Saturday, 24 January 2009

WRAP UP WARM!!!!

Current mood:VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

Today, I had to go and pick up a computer from Southend..

Southend is out on the coast about 40 miles from Fish Island.

Southend had a Pier (which burnt down a year or so ago)

Other than that, there's not much there, other than a bunch of amusement arcades and some low grade seafrontage...

Prior to today, I'd only ever been there once before to meet some drum 'n' bass djays about 5 years ago. That evening ended up with one of the MCs trawling the streets looking for junkies to score from - I followed and watched him..

But that's another story...

So, today, I was figuring that the train was a bit pricey, and that I'd be better off riding Mrs Gs Piaggio scooter there and back..

Yes boss, looking on the map, the route looked simple - if a little BIG AND FAST for a scooter with a purported top speed of 30mph...

But, I always like to know what's possible, and having got very used to nipping around and about London on the Piaggio, I figured the next logical step was to take it further afield and see what it's capabilities were in terms of distance..

I got going at about 2pm, got down onto the A13 and started gunning along..

I was pleased to see 40-45 mph could be squeezed out of the Piaggio and the first 15 miles was all good fun - I was keeping good pace with the 2 to 3 lanes of heavy traffic and didn't feel out of place or intimidated...

But at about mile 16, this started to change..

Yes boss, once you get more or less clear of London proper, and into the hinterlands of Dagenham, the A13 is basically a FUCKING MOTORWAY!!!

The average speed of the traffic ups from 40-50mph to about 60-80mph

And there I was pootling along pushing 45mph on the downhills IF I WAS LUCKY...!!! (the Piaggio sounding like it might explode)

Meanwhile, the cars were going

VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

AND THE LORRIES WERE COMPLETELY FUCKING TERRIFYING!!!!

To make matters worse, it was at about mile 17 that it started raining...

Yes boss, just as I was feeling like I might be asking a little too much of the Piaggio, and my own powers of calm control, THE FUCKING RAIN CAME SQUALLING IN FROM THE THAMES LIKE A LAZY APOCALYPSE!!!!

Within 10 minutes I was TOTALLY wet, and within 20 the numbness was setting in...

Fingers, hands, then legs, balls and face...

I kept going, passing Purfleet and Thurrock where just under a year ago, I met up with Gimpo and Positive Void to take part in the M25 25 Hour Spin..

Then past Basildon, where 2 years ago I spent 3 days watching strippers for money, during the making of a HIGH CLASS!!! film called Night Junkies

Meantime, all around, the cars went

VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

2 hours after I'd started, I got to Southend, COLD, NUMB and slightly exhilarated....

I picked up the computer, put it inside 4 carrier bags, topped up the fuel and immediately drove back down the alternative A172 in the dark...

That first 20 miles back Londonwards was like being in a cold tunnel coma.

VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

The road was quicker, with no respite or breakup of the 70mph traffic for 20 miles..

VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!vVVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

But, I felt an uneasy sense of calm control as the cars passed, leaving me well behind

VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!VVVRRRRRRRRFFFFMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

You can only hold on TIGHT!!! and hope you make it home...

And 182kms and 5 hours after leaving it, I did...

Currently listening:
The Acoustic Motorbike
By Luka Bloom
Release date: 1992-01-20

MYSPACE FACTS NO2

Current mood:YOU SICK FUCK!!!!!
Category: MySpace

Currently listening:
HERE COME THE FLEECE GEESE [VINYL]
By Billy Childish
Release date: 2004-01-01

So, here we go with my latest picks...

Current mood:STOP TALKING START LISTENING...!!
Category: Music

The joy of Prince Charming, is that he's difficult to pin into a category...

There's hints of dub, electronica, hip hop, dubstep, afrobeat, and soundtracks but no one clear genre defined sound...

Mixing like this, without sounding either contrived or overly experimental and clever is very refreshing...

The pleasure with Flashbulb was similar...

This act started as pretty normal, uninspiring electronica - nothing that new or different...

I was set to click

'NEXT!!!!'

