The Futureproof Cuddling Pop Blog By Paul Pious James Deman Giovanni £rd...

SO THIS IS THE END!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:40:00 +0000

Current mood:MOVING ON.....
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

of the blogs on myspace....

At least the end of the original written content....

Yes boss, it's been 2 years and 3 days since I started 'The Futureproof Cuddling Pop Blog', and inline with my promise I'm now stopping the issue of new words here on the spazz...

It's been a blast - but it's time for a change...

So, as from today, all new writing will appear over on one of the 4 or 5 BRAND NEW blogs located, run and maintained at www.paulgiovanni.com...

Yes boss, I like the idea of writing at paulgiovanni.com because it allows full control over the presentation - it will also allow me to peeky poke in ways of charging for my words - principally through the soon to be launched 'Club Giovanni'...

Furthermore, with the myspazz terms and conditions of decency and taste no longer applying, I'll be even freer to RANT AND RAVE!!!!

In particular, I plan to go into a little more lurid detail about my theories about the end of sex...

So, to ease the transition over, and to keep all of you who want life in as few clicks and complications as poss, I'm gonna be putting a bi-weekly 'links' blog here on the spazz which'll consist of a list of links to all the new paulgiovanni.com blogs of that bi-week...

This means if you're not interested in following my new work at paulgiovanni.com direct via RSS or email, or 'favouriting' paulgiovanni.com, you can still have easy access to the new stuff through your PG£ myspazz blog subscription..

Yes boss, rather than getting a generic email telling you there's a new blog about god knows what from myspace every time I post, you'll instead get a generic email once or twice a week to a myspace blog that will list the titles, subjects and perhaps even a quick blurb about the topic of each new posting, so as to enable you to pick and choose what you read...

I'm also gonna spend a week of posts here introducing you to the new format, the themes and areas that each new blog starting with a post about the new blog entitled....

Thanks and all the best....

PG£

Currently listening:
My Way
By Frank Sinatra
Release date: 1990-10-25

And there was I thinking I was the Nostradamus of myspace.....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:40:00 +0000

Current mood:TRUMPED!!!
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

When in fact it's Mr Cursor Miner....

Just check out this list of predictions and claimed predictions from his blog of today...

For the record, I Cursor Miner have predicted many of the trends in music and culture over the past decade. I predicted the rise of the synthpop/electroclash stuff. I predicted the move towards lower tempos of dubstep, I predicted neo-rave and acid revival. I predicted the fantasy/glam/costumed up 70s bands that we seem to be seeing now. I predicted everyone making more stickers. I predicted the credit crunch. I predicted the move away from quantisation that I think is 'wonky'. I predicted helicopters. In fact I know exactly whats going on but do the masses listen and herald my albums as the workings of an inspired prophet? Do they shit.
OK, so now I'm going to set it down in timestamped bits and bytes 10 things you're going to hear about soon, so that I can blog here again in a few years and say HA. There's a lot more but I'm keeping them to myself to make huge wads of cash out of. Yes that always happens.

1: more percussion. latiny noises, shakey tribal business. more voodoo magic and shamanism mighty boosh/drums of death etc.

2: full on dance music but with really small sounds. productions been getting bigger and more punchy, pretty soon it'll go the other way, but actually you can get an awful lot of dance out of quite small noises. see latin above. LESS about bass.

3: return of the 12 bar chord sequence 1-5-1-7-5-etc . OK , I been predicting this since 98 but it's gonna happen eventually

4: halfstep drum n bass meets reggaeton....

5: the continued rise of glitchy wonked out hiphop

6: 1/4 step breakcore. like the slow beats with millions of doublebassdrums of death metal.

7: kids actually inventing 'dance' moves to 'dance' music... actually it probably won't happen but I mean why is every one so lame at dancing now?? 'Dance" music need to reunite itself with "dancing" yeah?

8: the continued demise of the age of reason and the slide into the NEW DARK AGES.

9: a physical theory based on the inability to obtain information out of a unified theory. All physics equations are based on an equivalence, something equls something else. But at a true 'singularity' this dualism is not relevant. the duality of QM/GR reflects the duality of the whole mathmatical approach.

10: More arrogant blogs from me. I seem to be turning into Michael Moorcocks Pyat you see.

Currently listening:
Cursor Miner Plays God
By Cursor Miner
Release date: 2004-08-19

WHAT IN THE HELL......

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:39:00 +0000

Current mood:PEACE BROTHER.....!!!!
Category: Religion and Philosophy

EVER HAPPENED TO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS....?!?!?!?

WEREN'T WE ALL SUPPOSED TO BE COMBINED IN A NEW ERA OF PEACE AND WHOLESOME SANCTITY BY NOW...?!?!?!?

