Fatadelic

Not all men, mind you.

I’m not taking part in THAT stereotype of the fat, hairy-legged, man-hating, humorless feminist today.

Even though I happen to be a fat feminist with hairy legs who has just titled a blog post “I hate men”.

I am not, however, entirely humorless.

Ha. Ha. (See?)

Continue reading ‘I hate men. I can’t abide them even now and then.’

1. No Clear Ideas - Seems Twice (One of the post-punk bands John was in as a rebellious youth)
2. Wave On The Moor (Moderato) - Mohammad Haghighi
3. Paduana Xviii - The King’s Noyse (William Brade 1560-1630)
4. Johnny - Suicide
5. Let’s Twist Again - Chubby Checker
6. Chant of Repentance - Gyorgy Sviridov
7. Dona nobis pacem - J.S. Bach
8. Les Hiboux - Edith Piaf
9. Le Carnival d’Aix 10 - Darius Milhaund
10. Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin

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1. Hold It Down - Cocoa Brovaz
2. Le Carnival d’Aix 11 - Darius Milhaund
3. Out Of Left Field - Percy Sledge
4. We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue - Curtis Mayfield
5. In The Annexe - Boards Of Canada
6. Zwiesprache Der Rohrflöte Mit Der Saengerin - Popol Vuh
7. Rain Has Fallen: Moderato - Samuel Barber
8. Symphony No. 8, I. Moderato - Alfred Schnittke
9. I’ll Pick A Rose For My Rose - Marv Johnson
10. Clevor Trevor - Ian Dury & The Blockheads

And these are the last 10 songs my lovely ipod photo has played:

1. Allegro Energico, Ma Non Troppo (Mahler: Symphony No. 6 - Ruckert-Leider)
2. Baby Please Don’t Go (Muddy Waters)
3. Tout Fout Le Camp (Edith Piaf)
4. Lost Child (Susumu Yokota)
5. In the Art of Stopping (Wire)
6. Strange Days (The Doors)
7. The More I See You (Stanley Turrentine)
8. Kipperkun Scratch (Icarus)
9. Aïn Ghazel (Anouar Brahem)
10. La Chasse (Erik Satie)

I don’t care if it’s not
Friday. That was my Random 10.

I’ve been very busy since Christmas ripping CDs to load on to my iPod. It’s becoming obsessive actually. And feeding the obsession is the Internet iTunes Registry (via Urban Dyke), a wonderful little database that crunches stats from one’s iTunes list. Here’s mine, although for some reason it is showing less songs loaded that I actually have (ie. 3339 as opposed to 3835) but it is still interesting to see.

Oh, and we have still not even touched the sides of our music collection.

It’s Christmas Eve, and all my and John’s Christmases have come early. Let’s see…

• One of our Amazon DVD orders arrived today, with about 5 DVDs.
• My order of cool clothes from Torrid came, so I can get all gussied up for Christmas
• Our brand new G5 tower computer arrived. I’m typing this on it, using the Safari browser
• John’s new NAD amp came
• I got two deliveries of BookCrossing bookrays

…AND… drum roll please!!!

• a 40g ipod(!!!) which is my present from John (although I paid for part of it). Thank you, John.

It’s a wonderful Christmas Eve when you can sit at your brand spanking new computer, ripping songs to transfer to your ultra-cool ipod.

Anyway, have a very Merry Christmas, even if you don’t have an ipod.

What?

Crass materialism? Not the spirit of Christmas?

What on earth could you mean by that?

Did I ever mention that my beloved spouse (now artist, almost-used-to-be chef) was a punk rocker in his miss-spent and crazy youth? It’s true, although he managed to “lose” any recordings he had of his bands. Thankfully, though, a Google search will reveal all I need to know! It appears that there is a bit of an underground following of the Sydney post-punk scene.

Seems Twice - John is the drummer

His bands were Seems Twice (who recorded extremely short, hard song bursts) and Kill the King (a jazz-punk band of whom only live recordings exist). Seems Twice is quite good, but if you choose to listen to the recordings of Kill the King, be warned that the singer suffered serious delusions that he could sing, and most of the musicians were under the influence of one illicit substance or another!