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:: Saturday, April 12, 2003 ::

ANOTHER SHOCK GUSSET INJURY!

PUBLIC SERVICE ANOUNCEMENT: OVENS ARE HOT!

This'll teach you to fold a tea-towel enough times or at least to use oven-gloves or other appropriate item for removing items from your oven. Look below for the shocking image of what happens WHEN BAKING TRAYS ATTACK!

:: Spokesy 12.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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:: Dan 12.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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You shall know me as Kraaagg the bionic balgrout slayer!

:: popcorn 10.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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Look out for the exclusive Meat Beat Manifesto track, "Martenot Waves", on the Animatrix soundtrack.
And what's wrong with BBC Micro graphics? (Not heard the word shonqy [sp:shonky?] for ages, must start using that again)
Bonus round is a bit easier. I got 4/4 on that... but I did get a briefing about what to look out for after the first round =]
Shonky Goonar!!

:: Dan 10.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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Talking of CGI, the Matrix Reloadeds SFX look like they're going to make bullet time look like shonqy BBC graphics

:: popcorn 10.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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W00t! 10/10! then 4/4 on the bonus round!, right I'm of to find Sadam now

:: popcorn 10.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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Can you find Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction? See how well you can do here, and maybe win a cuddly camel!

:: Dan 10.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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This is fun: Fake or Photo, can you tell CGI from real photos? I got 6 out of 10. Scores around the office varied from 8 (the photographer) to 1 (the student). How can you do?

:: Dan 10.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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All your Iraq are belong to U.S.

:: Dan 9.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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I though that was just common sense, but the resident Manc in the office tells me its what City fans chant during matches as they have a striker called Sean Goater (sp?). Although, I still prefer to think they have a real goat in the team, or at least as a mascot. Perhaps they could get a load of them as ground keepers? They must be cheaper to run than one of those tractor style lawn mowers and its operator. Maybe the ground keepers union, if there is one, would get up in arms if this happened and start attacking innocent goats with pitch forks, then we might have some kind of goat rebellion on our hands. They might stop eating absolutely anything and insist only on Marks and Spencer's cardigans (which might help M&S out of their current financial trouble). Who knows where it might lead. Power to the Goats!

:: Dan 9.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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A bloke on his way home from work comes to a dead halt in traffic and thinks to himself, Wow, this traffic seems worse than usual. Nothing's moving." He notices a police officer walking back and forth between the lines of cars so he rolls down his window and asks: "Officer what's the hold up?"
The officer replies: "It's a Man U fan, he's just so depressed about losing the premiership to Arsenal, being knocked out of Europe and the prospect of winning F**k all after gobbing off all season, he's threatening to douse himself in petrol and set himself on fire. He says his family hates him, his mates are all laughing at him and he has never had a job, I'm walking around taking a collection for him."
"Oh really?" says the bloke "How much have you collected so far?".
"So far," replies the policeman "Only about 1/2 a litre, but a lot of
people are still siphoning."

Which reminds me, Dan, I was going to ask about a bit of graffiti I saw in Manchester last week that I was hoping you might be able to explain since you lived round those parts. I understand the first bit, but the second?:
City 3 United 1
Feed the Goat

:: popcorn 9.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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Channel 4 is re-running Chris Morris's Jam in advance of the DVD release on May 12th. It starts tonight, at 11:45. More (although not much) info here.

Venetian Snares live set from All Tomorrow's Parties last weekend will be broadcast on Radio 1 tomorrow night, John Peel, 22:00 - 00:00.

:: Dan 9.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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Shit! I've done it again!

Slipped putting a can in the recycling this time... what I go though to try to save the world eh?

:: Dan 8.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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You didn't type it really. Sorry, I couldn't resist!

:: Dan 8.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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LMAO, maybe freudian, I've gone all red (in the face). Certainly didn't mean to type it, took me about five min to find the typo and a good ten mins more to stop myself laughing. (but I did have to change it) It was an easy typo to make the n is close to the k but I'm not sure how I managed to do it without hitting j or m

I never considered that Eavis might actually be trying to preserve the ethos. God damn it, I hate it when I jump to conclusions.

:: popcorn 8.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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Freudian typing there Popcorn?

