I shouldn’t get annoyed by it....

Current mood: YOU’RE NUMBER’S UP!!!!
Category: YOU’RE NUMBER’S UP!!!! Music

because I HAVE THE CHAIRS OF POP POWER!!!

But X Factor pisses me off...

Yes boss, Mrs Giovanni had it on this evening, whilst I was fighting with the house, and once again this singer called Rachel Hyton was voted into the bottom 2 and then finally ousted by the judges from the last 5...

SO FUCKING WHAT?!?!? I hear a lot of you SHOUT!!!

Well, the thing is, this woman is the only one on that show who has anything at all to offer..

I mean the rest of the conetstants and SIMPLY FUCKING AWFUL!!!

YES BOSS, THEY'LL BE LUCKY TO FILL A CRUISE SHIP BAR - THEIR TALENTS ARE GODAWFUL MINISCULE. THEY ARE THE VERY FUCKING ESSENCE OF WHY I HATE THIS AMATEUR STINKING KARAOKE SHOW!!!!

Yet Rachel Hyton has soul and talent - so of course she's out...


Well, I've since been wondering why this has happenned...

Is it because she's black??

Is it because she's controversial (4 kids, she first gave birth at age 13) and isn't seen to be a good squeaky clean role model that makes you EAT YOUR CORNFLAKES AND GROW UP TO BE A GOOD EARNER!!!!

Is it because she's simply too good for such an ass bumhole of a show????

Or is it because she's blown the Winehouse myth...???

Yes boss, as this clip below shows, Rachel Hyton can clearely sing Winehouse far better than Winehosue can.

And in doing this, I think she's blown the myth we've been fed this last 3 years or so, that Amy is an EXCEPTIONAL and unparalleled talent that has been and will never be seen again!!!!

Yes boss, it's shown everyone who watches X Factor, that there are many folks with better voices than Wino's and that Amy's main talent is really drawing attention to herself and PISSING HERSELF UP THE WALL!!!!

Currently listening : You’ll Never Get Anywhere By The Railway Raver Release date: 2001-06-26

WOOF WOOF!!!!

Current mood: ’ELLO ’ELLO ’ELLO
Category: ’ELLO ’ELLO ’ELLO Life

To detail todays toil well would be a blog too far for my available faculties at this late hour...

Suffice to say the below was a part of it, and I'll be telling the full story and some others, in this months Casa Hasa Giovanna, which'll be the most pauly talky so far, and be out in days time...

(Of course, I'm about to be a responsible parent and I'm innocent of all dog based suspicions....)

(FURTHERMORE I HAVE NEVER TAKEN DRUGS!!!!)

(AND I WILL NEVER BE CONVICTED UNDER SEC 23!!!)

Now WHERE ARE THE FUCKING RIZZLAS!!!!!

SAVE THE MIDDLE CLASSES!!!

Current mood: THE CHILDREN!! THE CHILDREN!!!!
Category: THE CHILDREN!! THE CHILDREN!!!! News and Politics

'I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.'
Leo Tolstoy

With Mrs Giovanni now working form home, I'm reading all the tabloid papers daily...

Yes boss, my current media monitoring is taking on a decidedly populist angle as opposed to the rather stuffy pubs I've been previously reading in the local library....


Of course, if you really want to know what's going on in the world, the only papers and magazines to read are the likes of The Financial Times and The Economist..

Yes boss, there's more proper news on one page of either of these pubs than in The Sun and Star combined...

But if you want to know anything about popular culture, it's the tabloids every time...


In all honesty, I don't have too much time for papers that sit in between either of these extremes - papers like The Guardian or The Independent or The Times

The Independent is pure suicide newsprint.

Every fucking day their front page announces some kind of a WORLD WILL END TOMORROW UNLESS!!!! (INSERT CAUSE OF THE DAY HERE) front page...

The news contained therein then always reads like the out takes of a depressed persons world journal..

Meanwhile, The Guardian is full of the worst kind of left middle comfy wing ranting and The Times is just a vehicle for conservatism..


Sure, the tabloids are full of mindless infuriating jingoistic crap, but they do at least have some connection with the (un)reality of day to day living...


This said, one thing I'm already tired of in the tabloids - the Mail in particular, is the Middle Class recession moaning.

Yes boss, this recession is being dubbed the 'Bourgeoise Recession' and the reason for this is because it's anticipated the white collar workers are gonna take the biggest numerical hits..


And these folk have no idea about how to go down quietly


No boss, in todays Daily Mail, there's a double page sob story about a bankers family WHO ARE SO SKINT THEY'RE FORCED TO WONDER IF THEY'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE £8000 A YEAR FOR EACH OF THEIR LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS PRIVATE SCHOOL FEES!!!

What?!?!? YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO SEND HENRIETTA TO THE COMMON SCHOOL?!?!? WITH THE DIRTY PEOPLE??????

'I have to think about every penny - I have stopped shopping at Tesco and started going to Morrisons BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER.'

SAY IT ISN'T SO!!!!!

'I'd taken a law degree and then moved into private equity, and I assumed that my education and hard work ethic would mean I could always provide for my wife and children.'

TIMES ARE HARD!!!

'It is the having nothing to do which is most dispiriting..'

NO!!!!

'On the morning before I was sacked, I had been planning to get up at 5am to take a train to London to meet an important client and wouldn't have been home until 9pm. Overnight, all that disappears.'

COUNT YOURSELF LUCKY!!!!!

YOU'VE GOT SAVINGS!!!

YOU'LL SEE YOUR CHILDREN!!!!

YOU CAN MOW THE LAWN DAILY RATHER THAN PAYING THE GARDENER - HE MIGHT EVEN STOP BANGING YOUR WIFE !!!!!!

AND BESIDES, YOU CAN READ ALL OF THE DAILY MAIL, RATHER THAN JUST LOOKING AT THE PICTURES AND TUTTING AT THE IMMIGRANTS!!!!

JESUS.....!!!


The only real problem I can see in the western world with this here financial crisis is gonna be a little slimming down - and given how fat, stupid and arrogant we've become, that's no bad thing - and most likely lead to greater efficiency in the future...

Meanwhile, all over the rest of the world, people'll starve because the big traders are ramming down prices on cash crops to get us westerners SPENDING AGAIN!!!!, so we'll once again have enough money to patronise them with aid......


It's a hard, hard life...

Currently listening : Timeless By Goldie Release date: 1995-10-17

GO ON!!!!

Current mood: ASSERTIVENESS...
Category: ASSERTIVENESS... Games

Currently listening : The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books By Ella Fitzgerald Release date: 1993-11-02

From Mrs Susan Morgan

Current mood: PRAISE THE LORD!!!! THE CHEQUE’S IN THE POST!!!
Category: PRAISE THE LORD!!!! THE CHEQUE’S IN THE POST!!! Life

BP [38 Rue Des Martyrs Cocody
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire


ATTN
DEAREST ONE OF GOD

I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Mr.Abram Morgan, who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2004. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.

Before his death we were both born again Christian. since his death I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $2. 5 Million (Two Million and Five Hundred U.S. Dollars) in the bank here in Abidjan in suspense account.

Presently, the fund is still with the bank. Recently, my Doctor told me that i have seriouly sickness which is cancer problem. The one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to a church or individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want a church that will use this fund for orphanages, widows, propagating the word of God and to endeavour that the house of God is

maintained.


The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's efforts to be used by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way. This is why I am taking this decision.


I am not afraid of death hence i know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the Lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace.


I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of my husband's relatives is around me always I don't want them to know about this development.


With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the bank here in Abidjan.


I want you and the church to always pray for me because the Lord is my shepherd. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life.


Contact me on the above e-mail address for more information's, any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another church or individual for this same purpose.


Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I Stated herein. Hoping to receive your reply.


Remain blessed in the Lord.


Yours in Christ,
Mrs Susan Morgan..



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wAG tHE dOG....

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

The Sirius Star is the biggest ship ever to be hijacked, with a capacity of 2m barrels - more than one-quarter of Saudi Arabia's daily output.

"This is unprecedented," said Lt Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the US Fifth Fleet. "It's the largest ship that we've seen pirated.

It's three times the size of an aircraft carrier."

War-torn Somalia has not had an effective government since 1991.

News of the attack raised crude oil prices on global markets following an earlier slump, Reuters news agency reported.

"There will never be enough warships," said Graeme Gibbon Brooks, managing director of Dryad Maritime Intelligence Service Ltd.

