sheridan

how to become a millionaire

2007-11-06T20:08:32Z

The answer is to move to a foreign country. Here's a list of foreign countries, their currencies, and how much you'ld have to have in £UK to be a millionaire/ss:

South African Rand - £73,511.61
United States Dollars - £479,154.20
Thailand Baht - £15,237.87
Singapore Dollars - £331,182.58
Sweden Kronor - £75,414.01
Russia Rubles - £19,489.33
New Zealand Dollars - £373,112.30
Norway Kroner - £89,588.64
Malaysia Ringgits - £143,570.54
Mexico Pesos - £44,736.02
Japan Yen - £4,181.76
India Rupees - £12,214.04
Hungary Forint - £2,762.08
Hong Kong Dollars - £61,713.82
United Kingdom Pounds - £1,000,000.00 (funny that)
Euro - £697,328.13
Denmark Kroner - £93,578.09
China Yuan Renminbi - £64,329.92
Switzerland Francs - £418,332.22
Canada Dollars - £519,385.62
Australia Dollars - £444,286.81

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi

Bored or just procrastinating?

the wit and wisdom of Boris Johnson

2007-07-18T22:03:04Z

And the mayoral race begins (I don't want him to be mayor, but I'm looking forward to more nuggets like the following in the campaign):

On Larry Vaughan, the fictional mayor of Amityville:
wonderful politician
The real hero of Jaws is the mayor... A gigantic fish is eating your constituents and he decides to keep the beach open. OK, in that instance he was wrong, but in principle we need more politicians like the mayor.
refusal to give way to hysteria... rationality

On the week he spent as a management consultant:
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious.

On missing deadlines:
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irrestistible intensity and power.

Answering a mobile phone call while recording Have I Got News For You:
I can't speak now, I'm on television at the moment.

On bicycle thefts:
decoy bicycles throught Islington and send Navy Seals in through the windows of thieves.

On Papua New Guinea:
For 10 years we in the Tory Party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing, and so it is with a happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour Party.
I would like to thank the High Commissioner very much for her clarification, I meant no insult to the people of Papua New Guinea who I'm sure lead lives of blameless bourgeois domesticity in common with the rest of us.
My remarks were inspired by a Time Life book I have which does indeed show relatively recent photos of Papua New Guinean tribes engaged in warfare, and I'm fairly certain that cannibalism was involved.
add Papua New Guinea to my global itinerary of apology

On Jamie Oliver's quest for healthier school dinners:
I say let people eat what they like. Why shouldn't they push pies through the railings? I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
...national saint...
...messiah...

On Portsmouth:
Here we are, in one of the most depressed towns in Southern England, a place that is arguably too full of drugs, obesity, underachievement and Labour MPs.

On computer games:
Some children have it bad. Some are miraculously unaffected. But millions of seven- to 15-year-olds are hooked, especially boys, and it is time someone had the guts to stand up, cross the room and just say no to Nintendo. It is time to garrotte the Game Boy and paralyse the PlayStation, and it is about time, as a society, that we admitted the catastrophic effect these blasted gizmos are having on the literacy and the prospects of young males.
We get on with our hedonistic 21st-century lives while in some other room the nippers are bleeping and zapping in speechless rapture, their passive faces washed in explosions and gore. They sit for so long that their souls seem to have been sucked down the cathode ray tube.

debut novel, by a six-year-old

2007-05-03T18:51:35Z

The Sixteen Baby Rabbits

By Trinity Adams

One day a mother rabbit, Clara, had sixteen baby rabbits. One of them, Rhianna, got lost and thought she would stay there forever. Then Rhianna saw a tree, and much to her surprise her mother jumped out from behind the tree and rescued her. Then they hopped their way home.

The End

picnic, no piracy

2007-04-14T20:10:44Z

Partly because I've not been there for ages, and partly because I want to row a boat, I'll be picnicing at Hollow Pond near Leytonstone tomorrow.