Currently listening:
Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1968 Original Broadway Cast)
By James Rado
Release date: 1990-10-25

All you need is....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:39:00 +0000

Current mood:MINE'S A MCCARTNEY!!!
Category: Music

From todays copy of Londons morning daily Metro...

http://forthebenefitofmrbuffet.blogspot.com/

Currently listening:
Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge
By The Pierces
Release date: 2007-03-20

So, where have I been???

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Current mood:CHEEKY CHEEKY!!!!
Category: Life

UP MY OWN ARSE - WHERE ELSE?!?!?!?

But seriously....

What's been happening???

Well, shitloads....

Yes boss, strange and unique times are afoot and here's a brief overview of some of the events of the last 3 weeks...

Firstly, and perhaps most blog blockingly, I'm currently dancing on the hottest legal coals for some considerable period of time and may (if my dance isn't up to scratch, be about to spend some time courtesy of Her Majesty)

Yes boss, the Giovan disregard for common financial sense and rule obeyance, appears to have finally come home to roost AND THE ROAD LEADS TO JAIL...!!!

Of course if I were a banking Chief Exec and I'd done a runner with some money whilst not being completely honest as to the wheres and whyfores - I'd simply claim a multi-million pound bonus pay off, make some mealy mouthed statements about how 'It wasn't really my fault' 'I couldn't possible have seen it coming' and that 'It's a global crisis' before jumping straight back into my limo and heading over to my mates office whereupon I'd start my new job as a banking regulator....

I am however not a banker - so things ain't quite that simple...

This so, though in most cases jail time sounds like a whole lot of shit shoving in the shower, I don't believe this imminent possibility to be ALL bad news...

No boss, I reckon a well managed stint in the nick will also seal my place as being the one and only true written radical working in the UK today!!!

I'LL SURE AS SHIT COME OUT WITH 10 COMPLETED GENIUS MANUSCRIPTS AND THE BEST STORIES YET!!!!

WHAT THE HELL ELSE CAN YOU DO IN A CELL FOR 23 HOURS A DAY OTHER THAN WRITE ETERNAL WORDS????

(other than avoid Big Verns love stick....)

Jail will however also be the termination of my current personal happiness, and a grave disruption to my family life - so it's not something I'm trying to anything other than avoid...

I've therefore spent a good deal of this last few weeks trying to get money to save my ass and mostly failing...

I am not good with money - other than in spending it...

No boss, green doesn't like my back pocket..

Perhaps the wierdest thing I've done to try and make some is to apply for a job at the supermarket chain Tescos...

Yes boss, I have the interview tomorrow and I sincerely hope I get the job..

Of course Mrs Giovanni is convinced this is yet another slab of incontrovertible proof that I am now in teenage years

Yes boss, first I start buzzing around on a 30mph scooter, and second I apply for a part time job at Tescos...

'It all smacks of age 16' she says...

My 2 month old daughter farts loudly

This is life...

Now, some of you might agree with Mrs G...

Or even laugh at the thought of me THE GREAT GIOVANNI being bothered ten times an hour by a procession of brain dead simpletons who can't find the 'cheese sticks'...

But as the world financial system continues to collapse in ever more epic fashion, I can think of no better place to be than in prison or working than in a supermarket...

No boss, whilst all you serious intelligent jobbers will be clamoring for scraps from the rubbish and drinking water out of the canals, I PIPPY GG WILL BE PIGGING IT OUT IN THE STAFF ROOM EATING THE BEST FOOD KNOW TO BUDGET SUPERMARKETS AND SHOOTING AT ANY CUNTS WHO TRY AND BREAK IN AND GET A PIECE!!!!!

Perhaps inevitably, this recent move towards new working food popularism, has been combined with a new Giovan effort to target, write about and access the current pop mainstream in 2009...

Yes boss, up till now, these blogs have by and large been focused on acts with unquestionable musical talent, ability and clever guile - but who have a regular inability or undesire to access the mainstream pop charts...

Now, I hold this against no such band and I know some such will eventually make it there at some point by choice, sustained determined effort or by accident - I am however getting a little impatient to see a bit of the big time NOW!!!

I'm therefore spending time focusing on more commercial acts and those artists who are unashamedly focusing on being POPTASTIC BIG!!!!

Yes boss, it's no word of a lie, that this last week, I've been sharing the same rarified air as X-Factors Diana Vickers, Laura Steel, Frankie Biggz, Shanai, Irene B & The Cheeky Girls...

I'M WATCHING THE POP STABLE!!!!

And the wierd thing is they appear to like me.....

Now, I'm sure some of you might see this as some kind of a horrendous sell out - but I would like to point out that Barbie Girl has long been one of my very favourite tracks

I would also confirm that I believe the line in the Cheeky girls hit track 'Touch My Bum'

'Touch my bum - this is life'

is without question a more profound and potent lyric than Bob Dylan will ever manage....

(and will perhaps be all the more relevant to my life if I end up in jail...)

So, there we go, go, go.....

