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Jim

Bring back national service I say.

About Me

True happiness is knowing you are a hypocrite.

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My Interests

Stem Cell Research - They can grow you a new set of internal organs. Gauloises Blondes. Future Rock'n'Roll. The Situationist International. Kim Jong-il.

I'd like to meet:

Progressive Reactionaries

Music:

Don't really like music. Come to my club. It's called Born Bad.

Movies:

School For Scoundrels, The Fabulous Stains, Bedazzled (original), Network, The Battle Of Algiers, Summer With Monika, Herzog and Kinski, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Cold War Spy Thrillers, French New Wave, Down By Law, Powell and Pressburger, Scarface, Ealing Comedies, Ghostworld, Billy Liar, The Third Man, Heaven's Above, The Rebel, Lawrence Of Arabia, The Wicker Man, Don't Look Now, The Wild Bunch, Anything by Ken Loach, I am determined to start distributing the cinema of North Korea.

Television:

Hancock's Half Hour, Anything by Chris Morris, Steptoe and Son, The Prisoner, Tinker Tailor Solider Spy, The Mighty Boosh, Our Friends In The North, Alan Partridge, Yes Minister, Black Books, Peep Show, Have I Got News For You, Nighty Night, The League Of Gentlemen, The Thick Of It, Adam Curtis, News footage of civil disobedience.

Books:

Manufacturing Consent, Ham On Rye, Crime And Punishment, Homage To Catalonia, Vile Bodies, What A Carve Up!, Demanding The Impossible, The Blood Of Others, Tragically I Was An Only Twin, First Love Last Rites, Life After God, Hidden Agendas, Christie Malry's Own Double Entry, The Will To Power, Confessions Of A Mask, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, S.C.U.M. Manifesto.

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Baader-Meinhof, The International Brigades.

My Blog

Play sahm facking Kraatrock!

Now that I've told everybody that we're closing down on Friday May 25th I'm being reminded by friends of other stories from the frontline that should have been included in the Top 5 Detournement 'mome...
Posted by Jim on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:39:00 PST

Our work is done here.

On Friday May 25th the Brighton clubnight known as Detournement will be closing down, this date also marks the club's 6th anniversary. We don't want to write an essay on the reasons why because, frank...
Posted by Jim on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:36:00 PST

Banksy. The debate continues.

Got the Monday blues? This will take your mind off it. Working in a print shop (on minimum wage - Hey Dad! See what I've amounted to!) I encounter a lot of Brighton's artists, cartoonists, fanzine wr...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:45:00 PST

Hate hate hate.

Tired of all those surveys where you list favorite this, favorite that? Well now you get to list everything you hate and vent about everything that annoys you or makes you mad. Just let it all out and...
Posted by Jim on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PST

The unifying power of Goth-Garage.

The little shits! I was due to DJ a set of scortching 60s Garage at The Horrors gig tonight at the Concorde and I've been dropped, claiming that they prefer to do their own DJ-ing! Fair enough I suppo...
Posted by Jim on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:39:00 PST

Outraged of Muesli Belt

Without trying to come across all 'outraged of Brighton Muesli Belt', I saw this on the news this morning that prompted a genuine double-take, cartoon rubbing of the eyes and slack-jawed disbelief.Tal...
Posted by Jim on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:18:00 PST

Read The Pyongyang Times

Some time ago I was talking to this guy in the shop about North Korea, the subject came up due to a screensaver I had made for one of the shop's PCs. As a customer, every one of you is greeted with a ...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:47:00 PST

Pulgasari in gold sequins

Many, many thanks to everybody who made it down to Detournement for it's big relaunch at The Komedia on Friday. It was definitely the right move for all concerned and was one of our best nights for ag...
Posted by Jim on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:48:00 PST

The Cure at The Rocket, Crawley.

Now, I was never the biggest Cure fan in the world but coming from Crawley it was impossible to avoid exposure to their music. They are Crawley's most famous sons (Spitfire being the second) and playe...
Posted by Jim on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:35:00 PST

The Killers. An apology of sorts.

Many thanks to all of you who turned up to Born Bad two weeks ago and found they had to queue for over an hour. There is a reason for this. Playing in Brighton the same night were The Killers and they...
Posted by Jim on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:45:00 PST