| troubled diva |
|
All over Web 2.0 like a rash: flickr
· last.fm
· twitter
· badj.it
· myspace
· muxtape
Fingers in other pies: post of the week · shaggy blog stories · village community blog Friday, January 21, 2005
When you start to fancy yourself as "above" doing memes, then you KNOW you've jumped the shark.
Before we get into the Top Twenty (because, you know, it would be a shame to hurry things), a brief intermission, in the form of the hot new musical meme that's sweeping all of Blogland etc etc. This comes via Mr.D. of Aprosexic.
1. What is the total amount of music files on your computer? At home, it's just under 40gb. Which is bothersome, as I have a 40gb iPod and am going to have to start making tough decisions. (That's just under 8000 tracks, mostly encoded at 160, and NO, of COURSE it's not enough.) At work, I had a massive purge; just 117 songs remain. The rest all found their way onto the iPod. 2. The cd you last bought is: Tekitoi by Rachid Taha, an Algerian rai-rocker who I'll be seeing in Leicester next month, as part of the African Soul Rebels package tour (also featuring Tinariwen from Mali and Daara-J from Senegal). Most (if not all) of the tracks are musical collaborations with Steve Hillage (formerly of Gong and System 7), although you'd never guess it, and there's a great, spirited cover of Rock The Casbah, recorded as a tribute to the late Joe Strummer (who credited Rachid Taha as an inspirational figure). 3. What is the song you last listened to before reading this message? Remember To Forget by Dani Siciliano, from the Likes album. It's on my Best Of 2004 triple mix CD, which (handy cross-promotional tie-in coming up) YOU COULD WIN, by correctly predicting my favourite single of last year. Hurry, while there's still time! 4. Write down 5 songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you. A Song From Under The Floorboards by Magazine, which I wrote about on Uborka. The Only Way Is Up by Otis Clay, for sheer euphoria; it always feels as if the credits should be rolling during this one. Goodbye To Love by The Carpenters (particularly for the guitar solos, the second one being my favourite of all-time). Weak Become Heroes by The Streets - this was my Nineties. Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks - the very essence of poignant, this always provokes a certain ocular pricking. 5. Who are you going to pass this stick to? (3 persons) and why? Ben of Silent Words Speak Loudest, because he's a good sport and should enjoy playing along. Eric of evijhserf, because I don't think he's done a blog meme before, and I think they're a kind of rite of passage. And also because I'm still in awe of his I Touched Madonna's Bum story. Jamie of Jamie4U, because she'll be fierce, girl.
· link to this
·
Singles of the year: #21
21. 1980 - Estelle
1999: She's In Fashion - Suede
File alongside Jamelia, in the box marked "Superior UK urban music which could show those damned Yanks a thing or two if only they'd care to listen".
1994: Sour Times - Portishead 1989: Can't Be Sure - The Sundays (Forgive me, my American chums. I'm still reeling from the double whammy of George Bush's hideously chilling inauguration address and being passed over for Best British Poof at the Queeries. Tant pis, as they say in Freedom Land.)
· link to this
·
Singles of the year: #22
22. All Day Long I Dream About Sex - JC Chasez
1999: Beautiful Stranger - Madonna
This was first brought to my attention by Zbornak last April, when I was assembling my reader-compiled "Songs You Have To Hear" CD. It was then used as part of the backing track for my "Squint" performance piece (still available for download, and possibly my favourite piece of work on the blog last year), where its combination of full-on chorus and unexpectedly reflective middle section suited one particular part of the narrative to a tee.
1994: Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet (yeah yeah, get over it) 1989: Losing My Mind - Liza Minelli To my great surprise, this then turned out to be a complete flop as a single, despite being the follow-up to a #13 hit, Some Girls (Dance With Women). I'm not even sure it even made the Top 75, and in these depressed-market days you have to make quite a serious effort of will to avoid making the Top 75. I was therefore pleased to see that at least Stuart Hydragenic hadn't forgotten about it, singling it out for a mention in his long-awaited Best Albums Of 2004 round-up. The Smash Hit That Never Was, then. You've always got to have at least one of those in your list.
