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The Clatterer

WHAT IS THE CLATTERER?

About Me

TO BE FRIENDS; if you have 1,000 friends or more and no convincing personal message to me then i'm afraid the answer is 'no' RIGHT WING NEIN DANKE!! ['NAZIS AND THE LIKE' CONSIDER YOURSELF 'LISTED' IF YOU HAVE THE BRAZEN STUPIDITY TO COME HERE TO BE FRIENDS] [THEY STILL DO, YOU KNOW - CARRIERS OF THE PLAGUE - KNOW THYSELF!] IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN 1500 FRIENDS PROBABLY NOT UNLESS YOU INDICATE CONVINCINGLY THAT YOU KNOW WHO I AM OR WHAT I'M UP TO - SCALP HUNTERS OR CIGARETTE CARD COLLECTORS UNWELCOME AS A RULE. THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISING HOARDING. NO SCANTILY-CLAD GIRL COLLECTORS - WHAT DO YOU WANT ME FOR? SEXIST TRASH AND HOMOPHOBES - BE OFF WITH YOU!"LET JUSICE BE DONE THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL!!" anyway, I am a musician occasionally, and I sometimes write words that masquerade as poetry or lyrics - leastways they get welded onto bits of music every so often. I am a 'glass half empty' sort of person. I probably like 'animal animals' more than 'human animals' - they don't lie, cheat or generally f**k other animals up unless it is to eat them...ah, but they also fight over mating rights - come to think of it now, i'm not sure i like them either!! ;-} I am quite 'oldish' and getting older - i don't like it - but theres nothing i or anybody else can do about that. but - i like to meet people and make friends! [he said,worryingly so, with a big sickly iggy pop on 'lust for life' grin spreading across his face] - previous applicants need not apply - only partially joking - but theres lots of people i don't like much - in varying amounts - people who eat badly annoy me when they practise this particular trait - human cement mixers - and the noise! errgghhh! - how can 'sensitive' people do such things! - the answer is, i guess, they can't - pigs and other quadrapeds have an excuse! people chewing gum vociferously also annoy, with or without mouth open [but open is worse]; i unconciously seem to get a fleeting instinctive urge to help them, as if they are in some sort of physical difficulty - choking or something - then i catch myself and this makes me doubly annoyed. I used to hate espadrilles but no-one really wears them any more. And i think men should keep their feet covered because they [mens feet] are generally an obscenity - and sandals for men should be banned. ohh, well, what a terribly negative man i am. And seemingly easily fixiated - and theres lots more - but not for here.... oh, and i am starting not to tolerate idiots [except myself - but then i've been known to fall out with me for long periods of time!] but then I'm not open to choice as far as living with me is concerned - or am i?incidentally....In 1991 I formed the organisation U.G.N. [or G.U.N., or G.N.U. - the theme song being by flanders and swann - 'i'm a G.N.U. -["how do you do? i wish i could gnash my teeth at you!"> - it stands for Union of Global Nihilists. It is a small exclusive organisation - there is only one member....NOW, I'VE GOT TO PUT THIS HERE BECAUSE I KEEP GETTING PEOPLE WHO DON'T THINK PARTS OF MY BLURB APPLY TO THEM WHEN THEY DO! IF YOU HAVE EVEN ONE OF THE PEOPLE / BANDS THAT I REALLY HATE PERSONALLY AND IDEOLOGICALLY IN YOUR LIST OR FRIENDS OR LIKES/INTERESTS THEN IT IS 99% CERTAIN YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME WRITING TO ME, CLICKING THE BOX, WHATEVER. SOME [most, he said, grudgingly] OF YOU WILL BE THOROUGHLY NICE PEOPLE BUT I'M NOT GIVING ADVERTISING/HUMANISING SPACE TO S**T THAT FOR SOME REASON OR OTHER YOU SEEM TO LIKE. AS ELVIS COSTELLO SAID 'I'M NOT ANGRY' - AND DO YOU THINK HE MEANT IT? WELL, DO YOU? ;-} signed MR. ANTI-EVERYTHING.

