MYSPACE FACTS NO1

Current mood: DON’T BE SO FUCKING MEAN PECK!!!!
Category: DON’T BE SO FUCKING MEAN PECK!!!! Music

Currently listening : Hollywood on Air By Gregory Peck Release date: 2006-06-09

PGC£ OF THE DAY NOS 9,10,11 & 12

Current mood: MORE....
Category: MORE.... Art and Photography

Currently listening : Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team By Terry Anderson Release date: 2006-04-11

FREE MUNTADAR!!!!

Current mood: WOOF WOOF!!!!
Category: WOOF WOOF!!!! News and Politics

"This is a farewell kiss, you dog," he yelled in Arabic as he threw his shoes. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
Muntadar al-Zaidi

Thousands of Iraqis have demanded the release of a local TV reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush at a Baghdad news conference.

Crowds gathered in Baghdad's Sadr City district, calling for "hero" Muntadar al-Zaidi to be freed from custody.

Officials at the Iraqi-owned TV station, al-Baghdadiya, called for the release of their journalist, saying he was exercising freedom of expression.

An Iraqi official was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the journalist was being interrogated to determine whether anybody paid him to throw his shoes at President Bush.

(PG£: HAHAHAHAHAAAAAHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!!)

He was also being tested for alcohol and drugs, and his shoes were being held as evidence, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

(PG£:HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!)

The Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya TV channel said Mr Zaidi should be freed because he had been exercising freedom of expression - something which the Americans had promised to Iraqis on the ousting of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

"Any measures against Muntadar will be considered the acts of a dictatorial regime," the firm said in a statement.

Currently listening : Freedom Rock By Various with original Artists

ANOTHER NEW HERO FOR US ALL!!!!

Current mood: A MAN WITH SOLE!!!!
Category: A MAN WITH SOLE!!!! Goals, Plans, Hopes

Currently listening : I Got Shoes By Sweet Honey in Rock Release date: 1994-04-12

EXPANDING ONTO LIAMS HEAD!!!!

Current mood: STICKER ME GOOD!!!!
Category: STICKER ME GOOD!!!! Music

2009 is set to see a significant upturn in Giovan-activity and much of this will tale place away from the world of myspazz blogs...

Yes boss, I'm about satisfied enough with my new home over at www.paulgiovanni.com to be scaling down this spazzing operation. Sure there are still rough edges, and design disorders, but the basic structure is right, and the remaining detail will soon follow...


Of course, the great and best thing about the spazz for me, has been the ease of access to people - it's been a giovan-publicity tool par excellence, and a very good way to find excellent folk, readers, associates, and bands...


So, how to replace it???

Well, I figured the best way is to indulge in some real world OFFLINE advertising..

I've therefore bought 4 printers, a stackload of card and stickers, and have started work...


My first outreach project is codenamed

SPAMazine

This is how it works:


I go to lending libraries on the day or week of release of the music, sport and politics mags/papers armed with a few hundred PG£ stickers and mini attachment flyers...

I collect the copies of rags like Q, FourFourTwo The NME, Sight & Sound, Private Eye, The Economist...

I browse through them...

And I apply stickers and mini-attachment flyers as and where appropriate..

Like in place of Liam Gallaghers head

All over Coldplays tour advert

And in place of Damon Albarns heart

HEY PRESTO!!!

THE WORD SPREADS!!!!

Currently watching : How to Get Ahead In Advertising Release date: 2003-12-02

THE PG£ OPENING CLOSING DOWN SALE STARTS TODAY!!!!

Current mood: £$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£
Category: £$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£$£ Fashion, Style, Shopping

OK!!!

I'VE GOT INTO MY FAVOURITE SHOP SUIT AND HAIRCUT IN ORDER TO INTRODUCE YOU TO THE....

Yes boss, not to be outdone by the THE BIG STORES who are it seems all so close to the edge, they're discounting more or less everything B4 Xmas, I've decided to open my NEW PG£ SHOP with an OPENING CLOSING DOWN SALE!!!