Someone was telling me that Eavis is actually ultra keen not to appear a money grabbing shit. Apparently back in the early 80's he got mud thrown at him and shouted as he walked across the site for charging 40 odd quid to get in. He's been keen to keep the price as low as possible since. Lets face it, you get a lot more for your money compared to most other festivals, that's why I was willing to pay what I did. And if he really was only after money, he would have sold all the tickets on eBay in the first place! I recon he's just pissed off he didn't think of that!

:: Dan 8.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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Eavis wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
1. There's such a thing as the data protection act and the government is trying to slap a couple of law suits on high profile companies to get it into peoples heads that the DPA is something you really need to adhear to. eBay wouldn't dare
2. If money has been taken, then there exists a contract between buyer and seller. So it would be breach of contract.

Even if it states in the T&C that the ticket is only valid for the purchaser (In which case they should have only sold them in singles) Eavis will be in breach of contract if he doesn't send the ticket.

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IMHO Eavis lost the orginal ethos (is ethos the right word?) of Glasto years ago, and has just turned into a money grabbing little sh*t. If there's one thing worse than a money grabbing little sh*t, it's a hippy turned money grabbing little sh*t
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as for Miss Air, I've not been able to stand her since the Big Breakfast. She is solely responceable for getting me angry and wound up within about 3 mins of waking, every day for a couple of years. I think if you're going to be interviewing people you need to apear to have two brain cell to rub together, and not just be flirty eye candy (at least Paula Yeats did it with class).
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:: popcorn 8.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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Yep, sounds good indeed Sean. Let me (and the rest of the gusset blog reading world) know what tracks are picked.
What wrong with Donna Air, Popcorn? I mentioned this to someone in work and the response I got was, "Waaughhh, Donna Air! Wow, she looks really, really dirty! I definitely would...", and so on. I can't say I agree with such horrendously sexist rambling and dribbling, but it's obviously a matter of taste.

And finally, more than a week of working my ass off after the gig, here is how it went:
There was hardly anyone there when I played, the place filled up slowly over the evening. (Sean was ill so that was the first gig I played on my own!) The set was alright, featured some new material as always. Seemed to interest the few people who did see it, and I did get two people I don't know come up to me afterwards and say "isn't there normally two of you?"! Who are these mysterious gusset stalkers?

Duran Duran Duran played a blinding set (if you're into noise), and I got a CD from him which is definitely worth a listen. DJ Ripley played a good set, lots of old school jungle, including a great jungle mix of I Wanna be Like You from The Jungle Book =] Knifehandchop was pretty good, although perhaps a little slow in the middle, but a good show and a great ending. Then Parasite and Ripley finished off with a bit off a DJ battle. Overall of good night, and the crowd were really into it. I did take some photos I planned to post here, but due to a technical cock up on my part that won't be happening, sorry.

I met D'Kat (of Bleeding to Death at the Local Police Station fame). He liked our stuff, and kept asking how I managed to generate it all live (which I didn't). He also asked if we'd be up for doing some sort of collaboration. We exchanged contact details, we'll see what happens, he probably won't even remember! Watch this space.

We went to Slim and Emma's wedding on Saturday, on the Glass Boat. That was a great day, really nice wedding, they both looked great, and looked really happy. I also caught up with a load of old colleges from my time at BT, had a nice trip up the feeder in a ferry, in glorious weather, and ate some great food. I feel bad that the gift we bought them won't even cover the cost of the food we ate; I'll have to do/get something else for them. They're off to the states today, have a great Honeymoon both of you, if you read this before you go (unlikely).

I bought an over priced Glastonbury ticket from eBay yesterday. I missed getting a ticket on the first day last week due to a business trip and I'm considering claiming the extra expense on my expenses, don't fancy my chances though! I was talking to Mike Denner, who runs the cinema field, this morning and he thinks Michael Eavis is going to get the addresses of everyone who sold a ticket on eBay and not send the tickets out to any of those addresses. Now, I'm not sure where he stands legally on that? Surely one all of the tickets are sold it becomes a free market? Can eBay just give out all of those addresses without compromising there users privacy? Eavis defiantly cant get that information without eBay's cooperation, and surly if they were going to cooperate with him they would just close the auctions down? Oh well, let just wait and see. But I have to say, if all the people who have risked spending a small fortune on a ticket from eBay lose out because of Eavis, he is going to be one damn unpopular man!

:: Dan 7.4.03 [Arc]    ::
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