"The whole area is 2.5 million square miles. The coalition have to act pre-emptively and be one step ahead of the pirates."


"They're very good at what they do," he told a Pentagon briefing in Washington.

"I'm stunned by the range of it," said Navy Adm Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. "The pirates, he added, "They're very well armed. Tactically, they are very good."

But it is not just the size of the vessel – 318,000 deadweight tons – which is astonishing, it is its type and its importance.

Currently listening : Screaming for Vengeance By Judas Priest Release date: 2001-05-29

New Additions....

Current mood: WORKING 9 TO 5...
Category: WORKING 9 TO 5... Jobs, Work, Careers

Life here on Planet Paul is reaching one of those classic junctures in which you either have to STEP THE FUCK UP!!!

or take a step back, recharge and come back again at some convenient moment in the future....


Yes boss, this means I need to make some cold hard cash AND QUICK!!!


Now, this cash isn't required to get rich, so much as to survive as is on a pretty basic (western) level...


So, at such a time, there are 2 options:

Get a regular job or try spinning this Giovan-bandwagon a little further...

Naturally, I'm starting out with the latter, and we'll see how it goes..


So, this boils down to a whole new consumerist and service sector to the Giovan-experience..

Yes boss, from now on, I'm not only venting my spleen and offering you incisive analysis, and good words, I'm offering other tertiary services and before too very long products...


We're starting with...

PG£s VIRTUAL HELP SHOP!!!

PG£s PROMO!!!!

PG£s PHOTO!!!!

PGDEEGEEEE!!!!

Now the truth here is that I've been doing these to some degree either for free, for limited cash or for favours for some time now. The difference is that now, I'm looking to get in some extra paid work with which to feed the little G and Mrs Giovanni's ambitions of NOT STRUGGLING EVERY DAMN MONTH!!!!


Of course, in some ways, I find this professional branching out from pure, concentrated and complicated daily writing to be thoroughly depressing prospect....

Yes boss, it's always been partly my contention that I'm a natural born writer, and that I shouldn't be troubling my little genius written soul with anything other than PRODUCING GOOD COMBINATIONS OF WORDS!!!

But, I do still love to delve into other areas in order to facilitate the learning process and to understand life - and it's for this inability to focus completely on the one written thing that makes it worthwhile for me to spread out.....


So...

If any of you need help with any of my available services - do get in touch!!!

Currently listening : Do It Again: The Best of Famous Cover Hits [2 CD Set] [German Import] By Various Artists

SUSAN COATES SPEAKS THE TRUTH!!!!

Current mood: SUSAN’S MY PHILOSPOPHER OF THE DAY!!!!
Category: SUSAN’S MY PHILOSPOPHER OF THE DAY!!!! Writing and Poetry

Currently listening : Hotter Than July By Stevie Wonder Release date: 2000-05-02

Spending time in Italy....

Current mood: a rather sick society....
Category: a rather sick society.... Life

£££££££££$$$$$$$$$$£$£$£$£$££££$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

made me realise how true this is...

'More than half the population believe UK children are "feral" and behave like animals, a survey has suggested.

Half of the 2,021 adults interviewed by YouGov for the poll also felt children should be regarded as "dangerous".

Children's charity Barnardo's, which commissioned the study, said society "casually condemned" children.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7732290.stm

Yes boss, generally speaking,, my impression is that in the UK we don't like children at all..

We obviously LOVE our own..

But we don't like kids, or the idea of childhood - it's far too spontaneous, random and care free for stiff Brits to fully engage with and like...

GET THEM EDUCATED!!! GET THEM IN A JOB!!!!

GET THEM SUBSERVIENT!!!!

GET THEM SORTED OUT!!!!

£££££££££££$$$$$$$$$£$£$£$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$££££££££££££££

Currently listening : Trojan Dub Rarities Box By Various Artists Release date: 2005-11-29

Normal Position...

Current mood: ANDY MAC...
Category: ANDY MAC... Writing and Poetry

'When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people. I'd been hurt a lot to the degree you can only be hurt if you care a lot. So I guess I did care a lot, in the days before anyone ever heard of 'pop art' or 'underground movies' or 'superstars.'

So in the late 50s I started an affair with my television which has continued to the present, when I play around in my bedroom with as many as four at a time. But I didn't get married until 1964 when I got my first tape recorder. My wife. MY tape recorder and I have been married for ten years now. When I say 'we,' I mean my tape recorder and me. A lot of people don't understand that.

The acquisition of my tape recorder really finished whatever emotional life I might have had, but I was glad to see it go. Nothing was ever a problem again, because a problem just meant a good tape, and when a problem transforms itself into a good tape it's not a problem any more. An interesting problem was an interesting tape. Everybody knew that and performed for the tape. You couldn't tell which problems were real and which problems were exaggerated for the tape. Better yet, the people telling you the problems couldn't decide any more if they were really having the problems or if they were just performing.'

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

A Harvest Book

Currently listening : Original Rockers By Augustus Pablo Release date: 1991-07-01

Frankie Says...

Current mood: Every little helps???
Category: Every little helps??? Music

Currently listening : Welcome to the Pleasuredome By Frankie Goes to Hollywood Release date: By 2006-04-07

17:08 - 12 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove -

	The Cupid Kinkyboots Fan Club	I thought you promised us no more videos passed off as blogs? Minus kudos, fella. Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Fan Club on 17 Nov 2008, 01:49 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ :	I'm a compulsive liar... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ : on 17 Nov 2008, 01:57 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	The Cupid Kinkyboots Fan Club	Well sat least your an honest liar! Tee hee! Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Fan Club on 17 Nov 2008, 02:04 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ :	I was lying... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ : on 17 Nov 2008, 02:06 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Colossus	About the truth rule u broke or the lie u told? AAARRGHGHGHH!!! I'm more confused than Brick in Anchorman! Spider xx Posted by Colossus on 17 Nov 2008, 13:53 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ :	It tends to work like this: The minute I say I'm not going to do something, the process by which i do it, commences... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ : on 17 Nov 2008, 14:09 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Colossus	U need a doctor man. That sounds like self-destruction on a loop. Spider xx Posted by Colossus on 17 Nov 2008, 14:25 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ :	How can one create without also destroying??? Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ : on 17 Nov 2008, 14:44 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Colossus	Come on...writing a song or making a paper airplane needs no destruction. You change the medium u work with...dont have to destroy shit. Spider xx Posted by Colossus on 17 Nov 2008, 15:57 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ :	I don't know of one proper genius who hasn't been self destructive... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ : on 17 Nov 2008, 16:01 [Remove]

	Mark	We're all Frankies, we're all lying in hell.... Posted by Mark on 17 Nov 2008, 17:49 [Remove] [Reply to this]

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Welcome to the Terrordome... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDLING POP BLOG BY PG£ : on 17 Nov 2008, 17:50 [Remove] [Reply to this]

War TV...

Current mood: WHY BOTHER???
Category: WHY BOTHER??? Movies, TV, Celebrities

One thing I never miss when I don't have one, is a TV...

But I do like to keep tabs on the medium when I do have one - even if more than an hour of most things makes me get VERY ANGRY INDEED!!!!


Well, yesterday nights watching was the usual mixture of the hopelessly banal and easy fed going Saturday night slush...

Then there was probably the saddest program I've ever seen...


Yes boss, last night there was this documentary that listed off the names of all 300 UK soldiers killed in the Iraq & Afghanistan conflicts.

This list of names was interspersed with interviews with the families of some of those who've died, footage of the war, footage of the blood and the memorials...

It lasted somewhere between 3 and 4 hours straight - no commercial breaks, 3/4 hours STRAIGHT!!!


It was a deeply horrible and heavy dark program.

Yes boss, many of the families would put on a brave face and talk about their pride, and how their boy used to love life and play on swings and fish the lake..

They'd talk about how their boy loved his family, was a great lad, was only 19 or 22 or 25 - about how his whole life was ahead of him...


And then, the families were asked about how their boy died..

And each and every one would start off describing what happened in a matter of fact kind of way (sometimes this was illustrated with real life combat footage of the events)

And then - sooner or later - every one of them bar none - from the hardest looking beefcake man to the most vulnerable looking mother, would break into tears..

And this deep and frightening hole of sadness and loss would envelop them...

And they'd flash up pictures of the boy looking all smiley, or in his uniform...

And there would be the family trying to hold it in - or not...


It was fucking horribly dark - but of course completely compelling viewing....


