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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:59:12 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I am in receipt of the latest Homocrime bulletin. Trust me, Mirah in particular is a MUST SEE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOUBLE FUN! 12th and 16h June&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday 12th June (i.e. THIS SUNDAY)&lt;br /&gt;HOMOBOP&lt;br /&gt;homocrime v unskinny bop&lt;br /&gt;featuring&lt;br /&gt;THE DISKETTES&lt;br /&gt;WET DOG&lt;br /&gt;STATIONARY&lt;br /&gt;SMARTY PANTS&lt;br /&gt;DRAGULA&lt;br /&gt;2pm - 6pm&lt;br /&gt;The Pleasure Unit&lt;br /&gt;359 Bethnal Green Rd&lt;br /&gt;£5, £4 with flyer, £3 concessions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE DISKETTES are just wonderfulness from Vancouver: girls and boys Beat Happening with added Doo Wop and all the playfullness of summer. We saw them last week and swooned (the drummer played on two cardboard boxes). We have been so excited about this gig for so long!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WET DOG are of course our favourite thing in London. New songs abound. The most perfect all-girl band since The Raincoats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STATIONARY is Coral (of Kazoo band Atilla fame, and Weekend&lt;br /&gt;Hairport). She is performing her new piece, dressed as Bio Femme Secretary, playing every PA&apos;s essential accoutrements. The photos at www.coralshort.co.uk are all you need to know until Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SMARTY PANTS is Holly from Radical Cheerleaders of Manchester fame&apos;s new band - casio punk freakout time, we can&apos;t wait, I believe its their London debut too!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DRAGULA is Humey Heena and Clare&apos;s boi-band (think the Zombied &lt;br /&gt;Sissyboyz from Manchester). They were the very fine ladies behind Ladyfest Manchester and also instigators of Cafequeeria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.      .      .      .      .      .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday JUNE 16&lt;br /&gt;MIRAH (K records)&lt;br /&gt;I KNOW I HAVE NO COLLAR&lt;br /&gt;TRULY KAPUT&lt;br /&gt;FRANCOIS&lt;br /&gt;DJs Lady V (Television Personalities) and Markland (Sleeping States)&lt;br /&gt;Barden&apos;s Boudoir, 38 - 44 Stoke Newington Road N16&lt;br /&gt;£5/4 with flyer/3 concessions&lt;br /&gt;doors 7.30pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIRAH (ye olde press release):&lt;br /&gt;&apos;Something gentle this way comes...&apos; in the form of K records star and Olympia Washington resident, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn. Having only appeared live once in the UK (with a crowd-stunning set at 2002&apos;s Ladyfest London), the intimate nature, and impressive innovation of her records have won Mirah a devoted following of fans in this country and around the world.&lt;br /&gt;Her songs are infused with the political, the sexual and the theatrical - of volcanic eruptions and expansive western skys. Yet the poetic and personal underscore their delivery such that even the most casual listener is caught in her web, a sassy world of desire, heartache and longing wrapped in a bundle of joyous noise. Having worked with the likes of Phil Elvrum (MICROPHONES, MOUNT EERIE) and Calvin Johnson (BEAT HAPPENING, DUB NARCOTIC), her blend of lo-fi sensibility and unbridled vision - where folk music mixes seemlessly with electronica; the subtle with the epic - have created some of the most uncomprimising and original records of recent years.&lt;br /&gt;On this tour, Mirah will sing and play guitar. She will also be &lt;br /&gt;accompanied by friends playing violin, double bass and accordion.&lt;br /&gt;Mirah&apos;s latest album, C&apos;mon Miracle is out now on K, and will be &lt;br /&gt;released soon in the UK on Arrivederci Baby! records.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I KNOW I HAVE NO COLLAR make life worth living. Tom and Aaron pull out the stops with keyboards, drums and teacloths and always whip the crowd into a frenzy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FRANCOIS is loveliness in a young French man with his guitar (and keyboards and samples and drum machine). Maybe he&apos;ll bring along his animations too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TRULY KAPUT rocks our pants off. Why is she the bottom of the bill? Because her leg was on fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DJ Victoria is treating us with some choice portions, and Markland will be spinning the dance floor after the show so we may well be having a little dance party!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.      .      .      .      .      .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.homocrime.org&quot;&gt;www.homocrime.org&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:49:05 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Instead of anything meaningful, here&apos;s the six-current-favourite-songs meme. I&apos;m afraid it&apos;s a bit repetitive at this moment, because there are two albums I&apos;m listening to more than anything else...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Bikini Kill &apos;Reject All American&apos; (so catchy!)&lt;br /&gt;2. Electrelane &apos;Eight Steps&apos; (so thrilling!)&lt;br /&gt;3. Electrelane &apos;I Keep Losing Heart&apos; (so pretty!)&lt;br /&gt;4. Electrelane &apos;Bells&apos; (so tuneful!)&lt;br /&gt;5. Bikini Kill &apos;Tony Randall&apos; (so mod!)&lt;br /&gt;6. Little Richard &apos;Get Down and Get With It&apos; (this one I heard for the first time yesterday - I HAVE TO GET THIS RECORD.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, maybe I&apos;ll do it again sometime &amp; it&apos;ll be a bit more varied.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2005 00:25:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I am watching the TV movie of &lt;i&gt;Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD&lt;/i&gt;, made a few years back with David Hasselhof in the lead role. It&apos;s terrible, of course, but in a good way. The SHIELD comic was a mid-60s, James Bond thing - only with a hard-bitten, cigar-chewing American instead of a suave Englishman. Hasselhof is surprisingly apt casting, and there are lots of nods to the comic in the dialogue and design. Shame they didn&apos;t go for the full-on psychedelic look of Jim Steranko&apos;s run on the comic, though. It&apos;s all a bit gung-ho-military. The villains are the son &amp; daughter of Nazi bad guy Baron von Strucker from the comic, and their fake German accents and 80s hair are a joy.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 14:00:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Electrelane again</title>
