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Theory: neckties were not an echo of the Roman soldier's neck-rag in the past, but a precursor of earphone leads in the future. Which is why the period of their die-off coincides so closely with the gradual arrival of that for which they played John the Baptist.

Friday: to the Wilmington, where you must not step past the green pillar with your drink because of 'Residents'. No, not in the sense that eyeball-headed monsters will get you. Well, I don't think so. This in spite of the fact that the other side of the same residential block is a square solely occupied by teenage girls getting raucously drunk in a manner which would doubtless provoke an appalled Skins reference if the papers got hold of it. The other risk of being outside is that you get girls at that stage where you genuinely can't tell if they're mixed-race or just really overdid the fake tan trying to get you along to Venus 'nightclub' (and it shouldn't need saying, but that's arguably NSFW). Do they really get much success touting for that outside indie gigs?
The band bringing the drums were late, and aren't quite cute enough to make up for the lack of songs. Because of their lateness, no soundchecks: [livejournal.com profile] myfirstkitchen and her Maffickers are having monitor trouble but sound fine in the crowd. However, Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring seem to suffer, their usual magic tragically absent on a day when our hearts were full of spring. I decide that although I ought to check out headliners Cats on Fire, particularly now I've finally got it straight in my head that they aren't middle-class student wankers Cats in Paris (three of the top 10 Google results for that phrase lead you to blogs written by people I know called Steve), this is not the time, and hightail it to the Noble, where the Addlestones is now 10p more expensive, and tastes soapy.
Saturday: [livejournal.com profile] fugitivemotel's engagement party. The transition from the glorious, barely-even-evening sun of the walk down to the gentle gloom of the bar leaves me feeling suddenly sleepy, and I initially worry that the rape jokes are not giving his fiancee the best impression of his friends, but by evening's end we're siding with her in an argument, which should count for a lot.
Sunday: join the second half of a genteel Soho pub crawl compered by [livejournal.com profile] my_name_is_anna. Well, I think it's genteel, but I'm only half as drunk as the rest of them. Soho really is horrifically gentrified these days though, isn't it? Then up to the Noble again. Pints still priced too high, but no longer soapy. That's something.

Neil Gaiman's 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?' concluded perfectly; in spite of the title, I was reminded less of Alan Moore's 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?' than of the afterlife metaphysics his next novel, Jerusalem will apparently propose. One imperfection, though - you know those 'Got milk?' ads? There's one in here with Chris Brown, talking about how "the protein helps build muscle". Muscle you can use for beating your girlfriend Rihanna black and blue, for instance. Given some of the daft things DC have censored at the last minute (Superman with a beer, for instance) you'd think this could have been pulled.
At the other end of the Gaiman/Batman axis, I finally found in the library the first volume of Mark Waid's The Brave and the Bold, not as Bat-centric as the old title - and like most Waid it's good, undemanding superhero fun. Which makes a mockery of DC editorial's claims that Vertigo and the DC Universe are separate by having a plot turning around the Book of Destiny, and even a scene with Supergirl and Lobo meeting him in his garden. Next time John Constantine gets left out of a big mystical crossover, they're going to need a new excuse.
It's also the first time I've seen more than a couple of panels of the new Blue Beetle, but he seems like a nice kid, and if he was always this entertaining I can understand why people are upset about his title getting cancelled.
Over at Marvel, Apparitions and Ultraviolet writer Joe Ahearne spins off from Mark Millar's Fantastic Four and spoilers the end of his Wolverine in Fantastic Force, whose backmatter has something rather more interesting than the usual set of sketches - a first draft of the script, from comparison of which with the final issue we can see exactly how much a writer new to comics gets smacked around by editorial and told no, you cannot use that character, or have this one doing that. Worth a look even if you have no direct interest in the comic itself, though that's not bad.

Date: 2009-04-27 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] johnny-vertigen.livejournal.com
I never thought I'd see another Fantastic Force comic, even if the new one has nothing to do with the old. Think I had the first issue of that actually.

Date: 2009-04-27 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
I don't think I even knew the name had been used before, though I guess it does have that nineties ring.

Date: 2009-04-27 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
普段はどうしよ?
Cinamon Girlみたいなフェミニンなもの?

Date: 2009-04-27 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
cinamon girl camisole plus cotton cardigan.

Date: 2009-04-27 02:34 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hi. Will you hold me?

Date: 2009-04-27 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Will you kiss me~~~~~

Date: 2009-04-27 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Will you hold me, honey~~~~

Date: 2009-04-27 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Nyan~

Date: 2009-04-27 04:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electrodeserter.livejournal.com
Aw, this is quite pretty.

Anyway, you just, like, quintupled my readership for the day.

Date: 2009-04-27 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
Apologies that it was by reinforcing precisely what you were trying to deny, but I was genuinely getting confused between the two.
But yeah, now I need to leave all those spams up so as not to make your comment look entirely random.
Are you really not getting more readers than that? Disgraceful, given some of the tosh which seems to count as 'tastemaking' these days.

Date: 2009-04-27 10:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electrodeserter.livejournal.com
Ach, the Internet has already reinforced that anyway - the majority of my search engine referrals, when they're not people looking for specific records, are people looking up those particular words and stumbling across Cats In Paris, and there's nothing I can do about it (even expressly contradicting it only made the Google bond between the two even stronger). Eh, it's probably fair criticism.

(I'm addicted to Wordpress' Stats feature, does it show?)

The readership fluctuates very dramatically. The most I've had in a day was up in the hundreds, the lowest I've had was three. Not 300 - 3, as in three people. My visitors line graph looks like a highly distressing EKG, or perhaps a race profile for a Pyrenéen stage of the Tour de France. Maybe I need to start giving away mp3s or something. But really I like the idea of people just sort of stumbling over it in the future.

Anyway, never mind that, I now want to set the spam to music. I'm thinking Momus. "Cinamon girl... camisole plus cotton cardigan... Hi. Will you hold me? / Will you kiss me? / Will you hold me, honey?"

Date: 2009-04-28 09:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
Yes! Although the 'Nyan', while it might sound cute in a Kahimi Karie cover, would just be creepy coming from Mr Currie himself.

If there were a stats feature on here, I would clearly be hooked on that too.

headphones

Date: 2009-04-27 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pippaalice.livejournal.com
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/04/sure_why_not_the_yi_zipper_hea.php

Whilst I agree there are echos of things from the future, I still entirely disagree with you, instead I think it more likely that the design followed the tie thing. It seems more natural to have your earphones disect your body than e.g. go down the arm etc. It physically feels safer to have something go down the body than across the neck. It's also to do with the amount of movement a head has to do. Basically I think I am saying that you are insane.

Why the hell am I even bothering to argue this?

Re: headphones

Date: 2009-04-27 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
I am not sure about that. But! If I were designing such a thing from scratch, I think it would work in a jacket with the wire hidden and the display in the cuff.

Date: 2009-04-27 06:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darkmarcpi.livejournal.com
I own the Cats On Fire debut album (well, I think it is their debut, I'm going back a few years here), which you are welcome to borrow. I think I picked it up to review purely based on their sleeve attire - v-neck jumpers and ties. From memory it's quite good....and at least one song sounds *exactly* like the Smiths....not just in the jangly guitars, but in the vocal delivery too.

Date: 2009-04-27 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
Yeah, I heard the Smiths comparison on Friday too. I'll probably Myspace them first for a preliminary, but might well get back to you on that, cheers.

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