Hopefully the boats will actually be out on the lake, I've not researched at all, otherwise it'll just be a picnic, with missykittykat, Trinity and anyone else who feels like venturing in to Zone Three.

p.s. and this shall come to pass at about 14:30 (I shall be taking said six year old to the cinema beforehand).

giggery

2007-04-12T21:51:28Z

Your attention is drawn to next month's Blood and Velvet, where Carl is bringing Zombina and the Skeletones to London - I'm going and you should too!

Good, now that's established - who wants a picnic this weekend?

OY!

2007-03-03T22:24:29Z

Lunar eclipse! Now!

p.s. thanks to ms_jinxme for giving me the head's up - no pun intended, at least not when I first wrote that :-).

Halloween Queen Tour 2007

2007-02-18T01:21:14Z

Eep! Knew I meant to do something - I forgot to buy the single!

Devilish Presley embark on a nationwide tour, starting in February, promoting their new single Halloween Queen. The new single written by J Navarro and J Vixen is released via November 10th Records and as a download via iTunes.

Friday 9th February CAMBRIDGE
@ The Man On The Moon 2 Norfolk St CB1 2LF

Saturday 10th February NORTHAMPTON
@ The Racehorse 15 Abington Sq NN1 4AE

Monday 12th February NEWCASTLE
@ Trillians Princess Sq NE1 8ER

Saturday 17th February LONDON (Acoustic)
@ Penderels Oak Holborn 283-288 High Holborn WC1V 7HP

Saturday 24th February STOKE ON TRENT
@ The Glebe 35 Glebe St Stoke-On-Trent ST4 1HG

Saturday 3rd March BRIGHTON
@ The Engine Room 135 Kings Rd / Preston St BN1 2HX

Friday 9th March LEEDS
@ Friday Flock The Mixing Tin 9 Albion St LS1 5ES

Sunday 11th March WINCHESTER
@ The Railway Inn 3 St Pauls Hill SO2 5AE

Friday 16th March BLACKPOOL
@ The West Coast Rock Cafe 5-7 Abingdon Street, Blackpool, Lancs,FY1-1DG

Saturday 24th March BIRMINGHAM (Acoustic)
@ The City Tavern 38 Bishopsgate St, B15 1EJ

Saturday 31st March READING
@ The Turks 31 London Rd Berks RG1 5BJ

Friday 13th April BOSTON
@ The Axe and Cleaver 16 West St Lincolnshire

Thursday 19th April SHEFFIELD, with Rome Burns
@ Gloominati, The Casbah, 1 Wellington Street, South Yorkshire S1 4HF

Friday April 27th BIRKENHEAD
@ Hotel California 31 New Chester Rd Tranmere CH41 9BN

Sunday April 29th DUDLEY
@ Funeral Nation, JB's, Castle Hill, West Midlands DY1 4QF

For further information/photographs please contact the Press Office

Darren Smith
Press Officer

NOVEMBER TENTH RECORDS
1 Sandy’s Row
London E1 7HW

weather

2007-01-24T07:34:12Z

It snowed!

books

2006-12-17T23:48:35Z

Do forgive me, just got to edit this post a little...

Author	Title	Started	Finished	Status
H.G. Wells	The War in the Air		2006-12-07T12:??Z
	Wells predicting the future of warfare (before the invention of sustained manned flight). Quite close to the mark in the politic situation in Europe, though not so close on the effects of a world war (but then not many people at the time would have believed a world war would have been likely or possible).
George Rippey Stewart	The Earth Abides		2006-12-10T21:25Z	[B]
	Post-apocalyptic future-gazing, fifties-style.
Tony White	Satan! Satan! Satan!	2006-12-14T16:41Z	2006-12-17T23:32Z
	As bad as it sounds, but I had to buy it (twice) because it featured a Goth festival in Whitby. Research was negligible, for some reason the Leeds-based Goths had to get a coach to Scarborough and a half-hour bus journey on to Whitby (in reality there's a direct Yorkshire Coastliner from Leeds to Whitby, and the Scarborough -> Whitby bus takes over an hour, as I well know.
James Herbert	The Rats	2007-01-10T21:25Z	2007-01-14T21:00Z

