Your famous friend, well I blew him before you

[alexsarll]

So what do we all think of the new Franz Ferdinand single then, children? At first it seemed a little loutish to me, but then I remembered that was what I'd thought about 'Take Me Out' after the Karelia, and held my mental tongue. I soon realised it wasn't loutish so much as snotty, and that's just fine by me. As is Alex's hair looking a bit better again, and launching your potentially huge second album with a song this gay. That it's also catchy as velcro goes without saying.

I had a couple of tentative plans for last night, but neither of them came together* so I ended up watching the Boosh episodes I'd missed through the BBC's cack-handed scheduling, the above-mentioned FF video, and the fascinating documentary After the War. It's the story of how British and American forces took down an evil dictatorship and, after some initial hiccups including looting, abuse of prisoners and missing WMD, managed to build a pretty-much functional democracy.

Best ASBO Ever: "Closer examination revealed that he had mistakenly been ordered not to be in public "without" alcohol and that he was also duty bound to act in a threatening manner likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress to others."

Plenty of people I know have been in bands which, with hindsight, they admit were not the future of music. This man, however, has felt the need exhaustively to catalogue his, in particular Mongrel, who eventually became a "very successfull semi-pro pub band". Warning: this is the saddest website in the world, in both senses of 'saddest'.

I dreamt several days of London life last night. The Haines concert at Brixton Academy was as brilliant as you'd expect, but while I can understand the idea of holding a UN peace conference at Tate Modern, I do wonder whose idea it was to have it hosted by Frank Sidebottom.

*Somewhere in Heaven, Hannibal weeps.

Comments

[jamesward.livejournal.com]

The video is obviously meant to appear loutish, but that's the point. Making a loutish video but filling it with Yves Klein references, marvellous.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Especially since the Divine Comedy's grunge period, I have a morbid fear of 'my bands' going downmarket, so it took me a moment to process the layers.

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

If Frank Sidebottom is around, cappuccino_kid must have something to do with it, mark my werds.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

He'd be an even more puzzling peace conference host than Frank...

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

It was most unfortunate that Oink was only fortnightly, really.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Why so? Better than than spread their material too thin, surely?

It was ace, though. For some reason I had cause to explain Burp the Alien to insecuregoddess at the weekend.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Well, because my mother wouldn't get me subscriptions to two comics, but you can't subscribe to one fortnightly one and another one on alternate weeks, can you? Note I had no money as a child.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

So what did you opt for?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

I can't in all honesty remember. I think I ignored the hypothetical discussion about how it would save money to take out a subscription, and continued a week-by-week purchasing policy.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

if you would like, in your dotage, to go through a large pile of oinks (nearly complete) there is one at my house which i saved from my mother's.

it is, unsurprisingly, not as good a i remembered...

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Oh well done, I think my mother donated all of mine to the kids she taught. Actually surely she couldn't possibly have given Oink to Muslims...

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

cor, that's a blast from the past!!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

http://www.oinkcomic.co.uk/

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

*dissolves into a puddle of nostalgia*

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

be fair - the Mongrel chap is also a rail enthusiast, and talks lovingly of 'Barry Scrapyard'.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Implying that such a facility would ever be needed is tantamount to blasphemy!

His slightly creepy handgun enthusiasm is also fun, though.

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

peacefull, legitimate, non-blood shooting sports

very peaceful, obviously.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

He really doesn't get the distinction between -ful and full, does he?

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

hannibal is dead??????

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, George Peppard certainly is (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000577/).

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

sour.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I know. It wasn't a bad life, though - he got to pull Audrey Hepburn and lead the A-Team!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I consider her decoratively beautiful rather than attractive, so can understand that. But then, I wouldn't want to work with Mr T either, I can just respect both as achievements.

[my-name-is-anna.livejournal.com]

Wot is the new FF single? I don't keep up with yoof culture anymore.

I love love love the sets in the Mighty Boosh - it's always twilight in a desert or forest. It's the sort of look I'd like my flat to have. Also, the floppy haired one is rather a looker, no? Or it might be only me who thinks that... erm.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

By floppy hair, do you mean Vince Noir? He is the minority taste when it comes to fancying them, I think, though neither really does it for me.

It is indeed the new FF single, the video was on Channel 4 last night.

[my-name-is-anna.livejournal.com]

Erm, I'm not sure of the name.

Yes but what is the new FF single called? And is it about getting off with men in discos? And if not, why not?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Vince Noir's on the left, Howard Moon's on the right.

The single is called 'Do You Want To' and it's not wholly gay, but does include the title of this post. And that's a lot more boy/boy action than most singles manage.

[my-name-is-anna.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like the one that no one else does, hurrah!

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

The single is called 'Do You Want To' and it's not wholly gay, but does include the title of this post.

Along with the news that a friend managed to tape me some Menswe@r off BBC4 last night, this has turned an otherwise frankly unsatisfactory day into one of relative excellence. Thank you.

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Indie fringes solve everything.

Re: as catchy as velcro

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It was either that, or reference some insalubrious condition or other and lower the tone horribly!

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

Le Grand Meaulnes is serialised on Radio 4 starting this Sunday afternoon at 3pm. Simon Russell-Beale narrates.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I will make a note of this, and then manage to catch at most one episode, because that is the nature of radio programming and me.

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

The Sunday Serial is one of the few things I normally manage to keep a track of. I almost got every episode of The Raj Quartet and I've just finished Oblomov which was wonderfully suitable for someone who is often in bed at 3pm on Sunday making all sorts of excuses for not going any further than the fridge.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It's that total lack of any sense of perspective or an ability to let anything go which makes the site, though. So presumably any equivalent done by someone with whom you could bear to be in a band couldn't be quite so horribly amusing.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

They should have had her, they could have been the new Black Box Recorder!