It's impossible for a human being to be entirely happy.

[alexsarll]

In a late addition to the bill of entertainments at tonight's Love Your Enemies, there is to be some form of raffle, with Mute goodies* to be won. I think it'll be a get-given-a-ticket-when-you-come-in job.

Among the useful lessons learned at my_red_dream's housewarming - she has a tendency to confuse pigeons with poo, while her beau is a dab hand at drawing bomb turbans, even on such unpromising wearers as the golden-mantled tree kangaroo (possessed, icecoldinalex claims, of 'shifty eyes').

"Mr Chirac said any subject matter that could hurt other people's convictions should be avoided." Well, that's one approach. On the other hand there's the quote which one sees attributed to many press veterans, in many slightly different wordings - I was first told it as being from Lord Beaverbrook: "News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising".
(On which note, who's been editing Wikipedia?)

Among things making me cheerful today are dubnobasswithmyheadman (a listen this morning reveals that all the tracks are too long for LYE, but heavens it's still a great album), the supervillain Egg Fu (an Oriental supercomputer in the shape of a giant egg, who holds Wonder Woman captive with his moustache), the birthday card from Tuesday which was basically Brokeback Mountain with dogs, and Chris Oakley's abiding love for Millennium.

There's plenty of anti-psychotic drugs out there, but has anyone ever invented the opposite, a conscience suppressant? I realise it's not something your average shrink would want to prescribe, but I imagine it would be a godsend to the CIA or KGB, and they had neurochemists of their own.

*No, not including missfrancesca.

Comments

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

There's about two really great songs ('Pearl's Girl' and the opening one - 'Juanita'? on 'Second Toughest...' but other than that I don't rate it much either. Most of the songs sound un-realised; half-way between the style of those on the first album, and those on the third album, and as such fall awkwardly in between to not great effect.

It's better than 'Underneath The Radar' though.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

'Underneath the Radar'?

I've still yet to hear that Hundred Nights Off or whatever it was called - the single and the loss of a member really didn't inspire me with confidence.

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

UTR is the album Underworld Mk 1 (i.e. without Darren Emerson, but with some other blokes) made as a band in the mid 80s; it's full of overblown 80s funk. (See also their second album, 'Change The Weather'). Neither are very good.

I heard the first single from the fourth album, which I thought was quite good actually, if hardly revolutionary, but I've still not heard the accompanying album.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, that era of Underworld - as I understand it, its erasure from history is as worthy as that of Eminem's real first album.
'Doot Doot' is OK, though.