David Hayles	The Suicide Kit	2007-01-18T07:55Z	2007-01-19T21:15Z

Elizabeth Kostova	The Historian	2006-12-30T15:37Z		[B]
	The next bibliogoth book, not started reading it yet (and I would've started this night, but can't seem to located it now).
Author	Title	Started	Finished	Status

I'm currently reading (theoretically):

Author	Title	Started	Finished	Status
Susanna Clarke	Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell	[B]	2007-01-10T21:21Z
	Brilliant so far, if long-winded.
Peter Ackroyd	Hawksmoor
	Not about Hawksmoor for some inexplicable reason.
Patricia Pierce	Old London Bridge: The Story of the Longest Inhabited Bridge in Europe
	A factual book on the history of the first stone bridge to cross the Thames.
Author	Title	Started	Finished	Status

more games

2006-12-15T20:13:17Z

Noughts and Crosses

...
...
..X

Hangman (not sure how to do an ASCII hangman, but I'm sure I'll figure something out).
--- ----- -- --- ---- -------
It's a film, and a bit of a trick question, as it's still in production, but I'm really looking forward to it, so it counts.

[edit] Eep! It's later than I thought - having internet access at work sure makes the time fly past, I've got to do the walk around soon... may or may not be able to do one or both of these games before that happens.

advent flash games

2006-12-15T19:22:52Z

The Iceman Cometh:
http://www.mission-in-snowdriftland.com/

Sprout bashing:
http://www.eyegas.com/xmas05/

definition

2006-12-10T15:18:46Z

shoo cat : noun feline cobbler, a cat who makes and repairs shoes

tonight, for the first time...

2006-11-24T15:55:00Z

...I and many others shall see Devilish Presley as they have never been seen in public before - with a drummer!

After a series of acoustic gigs around the country, Jacqui and Johnny are now joined by Ragborn Rosy (previously of Lord Vagrant) has now joined the band, ousting the drum machine.

Official ad here:
http://novembertenth.livejournal.com/42060.html

'Tis a part of The Klub, which is some sort of alternative / rock night thing that takes place between 20:00 and 03:30 at the following venue:
Bar Monsta,
18 Kentish Town Road,
Camden,
London
NW1 9NX
The venue is halfway between Camden Town station and the Dev, on the Sainsburys side of the road.

Oh, and there's two other bands playing - Dragster and the Kramers. Plus Evil Stu and Chris Setzer DJing.

p.s. tomorrow I shall be at the Oakdale Arms for a beer festival. No idea what time yet, but probably aiming at late-afternoon / early evening. Food available until 20:00, according to the website. Real ales, ciders, perries and the like available all the time :-)

Kryptorium tonight

2006-11-11T09:34:27Z

109 Cannon Street (opposite Cannon Street station, which is closed because it's the weekend), London EC4N 5AD

An evening of darkly delicious trad goth
delights in the hammer-horror like environs of the London Stone
With DJs Thunder & guests playing
gothic rock, darkwave, post-punk, ethereal, and the
occasional aberations.
Drinks promos
Tempt yourself with a jug to share from the cocktail menu
of seven deadly sins - wickedly priced at 666p all night long
Gothic/Alt dress code
Admission: £3.00

[edit] p.s. am likely to go to Subterranean Hellnoize at the Marlborough Head beforehand, as there will be people visiting from out of town (waayy out of town).

mastermind now

2006-09-18T19:05:14Z

The second specialist subject (in approximately four minutes time) is the Sandman Graphic Novels by Neil Gaiman!

wake up on the internet

2006-09-08T03:04:03Z

You're all a bunch of inveterate 'net addicts, right? I'm not the only person who drags themselves home, fit only to collapse on the floor, or possible a bed, if it's not too far from the floor until the 'net beckons, with it's livejournal and google and internet messengers and (dread forbid) mice base and suddenly you can drag a few more hours of consciousness from your protesting body and mind.

At some point that was supposed to be a question, but it got lost somewhere.

