led Zeppelin - fourth album

     

    No Bob Marley? No Neil Young? No Leonard Cohen? This is too painful and soooo last century.

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    Just 10? That's a difficult one, I agree with LB, mine too are subject to change due to mood, drunkenness etc and I probably wouldn't pick the same ones tomorrow.

     

    ELO - Out of the Blue

    The Darkness - Permission to Land (you can slag me all you like, I've heard it all before :unsure: )

    Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear

    David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

    Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

    Slade - Greatest Hits

    Queen - Queen II (the only Queen album I like)

    AC/DC - Back in Black

    Cheap Trick - at Budokan

    Van Halen - Van Halen I

     

    Hang on LG, some of those are pre-1979. It's got to be Generation X and beyond. I understand the changing musical taste issue but we can discount that. I'm trying to pick up stuff like REM (who I know about from my kids) and the Kings of Leon (likewise). Never heard of Cheap Trick, will look them up.

     

    Mono, I know about the internet swapping sites but am trying to avoid dodgyness. Also I have a CD with tracks from that source and one of them is Layla which starts fine and then goes in to a screeching noise (laid over no doubt to deter pirates) that f**ks up the whole CD.

     

    I just don't want to pay 79p or whatever for a single track that I can't hold in my hand like a piece of vinyl. It's like buying a bit of air that's not even in a bottle. I have plenty Bowie but never took to Slade that much even though I used to dress like them (4 inch platforms, flapper pants, panda collar, tank top, suede velvet jacket in red and purple, mullet cut, oh yes!). I like Dougie Maclean. Some stuff like Nursery Crime by Genesis, Songs in the Key of Life and the Beatles White Album I have on vinyl which is a bugger for sticking on an ipod.

     

    Ten won't get me far but if a lot of people put up 10 albums there should be stuff to choose from. I only need 29,000 bloody songs.

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    I know there's a lot of musical knowledge on this forum so I'm hoping some of you can help out. I have a gap in my music collection running from about 1979 to the present day. Any new stuff I have collected since then is either new stuff by people whose music I knew, such as Neil Young and Leonard Cohen or stuff that my kids have taped (do you still tape music?) for me.

     

    Well now I have gone and invested in an I-pod with space for about 29,000 more songs after sticking what I have on there (including some pretty obscure stuff such as Women of Mali). So I'm looking for a speedy musical education. I you were to name 10 albums from the past 30 years that you could not live without what would they be? Ideally not best of old farts like Van Morrison (who I like, incidentally).

     

    Just to put things in context, I think of a band such as Eurythmics as modern. The stuff I grew up with was Wishbone Ash, Led Zep, Curved Air, King Crimson, Yes, that sort of thing. I like Irish Folk and Eric Bogle but most of the Dubliners are dead now. Some stuff like garage and techno I just don't understand and I still think of Jimmy Savile and Tony Blackburn as DJs whereas one of my kids just paid to go see a DJ. I don't get that at all. But I have heard of the Killers and I do have that song about "Are we human or are we dancer?" somewhere.

     

    I don't want to download MP3 tracks but am willing to invest in 10 CDs on Amazon. First on my list, I'm thinking, is Alison Krauss - Forget About It. But I'm stumped for the other nine. Any ideas?

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    There's a BBC programme on Bacon science today.

    I've noticed that people from Yorkshire have only about two degrees of separation. It's as though we're attracted (or repelled) by an invisible magnate. I can't count the number of times I have spoken with random people in cafes, bars and plane queues etc only to find that not only do they come from Yorkshire but that we have people and places in common. I sat next to a chap in Dublin who came from the same town as me. It turned out we didn't like each other for exactly the same reasons.

     

    An invisible magnate?

    Mmm......bugger. Thank you Lardy. You're an edufuckingcation and I am a twat. I can't tell you how discomforting it is to have your verbal winklepicker wedged in my rectum.

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    There's a BBC programme on Bacon science today.

    I've noticed that people from Yorkshire have only about two degrees of separation. It's as though we're attracted (or repelled) by an invisible magnate. I can't count the number of times I have spoken with random people in cafes, bars and plane queues etc only to find that not only do they come from Yorkshire but that we have people and places in common. I sat next to a chap in Dublin who came from the same town as me. It turned out we didn't like each other for exactly the same reasons.

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    On the subject of poetesses, Carol Ann Duffy has become the first female Poet Laureate. Time to brush up on rhymes for queen, corgi and nazi, Carol.

     

    Can I put poetry into Room 101? I just don't get it. At all.

