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SHOCKING NEWS: Nobody reads poetry anymore! For the love of god, SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!
If you take explosive combination chicken-style Wok-Fu with chilli and some awesome corpse of red grape, um…, wine.
Add in some fantastic kryptonite, and you’re onto a winner. I tell you, any diseased maniac would love that meal.
And that, my twisted little freaks, is the plan… I’m going to make some awesome food. Food of awesomeness, yes sir. It’ll be great, and then there will be cake.
Well not cake, but something very tasty.
Oh think of the kids. That’s how awesome it’s going to be. People are going to have to think of the kids.
I can almost taste the chilli pain right now… I’ll let you know how it goes.
So the weekend update didn’t happen. This is pretty much because I hate you.
But I hate you in a really amazingly friendly way.
Actually it didn’t happen because I had a wonderful time with my girlfriend moving things around. I have new spacious room, with a floor that’s totally kitted out for meditation and… shit.
That’s not shit as in ablutions, it’s shit as in stuff by the way… which isn’t anything dodgy, it’s just… y’know, stuff.
In other news I broke both my hands. Well I DIDN’T, but you’re not to know that right?
So I recieved this last week:
Guilty PleasuresOk here is something I have been thinking about following my idea for Miguel's Christmas present and therefore I thought I would cast the net wider
We all like our music, we all have different tastes, but we have a lot of crossover (otherwise we wouldn't have gone to gigs together), so the cunning plan is as follows
Each month each person creates a CD of 'guilty pleasures' that gets distributed amongst the group for gratis etc. etc. By doing this we get to find out each others musically guilty pleasures and we get exposed to different stuff, or even stuff we know but we've forgotten about.
Miguel has already given me volume I and II in his series and I have given Miguel my volume I, I therefore invite you Ms. McNeilis and you Mr. Peacocke to join in.
Here comes the science....
Each month make a CD of no less than one hour in duration
No artist can be repeated on a single cd
(and for bonus points one live performance would be cool).
Having produced the CD give it to the person on your right. In addition pass on any CD's that you may have received from the previous month.
If you are receiving back a CD you either produced or have heard before take it out of circulation.
To ensure that no bias is imparted when listening, no track listing is to be provided
To ensure you don't get confused each CD is marked as which month it is for and who created the guilty pleasure.
No restrictions on genre
No restriction on artist
No restriction on ageTherefore for February it works like this
C -> S -> M -> K ->
Clokey passes to Sharon a new February guilty pleasure plus Miguel's vol. I and II
Sharon passes to Miguel a new February guilty pleasure
Miguel passes to Kristian a new February guilty pleasure plus My vol1
Kristian passes to Clokey a new February guilty pleasure.or something like that so that we each get to listen to each others stuff.
Sounds like a plan?
Failing that Miguel and I will carry on distributing CD to each other anyway :-)
M
Found the problem with publishing, so a bunch of (old) updates should go up on the weekend.
I've been publishing quiet for the last 3 weeks, but I have been writing. Just technical problems have stopped anything from being published.
Categories are not building. I'll figure it out later, for now that type of archiving is off, and I'm just ploughing ahead.
I'm sitting, watching, hearing, breathing, waiting.
Well... sitting is perhaps a wee bit of an exaggeration. I am most defiantly standing, but there is a sitting quality to my stance. So it’s really more of a lean then, something of a nonchalant, demi-god cool rest against a wall. Resting and watching. I’m standing, but it feels like I’m sitting. Does that seem possible to you? Either way there is a relaxed air about me. Something that I not only soak in, pulling from my surrounds and exuding through my (often) blocked pores, but something I wish defined me. I’d like to hint at various coiled-spring cat analogies, but that’s a shade beyond me at the moment.
You see I’m too lazy.
The mind however… the mind is very alert, and the eyes are agile. The surrounding tissue, alas, is not. Even the eyelids get lazy and being to gradually droop downwards.
But the mind is spinning.
Spinning oh-so-quickly. So quickly it’s breath taking, and (literally?) mind boggling.
Flickflickflick.