· link to this
·
Singles of the year: #23
23. It Hurts - Lena Philipsson.
1999: Comedy - Shack
Following Pay TV, The Concretes and Alcazar, Lena Philipsson becomes the fourth (*) Swedish act (**) to make my Hot Ninety, with a cheeky ode to taking it up the jacksie that stormed last year's Eurovision in Istanbul. (OK, it actually came sixth. But for anyone who saw just how suggestively Lena worked that giant microphone stand, it was a moment to treasure.)
1994: Supersonic - Oasis 1989: Me Myself & I - De La Soul (*) But will she be the last? Eh? Eh? (**) And there have also been two entries by Annie, from Norway, which is sort of Sweden isn't it?
· link to this
·
Singles of the year: #24
24. Rude Bwoy Thug Life - Ce'cile
1999: Let Forever Be - Chemical Brothers
Not strictly speaking a 2004 release, but an MP3 of an Jamaican dancehall track from a year or so earlier, which seemed to get everywhere last year following an appearance on Fluxblog. The rhythm track (I think we're actually supposed to say "riddim", but I can't quite bring myself to) is of particular interest, as it's a direct re-working of The Cure's 1985 hit Close To Me, and you don't generally find much of a Goth-pop influence in Jamaican dancehall, so you know, fascinating innit?
1994: Son Of A Gun - JX 1989: Your Love - Frankie Knuckles
· link to this
·
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Singles of the year: #25
25. Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone
1999: Walk Like A Panther - The All Seeing I featuring Tony Christie
Basically, I'm with Nigella Lawson on this.
1994: Superstar - Sonic Youth 1989: Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin' - Inner City When describing her tastes, the Domestic Goddess explained (and I wish I could find the precise quote, because she explained it so well) that she tended to favour music with an intense, surging, ecstatic quality to it; music whch floods the senses with an overwhelming feeling of elemental joy. As it is with Nigella, whose Desert Island Discs choices included Sugar Sugar, Ye Ke Ye Ke, Hey Boy Hey Girl and the Hardfloor remix of Blue Monday, so it is with me and daft little Eurodisco nuggets such as Dragostea Din Tei (which even moved me to start a weblog conga line over the summer). Because when all is said and done and dusted and dissected, and considered and compared and contrasted, and appreciated and accomodated and alphabetically filed by artist: the musical aesthetic which perhaps chimes closest to my singular little soul is precisely this aesthetic of ecstatically joyful abandon. It's an instant hit, which frequently (if by no means always) wears off quite quickly, forcing me to trawl with a wide net. (Which helps to explain all the accumulated yardage of DJ mix CDs from the 1990s, unplayed for years, mutely festering in the spare room.) Yes, it's formulaic, and thus best not picked apart too closely. And OK, its best examples may often be achieved as much by accident as design. And sure, I can see why this stuff pisses so many people off - including my long-suffering Life Partner, to whom it is an anathema. Apart from anything else, it's just so damned intrusive; drafting you into its slipstream, robbing you of free will, insisting that you surrender to its relentless collectivism and - worst of all! - join in. To finely tuned sensibilities, this must all be distressingly jarring. However, it's precisely this intrusive, communal quality to which I respond. Indeed, I positively embrace it. For when tunes such as these are playing, some measure of happiness cannot help but leak in through the cracks, no matter how glum my overall state of mind might be at the time. Even during some of the worst episodes of my Uniquely Troubled And Tortured Adolescence (oh yes) - right in the middle of some unendurable family screaming match, for example - the chance intrusion of a jolly tune on the radio would allow me, on some scarcely conscious level, to detach from my immediate reality, granting me some small but vital measure of sanctuary. Even in the eye of the storm, I could tune out the blind rage and tune into the good cheer, tapping my toes even as the tears rolled down my face. - Why not go and give the little pansy a touch-up? - F***ing p***ing s***ing BITCH. I want a DIVORCE. - Oo-wah oo-wah, cool cool Kitty, tell us 'bout the boy from New York City... With that characteristic contrariness which I hold so dear, K often asserts that while happy music makes him miserable, miserable music makes him happy. Consequently, I try to keep him shielded from tunes such as Dragostea Din Tei as much as possible. (When Eurovision is on, I have even been known to flee the country.) However, for me the equation is much simpler: happy music - even the dumb stuff, and sometimes especially the dumb stuff - makes me happy. Generally speaking, I like to think that this is evidence of a healthy, straightforward attitude to life's pleasures. Neverthless, I have my doubts. What if all this stuff is merely acting as an SSRI, crudely boosting my diminished stock of happy-juice? Is it dysfunctional to rely so heavily on so much transient froth and nonsense? Well, f*** it. There are many worse ways to self-medicate. So come on everybody: on the count of three, and let's see those hands in the air! Ma-i-a hi, Ma-i-a hu, Ma-i-a ho, Ma-i-a ha-ha... See also: various weird unofficial videos. (via Adrian Mc)
· link to this
·
Monday, January 17, 2005
Singles of the year: #26
26. Making Music - Chungking
1999: New York City Boy - Pet Shop Boys
So come on, Mike: tell me honestly. Ninety posts on ninety singles is one hell of a tall order. Haven't there been times when you wish you hadn't embarked on such an ambitious project?
