BLANCANIEVES (2012) in slightly more than 140 characters

Good points:

Looks beautiful.
Sounds beautiful.
Excellent Snow White Jr.
Amazeballs eyelashes.
At one point Maribel Verdú looks like Super Yob Dave Hill from Slade.

Bad points:

I really can't get behind a bullfighting film.
Very clichéd view of Spain.
Modern clothespegs.

Prometheus (2012)

Let me see if I can sum up my thoughts during the film in the order they happened:
BOWIE'S IN SPACE
BOBBY SANDS IN SPACE
STRINGER BELL IN SPACE
I WISH IT WAS THE ENTIRE CAST OF THIS IS ENGLAND 86
IS THAT ALIEN OR PREDATOR AT THE END?
BRING BACK SOOTY
WATCHMEN
I WONDER WHO WON THE FOOTBALL
SHE IS QUITE FAT; THIS IS A GOOD THING.
IS HE MEANT TO REMIND ME OF RUPERT MURDOCH OR IS IT JUST A HAPPY ACCIDENT?
IMAGINE HOW GOOD A SPACE FILM WOULD BE IF IT WASN'T JUST RIPPED OFF OTHER SPACE FILMS.
I WISH WOMBLE OF THE UNIVERSE WAS PLAYING OVER THE END CREDITS.
I WILL NEVER GO TO THE CINEMA AGAIN IN MY LIFE.

Hangover Lounge 10th June 2012

Do you want a souvenir of yesterday's Hangover Lounge to go with your Real Ale Disease? Or perhaps you were unable to make it and would like to hear an approximation of what you missed when I took to the wheels of steel and mashed up da place?


Here are 128kbps mp3s of the two CDs I took with me. I didn't play all of it, and it wasn't in this order:


http://www.mediafire.com/?ocos3stw4s3hp5c,j42ghpeobtibzzl

1. Slave To The Rhythm  4:23  Grace Jones

2. Tour De France 5:11  Kraftwerk  

3. T.S.O.P. (The Sound Of Philadelphia)   3:47  Dexys

4. Are You Ready For The Country?   3:39  Neil Young

5. Ranglin Satta  3:40  Ernest Ranglin   

6. Wasn't Born To Follow      3:30  Dusty Springfield

7. Egyptian Reggae      2:33  Jonathan Richman

8. Where Angels Play    4:12  The Stone Roses

9. Honey Hi 2:41  Fleetwood Mac

10. Nobody Told Me      3:34  John Lennon

11. Let's Stick Together      2:47  Wilbert Harrison

12. Revolution Version  3:51  Sly & Robbie

13. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N Roll Star 2:38  The Byrd

14. Smiling ladies      2:31  Heron

15. What Did The Hippie Have In His Bag?  4:13  Cornershop

16. Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself   3:20  Morrissey

17. New York City 1:57  The Jesus & Mary Chain 

18. Things And Time     3:59  The Wailing Souls

19. Deep & Wide & Tall  4:02  Aztec Camera

20. When You Walk In The Room 3:03  Jackie DeShannon

1. 1.     Pogles Walk      2:38      Vernon Elliott    
2. 2.     How Wild The Wind Blows          1:19      Molly Drake
3. 3.     Never Get Old    4:25      David Bowie
4. 4.     Black Pride       4:15      Kofi      
5. 5.     A Love from Outer Space (Original Mix)    5:08      A.R. Kane
6. 6.     Jhooteh Laareh  5:01     JK & Tru-Skool             
7. 7.     Into Your Arms  2:44      The Lemonheads
8. 8.     The World Is Rated X      3:52      Marvin Gaye
9. 9.     Brand new day (Theme from The Landlord)           3:45      The Staple Singers        
10. 10.  The Words That Maketh Murder  3:41      PJ Harvey         
11. 11.  There Is No Safe Side But The Side Of Truth        3:54      Johann Johannsson
12. 12.  Winterlong         3:40      Neil Young & Crazy Horse         
13. 13.  Lost Weekend   3:16      Lloyd Cole & The Commotions   
14. 14.  Without You      3:10      David Bowie      
15. 15.  I Just Want To See His Face      2:53      The Rolling Stones
16. 16.  Eight Miles High            4:55      Roxy Music      
17. 17.  Don't Challenge Me        3:04      The Makers
18. 18.  Sign of the Times           2:28      Bryan Ferry
19. 19.  River Song         3:47      Dennis Wilson
20. 20.  Free Again (Original Mono Mix)   2:47      Alex Chilton

We All Agree Manchester City Are Rubbish

I am grumpy about Man City and the general reaction to yesterday's events. I think it's just a convenient way to channel my grumpiness, but it all feels very coherent to me.

1) People countering the buying success argument with the idea that the manager has to "mould a team" - maybe so, but on the evidence of this season, that is the one thing that hasn't happened at Man City with Tevez and Balotelli and probably some others.

2) Mancini being a toadying lickspittle towards his paymasters.

3) the idea that you have to be mentally deficient if you don't enjoy football.

4) The idea that the events of yesterday were in any way unusual. Name a year when nothing exciting at all happened in football anywhere in the world and you could win a pair of tickets to the Barclays Premier League match of your choice.

5) I really really wanted Gareth Barry to end his career without ever winning any "silverware".