The program ended, with footage of the memorial that's been built for the soldiers of these current wars..

It's been built big.

Most of it has no names yet - the powers that be are clearly thinking ahead..


This morning came the report of number 301...

Currently listening : Two Tribes By Frankie Goes to Hollywood Release date: 2000-12-06

IT’S OFFICIAL - TOM IS A CUNT!!!!

Current mood: CUNTY BUNTY!!!!
Category: CUNTY BUNTY!!!! MySpace

You know what???

I've been using Myspace for years now and in all of that time about 2 things have changed...


One thing that hasn't, is Toms fucking profile

No boss, despite myspazz offering the ability to adapt the visual look of your spazz COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY!!! Tom's spazz remains the same - HE HASN'T EVEN CHANGED HIS BLEEDING PHOTO?!?!? (836 COMMENTS!!!)

DOES TOM NOT AGE?!?!?

IS HE REALLY STILL THAT GEEKY IN THAT WHITE T-SHIRT IN THAT POSE, EVEN THOUGH HE'S NOW RICHER THAN ICELAND AND THE UKRAINE COMBINED?!?!?


Yes boss, you'd think that given tweaking the profile is one feature myspace has over facefuck Tom'd be twiddling his 24/7 and encouraging all his 250m froends to do likewise - BUT NO!!!!


And another thing...

Who in the hell are all these sycophants who send him comments?!?!?


'As big as this site is you do a great job! Have a good weekend.
Michael'


'Its ok Tom!! Im sure MySpace will be better than it is already!!

Salute to the new fixes and Cheers for all you do for us here.. we LOVE MySpace! Its a great place to spend our time!

Thank you Tom,
Mama Kittie'


I know you are working diligently and I just wanted to let you know its greatly appreciated!
Waiting in the sidelines trying to be as patient as ever...LOL =)


BEWARE TOM - THEY ONLY WANT YOUR MONEY!!!!! (AND YOUR STYLIST..!!!)

(THANKS PAUL!!! DON'T MESSAGE ME - WAIT IT OUT!!!)

Currently listening : SUPERHITS OF THE SUPERSTARS By Various Artists

With junk mail this good, who needs poetry???

Current mood: Thanks Kunter...
Category: Thanks Kunter... Life

Currently listening : Blue Lines By Massive Attack Release date: 2002-08-21

Mixed Media...

Current mood: CASSETTE ONLY.....
Category: CASSETTE ONLY..... Music

I found another bag of tapes...

This one was in the rubbish shed downstairs..


We've had half our house from that rubbish shed.

When we first moved here to Fish Island, the rubbish was crap - but from about 6 months onwards, there's been a steady through flow of people leaving and leaving behind them untold good quality rubbish:

Stainless Steel Fruit and Veg Rack, Chairs, Tables, A Huge Wardrobe, Coat Rail, Cases, Cartons, Lamps, Electrical Goods, Bikes...


Yesterday, it was a green carrier bag full of tapes.

It was left just inside the door - like an abandoned child.


I find this abandonment of musical archives to be very odd...

Yes boss, a lot of the stuff I've picked up on tape of late has been very unusual and scarce - it's not ANOTHER copy of Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lense.

Some are copies of radio shows or DJ mixes from particular clubs, and the reggae bag I had is rammed full of SUPER RARE tunes that would cost hundreds and thousands to buy any other way - if they can even be bought.....


But these things reach their sell by date - formats flip, space needs to be cleared, babies come, priorities change - and the whole lot goes out to rot...

Currently listening : Walk It Off By Tapes ’n Tapes Release date: 2008-04-08

Just another brick not in the wall???

Current mood: Nobody wants to be in Garys gang...
Category: Nobody wants to be in Garys gang... Music

Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter has had his brick removed from the Cavern Club's wall in Liverpool.

Management originally refused to remove the singer's brick, stating it was 'a historical document&183;

However following phone calls from a Merseryside MP and a consultation with a child abuse victim the club had it chiseled away.

It has now been replaced by a brick with The Mighty Wah!'s lead singer Pete Wylie's name on it.

Currently listening : Rock and Roll: Gary Glitter’s Greatest Hits By Gary Glitter Release date: 1998-10-28

More of the same...

Current mood: HAS ANYONE EVER WON A WAR IN AFGHANISTAN???
Category: HAS ANYONE EVER WON A WAR IN AFGHANISTAN??? News and Politics

Up to 2,000 extra British troops are likely to be sent to Afghanistan next year, the BBC has learned.

Ministers are considering sending reinforcements to Afghanistan to meet an expected request from Barack Obama, when he becomes US president next year.

In talks, Afghan leaders told Gordon Brown more troops were needed as it emerged two Royal Marines were killed on Tuesday in the south of the country.

The Ministry of Defence said it had not received a request for extra troops.

American brigades

The last two days in Afghanistan have been marked by bloody fighting, and at least 21 military and civilian deaths.

At Downing Street, during a visit to London, Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, told Gordon Brown all efforts were being made "to bring violence down" after the Afghan foreign minister urged Britain to send in more troops.

The UK already has 8,100 troops in Helmand province and British ministers have publicly argued any extras should come from elsewhere in Europe in order to share the burden more fairly.

But the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Robbins said that privately ministers and officials conceded the new president would still ask for a greater British fighting effort.

He said they also made it clear that no government would want to say no to President Obama early in his term of office, particularly given his huge following.

Our correspondent said some British officials accepted it might be necessary to commit up to 2,000 more soldiers next year.

Currently listening : True Hardcore By Various Artists Release date: 2007-10-01

PAYPAL UP YOUR ARSE!!!

Current mood: SUPER PISSED OFF!!!!
Category: SUPER PISSED OFF!!!! Jobs, Work, Careers

Jesus...

I've spent this last month or so developing my PG£ Virtual Help Shop

Yes boss, this is my computer selling building maintenance and planning sideshow that I plan to make me loads of money this next 12 months and will formally launch sometime tomorrow, or perhaps the day after that.....


Well, I had up a batch of PG£ rebuilt laptops on ebay that were the opening shots in this there enterprise....

Yes boss, I'd sold 3 at top level prices on Ebay and was FOR ONCE sitting pretty for rent day having made a reasonable to good profit!!!


So, I go into my paypal account to withdraw the cash into my PG£ OFFICIAL bank account - and paypal say something to the effect that 'you can't have the cash, send the goods first, we think you're gonna rip this guy off?!?!?'


Well, I was astonished.

NO - I WAS FUCKING FURIOUS!!!!


Yes boss, I noticed paypal had accepted the £130 odd pounds from one man who'd bought the machine, and they'd taken their absurdly generous cut of £4.59 - but they had then decided they weren't gonna give me my cash until this guy recieves the computer (3-5 days minimum by post) and gives me a positive feedback (fuck knows how many days), even though I have 887 good paypal transactions and 100% good feedback on Ebay...

Meantime they keep my money for me (and presumably everyone elses' whom they decide is untrustworty - in some interest paying account perhaps???) IN THE INTERESTS OF SECURITY!!!!! without giving any advance warning that this is their new deal?!?!?


WELL FUCK MY SPATS - I THOUGHT I WAS IMAGINING IT?!?!?!

I MEAN WHAT IN THE HELL GIVES THEM - A PRIVATE WANKING COMPANY - THE RIGHT TO HOLD ONTO MY FUCKING MONEY UNTIL SOME BLOKE DOES OR DOESN'T GIVE ME A FEEDBACK ON AN EBAY ITEM???

ARE THEY THE FUCKING LAW NOW???

IT'S FUCKING CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR!!!


And you know what else???

It's only going to facilitate poor ebay practice.

Yes boss, real life scammers will read the paypal guidelines as to who paypal feel they can treat this way - buy stuff off of these kinds of sellers, pay them (but have paypal hold the money), then say the stuff never arrived and ask for the money back from paypal without the seller seeing a fucking penny of it - ALL FACILITATED BY PAYPALS SPANGLING FUCKING NEW SECURITY SYSTEM...?!?!?


Well, I wrote paypal a letter...

Now, I wish I'd copied and pasted it, because it was made onto one of those web-forms rather than a regular email (they like many online companies don't appear to believe in the idea of email) so I no longer have it...

Suffice to say this email was very blunt indeed.

It informed that they'd better release my fucking money IMMEDIATELY!!! Or else I'd cease using their two bit expensive and shitty service and do my very best to put as many people off of it as possible into the bargain as well as seeking legal advice...