Then I got into the wierd muzak of Interior SD - reminiscent of later Orbital, after which things went a little more melodic chaotic with Passage D ..

I liked not quite knowing what was coming next..

Free The Robots are the very first band (top friends aside) on my friends list - which is odd because I was expecting such an honour to go to some godawful metal or indie band who've been going for 30 years WITH ZERO SUCCESS!!!!

Anyway, FTR make fun and clever electronica and could be very poppy if the pop charts weren't some horrendous cabal run by men who think music is all about pork pie margins and light fittings....

The Bearded Lady Theme is pure wonder...

And the rest is just as good..

Moving on...

I was watching a program about Scottish history this last Saturday..

Now, I have to be honest and say I've only ever seen the Scots complaints against the English as being due to them being bad losers..

Yes boss, you get all this righteous moral nationalism from our Northern friends, but the long and the short of their problem is that back in the Middle Aged day we were more horrendously vicious than they were (AND MAKE NO MISTAKE THEY WERE HORRIBLE AND VICIOUS BASTARDS THEMSELVES!!!) - we therefore won the struggles and they lost, and ever since they've been whining about it...

Yes boss, one thing I've never understood is why dull flag waving nationalism is allowed if you're on the loosing side..

It's either all bad - or all good...

Anyway, this program did nothing to convince me that the Scotch are a morally and intellectually superior race, but one new thing I did learn was that even when they were allied with the French they still couldn't whip the English ass - which says a hell of a lot for our vicious brutal violent abilities...

Yes boss, why do you think that every time there's a war on, us English are always the first ones with our hands up shouting

'ME ME ME!!!! I WANT TO PLAY!!!!'

BECAUSE US ENGLISH LOVE FIGHTING!!!!

Anyway, anyway, anyway...

This next act is French, they're called Michel Fourcade And Ze Princess - it's all about harmonies and the voice and bits of covers, and I love 'em...

OLE!!!!!

Currently listening:
Flexing Habitual
By The Flashbulb
Release date: 2007-04-16

Friday, 23 January 2009

THE NEW OLD IDEA!!!

Current mood:EGO IS OVER.....
Category: Music

Well...

I think I've about peaked on the indulgence irrelevant ego works with that lost pair of shots of my daughters shit on ma leg...

So I'm about to return to blog basics...

Yes boss, just when I thought I was done with music writing for good - I'M BACK TO IT!!!

So, coming up these next few weeks:

Loadsa myspazz reviews as I dive into my 23,000 friends AND START TO SEPARATE THE WHEAT FROM THE WHEAT BEER!!!!

The latest Collosus installment...

A number of Q&As..

AND MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!

LIKE THIS.....

Currently listening:
Rid Of Me
By PJ Harvey
Release date: 2003-08-25

EMMA GRACE 1 - PAUL 'PIOUS NOSTRADAMUS' JAMES DEMAN GIOVANNI £RD 0

Current mood:ON THIS OCCASION MY PSYCHIC POWERS FAILED ME......
Category: Life

Currently listening:
Expensive Shit/He Miss Road
By Fela Kuti
Release date: 2002-09-30

The Process Of Weeding Out....

Current mood:DON'T FUCK WITH MY LAWYER!!!
Category: Music

One thing that I try to avoid is getting upset about getting ripped off...

Yes boss, I see getting ripped off as being par for the course when working in any kind of creative field - if you're any good you're gonna be ripped off, and copied, there's no point getting upset about it...

Furthermore, I love unofficial products, bootlegs, copies - the poorer quality the better...

I'm reminded of this through watching this vid

It's about how to light portrait photogrphs, and in it Ken Henderson claims he designed this iconic Queen photo

Now, this image is probably one of the most iconic pop music images of the last 50 years....

Yes boss, it was made into the first pop video of all time, made to accompany one of the most well known pop songs of all time and - if the photogrpaher knew art business - EXTREMELY LUCRATIVE!!!

So, if Ken Henderson did design it (and I believe he might have) and if he could have proved it was his original design and idea, he wouldn't be shuffling reluctant models like Celia around infront of an audience for drinks at the bar, so much as shifting his enormous wedge of cash around various top resorts in the company of Kelly, Katie and Kristi...