My Interests

SICK TO DEATH OF ALL THE RIGHT-WING NAZI/FASCIST/RACIST MORONS ON HERE - AND ALSO OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO UP THEIR OWN FUNDAMENT TO SEE THAT THEY ARE HERE AND that they MUST BE DENIED fair treatment before they get their way and deny others the same simply because of their 'colour', 'culture'[minus of course aspects of culture that are extremely negative [as is racism] and criminal - such as murder, animal cruelty, rape, subjugation of women and more which should all be challenged and not be given dispensation or special consideration in law of any kind] where they were born etc. Sick, also, of idiots who can't see further than the end of their noses that they are being fed a line - that they are defending the indefensible because it is pretending to be other than it really is OR they are being traitors to millions who died and should be bloody ashamed - what you do is not a prisonable offence but I hope that when and if you come to your senses that is where you want to place yourselves.. i like the IDEA OF ENDLESS SLEEP RIGHT NOW - but in its absence - MUSIC [all aspects - creating, other peoples music, gigging and seeing gigs etc.] , FILM, READING [reading books, that is, and not the town where i am from - because it saddens me how it is being destroyed by idiot developers - THE Boars Head, The Cinema next to it, the Emporium - and then theres Bugs Bottom - its not just about the death of childhood...] THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE SHOULD SUFFER... , ART, people with original and innovative ideas, err - its not a question one thinks of much - EFFECTS PEDALS [aaahhhh], non-organised/defined philosophy ;-}, 'POETRY' - in speechifying marks because it carries a not-at-times undeserved stigma.CHARITY SHOPS, JUMBLE SALES, CAR BOOT SALES - UUUH DUUUH COUNTRYSIDE and uhh walks [but i can't drive so...anyway, i do the uuhh stuff on this bit as i'm aware it sounds like one of those dreadful 'dating' entry things where people are confronted with this dread question - 'interests' is aka 'about myself' - and doesn't the collation and its dismal is-that-all look on the page have the potential to bring about a 'dark night of the soul?' if there were such a beastie - yes, 'is that all i amount to?' sad]. I would say 'see elsewhere' here - i like CORRUGATED IRON and ENAMEL SIGNS, and SHEDS and OUT-BUILDINGS,BARBED WIRE, RAZOR WIRE, CHUBB, YALE, ERA, INGERSOLL ETC. BAKELITE, and BROOM, GORSE and various other prickly bushes/trees but not so much cactii as they are hot-country stuff and that i don't like much.Oh, and the pineapple plant that is a weed with little yellow flowers that smells great and loves harsh sandy path conditions. I also like DYMO TAPE and DEXION and BARE METAL. Soap Boxes. Megaphones. Lindstrom Piano wire cutters are fine, as are hetchins, baines etc. bicycles.AND [THANKS BILL, FOR REMINDING ME] - THE BEST CHOCOLATE DRINK IN THE WORLD! CHOCOMEL! [original, not lite] FROM HOLLAND - LITRE and more BOTTLES!! AND NOT THE BELGIAN VERSION - CECEMEL - BECAUSE THE RECIPE IS ALTERED...AND WE CAN'T GET IT IN ENGLAND - SOMERFIELD STARTED TO STOCK IT IN LITTLE YELlOW TINS [RED BULL SIZE FOR 77P] - I'M NOT SURE IF THEY MESSED WITH THE RECIPE FOR STUPID ENGLISH TASTE-BUDS [LIKE MACDONALDS STOPPING ROOT BEER COZ OUR SISSY=-PALATES DIDN'T LIKE IT - WELL, I DO!!] oh, and an algerian drink [fizzy pop] called Selecto - tastes a bit like pear drops, which in turn taste nothing like pears really, and also Almdudler [with the prerequisite tics, dots and eyebrows necessary in the german written language] - although this is an austrian fizzy drink - a sort of spiced lemonade[?>OH, and the drink that came out in japan called 'Black' by Schweppes. I like Jensen Interceptors, M.G. Magnets, [dead bullfighters and living bulls, war with spain].I GUESS THIS IS where i could put a list of artists i like - Asger Jorn / Peter Behan / Tom Adams / Felicien Rops / Bridget Riley / The Breugels / Gustav Dore/ Colin DePlancy / Hieronymus Bosch / Malcolm Poynter / Gaudi / Gilbert and George / Arthur Rackham/ Roland Topor / Ian Hamilton Finlay [Little Sparta etc.]/Ronald Searle [molesworth]/ Marcus Keef/ Fuseli/ Mally Mallinson/ Danielle Dax/ I'LL CONTINUE THIS...