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  <description>*&lt;br /&gt;Bloody hell, there&apos;s some startling stuff on this album. More of the choir arrangements they tried last time, lots of different instruments. Beautiful little melodies. It&apos;s amazing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;i&gt;Lots&lt;/i&gt; of Ros on it, too!)</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 13:08:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Thing</title>
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  <description>*&lt;br /&gt;You might want to keep Oct 1 &amp; 2 free. I am putting on a Thing. Will announce details next week.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 13:06:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I&apos;m listening to the new Electrelane album, &lt;i&gt;Axes&lt;/i&gt;. As always, there&apos;s a Krautrocky feel to it, but while the insistent 4/4 rhythms and little piano flourishes still remind me of Neu, there&apos;s now a Faust-ish glee in the variety of ideas, sounds and atmospheres. Along with their unabashed rock&apos;n&apos;roll rush, and occasional singing in Verity&apos;s unassuming, slightly fragile voice. Recorded sparsely (and live), it&apos;s got a band-in-a-room sound to it a bit like the first Gang of 4 album (or the first Ramones album, come to that). Not the surf-able wave of noise they unleash live, but full of colour and light which can get lost at high volume.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enough comparisons already. This is a beautiful record.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 12:23:18 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>This week&apos;s celebrities in our store have included Charlie Higson (very unassuming, didn&apos;t realise it was him until I looked at his credit card) &amp; his son, and Pete Shelley (who comes in fairly regularly, but is always worth mentioning). But these are eclipsed by E, an ex-colleague who now works in an architecture bookshop. Yesterday she served Laurie Anderson and her boyfriend LOU REED. Lou fucking Reed! They were really nice, she said. So I guess he&apos;s only nasty to journalists. Heh heh.</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2005 12:58:47 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Stop press!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOUL MOLE IS OFF. Ed just came in &amp; told me the Enterprise cancelled his booking without telling him!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;[EDIT]:&lt;/b&gt; Ed&apos;s waiting to hear more, though it&apos;s not looking hopeful. I suggest a gathering someplace else if necessary?</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2005 13:03:51 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Regular readers will know that Electrelane are my favourite UK band, probably my favourite band anywhere. I first saw them three years ago, not knowing much about them except for a short interview which didn&apos;t make them sound particularly interesting. At that show and several subsequent ones, I was flattened by their power. They gave the impression of fashioning some invisible energy-beast out of their collective nerves and fears, like the Id monster in &lt;i&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Early last year I saw them at the Spitz and all shyness was gone. They tore the place up like few bands I&apos;ve ever seen, full of confidence, blasting their Link-Wray-meets-Neu songs with frightening energy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometime last year their bass player Rachel left, and Ros from Lesbo Pig was asked to join. People who&apos;ve only seen Ros playing simple guitar chords in Lesbo Pig might be surprised to know that she is a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist. Last week, I finally got to see her play with Electrelane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was apparent from the first notes that Ros has had an effect on the band. While keeping the skeletal structures of their music, she has wrapped small intricacies around those bones, and the bass and keyboard play off each other now in a way they didn&apos;t before. The combination of this increased delicacy with their brutal energy has taken the band up a level. S, who had scarcely heard them before, was astonished by this show as I had been that first time back in 2002. It was awe-inspiring. My favourite band just got better.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 23:07:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Happenings twelve years&apos; time ago</title>
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  <description>*&lt;br /&gt;Over at Tammy&apos;s on Friday, she dug out some old videos which I&apos;d either forgotten about, or didn&apos;t know existed until last week. She&apos;d intended to do a college video project on riot grrrl, but never finished it, and the tapes went into a box for over ten years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is footage of the Voodoo Queens and Bloodsausage playing small, early shows in 1992 or &apos;93, and of a riot grrrl meeting at Bunjie&apos;s coffee bar (R.I.P.) with members of &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;freddster&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap; text-decoration: line-through;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://freddster.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://freddster.