This week I have mostly....

[Mudcrab]

One of the highlights of the DVD too. Not on the CD version though, for some reason.

Excellent choice of name!

[Mudcrab]

I'll be Frail and introduce you then :o)

later to become Just Like You Imagined. I'll stop there in case this becomes one of those speeches with loads of Elvis songs in it.

[Mk13]

"u sure youre not a clone of me or vice versa MK13? thought i was the only person outside of belgium to have heard of front 242 apart from liam howlett..... "

We are all clones. It is the industrial way. Front 242 are a lot bigger than you imagine - they used to be able to pull in two or three thousand people for London gigs, and they have been hugely influential on a whole range of artists, including Mr. Howlett. Just a shame that 242's latest album is shite.


"Cubanate are better though..."

Cubanate were great in their heyday, during the era of Antimatter, Cyberia and all those 'versus' gigs between them and the late, lamented Judda (wonder where they got that name from), but Barbarossa was patchy to say the least and Interference was an attempt to do something different that crashed and burned spectacularly. Stuff I've heard from Cubanate more recently has raised my interest again, but they don't seem to be anywhere near releasing a new album.

[La Mer]

suddenly im reminded of the hells angels in good omens by pratchett and gaiman - when they decide thier biblical names...... maybe ill change my name to formerly la mer, now likes to be known as at the heart of it all, but secretley wish.....

[SmallBlueThing]

Oi, yer Slips! Don't go generalising me, matey. I may be "early thirties" but I certainly don't like "the same music" and ABSOLUTELY certainly don't "like sci-fi". I read 2000ad cos it's a great comic- not cos it's scifi,I wouldn't care if it was all about war, romance and barbarians with nary a lazer gnu in sight!

This week I have been mostly reading 'The Ultimate Jack The Ripper Sourcebook' by Stewart Evans and Keith Skinner, listening to VNV Nation, Faith & The Muse, Damien Youth and The Merry Thoughts, and watching Coronation Street and World War One in Colour on ch5.

Steev

[SmallBlueThing]

...I have no idea what a 'lazer gnu' is, but before Gordon Rennie, Si Spurrier, David Bishop or any other lurking droids jump on it, I want to add (c) Steev Hopper 2003. Thank you.

Steev

[Slippery PD]

Blimey we do seem to be getting off on the wrong foot.  :)  

I was as you say generallising and at least two of the bands you mention, I have albums of.....
 
I was generalising on the comment that it was surprising that we have similair musical "tastes", I was giving a theory as to why.  Similair age groups, similair backgrounds, similair interests or at least those people from the board I know, this is true.  There is no real crime in generalisation of this sort...  

My differences?  I loathe DR Who, dislike Star wars and have a pathological hatred of Star Trek..  and yes I "like" sci fi.

So maybe were not as disimilair as you think.....

Yer "left wing card carrying" Slips

[SmallBlueThing]

I was merely being penickitty, young man, pay it no mind.

I am on no wrong feet at all!

For the record I quite like Dr Who books and ocassionally audios, but don't have much time for the tv series these days, LOATHE Star Trek, babylon5, Stargate, farscape, Buffy, Angel, Charmed, and basically anything formulaic that comes in from the yanks. I adore the Star Wars saga, loathe Lord of the Rings (but you knew that. heh.) and The matrix and do not read science fiction novels, at all.

The only TV scifi I like is the original twilight zone, some of the 80s relaunch, and little bits of the new version, and some Dr Who (notably Hartnell, Tom Baker and McCoy). As for the rest of 'telefantasy'- I have an allergy to puppets, men in bowler hats, portmerion village, Peter Wyngarde and Strange. The first 2 series of The X Files were good, but then it got crap. Er... and I can't think of any more. Oh, Blakes 7- that was bollocks too.

As for the cinema, I generally avoid scifi movies if possible. I'm a horror person.

I read 2000ad because it's the best of British comics, and I like comics in general. But not Manga, which I hate.

I utterly despise Red Dwarf. I love Porridge, Rising Damp and Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads? And Frasier. My favourite music other than that mentioned includes the mary Shelley's Frankenstein soundtrack, bauhaus, The Sisters, The Mish, Wolfsheim, Puccini, Adam Ant, Duran Duran, Iron maiden and Jethro Tull.

I am not a number I am free man.

But as I said, i didn't like that either, but I like the sentiment.

Steev
Mr so left-wing, Arthur Scargill and Marx visit me in my dreams, the anti-sci-fi man.