Sunday, 29 March 2009
Seamus Heaney
"The early-in-life experience has been central to me all right. But I'd say you aren't so much trying to decribe it as trying to locate it. The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it. But once you do, it's like putting your hand into a nest and finding something beginning to hatch out in your head."
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REMEMBERING THE MINER'S STRIKE 25 YEARS ON
Mick Hume from Spiked: As one former Yorkshire miner told me last month, speaking for many that I have met since the strike: ‘I don’t think we could have gone back with any dignity at any time. So it was all out, it was out to the end, win or not. To do a year on strike was not easy, I don’t want to look back with rose-tinted glasses. But given the chance I’d have done exactly the same, I’ve no regrets at all. I just wished that we’d lamped a few more Bobbies.’
Thursday, 26 March 2009
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NU YORICAN SOUL - I am the black gold of the sun
BILL WITHERS - Who is he (and what is he to you?)
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - Her eyes are a blue million miles
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON II - Bring it on home
BUCK 65 - Blood of a young wolf
BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD - I am a child
DEVENDRA BANHART - Pensando Endate
DAVID BOWIE - Sound and vision
JUNIOR BOYS - In the morning
THE JANUARIES - The girls insane
EARTHBOUND - I see the sun
PEACE ORCHESTRA - Meister Peitz
THE UNDERTONES - Julie Ocean
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E.S.T. - Tride of trepidation
AIR - Universal traveller
BJORK - Who is it?
DO MAKE SAY THINK - War on want
LEFTFIELD - Melt
FISK INDUSTRIES - Reflection
POLE - Schonnerland
FRIDGE - Five four child voice
LUCKY PIERRE - Baby breeze
M83 - Run into flowers
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
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I'M NOT A GUN - Loosen up and make sense (Ulrich Schnauss remix)MATTHEW DEAR - Dawn and Sherri (Hot Chip version)
QUANTIC - Oooga Tamaya Showband remix
AROMADOZESKI THERAPY - Strudel Strut
THE CUT CHEMIST - A peek in time
BONOBO - Nightlife
JAMIE LIDDELL - The music will not last
ALIF TREE - Par Gantalmi (Alex remix)
KOOP - Beyond the sun
FELIX LABAND - Whistling in tongues
MILOSH - The City
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Viz Top Tips
Thicken up runny low-fat yoghurt by stirring in a spoonful of lard.
MOTORISTS: When going through a speed camera, flash your lights twice quickly and watch the driver in front hit his brakes when he thinks he's been caught.
MEN: When listening to your favourite CD, simply turn up the sound to the volume you desire - then turn it down three notches. This saves your wife having to do it.
DRIVERS: Avoid getting prosecuted for using your phone while driving. Simply pop your mobile inside a large shell and the police will think you are listening to the sea.
BANGING two pistachio nut shells together gives the' impression a very small horse' is approaching.
DRIVERS: If a car breaks down or stalls in front of you, beep your horn and wave your arms frantically. This should help the car start and send them on their way.
RAPPERS: Avoid having to say: "Know what I'm sayin'" all the time by actually speaking clearly in the first place.
SINGLE MEN: Convince people you have a girlfriend by standing outside Topshop with bags of shopping, looking at your watch and occasionally glancing inside.
EMPLOYEES: Only use the loo at work. Not only will you save money on toilet paper, but you'll also be getting paid.
SCROOGES: Save money at Christmas by returning last year's cards to the sender with the simple inscription "Same to you".
MICRA DRIVERS: Attach a lighted sparkler to the roof of your car before starting a long journey. You drive the thing like a sodding dodgem car anyway.
BOIL an egg to perfection without costly egg timers by popping it into boiling water and driving away from your home at exactly 60mph. After three miles, phone your wife to take the egg out the pan.
SHOPPERS: Take one grape to the till. It won't register on the low-tech, insensitive scales so you will get it for free. Repeat this procedure 100 times or so and you have yourself a free bunch of grapes.
McDONALD'S: Make your brown carrier bags green so they blend in with the countryside after they've been thrown out of car windows.
