Mixed reaction to the new Vaccines single, out August 2013

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/track-exclusive-the-vaccines-melody-calling

I don't know if 'a bit disappointed' or 'underwhelmed' is more fitting here, but I do hope it's a grower!  It's not a BAD song, but it lacks that post-Ramones kick or the large sound of 'I Always Knew' the Vaccines tracks always have.  I like this song least of anything on Come of Age, and I think the first album as a whole was better than Come of Age.  I think the first three tracks on Come of Age are almost perfect, a perfect trio.

Posted this on Facebook.  Nueva Providencia, indeed!

Jajaja, ¡error de ortografía! ¡Nueva Proidencia!

New jokes

I was at the Tate Modern Gallery with my friend today and we saw a painting of a man with frizzy hair which had the name 'Garfunkel' written underneath.

My friend said, "I like it, but is it Art?"
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A Roman walks into a bar, sticks two fingers up to the barman and says, "Five beers please."
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Jim Apple finds introducing himself very problematic when holidaying in France.

While Jim Apple was having trouble introducing himself in France, at a hotel in Berlin, his friend Gordon Morgan was having similar problems when he arrived for breakfast.

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"Did you know that making a girl laugh is the second best way to get a girl into bed?" I asked my date.

"Really?" she asked. "What's the first?"

"A big fuck off knife!" I replied.

"Ha-ha, you're funny," she said.

"Well done, you've made a sensible choice."
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As my wife and three of her friends squeezed into the car after WeightWatchers, I muttered under my breath, "Fat fucking cows."

"What was that?" snapped my wife.

"You herd."
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We had a power outage last week and my PC, TV and games console shut down immediately, so I had to talk to my family for a few hours.

They seem like nice people.

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So Ian Brady wants the right to be able to kill himself.

Why don't the prison services tell him there is a gun buried in the jail somewhere, but don't tell him where it is?

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I've been trying to buy a train ticket online for over an hour now and I'm getting pissed off.

It keeps asking me, 'Where do you want to go?'

So I click on the icon that says 'Home' and then it makes me start again.
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My wife says she's leaving me because she's never seen me sober.

Fucking hell, I got married?
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I'm pretty sure I can throw a pound coin further than it would get me on a bus these days.
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I filled in a job application for the local council and under disabilities I put Narcolepsy and Tourette's Syndrome.

So not only will I be able to sleep at work, if someone tries to wake me up; I can tell them to fuck off.
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I went to see a psychic last night.

She looked at me and said, "In five years time you will have 3 children."

"But I already have 4 children!" I laughed.

She said, "I know, leukaemia is a bastard."
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"Army chief says cuts could be dangerous."

Let's hope nobody tells him about guns and bombs.

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"Do you know what the hardest part of the night is?" asked the taxi driver.

"Is it his shield?" I asked.
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After he exposed them for spying on millions of Americans, the US Government has charged Edward Snowden with, erm, spying.
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I've just made the best recipe for tofu ever!

Simply brush generously with extra virgin olive oil before lightly tossing it in the bin.
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My deaf girlfriend told me to fuck off.

That's not a good sign.

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It's not the size of my wife's breasts that concern me.

It's the length.
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Bad Guardian. Still concerned for Edward Snowden

On the cover of the Internet version of The Guardian on the night of July the fourth:  'Joey Chestnut downs record 69 hot dogs at Coney Island eating contest'.  Also in today's paper: 'Still bigger than One Direction' -- an article on the Backstreet Boys.  What happened to The Guardian?

I'm really concerned for Edward Snowden. As the Guardian editorial points out, he's a whistleblower, not a spy. 

As much as I support what Julian Assange has done, something about him comes across as a smarmy git. Snowden, not so much.

I'm really upset by Snowden's current statelessness.

In your 20s they say you discover that everything you learned as a kid was a lie. I'm thinking of 'Always Tell the Truth'. But only if it's a minor issue or your arse is covered.

U.S. Government also resting it's case in the Manning Trial.

White House petition to free Snowden (only open until 9 July):

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD

I had more to write, but another time.............

May Edward Snowden land somewhere where he's free from persecution!

Free Edward Snowden!
As much as I support what Julian Assange has done, something about him comes across as a smarmy git.  Snowden, not so much.

I'm really upset by his current statelessness.

In your 20s they say you discover that everything you learned as a kid was a lie.  I'm thinking of 'Always Tell the Truth'.  But only if it's a minor issue or your arse is covered.

As the Guardian editorial today says, the man's a whistleblower, not a spy.

U.S. Government also resting it's case in the Manning Trial.