Currently listening:
Stop Back Pain Now!
Release date: 2004-07-27

CALLING DOCTOR BEAT!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:37:00 +0000

Current mood:BACKACHE OBAMA!!!!!
Category: Life

I'M BACK!!!!

YES BOSS, THE BLOG STRIKE IS OVER!!!!

GOD SAVE PAUL PIOUS JAMES DEMAN GIOVANNI £RD!!!!!

Currently listening:
The Military Band: Salute to the Services
By Francis Saltus Van Boskerek
Release date: 1998-06-02

THE TIMES....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:47:00 +0000

Current mood:GOD IS A FROZEN TWAT!!!!!
Category: Life

are a changing...

Yes boss, I'm sure some of you are thinking:

'HO HO HO!!! THAT GIOVANNI HAS GONE QUIET BECAUSE HE CAN'T HACK BEING A DAD - HE'S BOUGHT A FUCKING PEOPLE CARRIER AND STARTED ENJOYING PERIOD DRAMAS!!! HE'S SHOT HIS BOLT AND NOW HE'S PAYING!!!! BY HELL, HE'S NEVER GONNA CREATE A DAMN THING AGAIN!!!!'

But no....

If there's one thing I'm used to it's being deprived of sleep....

And if there's another thing that gets me truly going, it's difficult, challenging and intense times - this is my cricket pitch and so spurred am I, that I'm expanding ALL PGC OPERATIONS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT!!!

Yes boss, the vigilant amongst you will have noticed that the 2 years and 3 days of Giovanni on myspace are coming to an end...

I have my 23,000 friends, February 19th is the date - and from then on a new, slicker, more beautiful manifestation of the PG£ experience will be coming your way EXCLUSIVELY by way of paulgiovanni.com

WHAT'S THAT MEAN???

It means the blogs are splitting into 5 and moving house...

Then there's gonna be Club Giovanni for all you hardcore intelligent types, as well as much more I either can't or don't want to talk about just now..

IT'S GO GO GO!!!!

But of course, in arctic London it's not been all GO GO GO!!! so much as NO NO NO!!!

Yes boss, today (like everyone else) I was forced to take a part sickie and instead got to grips with the best snow in London for 18 years...

The first and main job was of course to build a snowman on the balcony

this task was completed under the watchful eye of the 'boss' and her two STASI POLICE STATE NAZI PINK AND WHITE CHECKED ASSISTANTS!!!!

The boss wasn't always impressed with my work rate...

Or my occasional lapse into general and unregulated horseplay....

But I think we can all agree the result of my efforts was little short of STUNNING!!!!

SURELY MY BEST WORK YET!!!!

Currently listening:
To Be in Love Pt.1
By Masters at Work
Release date: 1999-06-29

TAKING THE NOEL....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:47:00 +0000

Current mood:splitting matches.....

The man accused of attacking Noel Gallagher onstage in Toronto last year has had his charge upgraded.

Gallagher broke several ribs after Daniel Sullivan, 47, ran onstage and pushed the guitarist onto his monitors during Oasis' Virgin Festival gig in Toronto last September. The band were subsequently forced to cancel a number of gigs and promotional plans for new album 'Dig Out Your Soul', in order to allow Gallagher to recover.

Sullivan was originally charged with assault over the
incident, but his charge has now been upgraded to one count of
aggravated assault.

The maximum sentence carried by aggravated assault is 14 years in prison, whereas the maximum penalty for assault is five years.

Sullivan is due in court on March 6 for the pre-trial hearing.

And for those of you who might have missed it.....

Currently listening:
At Folsom Prison
By Johnny Cash
Release date: 1999-10-19

CASA HASA GIOVANNA ::: EPISODE 14 ::: NO THEME JUST A JUMBLE

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:46:00 +0000

Current mood:BAAAAAA!!!!!!
Category: Music

Shoddy, rushed and not at all thought out....

But still full of top tunes and worth 69:23 of your time....

Currently listening:
Chill Out
By The KLF
Release date: 1993-04-08

The Perfect Storm....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:46:00 +0000

Current mood:DUCK!!!!!
Category: Life

Jesus....?!?!?

Do you ever get these moments in life where a wierd, confusing and unusual energy seems to follow your every move and deal???

I had one such about 6 months after I first moved into London in 2002....

Then, my personal life was a mess and I was getting through about £2000 of the banks money per month - but those weren't the main problems...

No boss, the bigger fish were that if I touched a machine it broke. If I sat under some shelves they fell down. If I walked down the street chaos would follow, and if I sat trying not to be seen, it'd be a matter of minutes before some premier oddball would be in my face gyrating my nerves...

Well, I'm both sorry and pleased to say I'm having one such 'chaos' this last week...

Yes boss, this time, my personal life is absolutely fine (other than when I insisted on walking the baby back across the park in the dark, against Mrs G's advice)

Instead, I'm having real machine troubles...

Yes boss, in the space of the last 6 days I've sold 7 laptops on ebay...