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;freddster&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s old band, Hissyfit. Most astonishing, though, was her film of a daytime show at the Conway Hall. I just created a detailed chronology of that time for Sara&apos;s book research, so I can tell you that this show took place on Wednesday March 3rd 1993. The lighting is really clear, because it&apos;s in the day, and the sound isn&apos;t bad. She filmed a couple of songs each by Avocado Baby (not their best stuff, but Pete looks fetching in a wig and dress), Pussycat Trash, and Huggy Bear (&apos;Pop Scorch&apos; and &apos;Into the Mission&apos;), well into their non-fun phase unfortunately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mainly, though, there&apos;s three or four songs by Bikini Kill. It sent shivers down my spine to see this band again, clear as day and as powerful as I remember them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is strange, setting out and re-evaluating all the events of that time again. Puts a lot of what I&apos;m doing now into context. It was an exciting time, but there&apos;s more fun and creativity to be had in the grrrl-inspired scene now than there was at the time. The last three years have really changed my life.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 22:32:21 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>On Friday night, Vase are playing an early show at LARC in Whitechapel. I doubt I&apos;ll be there - I&apos;m working till 7 - but I recommend it. Afterwards, though, I&apos;ll definitely be at Soul Mole, &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;moleintheground&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://moleintheground.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://moleintheground.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;moleintheground&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s nite upstairs at the Enterprise, by Chalk Farm tube. Come &amp; dance &amp; say hello.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday I won&apos;t be at the U-Bop, because &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;rustystiletto&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;rustystiletto&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will be performing at the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden. If spoken word appeals more than dancing that night, it starts at 8. I can say without any bias whatsoever that she is great. And since the Bop goes on till 2, adventurous social butterflies can certainly do both.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 22:27:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Last week I:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- rehearsed with my other band (duo), The Shallows. We are recording in June, the weekend before work starts on the new Linus EP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- saw Electrelane at the Scala. It&apos;s the first time I&apos;ve seen Ros play bass with them. It was pretty staggering. I&apos;ll write some more about this at some point. Attended the show with &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;rustystiletto&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;rustystiletto&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, filmmaker Lucy T, and &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;accomodatingly&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=accomodatingly&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=accomodatingly&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;accomodatingly&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s pal Sara who was in London briefly doing interviews with various people (including &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;sweetpizza&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://sweetpizza.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://sweetpizza.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sweetpizza&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;drummygirl&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://drummygirl.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://drummygirl.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;drummygirl&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, and me) involved in ye olde riot grrrl. Saw Jon Huggy, who needs a haircut, but is otherwise on good form, and a guy called Chris who I haven&apos;t seen for ten years and doesn&apos;t seem to have changed at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- took my mum (in town on her way to see my favourite cousin, who is very ill) to the launch for Amy Spencer&apos;s book &lt;i&gt;DIY: the Rise of Lo-Fi Culture&lt;/i&gt;, at the Horse Hospital near Russell Square. Nice venue. Michal Cupid was DJing and looking none too well. &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;winstonecho&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://winstonecho.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://winstonecho.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;winstonecho&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; sang a bit (unamplified when the mic broke, sort of a Cliff-Richard-at-Wimbledon moment), &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;dickon_edwards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://dickon-edwards.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://dickon-edwards.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;dickon_edwards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; read his first-ever online diary entry from 1997 - which mentioned Linus, to my great surprise - and Amy Prior and Frances from Plan B magazine also did a bit of reading. Francois played musical accompaniment to his charming animated film shorts, and we had to leave as Lesbo Pig were about to start. I chatted with Elvina, another old face from the early 90s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- went over to &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;sweetpizza&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://sweetpizza.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://sweetpizza.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sweetpizza&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s to do a bit of band stuff. We have some fun things planned for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linusland.co.uk&quot;&gt;our website&lt;/a&gt;, which will be added during the summer &amp; announced on our mailing list, so if you&apos;re not on it yet...