But then I get the impression that if Ken really had the wherewithall he could have at least nailed EMI for and out of court settlement - and if he'd really had the drive and ambition he could have nailed himself down as one of the greatest pop photogrpahers of all time on the back of it...!!!

But where's the fun in spending all that time with your lawyers you might ask???

There's none, but it is my understanding that the thing which really separates the creatively 'successful' from the amateurs and the wannabes isn't talent or skill or craftsmanship so much as luck, ruthlessness, and A BURNING AND INSATIABLE AMBITION!!!!

Sure the cool cats like Kurt Cobain, Billy Childish and Charles Bukowski hide it well and even convince their fans they couldn't care less about being famous or successful or known or adored...

But they're lying...

Currently listening:
Live '84 [CASSETTE]
By Black Flag
Release date: 1998-01-20

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

Current mood:POUR ON WATER POUR ON WATER!!!
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

I'm applying for jobs at the moment..

Yes boss, with heavy start up investment going into the PG£ trading arm, and the temporary lack of income to Mrs Gs end, I'm needing a little extra liquidity - I'm therefore applying for regular Part Time Work..

But why can't you get paid for your writing???

BECAUSE THE PUBLISHING BUSINESS IS RETARDED!!!! AND BECAUSE I'M INCAPABLE OF PLAYING THE GAME!!!!

Anyway, when I apply for regular NON-MEDIA jobs, I always expect to have my hand bitten off...!!

Yes boss, whether I actually want the job or not, I go into interviews and/or application forms with a complete feeling of certainty THAT THERE COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE ANYONE BETTER SUITED TO THE POSITION THAN I AM!!!

I am of course right - but employers don't often notice this fact..

No boss, last summer, I was sent along to an interview for a Full Time Position working for a Fire Extinguishing Company in Shoreditch...

The situation had all the hall marks of a done deal.

Having been very slugish for some months, my job advisor from the privatised job center had set the interview up - she knew the guy who was to interview me (SHE'D SET HIM UP FOR HIS JOB!!!)

This made her CERTAIN I was the best candidate by a country mile..!

'Take the bangle and the shades off and THE JOB'S YOURS!!!' she said...

Well, the interview started perfectly - I kept the bangle on, and the shades on the top of my head, but I was talking my way INTO THE JOB!!!!

Yes boss, I told them I could do everything they wanted me to do!!!

I told them I was more than qualified, THAT I LOVED WORKING ON MY OWN INITIATIVE!!!!

I told them that fire extinguishing sounded like a very safe regular job to be working in, especially in these uncertain times...!

YES BOSS, IT WAS CLEAR IN MY MIND THAT I WAS GOING TO BE EMPLOYED TO PUT OUT FIRES IN SHOREDITCH!!!!

That was, until I took the computer tests..

Yes boss, the funny thing about my computer knowledge is it completely stems from my own use of computers as opposed to any kind of broad and sensible training.

Basically, if I need to know it, I know it, and if I don't I don't...

There are therefore gaps in my basic knowledge that most 8 year olds don't have and wedges of quite useless knowledge that most 50 year old programmers will never have....

Well, one such gap I have, is in using Microsoft Excel and databases in general....

Yes boss, I've never used Excel to any great extent because databases bore the shit out of me, and every time I've needed them in the past I've always known other people who've covered that angle on my behalf..

And therein lay the problem - the extinguisher people gave me some maths to do using Excel and I couldn't do it that way to save my life...?!?!

No boss, I tried to work it out, but couldn't in the time allotted, so instead I wrote the maths in the margin and told them that if they showed me the way in Excel it'd take me about a minute to pick up and memorise...

I EVEN VOLUNTEERED TO GO IN AHEAD OF THE START OF MY CONTRACT FOR FREE TO GET CUSHTY WITH IT ALL!!!

But apparently that wasn't enough and I didn't get the job...

Oh well, life goes on...