The idea here is to open my PG£ ShOP as if it were closing...

By doing this I reckon I can avoid the recession and properly move the Giovanni Franchise into a new and more important financial realm..

Yes boss, the world of made up capitalism might well be stuttering like a 75 year old lawnmower that's never been serviced, but I reckon now's a great time TO OPEN UP A DOOMED ENTERPRISE!!!

When times get hard, it's time to open a shop!!!

SELL EVERYTHING!!!

NOW!!!!


No boss, the world doesn't need bank bailouts and tax relief - IT NEEDS OFFICIAL PG£ COMPOSTING WORMS!!! and a LIMITED EDITION OF 69 SAVE PAUL PIOUS JAMES DEMAN GIOVANNI £RD FRIDGE MAGNET!!!!!

YOU NEED TOP GRADE CDS, VINYL AND BOOKS!!!

THE WORLD NEEDS TOP GRADE LIMITED EDITION PG£ WRITINGS AND GREAT AND RARE ART!!!

ROLL UP ROLL UP!!!

EVERYTHING'S FOR SALE!!!!

BUY BUY BUY!!!!


So...

Most of the shelves are now up and running and my bored checkout assistants ARE JUST DESPERATE TO GET OFF THE FUCKING PHONE TO THEIR MATES TO TAKE YOUR ORDERS!!!

Do pop along and take a browse of the early stock...

I'm gonna be listing 50 or more new items a day from now until it's all gone...

STICK THIS LINK IN YOUR FAVOURITES AND KEEP COMING BACK!!!!

HOORAY FOR THE PG£ OPENING CLOSING DOWN SALE!!!!

Currently listening : More Than You Bargained For By Hard Bargain Release date: 2005-12-06

FEED THE MONKEYS!!!!

Current mood: CALL BONO!!!!
Category: CALL BONO!!!! News and Politics

Currently listening : Very Best of By Placido Domingo Release date: 2003-04-22

The State Of Things...

Current mood: AMEN!!!
Category: AMEN!!! Life

Currently listening : Fresco By M People Release date: 2006-10-30

PGC£ OF THE DAY NOS 6,7&8!!

Current mood: MMMMMMMM
Category: MMMMMMMM Art and Photography

Currently listening : We Are All in the Gutter But Some of Us Are Looking at... By They Came From The Stars I Saw Them Release date: 2008-06-23

Swimming with the fishes....

Current mood: BRRUUUMMMMMM!!!!!!
Category: BRRUUUMMMMMM!!!!!! Life

This afternoon, I ran along to the Amuti and Aquarium Galleries...

I say ran along - I really mean spun along (and nearly off on one corner) on Mrs Giovannis Piaggio..

Yes boss, I've been out on the Motorscooter again, and if my enthusiasm for this mode of zippy transport continues, I might even get a license!!


So, the main thing of interest betwixt these 2 galleries today was a conversation between James Cauty & STOT21stCPlanB about what they might do with what's left of the art at the end of their clearnace and closing down sale...

Yes boss, The Aquarium is closing on December the 23rd at 3pm and until then they're having a FIRE SALE!!!

EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!


So, the ideas for disposal of the remaining unsold art included: incineration, and loading it all into a van, then driving it off a cliff...

Both of which are something akin to a crime...


Anyway..

I've been doing my best to make EVERYTHING GO into the PG£ archive as opposed to the furnace!!!

Yes boss, today I picked up a whole bunch of signed Billy Childish prints, a few more books, a Jimmy Cauty print and some stamps, a coupla woodcut test prints and a proper decent plate which illustrates my last blog perfectly...

(pictures to follow).


The sad truth is however, that I can't buy it all, I'd therefore advise anyone in London with any sense to run along and pick up some bargains QUICK!!! BEFORE THE ARTISTS FUCKING WELL DESTROY IT ALL!!!!