Well apparently the stupid fucking cunts don't employ enough staff so as to answer such enquiries in a reasonable time frame - so I'm starting spreading the word now...

IF YOU CAN - AVOID PAYPAL LIKE THE FUCKING PLAGUE!!!!

Quite apart form anything else they're very expensive on ebay sellers and they don't give the 'instant money' they claim they do - it's instantly from the buyer, then paypal hold onto it for as long as they can ( it takes 5-7 days to do a bank transfer) then the seller gets it...


Of course, all this once again reminds us (as if we needed reminding) that bankers are complete fucking cunts (paypal is owned by Wells Fargo)

Yes boss, if there's one thing I hate more than politicians being worshiped like brolly gods, it's bankers taking my money in that 'GOD GIVEN RIGHT' kind of way that they do..

'Yeah, we're just gonna have this, or do that - BECAUSE WE CAN AND BECAUSE NO-ONE HAS THE FUCKING BALLS OR ABILITY TO TELL US OTHERWISE!!'


Yes boss, if there's one single thing he needs the Big Messiah O needs to get ahold of and SQUEEZE!!!! it's the fucking banks...

Gordon Brown isn't gonna do it - his 2 bit solution to the chaos they (and he as chancellor) has caused is to loan them more money and then join them together to make bigger banks, which can then work with even less competition and lay off a tonne of fucking staff into the bargain - meantime he allows them to set about pursuing defaulters like never before...


Anyway, to continue the story...

Still seething with FUCKING RAGE!!!! I departed this fishy fort in order to attend the ante-natal class with Mrs Giovanni...

Yes boss, wierd as it might sound, the place of birth of the Little G is to be a new NHS birthing center just a little south of this nouveau bankers heaven on The Isle of Dogs (we live on Fish Island and the baby is to be born on The Isle of Dogs - sounds like unadulterated bollocks, but it's true)


Well, you know what I saw down there in that clean and glassy cold shithole??

I saw a lot of very rich looking folk, a few Ferrari's and loads and loads of evidence of money despite this supposed crash...

POOR FUCKING LAMBS - THEY'RE REALLY SUFFERING AREN'T THEY????

Currently listening : Thug Law, Chapter One By Thug Life Outlawz

If you’re feeling lonely...

Current mood: TWEET SQUARK TWEET!!!!
Category: TWEET SQUARK TWEET!!!! Goals, Plans, Hopes

Currently listening : Music Birds Love: While You Are Gone By Bradley Joseph Release date: 2008-02-01

FUCK OFF GORMLESS CUNTS!!!

Current mood: FULL OF SHIT....
Category: FULL OF SHIT.... Food and Restaurants

Pub happy hours should be banned and supermarkets stopped from selling alcohol at a loss, in order to combat drink-fuelled disorder, MPs have said.

The Home Affairs select committee said reckless drinking was placing a heavy burden on police resources.

One possible solution in England and Wales, MPs said, would be legislation setting a minimum price on alcohol - already being considered in Scotland.

Ministers said they would "look carefully" at the recommendations. ..

The committee's wide-ranging report said police were "hitting their targets but missing the point".

It said police faced a host of challenges in the 21st Century, including reviewing their core purpose amid competing demands for officers' time.

But it added that evidence showed the biggest problem faced by police forces was violence and disorder caused by excessive drinking of cheap alcohol.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7718950.stm

Currently listening : Downbeat the Ruler - Killer Instrumentals - Best of Studio 1 (One) - Volume 3 (Three) Compilation Lp By Sound Dimension, Soul Vendors, Jackie Mitto V/A: (various artists) Dub Specialist

YOU MAINSTREAM AMERICANS....

Current mood: BOO YAH!!!!
Category: BOO YAH!!!! News and Politics

ARE SUCH FUCKING LIARS!!!!

YOU ONLY VOTED FOR OBAMA BECAUSE THE ECONOMY HAS GONE DOWN THE FUCKING SPOUT!!!!

YES BOSS, IF LEHMAN BROTHERS HADN'T HAVE GONE TO THE WALL JON MCDONALDS WOULD BE PRESIDENT...

TRACK THE POLLS...

COLOR AND VAGUE IDEAS OF A NEW AMERICAN SOCIAL EQUALITY ARE IRRELEVANT!!!

IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE BUST!!

SAVE AMERICA!!!

Currently listening : Solid Gold: Coxsone Style By Various Artists Release date: 1992-04-10

How to do things...

Current mood: BOOM BOOM!!!
Category: BOOM BOOM!!! Life

'As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic'

A Warhola


In terms of writing, I'm in a serious non-troubling lull.

Yes boss, aspects of real life are taking over my day today and writing in any kind of serious and focused way (AS OPPOSED TO SHOUTING!!!) is close to impossible:

Mrs Giovanni is in the house 24/7 demanding attention.

And I'm panicking about how my new fatherly role and my lack of regular money and the heavy slap dose of reality that's about to burst from her belly ANY DAY!!!

And then there's the debt...


Of course, it's at times like these that the offers come in to write things you can't write...


I had one a few weeks back from porn star Roni Rayes new magazine Kink.

She asked me to do a piece to accompany a set of pictures of Jim Morrisons Grave.

She wants the piece to be BIG!!!

And I want to write some hugely GREAT AND CUTTING CRITIQUE OF THE WORSHIP OF THE DEAD CELEBRITY!!!!

But I'm struggling to get so much as a good start going - there's no gas..


A few days ago, Spider from the hit band Colossus says he's been biggin me up to be the reviews editor for a new magazine. The set up is interested, but I can't even be thinking about writing rubbish about records..

No boss, I have serious things on my plate right now - writing music reviews look to be even more puerile and irrelevant than normal...


Then today, as I'm watching Fulham Vs Newcastle at Craven Cottage, I get a text from my friend Laura.

Laura works for a book distribution company.

Her firm are distributing a book by Tony O'Neil - formerly of The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Kenicke

O'Neil is the majors new alt.writing boy. As I understand it, he writes about his heroin addiction..

Laura wants me to review the book on this 'ere blinger. The distributor needs some underground press. She'll send me the book and some information....

A few months ago, I'd have bitten her hand off, but now I can't be engaging with it...


There's other gilt edged ops biting at my balls..


But now is not the time...


'As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic'

A Warhola

Currently listening : We Call It Acieeed By Various Artists Release date: 2002-10-01

Like a fool returneth to it’s vomit....

Current mood: SELL SELL!!!
Category: SELL SELL!!! Sports

Lost on Calzaghe again - and the wierd thing was both the fight and my betting pattern loss was almost a carbon copy as the last one...

As per last time - on this fight, I start off knowing nothing much...

After an hour of preamble and some basic research, I decide the odds of almost 3/1 on Jones Junior are worth an opening shot. If he doesn't perform, I'll be down a little - and if he does, I'll go further in and things will be peachy good...


Well, as per exactly the last fight against Hopkins, Calzaghe is caught cold and put onto the canvas inside the first round by a rejuvenated Jones Junior!!!

And as per last time, the odds remain good on Jones Junior - even though he's clearly on top..??!??

IT'S A CARBON FUCKING COPY OF THE LAST FIGHT!!!

But then Bernard Hopkins didn't finish Calzaghe off when he'd weakened him...

THE RESULT CAN'T BE THE SAME TWICE!!!!

JONES IS GONNA FINISH CALZAGHE OFF!!!!

HE'S GONNA BATTER HIM!!!!


I decide to go in again on JJ..


This is the week of iconic 'black' victories

Lewis Hamilton becomes Formula 1 champion on the final corner of the final lap.

Barrack Obama - well you all know about that...

And Jones Junior will trump it off by coming back to beat an unbeaten white champion!!!

THESE THINGS HAPPEN IN THREES!!!!

JUNIOR IS GONNA WIN!!!!


I GO ALL IN!!!!

I'M GONNA BE RICH!!!!


But that's not what happens...

No boss, by Round 7 Clazaghe has reasserted himself and opened a very heavy cut on JJs eye - and from that point on it's a clear Calzaghe victory ALL THE WAY...


I LOOSE!!!


And the highly annoying thing about this is that I went against my own better normal thinking and rationale...

I think this 'black' thing is a complete false nothing...

Yes boss, Obama isn't President because he's 'black' he's president because he's a sharp orator, because Americans are shitting themselves over money and because his time as a man has come...

Similarly, Lewis Hamilton is Formular Uno champion because he's an ace young driver, driving a top end car and his time has come...

