Innes is back with Poptones!!!!

Post by **mccutcheon** » Thu Jul 05, 2001 11:14 pm

Laszlo (Innes) has finally gotten his shit together, with a little encouragement from Irvine Welsh and has a new piece up on Poptones. These are the things we would post if we had the talent. Everyone go read this. Shane is On The Bus!!!
http://www.poptones.co.uk/soundoff/soundoff20010705.shtml

Laszlo_Kovacks · Post by **Laszlo_Kovacks** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 5:36 pm

Thank you so much for your support and encouragement MC, but you've gotta get things in perspective. Increasingly, I'm detecting self-doubt in your postings regarding your own capabilities and this latest one - 'these are the things we would post if we had the talent' troubles me. Whilst, its honest and brave to publicly admit to short-comings or weaknesses, I still think they've got to be there in the first place in order to be resolved.Yourself and The Sloth are posting everyday, you're transcribing anything and everything as you see it and these take the form of shorts, screenplays and poetry in addition to critical commentary on current music and film, not to mention your compling of specific sounds to commemorate a moment in time as an aural diary, if you like. All these things are creatively positive and exude bundles of creative energy...and you maintain, what I consider, one of the best of its kind, in multi-media, inter-active, provocative web-sites. While I am genuinely appreciative of your ongoing 'constructivism' towards myself, you must remember that this recent MacGowan piece was just a rewrite, which I began in April and finally only finished two days ago (although I did hammer the final third of it down in a couple of hours on Tuesday night), but in that time you two have had ten times that output. Admittedly, various factors have contributed to that piece becoming my second Stone Roses album, but deep down, if I'm truthful with myself, I'd have to put it down to my short attention span and lack of ambition, two factors which will no doubt result in any talent I have remaining unfullfilled. But I'm not gonna get down about it.
Anyway thanks, keep on keepin' on, and y'know, Keep the Faith.
PS. I look forward to good bad behaviour around Sept

Post by **mccutcheon** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 8:54 pm

I just wish I had your grasp of the English Language. I like what you write. Sloth and I might be the only few around here who get the Roses reference. It's nice to raise the glass when kicking against the pricks and staying focused through beary eyes and keeping the faith. It's not a doubt, well it is and more, when it's good it is good and when not it's not. there are a few fuckers out there I wish all the best and you are one of them. Now I'm going to stop being so nice and turn back into a self absorbed insolent asshole and work on my novel. Until September.

McCutcheon, with encouragement to all those around the globe connected only by Pax Acidus, I say stay strong. There is nothing wrong with a few words of praise because the next person you talk to could say you are shit and spit in your eye. The girl won't return your glance, the cabbie will swerve to hit you, and no one is getting the rounds in your favour. so yes, keep on keeping on. It's a scary world out there full of monsters in shoes.

Laszlo_Kovacks · Post by **Laszlo_Kovacks** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 9:32 pm

Assuming tha above secondary response was Ooh - that's it precisely, in the immortal words of the young Smokey R - I second That Emotion.
...and MC, that's the right attitude, fuck 'em all and do the fuckin' novel, let me see the drafts. and who knows, if things go accordingly with Rebel Inc, I might even be in a position to publish it.
Oh, liked the Beckett/Cave Pricks usage...we only get one good shot at it, so do it your way.
Hey, its Friday night and guess what I've got lined up - helping out a mate by washing fucking dishes in his restaurant - good for the soul. That'll be right!

Post by **mccutcheon** » Fri Jul 06, 2001 11:34 pm

post was all mine. anyway, when i met Mr. Welsh and asked him about a certain pudgy journalist who wore specs and made me laugh, around the time when was around when James Brown was still the man at Loaded, Mr. Welsh looked at me and said that he had also writen for that rag. Like I was to be impressed. He had at the time written 4 fucking novels out. I couldn't have been more in awe at that. Not sure why I'm writing this beside the fact it all might fit in somewhere.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Sat Jul 07, 2001 2:06 am

sometimes I don't even know what I'm on about. or where I am for that matter.

Laszlo_Kovacks · Post by **Laszlo_Kovacks** » Sat Jul 07, 2001 3:04 am

You don't know how relevant your last line in the second last post was, and I really must stop quoting song lyrics cos its fuckin' tedious, but humour me once more because the line 'You're so perceptive and I don't know how you knew' from Eno's Dead Finks Don't Talk on Here Come The Warm Jets is the most apt response that comes to mind: I ended up freelancing for NME late 80's thru' knowing and parting pretty hard with James, and at the point when I'd kinda came to be fairly settled, James, at that point the youngest Deputy Editor ever at 24, and pretty much in line for Editorship, decided to resign. I tried to change his mind for purely selfish reasons, but he was adamant, and told me he had an idea and to expect a call sometime in the future relaying news of something revolutionary that I might want to be part of. Personal politics, plus a review I wrote of Suede in Paris which was actually cancelled two hours before doors-open, dictated I never darken their Kings Reach Tower again, but James, true to his word, gave me the call within a year, and I became one of the original seven or nine to be part of the phenomenon that was the launch of Loaded magazine. I was their token Scot, and probably only missed out writing for around ten out of the first fifty issues. I did the first national magazine article on Irvine, a four page piece entitled HIB Positive, just after Trainspotting (the book, not the film). Now here's where all the random components you mention morph together, and I still find it weirdly fascinating you, for some reason unbeknown to yourself, mentioned them in that post. Just prior to the film coming out and for the purpose of publicising Marabou Stork Nightmares (incidentally, Irvine's finest moment in my opinion), the pair of us were sitting in Robbies Bar in Leith getting well fucked up on boose and stimulants, traditional Monday afternoon fayre, when I happened to ask him if he'd be up for doing a regular column for LOADED. I knew if we didn't get him now, within days of the film coming out he'd be at GQ or FHM. He was up for it, so there and then I got on the blower to Martin Deeson and put it to him. He was well into it, and within a line, a dab and a swally, the deal was done - Welshy penning a monthly column.
So, you see MC, how bloody close you are to all this. Mad, and I'm not one to put things down to fate, but since our communication began, there have been a few coincidences, Arab Strap, Shane McGowan, originally Belle & Seb, but this one really takes the proverbial biscuit.
I hope you have a thoroughly, rewarding night in every way - and somehow I think you will.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Sat Jul 07, 2001 3:21 am

Loaded was so special when it launched. James blagging into Spanish clubs under false pretenses. Martin Deeson was the fat git in specs I meant. I love him, climing a mountain hungover in the out back of Oz and doing Cannes with Irvine. That was a revolution in publishing not far from the musical experience for me. We were even going to put Loaded On The Bus but we don't read it anymore.

Laszlo_Kovacks · Post by **Laszlo_Kovacks** » Sat Jul 07, 2001 4:23 am

Something as brash and degenerate led as Loaded for the first few years could never, and wasn't meant to, have any longevity - like the shooting star which burns twice as bright, but lasts only momentarily, or more in line line with LOADED's attitude, the British Punk Rock movement, which was all but over and had made its point and sown its seeds, before he press and the pond life started to exploit it for all it's worth. Not being elitist or anything, but all the best things are at their most potent in the extremity of their infancy - once the become public - its gone.
Anyway, I never read it now either, but neither do I read Hotdog, James' Movie magazine, often, although the ones I have are wortwhile.
I need a job on The Enquirer!
Rearguards
LK/IR

Post by **mccutcheon** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 3:03 am

LK/IR I'm goin' for a few pints and to sit back in the lazy Sunday afternoon sun. Wish you were here to join me in this Kink's song.

I have all my back issues of Loaded. Any I should check out?