I'd like to meet:

PEOPLE WHO HATE NAZIS - LOTS OF THEM - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - POSERS WILL BE LOSERS, LIARS WILL BE UNMASKED AND THE SPREADERS OF THIS POISONOUS FILTH WILL BE REWARDED FOR THEIR STUPIDITY -EDUCATE THE DUMB SO THAT DUMB IS NO LONGER AN EXCUSE - MAKE 2007 A YEAR TO REMEMBER - END THE SUBTERFUGE - TURN OVER THE ROCK THEY HIDE UNDER WITH ANOTHER POISED READY IN YOUR HAND! and umm, well, err, people who DON'T eat badly for a start, and people who AREN'T nazis or whatever clever dick sleight of word they use to define themselves - yes, scum like that[the latter being scum; the former merely afflicted by bad manners], and people who DO think that sandals are vile on men, and ummi'd like to meet err...other musicians, artists, writers, people who appreciate what all or some of what the former do, staffordshire and english bull terrier lovers and the owners of siamese and other short-haired oriental cats,people who really like the fossa [a madagascan animal] and have seen or want to see one in real life - not just a picture [no, i haven't got one!] people who like sweets, preferably people who don't smoke, don't do drugs, and don't drink to excess [I do have a bad sweet habit - but i'm thinking of joining Confection Abusers Anonymous - but the 12 step god-thing worries me, because i don't believe in bowing to or worshipping anything - even if its to shake a jones]. Oh, i'd like to meet Humanists, people who think Kevorkian is the name of a saint [because he is! of a non-religious variety] - people who think Jonathan Miller is jolly good too and criminally undervalued, people who DON'T VOTE because there really is nothing or anybody worth voting for because its someone elses game and its their ball. people who liked british wrestling of the 60s - Mick McManus, Steve Logan and the Black Diamonds [and can tell me who the latter were because I don't know], people who are happy that Ozzy Osbournes now a multi-millionaire and that Black Sabbath [Iommi, Ward and Butler] are also hopefully getting contact-rich too. And people who like Faust, errr. lots more - i'll continue some other time. People who think the Rover P5 was a wonderful car [anyone got one and want to be my unpaid chauffeur? ;-}] And prog fans - as long as that doesn't mean 80s-on chorus pedal-playing marillion type-i wish-i-was-in-early-pre-antichrist Genesis-but-whats-wrong-with-'in the air tonight?' [early genesis circa gabriel were good].WEREN'T THE 80s horrid for music ! [yes, strange that my stuff started to come out a grace-note to the start of the 80s....;-} People who don't want/expect to go to restaurants with me. People who don't go down the pub every evening.People who don't expect me to buy a round of drinks coz i can't/shan't/won't afford it. People who feel as negative about football as i do or at least take-it-or-leave-it so as they can leave it! AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN [i have a friend who worked for the advert/film director Tony Kaye [hello roger] , once and he used to apparently say things like 'its sh*t' five times over because he thought only then it will sink in so - i hope hes right!] AND -THIS IS IMPORTANT - IF YOU FIT THIS BILL YOU WON'T BE ACCEPTED HOWEVER NICE, PRETTY, SUCCESSFUL ETC. people who DON'T have lots of [OR MAKE THAT ANY] stupid 'dark-folk-flirting-with nazism' records in their like-list OR INDUSTRIAL OR ANY style of 'MUSIC' or imagery WITH THE NAZI/FASCIST/ and attendant goon might-is-right [Right] sh*t - [and some of them aren't just flirting] - often its like the song - 'and then you go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like i love you' - get rid of the 'you' and put in something like [NOW, don't be THICK use your imagination if you've got one here and work out who i mean, for example] 'camp death nazi' or 'slush and ash' or 'number 32 on the chinese take-away menu' [all dreadful right wing bands].I AM NOT USING THEIR REAL NAMES COZ a] I'll be linked electronically and b] errr, whatever, i'm just not, o.k.? use your imagination and at the same time think 'WHY?'. GETTING A BIT TIRED OF THE PORN-UNDER-THE-BED-ON-DISPLAY crowd too - yup, i appreciate the beauty of the female body -BUT i am 1] wondering why there are lots of women on here showing off their bits and pieces, and 2] wondering if the 'boys' linking to them think it makes them seem members [lit. and met.] of the big-in-the-pants-department - i find it disheartening that supposedly 'right-thinking' people have to do this - if nothing else there is a 'favourites' where you can keep your 'recreation' to yourself; i am not opposed to this - should you wish for quick links to airhead pneumatoids that can't really deliver owing to the reasonable [and probably in part legally] driven restraints of myspace, that is. So, might go through my 'friends' and boot a few out because of this, too.