1994: Confide In Me - Kylie Minogue 1989: The Real Life - Corporation Of One Actually, I think this might just be the first of them. But plough on we must.(Endurance blogging: it's a fine and noble tradition.) I first became aware of this track - and of Chungking - on the 2003 compilation from Radio One's Blue Room, where it stood out from the crowd straight away. It was therefore good to see both the single and its parent album re-released in 2004, with somewhat better (*) promotion and distribution - although this still proved insufficient to bring Chungking the mainstream commercial success which should by rights be theirs. (*) Although when searching out a copy of the album (re-released less than three months ago) for a friend's birthday present last week, I was dismayed to find that it had already vanished from the racks in Selectadisc and Fopp, with only a couple of full-priced copies left in Virgin's "dance" section. Which is daft, as they're not a "dance" act by any stretch of the imagination.
· link to this
·
Singles of the year: #27
27. Mary - The Scissor Sisters
1999: Superfreaky Memories - Luna
Following a song bearing my name at #87, here's a song which bears my sister's name. (Incidentally, if you know of a song which features K's name other than The Undertones' My Perfect Cousin, then please let me know.)
1994: Let The Music Lift You Up - Loveland featuring Rachel McFarlane 1989: Looking For A Love - Joyce Sims I know you're not a travelling girl, croons Jake Shears: monumentally inappropriately, given that in the last few years, my sister has lived and worked in Sudan, Iran, Jordan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone... and those are just the places I can remember. On the other hand, if the lyric had been I know you are a travelling girl, then this might have placed inside the Top Twenty. Pop music, she works like that.
· link to this
·
Singles of the year: #28
28. Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
1999: Straight From The Heart - Doolally
You know: I sense I might just have lost a regular reader with this one.
1994: 977 - The Pretenders 1989: The Beat(en) Generation - The The The first time I realised that I might have been wrong about this dreary whiney droopy gloopy faceless spineless gutless sub-Coldplay corporate-indie-lite dirge: when it was used as the backing track for the really rather poignant and effective end-of-season montage of highlights from Big Brother Five. I'm just digging a bigger and bigger hole for myself here, aren't I?
· link to this
·
Singles of the year: #29
29. Girls (rex the dog mix) - The Prodigy
1999: Re-Rewind The Crowd Say Bo Selecta - Artful Dodger
Of the astonishingly few straight-up utilitarian dance tracks which came my way in 2004, this is the only one which made me wish that I still went clubbing, just so that I could experience it "in context" (shall we say). I particularly like the fractured staccato cut-up nature of the first couple of minutes, which conjure up certain experiences which I may or may not have had on a fairly regular basis in the mid-to-late 1990s particularly vividly.
1994: Sweetness - Michelle Gayle 1989: Lullaby - The Cure As for The Prodigy's original version, of which this is a "mere" remix: I've only heard it twice. To be honest, it sounded like a pointless breakbeaty remix of the Rex The Dog version. I fully realise that this viewpoint wouldn't stand up in court, but there you go. (Oh, and that early 1980s soul/funk sample which crops up a few times on both versions: it's D-Train's "You're The One For Me", isn't it? Anybody?)