Currently listening:
Electric Arguments [VINYL]
By The Fireman (Paul McCartney and Youth)
Release date: 2008-12-15

Wednesday, 21 January 2009

I bought a new model fish on ebay from a fellow fish enthusiast...

Current mood:FISH MARKET
Category: Pets and Animals

Dear Paul,

Thank you for buying the fish ornament. This is now winging its way (or should I say swimming its way!) to you and should be with you fairly soon. I will send good feedback for you once I get feedback from you and know that you are happy with your purchase. Please let me know if there are any problems.

I am very intrigued by your address and its "fishy" connections. Is it an eating place or was this the site of an old fish market?

Best wishes from Valerie.

Currently listening:
Shaved Fish
By John Lennon
Release date: 1987-12-07

Silly £$£$$£$£ Season

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

January is Silly News Season...

And this January is probably the silliest yet...

Yes boss, in the last few days, front page stories in UK papers have included the apparent aftermath of a UFO collision with a wind turbine, the news that a loner died in his own labyrinth of tunnels of rubbish and details of how one street in Gateshead hosts 69 members of the same family (in rural Italy this wouldn't be anything other than normal...)

Add onto this, all the financial apocalypse doom and gloom and one could be forgiven for thinking 2009 might in fact be the dawning of some kind of a chaos watershed..

Yes boss, since I was very young, I've been reading of the inevitable death of capitalism and the end of money...

Of course I used to only read such tripe in lowly read publications like Green Anarchist and Do Or Die!! & Class War!

But now allegedly 'esteemed' and well read publications like the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail are full of such 'news' as if it's always been indisputable scientific fact

It's truly wierd...

Just check this collection of gloom from the kind of people who as little as 6 months ago wouldn't have been anything other than died in the wool money men..

Germany is already collapsing

Britain and California are going bankrupt ?

Willem Buiter warns of massive dollar collapse

US will emerge as undisputed top dog in 2009

Next the mainstream intelligentsia will be telling us the world is in fact flat....

PGC£ OF THE DAY NOS 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38

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

Currently listening:
Forget the World
By The Hippos
Release date: 1998-03-17

SUPER BIG THANKS....!!!)

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

to everyone who's volunteered to model...!)

I have a whole bunch of shoots half and completely arranged, and am super excited about this latest distraction FROM GETTING ON WITH BECOMING AN ACCLAIMED AND VITAL WRITER!!!!

Booked up as the PG£ (Nostradamus) photographic arm now is, I am of course always greedy - so if anyone else wants to get in on the photo action, PLEASE DO GET IN TOUCH!!!

I have a stunning tri-driectional full daylight (5400k) lighting rig, ready and waiting to take your vanity to the next level..!!!

Oh, and if any of you are getting married LET ME TAKE THE PHOTOS!!!!

I promise not to make your men do the 'Reservoir Dogs Shot', and I will not charge you £4000!!

As for the rest of the Fish Island action...

The In-Laws have now left..

Yes boss, to say I was struggling towards the end of their 3 week stay would be an understatement - but I just about got away with keeping myself contained and repressed..

It was nothing personal..

I've simply become very intolerant of having people around the house when I'm trying to get on with things AND adjust to having a child...

Of course, one learns a vast amount about oneself when the pitter of tiny child feet rage at the slow speed of their BURPS..!!

And one such thing I've begun to appreciate, is JUST HOW TRULY AND ABSOLUTELY SELF INDULGENT I AM..!?!?!?

Yes boss, I knew it was bad - BUT THIS BAD???

FUCK!!!!

Anyway, I've got lots of pictures coming up and very few words, so if you want to read things search the PG£ archive or GO BUY A BOOK!!!!

Until later...

Currently listening:
Cimbalom’s Paganini
By Oszkar Okros
Release date: 2002-05-21

So what about Gazza????

Current mood:WAR IS OVER WHEN YOU STOP PRAISING WAR HEROES!!!
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Honestly???

I have no fucking idea why an English footballer is on the receiving end of a vicious heavily militarized attack from a nuclear armed state...?!?

But seriously...