By last night 2 of the buyers had pulled out because they're twats, leaving me with the listing costs and the no money I was expecting and relying upon - meantime 2 others had reported problems and requested full refunds...

In that same time, I've also bought 5 laptops to upgrade, adapt and sell on...:

Of these, one of the sellers appears to have done a runner with my £70, 1 is yet to appear and the other 3 are still in the box - where they'll stay until I can face opening it, in case there's 3 fucking house bricks in there...

Add onto this that last night, a hard drive and laptop of my own broke inside an hour, and then at the end of the night my BASTARD PINK BARBIE TAPE PLAYER WOULDN'T RELEASE THE FUCKING EDDIE IZZARD CASSETTE?!?!? and you'll perhaps understand that I'm feeling a little ragged...

Well, I figured today was a new day - but this morning, the wierdness has continued....

Yes boss, another 2 of the sold laptops have developed problems and everyone wants refunds that I don't have, because I've spent the bleeding money on crap like this gold plated Swarovski fish (that I've spent all afternoon photographing)....

Meanwhile, the rent is late, the electric bill isn't paid, the undersoil heating is coming on and off when it pleases, the cooker is HOT mental and a valve from the pump has disappeared...

All of this leads me to ask:

WHERE IN THE FUCK IS MAGIC MESSIAH OBAMA WHEN YOU NEED HIM???? NEVERMIND AMERICA AND THE FREE FUCKING WORLD - COME AND SAVE THE PAUL GIOVANNI CORPORATION WHY DON'T YOU????!!!!

Of course, some would say that all of this chaos isn't quite the ideal backdrop for the first month of fatherhood...

But I think the idea that you need to be super clever settled and loaded with cash in order to have children is bollocks...

I mean, what better way to recover your tempo after a bad run of luck, than to cuddle a little warm thing who couldn't care less if the world stops turning, SO LONG AS SHE GETS HER MILK AND CAN FART, SHIT AND BURP CORRECTLY....!!

Anyway....

Because I have £5 or 600s less than I should have I'm conducting another BIG fire sale of the Giovanni archive....!!

Yes boss, due to nappy changing and photo editing, very little of this stock is now online - but some is, and every all bit of it is available to view and buy from the Fishy Fort...

So if any of you have any CASH£$£$£$£$£ money and want to come and get some super deals on anything I own (EXCEPT THE GOLDEN FISH!!!) come on over....!)

Currently listening:
Circle
By Eddie Izzard
Release date: 2005-10-24

Yesterday.....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:45:00 +0000

Current mood:SOMBRE....
Category: Life

was an absolute bum of a day...

Yes boss, it started bad and got progressively worse until about 3pm, when the tide appeared to turn...

My problems were mostly about my juggling 19 small financial balls, 24 hours a day and inevitably seeing 4 or 5 falling in quick succession...

It was such a bad Monday, I almost understood Bob Geldofs song about Mondays being awful...

Today was however much better, even though several of the problems of the previous day continued walking alongside me like secret service men alongside 'The Beast'

Yes boss, I caught an hour or so of Inauguration Day and found myself with far more mixed feelings towards Obama than yesterday...

I first tuned into the hoopla this evening, at about the time the Senators started dropping like flies at the inauguration lunch (Trust one of the Kennedys to try and get in on the act and trump the main news of the day?!?!?)

I then watched on as the frozen parade made it's tracks and couldn't help but feel there was something utterly stark about it all..

Yes boss, it wasn't anything to do with a man who's middle name is Hussein being at the center of all things US...

Or even the mafiaesque nature of the parade, with guys hanging off of pick ups like a bunch of Taliban who've just swept into a newly taken town ...

It was the over-riding feel of a whole country being well and truly on the ropes..

From the wrapped up warm spectators, praying hope for economic and social miracles, to the pig ugly presidential limousine made by a company so steeped in imminent old skool paranoid tragedy, you could smell the gadgets popping...

It felt like Russia

Sure, there was whooping and cheering, and a shinny happy announcer, and panelist after panelist coming on to talk about the wonder and the beauty of the social revolution!!! - but from an astonishing televisual distance, the whole day seemed to be more deeply steeped in little more than paranoid desperation and cold future fear..

Yes boss, I realised as I watched, that the reason The US has turned to a Messiah like figure is because it needs one THAT BADLY!!

I realised that a country that seemed to be so on top things, so recently, now appears to be declining in love and money, so rapidly and hopelessly, it may be unrecognisable as a world power within our lifetimes...?!?!

And as the news anchors droned on like freezing and dull old fools about how Obama was going to still be a family man, and dine out in Washington, and pull the troops out of Iraq, and open new markets for US products, and practice bi-partisanship, and hold no grudges, and close Guantanamo Bay, and rescue the economy, and save the environment, and keep in touch with his roots, and restore Americas standing in the world, and sort out social ills, and fight crime, and SAVE AFRICA!!, and get a dog, and heal Washingtons racial divide, and spend time in Chicago, and give up smoking - I felt sorry for him...

