Things I have learned in school

[marky]

And....you're bloody right! <high-fives Tommy at the bar>

I'm glad you mentioned Tom from NY, I'd begun to wonder why he seemed to leave in a huff myself. At least the booze is free here. Bartender!

Luck is with me I have found some remarkably good new music to listen to. And considering how hard I searched for really great music most of the summer, I'm astounded that I've managed to come upon several things lately that genuinely interest me, with very little effort. Obviously I haven't had the time to spend on music lately and it's nice to finally be here, free from school, free from work, with my Paxacidus palz, my favourite French red wine and all these nice new musical activities I'm humbly grateful to have come my way.

My three top songs right now are:

Pixies - Bam Thwok (yes it is THE new Pixies song, written by Kim Deal and absolutely fabulous - more than I might have expected from either her OR them at this stage in the game-and they've got a brand new album on the way!)

Beatles (George Harrison) - Only A Northern Song
Yes this song is new to me. I'm not embarassed. Probably it would be a good thing if most of humanity listened to every single Beatles song ever before they died. And George Harrison is my favorite.

But then...

Beatles - Hey Bulldog - Lennon pops in and says hello. My third favorite song right now.

Then there is also this UK band called The Very Things from the mid-80's who manage to be pop and goth at the same time and very much John Peel-ish material (they had Peel Sessions in '83 and '87). They just floor me. They used to be called the Cravats before that. They were on actually the same label as Bahaus' Bela Lugosi's Dead 12". But I only like one Cravats song I've heard.

Also McC I wonder if you have heard Keith Hudson. He was the man responsible for the title "wrote the only song New Order ever covered". Anyway he was a Jamaican long haired dreadlocked dude in 1974 he did this album called "Pick A Dub" which is a must for any vinyl DJ. Now I'm not normally much of a reggae/dub fan per se, but he just has something really brilliant going on. He produces the record like as if he's sampling stuff and yet this was 1974. He reminds me of the production style of Martin Hannett, too. Very very Hannett-like. I decided specifically to get this one on vinyl (which is something I don't normally do) just to be sure to get the most perfect sound quality possible. It's been reissued in really thick high quality 180 gram vinyl (one step above the thickness of any Factory Records vinyl I've ever experienced - now that's vinyl!!) on Simply Vinyl records licensed from a label in Manchester England called Blood and Fire. But be careful I've heard the original Blood & Fire LP has crap sound quality. Look for the 180 gram seal!

Other than that I've become interested in the New Order soundtrack for some Peter Saville art show and this band called The Laughing Clowns, who were ex-Saints and I know Saints were Australian and I've known a lot of people to like them but I don't know much about them.

And then an early 80's American duo (from Indiana? Something like that) called Tone Set that just seem to break the mold as far as synth pop goes.

I'll happily proceed out of the pub now, mister. I know when I've been thrown out.

But spit at those Bush rednecks for me will ya? Throw a brick through the window of their SUV's.

I have the write to post my own idiotic drunk shit here like anyone else. It is a god-given right.

Even if in my mind I'm in a pub with wooden booths.

[marky]

When in doubt, listen to Nick Drake.

But seriously...what was I dong to tsay?

Oh yeah, Tommy has it right. I haven't learned a dman thing in school.

And Mav, Scousers are Liverpudlians, I believe. EVerything avter that gets a little blurrry.

Turn up the music.

I'll hole up with me rifle and wait for the Republicans to come and get me. Goodbye, cheers.

But really, when in doubt, listen to Nick Drake. If all else fails grab Nick Drake in an emergency.

[marky]

The name of the first Very Things album is called "The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes".

Yep, the BUSHES SCREAM. Perfect eh?

How about this lyric from a 1994 album by my favourite Washington D.C. band ever: "I looked into the president's window the other day and saw that he had Jesus Christ in a cage with a cigar he was burning Jesus's twisted arm reminding him not to cause the nation any alarm fuck you pig buttfuck you pig" Etc etc etc. These are really the lyrics people I am not lying.

[marky]

Also I don't know much about York (can't name any bands from there off hand, but I'd love to see the Tudors - me and my dorky tourist camera) but I do know The Aphex Twin came from Cornwall. {Right Marky, like we really give a crap}

I don't know anything about Cornwall, but I figure if the Aphex Twin came from there I imagine it must be a little isolated a little too quiet surburb-like?

[marky]

In an emergency, I'm grabbing Nick Drake CD's, okay? I think we've established that, but just incase.

[marky]

I'm so drunk I'm listening to bagpipes. Really it's come to this. And I like it. That's how bad it's gotten.

Nothing like being in front of real bagpipes in front of the capital in Victoria B.C. though in summertime. I'll have to do that again someday.

[marky]

Look, don't you think it's just that we owe it to ourselves and the rest of the world to pretend we're not Americans or something along those lines?

[martino]

i am sorry to say i dislike "bam thwok". to me it sounds like old-fashioned noise music. i think it speaks volumes that the pixies have no reunion cd out: i think the tour was just a money thing. but good ole chucky thomson, he is a smart ass: his new album of pixies re-treads promises to be exceptional. have you heard his phenomenal new version of "monkey gone to heaven"? now that's a money shot (as opposed to a money thing).

speaking about the beatles, i think i will never really like them again -- and again, i am sorry to say this. but have you noticed that some people are trying awfully hard to sound like the beatles? take beck's version of "everybody's gotta learn sometimes" which he did for the soundtrack of "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind". the thrumming bass guitar, the defensive piano, the stupid chamber strings, the ringo drums: it's oddly effective.

speaking of defensive, i have a guilty pleasure in listening to the dears. their recycled-blur sound has something i like. so what do you say: shite or gold?

[marky]

But why does it speak volumes that Pixies don't have a reunion CD out yet? I mean it IS coming in the spring, that's what I hear. Would it have gained some extra credibility if it had been released earlier? Please explain.

I've no doubt money played a large role in their reformation. Strangely that didn't stop me enjoying seeing them live at all.

Have any opinion on the new Nick Cave yet?

I haven't heard of The Dears.

[Tom]

Just little time.

The fancy apartment has a fancy board that I need to meet with to get approval. Ha! I am thinking about walking in naked with a sock over my dick while singing "under the bridge downtown.... is where I drew some blood" at the top of my lungs.

I need order. I don't do well in limbo...packed and ready-but waiting. I stop the things in life that are normal day to day tasks (like reading pax acidus). Waiting. Planning things out-getting things ready. Immersing myself in work and no play. Tommy is a dull boy lately. Tommy needs a night out with Sloth and Matt. Tommy needs Pixie's tits in both hands, Marky whispering the genius of Peel in my ear and Maverick sulking in the corner jealous that Pixie is hiding her tits from him.

[TragicPixie]

awww *gives you another pretty drink*

[Maverick]

There will be no hiding! All tits should be shown...well, maybe not all, buy the young perky ones at least. A drink to the first lass who flashes! 2 Drinks to the one who leaves her top off. And I'll even help restrain Tommy from groping too much.