White House petition to free Snowden:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD

Posted this whilst drunk, about music... even now I don't dare read it back fully

I posted this on Facebook, apparently on Thursday night (tonight's Saturday).  I think Facebook should come with Breathalyser entry.  There needs to be a word in the English language that means 'when you wake up the next afternoon with an iron cold feeling in your belly for fear of what you might have written on Facebook the night before'.  Oh God, did I say something political?: The entry:

Mi favorita banda chilena es Los Bunkers.

Me encanta esta canción 'Mírenla´de Cero y Los Persos. Yo bajé todo el álbum. Hay una canción en su album 27 se llama 'Héroes de las Malvinas'. This makes think me several things, including should this song have been made?; and who in the UK would ever come out with a song equivalent to what? BNP? Not quite EDL? Just a 'pride song'. No, I doubt it.This song was a mention into what had happened as how the Argentinans felt a decade late, but not a plan to escalate further debate.

I ought to listen more closely to the lyrics and tell you HOW the 'Heroés de las Malvinas' are from the Argentinan side. But at the same time, can you blame Ciro and the band for wrtiing about what they felt at that time, being Argentinian's? No.

Creo que los canciones se estrellan después de 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCwanc69FmI 'Héroes de las Malvinas'

Good all round rock song that I'm recomending: 'Mírenlas' -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-hA2F2p_9g

Just really didn't expect a song called 'Heroés de La Malvinas' on it, albeit an album by an Argentino, especially has it was released reasonbaly recently or so.

Is it just me, or is the word 'contra' missing in the headline, between 'Nacional' and 'Pedofilia'?

1ER CONGRESO NACIONAL PEDOFILIA & ABUSO SEXUAL INFANTIL

Congreso enfocado a tratar el tema del abuso sexual  infantil, pedofilia, con expositores profesionales, que darán su conocimiento, el objetivo de nuestra actividad es lograr unidad y establecer un bloque social de los sectores que trabajan para la protección de los derechos de la infancia y de los adolescentes.

Is it just me, or is the word 'contra' missing in the headline, between 'nacional' and 'pedofilia'?

This headline gives me the mental image of dirty old men in cardigans getting together at a conference to exchange tips on how to lure young children into their vehicles.

http://www.metro.cl/clubmetro/actividades-gratuitas

PS Why can't I turn the CAPS off above?

Listening to now... The Jesus and Mary Chain.....

Wow, this album came out in 1988? Am listening to it and loving it... have gone back and re-listened to some tracks for a second time..  If I were to ever get a tattoo, it would be a Jesus and Mary Chain tattoo.

How come I'm only just now hearing the first song off my beloved Oxford band Stornoway's second album... which was released in March?

Only from the first album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9hjTZFeSW4 (I Saw You Blink)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiLO4qPkA64

'Been Zorbing through the streets of Cowley'. OX4. The Cowley Road.  As Sophie would say, 'I HAVE.' 


As for a track off Stornoway's second album: 

'The Bigger Picture': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns5OAjKQ4Dc



¡ME ENCANTA STORNOWAY!

Odds and ends

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/28/michael-jackson-trial-family-aeg-live

Michael Jackson's family are suing AEG concert promoters for $40 BILLION dollars?  How, why?  He wasn't worth that much if the concerts had gone ahead!  IF the family won all that money, would they share it with the people who would have worked on that tour, produced and sold the merchandise, arranged the tickets, did the sound, lighting, stage, etc....  Could Michael Jackson even have earned half of $40 billion if he'd lived until 90 and assuming a gross rate of inflation over the next 35 years?  I think not.

Frivolous does not begin to describe this lawsuit.

Further reading tells me that the lawsuit is because AEG hired Dr. Conrad Murray to be Jackson's personal physician.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a good long while. Michael Jackson wouldn't've been worth a fraction of that if he'd lived til 2049. How do you pay off $40 billion? 'I'll just write a cheque.' 'I'll just give you Lebanon or Ghana (which have GDPs of roughly $40 billion). Or, would you like both Nepal and Paraguay?' The only people who are going to make any money out of this are the lawyers.
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The George W. Bush Presidential Library is due to open in Texas soon? The word 'oxymoron' was coined to be applied to the 'George W. Bush Library'.

Jajaja, Frankie Boyle on Twitter

'I'll give dem Grime MCs a burn so bad Simon Weston will throw himself on top of it for old time sake'

'If Rolf Harris goes on trial at least the courtroom artists won't feel under any pressure to do a good job.'

'Why are we asked to #pray after a disaster? Hasn't God just made it perfectly clear that he doesn't give a fuck?'

[On Thatcher's funeral]: 'That bell ringing symbolises each of the strokes that finished her' [On Thatcher's funeral]:'This guest list is a damning inditement [sic] of the inefficiency of the IRA'

I don't do Twitter much, it's boring, but gotta love Noam Chomsky. Like me, he doesn't give a shit about the 160-character word limit, and if he needs four Twitters to finish a sentence, he'll use them!