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Saturday, July 14, 2001

you think you're in a minority barrie? i listen to britney /and/ radiohead. in fact i am listening to them now... i've never got into them before, like the ok computer thing i thought they were boring and if they chopped their songs up they might be better.. i was more interested in helen love and digital hardcore at that point. any song over 1:50 was prog rock in my eyes...

but they can write good songs at times.. what annoys me most is that there will be loads of lame indie goth teen angst kids thinking that radiohead write this far out trippy futuristic electronic music... THEY DON'T!!!! they write derivative, cliched, lame attempts at electronic music...

and as for the manure/farmers thing. my dad's a farmer. but i haven't seen him handle manure like that... but then, he does enjoy growing things...

posted by alex_tea , 4:26 PM Þ

no doubt about it, the deepest sludgiest letching corners are the growbags
of the truest beauty ........ ever witnessed the unadulterated joy that farmers
take in handling their manure ? ....... the life stories of all the greats read
like a definitive list of all that we're taught to bury deep & try to ignore .....
.............................................

posted by a hymn in g to nann , 10:23 AM Þ

Going to a big ol' rock n' roll fest tonight and tomorrow. Should be good dumb fun.
Back to the topic of Radiohead, the worst thing I think about that band are it's fans... they tend to be *really* lame. They take the band WAY too seriously and anyone who says something even a little bit negative about the band gets flamed to all holy hell. It's really fucking pathetic. They must all be a very insecure bunch. :/
Yeah, I like them (I realize I'm in a huge minority here... *feels lonely*) but I'm not a fucking moron like some of the fans I've met. Christ. Seems like all "die hard fans" of any band are so attached to their wonderband that they have no eye for innovation or differring opinion or freedom of thought. It's just as bad as the morons who listen to Britney Spears, in my eyes.
But that's just my opinion.

posted by Barrie , 1:08 AM Þ

big up the blogdial posse on irdial list.. wayhey.. at the first scroll through i thought you had edited out all alex_tea entries... that's my twisted ego for you...

anyway... whilst watching south park tonight we were laughing at the thought of their being such a thing as NABLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) so we did a google search for it. Not only was I shocked and appalled that it exists... but reading their propaganda made me feel a little queer. (sorry for the lame jokes). anyway, after looking more into it, my initial feelings calmed down. yeah ok it's (in my mind) a bit, well, very fucking sick and twisted, but who am i to say it's wrong for them to exist.. still it makes me shudder... and allen ginsberg (!!!!) was a fully paid up member.. that's very weird. or maybe not. i don't know much about him. i have read a couple of poems, and respected him as an artist. but maybe that's just mass opinion shoved down my throat. what's to stop him being a good artist and a pervert? i mean only today i was hearing third hand stories of messers aphex, squarepusher and cunningham being a right bunch of letches..

anyway, back to the point... there's a quite funny article here... my favourite quote, from a NAMBLA member.

"I'm not a master debator"

Ha Ha... Oh yes, you are.

on a lighter note. check out bLectum from bLetchdom's live set at the purcell rooms from earlier this year. that has to be the most life affirming gig i have ever been to. they are my favourite band of all time ever ever ever...

"there's a boobique in here; my tit's are on fire!" was so much funnier when they pointed at their t shirts which had appropriately placed flames on them...

ho ho ho.

posted by alex_tea , 12:50 AM Þ

Friday, July 13, 2001

template update...
for the sake of relevance Sake is a depressant...

posted by Irdial , 7:26 PM Þ

hello people - I would like to invite you all to a free party near Glasgow - Woodstick is on the 4th of August this year - if you want to know more about the event please vivist http://www.kautious.btinternet.co.uk and check out the events page - more later -
and for the sake of relevance - I agree that Mr James is a particularly talented chap - and as I often say - manic depression, you gotta laugh/cry/laugh/cry/laugh..

posted by Kara , 6:33 PM Þ

New article on P2PQ at Zeropaid

Radiohead: there is nothing wrong with being depressed. Jaco Pastorius suffered from depression, as have many geniuses. What we hate is BAD MUSIC / SUCK-SHIT / NAVEL GAZING / LamErS. We want innovation, exitement, awe inspiration, FUN, adrenalin, hysteria, beauty, Art, revelation, transformation, uplifting, sonic devastation and real emotion expressed with any combination of the latter.

One night, in 1994, at Disobey in Islington, one of the acts was billed as ??????? ?????. When this act started, there was no one on stage. There was simply, the most brutal, explosive, scary, wild, mind bending, far out, extreme, jaw dropping, inexplicable, stupifying and insane sounds that I have ever heard. After this "set" was finished, a voice came over the PA: if you would like to find out who was behind that set and how it was done, go to the back of the room where you can find the details.

On sale at the back of the room was a set of limited edition sealed envelopes, made from maps, that had black envelopes in them that in turn contained square pieces of sandpaper with perfect holes in the centers for a record spindle. On the front of the inner envelope was the name of the responsible person. The person behind this set was:

Richard James
??????? ?????