Music:

TO BE ADDED TO - Still Life by Still Life [a vertigo band- one of the best sleeves ever] /'Fuchsia' Fuchsia / '.. in spite of Harrys toenail' + 'Lady Lake' Gnidrolog/ 'Faust', 'So Far', 'Faust Tapes' , 'Faust VI' Faust / Parasites Of The Western World/'beautiful people are evil' + 'still born alive' Sand [on soul jazz recs] / Chrome [first 4 albums]/ Can / Black Sabbath [first 5 or 6 albums] /'Hard Attack' - MX80 Sound / Devotion - [l.p.]John McLaughlin/ Brian Eno / [first 3 solo l.p.s] / Roxy Music [1st. 4 l.p.s]/ 'Monitor' Monitor / / 'Face' - [l.p.] Of Cabbages And Kings / Emerson,Lake & Palmer [1st. 5 L.Ps] [yes! you arrogant idiot molko..at 101 guitars] / Broadcast / Jaga Jazzist / The Shining [jaga j. offshoot - but can i find the album on Rune Gramafon? - nooo!/ 'Split' - [lp] the Groundhogs / [and other albums - but this is da best!] / Pram / Thorns / Danielle Dax /Bloodbrothers [yeh, i know you know why i first listened to them!]/ Stitched Back Foot Airman [or is it - men?]/ Van Der Graaf Generator [esp. 'pawn hearts' / 'Hejira' - [lp] Joni Mitchell / Velvet Underground and Nico - [and both apart, too] / the look of love - Dusty Springfield [song that rips my heart out - in the spoof bond film 'casino royale'] / 'witchcraft; destroys minds and reaps souls'-[lp]Coven [feature two of the unsung maestros behind the next act]/ 'Aorta' Aorta [criminally ignored concept album from the 60s] / 'The United States of America' / Deerhoof / 'hurt" johnny cash / [what a brilliant drummer!]/Bilge Pump [what a brilliant drummer!] /Magma [what a brill..oh! shut up karl!]/ the Ex [what a brilliant [grrr!]..live band![and great people with social conscience that p.. on most of the rest of us, well, me, anyway!]/ Starfighter X / Nero Burns / Naked Ruby/ King Crimson [all from start to 1974-5 - NOT the stuff that came later] / 'Emergency!' [lp]- Tony Williams Lifetime/ Passport - early stuff up to and including cross-collateral/ / P.J. Harvey [most]/Kate Bush [the idea of - that is, i'm really glad shes around- and 'running up that hill' was excellent]/ Led Zeppelin [zep no.3 was the second rock album i bought] 'Green Manaleshi' [track]- Fleetwood Mac [and-'oh, well' -on the first rock album i ever had! / Motown circa '68-73 see later.../ 'Monkey Spanner' & 'Double Barrel' - [tracks] Dave and Ansil Collins/ouch! don't, eric! oh, yeh, Gae Bolg / Metabolist (unsung heroes who deserve to stand alongside This Heat as the best live bands of the late 7Os - in my opinion these 2 were never as good on record as they were live) / This Heat /1st.ep. prag vec / Scott Walker [his bits on Nite Flites - [l.p.] and stuff like montague terrace [in blue] is absolute genius!/ 'Low' & 'Heroes' [l.ps] David Bowie / 'the Idiot' & 'lust for life'-Iggy Pop / 'Montego bay'- bobby bloom / 'An Electric Storm" -[lp] White Noise [genius - featuring the sadly departed and brilliant delia derbyshire] - you can get this cd. quite cheaply- so do it naa-oow!/ 'I want you' elvis costello - from the cd. 'blood and chocolate', and 'I'm not angry' and 'waiting for the end of the world' from the first l.p. and 'Uncomplicated' from later on../ Motorpsycho - a great band - and along with jaga jazzist one of my contemporary faves [even tho' they've been going since the early '90s] Henry Cow / Jethro Tull [up to and including 'Passion Play']/ Miles Davis [especially 'jack Johnson']/ James Blood Ulmer [esp. the live dutch l.p. whose name escapes me] / Orchestra Luna [u.s.a. - 70s] / '[don't worry!] if theres a hell below, we're all gonna go!' Curtis Mayfield [thanks malcolm for reminding me!] / [some of] the Bees esp. the track 4black russian'(?) instru. / 'get your goat' [lp] Shudder To Think / 'Rock Section' The Colors Out of Time / 'I'm Still Waiting' Diana Ross & the Supremes / 'Tears of a Clown" Smokey Robinson and the Miracles / 'Behind a painted smile' The Isley Brothers / 'You Keep Me Hangin' On' & 'Need Love' Vanilla Fudge / '[You've got me] Dangling on a string' Chairman of the Board / 'Patches' Clarence Carter / 'Stone Cross' The Hands Of Dr. Tellany / 'Woodstock' Matthews Southern Comfort / 'Shakin' All Over' Johnny Kidd and the Pirates / R.L. Crutchfields Dark Day - (a fine album! organ gloom!) - / 'Hedda Gabler' John Cale [covering it was my idea - someone stole that idea...]