Yes boss, Obama's come from nowhere, run into one of the biggest jobs on the planet, at a time of great need, and now has everyone wrapped around his little pinky...

But in the process of achieving all this, he's made the mistake of promising all things to all people (many of which are completely contradictory) - and now, amidst 2 wars and a depression, he has to perform the kind of miracles that Jesus himself would have had trouble with...

So today.

Great ambition, brave man and GOOD LUCK!!!

Is about all I have to say...

Currently reading:
The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music 1972-1993
By Nick Kent

PGC£ OF THE DAY NOS 39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49, 50

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:44:00 +0000

Current mood:LEFT A BIT.....
Category: Art and Photography

Currently listening:
Ring My Bell
By Anita Ward
Release date: 2003-05-12

BRING OUT THE LIPSTICK!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:35:00 +0000

Current mood:WEARY....

So...

it's only a day to go until Bush crawls under one, and the Messiah takes office and I'm dreading the transition far more than I thought possible...

Yes boss, soon, we're gonna have a 'cool hoop shooting' guy in the White House - the worlds biggest military empire is undergoing a PR job and anyone who doesn't subscribe is gonna be labeled a hope killing cunt....

'But Obama's so smart - HE'S REALLY GONNA CHANGE THINGS!!!!'

Yes, he's very very smart, he's a conservative dressed as a liberal, who's cleverly used colour and guile to engender himself with the top power job in the world..... !!

But as with so many supposed great leaders, the only thing that'll change under his rule will be perceptions and appearances - the fundamentals of life,death, money and power will remain largely the same:

People will still cheat, inspire, rob, hope and lie, they'll love, mate and hate - wars will start and others will finish...

Yes boss, like all who've come to power before him, Obama'll sort some HIGH PROFILE things good, and ruin others less obvious on the quiet..

And over time people'll realise he's just another raging ego maniac playing with the world...

Another Gandhi, Jesus, and Stalin, who promises it all, then leaves in a wooden box to eternal glory, or overstays his welcome and leaves in disgrace...

So as I've said before, if I had the choice, I'd rather have a dumb half witted hate worthy cunt in charge of an empire, than a smooth talking nice guy with a Blackberry (TM) and an organic bag of credibility..

Yes boss, by all means, give me hope - but please don't attach a politician....

Currently listening:
The Black President
By Fela Kuti
Release date: 2005-05-09

All the banks are bankrupt...

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:34:00 +0000

Current mood:HA HA HA HAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

we live in truly beautiful times...!

Currently listening:
Blood Bank
By Bon Iver
Release date: 2009-01-19

THE BEST UK NO1 OF ALL TIME...???

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:34:00 +0000

Current mood:IT'D NEVER HAPPEN IN 2009.....
Category: Music

Because it's sublime....

Because it's an instrumental....

Currently listening:
The Best Of Fleetwood Mac
By Fleetwood Mac
Release date: 1996-02-12

I was reading....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:34:00 +0000

Current mood:MAKING BREAD...
Category: Music

and stickering this weeks Roman Road Library copy of The NME and I came upon a Q&A with Brett Anderson formerly of Suede...

Yes boss, it was Bretts words of wisdom about how to go about a Rock 'N' Roll career...

Now, I'm always interested in peoples opinions about what it takes to become a rock star - especially the opinions of those who've either been there or been close.

So I read on with not an inconsiderable degree of enthusiasm, whilst simultaneously wondering whether Anderson was an important enough man to sticker...

And this multitasking, started me thinking about the idea of 'making it'

Yes boss, one thing Brett said was something to the effect of

'DON'T' EVER THINK YOU'VE MADE IT!!!'

And I know what he means - self congratulation is mostly the start of a fall, and it's definitely always best to think you're loosing even if you're winning 10-0...

But what is 'making it?'

When you're young and naive and you start thinking about trying to 'make it' at something unusual and tricky like music or writing, you have this idea in your head that one day you'll have this awakening when you'll know completely whether you have made it or not...!!!

But I find that as one progresses, it becomes very difficult to know what making it even is...?!?!

Take Anderson as an example...

Suede were a band, much like The Libertines or perhaps even The Stone Roses who had the startings of Rock 'N' Roll martyrdom, but never finished the job...

All 3 acts, put down the markers, released some promising material and then PISSED IT ALL UP THE WALL!!!!

Did they 'make it' or not???

Does showing promise making some good stuff and then blowing it perhaps even mean you 'made it' much better than glorious dimwits like Oasis who drone on like the traffic on a grey Wednesday??

Isn't it much more Rock 'N' Roll to fail???

And aren't all 3 of those bands far better than Oasis, even though they technically blew it???

Later this afternoon, I was chatting about the life and times of another hugely renowned, copied and adored musician, who didn't stay for what many would say was the full course..

