im tying my dog to the railroad track...

we used to call him spot, but now hes called splat!

I didn't see suede in Newport

 

sure it was to promote their third album

which wasnt as mind blowing as the first two

and bernie butler had left

but i was excited to see suede

even if it was an hour and half away by coach

(which might as well have been on the moon according to some)

i got two tickets and was happy enough to gift one (when none of my rubbish mates were up for it/were too poor) to that sweet curious welsh chica i had worked with

where i couldnt understand a word callers were saying

and had to say some greeting in cymraeg

(which must have sounded hilarious in a strayan accent)

then i got a thunderbastard of a flu

and felt dreadful

so neither of the tickets got used

(woesome were the days pre wonderful tixel)

and

i didnt see suede in newport

 

coulda woulda shoulda no.10 Mỹ Sơn

Mỹ Sơn is a stunning hindu temple complex in central vietnam built between the 4th and 14th centuries by the cham people, whose champa empire lorded it over large parts of vietnam for nearly 2000 fucking years.

nb the infants were NOT known as babycham and champa was not their daddy!

it is situated less than 40 kms from funky hoi an town, where you can buy natty clathes, see pretty glowing indentified flying objects, admire the pretty fusion of vietnamese, japanese and chinese architecture, eat great food, chat in english with friendly students and laze about in the pool of a yellow hotel long after check out time!

unfortunately due to pigrizia and pig ignorance i didnt know about Mỹ Sơn, so i didnt get there when in hoi an. che rimbambito!

so if you ever find yourself enjoying the delights of central vietnam, heed my words and go on my son and hãy đi xem nhé! !

and rigoberto vowed to never again...

attend an orgy at randy rhonddas discount art shop

word of the weak - apophasis

Apophasis is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up.
 

sound like the behaviour of any cunty politician you might be aware of?

The Bermagui Bronze

another sterling piece from the late show (oz)

lampooning the shitful 'the coolangatta gold'

with all its macho horseshit, bleach bodies and lame chest thumping nonsense

it also riffs on strayas desperation for international respect

via its supposed sporting prowess

and the tacky half hearted, nationalistic, hollow attempts at lauding athletes who dont quite make the top step of the podium.

tis such a pity it was never made into a full movie.

it would have been a corker!

every day is a jonathan richman day...

In the first bar things were just alright

In this bar things were Friday night!

out of the フライパン and into the 山火事

 

so old mate タク is moving to サンフランシスコ

perhaps he will feel some familiarity

after all

there have long been (sometimes interned) japanese communities there

and his english is not even slightly shabby

its his turn to be a 外人 again

im sure he will check his visa status before arriving at the airport this time

at least he will have a little more elbow room!

幸運を祈るよ、友よ！

Smyrna, αγαπημένη μου

following the GRATE war

and the defeat of the osman empire

the winning parties did what euro winners love to do

and set about trying to carve it up for their own benefit

fucking eejits

this caused all kinds of mayhem and mindless killing

(aka G.E.N.O.C.I.D.E)

the anatolian greeks saw their big chance

and went on the (murderous) rampage

and tried to reclaim as much of anatolia as they could

unfortunately for them

mustafa kemal and the young toirks got their shit together

and in their plan to create a 'nation state'

(as their euro neighbours had been doing)

as well as slaughtering wholesale the armenians and assyrians

they didnt take kindly to the greek adventurism

and went full G.E.N.O.C.I.D.E on them

killing hundreds of thousands and effectively extinguishing the multi millenial greek presence in anatolia

this is the happy go lucky story of a wealthy greek family in smyrna/izmir in those years

(well told without the dreaded nationalism that these shows often resort to)

άσχημο ρε φίλε!

George Carlin's American Dream

raging against mediocrity, greed and idiocy in the most veracious and eloquent manner...

vale gc!

nouvelle angouleme avant nieuw amsterdam

presque tout le monde sait qu'avant de s'appeler new york

cette zone dans le nordeste des l'aujourd'hui etats unis

s'appellait nieuw amsterdam

car ils etaient les neerlandais qui y habitait avant

mais avant les neerlandais

une expedition francaise (guidee par un florentine)

avait exploré et cartographié cette côte

ils l'avaient appelee' nouvelle angouleme!

(d'apres Francois Ier, Comte d'Angoulême)

(et vachement avant les europeens, les gens indigenes l'appelaient Mannahatta)