Some of last week’s comments included “Spifnificent!”, “I hope I don’t wet myself” and “Damn splendid!” — so without further ado: Manchester ’79 Part Two!
Month: September 2005
Kubrick 01
Kubrick 2001: The space odyssey explained — a nicely executed Flash-based interpretation of a movie you either find fascinating or extremely tedious.
Hu’s on First?
Let’s Learn English!, brought to you by hosts Condi and George Dubya…
Anton Webern Day
BBC’s Radio 3 has declared today Webern Day, 60 years to the day after the Austrian composer’s dramatic death. His complete works — about five and a half hours in total — will be broadcast in order of composition throughout the day, showcasing the entire creative output of one of the twentieth century’s most influential composers.
Katrina (4)
The Google Maps page is updated: if you search for “New Orleans”, you’ll find a new category called “Katrina” – a “before and after” experience with one click. An empty town – just unbelieveable.
Some more pictures at Digital Globe.
Meek. Mild. As If
My late grandfather used to say: “Jesus was a communist!” — and he meant that as an endorsement. Seems he was not alone.
Brussels Postponed (2)
Official press-release from Vorst Nationaal (Brussels), announcing the postponement of Zappa Plays Zappa concerts to spring 2006 — as reported earlier.
A Request
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(angrily shakes fist at the heavens)
Kind request to people who respond to messages in mailinglists: please remove any extraneous, unnecessary, irrelevant, asci-riddled, thread-obfuscating crap from your replies please! Thank you!
Walken For Prez
How did I miss this? Christopher Walken (aka “Fear The Deadly Gaze Of My Eyeballs”) is running for president in 2008! Eerie…
And Prozac For All
Johari the gorilla is on antidepressants. It eases her PMS.
No Future
You know punk is dead when The Sex Pistols are added to the London Walk of Fame together with Benny Hill.
Got Milk!
Excuse me while I throw up:
A Frenchman who has invented a beer made from fermented milk is selling about 300 bottles of it a week. His recipe is secret, but it combines 75% milk and 25% malt with the culture used to make kefir, a traditional fermented-milk drink in the mountains of the northern Caucasus.
(last two via cynical-c)
Ninth
Curse of the Ninth — in short, if you’re a composer and you’re about to write your 9th symphony: don’t. Or at least call it your tenth.
RIP Clarence
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Louisiana-based singer and guitarist who among others, influenced Frank Zappa, has died in Texas after leaving New Orleans to avoid the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. Brown was 81 and suffered from lung cancer.
Katrina (3)
“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them.” –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005
» 25 mind-numbingly stupid quotes about hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.