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Simon

The spectre of death

About Me

If I watch more Curb Your Enthusiasm i will realise my dreams.

My Interests

Music, film, literature and sounds created by the human mouth.
Food. I enjoy good food. Peking Restaurant in Cambridge, possibly the best food in the world. The 2 fish meals in small restaurant in Nice old town 2004.. Fish, various Italian foods, the Moussaka in amazing living room style restaurant in (of all places) a back street in Gt. Yarmouth, now closed. Tomato / Mozarella / Olive Oil with fresh bread, well done sausages, mash and gravy and the home made Indian curries from AlAmin on Mill Rd.
Various things I am involved in:
Music
Lionshare
Haeti
The Doozer
Other

Harvest Time
Palimpsest Festival
Palimpsest Recordings
Harvest Time Records

I'd like to meet:

Folk musicians from the Ukraine.

Music:

Labels: Sublime Frequencies, Fonal, Sub Rosa, Ethnic Folkways, Smithsonian Folkways, Dust to Digital, Ocora, Abduction, TimeLag, Locust, Lal Lal Lal, Fat Cat, Paw Tracks, Drag City, Eclipse. VINYL.

Movies:

Bedazzled (Cook/Moore!), Noi Albinoi, Love Liza, Gerry, Last Days, Dead Mans Shoes, Dead Man, Down by Law, Coffee and Cigarettes, Waynes Wold I & II, The Goonies, Pye, No Direction Home, Cool Runnings, The Pianist, Requiem for a Dream, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter & Spring, Dont Look Back, Primer, The Proposition, Sympathy for the Devil, Room for Romeo Brass, Punishment Park

Television:

Comedy mainly: Peep Show, The Office, Phoenix Nights, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras.

Books:

Any and all Paul Bowles (particularly Collected Short Stories 1939 - 1976), Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Albert Camus, John Steinbeck, Alan Lomax, Hunter S. Thompson, John Lomax....

Heroes:

Larry David (in Curb Your Enthusiasm)

My Blog

Charles Gocher and his face

I just sent this message to Pete Um, but feel i would like to paste it here as tribute if you will to Charles Gocher of the Sun City Girls who passed away in the last couple of days: -----------------...
Posted by Simon on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:06:00 PST

A new way to identify a cod piece

I am a mobile phone user. It doesn't have a camera nor does it play music. I get the camera idea; a quick snap here and there to cement a memory, even a video to arouse the mind. What i don't get i...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:31:00 PST

Bad Dreams are keepin me awake at night

Very strange dream last night. Some anonymous bed and breakfast.  Staying there a few nights.  Thing is there is a large cupboard in the room. Don't realise anything the first night then the...
Posted by Simon on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:58:00 PST

Syd Barrett 1946 - 2006

RIP.
Posted by Simon on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:19:00 PST

Palimpsest

Cannot wait.  Can I say that about something I organise?  Erm, YES.
Posted by Simon on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:21:00 PST

Why is it that when I listen to...

Why is it that when I listen to Nick Drake there need be no more music in the world? Told of a lifeWhere spring has sprung
Posted by Simon on Mon, 15 May 2006 11:57:00 PST

Ideal job: Pingu

I realised yesterday what my ideal job would be: providing the voice of Pingu.  Its an impression i can pull off with a certain grace and what could be better than making Pingu sounds all da...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:10:00 PST

They make me want to 'Grow my hair out longer and grow my beard out toooo' Part Two

Saturday night, Shepherds Bush Empire London.  1st night of a 3 night run by The Black Crowes. Hadn't seen them in 5 years.  Last time I saw them they were all music to me.  The Crowes ...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:24:00 PST

They make me want to 'Grow my hair out longer and grow my beard out toooo'

Yep, I would do it for you Sunburned.  What a mother of a mother show that was.... Those guys groove the fuck.  They are earth and mud and hendrix and comets on fire and can and faust a...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:09:00 PST

Cold or Flu (Cold)

Well, I have been ill you see, with what I would call a bad cold.  I haven't really wanted to leave the house  (nor could I) and in general I felt very bad.  I wouldn't call this the fl...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:52:00 PST