Imagine this in the wrong hands

Stuart T. is a bollix !

Look at him, swanning around Howth like a bollix thinking Queen of the Damned was a masterpiece. Apparently, after the Irish Premiere of his latest flick Battle of Seattle ,he indulged himself onto his fans with a Q&A and one particular meathead asked him, that with his great civic sensibilities, would he consider running for the leadership of The Green Party. Stuart responded with great pompous whimsy "well if I was the leader I would have stopped the road goin through the Hill of Tara".

The bollix.

Posable Robot Lamp

From here (via here).

J.K.

New Ideas Take Shape

I have started a new blog.

There shall be no writing involved. But only my art. photoshop, doodles, drawings. Anything creative from my own hand. Current affairs and gossip given an artistic spin.

Keep an eye out for new content.

http://malcolmexeter.wordpress.com/

High Stakes English Debate

you can be a real pedanterist sometimes.

but I was just trying to be a correspondentionalist

well thats to be admired I suppose
when we all become monosylaballists, that's when i'll start to worry

Lego Stephen Hawking

Fidel Castro Resigns

Fidel Castro resigned his position as Cuban president today but this was not due to his ailing health, with his brother Raul continuing to run the country this will allow Castro to pursue his first love - music. His first realeases were with RUN-DMC in the late 80's and early 90's, [which included the hits "street street street" and "on my corner". His gritty street style of rap brought him fans across the globe, he will be working on a new solo album and says he has high hopes of a European Tour.

4n1m4t3d wishes you all the best Fidel.

Podcasting (who polices the internet?)

I have been in talks with Aidanovic about a date for our second attempt to start our radioshow for ISM or RedLeeroy or both etc. I have some software installed, and also a mic on route. This should be a piece of cake. My only concern is licensing, although as Mike Skinner would say, I have a "you think I care air" purely because i would feel that playing music over the interplace cant really be policed unless you are a limewire or a Napster. And unless ones popularity grows beyond all expectations then a short sharp warning before any escalations would normally suffice. To avoid immediate deletion from somewhere like Itunes, would hosting be needed? lets just say, all that is sorted about this venture is the presence of beer and our collection of Mp3's.

Roy Scheider RIP

Ade

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Santana

You Decide.

Was trawling around blogs/forums reading about drummers and found some amusing comments, one in particular filled me with distress.

I was just thinking to myself how overrated Led Zepplin is and although John Bonham is really good, Carter Beauford is just better because he has so much more style. But then I realized I don't really know anything about Led Zepplin (I'm not even sure if I'm spelling the name right) and that I base my opinions off of the few times I am forced to listen to that trite garbage, but for anyone who actually knows what they're talking about and isn't completely biased. Is John Bonham really that good? I mean, I know he can do the tripelet bass thing with one pedal but to me its like, big deal. If you used two you would sound better still. All of his drumming sounds to me like Carter's drummer on Everyday (for the most part which is lame).

Now I went onto YouTube and found Carter Beauford, and while saying he is not talented would be idiotic in itself, so say that he produces anything better than Bonham or Baker is laughable anyway. To read responses to this chaps post click here. Also to have a look at Beaufort go here. I had never heard of him before but here he is anyhow.

So then I moved onto Bonham. Moby Dick being his most well know drum solo. Now this is some special stuff, by any standards of rock drumming, Bonham is described by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the perfect model for all hard rock drummers that have followed him High praise indeed. A great video cut with moments from his life can be found right here. His famous drum solo, first entitled "Pat's Delight," then "Moby Dick," would often last for half an hour and regularly featured his use of bare hands to achieve different sound effects. In Led Zeppelin concert tours after 1969, Bonham would expand his basic kit to include congas, orchestral timpani, and a symphonic gong. Bonham is also credited (by the Dallas Times Herald) with the first in-concert use of electronic timpani drum synthesisers (most likely made by Syndrum) during a performance of the song "Kashmir" in Dallas, Texas in 1977. Many modern rappers would later heavily sample his drumming and incorporate it into their compositions, such as the Beastie Boys, who sampled "Moby Dick," "The Ocean," and "When the Levee Breaks."

Ginger Baker was originally on Jimmy Page's wanted list when forming Led Zeppelin, I think he was originally more blues influenced than Bonham, but could play rock and roll drums with amazing skill, as this clip shows.

On my meanderings I did find this, and although I had been loving drumming and its protaganists for years I have never seen anything that impressed me as much as this particular piece of film. Buddy Rich in full flight

This is only scratching the surface of finding the Best Drummer ever, check some of these and delve deeper.

Elvin Jones
Alphonse Mouzon
Max Roach
keith moon
Michael Shrieve

Best Drummer ever? - You decide.

Heath Ledger 1979-2008

High Stakes Political Debate

Bill is getting into trouble for the attacks he has been making on Obama

it'll cave in on the clintons

i hope so i can't stand her

i wonder does she shave her balls ?

Good Question

maybe her and Bill sit in together on nights and do each other

now there is an image i didn't want in my head

Yes, I agree
But somehow it was around an open log fire in my mind

Jingles?

nat king cole on the gramaphone

i'll never be able to listen to nat again

neither will Hilary when Bill knicks her left testicle with the Mach III

Zeitgeist: Documentary

Brown paper packages tied up with strings, These are a few of my favorite things.

While lying awake last night I was trying to come up with some ideas for a project I am working on. But instead all that filled my mind was quotes from movies. I wrote them down so I wouldnt forget but copied and pasted from IMDB for full completeness. In no particular order here are five that made me chuckle to myself.

I would welcome comments and additions to this post.


1. Chet (Bill Paxton) from Weird Science - "your stewed buttwadd"

2. Judd Nelson (John Bender) in the Breakfast Club - "Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we'll all get up, it'll be anarchy"

3. Tom Hanks (Rik Gassko) in Bachelor Party - "It's time for spice, and the lucky spice is... paprika! "Oh thank you, thank you! You've made me the happiest spice in the world!"

4. Chevy Chase in Fletch - "it's me, Dr. Rosenpenis. I'm just here to check out Alan Stanwyk's file"
Dr. who?
"Dr. Rosenrosen, I'm here to get to the records room"
What was that name again?
"It's Dr. Rosen, I want to check the records room"

5. Tracey Walter (Miller) in Repoman - "John Wayne was a fag.
All: The hell he was.
"He was, too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress."

Early Riser

I took the magic mushrooms 8:30am and walked for what seemed like an age, "These dont work" I thought to myself as I ate another handful in dissapointment. A car passed me at speed with a German shephard leaning out the window his tongue lolling out the side of his mouth. He barked but I heard no sound. A few moments later I heard the sound of the car whooshing past and a loud woof. I sat down to compose myself. I lit a cigarette. It tasted fowl but I smoked it till the end and threw it into the long grass in front of the bench where I was sitting. It smouldered and plumes of smoke rose up towards the sky. I sat looking from side to side hoping no one would notice the large fire I had started. I sat for many hours and the smoke continued to rise into the air making shapes and clouds above me. People passed me by but looked straight ahead as they moved through my man made mist. I glanced at my watch. It was 8:45am.

You get elves, everybody does !!

Drug Fuelled

Flight

Wrong Eyed Jesus