/ 'Schools Out' [LP] Alice Cooper [genius - shame about political leanings apparently - and genius production from Bob Ezrin] / 'wasa wasa' [lp] edgar broughton band (this particular lp. used to scare me "this is your fathers world!"]/ 'gimme little sign' brook benton / 'band of gold' freda payne / 'in my own time' Family / 'Fireball' + 'Demons Eye' Deep Purple / 'Lady Elenor' Lindisfarne / 'run. run, run' Jo Jo Gunne / 'Frankenstein' Edgar Winter Band / 'Fire' The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown / 'Death Walks Behind You + 'In Hearing Of' [lp] Atomic Rooster / Crisp + Factory + Tiger Lilly + Sunfly + Die Laughing [bands who used to play inthe Target in Reading - i want to hear from you!!] / 'Be Stiff' Devo / 'Witch Queen of New Orleans' Redbone / 'Hot Rats' [lp] + 'Trouble Comin' Every Day' + 'Apostrophe' [title track] Frank Zappa / 'Mogul Thrash' [lp] Mogul Thrash / 'young, gifted and black' Bob and Marcia / 'Return of the Jango' the Upsetters / 'elizabethan reggae' Boris Gardiner/ Phantom Limb / 'Runnin' Away' Sly and the Family Stone / 'Feels like a Woman' The Troggs / 'Nantucket Sleighride' + 'Don't Look Around' Mountain / 'Classical Gas' Mason Williams / 'Termination' + 'Belda Beast' Iron Butterfly / 'Three Sisters' Affinity / 'Troglodyte' The Jimmy Castor Bunch / 'Boot Leg' Booker T & the MGs / 'Survival' Yes / 'Elastic Rock' Nucleus / 'Indication' + 'Shes not there' + 'summertime' The Zombies / '[oh,no] not the Beast Day' Marsha Hunt / 'Daughter of the Sun' & 'Hold on' Sharon Tandy [with the fleur de lys - on here somwhere] / 'Mama told me not to come' Three Dog Night / 'Girl, get a hold of yourself' Kenny Rogers and the First Edition / Soft Machine '3' to '7' and the Hut BBC cd. releases / 'Confessions of Dr. Dream' Kevin Ayers / 'Soldier Talk' Red Crayola / Ange / andy williams / 'we're gonna change your world' matt munro / 'Janis' Focus / 'walk away' [live] The James Gang / 'Our Song' Stray / 'I get weak' & 'heaven is a place on earth' Belinda Carlisle [ignore aspects of the 80s production and you've got wonderful songwriting [from diane warren?] and performance from belinda too - i still get tears in my eyes from them esp. the first - came at a VERY BAD time - still, i'm better now..../ 'Open your Box' Yoko Ono and the plastic ono band/ 'A question of Lust' Depeche Mode/ 'Live to tell' madonna - again - fine songwriting when stripped of 80s monosodium glutamate) / 'Candyman' & 'Cities in Dust' Siouxie and the Banshees/'Facing Up to the facts' The Good Missionaries/ 'Sympathy' Rare Bird / arggh! just realised i've missed Miles Davis - the electric late 60s/early 70s (certainly pre-Sting!!) esp. 'a tribute to Jack Johnson'/bits of the following classical stuff - 'Night On A Bare Mountain' Moussorgsky / 'Danse Macarbe'Saint-Saens / some of symphonie fantastique esp. march to the scaffold - by berlioz - fine subject matter!!/ 'the music of the spheres' - rued langgaard / 'Zavod (iron foundry') opus.19' Alexander Mosolov / 'the planet suite' gustav holst./ 'the firebird suite' igor stravinsky / '3rd organ sonata' Paul Hindemith /'Jonchaies','shaar','lichens','antikhthon' Iannis Xenakis / 'Frankenstein' The Edgar Winter Group/ 'this is a man's man's world' the residents /'(i can't get no) satisfaction' devo / os mutantes / 'beever o'lindy' sparks / 'black steel' tricky / the bits that they did on the covers album 'music from easy rider' electric food / 'the zombies of mora tau' jad fair / 'the bridge' thomas leer and robert rental / 'non-stop' WKGB / 'tone float' organisation / 'journey' Kingdom Come (arthur browns band)/'patches' clarence carter/ 'a rose in spanish harlem' aretha franklin /'one way conversation' phantom tollbooth / 'three little fishes' frankie howerd / Michel Legrand / Lalo Schifrin [amityville etc.] / / RECENTLY HEARD BITS OF THAT I LIKE OF: / jackson and his computer band / yolk / Amon Tobin / 'Avatar' comets on fire / Cro-mags / 'tweedles' the residents - new album (very dark subject matter! often very clever lyricists)/ "what you waiting for?" Gwen Stefani - one of the best singles in recent years / 'Ain't talkin' 'bout love' van halen / 'poison' alice cooper' / 'fings ain't wot they use'ta be' max bygraves /