The mind swings from one thing to another. War. Peace. Video games. Drame. TV. Books. Quantum. Beer. Quantum beer. That’s an idea. The British Interplanetary Society.
You.
Stop.
Comfort here. Comfort, but a taint. Something wrong. Rewind slightly. Wait. Stop HERE. Look.
Got it.
Ah.
It’s an anniversary. Someone elses. Someone ex.
I forgot.
Does that make me a bad person?
Does the demeaning of someone who was once important to me somehow demean me in the process?
Does it imply something that I may one day do to you?
Worse…
There is a worse thought.
Does it demean you?
Does the intensity of the feelings that I have for you, that out shine what was/is felt for anyone else, in any situation, ever, somehow weakened because I referred (jokingly, it would seem now) to those other feelings as love. Love? They cannot be love! They were not intense enough! This… this is love! This here now, those other things are just…
I need a coffee. *Sniff* Hmm… burger smell. I need a burger as well.
Cheese.
Yes and food, but where was I?
Diminished weakend love. Truly. Not good. Too much thinking. If I labelled those other feelings love, then how easy am I misguided? Could I be wrong now? Well no, but could she think I’m wrong now. That’s almost as bad. Bad thoughts, a death of a thousand cuts.
Burgers? Or pizza. I smell Pizza as well.
I should stop thinking I should slow down. I should stand here and watch and wait and…
I’m very aware of something. Something new. I… I feel something… I…
She’s here. She’s here. She’s here. I am sat waiting, I should wait, wait wait wait… but my feet are… I’m… confused and something has taken over and…
Fuck me, I’m very happy.
I’ve run over to you. You’ve not even seen me, you’re coming though a gate, and I’m by your side, and every sense is stretched, and I’ve touched your mind, and…
“Hello. I’m hungry. We should eat”: I say.
I love you: I feel.
OK, so there's a bunch of you that I KNOW like to read everthing I put here, and who SHOCK don't use rss. Champion guys, I prefer it when you wonder over, because I like playing with the templates, so you'll get some quality random stuff in the sidebars if you come over. Have a peek today.
I figured it out.
Rebuilding the categories archives is what is breaking movabletype.
Which is something I suppose... I think what I'm going to have to do is start PAYING for the software, and get some support. While I'm at it, I'll upgrade our hosting and get some mySQL happening behind, rather than this berkleydb stuff. It's all wonderful and amazing here, I can tell you. The little worker-hobbits will be doing overtime.
It'll take a while though, because I'm currently on an airplane back to the UK. See you soon.
Listening to: Sometimes Somethin' from the album "Alive & Amplified" by The Mooney Suzuki
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There are also a load of almost finished posts from the last 3 weeks. They'll be finished and up by the weekend as well.
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Some of you that actually come to the site might have noticed all the categories go up on the side. They are starting to fill out nicely, no?
I'm moving the archives of old blogs into movabletype so I can search for stuff easier. It'll be nice, I swear.
I plan to do it like this:
1 - Blogger blogs.
2 - All the other crap.
Blogger should go up today(ish). There are over 300 posts in that, so it might take a little while, because each post needs to get re-filed to fit in with the correct categories. I'll be hitting it a month at a time, so chunks will go live. June is already done, but don't get too excited, it was about 5 posts worth.
Other stuff might take a little longer.
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Shouldn't have freaked too many of you out, either.
I probably should have said something about what I'm doing that caused this to happen.
I will. Later.
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There might have been some confusion about recent posts.
This could be because there has been happiness in them. I know, unusual.
To avoid any further confusion, it is important for you all to know.
We're in LOVE
And no, the lady most defiantly is not a tramp.
Ha! Funny story... the movabletype database has become corrupted.
I was moving all the old posts from old blogs here for reference like, and it died.
Yep.
Fuck.
Ecto has backups. I hope.
So... working on it.
So this page is going to look weird, and RSS readers everywhere are going to FREAK.
Sorry guys. If you want to turn me off for a while, but want me to mail you when all is better let me know.
