Server is down, so time for an update

May 05, 2006 10:20

In the last two or so weeks since i last updated, a few things have happened.

One of the best things is the new album from Howling Bells which is certainly one of the most fantastic debut albums i have ever heard. It sounds like a very British girly fronted guitar melodic rock, kind of like a fabric conditioned version of the Duke Spirit. The NME (spit!) described them as having the "sound of PJ Harvey hitching a ride with the Velvet Underground through Twin Peaks". A bit overly pretentious a description to be honest, but I do see the polly harvey reference. The singers voice is gorgeous, the artwork is pretty, and every tune is very listenable. You can hear samples on their howlingbells.com site.

Other things have happened on a lesser excitable front:

> Got some spam today at work from "someone" called Beavis Minger. This is the finest name I have ever heard, and would be exactly the person i'd want to source dodgy pharmaceutical products from.

> My Mate Scott the Audi dealer phoned last week, and he told me that not only is the car being built, but it might possibly be delivered two weeks early (might be as early as next weekend, ooh!). This is very exciting. I've gotten the picking up and going through the brochure down to about once a day now, so i'm a bit calmer about it.

> My anger for the Daily Mail is growing exponentially by the headline. There has been a recent kerfuffle politically in the last week and a bit about foreign criminals not being deported after doing time in prison. Besides the mass xenophobia associated with this blunder (oh my god, you mean british criminals re-offend as well??) the Mail, bless it's nationalist and scaremongering cotton socks, had a front page headline about a suspect for killing a police officer being somalian, starting with the words "Guess what:". I mean, GRR! The little fucking self righteous band wagon jumping all knowing arse cakes. The whole gist of using these words to me is so "i told you this would happen", or "isn't it inevitable"...

> I've discovered what a joy another part of London is - specifically the Northcote Road / Battersea rise part of Clapham. It's full of restuarants and lovely boutique-ish independant shops. And a good place for furnishing (got a lovely end table and ordered a futon) and decorating (there is this wonderful place for paints and big print wallpaper - all very beautiful stuff). It's a bit trendy, i suppose, but it is in a residential nice area. Just walking the side streets to the car (which was easy to park) was a deeply pleasant happy thing to do.

> We're definitely going to get new neighbours upstairs. The For Sale sign went up last week, and it already says sold on it! A week to sell?? It took us 13 months! i hope they're quiet deaf mutes. Who owns a maserati and likes to share. And don't have teenage children. Or any children (it's a 3 bedder, so unlikely).

oh, server has re-synchronised itself, so i better get back to it.
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