More Goth shennanigans here and, I daresay here. Don't ask how I came by that information.

p.s. one of those links contains a very small amount of information about Colour Me Kubrick, but it'll be really disappointing, especially if you're one of the people in it. Unless you live in a certain geographical location. Maybe.

what corporate databases know

2006-09-03T20:19:08Z

I like Amazon - today it's recommended for me: The Philosophy of Punk: More than Noise!! by Craig O'Hara; Devils Bris by Voltaire; Wet Warm Cling Film Red Velvet Crush by Specimen (enhanced, apparently) and The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: and Other Stories by Tim Burton (anyone know what the Holiday Edition is all about?).

p.s. you probably missed a few posts I made about Goth comics and recent appearances of everyone's favourite eighties genre that outstayed it's welcome in the media.

films

2006-09-01T20:32:08Z

With The Wicker Man, Adrift and The Sentinel, I've now seen 102 films at the cinema since Christmas.

Which came first? The question mark or the exclamation mark!

For that matter, the same can be applied to commas and full stops.

punk rock on the radio

2006-08-29T13:22:26Z

Close Up: The Real Story of Punk Rock is to be broadcast on the BBC World Service this upcoming Friday (no idea if that link will work, might just be a session-only link that breaks after a few minutes).
'ccording to the newspaper it'll feature interviews with Björk, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Siousxie Sioux and Paul Morley. Pity it also has Malcolm McLaren presenting it really...

wednesday and friday

2006-08-14T23:47:51Z

Am going to Godlike on Wednesday, at the Monsta Bar in Camden (not that I ever went, but I'm lead to believe it used to be called the G Lounge?)

'tis at Godlike, a monthly alternative club night playing industrial, EBM, dark electro with live bands. Organised by Armalyte Industrial and Monsta Ents, with DJs Jared Louche (Chemlab; Pigface). The one I'll be at has Global Noise Attack and Pro-Jekt and costs £5.

Other than that - I'll be in Nottingham on Friday for Trashstock at Junktion 7, £6 for the Friday for which you get to see Devilish Presley, Patchwork Grace, Drugleader Cheerleader and Snakeskin. There are other ticket options available (for which you can look at the poster in the link provided), covering the following night's events, which I won't be at.

plan for tonight

2006-08-08T09:10:25Z

The plan for the evening is to go to the Devonshire Arms at around five or six before heading off to the Haymarket CineWorld (rilly close to Piccadilly Circus) for The Notorious Bettie Page, which starts at 20:45. Anyone else want to come along?

Oh, and next week on Wednesday, I'll be attending a Global Noise Attack gig at the Monsta Bar (formerly the G Lounge, neither of which I've ever been to). £5 for GNA and Pro-Jekt, from 20:00 'til 02:00.</a>. From the looks of it a club that plays the good industrial stuff, without all the bleepy rubbish ;-)

upcoming eating the elephants at the white room

2006-07-30T16:02:33Z

The White Room is a rock / alternative pub on Cleveland Street in Kingston upon Hull, past Spiders (when travelling from the town centre).
Eating the Elephant is a regular Goth / alternative night with live bands that takes place on the first Thursday of every month at The White Room, with all proceeds going to charity (Marie Curie Cancer Care).
It runs from 20:00 'til late and costs £3.50 on the door or £3 in advance (or with a NUS card). Residents DJs at Eating the Elephant are Von Suhl and Urban Cannibal.
Eating the Elephant,
The White Room,
Cleveland Street,
Kingston upon Hull
HU8 8AZ

Two-night special!
August, 3rd (Thursday)
Systemyk
Usual entry prices apply, but keep your ticket for the following night...
August, 4th (Friday)
Devilish Presley, playing with Whalter and MaryJane
Special! Free with Thursday's ticket or £1.50 on the door.
netgoth entry

August, 3rd (Thursday)
Clone Romeo
netgoth entry

szomorú vasárnap

2006-06-03T17:46:52Z

Written by Rezsô Seress in 1933 and performed / covered (in translated form) by... ohh, absolutely everybody, including (but not limited to): Piotr Leschenko; Hal Kemp and his Orchestra; Billie Holiday; Mel Tormé; Sarah Vaughan; Carmen McRae; Genesis; Ray Charles; Lydia Lunch; Elvis Costello & the Attractions; The Associates; Swansway (most of whom later became Scarlet Fantastic); Peter Wolf; Christian Death; Serge Gainsbourg (in French); Sarah McLachlan; Sinéad O'Connor; Gitane Demone; Mystic; Marianne Faithfull; Björk; Heather Nova; Kronos Quartet; Sarah Brightman; Venetian Snares; Eminemmylou and Legs MC; Marc Almond; Ricky Nelson; Artie Shaw; Diamanda Galas; Rob Coffinshaker; Tsukimono.