As I understand it, the Israelis believe they have an entitlement to some land and the Palestinians disagree VERY STRONGLY INDEED!!!

Both sides are absolutely pigheaded in the way they deal with the matter, so they live in an almost continual state of war, and occasionally it flares up and then it flares down again...

I suppose you have to wonder about the leadership on both sides, and you have to wonder why Hamas got elected, and you have to think that nothing short of leveling the whole fucking joint will start things afresh...

Or as an old friend of mine once told me:

'There's nothing that can be done about that one - it's deep in the rocks'

I'd imagine, the 'Disaster Porn' has been appalling cynical 'MORE VIOLENCE AT 11!!! NOW SPORT!!' - but I haven't seen much of it..

I did however notice the BBC has been digging out old dead comedians like Alexei Sayle & Paul Kaye to pontificate about how badly the Israelis are behaving.

Kaye and Sayle are probably right in their pontifications, but I think they should concentrate on their day jobs

I MEAN WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE AND WHY ARE THEY DESERVING OF SUCH WEIGHTY OPINIATION?!?!?

GO BACK TO TELLING JOKES AND MAKE US ALL FEEL BETTER WHY DON'T YOU?!?!?!

The world response to this flare up has been interesting..

The massed throwing of shoes at Downing Street was a masterstroke!!

And the initial timing of the Israelis was it's usually media savvy best...

However, perhaps THE most striking thing in the political response thus far, has been President 'Changes' silence on the matter...

Yes boss, Prince Obama is keeping very quiet on this one.

The word is he doesn't believe in there being 2 Presidents at once and he's therefore keeping stumm until his time comes...

He hasn't however kept picolo about the Credit Lunch or the Indian Massacres, or the bailout of the Big Car Companies, which makes me think he has nothing new or different to say than Bush...

VIVA CHANGE!!!???

Currently listening:
The Military Band: Salute to the Services
By Francis Saltus Van Boskerek
Release date: 1998-06-02

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

CALL FOR MODELS..........!!

Current mood:SNAP SNAP SNAP!!!
Category: Life

I want 4 or more models for this next week for photos for my portfolio..

Male & Female all ages, shapes and sizes for outdoor and indoor shots...

There'll be nothing dirty, naked or even vaguely porn wierd - unless that's what you want to do, in which case I'd imagine it can be accommodated...

I'm probably looking at the weekend or early next week, depending on when I have all the gear assembled and when you're available...

All shots will take place around and about London for at least a half a day at a time...

YOU MUST HAVE THE PATIENCE OF A SAINT!!!

I'll provide a CD of all shots, and you will of couse be able to use the shots as you please..

If any of you fancy that let me know and I'll arrange times and places...

Currently listening:
The Camera Never Lies
By Michael Franks
Release date: 1990-10-25

PGC£ OF THE DAY NOS 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 & 30

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

The Making Of Casa Hasa Giovanna 12 Pt 2

Current mood:BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!
Category: Music

The Making of Casa Hasa Giovanna Episode 12 Pt2

Here we go with another 'Behind The Scenes' extract from the construction period of Casa Hasa Giovanna 12

It starts with me, Nostradamus James Giovanni £rd, talking to the tape recorder, about the qualities of the tape recorder I'm talking too - and finishes with some truly FRENETIC ACTION!!!!

ENJOY!!!!

AND REMEMBER, YOU MUST NEVER EVER CALL ME LAZY!!!!

PG£ SNUBBED BY THE SPIRITUALS!!!!

Current mood:HOLIER THAN THOU!!!!
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Well....

I'm still adding spazzing friends at a rate of knots..

Yes boss, my plan is to get to the magical 23,000 figure - at which point I'll stop adding and start the careful and precious process of deleting all the appalling bands and musical acts that have slipped through the recruiting drive net....

Of course acquiring friends here isn't half as easy as it used to be back in the good old days, when Arsebook was merely a glint in the CIAs eye, and myspace was everyones favourite plaything - but I still get enough people joining up...