6) I do not wish to see a gurning Liam Gallagher on my television screen, thank you very much. I would not mind if it was Billy Duffy though.

Let's Try Again, Shall We?

Here are both sides of my fabulous tape, this time housed on a rival filepilfering site. If this doesn't work it might have to become one of those Great Lost Projects because it took bleeding ages to upload, which suggest you might be wise to pour yourself a stiff one while you're waiting for it to do an incy wincy spider down your broadband guttering. I am dispappointed to learn that my new favourite song was used on an advert at some point, so its charms may be lost to those of you of a telly-watching disposition. I assume this happened in the 90s, because I'd certainly never seen it before. I have included tracklisting documents.

Here goes. I hope you derive something other than frustration and annoyance from this. As a special bonus, the URL almost contains the word "jizz". Shoud boost my download count considerably. If that is not enough, Blogger gives me sone examples of labels for this post, in this case "scooters, holidays, autumns". Why not try to write a short stroy of not more than a thousand words incorporating these three elements? You could post your finished story in the comments section, so that I feel more popular than usual. But I digress:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ynnjzznjm1w

Feb 2010 C90 Side 2

Here is side two of MY TAPE. I think it is better than side one because it has some singing on it and also ROXY MUSIC who are brilliant and my new favourite song, PUSH A LITTLE BUTTON by 60s technophobe NINETTE. The last song is very poignant, COME LIVE WITH ME by HEAVEN 17. It is so poignant you are supposed to sit in silence after it has finished, pondering life's missed opportunities and wishing you were 37 again.

Don't say I never give you nowt.

Incidentally, thanks to BOTH PEOPLE who downloaded side one, I'm touched.

01 Free South Africa – Stetsasonic
02 Hot Smoke and Sasafrass – The Bubble Puppy
03 I Never Loved A Woman (The Way I Love You) – Spencer Wiggins
04 Push A Little Button – Ninette
05 West African Safari – Sir Victor Uwaifo
06 Cobra – Bailey’s Nervous Kats
07 Reformation! – The Fall
08 Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear
09 Fine Fine Fine – Judy Hughes
10 Same Old Scene – Roxy Music
11 Falling In Love – The Dynamic Tints
12 You Should Have Seen The Wayu He Looked At Me – The Dixie Cups
13 Jet Biguine – Les Loups Noirs d’Haiti
14 Come Live With Me – Heaven 17

Side Two:

http://rapidshare.com/files/356810727/FEB_2010_C90_SIDE_2.zip

And Side One again:

http://rapidshare.com/files/355791738/FEB_10_C90_SIDE_ONE.zip

Feb 2010 C90 Side 1

Here is side one of a tape what I made (link below). It is mostly instrumentals. Side two will be songs with singing on them, for the most part.

Laurie Johnson tracks are from The New Avengers

Phenomenal Cat is a Kinks instrumental of the Village Green track. It is... Floydian.

101 Strings Orchestra is a groovy freakout involving a young lady getting a jolly good whipping. I have no doubt she deserved it.

The Byrds prove their Coltrane thing goes all the way up to eleven.

The Dead Weather had the good grace to include a corking instrumental on their debut album.

Big Youth Fights Against Capitalism is heavy dub by King Tubby. It also serves as a tribute to the recenlty deceased Yabby You, my favourite Jamaican renaissance man.

Gene Page - Black + Dracula = Blacula.

United is a Gamble and Huff track here presented in a sumptuous instrumental version WITH HARPS AND THAT.

Duane Eddy jumps on the lunar exploration bandwagon so beloved of instrumentalists and ends up sounding like a Joe Meek protege.

Bill Justis's Flea Circus is on Sun Records. Well I never.

Black + Rio = Black Rio. Bluesy Brazil.

A Sly and Robbie dub with more bass than is really sensible, thank goodness. Nice title too.

Louie Ramirez does another Gamble and Huff tune with lashing and lashings of disco strings swirling around the lation percussion.

Pipeline is the opening track from Johnny Thunders' album with the likes of Phil Lynott and him out of The Only Ones.

That is all. Stay tuned for side two, which I will have to be quick about because it's nearly March.

01. Laurie Johnson – Pop Fans Riot
02. The Kinks – Phenomenal Cat
03. 101 Strings Orchestra – Whiplash
04. The Byrds – Universal Mind Decoder
05. The Dead Weather – 3 Birds
06. Yabby You/King Tubby’s – Big Youth Fights Against Capitalism
07. Gene Page – Blacula
08. Music Makers – United
09. Duane Eddy – Moon Shot
10. Bill Justis and his Orchestra – Flea Circus
11. Black Rio – Uniao Black
12. Sly, Robbie and the Gang – Tickle Me Version
13. Louie Ramirez – Do It Any Way You Wanna
14. Johnny Thunders – Pipeline
15. Laurie Johnson – Red Mask Party


http://rapidshare.com/files/355791738/FEB_10_C90_SIDE_ONE.zip

Some tracks that didn't make the cut, hopefully tagged and named in an acceptable fashion:

DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.zshare.net/download/711913157f808aa4/
FILE NAME: PJM 2009 OUTTAKES.zip
FILE SIZE: ~85.75 megabytes

Sonic Youth, Prodigy, Stone Roses, Airplane Crashers, etc.