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The action star known for high-style facial hair, high-flyin' kicks, and high-caliber weaponry replied today to spoof site chucknorrisfacts.com, which lists such "facts" as
"Crop circles are Chuck Norris' way of telling the world that sometimes corn needs to lie the fuck down."
Responding on his vanity site, Norris plugs his autobiography and shrugs off the prank domain. "I do know that boys will be boys," he says of the internet. And those of us without facial hair know the internet is not comprised entirely of boys. Link (Thanks, Naimul)
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So I found a template for MT.
Did some editing. Some major editing, but it was certainly the inspiration.
Flickr isn't behaving, which is why there is small activity there.
Coolness
u are
coolness incarnate
Thankyou.
I was joking anyway. Iknowyouknow that you're awesome really. It's logical. You see if you think I'm awesome (like you say) and you actually believe that, and you know that I think you're awesome, you obviously have to, by extension, believe that you are awesome to support the I am awesome theory. Ergo you rule.
Quick One:
MirrorMask is getting its official cinema release in the UK during the first week of March. However, I just got a message letting me know that the Mancunians amongst you are in luck:
Just wanted to get the word out: Odeon Manchester, in the UK, are showing "Mirrormask" from Friday - I'm told only for one week, to make sure it qualifies for the BAFTAs, so I think it's the only place in the UK to see it right now.
http://www.thefilmworks.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson&tbx_site_id=11
(about 2/3 of the way down, under "March of the Penguins" and above "Polar Express IMAX")
A Future For Futurama?:
Talks have begun at 20th Century Fox TV to revive the animated TV show Futurama, much in the same way Family Guy found new life after cancellation, Variety reported.
Movies! DVDS! I AM HAPPY!
Found at Neil Gaiman's blog: Good Omens is being reissued in the US in February, in hardcover for the first time since 1990 and with a new introduction, Frequently Asked Questions, a piece on Terry by me and a piece on me by Terry. It will be coming out in an edition with two different covers, to ensure that people who can only find the G shelves in bookshops have an equal chance of finding it to the ones who only know about the Ps.
The covers will look more or less like this:
I know links don't go here, but if you loved me, you would ensure that I'd get one of these...
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So it was a bust. Sorta. Just too hot.
Fucking PC. Fucking ECTO on the PC. So there are a few old posts that I had to FIGHT to get out of ecto on that PC laptop.
I hate everything not mac.
I have fixed this from a mac.
Macs are good.
The new categories were fun, so I went back and updated all the old posts.
Sorry for those on RSS feeds. It'll might be a shade upsetting to have everything marked as new and stuff.
Oh, and I almost forgot, all the writing and stuff that was on the little PC thing haas been (or will be) published at the same time. Post count will rise, because I'm not that slack, I've just been too busy writing shit to fix minor technical issues.
Listening to: Summer Trip from the album "Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1 Pittsburgh 20.6.91" by Bill Hicks
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I know I normally don't post stuff like this here, but I'm proving my point:
Sydney records record temperature:
Sydney has recorded its hottest ever New Year's Day, as temperatures soared into the 40s.
I survived. I also left early. Photos and stuff later, when I have had some sleep.
It's raining here now. Very pleasant.
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A story issued by financial news agency AFX on Sunday, picked up by several other outlets, has left a series of red faces by faithfully reporting a press release from "the independent state of Narnia". The story claimed Narnia had walked out of the World Trade Organisation talks in Hong Kong because it was fed up with being bullied by the US and Europe. It claimed the major powers were attempting to enforce liberalisation of its clothing sector.LinkIt quoted Narnia spokeswoman Susan Aslan (Aslan is the name of the Christ-like lion featured in the film, and book, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe). Narnia's delegates "were tired of bullying by EU and US delegations and would be returning immediately to their state capital at Cair Parvel," Ms Aslan was reported as saying. "If this brings the Hong Kong talks to the knees we will be delighted," it went on. The story was picked up by top business websites, including Forbes.com.
(via Making Light)
sorry. forgot.
blahblahblah something resolutions, something merry something else. Something.
More later when I'm not dead.
flickr still isn't working. I may have forgotten to tell you that.
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