Live chicken feed.
05.24.10 - 04:25pm
That hack is voodoo with a difference. What’s that all about?
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The UM Archive for May, 2010
Join the queue.
05.20.10 - 04:36pm
I would be more forthcoming about this but I’m worried about getting me or someone else into trouble so I’m just going to say I’m chuffed 19 people are queued.
Oh God, Oh dear…
05.16.10 - 02:24pm
My son is using his sunny Sunday afternoon to shoot guns on the PS2. At one point the low-level hubbub of continued automatic weapon firing gave way to an increased intensity of the sound of explosions and an approching helicopter and I heard him say “Oh God” with a kind of resigned weariness.
Jo was on [...]
The Cowboy & The Bear
05.16.10 - 01:57pm
Not the greatest of Um gigs on Friday. Not going to do that live looping thing again in hurry. I practiced it about 5 times with varying results but the performance version was at least 500% worse than the worst of the run-throughs. Also I was actually going to just use a sports whistle as [...]
Bad Timing Nights and Eyjafjallajökull.
05.10.10 - 09:09am
Playing at Bad Timing on Friday, just to be different. In fact I was just looking at this list of gigs they’ve put on:
bad timing: 8 years, 90 nights, 10 venues and 1 world record since 21/11/01
courtis/moore // local radio // gary war // les adventures sous la mer // um // volcano [...]
Johnny & The Vole.
05.06.10 - 02:07pm
The other day my Jo got a text from her old pal Johnny, who despite having quite a bit of the professional Northern carnivorous rugger-bugger about him, is a fantastic chap and also has a bit of a soft spot for animals in the non-livestock sense. Anyway the text said:
You know, one of the best [...]
Bugger.
05.06.10 - 01:56pm
My girlfriend is in therapy (pause for chuckles) as part of her course as a trainee arts psychotherapist (we’re a right pair). Anyway, the other day she was telling her chappie about her disatisfaction with the world in general, like you do, and she said something like this:
“I just can’t believe that this is it. [...]