· link to this
·
The 1000 UK Number Ones Poll.
If you've come here from NYLPM in search of the 1000 UK Number Ones Poll: then search no further.
If you're a regular reader: in a blatant, blatant rip-off of Chig's poll from Autumn 2002 (the results of which start here), I'm hosting a poll on the I Love Music message board, in order to discover the most popular UK Number One singles. Do feel free to join in.
· link to this
·
|
Without a doubt, drivel front page ·
weekly archives ·
feed
mikejla-@-btinternet-.-com recent comments
we twitter...
recently spotted...
 sidebar menu
· we are: authorial information · we interviewed: chats with celebs · we lectured: notes from blogtalks · we serialised: multi-part writing projects · we wrote: the best of td, 2001-07 · we freelanced: gig reviews · we freelanced: album reviews · we freelanced: book reviews · we saw: strictly amateur gig write-ups · we eurovisioned: the annual obsession · we read: current fave rave weblogs · we performed: audio and video posts · we snapped: photo-based posts · we guested: guest posts on other blogs · we played: miscellaneous games & stunts · the 40 in 40 days project we are...
about the site (2007) troubled diva: the first 5 years, summarised dramatis personae potted autobiography 4 things · 100 things · 100 other things BBC Nottingham profile & interview what makes me "good"? the zbornak mini-interview the ages of mike (in pictures) blogging questionnaire my mother's memoirs: 1940-1960 K's dog cancer company Amazon wish list return to sidebar menu  we interviewed...
alison moyet armistead maupin athlete: tim wanstall barry adamson boy george british sea power: yan david gest dealmaker records & red dionne warwick donny osmond duke special duran duran: roger taylor elbow: mark potter erasure: andy bell erasure: vince clarke the gossip: hannah & brace the go! team: ian parton hard-fi: ross philips hercules & love affair: nomi jason donovan jennifer saunders joan baez john barrowman kano kevin ayers (full transcript) liza minnelli lorna luft marc almond maria mckee the musical box: martin levac pam ann public enemy: chuck d the rascals: miles kane rodney bewes rodrigo y gabriela seth lakeman shayne ward steve hillage (system 7) supergrass: gaz coombes trail of dead: jason reece will oldham yazoo: vince clarke return to sidebar menu we lectured...
creative collaborations: lecture notes lowdham book festival: lecture notes we serialised...
· 100 things about 100 bloggers which also apply to this blogger · danny · defining vignettes of the 1980s · format firsts · hangzhou diary · nottingham, my nottingham · of seating plans, turtle doves and symphonies in watered silk · shaggy blog stories: the full story · stations of the diva · telegraph poles on snob alley · the 90 best singles of 2004, exhaustively described · vietnam diary · walking the forest path · which decade is tops for pops? (2008) · which decade is tops for pops? (2007) · which decade is tops for pops? (2006) · which decade is tops for pops? (2005) · which decade is tops for pops? (2004) · which decade is tops for pops? (2003) · which is the best madonna album? · window into my world: the troubled diva pointlessly detailed journal theme week return to sidebar menu we wrote...