And Jones Junior didn't win, because his time has been, and he was up against and experienced though younger unbeaten world champion...

Yes boss, 'race' has nothing to do with any of it...

My observed trend that I knew was flawed (and have been arguing AGAINST all week i.e RACE IS BOLLOCKS!!!!) - was definitely flawed....

And if I'd have thought this clearly last night instead of getting caught up with the media colour coding trends forecast, I'd have not wasted my money...

Oh well...

Currently listening : Computer Games By George Clinton Release date: 1991-08-27

Warhol Work....

Current mood: NON STOP WORKING...
Category: NON STOP WORKING... Jobs, Work, Careers

'I always like to work on leftovers, doing the leftover things. Things that were discarded, that everybody knew were no good, I always thought had a great potential to be funny. It was like recycling work. I always thought there was a lot of humour in leftovers. When I see an old Esther Williams movie and a hundred girls are jumping off their swings, I think of what the auditions must have been like and about all the takes where maybe one girl didn't have the nerve to jump when she was supposed to, and I think about her left over on the swing. So that take of the scene was a leftover on the editing room floor - an out take - and the girl was probably a leftover at that point - she was probably fired - so the whole scene is much funnier than the real scene where everything went right, and the girl who didn't jump is the star of the out-take.'

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

A Harvest Book

Currently reading : The Philosophy of Andy Warhol : (From A to B and Back Again) By Andy Warhol

Tonights fight...

Current mood: MORE BLOOD AND GUTS
Category: MORE BLOOD AND GUTS Sports

So, tonight, I'm waiting up for the Clazaghe vs Roy Jones Junior fight at 4am


Now, regular readers might remember how I lost money on Calzages last fight against Bernard Hopkins

Yes boss, as the radio and online odds were calling it, Hopkins was pissing all over Calzaghe - so I went all in at good value on Hopkins on 3 separate punts during the fight...


It was all sounding like a very heavy profit to me

But Game Over and Calzaghe was given the nod, leaving me to rue a good set of opportunities I'd had to place bets that would ensure I won on either outcome...


Well, tonight, I'm aiming to correct that damage - though I'm not sure where my money is just yet...


No boss, Clazaghe remains unbeaten and this is said to be his last fight.

Meantime, Jones Junior is older, but was in his day one of if not THE BEST pound for pound fighter.

The talk is that Jones Juniors prime might well be gone, but after a few meek performances, he appears to be back close to his bingo days once again...


As per last time, Clazaghe is the clear odds-on favourite - but again I'm thinking Jones might be tougher and stronger than many people are expecting..

Should be a good fight...


Anyway, if you don't like boxing - and I'd imagine there's quite a few of you who don't - here's something completely different - or is it??

Currently listening : Rocky III: Original Motion Picture Score By Bill Conti Release date: 1990-10-25

It’s a funny time....

Current mood: BLOOD AND GUTS...
Category: BLOOD AND GUTS... Life

here on Planet Pious Poppet Paul...


With blogs, I'm finding I don't feel like passing off videos as blogs (sans added text) anymore.

No boss, though I'm sure if I found a truly astounding and amazing vid, I might give it a whole blog, I'm no longer going looking for that kind of content..


Furthermore, in general, I'd say that the days of relentless 3 or or 5 blogs a day are coming to an end.

Yes boss, I'm now feeling more inclined to wait for things to come to mind, rather than getting in wine or brandy or beer and forcing them out TO KEEP PACE!!!


I'm also finding I have less to say than I have had, purely because I have less time to think about what to say - and also because I'm putting a lot of time and effort into promotion of what I've already done as well as an ever increasing list of day to days...

Of course, I could fill you in on the Baby G preparations going on here @ the Fort: The carrycot debate, the Moses basket debate, the open shelves, vs wardrobe debate (to name but 3) - but I'm sure that's gonna be boring on the screen...


In other news..

Today, I briefly met and watched Jimmy Cauty (formerly of The KLF)

I bought some signed original artworks off of him for £80.

Here was the occasion..

THE AQUARIUM IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE

THAT

ON SATURDAY 8^TH NOVEMBER

BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 11.00 am and 6.00 pm

ALL OF THE ARTWORKS, PROPS, DETRITUS AND RUBBISH MADE FOR, DESTROYED AND ACCUMULATED IN THE BASEMENT INSTALLATION

OF

"SPLATTER"

by

JCauty&SON

WILL BE OFFERED FOR SALE

PRICES START VERY CHEAP AND GO UP TO VERY EXPENSIVE

FURTHER MORE

JAMES CAUTY AND HIS YOUNGEST SON ALFIE

WILL BE AT THE AQUARIUM L-13

BETWEEN

11.00 am and 1.00 pm

TO SIGN ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING

TO BE FOUND WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE BASEMENT GALLERY SPACE

IF YOU WOULD LIKE ANYTHING DEDICATED

PERSONALLY TO YOU

PLEASE COME WITHIN THOSE TIMES

ONLY WORK THAT IS IN THE BASEMENT AND PREVIOUSLY NOT FOR SALE

WILL BE SIGNED

PLEASE DO NOT BRING ANYTHING ELSE FOR SIGNING

THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT OCCASION

THE AQUARIUM L-13

63 Farringdon Road

Clerkenwell

London EC1M 3JB

Now, I've talked before about how I love the Aquarium and Amuti Gallerys who sell and represent the likes of Cauty and Billy Childish and Jamie Reid..

This show was amongst the best I've seen and heard - it was very intense: LOUD SOUNDS, BLOOD, MESS, VIOLENCE!!!

Yes boss, after an hour of fishing about seeing what I wanted to buy, I was feeling slightly troubled..


So, I mostly went along today, because I was keen to improve my portfolio..

Yes boss, I'd rather shoot myself than save money in the bank, instead I prefer to invest in cultural tish tosh, which might sometimes be a hiding to nothing - but in the meantime looks good and does at least exist...


Well, today, I had a dilemma.

I had £60 in cash, but couldn't leave Cauty and Sons grand new show without one particular print that was £50 alone - furthermore, I wasn't prepared to leave the other items - many of them one offs that totaled £30 either...


I explained the situation..

Could I leave with the goods, leave my bank card as security and pay the remaining £20 on Tuesday???

Don't worry about leaving the card - just pay the extra £20 on Tuesday...

was the response..

HOW FUCKING CLASSY IS THAT???


I'll post some pictures of the loot just as soon as I get some good ones done..

Meanwhile here's the video that formed part of the show...

Imagine, this on 10 different screens in an art mess and through a loud horn speaker - (part of Jimmy Cautys Sonic Weaponry)

Currently listening : Rocky Balboa: The Best of Rocky By Various Artists Release date: 2006-12-26

WHO IN THE HELL IS LINUS GERDEMANN??

Current mood: I’LL BITR YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!!!!
Category: I’LL BITR YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!!!! Sports

ENOUGH BULLSHIT!!!

NOW OVER TO PAUL FOR THE SPORTS!!!!

A few months back, I passed on the already known news that 7 times Tour De France champion Lance Armstrong was to make a comeback to professional cycling...

Yes boss, the original plan was for a return to race the 2009 Tour De France - but that now looks unlikely on account of France, the French and the race organisers having little time for either Lance or his aggressive winning approach...

Instead it looks more like a Tour of Italy and a few spring classics..


Now, I wasn't sad to see Lance leave the sport some 3 and a half years ago.

No boss, at the time he retired, he was dominating the Tour to such an EASE degree, the race was becoming predictable and almost mechanical.

It was time for fresh faces and different kinds of riders and racing..


Well, since Lance went, there's been a few epic days in the Tour - but nearly all of them have been soured by subsequent positive drugs tests.

Yes boss, last years race was pretty tame except for Riccardo Ricco's multiple attacks (now banned for 2 years)

and winner Carlos Sastres (never caught) one race winning attack on Alp D'Huez..

But, all told, there was a distinct lack of fizz and fire throughout - the riders seemed like polite and deferential helpers and not risk taking maniacs..


It's a sign of the times.

For some idiot puritanical reason, cyclings governing bodies and race organisers have got a real hardon for drug taking and are SERIOUSLY tackling this 'problem' like never before!!!

Yes boss, like Rock 'N' Roll becoming a limp dog in a basket of flowers, cycling has decided to divorce itself from it's riotous past and go all YEAR ZERO


Thing is, I don't see drugs in sport as being much of a problem.

