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Not much musical content to report, i'm afraid.

I havent been out at a gig in at least a week, partially due to being floored by this Flu-bug; partially due to my dayjob, with us moving office this week, and the amount of IT prepartion is astronomical. Chasing our ISP (Star.net.uk - stay away from them, they are less than useless. I now hate them with a passion!), and waiting on BT. I am convinced our ISP has done absolutely nothing to speed this along. My contact for this job, wouldn't even email me a response to anything, until i contacted her manager to complain, so i'm sure that put me in the bad books from the beginning.
Anyway, big move day is friday, and as it stands, we still have no internet connection. bleurgh, i dont even wanna write about it!

Lisa left for Florida on sunday morning, so at least i have the house to myself which is great. I may even get up to Scotland myself on the 23rd, assuming this office move goes ok.

music-wise, i been listening to a few things and digging them..

DJ Koze - Kosi Comes Around
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

The DJ Koze one is sorta minimal german house music, not something i'm particuarily into, but this one stands out for some reason. I noticed its been reviewed on Pitchfork, so i'm assuming this is getting kinda big, and I'm just slow to pick up on it!

Wolf Parade is a Sub Pop release, which actually i think has been out for quite a while also. I got hold of a copy awhile back, and never gave it much chance, but after a few friends talking about how good it was, i went back to it and left it on repeat for a few plays. Its pretty good, not groundbreaking, but i think if you enjoy The Shins, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, its the sort of thing you'd like. I had it on the ipod on the way to work today and was loving it.

I also finished The Wild Highway today also, the book i ws reading, written by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning. It was amazing, i would highly recommend it to anyone. Its fucked up, weird, violent, funny (and thats just the Mark Manning chapters!), introspective, thoughtful, enlightening, and inspiring (bill's!). I'm not much of a person for role models, or admiring celebs, or looking up to anyone really, but ever i was offered the chance of meeting anyone you wanted to, Bill Drummond would be the only choice.

He's influenced my life in so many different ways..
My first encounter was in 1990, when me and a friend Gerry were first discovering the joys of psychedelics, and our other friends introduced us the KLF album Chillout.
There was all their pop antics with the KLF, which started out ok, but which we quickly tired of (all the Tammy Wynette tongue-in-cheek spoofs etc), tho we never tired of the KLF themselves.
I remember poring over The Face articles about their past, and the Billboard Liberation Front, and various other anti-art antics, trying to decipher truth from myth. Well in fact, not even trying to separate them, i believe they were the first people to make me think, 'whats the difference?', and to enjoy and relish the ambiguity of it all.
I read Bad Wisdom when it first came out, which i think was '96, and i remember randomly started a chat with some guy at the Sub Club, and somehow we got onto the subject and discovered we were both reading it at the same time, which fitted perfetcly with teh theme of synchronisity in the book (did it have a theme of synchronisity or is that my memory tying it together with the Merry Pranksters, who my friend and i considered ourselves direct descendents of, at least in spirit, and partially why we identified with Bill and Jimmy).
I remember watching the documentary about the burning of the million quid, sitting with my friend Pat, in what was my first ever flat away from home. At the end of the program, Pat got out a pound note (when they still made them) and was about to start burning it, when i quickly stopped him, to give him fifty pence, so that I could be part of the money burning!.
After that, theres been '45', and i read 'The Manual' at some point, tho not when it was first out. I could ramble for longer, and should probably re-read what i've written to see if its coherent, but alas, i need to dash out, and hadnt even figured on writing all that! Anyhoo, Bill if you're out there, and wanna meet up with a fello w Scot who thinks they are on the same level as yourself, get in touch!