Richard James is one of the most mind blowing and exiting artists ever to make records. I became a 100% believer on that night, and anyone who was not totally converted / convinced on that same night could not have been in the same room. What a man. What a maniac. What a genius!

posted by Irdial , 3:14 PM Þ

Gilleleje. It's a smallish town (some 8000 ppl) on the northernmost coast of Zeeland (Sjælland)... I'm sad cause it's so far. I'm trying to arrange something this january though. I'm so poor.

On a totally kickass note, Dave Kelly drew me!

Yay!

posted by Mikkel , 1:39 PM Þ

whereabouts is this ? I was out in Aarhus a few weeks back & went rummaging around the
forests & beaches to the south - much beautiful ................. sad because you fell in love, or
because she's from a faraway land ? ........ congratulations anyway ........ a great way to get
a cheap holiday ;]

posted by a hymn in g to nann , 12:03 PM Þ

They certainly are a depressed bunch, if one judges from the music =) It's good when you feel self-pity hehe, which I do a lot ... :p ... Oh, and today the Hill-festival starts here, they started it back a hundred years ago to buy the beach off the private people & now all beach in Denmark is publich. Quite nice. Anyway, the festival continues & is an excellent opportunity to get hella drunk & roll around in your own vomit for days straight. I like that .. And I fell in love too, with a girl from the other side of the world. =(

posted by Mikkel , 11:48 AM Þ

mmmmm ...... out of respect for balanced discussion, i have to admit that when
they have their moments they're often sparkling, i just wish they'd look up a
little more often, you know, enjoy the fresh air ....... : )

posted by a hymn in g to nann , 10:05 AM Þ

Speaking of coding and so forth, XSLT is a lovely coding thing. I spend my days here at work transforming XML with that.

IT HAS THE POWER!

And it's mostly tags, just like all good markup languages.

<farewell>goodbye!</farewell>

posted by captain davros , 9:58 AM Þ

Blargh. I like radiohead myself, a lot. But I'm not gonna argue with you at all, cause you're completely entitled to saying they're shit... and I can really see why you think they're shit. They ARE pretentious a lot of the time, after all.
But saying I like Radiohead doesn't mean I don't like great shit like say... Caacrinolas. Or Mirror. Or Lesser. Or Aphex... mmm, weirdness.

posted by Barrie , 4:18 AM Þ

Thursday, July 12, 2001

oh, and radiohead .............

i made the fatal mistake of listening to the new waste offload straight after
breakfast a couple of days running & it almost destroyed my will to live ....
...... very nearly got me into the frame of mind to give up the programming
course ........ give up everything in fact ...........

.......... remember, kids, just
say " fuck off and cheer up, imagination-dead greebos " ...... it's just not
worth the sacrifice.......... think of your families, the social stigma, people
pointing at you as you shuffle mournfully along the street ....... " radiohead
fan, radiohead fan " they whisper as they cross to the other side of the street

posted by a hymn in g to nann , 7:58 PM Þ

I'm with you, alex ........ commenting serves as a major memory aid, saves so much time in
comparison to the time wasted if you don't bother & have to revisit some time later ... i've just
caught on to its value, having just finished the pascal stage of a visual c++ course - couldn't
see much point in it at first ( aside from the fact that documentation counts for a fair share of
marks in the exam ), but having left a long program alone for a few weeks and come back to
it finding myself fairly lost, as well as being shown some c code ( !!? ) in the interim, which to
my at the moment untutored and baffled eye demands some kind of signposting, i'm now fully
converted to the benefits ...................

..................... it's a strange and beautiful business
though, this coding underbelly ...... never figured it'd get to me the way it has / is, but its
hypnotic quality has worked its magic ( serious doubts a few weeks ago aside ) ...............
..................

posted by a hymn in g to nann , 7:49 PM Þ

Hehe, you've got a point there.

On a totally unrelated note, I can't wait till Aphex Twin's new album Drukqs comes out. Man. The tracklisting was just published a while ago (you can see it here, with translations from welsh & cornish). I'm such a sucker for hype =)

posted by Mikkel , 7:44 PM Þ

If you want to read something funny, read about how top Perl geeks charge $20,000 for one weekend of perl training PER PERSON!

Thats what we call a $BIGNUMBER

Im all for humor, but when you are trying to get your head into a space, and understand something tricky (like regexps), joke cracking, unless its carefully used, can be a useless distraction. The humor starts from the first page; spare the jokes until later in the book, I want to learn Perl!

posted by Irdial , 7:20 PM Þ

Perl programming books always have a quirky sort of humor. I guess it's because us perl-heads are nerds & /*n?x/ people (bonus to people who understood that in first go. Not that it was that hard). And you know how it is with groups. Lots of you-had-to-be-there.

I haven't bothered much with .net. I should look into it though. Know thy enemy.

posted by Mikkel , 9:00 AM Þ

Wednesday, July 11, 2001

Im currently reading / doing "Learning Perl 2nd Edidion" Its very good; though I dont like the way Shwartz & Co. use nonsense words as variables in examples sometimes. After knowing only BASIC, Perl is not too much of a big leap. Perl, when its properly written, reads like english; it has grammar. Of course TIMTOWTDI, and you can write Perl that is totally illedgible. They have contests to see who can write the most obscured Perl routines...If any of you are using a cool editor, let me know; I use Jedit most of the time, because it visually alerts you when you mess up your syntax.

