february 2003
mon | 17
jelly neck
Ooh! Ooh! Jan Jelinek has a new album out, entitled La
Nouvelle Pauvrete. Boomkat seem
to think it is quite good. As a huge fan of german clicky ‘microhouse’
in general, and Herr Jelinek in particular, I am very keen to hear it.
It will be good to listen to something other than the majestic Immer
by Michael Mayer, which I have been caning fairly relentlessly, lately.
I am also very excitedly looking forward to the upcoming (Friday 28 Feb)
Kompakt Records first ever UK
club night
at 93feeteast, which is bound
to “drive us away from being unentertained”, as they say in
Germany.
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beeb gets moblogging
The BBC website is now soliciting
images from digital cameras and camera phones, which is a very interesting
development. The day is not far away when most phones will have a built
in camera (or even video camera), which will probably have fairly significant
effects on society, let alone newsgathering. Must…read…Smart
Mobs.
decongestant
Today was the first day of congestion charging in Central London, and
happily it seems to have gotten off to a smooth
start. It is a very brave move by Ken Livingstone, and I really hope
it works. The traffic in London is just terrible, a constant hassle (not
to mention the psychotic drivers, terrible signage etc). Saturday gave
us a glimpse of an alternative, with the city centre virtually free from
traffic and the air relatively breathable.
Just imagine how much nicer central London will be when Trafalgar Square
is pedestrianised. They should rip up the concrete and lay turf and plant
trees. Why not, eh?
Ideally, we would also have electric trolley buses, and a monorail, as
in Vancouver, but I guess that is a pipe dream.
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peace
Well, the march for peace was amazing, over a million (!) people
gathered to protest against the impending – and sadly inevitable
– war on Iraq, which gave me cause for optimism, and will doubtless
give Mr Blair a big headache. Maybe he really believes that he is doing
the right, moral thing, but I am afraid the reasons given for this war
have been so inconsistent and lacking in any concrete evidence that many
people just cannot believe what they are being told any more. I suppose
that is the downside of the spin machine. And the flagrant inconsistency
and hypocrisy of messrs Bush and Blair are laughable; why is nobody paying
any attention to North Korea, who definitely have nuclear weapons, and
are practically gagging to use them?
Anyway, I don’t really want to talk politics on the blog –
I like to avoid it wherever possible and blabber about inconsequential
fripperies – but I am fairly concerned right now…thinking
of investing in a nuclear bunker, in fact. There is one for sale in Skegness,
apparently. On second thoughts, having holidayed once in Skeggy, I’d
rather die.
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sun | 02
my columbia shuttle disaster theories
So my theories are that either (a) Al Qaeda shot down the shuttle with
a space-station based super-laser or (b) Saddam Hussein hacked into and
remotely controlled the ‘CanadArm’ in order to rip the shuttle
apart from the inside, with the covert aid of ‘Soviet
Canuckistan*’ itself.
Which means its WAR, right? Gotta show ‘em whose boss. And it is
nothing whatsoever to do about oil, nosiree bob, and you’d be a
fool and a communist to think otherwise.
I heard on the radio that the UK defence secretary Geoff Hoon has refused
to rule out the use
of Nuclear Weapons (‘in the right conditions’) in the
upcoming, sadly inevitable, war against Iraq. Holy Shit! Not in my name
you psychotic arseholes.
Sorry, the paint fumes are getting to me. Been decorating. You know how
it is?
* © Pat
Robertson
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