From 'The Hangover - Helper' here.
Ottagone / Selected II [2026]
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Friday, 13 March 2009
Thursday, 12 March 2009
An old Dutch beer drinkers joke (as told by Chief Heineken)
"So what is the similarity between drinking Heineken and making love in a canoe?""I don't know what is the similarity between drinking Heineken and making love in a canoe?"
"They are both fucking close to water!!!"
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
The lunatic ninja 'roo
WANTED"An Australian couple thought they were being attacked by an intruder when a kangaroo crashed through their bedroom window and started jumping on them. "My initial thought, when I was half awake, was it's a lunatic ninja coming through the window. It seems about as likely as a kangaroo breaking in," Beat Ettlin told local media on Monday. The three metre (9 feet) kangaroo smashed through the window in Ettlin's Canberra home on Sunday night. "
Full story here.
Keith Moon blows up his drumkit (and nearly Pete Townsend too!)
The Who - 'My Generation' (Smother Brothers Comedy Hour, 1967)
Dave McKean
Miles & Herbie
Kafka's 'The Trial'
The official site for artist/filmaker/musician Dave McKean is about to launch from here and there is a good fan site here.Sonnet 138
Jane Fonda
"Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood."Iain Sinclair
Novelist, film maker & psychogeographer Iain Sinclair talks to 'The Guardian' here about his new book 'Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report''BBC' interview here.
When I was living in London back in the late 70's & early 80's I used to buy books regularly from Iain Sinclair at his stall down in Camden Walk.
In my opinion he is truly one of the greatest novelists writing today as well as being a really decent bloke. When his first novel 'White Chappell,Scarlet Tracings' was published a copy was actually sent out to me here in Australia by the late, lamented Mike Hart from Compendium.
William Gibson has said that Sinclair is his favourite author.
If you haven't read any of his books (and you don't mind some intellectual stimulation) then I heartily recommend his work:
* Back Garden Poems', poetry, 1970
* The Kodak Mantra Diaries: Allen Ginsberg in London, documentary, 1971
* Muscat's Wurm, poetry, 1972
* The Birth Rug, poetry, 1973
* Lud Heat, poetry, 1975
* Suicide Bridge, poetry, 1979
* Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal: Selected Poems 1970-1987, poetry, 1987
* White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, fiction, 1987 (originally a limited edition from Goldmark but reprinted by Paladin)
* Downriver, novel, 1991
* Jack Elam's Other Eye, poetry
* Radon Daughters, novel, 1994
* Conductors of Chaos: a Poetry Anthology, editor 1996
* The Ebbing of the Kraft, poetry, 1997
* Lights out for the Territory, non-fiction, 1997
* Slow Chocolate Autopsy, fiction, 1997 (with illustrations by Dave McKean)
* Crash, essay, 1999
* Liquid City, non-fiction, 1999 (with Marc Atkins)
* Rodinsky's Room, non-fiction, 1999 (with Rachel Lichtenstein)
* Sorry Meniscus, essay, 1999
* Landor's Tower, novel, 2001
* London Orbital, non-fiction, 2002 (paperback edition 2003)
* White Goods, poems, essays, fictions, 2002
* Saddling The Rabbit, poetry, 2002 Etruscan Books
* The Verbals, in conversation with Kevin Jackson, 2003 Worple Press
* Dining on Stones, novel, 2004
* Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out Of Essex', non-fiction, 2005
* London: City of Disappearances, editor, various essays about London psychogeography etc, 2006
* Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report, non-fiction, 2009
More on Iain Sinclair here (including reviews of some of his books).
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Mona 1 VS Wired 0
'Anna Matveyeva (pictured here), who received this year's prize for "best debut." She wins a next-gen mobile phone.'via 'Wired' here.
I knew that something was up in the world of Miss Atom by virtue of the fact that in the space of a couple of hours yesterday I had over 500 hits from Germany alone to my previous post here.
Google took me to the 'Wired' blog and I thought looking at the photo above that a worthy winner had been found. Reading the article made me realise that the photo was not of the winner.
So who had won?
The article originally said the winner was Yelena Bulgakov and there was a photo of the winner at the official Miss Atom site here, but even with my limited knowledge of Cyrillic characters I knew that Екатерина didn't translate as Yelena. Further investigation took me to 'Der Spiegel' online here and one of the contestant's photos was clearly of the winner and there was the name Ekaterina.
A comment was left at 'Wired' and they have now changed the winner's name accordingly!
UPDATE:11/03/09
They still haven't spelled her name right. It's not "Yekaterina"!
"Boris. Why is always Boris?"
(The Wire)
Google took me to the 'Wired' blog and I thought looking at the photo above that a worthy winner had been found. Reading the article made me realise that the photo was not of the winner.
So who had won?
The article originally said the winner was Yelena Bulgakov and there was a photo of the winner at the official Miss Atom site here, but even with my limited knowledge of Cyrillic characters I knew that Екатерина didn't translate as Yelena. Further investigation took me to 'Der Spiegel' online here and one of the contestant's photos was clearly of the winner and there was the name Ekaterina.
A comment was left at 'Wired' and they have now changed the winner's name accordingly!
UPDATE:11/03/09
They still haven't spelled her name right. It's not "Yekaterina"!
"Boris. Why is always Boris?"
(The Wire)
We have a winner! Екатерина Булгакова
Twenty-six year-old Ekaterina Bulgakova (95-69-97) lives by one credo: "Movement -- that's the essence of life!"