25 favourite posts 2007: the year in blog 2007: the year in mike 25 things to do: before i die 25 things to do: before you die accommodating: the f-word all time: fave singles ambushed: by unexpected emotion apotheosis of blog: 1a / 1b / 1c / 2 / 3 arbeit: macht frei archbishop: sex shop scandal are you: a proper blogger? astrology: hmm (1) (2) autographs: the collection bands which: left me cold battle: of the band aids big nights out: what changed? blending: with the english blogging tips: for newcomers best music: 07 / 06 / 05 / 04 / 03 / 02 / 01 / 00 blogmeets: popular myths dispelled bobbly fruit & pillows: for whom? bob dylan: suggested coping strategies book review: 2005 blogged boutique hotels: never again boutique shag: squint squint squint bridget riley: & wolfgang tillmanns bt vision: diary of horror carnet: parisien celebrity angst: what to do? chino latino: get shum bongo clapped out has been: yes or no? conkers: bonkers! conversation: with an 11 year old cottaging: fond memories crisp sharp edges: k's guest blog cross butts: the aga was a godsend cumberland hotel: i want my apples! daddy: what's sex? dancing the hard house: on beer do ya: think i'm sexy? dreams: of returning duckie: hula hoops & hoo-hahs easter holiday: in numbers emotional tailspin: inner retreat fashion: sexy no-no's famous people: i could be fave albums: of the 1970s flush: of shame future dream: shopping scheme gay partnership rights: blah gay up: me duck general election 2005: 1 / 2 god-man: in the airport grandad's on: the guest list happy happy happy: splurge hi i'm ken: gayest moment ever hiking: to the gate how much: do you WHAT? if wishes: were horses... ...beggars: would ride i have bought: a pedometer!!! if wishes: were horses... inland empire: oh, the agony iPods: feel the love iPods: feel the pain it's time: the tale was told john peel: and the "noble savage" jongleurs: nottingham latvian baywatch interlude: beaver patrol! lit crit: bitch sesh longnor nights: ronnie corbett ramble magisterial: coruscations membrillo: cottage style me, dear 1: local media calleth me, dear 2: good morning nottingham memories: of the cerne giant michael's big day: with "the creatives" motoring: with mike and k my desk: exhaustively annotated my mummy: the movie star my mummy: the vogue model my week: barcelona business wonkery naked diva: port in a storm (parody) new dawn fades: failed space-age nicholas hellen: the new serenata flowers one night in: amsterdam on this day: 1966/76/86/96 orange mivvis: wrong message? petite anglaise: book review philip pullman: the vignette phuket nights: before the flood political mike: what happened? poofs & lezzers: in pop popbitch: worst records racist ducks: by request recitatively yours: in beeston regarding: regards reiki: balancing me chakras, like remove power: and we have nothing resolution watch: happy endings rvt: a diva perspective sambuca drinking game: just DON'T should gay men: give blood? sky mirror: a sudden profusion social smoking: who said oxymoron? soft furnishings: a social history songs: containing lists spiked: a cautionary tale statement: of jadedness successes: and unknowns sunshine, balance: and lurrve swanky do: playing the game tacky stab: celeb status ta-dah: rough tasting notes tales from: amsterdam: 1 / 2 / 3 tatchell/humphries: today howler thatchenfreude: stuff of nightmares the secret: gay signal the thespian life: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 the world won't end: 9/12 the year in blog: 2003 too many people: multiple mikes through bad times: and good trams: so this is hucknall? trashy pop: a justification trentbeat: the nottingham sound tufts: and chuffs unlikely: new interest up for grabs: in both senses vinyl countdown: re-learning the rituals what i did: on saturday when good cliques: go bad whither: the political blog? whore to culture: why opera bores me why i like: queenie working in paris: 5 stages you lattay: i lartay return to sidebar menu we freelanced... ADULT., battant alison moyet amp fiddler amy winehouse, mr. hudson & the library ...and you will know us by the trail of dead andy williams the automatic, mumm-ra barry adamson the beat, neville staple beyoncé black kids, team waterpolo black mountain bonnie "prince" billy boy george breeders british sea power, make model bucks fizz, brotherhood of man buena vista social club bugz in the attic cardiacs cocorosie david essex delays diana ross donny osmond duffy duke special dv8 physical theatre erasure euros childs evan dando fallout trust, computerman the feeling feist fionn regan foals from the jam (may 