Things got too much, his head exploded and since then he's kept and almost completely low profile...

But there's no doubt in my mind that Peter Green 'made it' even though he left Fleetwood Mac before Rumours was released, is considered by many to be the archetypal Rock 'N' Roll tragedy, and no-one much would recognise him in the street...

In personal terms - I have no real idea where I am on the PG£ success chart...

No boss, some days I feel like I've barely left the starting line and other days I know that I'm already so far ahead that NO-ONE CAN TOUCH ME!!!!

From some angles, my current position is an absolute triumph and from some angles an abject failure...

It all depends where you define that line...

Truth is genuine artistic and creative success is very difficult to know...

Some folks reputations grow and grow and grow, some climb - then in an instant fall, and some disappear almost before the lights have gone out...

All you can do is place your bets, and let history sort it out...

Currently listening:
The Best Of Fleetwood Mac
By Fleetwood Mac
Release date: 1996-02-12

And then there's....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:33:00 +0000

Current mood:GIMME A CHCKEN!!!!
Category: Music

The Radioactive Chicken Heads..?!?!?

Profile Views: 127482

Currently listening:
Back at the Chicken Shack
By Jimmy Smith
Release date: 1995-03-06

Unlikely pop stars....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:32:00 +0000

Current mood:PRO'S ONLY!!!!
Category: Music

One of the great things about myspace is anyone can have a go, and if you're good and unrelenting at self promotion AND BELLIGERENT AS FUCK!!!! you, the most unlikely and peculiar of characters can gain themselves an audience...

798817 PROFILE VIEWS NO LESS!!!!

Yes boss, I never cease to be amazed by some of the wonderfully peculiar characters who ply their trade on this 'ere spazz...

Latent Anxiety is one such...

Now, is it me, or does the name of this act sound like a poor sketch shows piss take of Nine Inch Nails???

French & Saunders do ELECTRO METAL!!! STARRING RICKY GERVAIS!!!

The music is pretty close to that 'n all ...

Yes boss, combine the name, with the image, and videos like this in which mystery cloud moustaches whisp across Latents face, whilst his security guard perves the lovely lady, and you've either got inclusivity GONE MAD!!! or a very beautiful thing...

I can't decide which???

Currently listening:
Perception
By Latent Anxiety
Release date: 2005-11-29

WRAP UP WARM!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:08:00 +0000

Current mood:VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

Today, I had to go and pick up a computer from Southend..

Southend is out on the coast about 40 miles from Fish Island.

Southend had a Pier (which burnt down a year or so ago)

Other than that, there's not much there, other than a bunch of amusement arcades and some low grade seafrontage...

Prior to today, I'd only ever been there once before to meet some drum 'n' bass djays about 5 years ago. That evening ended up with one of the MCs trawling the streets looking for junkies to score from - I followed and watched him..

But that's another story...

So, today, I was figuring that the train was a bit pricey, and that I'd be better off riding Mrs Gs Piaggio scooter there and back..

Yes boss, looking on the map, the route looked simple - if a little BIG AND FAST for a scooter with a purported top speed of 30mph...

But, I always like to know what's possible, and having got very used to nipping around and about London on the Piaggio, I figured the next logical step was to take it further afield and see what it's capabilities were in terms of distance..

I got going at about 2pm, got down onto the A13 and started gunning along..

I was pleased to see 40-45 mph could be squeezed out of the Piaggio and the first 15 miles was all good fun - I was keeping good pace with the 2 to 3 lanes of heavy traffic and didn't feel out of place or intimidated...

But at about mile 16, this started to change..

Yes boss, once you get more or less clear of London proper, and into the hinterlands of Dagenham, the A13 is basically a FUCKING MOTORWAY!!!

The average speed of the traffic ups from 40-50mph to about 60-80mph

And there I was pootling along pushing 45mph on the downhills IF I WAS LUCKY...!!! (the Piaggio sounding like it might explode)

Meanwhile, the cars were going

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AND THE LORRIES WERE COMPLETELY FUCKING TERRIFYING!!!!

To make matters worse, it was at about mile 17 that it started raining...

Yes boss, just as I was feeling like I might be asking a little too much of the Piaggio, and my own powers of calm control, THE FUCKING RAIN CAME SQUALLING IN FROM THE THAMES LIKE A LAZY APOCALYPSE!!!!

Within 10 minutes I was TOTALLY wet, and within 20 the numbness was setting in...

Fingers, hands, then legs, balls and face...

I kept going, passing Purfleet and Thurrock where just under a year ago, I met up with Gimpo and Positive Void to take part in the M25 25 Hour Spin..

Then past Basildon, where 2 years ago I spent 3 days watching strippers for money, during the making of a HIGH CLASS!!! film called Night Junkies

Meantime, all around, the cars went

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2 hours after I'd started, I got to Southend, COLD, NUMB and slightly exhilarated....