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- visited my old friend Lee over in darkest West London for the first time in ages. He has offered to loan me some tasty computer kit when he upgrades his machine, and I&apos;ve been trying to carve out some free time to go over there for a while. He is a voracious reader of history and politics and I realised I&apos;d missed his perspective on the global events of recent times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally I (reluctantly, but I was knackered) skipped seeing Ana da Silva at Mofo &amp; spent the next 33 hours in Brixton with S. Finally a lie-in together with few pressing tasks to distract us. Sunny Sunday was lovely.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2005 22:35:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Tonight I was going to see Zombina &amp; the Skeletones, but have had a small financial disaster &amp; also, I am knackered. Hope everyone who went enjoyed themselves &amp; apologies to the band... hope they play again soon.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2005 21:48:16 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Thursday night I went to see Wet Dog support the Pipettes at LSE. Got recognised as a Linus member before I&apos;d even walked in the door, which was odd. Wet Dog played one of my favourites, &apos;Trehorne Beach&apos;, for the first time in a while. I met &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;mega_normal&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=mega_normal&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=mega_normal&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;mega_normal&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for the first time (she is one of the organisers there), and chatted with &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;mzdt&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://mzdt.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://mzdt.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;mzdt&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;small_circle&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://small-circle.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://small-circle.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;small_circle&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, and Daniel from Homocrime. I wasn&apos;t overwhelmed by The Pipettes - they&apos;ve got energy, good songs, good singing voices, synchrosised dresses and synchronised moves, etc, but it&apos;s just retro girl group/new wave and nothing &lt;i&gt;extra&lt;/i&gt; - not expressing anything - just quite fun rather than great.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday lunchtime was a publisher&apos;s promotional lunch for a crime novel set in Camden. The author, a few people from the publishing house, their London rep, and a handful of booksellers, in a restaurant in Soho. It&apos;s a first novel, by a music journalist - Cathi Unsworth, who reviewed Linus for Melody Maker once or twice, years ago. I didn&apos;t know that she had also been one of the team behind the gothy arts mag Purr, and had worked for Bizarre in its earlier, better days under the editorship of my friend Fiona Jerome. My proof copy of her book never arrived but it does sound pretty fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, a meeting at my house for the group project me &amp; two of my classmates have to present in a couple of weeks. We&apos;re doing various aspects of gender in comics - gay superheroes, women &amp; Japanese comics, and (my part) some historical background. Hardly a stretch for me. I delved under my bed and dragged some relevant comics out of boxes, C described her (almost-written) presentation, T showed some Japanese stuff, we drank beer and wine, and had a pretty fab time.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 00:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>What an excellent day I&apos;ve had. &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;accomodatingly&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=accomodatingly&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=accomodatingly&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;accomodatingly&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s pal S is over from New York for a few days, researching her book about riot grrrl, and he recommended she get in touch with me. We met in Camden and spent a couple of hours in a nice cafe, talking about the history of the UK RG scene. S&apos;s pal and mine, L, joined us as the cafe was closing, and we spent a further half hour in a pub with an empty upstairs room, laughing about old times - I don&apos;t see L that often - before S and I went over to Islington so she could meet up with ex-label boss G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of which just sounds like a list of initials, but it was a lovely time. The sun was out and even Camden looks good in the sunshine. It was great to meet S and see L and (briefly) G. And talking about what I was doing back then and what I&apos;m doing now, I realised again just &lt;i&gt;how much&lt;/i&gt; I&apos;m cramming into my life right now, and how much I&apos;m enjoying it.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 23:12:23 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>In Florida right now, there is a 13-yr-old girl who is at the centre of a court case to stop her having an abortion. The whole case is extremely stinky, but &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;talentshow&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://talentshow.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://talentshow.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;talentshow&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has pointed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-pabortion30apr30,0,700609.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines&quot;&gt;this news item about it&lt;/a&gt; which shows, as she says, that the 13-yr-old in question is &quot;seriously an asskicking, fierce kid&quot;. Her responses to the judge are truly fantastic.