    How sad. I don't like all poetry just as I don't like all art but sometimes I'm bowled over by the skill with which poets arrange words, particularly when those words are used fittingly in some context such as the quotation of Auden's poem, Funeral Blues, in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

     

    Sometimes, as with Dylan Thomas's

    - a poetic play - they just seem to be a celebration of language.

     

    I remember one Saturday morning sitting in bed reading Mrs Godot Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner (that's how we get our kicks in the Godot household). It didn't wake her up but it was fun to do.

     

    If you're struggling to appreciate poetry why not get a copy of Poem for the Day and read one each day? The one for today is Byzantium by William Butler Yeats where he suggest the dead might "unwind the winding path" of their lives.

     

    No, you can't put poetry in to Room 101.

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    Okay, I was out of the English TV loop for a bit but I've recently relocated and can now get BBC 1 which instantly leads me here to room 101.

     

    I don't know the name of the bint but there is some woman that comes on in the evenings to give a news bulletin, I think around 9pm(?) I want to put her in here for the patronising, condescending John Craven's newsroundesque approach she has to this bulletin. Does the BBC think they are broadcasting to a nation of 7 year olds?

    Yup.

  14. Posted

    I've been thinking - the mask manufacturers are going to make a lot a money from this. They're bound to become this year's "must have" fashion accessory. What about a range of logoed masks, maybe even a Deathlist mask for the merchandise range?

     

    We might see bling masks for rappers, red nose masks for the inevitable red nose flu appeal, England football masks with three lions on it, even a Jade Goody mask for those who want a punch in the face.

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    I'd like a link to the coffin reference. Good to see some healthy scepticism here. I think its just that the media has grown bored with the recession. They're desperate for it to be a pandemic. The TV people, in particular, love novelty. They couldn't wait to get in to their flack jackets in Iraq. Now everyone wants to wear a germ mask.

     

    Coffins in the USA

     

    Worrying US Show "phone-in" (uploaded a week before Swine Flu was reported

     

    The government will love this swine flu thing, as it will take everybody's mind of this recession. It will give them the chance to 'bury' a few other of their failings...

    Mmm, they look a bit like water tanks for lofts or maybe septic tanks (sceptic tanks?). I suppose the nutters were always going to get a hold of this.

     

    Even if they are coffins, which I doubt, what's wrong with a bit of forward planning? If people die in big numbers they have to be shovelled somewhere. We have an old plague pit in our town. I suppose it's an improvement on a cart with a bellringing bloke shouting "Bring out your dead!"

     

    I wonder how many people died of malnutrition or AIDS in Africa today? Swine flu over there would just add a bit of variety.

  18. Posted

    Someone who knows how to complain. Of course, although the writer appears to be intelligent and literate, he wasn't smart enough to realise that you're not supposed to taste the meal or even look at it closely and that reading any sort of airplane menu will only lead to confusion and a gastro identity crisis.

     

    Its not food, you're just supposed to think that it is.

    I suppose four months is a reasonable hiatus. Just for you CP. :sicktherm:

  19. Posted

    :sicktherm:

     

    Apparently, those most at risk are the young and healthy, though if you catch swine flu, presumably that makes you unhealthy and lessens the risk?

     

    :sicktherm:

     

    US Congressman Ron Paul (a former Presidential candidate) has raised concerns about the overkill on this situation. He was formerly a physician and refers back to 1976 outbreak..one person died, althoug 20+ died of the immunisation. Nobody yet in the USA has been isolated in hospital, but the US Homeland Security have now got involved (with unbeleievalbe power in thier hands).

     

    Given that Obama has agreed to release thousands of US troops for internal "duties" and there are a known 250,000 "family-sized" coffins stacked in the backwoods of the USA, what can you make of this? Preparedness????

     

    If anyone's interested, I can provide links.... :unsure:

    I'd like a link to the coffin reference. Good to see some healthy scepticism here. I think its just that the media has grown bored with the recession. They're desperate for it to be a pandemic. The TV people, in particular, love novelty. They couldn't wait to get in to their flack jackets in Iraq. Now everyone wants to wear a germ mask.

  25. Posted

    I've never done a Lent denial thing before but I gave up all sweets (candy, pie, cookies, cake, ice cream). I wonder if I'll make it?

     

    It's Good Friday and I haven't partaken in any sweets. Only a day and a half to go. To be completely honest, I don't love sweets so it hasn't been too difficult.

     

    Well come on now, surely the point is to give up something that tempts you? In that case, I declare that I gave up mushrooms and felching for Lent, and have been jolly successful.

    Well in that case, I gave up toadstools and fletching.

     

    It's not that hard if you try not to think about it.

    I've had pies. I am ashamed.

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