No boss, heavy cheating has always been a big and important part of cycling and the Tour in particular, and though there have always been measures taken to counter the cheats, there's never been anything like the level of policing as now goes on...


And since it has, I've found I've become increasingly disillusioned and bored with what goes on on the road....

Sure, there are still good races and performances - but there's a certain energy missing - a certain mean spirited corruption and danger that was part of what got me interested in the whole hoopla to start with....

From being a chaotic blend of sadistic self sacrifice and torture, undertaken by neurotic madmen, cycling is becoming something of a designer lycra garden party..


Well, the good news, is that with Lance and Ivan Basso (returning from a 2 year ban) back in the bunch for 2009, this looks set to change...

Yes boss, Lance hasn't even ridden a decent sized race yet, but he's already creating controversies and aggressive rivalries galore..

Here's one of them...


'Recently, German rider Linus Gerdemann said that Armstrong's return may not be in the best interest for the sport's credibility. "He's right, (Lance replied) I am older. I raced with Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche, Miguel Indurain and Greg Lemond of all people. I have been around a long time and I don't know who the hell Linus Gerdemann is, but I know that when I rolled up in 1992, I started winning races. And when I roll up in 2009, I am gonna be winning races. He better hope he doesn't get in a breakaway with me because I can still ride hard," said the Texan.'


WELCOME BACK LANCE!!!


http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=features/2008/lance_armstrong_nov08

Politics 3

Current mood: THE EXPLANATION...
Category: THE EXPLANATION... News and Politics

Thinking about those previous blogs and reading the comments has made me realise better what I'm on about here...


All these comments and analysis I've made of the US Election are laced and informed by my own experience of politics.

Yes boss, in the past, I've invested very heavily in the ability of charismatic leaders and ideas SAVING THE WORLD!!! AND THE CHILDREN!!! AND THE WILDLIFE!!!!! AND THE CLIMATE!!!!

I've put huge amounts of myself into causes and campaigns and each time I've ended up being disappointed by the lack of REAL results...


Then one day, I realised that none of it mattered and that I was wasting my time.

This realisation had something to do with Burt Bacarach singing Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, something to do with an excellent essay by Charles Bukowski and something to do with the knowing that unless I eased up on the politics, I'd up in some VERY SERIOUS TROUBLE INDEED!!!!


Realising that politics, death and destruction really didn't matter was a great release for me - because since then I've been able to say

'So what??'

'THE EARTHS WARMING UP!!!!'

'So what??'

'THE RAINFORESTS ARE BEING LOGGED!!!'

'So what??'

'GEORGE BUSH IS A CUNT WHO'S RUINING THE WORLD!!!'

'So what??'


Instead of looking at these events as being tragedies, I now see them as being opportunities - essential agents of change and evolution and development.

I've also come to distrust people who claim they can tame and control them as being pure egotists who must not be encouraged....


Yes boss, if similar cataclysms hadn't happened in the past, there wouldn't be any oil to fight over, or a Grand Canyon to gawp at and call beautiful, or a even the kind of climate that allows humans to function and multiply...


So...

I'm not apologising for driving my Official PG£ Bulldozer through your US political hope, or changing my mind about Obama or Bono or any other grand alleged revolutionary...

I do however perhaps feel a bit like an reformed alcoholic who CAN'T SHUT UP ABOUT THE EVILS OF DRINK!!!!!

Which is the kind of behaviour, I tend to find to be a terrible fucking bore when indulged in by ex-alcoholics.....


So, now I will shut up and let you enjoy your political hope drinks in peace...

Politics2

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

Well...

Uncle Tom says I've left too many blog comments already today - even though I haven't left any, so it seems I can't be replying to anyone direct on these blogs until after the witching hour...


So, to clarify what I'm saying about Obama:

I'm glad he's in, and I think some of the small detail in life will change for Americans.

The US's reputation abroad will also most certainly improve and things can only get better on almost every surface level with him at the helm.


What I'm wary of here is Tony Blair Pt 2.

Yes boss, there was a guy who said all the right things, put CHANGE into every sentence, was charismatic, a good orator, had an answer for every question and promised some kind of glorious new dawn FOR ALL OUR FUTURES!!!

And where did he lead us??

Into a stupid war that no-one wanted - 1 million people marched on the streets - THEY WERE IGNORED!!!

He sold the economy to bankers who then pissed it up the wall.

He opposed any decent progressive politician (Ken Livingstone being an example) on principle that they might show him up to be the fake he was.

And he instituted levels of control and surveillance on the UK people that make The East German Stasi look like a gang of fucking bird watchers..


Yes boss, as a result of that charismatic, well spoken cunt, we're all soon going to be walking around (being photographed on every street corner) with an ID card loaded with every last detail of our biometrics..?!?

Blair was a fucking disastrous political character, with no REAL morals or principles other than making his name - yet he would and still does continually convince people and himself that he was a strong religious and moral person dedicated to REAL AND FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE!!!


So, I think you Americans have to be very wary now of the same.

As it goes, I think Obama has more integrity than Blair, but I'm worried in this idea of a good guy in charge of a superpower - it's a complete and utter contradiction.


Perhaps Obama IS gonna tone everything down, scale back the military by 50%, get the fuck out of South America and Iraq and Afghanistan and the 301 other places where there's a US military presence for no other reason than to secure power and resources.....

If that's so - I'm pleased and have wrongly misjudged him...

But I don't see it happening.. .


I'd therefore rather see some horrible dumb fool cunt in charge of The US, than Mr RIGHT ON!!!

Having Mr RIGHT ON in charge is like having a nice guy in charge of the mafia - it's romantic but flawed....

It's like putting lipstick on a pig...

And that's PR, not progress....

Politics...

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

is a very bad drug..

I'm lapping it up tonight - it's good sport, but like I said yesterday I'm not taking it seriously.

No boss, politicians change the daydrum detail, but they do nothing for the improvement of human character - big crowds screaming at one man only provides entertainment.....


Things that have amused/interested me thus far:

This is a rockstar election - people are lapping up the spectacle because it's good excitement and fresh sounding entertainment - neither of these has anything to do with good sense or political realities.

That people 'donate' money to politicians causes is very strange indeed - surely there are better things to spend money on if you really want to get ahead..??

Is the US economy recovering from recession going to be good or bad for Africa???

Would an unelected dictatorship have done anything different this last 8 years if presented with the US hand??

Currently listening : Best Of Patrick Juvet Release date: 2007-12-25

The new arrangement....

Current mood: winding down....
Category: winding down.... Life

I'm not Obama, but change is very prevalent here on Fish Island...

Yes boss, Mrs Giovanni is now running the Foreign Desk of Big Pictures from the very same room as I run The Paul Giovanni Corporation...?!?!


Now this might sound like an awful satanic mismatch, but I believe this is the next stage of the worlds media being sucked into a black hole here on Fish Island.

Yes boss, this action will result in the advent of world peace, media balls, NO MORE BONOS, and fresh tulips FOR ALL!!!


I also believe difference and close proximity diffidence is a good thing..

I mean, who in the hell wants to surround themselves with their exact like???


Bullshit aside, it's a wierd adjustment procedure..

Yes boss, I've been used to Mrs G leaving the house a few or 3 hours after I've hit faded out.

Duly rested, I'd then get up whenever I felt like it and saunter through the day in my own glorious solitude, doing what I wanted as and when - building the empire..

It was a good set up - I was living almost exclusively on fried breakfasts, caffeine, alcohol and my own free will.


But now, I have to get 2 hours before I've gone to bed to get all the tabloid papers from one of 4 local newsagents before sharing my old time free space most all of every day AND EATING HEALTHY!!!

Yes boss, whilst I battle with website demons and think about quintessential writing and carrycots, music and the possible death of MY OWN PERSONAL SPACE!!! Mrs Giovanni spends the day studying the papers and sauntering around the fort looking lovely round and healthy, chattering away in Italian and English organising the following of celebrities around the globe by long lensed photographers who are only interested in getting the perfect money making picture...


Anyway...

After realising that I can't buck the internet system, I've decided to fully tabulate www.paulgiovanni.com...

Yes boss, last week, I spent a fucking day making this wonderful backdrop only to realise that it only looked wonderful on certain sizeed screen resolutions and that 44% of people were looking at it on one that looked SHIT!!!

I've since made that website into a flyer

and moved onto a pretty regular new website format which looks good on all screen resolutions..