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 13:27:42 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>There&apos;s some photos from last night&apos;s gig at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.underexposed.org.uk&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Underexposed&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! Thanks to Bob from that site!</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:23:44 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linusland.co.uk&quot;&gt;Linus&lt;/a&gt; show last night was the most fun we&apos;ve had in ages. Pantsuit were great - hadn&apos;t heard Nan&apos;s other band before (she&apos;s in the fab Schwervon, with Major Matt Mason who also played a great set last night), and so many people came - &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;charleston&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://charleston.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://charleston.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;charleston&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;jinty&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://jinty.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://jinty.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;jinty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;swisstone&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://swisstone.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://swisstone.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;swisstone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, the legendary Katherine Gifford, among many others. Rosie Local Kid was there (she&apos;s driving the van for the tour), our new songs worked, the promoters liked us, the venue was nice, we got paid, YAY.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:11:46 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>*&lt;br /&gt;Ahem. My zine was supposed to come out this week, but I forgot to bring the photocopies back from &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;the_beanio&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://the-beanio.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://the-beanio.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;the_beanio&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s. Just as well really, since I can&apos;t afford to copy the covers yet. So it&apos;ll be out in June. Well, some of the pieces are two years old... what&apos;s an extra month!</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:59:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Last night &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;rustystiletto&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;rustystiletto&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp; I watched Woody Allen&apos;s &lt;i&gt;Bananas&lt;/i&gt;, kindly lent by &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;moleintheground&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://moleintheground.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://moleintheground.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;moleintheground&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, and then chanced upon a new show on Living called &lt;i&gt;Boston Legal&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has anyone seen this? It&apos;s not a good show - produced by the guy behind Ally McBeal, and it&apos;s like the wacky-legal-soap-opera bits of that watered down &amp; written worse &amp; acted worse (with one exception). But it was worth seeing, just for the worlds-colliding experience of watching JAMES SPADER (for it is he!) doing scenes with WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER (oh yes!!). An actual actor who&apos;s done loads of good films and some enjoyable blockbusters, finding himself in a substandard TV show acting opposite Mr Mannerism himself. Surely the very fabric of the universe should tear asunder??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shatner is even worse than usual - I can see why they cast him, he ought to be ideal for the role (self-regarding patriarch of the law firm), but he&apos;s not giving it any energy. Plus, he seems to be turning slowly into a giant toad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His finest moment is actually the great Roger Corman cheapo anti-racist flick &lt;i&gt;The Intruder&lt;/i&gt; (a.k.a. &lt;i&gt;I Hate Your Guts&lt;/i&gt;), from about 1960. Anyone seen that one?</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:43:46 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>*&lt;br /&gt;Hey you! Yes, YOU!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;b&gt;LINUS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br /&gt;are playing at the Windmill in Brixton on Friday, supporting Pantsuit and Major Matt Mason from the USA. Pantsuit &amp; Matt are offshoots of the extremely fine band Schwervon, and it is going to be GREAT.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:16:22 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Sigh. So, the living room is now clear of all the paper which made &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;pollitesss&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://pollitesss.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://pollitesss.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;pollitesss&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; laugh as she had to tiptoe through it, and my essay is handed in. I had a great time with this one, even if it did seem like a bit of a nightmare at first. In writing about sex&apos;n&apos;death I was able to include lots of pop culture - 1000 words on goth, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, starting &amp; finishing the essay with quotes from Ann Magnuson/Bongwater&apos;s &apos;Folk Song&apos;, etc, as well as all the theory stuff. I was on shaky ground with all the philosophy - all I know about most of it came from my main text, Jonathan Dollimore&apos;s &lt;i&gt;Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture&lt;/i&gt;, but well, what can you do. I cleaned up &amp; revised this one much more than the last one (I had more time) but still noticed an absolute clanger in there on the way to hand it in, but oh well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This term will be much easier. We do group work, and they don&apos;t mark it. They used to, but people complained that if they were in a crap group, it had a considerable effect on their final mark through no fault of their own. I was worried - thought I might have to do something dull - then at the meeting to discuss it all &amp; sort out who&apos;s with who, two of my classmates said they wanted to study gender in comics. I said, &quot;I&apos;ll join THAT group.