Some do however turn me down - and some folks even go to the trouble of telling me why

Hi,

I have looked at your page, and I'm not sure why you are interested in becoming a friend of spirit quake books. Our focus is books, readers and writers that seek to make difference--to shift conciousness in a good way.
Respectfully--I didn't see much that indicated that spirituality, making a difference, etc was your interest or focus of your blog.

If I'm missing something here--please let me know. We do want to keep the focus of our page as intended. I am open to being corrected and enlightened.

Thanks,

Page Manager

Spirit Quake Books...

I tried sending the response

'You're definitely missing something...'

But the page doesn't allow messages from non-friends?!?

That boss - is far from HOLY?!?!?!?

As is their refusal to by my friend...

I mean, do they not realise who I am???

Have they not noticed that I predicted the current Financial Crisis in Episode 8 of Casa Hasa Giovanna??!?!?!?

Or that I predicted that Alan McGee should leave the music business is Episode 7!!

(PG£ 'I don't know why he bothers...?'

Then a coupla months later

Alan McGee, who founded the Creation record label, signed Oasis and went on to manage bands including The Libertines and The Charlatans, has said he has quit the music business.)

GODDAMMIT I'M THE NOSTRADUMUS OF MYSPACE!!!

AND THESE SPIRITUAL CUNTS DON'T WANT TO KNOW ME?!?!?

HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?????

Currently listening:
Journey to Spiritual Awakening: Meditations to Awaken the Divine Heart Within
By Vicky Thompson
Release date: 2003-10-21

THE YEAR OF THE FLYING PIG!!!

Current mood:HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Category: Life

Yes boss, this is it...

2009 is OFFICIALLY the year of the Flying Pig!!!

For me POOPY PIOUS G, this means unparalleled success and UNIMAGINABLE GLORY!!!

Worldwise, it means more PREMIUM bankruptcies that'll send you running for the money brollies...!!

Shit, if we're lucky, we might return to an era of public floggings, and regular and indiscriminate civil unrest...

(Did I mention I predicted the economic chaos of September onwards in Episode 8 of CHG 8??? - Go back and listen to it again - everything you needed to know about what was coming (Lehman Brothers, collapse and Gordon Brown being dumped in the STUMMM by his old boss in particular) was in tracks 12,13&14 more than a month before it all happened in the real world)

I'M THE NOSTRADUMS OF MYSPACE!!!

And talking of floggings...

Episode 13 of Casa Hasa Giovanna went down appallingly badly....

Yes boss, it received a big fat 12 listens (most of them VERY short ones) inside the first 2 days?!?!

Now, this could be because CHG 13 is about the most boring recording since 'Standing On the Shoulders Of Giants' or it could be because you were all sitting up listening for santa RATHER THAN LISTENING TO MY WORK!!!! - I guess time will tell...

Oh, and in case you're wondering just how I hard I work on these wonderful CHGs, here's some rare 'behind the scenes' footage taken during the making of CHG 12...

ONE THINGS FOR SURE - YOU CAN'T EVER CALL PAUL PIOUS NOSTRADAMUS JAMES DEMAN GIOVANNI £RD LAZY!!!!

The Making of Casa Hasa Giovanna Episode 12

Currently listening:
[LP Record] Touch Typing Made Simple - A Sound Teaching Method
By Touch Typing

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

What’s happening on the Island...??

Current mood:SSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!
Category: Life

The in-laws are still here (and will be for another week, 17 hours, 23 minutes and 69 seconds), which combined with xmas, new born Emma and my rampant commercialism has a lot to do with the lack of words...

Yes boss, privacy is in very short supply here in the fort, so I'm storing up essays in my head (or maybe even a nice and SAFE middle class book about the travails of living with ones parents in law who don't speak ones own language...)

Of course, taken at face, that all sounds awful, but it's not a bad lot..

No boss, in the day times, clad in a huge padded down jacket and Diadora deerstalker, Mrs G's father goes out stamping the grounds of the Island armed only with a compass..