Movies:

in no order: 'JOE' / 'THE IDIOTS' /'IMMORAL TALES' / 'THE BEAST'/ 'THOMASINA'/ 'MARY POPPINS'/'JULIE AND CELINE GO BOATING'/ BOF! / 'FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE' / 'SCARLET STREET' fritz lang / 'GREAT EXPECTATIONS' / 'THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE' / 'BRONCO BULLFROG' barney platts-mills /'ERASERHEAD' / 'BLUE VELVET' / 'VERTIGO' / 'A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS'/ 'DEAD MANS SHOES'/ 'BLACK CHRISTMAS' / 'THE HILLS HAVE EYES'/ 'THE CRAZIES'/ 'THE OMEGA MAN' / 'HALF A SIXPENCE' / 'WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND'/ 'DR. ZHIVAGO'/ 'THE NIGHT PORTER'/ 'THE CABLE GUY'/ '24 HOURS'/ 'THE FOURTH MAN'/ 'SPINAL TAP'/ 'THE REPTILE'/'A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS/ 'FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE'/'THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY'/KLUTE/ 'DON'T LOOK NOW'/ 'MORGAN; A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT'/ 'THE OMEN' / 'THE NINTH CONFIGURATION'/ 'CHRONOS'/ 'MARTIN'/ 'DONNY DARKO'/ 'BEING JOHN MALKOVITCH'/ 'THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123'/ 'HOUSE OF MORTAL SIN'/ 'BEDAZZLED' [the original cook & moore]/ 'SHIVERS'/ 'THE BROOD'/ 'MELODY' aka. 'S.W.A.L.K.'/ 'QUATERMASS AND THE PIT'/'THE OFFENCE'/'THE GO-BETWEEN'/'THE ADJUSTER'/ 'CRUMB'/ 'THE CONVERSATION' w' gene hackman/ Jason Vorhees movies!! / SATANS SLAVE norman j. warren - when its NOT been cut-to-fk by the idiot B.B.C./ DAVID MERCERS STUFF - a forgotten t.v. genius BUT HAD A HAND IN 'PROVIDENCE' MOVIE WITH GIELGUD, WARNER, BOGARDE i think.. ./films with jack warner in 'coz it makes me nostalgic but not in an idiot-dark-folk way/'FREEWAY' w' Reece Witherspoon / I SHOT ANDY WARHOL / GHOST DOG / SUMMER OF SAM / many more to follow - oh, and i like Faruza Balk and Linda Fiorentino, Judi Davis, Ellen Barkin in 'sea of love', Beverley d'Angelo in 'pacific heights', the woman with the muscles in the 'Alien' movie [2,3?], the punky blonde woman with muscles in 'Strange Days', Darryl Hanna in 'Blade Runner' / Michael Ironside / Roy Sheider [s/p?] / Victor Maddern / Percy Herbert / Robert Vaughn in 'The Magnificent Seven' / Hugh Jackman as Wolverine /

Television:

'PENDAS FEN' [1974 PLAY by David Rudkin] / 'THE GOOD FATHER'[80s or 90s play with anthony hopkins] A SHORT HISTORY OF DISBELIEF [with Jonathan Miller] /'Alice' [film of alice in wonderland directed by jonathan miller/ 'whistle and i'll come to you' dir. by jonathan miller - you get the idea!!/ IT TAKES A WORRIED MAN/ IS IT LEGAL?/ DUE SOUTH/ TRIGGER HAPPY T.V. [NOT U.S. VERSION]/BRASSEYE/ THE DAY TODAY/ I'M ALAN PARTRIDGE/Dr. Who - [hartnell, troughton, pertwee, baker] / tales of the unexpected and the like/ Jazz Britannia pt.2 / Simpsons ['the words 'hail satan! are not in the oath of allegiance!']/ South Park [esp. christ-manson episode] / Vanilla Fudge on Dick Clark [?] show / monkey dust /DENNIS 'religion is not the bandage - it is the wound' POTTER - the good ones inc. 'Blade on a feather' and 'lipstick on your collar'/ mike leigh - esp. the postman one with eric richard & 'bleak moments' / the first 'Prime Suspect' [with Helen Mirren]/ 'caught on a train' dir. steven poliakoff / 'Sherlock Holmes' with Jeremy Brett / david mercers stuff/ peep show / mitchell and webb / more to follow...

Books:

'the devils Chaplain' Richard Dawkins / 'the magus' john fowles [original edition] /the collector' john fowles/ 'Dead Babies' Martin Amis/ 'The Outsider' Colin Wilson/ 'Moon of Gomrath', 'Red Shift', 'Elidor' and others Alan Garner/ 'The Midnight Folk' & 'Box of Delights' John Masefield / Leon Garfield books / 'music outside' ian carr/ some anne tyler/ 'a monster unto many' peter giles/ 'what humanism means' kit mouatt/ 'the secret of spiggy holes' enid blyton/ 'the marlowes of newgale'. 'lets go play at the adams' [mendel watson ?] / 'The Distributor' [short story] Richard Matheson/ 'the whistling room'[short story] William Hope Hodgson./ 'the tenant' roland topor/ 'A scent of Dried Roses' Tim Lott [very,very good]/ 'Rumours of a Hurricane' Tim Lott./ 'The Turtle Diaries' Russell Hoban./ Dennis Wheatley - various/ Agatha Christie - various/ Dorothy L. Sayers - various/ 'Turn Off Your Mind' Gary Valentine Lachman./ 'King Lear' William Shakespeare./ 'the pan book of horror" 1 to ?/ 'Moonchild' Aleister Crowley./ dictionaries!/ 'the boy who kicked pigs' Tom Baker [yes, 'dr.who' Baker!]/ 'High Fidelity' Nick Hornby./ 'How it all Began' Maurice Baren./ 'Do Not Pass Go' Tim Moore./ 'Not Necessarily Stoned, but Beautiful' [the making of 'Are you Experienced?'] Sean Egan./ 'The Wrestling' Simon Garfield./ 'Ruthless Rhymes' Harry Graham./ Edward Gorey./ 'Nexus' 'Sexus' 'Plexus', 'Black Spring' 'Tropic of cancer [& capricorn]' Henry Miller./ 'Beautiful Losers', 'The Favourite Game' Leonard Cohen./ 'Catch 22' Joseph Heller./ 'The Dice Man' Luke Rheinhart/ stuff by 'BB'/ 'The Otterbury Incident' by.../ 'The Gasworks Alley Gang' Jo Hatcher/ 'Stig of the Dump' by ..../ 'Speed Six' by...../ 'Gimlet Mops Up' Captain W.E. Johns/ 'The Children who lived in a Barn'/ 'Our Final Century' Martin Rees / 'Five Boys' Mick Jackson / MANY MORE TO FOLLOW

Heroes:

DON'T LIKE THE TERM HEROES BUT THERE ARE SOME IN HERE AND ALSO PEOPLE I JUST ADMIRE OR I FEEL ARE SIGNIFICANT IN THE FABRIC OF MY LIFE [yuch! what did you just say? new age arse!] o.k. some actors that i like and people from other walks of life who have either done good things [i.m.h.o.] or just radiated sommat or try to make some sense AND MAKE PEOPLE SEE SENSE!! IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again; Jonathan Miller/ Hugh Porter/ Alf Engers/ Fatima Whitbread/ Mick Mcmanus/ Steve Logan/ the Black Diamonds/ Alf Hetchins/ Tony Zemaitis/ Richard Dawkins/ Charles Darwin/ System Of a Down / The White Roses/ Darwin Joston/ Alistair Sim/ Dr. Jack Kevorkian/The Hemlock Society/ EXIT/ Michael Ironside/ Anthony Zerbe / Roy Scheider/ Lee Van Cleef / Danielle Dax/ Woody Strode/The Ex/ Peter Tatchell/NO2ID/Dusty Springfield/Dudley Foster/ the woman who used to sell the 'Big Issue' at the end of Sicilian Avenue/ THE SEA SHEPHERD [we need loads more people like him]/ Gnidrolog/ Marcus Keef/Rosa Parks/Simon Weisenthal/Peter Butterworth/Irshad Manji/The Indian Rationalist League/ Pee Wee Herman/ Tony Martin/ Bernard Goetz/ Yaphet Koto/ Heston Blumenthal/ Reza Moradi/ Maryam Namazie/ Dr. Evan Harris MP/Ayaan Hirsi Ali/ Brian Haw / Maya Evans / Milan Rai / Eric Griffith / Kirstie Allsopp / Mark Thomas [the agitator + comedian] / Shami Chakrabarti [Liberty] / Baroness Helena Kennedy [shame about the title but...] / Juan Mann [the Hug Man!] / Camila Batmanghelidjh & Kids Company / Steven McHattie / Daniel Cohn-Bendit / Bristly Pioneer and the Space Hijackers / Astrid Proll / Dumi Tutani and Zimbabwe Vigil / Beppe Grillo & V-Day [vaffangulo] / Guadalupe Rodriguez [CSB] of Venezuela / Naima Boubakri of France/

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more sad deaths

so..there i was, having bought 'motown chartbusters vol. 5' on cd from a charity shop and noting that some of my fave songs had been in fact co-penned by stevie wonder - and these not ones made famous...
Posted by The Clatterer on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:58:00 PST

EXACTLY!

from the Observer, 20/1/2008 [it was laying around a house i was staying in - so - anyway - timelessly relevant]"EVERY SOCIETY THAT HAS EVER EXISTED HAS FELT IT NECESSARY TO HAVE CREATION MYTHS" Why...
Posted by The Clatterer on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:25:00 PST

Aftermath....

...of fish pie - and broad beans and runner beans wiv garlic and mint - and Kale wiv butter - apart from but A - healthy food... feeling much calmer. Listening to below; a fine album - they were a gr...
Posted by The Clatterer on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:51:00 PST

THE EGG STORE

Today I went to the curious 'EGG STORE' - i don't remember seeing any eggs - i boughta bag of 'BIG TREATS' that instructed me on the front to "think big!" - this particular bag contained Sour Drops by...
Posted by The Clatterer on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:03:00 PST

happy bleddy time of year! its the lack of thought that counts!

i always try to capitalise on this season by sending quick notes to everyone on cheap xmas cards - but i have in say maybe the last 5 years been very remiss and at times not sent any - its a good exc...
Posted by The Clatterer on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:00:00 PST

ICE CREAM

I SAW SOMEONES PROFILE RECENTLY AND it mentioned Richmond, and i remembered that there used to be an ice cream place that was part of a chain about 2 doors down from the cinema - it was in the early 8...
Posted by The Clatterer on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:41:00 PST

fan ku

all who wrote sent and otherwise thanks for bothering on the dubiously titled 'joyous day' - aka. birthday - i may well reply individually to all in due course. i had a celebratory special thai curry ...
Posted by The Clatterer on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:21:00 PST

I BID THEE ENTER

IF YOU ARE THERE MAKE YOUR PRESENCE KNOWN - THIS IS YOUR SUMMONING - INHABIT ALL WHO VISIT HERE - IN ESSENCE THIS IS YOUR ESSENCE.MAKE THEIR DWELLING YOUR OWN.SO MOTE IT BE.
Posted by The Clatterer on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:34:00 PST

words of an 80+ year-old artist

Louise Bourgeois [born 1911];"I WANT REVENGE FOR BEING BORN, I WANT APOLOGIES, I WANT BLOOD, I WANT TO DO TO OTHERS WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO ME. TO BE BORN IS TO BE EJECTED, TO BE ABANDONED - THEREIN LIE...
Posted by The Clatterer on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:22:00 PST

SUGGESTIONS NEEDED FOR CREATIVE USE OF DOG DIRT....

Reportedly, Whoopi Goldberg, the Oscar winning actress, was recently criticised by animal rights activists for appearing on T.V. and saying that some fellow or other [a 27 year-old man called Michael...
Posted by The Clatterer on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:13:00 PST