Anyone taken a look at the .Net specifcation?

They will never get away with it.....or maybe not.

And as for the blogger two buttons problem, just press "post & publish" by default...works for me.

info anarchy has done a piece on P2PQ

M/Y

posted by Irdial , 4:20 PM Þ

Oops. Stupid two post buttons. That's weird.
I should learn how to play some instruments. Oh wait, that's right. I have 10 hour workdays. ragh. And other shit. Stupid... other... things. Oh well.

posted by Barrie , 6:21 AM Þ

Tuesday, July 10, 2001

well, I thought I'd cancelled that blog - things were taking so long to happen I pasted it into a text doc and was going to post it later!

ahh well. I guess things are happening on blogger even if you think they aren't.

posted by captain davros , 12:30 AM Þ

Monday, July 09, 2001

looks like davros is doing the same as barrie... post & publish, why they have two is beyond me... and what happens if two people are wrinting to the same blog and both press publish at the same time?

i have started commenting my actionscript. it's quite funny, cos i just go off about i wasn't really sure how to do that part and stuff, but it's not like anyone will ever see it... i might do some open source stuff once i get R107.co.uk up and running though... it dies help if you have to go back and change stuff like 2 months later though!

posted by alex_tea , 1:57 PM Þ

Faces to names and all that...here's me, playing guitar and rocking in South Tottenham with Vehicle Derek last week. If you chop the jpeg reference off the end of that url you get a directory listing, which is rubbish, but I never made the website. So should you wish to see more live photos of my guitar band, go here.

posted by captain davros , 12:31 PM Þ

Hehe, people are born hypocrites. I reckon Sam's Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days is excellent, although at times a bit light. The O'Reilly series is excellent as well. Porting wouldn't be so damned hard if people commented their code and kept platform specifics out of the main routines.

PS: Barrie, I think you're hitting "post" instead of "post & publish", cause each time I come in here, there's an unpublished post of yours.

posted by Mikkel , 8:51 AM Þ

Most of the warez I have I would not use if I had to pay for it. So basically, they wouldn't get my business anyway.
And if I did start really needing the software, I'd most likely pay for it, like if it were for some nifty sound program or something.
Unless it was Photoshop or something. They don't need my money. I'm not exactly wealthy.

posted by Barrie , 2:29 AM Þ

why is it hard to port between platforms? i mean c is c whatever/// well it should be. until you get down to assembler and kernel type stuff all languages should be made multiplatform. it sucks that they aren't. luckily for me the only programming i do right now is java, actionscripting and perl (well, i will start soon) and they are all cross platform. i am going to learn c / pocketc too...

are warez bad? i mean, should i care that i own like well over £10,000 of warez? actually maybe that's a bit much, or is it, i dunno, i have loads of stuff i haven't paid for. in fact the only software i've ever bought is quake3. oh yeah and tie fighter for my pc about 5 years ago. and loads of nes, snes and dreamcast games, but they don't count. especially as i have loads of roms now...

i could have gone to the radiohead thing, but the thought of being somewhere that big is scary, i dunno. just gigs like that are totally crap... like party in the park as well.. i wondered why the piccadilly line was so packed this morning... wouldn't mind seeing destiny's child though, although i guess they just mime, apart from beyonce. actually they are annoying me now, like loads of hip hop stuff, like missy and all that where they go off about god at the end of their album, as if they are fucking saints. like ok, i will rap about sex and swear loads, and break all of the ten commandments (especially avarice) and maybe even mention a few murders but it's ok cos i love god. what's the fucking point in following a religion if you ignore most of it? fake ass niggaz.

i think there is a bit of an interview with me on the audiogalaxy website somewhere, about the e-rmx project.

one last thought: can anyone recommend a learning perl book for a total l4m3r?! cheers.

posted by alex_tea , 2:17 AM Þ

Sunday, July 08, 2001

Everybody of course have heard of xircle which is as easy as it gets (now with an OSX version!). I have found some great people on IRC...its serverd me well, despite EFFnet being extremely hostile in places.

Radiohead? I have to agree with Davros, Radiohead are NOT my cup of ANYTHING. Just like Tortoise. They both suck so bad its almost like youre dreaming of a crap band, only to find that you are not asleep, and yes, "oh shit", these guys really exist.

posted by Irdial , 10:28 PM Þ

Oh yeah, IRC is nice, but it's so hard to get into the good spots - like hotline I suppose - I mean, there are queues and ratios and all that. And waay too many people on the channels who just go !list and no chatting. It's boring, really. I use it for gettin the newest Jackass once in a while, though.

It should be relatively easy to at least to do a commandline port for OSX... But I heard that they got XFree running and also some other niceties to make it easier. So that's good I suppose. I can live with CLIs though - what matters is the functionality.

posted by Mikkel , 8:27 PM Þ

well, I wouldn't expect you to go if you didn't like them. :p that's just silly. that is, however, a really big concert.
I never used IRC because I never really got into it. That's all there is to it. :/

posted by Barrie , 12:33 AM Þ

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