He uses the tall buildings as navigable points, and returns with stories of the local slaughterhouse inviting him inside to watch chicken slaughter (at least he thinks they invited him in - but like I say he speaks no English)

I find that going out walking or shopping with Mr G senior, is a little like going out with Crocodile Dundee..

His head is still very much in mountainous rural Italy, and I regularly look back to find him standing and starring intently (and with no disguise) at some anti-social behaviour or another, in a way that Londoners don't tend to do, for fear of getting stabbed...

Yes boss, there he'll be - all solid packed 5' 2" of him - starring the naughty boys out, then turning to me wearing a very serious face and saying

'NON BENE!!!'

I nod nervously, smile and suggest we walk on...

Mrs G meantime hasn't left the house now for almost 2 weeks, and her mother has only been out for one brief passagata in the same time..

Between them, they're doing most of the day to day baby work, and they like to sleep with the door open (so I have to type very very quietly)

So, the lack of current vacant headspace here on Fish Island means that rather than getting drunk AND HAMMERING AWAY ETERNAL AND IMPORTANT WRITTEN WORKS!!!! I'm mostly concentrating on building computers, stocking the shop and catching up with reading....

The reading I'm mostly concentrated on, is Tony O'Neills book 'Down and Out On Murder Mile' as sent for review by my one and only publishing friend Laura..

Now, before reading books by bright spunky published things, I often worry...

Yes boss, there's nothing worse than feeling you're right on the brink of setting yourself on the path to greatness, only to come upon some lucky golden child, who makes your words seem like limp daffs in Morrisseys back pocket..

Well, in this case, I'm pleased to say I'm not worried...

No boss, the much vaunted O'Neill is only doing Bukowskiesque writing about a Burroughsesque life...

It's OK, and not uninteresting in its content, but I find his work lacks vital spark, anger, verve and edge - and it's about 30 years late in it's style and subject matter to be anything approaching important.....

When not studying O'Neill, COUCHY COOING!!!! the baby, completely revamping my pazzy spazz profile, or internally screaming at machines, I'm mainly doing sharp business over in the shop area of www.paulgiovanni.com...

Yes boss, the OPENING CLOSING DOWN SALE!!! has started very well indeed (even though the shelves are still barely stocked with a fifteenth of what's to come..!!!)

Today I posted an order to some Parasian Emi employee, who took a big old whack of very cheap high quality art for a remarkably good £77 ...

Yes boss, Emi might themselves be a dead duck floating, but this man clearly knows value and worth when he see's it, and immediately family aside, men and women with both credible Giovan-taste AND money are currently my very best friends....!!))

Until later....

PG£

Currently reading:
Down and Out on Murder Mile: A Novel (P.S.)
By Tony O’neill
Release date: 2008-10-28

Let’s celebrate the commencement of the last 23 days of Erronemouse Bush....

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

with an overview of Georgie B's greatest political accomplishments....

Currently listening:
God Save America
By Jerry Falwell
Release date: 1998-04-28

VIVA DEMOCRACY!!!

Current mood:PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN!!!
Category: News and Politics

Muntadar al-Zeidi stands accused of "aggression against a foreign head of state during an official visit," an offence that carries a prison term of between five and 15 years under Iraqi law.

But the court could convict him of the lesser charge of an "attempted aggression" which carries a prison term of one to five years.

Mr Zeidi, 29, became a hero to many when he threw his shoes at Bush during the US president's surprise visit to Iraq on Dec 14, an action considered a grave insult in the Arab world.

His lawyer had asked that the case be transferred from the central criminal court, which handles terrorism cases, to an ordinary tribunal but the judge refused.

Mr Kenani confirmed that Mr Zeidi's lawyer had lodged a complaint over his treatment in custody and that a letter would be sent to the office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in order to bring them to justice.

One of Mr Zeidi's brothers, Uday, said that he had been able to visit him in custody for the first time on Sunday and charged that the journalist had been tortured by his captors.

"I met my brother for around an hour. He has been tortured while in detention for 36 hours continuously. He has been hit with iron rods and cables," the brother said.

"There is very severe bleeding in his eye, and he has bruises on his feet and nose, and he was also tortured with electric shocks.