If you can't get there and rummage your way into alt.art heaven, don't fear...

No boss, you'll be able to buy what I've bought (at vastly inflated prices) at my opening closing down sale over in the new shop section on www.paulgiovanni.com...

As you'll see form the current stock levels, it's early days in this opening closing down sale, but before long my ENTIRE archive of more than 10,000 items will be available to buy online at (still) wickedly cheap and cheerful prices...


So, having dropped the art home (Mrs Giovanni was for once pleased to see something I'd spent the rent money on - though, she wasn't so pleased when I admitted the reason I couldn't find the motorbike key this afternoon was because it'd been sat there in the ignition of the bike for more than a week...), I then popped to the Cargo nightclub because some PR mailing list had said there was free food and drinks..


Now, in 2008 I'm not a fan of Cargo - or for that mater commercial nightclubs in general...

No boss, I've tried really hard to throw myself into a clubbing renaissance this last year or so, but the godsworn truth is that these places now bore me s e n s e l e s s..:

You can't smoke, the drinks have got all fucking fabulous, the glasses are plastic, the toilets are like swamps and boring looking people abound...

In essence the danger and fun has been taken out of the nightclub - or maybe I'm just getting old???


Whatever, tonights shindig was duller than a Wednesday in October, so I only stayed long enough to drink my 2 FREE regulation bottled beers, before repairing back to the fish fort to spend the remaining evening tackling the living room shelves...

Currently listening : Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 Release date: 2001-11-03

Shrinking Money....

Current mood: REALITY BITING
Category: REALITY BITING News and Politics

'The story is about a scorpion asking a frog
to carry him across a river. The frog is afraid of being stung, but the
scorpion reassures him that if it stung the frog, the frog would sink
and the scorpion would drown as well. The frog then agrees;
nevertheless, in mid-river, the scorpion stings him, dooming the two of
them. When asked why, the scorpion explains, 'I'm a scorpion; it's my
nature.'

High capitalism (as we know it) seems to be dying, but no-one much wants to recognise what exactly this means, or what comes next...


Here's the rub with the Credit Lunch...

The essential problem, is that, motivated by quick profits and bonuses, the banks have over lent MASSIVELY to stupid cunts like me, who take anything that's dangled in front of them without any serious care as to whether it can be paid back or not..

Eventually this has come home to roost.

The banks have lost money and have now gone into a serious bipolar reverse, deciding they don't want to lend to anyone apart from the heavily secure - i.e the kind of people who don't much need the money anyway...

This means no-one can get a mortgage unless they've got a HUGE deposit and a squeaky clean credit history - and no businesses are getting much credit except at rip off terms and conditions...

This is snaring up the economy and house prices are plummeting - not enough people can buy or sell, and people are loosing their jobs because the banks won't extend their lines of credit...

Everything is therefore frozen - and more and more people are starting to get cold...


So, in order to try and get the banks lending again and restore confidence in the system, the UK. and for that matter. world governments are lowering interest rates and bailing out (of all people) the banks....

The theory is this will stimulate our banking friends into a bout of charitable money lending to all and sundry...

Yes boss, the governments are then thinking that upon receipt of this charitable bank lending, we'll all then spend again like it's 1999 - which will create demand which will create jobs which will create an UPTURN!!!!


But the problem with the solution is this:

The whole start of this shrinkage was caused by people borrowing too much...

So, how can the answer be to MAKE US BORROW MORE?!?!?

Furthermore, this bailout strategy isn't even working as a plan, because the scorpions aren't passing these interest rate savings along - instead they're taking healthy portions of the savings for themselves, so as to repair their balance sheets, buy back the shares they've HAD to sell to the frogs in order to survive, regain their independence AND GET THOSE BONUSES FLOWING AGAIN ASAP!!!!


So, what this boils down to is that the scorpions have made a HUGE FUCKING PACKET!!!

They've then taken that away into their own personal pockets and Bahamanian Bank Accounts, where that money is staying...