&quot;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:25:35 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Essay almost done. Corrections to be made, a few extra words in the conclusion, and that&apos;s it. All of yesterday the lounge floor was a sea of paper - notes laid out to the horizon, with big stars and arrows drawn on them to indicate the important bits and dayglo felt-tip to indicate the really important bits from six feet away. I&apos;m pleased - doubt it&apos;ll get a spectacular mark, but I&apos;ve gone from contemplating an essay which would have weakly rephrased a random selection of other people&apos;s vaguely relevant work, to something with a lot more of me in it - so opinionated it&apos;s positively cheeky. So I&apos;m happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, where were we? A couple of weeks back &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;rustystiletto&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;rustystiletto&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and I had dinner round at &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;charleston&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://charleston.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://charleston.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;charleston&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and K&apos;s place, with &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;caro7&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://caro7.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://caro7.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;caro7&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;mal1&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://mal1.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://mal1.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;mal1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, a reunion of old flatmates, and their respective &apos;birds&apos; as the lesbians have it. We ate fantastic food, played Balderdash (some more enthusiastically than others) and drank a lot. Excellent. Last Friday we saw &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;charleston&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://charleston.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://charleston.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;charleston&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp; K again at &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;grannybum&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://grannybum.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://grannybum.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;grannybum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&apos;s birthday drink, in an impressive bar in Stokey which used to be the Vortex. Also excellent. Saturday I was at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.abortionrights.org.uk&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Abortion Rights&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; AGM. Good speakers including the fab Wendy Savage. AR are running a postcard campaign for the General Election - take a look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight, I will fall down (and nurse my heavy cold) in Brixton. At last.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:13:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Jaw drops</title>
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  <description>*&lt;br /&gt;This is incredible. I could not resist. Meme from a zillion people:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Pick five songs that most people would know.&lt;br /&gt;2. Select lyrics of up to but not surpassing 150 words from each one.&lt;br /&gt;3. Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr&quot;&gt;http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Enter the lyrics thus:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;English to German&lt;br /&gt;German to French&lt;br /&gt;French to Portugeuse&lt;br /&gt;Portugeuse to English&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Post the resultant gobbledegook and ask people to figure out what the songs are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;1: It does not have point, asking for, does not receive them from reply. I remember necessarily that I do not decide myself. I did not receive reason that all is very. Descobriz them always we, to eat to the noon. They are free OH - so pretty thus sufficiently. They are free OH - so pretty thus sufficiently. All do not ask for to assure us the Lattich that we are not there. OH - they do not dissimulate the Lattich that I am not interested myself. I do not believe that illusions the Lattich too much is not for truth for your little dispendiosa comment, &apos; the cause that we know, that they believe them.&apos; They are free OH - so pretty thus sufficiently. They are free OH - so pretty thus sufficiently. We are thus OH - pretty thus he exempts pretty now, and we do not interest. He does not have point, asking for, does not receive them from reply. I remember necessarily that I do not decide myself. I did not receive reason that all is very. Descobriz them always we, to eat to the noon. We are of the lunch. They are free OH - so pretty thus sufficiently. They are free OH - so pretty thus sufficiently. They are free pretty and pretty. They are free pretty and pretty. They are free pretty and pretty. They are free pretty and pretty, and us we do not interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2: The wings of the order of power to the OH Could dissimuler neath, while it sings.