Music, Art , Photography, Vegan food, politics, books, my family and friends.
Music
There's two kinds of music. The Blues and Zip-a-dee-doo-dah. - Townes Van Zandt
Movies
The Accountant, Deep Blues, Hill Stomp Hollar, You See Me Laughin', Bukowski:Born into This, Caddyshack, 16 Horsepower: Live........."But they aint done with him. Because, see boy, this farmer still has his his culture and that scares them; his roots, based in independence, even rebeliousness, his countriness if you will...so what do they do about that? Well that's where them multimedia corporations step in...they begin to bombard their...their new company man with caricatures and stereotypes of hisself...Gomer Pyle, Dukes of Hazzard, Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw, so on and so forth til finally he can't trust his own reality...he don't know what it is no more. He starts ACTING country instead of BEING country, until one day he'll...he'll...he'll be like a...like a Scotsman who puts on his kilt once a year to celebrate his Scotishness. Until finally this man, this farmer who once worked on the land, and with the land, can be controlled so he won't question his purpose making rivets or working in front of a computer screen from 9 to 5 for five days a week for 40 years until he gets downsized and dies...or worse...takes his severance pay and retires to Branson, Missouri."
From The Accountant, a film by Ray McKinnon, winner of the Academy Award for Best Short Film
Television
Every other person on the street was the failed consort of one muse or another. One met them everywhere. The would be guitarist who just couldn't find time to practice, the would be novelist who developed an allergy to solitude, the would be actress too weak to withstand domestic and materialistic urges, the would be poet who found it easier to get drunk on booze than language, the would be film maker who for lack of pluck ended up in advertising, the singer, the potter, the dancer, who for want of that extra volt of verve, that extra enzyme of dedication, that extra candle power of courage were doomed to paper the walls of their lives with frustrated fantasies and secret dissatisfactions.
-Tom Robbins
Books
The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day
and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love
beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect
like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock
their finest art
-Charles Bukowski
Heroes
me, my boys Roscoe and Otis, My wife Leslie, my friends and family.
"You wanna talk about T-Model? I can play like T-Model. I can model T-Model -- but T-Model can't model me, you understand what I'm saying. That's the way it is. Those guys can't teach me nothing." -Paul Jones
About me: " Did anybody tell you ever that you might be a little bit of what they call weird? Come to think of it, on occasion does arise an oafish and unperceptive bastard who mentions that possibility."
-Porter Osborne jr. from Ferrol Sams' "The Whisper of The River"
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Hey Rick Just came by to let ya know I am doing much better as of late... Thanx for being there and your concern. The sun is shining on my backdoor today baby.. Nice Valentines day bulletin I bet you and Leslie had a nice one. Thanx again Rick for support. I appreciate it.
C’mon! Bring in the New Year with The Dirty Water Club, Not The Same Old Blues Crap and The Gypsy Hotel as London’s hardest rockin’clubs join forces to present a diabolically delicious New Years Eve night of debauchery.
Live music from The Urban Voodoo Machine, The Jim Jones Revue and The Branded.......Deranged cabaret from The Fire-Tusk Pain Circus, Gawkagogo’s Elephant Man Elvis and Lady Ane......Barry “Scratchy” Myers, PJ and Suave on the wheels of steel.......Mind bending projections, visuals and props (including a genuine Go Go dancers cage!) by Dr Strange...........Doors from 9 pm to 6 am with a bar at pub prices.
Click on flyer for advance tickets or buy in person for cash from bar of The Boston or All Ages Records on Pratt Street, Camden (open till 7 pm today, tomorrow & New Years Eve)
Forthcoming Not The Same Old Blues Crap action....... Thursday 24 January Heavy Trash & The Sadies @ The 100 Club Sunday 24 February The Mekons & The See See @ The 100 Club
Hey! Kitty, Daisy & Lewis play The Dome in Tufnell Park this Saturday!
We have just released a limited quantity of concessionary tickets for 14-18 year olds and students. Follow the this online link for concessionary tickets.......http://www.wegottickets.com/event/24359
Click on flyer for normal admission tickets........
Hey! Nashville Babylon launches this Friday at The Luminaire with the first UK headlining show of New York’s finest The Felice Brothers with the equally fantastic Alan Tyler @ The Lost Sons of Littlefield.
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Forthcoming NTSOBC action.......
Sat 1st December: Dazzle Black Xmas Party with White Rose Movement, Selfish C***, Ulterior & Ipso Facto + The Kills (DJ set) + Douglas Hart (JAMC/DJ set) @ The Dome, Junction Road, N19
Sat 8th December: Kitty, Daisy & Lewis + I Blame Coco + Gaz Mayall (Gaz’s Rockin Blues DJ set) Mr Hudson (DJ set) @ The Dome, Junction Road, N19
31st December: Dirty Water Club, NTSOBC & Gypsy Hotel presents a New Years Eve Spectacular.....Playing Live: The Urban Voodoo Machine + The Jim Jones Revue + The Branded...Cabaret: Elephant Man Elvis + Lady Ane ....DJs: Barry “Scratchy” Myers + PJ + Suave @ The Dome, Junction Road, N19 9 pm-6 am.
Tickets for all shows available from www.wegottickets.com www.ticketweb.co.uk Ticket Web box office Tel. 0844 477 1000 & in person for cash from All Ages Records (Camden) and Pure Groove (Archway).
Hey! Gallon Drunk play NTSOBC @ Dingwalls Sunday 11th November.
Click on flyer for online tickets or buy in person from All Ages Records in Camden or Pure Groove Records in Archway.
See you at Dingwalls!
Gallon Drunk November UK Tour Monday 5th - Norwich Arts Centre, Tues 6th – Bristol Thekla, Wed 7th – Doncaster Leopard, Thurs 8th – Birmingham Hare & Hounds, Fri 9th-Nottingham Social & Sunday 10th- London Dingwalls.
Hey! THE BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES and SCOTT H BIRAM are back from the Dirty South with The JIM JONES REVUE at The Roundhouse on Saturday 20th October......
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NTSOBC Black Diamond Heavies/Scott H Biram October 2007 UK Tour.... Sun 14 Swindon/Riffs, Mon 15 Nottingham/Maze, Tues 16 York/Cert 18, Wed 17 Newcastle/Cluny, Thurs 18 Norwich/Norwich Arts Centre (with The Jim Jones Revue), Fri 19 Leicester/ Sumo, Sat 20 London/Roundhouse, Sun 21 Birmingham/Hare & Hounds