I picked up the computer, put it inside 4 carrier bags, topped up the fuel and immediately drove back down the alternative A172 in the dark...

That first 20 miles back Londonwards was like being in a cold tunnel coma.

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The road was quicker, with no respite or breakup of the 70mph traffic for 20 miles..

VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!vVVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

But, I felt an uneasy sense of calm control as the cars passed, leaving me well behind

VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

You can only hold on TIGHT!!! and hope you make it home...

And 182kms and 5 hours after leaving it, I did...

Currently listening:
The Acoustic Motorbike
By Luka Bloom
Release date: 1992-01-20

MYSPACE FACTS NO2

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:08:00 +0000

Current mood:YOU SICK FUCK!!!!!
Category: MySpace

Currently listening:
HERE COME THE FLEECE GEESE [VINYL]
By Billy Childish
Release date: 2004-01-01

So, here we go with my latest picks...

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:07:00 +0000

Current mood:STOP TALKING START LISTENING...!!
Category: Music

The joy of Prince Charming, is that he's difficult to pin into a category...

There's hints of dub, electronica, hip hop, dubstep, afrobeat, and soundtracks but no one clear genre defined sound...

Mixing like this, without sounding either contrived or overly experimental and clever is very refreshing...

The pleasure with Flashbulb was similar...

This act started as pretty normal, uninspiring electronica - nothing that new or different...

I was set to click

'NEXT!!!!'

Then I got into the wierd muzak of Interior SD - reminiscent of later Orbital, after which things went a little more melodic chaotic with Passage D ..

I liked not quite knowing what was coming next..

Free The Robots are the very first band (top friends aside) on my friends list - which is odd because I was expecting such an honour to go to some godawful metal or indie band who've been going for 30 years WITH ZERO SUCCESS!!!!

Anyway, FTR make fun and clever electronica and could be very poppy if the pop charts weren't some horrendous cabal run by men who think music is all about pork pie margins and light fittings....

The Bearded Lady Theme is pure wonder...

And the rest is just as good..

Moving on...

I was watching a program about Scottish history this last Saturday..

Now, I have to be honest and say I've only ever seen the Scots complaints against the English as being due to them being bad losers..

Yes boss, you get all this righteous moral nationalism from our Northern friends, but the long and the short of their problem is that back in the Middle Aged day we were more horrendously vicious than they were (AND MAKE NO MISTAKE THEY WERE HORRIBLE AND VICIOUS BASTARDS THEMSELVES!!!) - we therefore won the struggles and they lost, and ever since they've been whining about it...

Yes boss, one thing I've never understood is why dull flag waving nationalism is allowed if you're on the loosing side..

It's either all bad - or all good...

Anyway, this program did nothing to convince me that the Scotch are a morally and intellectually superior race, but one new thing I did learn was that even when they were allied with the French they still couldn't whip the English ass - which says a hell of a lot for our vicious brutal violent abilities...

Yes boss, why do you think that every time there's a war on, us English are always the first ones with our hands up shouting

'ME ME ME!!!! I WANT TO PLAY!!!!'

BECAUSE US ENGLISH LOVE FIGHTING!!!!

Anyway, anyway, anyway...

This next act is French, they're called Michel Fourcade And Ze Princess - it's all about harmonies and the voice and bits of covers, and I love 'em...

OLE!!!!!

Currently listening:
Flexing Habitual
By The Flashbulb
Release date: 2007-04-16

THE NEW OLD IDEA!!!

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:28:00 +0000

Current mood:EGO IS OVER.....
Category: Music

Well...

I think I've about peaked on the indulgence irrelevant ego works with that lost pair of shots of my daughters shit on ma leg...

So I'm about to return to blog basics...

Yes boss, just when I thought I was done with music writing for good - I'M BACK TO IT!!!

So, coming up these next few weeks:

Loadsa myspazz reviews as I dive into my 23,000 friends AND START TO SEPARATE THE WHEAT FROM THE WHEAT BEER!!!!

The latest Collosus installment...

A number of Q&As..

AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!

LIKE THIS.....

Currently listening:
Rid Of Me
By PJ Harvey
Release date: 2003-08-25

EMMA GRACE 1 - PAUL 'PIOUS NOSTRADAMUS' JAMES DEMAN GIOVANNI £RD 0

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:27:00 +0000

Current mood:ON THIS OCCASION MY PSYCHIC POWERS FAILED ME......
Category: Life

Currently listening:
Expensive Shit/He Miss Road
By Fela Kuti
Release date: 2002-09-30

The Process Of Weeding Out....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:27:00 +0000

Current mood:DON'T FUCK WITH MY LAWYER!!!
Category: Music

One thing that I try to avoid is getting upset about getting ripped off...

Yes boss, I see getting ripped off as being par for the course when working in any kind of creative field - if you're any good you're gonna be ripped off, and copied, there's no point getting upset about it...