Currently it has plenty of colourful borders because I was completely frustrated at not being able to eliminate them - I HAVE THEREFORE MAXED THEM OUT!!!


I was in love with the whole thing this morning - but now I'm not so sure...

If you want to let me know how it looks to you, I'm always interested to hear...

Currently listening : Dub Be Good To Me By Beats International

MODELING THE PART....

Current mood: STRETCH BABY!!!
Category: STRETCH BABY!!! Jobs, Work, Careers

'If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. i can never visualize the right person in a part.The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is ever completely right for any part, because a part is a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.'

Andy Warhol in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol


A thing I really like to find on myspace is people who consider themselves to be models who are absolutely hopeless as models..

You know, the ones who have it all wrong, but who are absolutely convinced their destiny is to model....!!.

They strike all the poses, and they wear all the outfits - but it's CLEARLY not happening. They don't have the poise or the looks, or the body or the attitude to look good on a shoot or in a classic beauty still image...


Of course, if they're female they get all the attention anyway..

Yes boss, many men would chop their left ball off for the slightest chance to think they might be getting on virtually or otherwise, with A MODEL (real or imagined)!!!!

And not only that - most men don't even know what a good looking woman is.

No boss, such is the flimsyness of male standards, that any woman who shows a certain sexual willingness and provocative display is gonna be A HIT sooner or later, whether she looks like the back end of a bus or the image of an African Princess .


In my book, there's nothing worse than the perfect models - the ones who tick every box correctly and precisely...

The perfect girls are as dull as dishwater - how can you ever do anything with them, other than praise and polish them 7 times an hour?? They must be absolutely insufferable to live with as well...


Talking of which, here is the first of my paparazzi EXCLUSIVES that the UK papers don't have the balls to publish for fear of getting threatened by money grabbing lawyers...

Naomi Campbell is pregnant - either that or she's been eating vast quantities of ice cream..


Who gives a shit about that I don't know, and why the papers are afraid to say it is also a mystery - but I thought I'd mention it, seeing as though no-one else has the balls too...

Currently reading : The Philosophy of Andy Warhol : (From A to B and Back Again) By Andy Warhol

The times....

Current mood: NORMAL...
Category: NORMAL... Jobs, Work, Careers

are mighty wierd aren't they??


It looks as if America is gonna vote in favour of someone who says he believes in change - and why not??

Obama seems like a chipper kind of chap, and I can see the importance of getting a darker skinned depth to American political proceedings.

But I'm not expecting anything much in the way of REAL change...


No boss, I hate to piss on the parade, but for me democrats vs republicans is very much like warm shit vs cold shit.

It's all big money capitalist politics and if that's how it is, I'd almost prefer the more vicious of the two to get in and do the job properly...


Yes boss, Kennedy was lauded as being some kind of warm and spunky cool god - but he helped bring the superpowers closer to NUCLEAR FUCKING WAR!!! than probably any other US President.

Meanwhile soft, smooth old Billy C sent a few missiles into Sudan in order to divert attention away from his extra curricular sex life...


It's not that I don't like Obama, or believe that some things might improve under his governership - more that I don't believe he's got any room to effect any serious change.

I'm also absolutely cynical about politics and politicians FULL STOP and nowadays can only enjoy politics as an abstract startegic pursuit (like a football match).


This view hasn't come from lazy cynicism, but from years spent watching how and why politicians work at very close quarters.

Politicians are untrustworthy lying shits - that's the beginning middle and end of it...

No politician is gonna save your economic soul - only you can do that, and even then you're fighting luck (and the weather)...


Yes boss, in some ways I'd like to join in the making of Obama into the next Ché, but I don't believe in him anymore than I believe or have believed in Fidel Castro, John Major, Francois Mitterrand, Chairman Mao or Saddam Hussein - and no amount of Bruce Springsteen concerts and Jay Z endorsements is gonna change that...

Currently reading : Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia By John Dickie Release date: 2005-09-29

it continues.....

Current mood: BUM...
Category: BUM... Music

LEARNING ABOUT WRITING...

Current mood: WOOF!!!!

I find that forcing things is always a mistake..

I've also found that when I've had a good old social day, in which I enthusiastically engage on a human and real level with people I can reach out and touch - I find I have far less inclination to write - there's far less frustrated communication to unload..

This doesn't however follow with long periods of heavy social activity..

No boss, after a while I get frustrated with all that and have to start getting obtuse and communicate with those I don't much know in real times...


Actually - that's all bollocks...


So...

What's happening??


Well, this stupid made up sheep following sheep row has been unfolding here on Pudding Island....

YES BOSS - FUCK FINANCIAL DECAY AND THE END OF THE WORLD - some comedians told the truth on LIVE radio. It was a little bit crude and not at all funny BUT IT'S CAUSED OUTRAGE!!!

HEAR THIS AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELVES!!!

Well, as a result of this broadcast, Russell Brand has resigned, Wossy is in the dog house for 3 months, Radio 2s controller has been sacked, the BBC is in apparent turmoil - all because of an ill advised and badly unfunny joke...

NOT ONLY THAT!!!

ALL 5 OF THE TABLOIDS FRONT PAGES ON THURSDAY COVERED THE STORY IN FULL - AS IF IT MEANT SOMETHING!!!!!


Yes boss, those of you NOT in the UK might find it hard to believe the paroxysms of bullshit we've been subjected to here over this idiocy...

Consecutive days of ALL tabloids and many broadsheets covering the non story on their headlines + IT BEING THE LEADING BLEEDING NON-STORY ON THE NEWS CHANNELS!!!!

OUR PRIM MINISTER GORDON BROWN LEFT A MEETING ON THE SUPPOSED ECONOMIC CHAOS IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE IN FULL!!!!


But the funny thing is Brand was talking the truth - he did fuck Andrew Sachs daughter, and the FUCKING hilarious thing is that the moralising middle England classes are getting outraged that a girl who performs in a burlesque act called The Satanic Sluts (as in the picture on the video) has been MORALLY affronted and her grandfather presented with the truth about his progeny..

YES BOSS - WE'RE NOT TALKING A NUN, BUT A WOMAN WHO ESSENTIALLY WORKS IN THE ADULT ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS!!!


Well, perhaps some of you will say even dubious talented burlesque artistes deserve privacy - but I say Burlesque is almost complete fucking bollocks and should be abandoned immediately in the interests of it's proponents doing something less boring instead...

SERIOUSLY!!!

EITHER TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF OR LEAVE THEM ON!!!!

STOP THIS FUCKING ABOUT WITH TASSELS!!!


So, overall this incident is comedy gold - not because the original joke was even remotely funny, but because of the response...

Somehow the boys have done good...

Currently listening : Over at Rainbow’s By Peter Cook Release date: 2002-08-05

Picking the moment...

Current mood: BUY BUY BUY!!!
Category: BUY BUY BUY!!! Music

Well shit...

You know sometimes you get this feeling that you'd better not listen to an LP or read a book or see an art show - because if you do you're gonna destroy the myth and the beauty genius of the act who's produced it.....?!!?

Yes boss, you get the feeling you're gonna see the act for what they are - another flawed person who isn't GOD, who can produce self parodying shit art as well as blinding genius art...

It's the HUMAN moment...

When the HOLY facade falls.


Such a time is usually 3 or 4 or 17 books, LPs or shows into someones career.

YOU LOVE THE ACT!!!

They have moved, influenced or inspired you in ways you could never imagine and genius were possible. Everything they do is flawless. Every word they talk is poetry and everything they wear is STYLE FUCKING STYLE!!!!

THEY ARE EXCEPTIONAL!!!


But then the new LP or book or show comes out, and believing they can't do any wrong, you grab it ASAP and dive into it as if it's a beautiful and very deep pool...

..

.

But it's crap - or perhaps not even crap, so much as nothing like as good or essential as what you've heard or read or seen before - and from believing them to be the saviour, you find them to be flawed.....


I've had this happen many times..

On some occasions, I've not even thought it was coming, and other times I've feared it an ignored it, bought the new work and then PLUNGED DOWN.....

..

.


I had this with Spiritualizeds 4th LP and with Bjorks Vespertine..

For me, both were the self parody - the illustrated critique. The works that fitted the criticisms the naysayers have always had and said...


Spiritualized LP, Let It Come Down lacks the essential, cutting edge beautiful production - and is instead and endless blissed self indulgent bad choirboy drone god warblings that have been ascribed to Pierce by his critics...

