I'm hoping for a Progressive Alliance.
Everything will be done in 11/8 time and feature a lot of solo work.
How bleedin' cold it is. It's more like November than May.
I used to really enjoy bi nights at Chams. I've not been for about 3 years though. The problem with moving areas and leaving the Black Country.
Go and see them.
I saw them a few times back in the 80's, when they'd stopped doing the make-up. They put the make-up back on about in the early/mid 90's. The current tour will be a full on stageshow with pyro, fireworks, the whole 9 yards. If you're not that big a fan, you probably won't mind that Ace Frehley and Peter Criss no longer play with them. The guitarist is a dude called Tommy Thayer and the drummer is Eric Singer. They use The Space Ace and The Cat make-up because Simmons and Stanley own the rights to it.
Go along. It'll be an entertaining night. Just put your brain in neutral and rock out.
Ozzy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
you.
Live with it.
When you can last 40 years in the music industry, never have an album that's considered a failure, help create an entire genre of music, then you can take the piss.
His missus has alienated a lot of his fans, but the man himself is beyond criticism. As I said previously, the first 6 Sabbath albums are brilliant. His early solo albums with Randy Rhoads (RIP) are awesome.
Yes, I'm a fan. His wife and kids are not important to me. The fact that he's created some of the finest music ever made is.
I do enjoy solitude, sometimes. I work in a very 'customer facing' job and it's nice to get home sometimes and just sit in the peace and quiet, no tv, no music etc. I enjoy my own company and I think I'd be able to do solitude quite well. I wouldn't want perfect isolation, but I enjoy time to myself.
Judas Priest are legends, you philistines.
Halford is The Metal God.
"Fall to your knees and repent if you please".
Bladerunner.
Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty.
Roy, holding a white dove and is left standing above his struggling opponent. As Deckard loses his grip, Roy seizes his arm and easily hauls him onto the roof, saving Deckard. As Roy's life fades away, he sits and delivers a brief soliloquy about the experiences of his life "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time; like tears in rain. Time to die." He then dies, and the white dove flies away from him.
I once read that Hauer improvised that soliloquy, which makes it all the more memorable.
A bit belated but many thanks to Trouble for organising this. It was a great weekend. We'll have to do it again sometime.
It's good to see someone mention Alan Dean Foster. Although, it should be stressed that he's more than just a 'novelisation' writer. He's written some great stuff like The Spellsinger series (6 humerous fantasy books). He's also responsible for some excellent SF like The I Inside, The Man Who Used The Universe and the sublime Nor Crystal Tears.
I like Pratchett, but if I had the choice, I'd have to pick the 'master of far-fetched fiction', Robert Rankin. His books have reduced me to tears of laughter on numerous occasions. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse and The Toyminator (murder mysteries set in Toy City) are brilliant.
A book I will "never forget reading", though is The Satanic Bible by Anton LeVay. It's not the sensationalist nonsense that people who have read too many Dennis Wheatley novels seem to think it is. It's more of a collection of humanist/self aggrandising ideas. I read it and found myself nodding in agreement with so much of it.
Same one I always make and that I always keep.
Not to make any more damn fool resolutions!
Sheer.
Desi and I were devastated when we found out about your problems. Then we started to chat about you and ended up crying with laughter about the 3 legged cat and the false teeth, the rice pudding and the piccalili and numerous other hysterical stories.
We needed a "clorth" to wipe away the tears of laughter.
You're in our thoughts, hun. Get well soon.
Loads of love,
Dave & Desi.
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Someone on page 1 said that parents are still allowed to smack their children as long as it's not in public.
Not so!
A friend of mine slapped her 15 year old daughter after the daughter told her to "f*ck off". The next day, the daughter reported my friend to the Police. My friend was then arrested and given a caution for assault. Something she'll have on her record for the next 5 years. This incident happened in the privacy of their own home.
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Highway Star - Deep Purple (Made In Japan version)
La Villa Strangiato - Rush
Escaping The Fools Spiritual Beggers
That's off the top of my head. I could think of many more given a few minutes.
Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky.
I'm still smiling about something that happened yesterday.
We went to a wedding and at the Register Office during the ceremony, a boy of about 3 years old somehow managed to get his head stuck between the slats in the back of the chair he was sitting on. To be fair, everybody laughed. Not just me.