Furthermore, I love unofficial products, bootlegs, copies - the poorer quality the better...

I'm reminded of this through watching this vid

It's about how to light portrait photogrphs, and in it Ken Henderson claims he designed this iconic Queen photo

Now, this image is probably one of the most iconic pop music images of the last 50 years....

Yes boss, it was made into the first pop video of all time, made to accompany one of the most well known pop songs of all time and - if the photogrpaher knew art business - EXTREMELY LUCRATIVE!!!

So, if Ken Henderson did design it (and I believe he might have) and if he could have proved it was his original design and idea, he wouldn't be shuffling reluctant models like Celia around infront of an audience for drinks at the bar, so much as shifting his enormous wedge of cash around various top resorts in the company of Kelly, Katie and Kristi...

But then I get the impression that if Ken really had the wherewithall he could have at least nailed EMI for and out of court settlement - and if he'd really had the drive and ambition he could have nailed himself down as one of the greatest pop photogrpahers of all time on the back of it...!!!

But where's the fun in spending all that time with your lawyers you might ask???

There's none, but it is my understanding that the thing which really separates the creatively 'successful' from the amateurs and the wannabes isn't talent or skill or craftsmanship so much as luck, ruthlessness, and A BURNING AND INSATIABLE AMBITION!!!!

Sure the cool cats like Kurt Cobain, Billy Childish and Charles Bukowski hide it well and even convince their fans they couldn't care less about being famous or successful or known or adored...

But they're lying...

Currently listening:
Live '84 [CASSETTE]
By Black Flag
Release date: 1998-01-20

GOTTA HAVE A J.O.B....

noreply@blogger.com (THE FREEEER FISH) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:26:00 +0000

Current mood:POUR ON WATER POUR ON WATER!!!
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

I'm applying for jobs at the moment..

Yes boss, with heavy start up investment going into the PG£ trading arm, and the temporary lack of income to Mrs Gs end, I'm needing a little extra liquidity - I'm therefore applying for regular Part Time Work..

But why can't you get paid for your writing???

BECAUSE THE PUBLISHING BUSINESS IS RETARDED!!!! AND BECAUSE I'M INCAPABLE OF PLAYING THE GAME!!!!

Anyway, when I apply for regular NON-MEDIA jobs, I always expect to have my hand bitten off...!!

Yes boss, whether I actually want the job or not, I go into interviews and/or application forms with a complete feeling of certainty THAT THERE COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE ANYONE BETTER SUITED TO THE POSITION THAN I AM!!!

I am of course right - but employers don't often notice this fact..

No boss, last summer, I was sent along to an interview for a Full Time Position working for a Fire Extinguishing Company in Shoreditch...

The situation had all the hall marks of a done deal.

Having been very slugish for some months, my job advisor from the privatised job center had set the interview up - she knew the guy who was to interview me (SHE'D SET HIM UP FOR HIS JOB!!!)

This made her CERTAIN I was the best candidate by a country mile..!

'Take the bangle and the shades off and THE JOB'S YOURS!!!' she said...

Well, the interview started perfectly - I kept the bangle on, and the shades on the top of my head, but I was talking my way INTO THE JOB!!!!

Yes boss, I told them I could do everything they wanted me to do!!!

I told them I was more than qualified, THAT I LOVED WORKING ON MY OWN INITIATIVE!!!!

I told them that fire extinguishing sounded like a very safe regular job to be working in, especially in these uncertain times...!

YES BOSS, IT WAS CLEAR IN MY MIND THAT I WAS GOING TO BE EMPLOYED TO PUT OUT FIRES IN SHOREDITCH!!!!

That was, until I took the computer tests..

Yes boss, the funny thing about my computer knowledge is it completely stems from my own use of computers as opposed to any kind of broad and sensible training.

Basically, if I need to know it, I know it, and if I don't I don't...

There are therefore gaps in my basic knowledge that most 8 year olds don't have and wedges of quite useless knowledge that most 50 year old programmers will never have....

Well, one such gap I have, is in using Microsoft Excel and databases in general....

Yes boss, I've never used Excel to any great extent because databases bore the shit out of me, and every time I've needed them in the past I've always known other people who've covered that angle on my behalf..

And therein lay the problem - the extinguisher people gave me some maths to do using Excel and I couldn't do it that way to save my life...?!?!

No boss, I tried to work it out, but couldn't in the time allotted, so instead I wrote the maths in the margin and told them that if they showed me the way in Excel it'd take me about a minute to pick up and memorise...

I EVEN VOLUNTEERED TO GO IN AHEAD OF THE START OF MY CONTRACT FOR FREE TO GET CUSHTY WITH IT ALL!!!

But apparently that wasn't enough and I didn't get the job...

Oh well, life goes on...

Currently listening:
Electric Arguments [VINYL]
By The Fireman (Paul McCartney and Youth)
Release date: 2008-12-15