2007) from the jam (dec 2007) the futureheads gary numan: replicas tour get cape. wear cape. fly. girls aloud glasvegas the gossip greg dulli & the twilight singers guillemots, joan as police woman hard-fi, the rumble strips here and now tour 2008 hidden cameras hope of the states i'm from barcelona imogen heap joe lean & the jing jang jong john barrowman journey south juana molina ken dodd laura veirs liza minnelli lorna luft los campesinos! low manu chao maria mckee the musical box: selling england... nouvelle vague, gabriella cilmi nuru kane & bayefall gnawa the orb the osmonds palladium pam ann piney gir pink prince public enemy puppini sisters rachel unthank & the winterset the rascals richmond fontaine rihanna rodrigo y gabriela (2006) rodrigo y gabriela (2007) ryan adams & the cardinals scissor sisters secret machines seth lakeman the sugababes system 7 twilight sad the verve, reverend & the makers victorian english gentlemens club, das wanderlust westlife the x factor live yazoo young knives, ungdomskulen slate magazine: america, meet the eurovision song contest ali farka touré: savane athlete: beyond the neighbourhood brett anderson: brett anderson british sea power: do you like rock music? bucks fizz: the very best of datsuns: smoke & mirrors defected presents: charles webster duke special: songs from the deep forest erasure: light at the end of the world george michael: twenty five golden afrique vol.3 hard-fi: once upon a time in the west hidden cameras: awoo kevin ayers: the unfairground lady sovereign: public warning lcd soundsystem: sound of silver marc almond: stardom road mountain goats: get lonely mr. hudson & the library: a tale of two cities queer noises 1961-1978: from the closet to the charts rufus wainwright: does judy at carnegie hall rufus wainwright: does judy! judy! judy! (dvd) rufus wainwright: release the stars sean lennon: friendly fire the rascals: rascalize ultimate eurovision party stylus singles jukebox 2005: archive the eurovision song contest: the official history: john kennedy o’connor return to sidebar menu we saw... !!! (chk chk chk) air basement jaxx, audio bullys bay city rollers the bellrays, the d4 beth orton, ed harcourt bob dylan brian wilson broadcast bryan ferry butterflies of love, tompaulin calexico chicks on speed daevid allen damo suzuki's network datsuns, polyphonic spree, interpol, thrills david bowie doves, the coral duran duran, goldfrapp flaming lips franz ferdinand, von bondies, the rapture, funeral for a friend franz ferdinand, fiery furnaces hidden cameras (2004) jon spencer blues explosion kevin ayers kylie minogue lemon jelly madonna (2001) madonna (2006) the magic band, wreckless eric manitoba, four tet mariza mark gardener mudhoney the music neil diamond oasis omara portuondo patti smith pet shop boys prince: o2 arena & aftershow richard ashcroft robert newman, mark thomas rolling stones scissor sisters, atomizer, readers wifes, synthetic pleasures scissor sisters (the social) scissor sisters, syntax, david wrench scissor sisters, phoenix smokey robinson sons & daughters, vincent vincent & the villains, ralfe band sophie ellis bextor the streets, blackalicious summer sundae festival (2007) the thrills tindersticks ulrich schnauss white stripes yes (magnification) yes (full circle) yeah yeah yeahs return to sidebar menu we eurovisioned...
· tallinn 2002: mike's estonian eurovision fiesta · riga 2003: the seven stages of eurovision · 2004: previews · 2005: previews · 2005: too many effing drums · athens 2006: backstage reports from rehearsals week · athens 2006: america, meet the eurovision song contest · 2007: previews return to sidebar menu we read...
i love music my fave blogs with RSS feeds technorati: who links here? return to sidebar menu we performed...
trodicast #3 trodicast #2 trodicast #1 notts dialect: a gay guide boutique shag: squint squint squint alphabetical: short story (context) 25 lines: lyrics quiz return to sidebar menu we snapped...
1990-92: the social linchpin years anglesey abbey: winter garden banyan tree: phuket barbara hepworth: sculptures civil partnership: 2006 cottage garden (pdmg#1): 2003 cottage garden (pdmg#1): 2005 blurb cottage garden (pdmg#1): 2005 pics cottage garden (pdmg#1): 2007 manifold valley: easter stroll mike's 40th party: 2002 nottingham guest team: george's 2004 stiles: of the white peak thrill: to my tulips trevor hall: jimmy's 70th birthday bash vietnam pics: 2002 virtual tour: cottage virtual tour: nottingham virtual tour: blurb xmas greetings: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 return to sidebar menu we guested...