Meanwhile, Vespertine is Bjork being the ice cold wierd Pixie the dullards have always accused her of camping up....

Homogenic and Post and Debut are all superb LPs - but Vespertine is the parody - the 'I'M AN ICE QUEEN PIXIE IN THE GLACIER' record...

Since then I've kept both acts at arms reach...


Well, I was fearing that Bill Drummonds new book 17 was to be my Drummond credibility crash..

Yes boss, I can't quite pinpoint why I thought this might be the case - but I was pretty instinctively sure....


It had nothing to do with my spending 25 hours been driven around the M25 with Gimpo (Drummond and Cuty's sometime aider and abbetter) earlier on this year...

Or with some apparently perhaps reliable news I heard that suggested The K Foundation never did burn the million £.

It was more a vague gut instinct that Drummond might be running out of steam, combined with a distrust of the brilliance or brilliance of his choir project that is The 17.


It was also perhaps due to his current sidekick being a man called John Hirst.


When I was at Art School in Norwich, John Hirst was seeing a classmate of mine.

Then, I knew him to be the boyfriend of Nel and I didn't even see much of her, so I never really met him or was introduced to him. I did however see him from afar a few times, and I adjudged that I had nothing much to say to him or no mutual interests....

Essentially, he didn't strike me as being up to much any which way - and so I largely ignored him.


But then, Nel split with John Hirst and started seeing my housemate Gavin.


Well, John Hirst was still about Norwich and the reports were that he hadn't taken the split well - but that aside I heard or thought no more about him....


After moving away from Norwich, I lived in Prague, then set up shop in a caravan in Suffolk, before moving here to Fish Island, London without (as far as I am aware) ever thinking about John Hirst once.

A year in London, I then sold my caravan to Nel for £4500 and shortly after then, she split up with Gavin.

A few years later, a good friend and creative partner of mine had a wierd evening.

Unlike me, Tommy Nadir had got on with Hirst, and had the odd drink with him since having left college...

One night, he met Hirst for just such a drink and Hirst brought along a friend he wanted to introduce him to - the friend was Bill Drummond..


Now, I'd heard something about John Hirst having had something to do with Bill Drummond before - but Gavin was pretty sure he was biggin a chance encounter up into something it wasn't - that Hirst really had nothing much to do him at all..

But, it turns out he does - so much so that he's all over this new book 17, playing the role of Bill Drummonds new Jimi Cauty...

Which is wierd...


Anyway, having finally got this book 17, after holding off for a few months in fear it might destroy my Drummond myth - I'm very pleased to report this book is a blinder!!!

Yes boss, I'm drinking this book up like an all time classic, and I reckon it could be one of - if not his best book yet!!!

So, GO GET IT!!!!

Currently reading : 17 By Bill Drummond

3...

Current mood: BOOM BOOM
Category: BOOM BOOM Life

'I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. But then they always say that they're helping you, and that's true too, but still, if people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news. So I guess you should pay each other. But I haven't figured it out fully yet.'

'Nowadays if you're a crook, you're still considered up-there. You can write books, go on TV, give interviews - you're a big celebrity and nobody even looks down on you because you're a crook. You're still really up-there. This is because more than anything people just want stars.'





'Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television - you don't feel anything.'

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

A Harvest Book

Currently reading : The Philosophy of Andy Warhol : (From A to B and Back Again) By Andy Warhol

Upcoming in London....

Current mood: SHOW BUSINESS!!!!
Category: SHOW BUSINESS!!!! Music

Tomorrow night it's this...

THEN....

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11TH NOV
RHYTHM FACTORY!
The Rhythm Factory is one of those exceptions to the London Club scene, in that it's intimate, relaxed, everyone is welcome and always guaranteed a smile.
ONSTAGE 9:00 PM/2ND BAND ON
NEAREST STATION IS ALDGATE EAST!


THEN THERE'S THIS!!!

A BIG DRUG FUELLED RAVE??? DRESSED AS FISH??? HOKA HEY!!!! and don't forget these... If you have anything to add to the list - drop me a line... Currently listening : Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 By Seun Anikulapo Kuti Release date: 2008-06-24

Talking of EGO!!!

Current mood: CLICK CLICK!!
Category: CLICK CLICK!! Fashion, Style, Shopping

Along with more or less everything else in the world, the world of paparazzi photography is changing...

Yes boss, regular readers might remember this piece about the fun and games Mrs Giovanni had in getting a set of pictures of the talentless whore actress Sienna Miller...

Well, a few months on, I'm not pleased to report that Sienna and her squillionaire boyfriend Balthazar Getty are successfully suing Big Pictures over that very set of pictures - meanwhile the papers who ran the pics have settled out of court..


Here's what happened

We left the story with Renato and Andrea seeming to be on the end of one BIG BUMPER PAYDAY having caught Sienna half naked with Getty before he'd even got around to divorcing his ex-wfie.

What happened next, was that the papers ran the story, and the lawyers were immediately called in.

To start off with it looked like everything was OK.

Renato and Andrea both convinced everyone including themselves that they'd done noting wrong in acquiring the shots, and that the boat and it's semi naked incumbents were only a few meters offshore...

But it turned out they were both lying - and when legal push came to shove (last week) they had to admit so and therein lay a BIG problem for Big Pictures...


Now, I'm not sure exactly which rule was contravened on this occasion, but it's one that only applies in the UK and it has a lot to do with Getty being the kind of man who can set very good lawyers to work for years on end until he either wins or bankrupts his opponents and therefore wins...


Of course, I'm sure most of you might well be thinking 'SO WHAT?!'

Yes boss, I'd imagine that like me, you have little time for the celebrity gass world and Mrs Giovannis buffoony ass boss Darryn Lyons...

However, this clamming up of the press is part of a much greater trend.

Yes boss, currently the super rich are engineering ever bigger privacy circles around everything they do.

Indeed, since this controversy has blown up, there have been a number of other high profile pictures and stories involving both household names and mega rich hedge fund managers that have been squashed before reaching the papers because of fears over similar legal action.

All told, I find this to be rather worrying and very villany James Bond - it needs to be watched..


But everything isn't all bad..

No boss, Big Pictures never got paid, Renato & Andrea never got paid - and Big Ps will now have to pay out a pretty vast sum of money to poor old Balthazar and Sienna for the inconvenience of depicting them cavorting in the sun...

The papers did however print the pictures, Mrs Giovanni engineered her part of the deal into a pay rise, and I'll be covering these and other stories here on the BLINGER without even the slightest fear about getting sued on account of my having nothing much they can take...

SO THERE - EVERY GOOD BIN HAS A WATERPROOF LINING !!!

Currently listening : The Stone Roses By The Stone Roses Release date: 1990-10-25

The 2 Big Stories of today...

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

1)

IT'S FUCKING WELL SNOWING IN OCTOBER!!!!!


2)

The Talent Russell Brand and the endlessly JABBERING dull chatterbox Jonathon Ross left some dirty message on the ansaphone of actor and wildlife program narrator Andrew Sachs.

Apparently this message implied that Brand had fucked Sachs grand daughter.


THIS CHILDISH IDIOCY HAS CAUSED A NATIONAL OUTRAGE!!!!

Yes boss, this was the first item on the news tonight?!?!?

It's such a serious matter, that the fucking Prim Minister has piped in with his opinion...!!!


Well, I'd imagine both Ross and Brand are delighted with all the publicity and the likelihood that this will ensure their careers and reputations as true comic rebels for time immemorial...

Brand in particular has really launched himself full into that with this fantastically egotistical apology, in which he felt forced to mention his own name...

"I would like to take this opportunity to issue a personal Russell Brand apology to Andrew Sachs, the great comic actor who played Manuel, for a message Jonathan and I left on his answerphone, but it was quite funny.

"But sometimes you mustn't swear on someone's answerphone and that is why I would like to apologise personally."

"I would like to remind the Daily Mail [sic] that while it is a bit bad to leave a swearword on Andrew Sachs' answerphone, what's worse - leaving a swearword on Andrew Sachs' answerphone or tacitly supporting Adolf Hitler when he took charge of the Third Reich?"

Yes boss, each time I think my ego is getting in the way of things, I think of dear old Russell and his enormous self love, and I realise that I

Paul Pious Poppet James Deman Giovanni £rd

have absolutely nothing to worry about..


And to think people still think Punk (this TV clip in particular) changed things....

Currently listening : Special Forces By Julian Fane Release date: 2004-10-12