&apos; That six hours warning would never become agraffes. But schellt and I myself increase, clean the sleep of my eyes. Mine mesureur rasage rasage cold and it tickets. Applauses in superior part, Jean somnolent. OH - what can represent, dreams too much for creditors and a next main queen? It, so early how much thought of me as white knight on has steed. Now, she can be happy me can. OH - and our good times start and finish without dollar of one to spend. But how much, we need bebé, really. Applauses in superior part, Jean somnolent. OH - what can represent, dreams too much for creditors and a next main queen? Applauses in superior part, Jean somnolent. OH - what can represent, dreams too much for creditors and a next main queen? Applauses in superior part, Jean somnolent. OH - what can represent dream for creditors and a next main queen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3: Living creature in a lodging in neunzig-9. The pole of my block, and I myself is seated to the house to look at of the window that presents that the world was stopped. Then, in the flies an individual that completely dressed in superior part as a Jack union, said and that I gained five zerstosse, if I have its type of phrase purificatrice. It said, it! It! they receive distant from my cloud. It! It! they receive distant from my cloud. It! It! they receive distant from my cloud. They do not hang around &apos; cause to the two a mass on my cloud, bebé.&apos; The telephone schellt. I say &quot;hallo, that I am.&quot; That one that is it there on the line &quot;&quot; A said voice, &quot;hallo, hallo, as it is.&quot; I consider well I am the end doin &quot;.&apos; Said, he is &quot;three a.m., he is many to the barulhos, vocês there people to sleep goes certainly&quot; Necessarily &quot;therefore well, part must go me of my head to the cause that believes&quot; It said, it! It! they receive distant from my cloud. It! It! they receive distant from my cloud. It! It! they receive distant from my cloud. They do not hang around &apos; cause to the two a mass on my cloud bebé.&apos; It was sick and to take in superior part one fBI- tired agent with decided this, and, an order to the center of the city. He was in such a way calm and calm, did not have it there around, a soul. I set part, shorings therefore tired me, and started to dream. The morning, the maps to park was as the marking flags jousts that had been adhered on mine ecrã of window. It said, it! It! they receive distant from my cloud. It! It! they receive distant from my cloud. It! It! they receive distant from my cloud. They do not hang around &apos; cause to the two a mass on my cloud.&apos; It! It! they receive distant from my cloud. It! It! they receive distant from my cloud. It! It! they receive distant from my cloud. Vocês herumhaengen, bebé, two a mass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4: The moment that awaken, before I place my constitution above, says me a small conjunct for vocês. It now combs my hair to the miracles and, which behavior to lead now, I say a small conjunct for vocês. It remains certainly always and, in my heart for, taste and vocês forever and certainly. We to never distribute. OH -, as of the taste. Set forever is, as it is. Without being to live it would mean only Heartbreak for me. Me courses for expensive autocarro. Ascendant in it to we thinks expensive, says me a small conjunct for vocês. To the work, hard completely the right time and my time of pause coffee that I say a small conjunct for vocês. It remains certainly always and, in my heart for, taste and vocês forever and certainly. We to never distribute. OH -, as of the taste. Set forever. It is, as it is. Without being to live it would mean only Heartbreak for me. Mine favori to believe, because me none is there however I likes to them please also -. I am in the love with I answer them it my conjunct. It remains certainly always and, in my heart for, taste and vocês forever and certainly. We to never distribute. OH -, as of the taste. Set forever is, as it is. Without being to live it would mean only Heartbreak for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5: To laugh more easied, not to lead certainly seguidamente to silence. Ruptures go for an empty house to my eyes. Here, where history finishes, this is is on reexamining to know, vocês knowing me (ah-haa), is not nothing there that we can make. Me knowing, knowing them (ah-haa), we must collate it times, only this that we are (we are times these, this we are times, these we we are times, us we are really). either never, I do not break in superior part simply I know, but I must I go (me I must go this time. I must go, this time that I know). to know, knowing to it - me they are better than I can indicate, vocês, it knowing itself are better than I can make. Memories (memories), good days (good days), bad days (bad days). They continue (they are), with me (with me) (always). This old that of the children the sectors had been trusted it would play. It now does not have nothing that an emptiness to say to know, vocês knowing me (ah-haa), is not nothing there that we can make. Me knowing, knowing them (ah-haa), we must collate it times, only this that we are (we are times these, this we are times, these we we are times, us we are really). either never, I do not break in superior part simply I know, but I must I go (me I must go this time. I must go, this time that I know). to know, knowing to it - me they are better than I can make.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:53:40 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Another convert</title>
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  <description>*&lt;br /&gt;Ladies, gents, and others, please welcome &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;rustystiletto&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://rustystiletto.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;rustystiletto&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (a.ka. Poetry Girl).</description>
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