She wins a weeklong holiday in the socialist paradise of Cuba.My choice came third.
Monday, 9 March 2009
The weekend New York came to Glasgow (1977)
Aaagh memories!
What a double bill and the Friday night had been The Ramones supported by Talking Heads at Strathclyde University!
Only The Ramones had played in the UK previously!
(I think I may have written about these gigs here before but what can I say...?
I actually met Allan Jones from the Melody Maker that weekend, a story that he revisited in his regular column 'Stop Me If You have Heard This Before' at the back of 'Uncut', a couple of years ago.
It was very strange to be confronted with my 17 year old self especially as I was reading it with two of my kids who are older now than I was then.
I remarked that I had hardly changed - which I thought was good!
They thought that was tragic!)
What a double bill and the Friday night had been The Ramones supported by Talking Heads at Strathclyde University!
Only The Ramones had played in the UK previously!
(I think I may have written about these gigs here before but what can I say...?
I actually met Allan Jones from the Melody Maker that weekend, a story that he revisited in his regular column 'Stop Me If You have Heard This Before' at the back of 'Uncut', a couple of years ago.
It was very strange to be confronted with my 17 year old self especially as I was reading it with two of my kids who are older now than I was then.
I remarked that I had hardly changed - which I thought was good!
They thought that was tragic!)
The Breakfast Song
This song aired on The Mornin' Show, a local program carried by NBC affiliate WTVA in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
William S. Burroughs - Shotgun Painting (Film)
BURROUGHS:There is no exact process. If you want to do shotgun art, you take a piece of plywood, put a can of spracy paint in front of it, and shoot it with a shotgun or high powered rifle. The paint's under high pressure so it explodes! Throws the can 300 feed. The paint sprays in exploding color across your surface. You can have as many colors as you want. Turn it around, do it sideways, and have one color coming in from this side and this side. Of course, they hit. Mix in all kinds of unpredictable patterns. This is related to Pollack's drip canvases, although this is a rather more basically random process, there's no possibility of predicting what patterns you're going to get.
I've had some I've worked over for months. Get the original after the explosions and work it over with brushes and spray paints and silhouettes until I'm satisfied. So, there isn't any set procedure. Sometimes you get it right there and you don't touch it. The most important thing in painting is to know when to stop, when everything is finished. Doesn't mean anything in writing.
here.
William Burrough's shopping lists for sale on ebay @ $485 (US)!!!
Offered here are three pages of grocery lists with most of the items being written by William S. Burroughs. Each page is approx. 6" x 9" and has writing on both sides. Some of the writing is in an unknown hand. These pages are guaranteed to be authentic and from William Burroughs' home in Kansas with most of the lists having been handwritten by Burroughs.
Page 1: Items written by Burroughs - 1. Cat Pans. 5. Limes & lemons. 6. Dry Cat Food. 7. Canned (sic) Cat Food - Mealtime, bits of beef - salmon dinner. There are 4 items written on the back and none are by Burroughs
Page 2: Items written by Burroughs - 1. Waffles (plain buttermilk). 2. Triscuits. 3. Cat Food Canned. 4. Vodka - last but not least 5. Marshmallow for toasting over stove (?) last word is a guess - hard to read. There are 4 items written on the back - Burroughs has written "Lysol."
Page 3: Items written by Burroughs - 1. Lemons and lime. 2. Milk. 3. Bottled water. 4. Honey (crossed out). 5. Lipton tea bags (the brisk tea). There are 4 items written on the back but none are written by Burroughs.
Each page has been folded down the center. There are some stains on two of the pages.
Satisfaction is Guaranteed! Please ask any questions you may have.
(!!!)
I have in my collection a signed Burroughs screenprint done for the Island International Bookstore in Amsterdam, circa 1983 or so (No. 16 of 23.) & a signed copy of 'Cities of the Red Night' (liberated from Zurich jail - don't ask!)
Offers over a million dollars to the usual address!
I have in my collection a signed Burroughs screenprint done for the Island International Bookstore in Amsterdam, circa 1983 or so (No. 16 of 23.) & a signed copy of 'Cities of the Red Night' (liberated from Zurich jail - don't ask!)
Offers over a million dollars to the usual address!
'Anger Is Holy' - Mark Stewart*
“Anger is an energy.” - John Lydon
From 'nuzz prowling wolf' here.
* Mark Stewart
From 'nuzz prowling wolf' here.
* Mark Stewart
Saturday, 7 March 2009
Cooking with Alex
(Sorry! Couldn't resist it after my previous post!)More Alex Trocchi here.
Next when I get to my books in storage I will bring you William S. Burrough's recipe for majoun.
Cooking with Brion
"This is the food of Paradise - of Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises: It might provide entertaining refreshment for a Ladies Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution). In Morocco it is thought to be good for warding off the common cold in damp winter weather and is, indeed, more effective if taken with large quantities of hot mint tea. Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by an 'un évanouissment reveillé'.
Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of de-stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of cannabis sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.
Obtaining the cannabis may present certain difficulties, but the variety known as cannabis sativa grows as a common weed, often unrecognized, everyone in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for the manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin, called cannabis indica, has been observed even in city window boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green."
Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of de-stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of cannabis sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.
Obtaining the cannabis may present certain difficulties, but the variety known as cannabis sativa grows as a common weed, often unrecognized, everyone in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for the manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin, called cannabis indica, has been observed even in city window boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green."
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