big blogger 2005: festival of blog "last to be picked" champions league fancy dress (and ill-advised drag) my greatest pride... ... and my greatest shame a tale for the little ones * irrational fears & how to overcome them the seven ages of mike seven deadly sins of blogging where are they now? * seven stonkers & seven honkers seven reasons why i don't want a dog (* warning: contains in-jokes) feeling listless: review 2005: if it moves, rank it guild of ghostwriters (hand-drawn): When I Was A Little Boy... The Professionals Introvert (all three in one place) leftlion magazine: gay up me duck my boyfriend is a twat: troubled twat, or my boyfriend is a diva popping out for meat neil's wild years: 1993: doya do do do doya 1994: away with the fairies 1995: things they'll never see sashinka: introduction finger food hosting company from hell enforced jollity capsule review: blondie fun facts about toilet paper dry your eyes, mate ah, barcelona swisstoni's place: earworms of the week the art of noise: in the dock: the eurovision song contest 5x5 the naked novel (a collaborative work of modern fiction): chapter 3 tranniefesto ("collaborative dialogue"): conversations of an email variety uborka: channel 4 script editors eat your neighbour recipes of yesteryear YAHNET acronyms online enagement party: (1) (2) a song from under the floorboards chapter 8: pandora's inbox (start here) wherever you are ("consequences"): sorry, did that spoil it for everybody? return to sidebar menu we hosted...
· Anna, D, Faustus, Mr.D, Noodle · Lyle, Mr.D, qB, Robin · Aunt Cyn, John, Mac, Quarsan · Buni, Fiona, Mark, Melodrama, Zena · Asta, Danny, Gordon, Martin, Venus · best of guest month · Alan, Ben, Buni, Mish, Nixon (1) (2) (3) · blogging consequences: 26 guest posts we played...
stylistic tic eradication week: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 the shirt off my back project: start · finish the let's get more comments than wil wheaton project: the diary · the comments diva rhyming slang: problem · solution partners & weblogs: poll · result who's the w@nker: 1 · 2 · results songs you have to hear: a reader-compiled mix cd the "can't be arsed to find my own links" competition start · shortlist · result the I Love Music 1000 UK Number Ones Poll: final results introducing a new acronym: CBATG: can't be arsed to Google meme aid: the bloggers' disco · mix tracklists write like a diva: intro 1 · intro 2 · april 1st hissy fit · contestant 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · votes · results readership survey: questions · results #1 · #2 · #3 · #4 · #5 · #6 · #7 · "most typical reader" contest · results civil partnership caption competition: photo · entries trodicast caption competition: photo · entries · results the my boyfriend is a twat virtual book tour: mr & mrs: zoe versus quarsan return to sidebar menu 1 The Au Pairs (66-68) 2 The Step-stepfather (94-96) 3 The Simulated Wank (85) 4 The Toy Store (80) 5 The First Single (71) 6 The Queeny Put-Down (99) 7 The First Hissy Fit (64) 8 The First Gay Club (82) 9 The Rent Boy (88) 10 The Heterosexual Phase (74) 11 The Lifestyle Switch (00) 12 The Empty Floor (87) 13 The First Poem (67) 14 The Amsterdam Weekend (91) 15 The First Time (79) 16 The Perfect Moment (94) 17 The Year In Berlin (83-84) 18 The Trade Years (94-98) 19 The First Memory (64) 20 The Anniversary Party (95) 21 The Incompetencies (62-02) 22 The Pricking Of The Bubble (73) 23 The Club Residencies (87-89) 24 The "Tales of the City" House (93) 25 The Musical Epiphany (76) 26 The Worst Thing I Ever Did To Anyone (86) 27 The Royal Procession (72) 28 The Parental Disclosure (89-90) 29 The Concept Albums (75-78) 30 The Romantic Obsession (75-78) 31 The Failure (81) 32 The Apotheosis of Queer (97) 33 The Shove From Above (93) 34 The Interrogation (78) 35 The Professional Rut (89-96) 36 The Rebirthday (79) 37 The First Boyfriend (83) 38 The "Catharsis Of Joy" (94) 39 The Funeral Address (99) 40 The Falling In Love (85) + The Summary, In Verse (by Anna) return to sidebar menu powered by Blogger
It's all © Mike, thank you very much. I don't mind if you nick the odd paragraph; credit me and link back, and we can still be friends. But no funny business, OK? I know lots of people, and we'll all laugh and point at you, and then you'll feel, ooh, that high. Snarl. Please note that all spam comments will be deleted, even the ones that pretend to be nice.
|