A POST-IT Note stuck beneath the nose is an ideal way to foil lip-readers.
AMERICANS: Save valuable time by not pending "God bless America" to your every sentence.
TOWN COUNCILS: Reduce litter problems by issuing blind folk with pointy sticks.
CYCLISTS: Avoid getting a sore behind by simply placing a naan bread over your saddle. This will comfort your ride and when you return home, hey presto! A warm snack.
HOUSEWIVES: Before attempting to remove stubborn stains from a garment, circle the soiled area with a permanent pen so that when you remove it from the washing machine you can check the stain has gone.
YOUNG mothers: Calm hysterically crying children in the supermarket by firmly slapping their legs and then tugging them along by the wrist.
SINGLE MEN: Why-aye! Fool folk into thinking you've got a girlfriend by standing ootside Topshop wi' loads of bags.
Foil pick pockets by placing a freshly toasted "Pop Tart" in each
pocket. Would-be thieves will quickly rupture the fragile pastry and
receive nasty finger burns from the steaming hot jam inside.
Record the sound of your washing machine onto a tape, then confuse
neighbours by playing it back on a battery operated cassette player
during a powercut.
MOTORISTS: When going through a speed camera, flash your lights twice quickly and watch the driver in front hit his brakes when he thinks he's been caught.
MEN: When listening to your favourite CD, simply turn up the sound to the volume you desire - then turn it down three notches. This saves your wife having to do it.
DRIVERS: Avoid getting prosecuted for using your phone while driving. Simply pop your mobile inside a large shell and the police will think you are listening to the sea.
BANGING two pistachio nut shells together gives the' impression a very small horse' is approaching.
DRIVERS: If a car breaks down or stalls in front of you, beep your horn and wave your arms frantically. This should help the car start and send them on their way.
RAPPERS: Avoid having to say: "Know what I'm sayin'" all the time by actually speaking clearly in the first place.
SINGLE MEN: Convince people you have a girlfriend by standing outside Topshop with bags of shopping, looking at your watch and occasionally glancing inside.
EMPLOYEES: Only use the loo at work. Not only will you save money on toilet paper, but you'll also be getting paid.
SCROOGES: Save money at Christmas by returning last year's cards to the sender with the simple inscription "Same to you".
MICRA DRIVERS: Attach a lighted sparkler to the roof of your car before starting a long journey. You drive the thing like a sodding dodgem car anyway.
BOIL an egg to perfection without costly egg timers by popping it into boiling water and driving away from your home at exactly 60mph. After three miles, phone your wife to take the egg out the pan.
SHOPPERS: Take one grape to the till. It won't register on the low-tech, insensitive scales so you will get it for free. Repeat this procedure 100 times or so and you have yourself a free bunch of grapes.
McDONALD'S: Make your brown carrier bags green so they blend in with the countryside after they've been thrown out of car windows.
A POST-IT Note stuck beneath the nose is an ideal way to foil lip-readers.
AMERICANS: Save valuable time by not pending "God bless America" to your every sentence.
TOWN COUNCILS: Reduce litter problems by issuing blind folk with pointy sticks.
CYCLISTS: Avoid getting a sore behind by simply placing a naan bread over your saddle. This will comfort your ride and when you return home, hey presto! A warm snack.
HOUSEWIVES: Before attempting to remove stubborn stains from a garment, circle the soiled area with a permanent pen so that when you remove it from the washing machine you can check the stain has gone.
YOUNG mothers: Calm hysterically crying children in the supermarket by firmly slapping their legs and then tugging them along by the wrist.
SINGLE MEN: Why-aye! Fool folk into thinking you've got a girlfriend by standing ootside Topshop wi' loads of bags.
Foil pick pockets by placing a freshly toasted "Pop Tart" in each
pocket. Would-be thieves will quickly rupture the fragile pastry and
receive nasty finger burns from the steaming hot jam inside.
Record the sound of your washing machine onto a tape, then confuse
neighbours by playing it back on a battery operated cassette player
during a powercut.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
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