Meantime, they've been bailed out by the idiot frogs, and thankless shits that they are, the scorpions now don't want to do anything other than invest in ROCK SOLID!! businesses - of which there are very few..

The scorpions feel absolutely no sense of responsibility or fault - THEY JUST WANT THE GOOD TIMES BACK!!!


And this is the problem we now have - the frogs of the world are treating our scorpion friends like they DO HAVE everyones best interests at heart and CAN'T WAIT to do us all favours - when in fact they couldn't care less......

NO BOSS, THEY DON'T FUCKING CARE!!!

As they see it, it's not their job - or in their nature - to care about individuals or society. It's their job to make money only - they are profit making companies, not social welfare foundations...

Yes boss, being a scorpion has never (in it's current form) and will never be about anything other than pure selfishness..

THAT IS AN OBVIOUS FUCKING FACT!!!


Obvious that is, to everyone who's ever dealt with bankers..

So, why is it that the only ones missing the trick are the governments of the world, who are persisting with the idea that bankers main motivation isn't to make BIG MONEY - but to help us all out.....?!?!?

Currently listening : Disappeared By Spring Heel Jack Release date: 2000-07-24

BLUE LEATHER!!!!

Current mood: WOOF
Category: WOOF Sports

It's the cycling off season, and as I start the sale of my cycling memorabilia stock, the pro teams are revving up on their training camps in readiness for the 2009 season...


Yes boss, it's set to be a SUPER year in cycling...!!!

The Giro D'Italia will be hotly contested by the best field in years, including the likes of Armstrong, Contador, Sastre, Basso, Cunego and maybe even Evans.

The centenary edition will start with a time trial in Venice, before moving on through the Prosecco region, over the Dolomites and Alps, through Milan b4 finishing in Rome for the first time in aroundabout 20 years...


With such a monumentous field and innovative parcours, it goes without saying that the first absurd thing the Giovannis will be attending too (come the Little Gs birthday) will be acquiring a baby passport, so as to enable the viewing of the first few stages of this epic race...


The Giro aside, the main team to watch all year will be the Kazakh squad, Astana...

Yes boss, Astana have so many top riders (Armstrong, Contador, Vinokourov, Leipheimer, Kloden, Popovych etc), the other big teams might as well not bother to try and win any of the major tours...


It's a remarkable turn around - Astana were persona non-grata last year after a spate of doping problems, but this year THEY'RE BACK BIG TIME!!! with a team (who've never taken drugs) that fields more or less everyone who's a serious contender and proven winner for the top awards...

They're the cycling equivalent of Barcelona + Real Madrid + Man Utd & Juventus rolled into one...?!?!?


Well, a great team, they might well prove to be, but one thing that's less dominating in the Astana set up is their team kit...

Yes boss, take a look at this picture of the team presentation....

Lance Armstrong is of course wearing is own ego LIVESTRONG yellow and black kit (as a 7 time Tour De France comeback winner can) (LOOK HE'S ALREADY STANDING IN THE MIDDLE!!! CONTADOR ALREADY HATES HIM!!!)...

But Contador and Kloden seem to be afflicted with a rather nasty lederhosen dark blue apron design...?!?!?

SO, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ALL ABOUT????

IS IT A CLEVER ANTI DOPING DIVERSIONARY PROTOCOL STRATEGY???

OR JUST THE SEXY BLUE SKIRT PANTS WAY TO GET AHEAD????

PGC£ OF THE DAY NOS 2,3,4&5!!

Current mood: CLICK!!!
Category: CLICK!!! Art and Photography

Currently listening : Back to Basics By Beenie Man Release date: 2004-07-13

YOU GOTTA HAVE A J.O.B....

Current mood: BANG IT!!!
Category: BANG IT!!! Jobs, Work, Careers

'I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.'

Taken from: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

A Harvest Book

Currently listening : Pavarotti's Greatest Hits Release date: 2007-09-18