Szomorú Vasárnap

Ôsz van és peregnek a sárgult levelek
Meghalt a földön az emberi szeretet
Bánatos könnyekkel zokog az öszi szél
Szívem már új tavaszt nem vár és nem remél
Hiába sírok és hiába szenvedek
Szívtelen rosszak és kapzsik az emberek...

Meghalt a szeretet!

Vége a világnak, vége a reménynek
Városok pusztulnak, srapnelek zenélnek
Emberek vérétôl piros a tarka rét
Halottak fekszenek az úton szerteszét
Még egyszer elmondom csendben az imámat:
Uram, az emberek gyarlók és hibáznak...

Vége a világnak!

the literal translation:

Gloomy Sunday

It is autumn and the leaves are falling,
All love has died on earth.
The wind is weeping with sorrowful tears,
My heart will never hope for a new spring again,
My tears and my sorrows are all in vain,
People are heartless, greedy and wicked...

Love has died!

The world has come to its end, hope has ceased to have a meaning,
Cities are being wiped out, shrapnel is making music,
Meadows are coloured red with human blood,
There are dead people on the streets everywhere.
I will say another quiet prayer:
People are sinners, Lord, they make mistakes...

The world has ended!

the most common version (which seems to have little relation to the literal translation, other than the tune):

Gloomy Sunday

Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless.
Little white flowers will never awaken you,
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you.
Angels have no thought of ever returning you,
Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?
Gloomy Sunday.

Gloomy is Sunday, with shadows I spend it all,
My heart and I have decided to end it all.
Soon there'll be candles and prayers that are sad I know,
Let them not weep - let them know that I'm glad to go.
Death is no dream for in death I'm caressing you,
With the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you.
Gloomy Sunday.

Dreaming, I was only dreaming...
I wake and I find you asleep in the deep of my heart, here.
Darling, I hope that my dream never haunted you,
My heart is telling you how much I wanted you.
Gloomy Sunday.

another version:

Gloomy Sunday

Sadly one Sunday, I waited and waited,
With flowers in my arms, for the dream of grief I created.
I waited 'til dreams like my heart were all broken.
The flowers were all dead, and the words were unspoken.
The pain that I knew was beyond all consoling,
The beat of my heart was a bell that was tolling.
Sadly one Sunday.

Then there came a Sunday when you came to find me,
They brought me to church, and I left you behind me.
My eyes could not see what I wanted to love me,
The skies were all dark and the stars were above me.

The bell that tolled for me, and the wind whispered never
For you I have loved and I'll bless you forever.
Last of all Sundays.

-- 

   sheridan

http://www.wildewood.co.uk/

i wanna be your dog

2006-06-02T21:39:25Z

The much-covered song by The Stooges (James Osterberg (aka Iggy Pop); Dave Alexander; Ron Asheton; Scott Asheton).
There were two mixes from 1969, from the debut album, eponymously entitled The Stooges (the one by John J Cale only recently released in a re-mastered version of the album).
Among those who have covered this proto-punk song (from the decade before punk broke) are David Bowie (including versions with Iggy Pop); Tori Amos; Sonic Youth (also including versions with Iggy Pop).
I'm guessing this is another cover.

I Wanna be your Dog

So messed up - I want you here.
And in my room - I want you here.
And now we’re gonna be face to face,
And I’ll lay right down in my favourite place,

Now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Well, c'mon!

Now I’m ready to close my eyes.
Yes now I’m ready to close my mind.
Now I’m ready to feel your hands.
Lose my heart on the burning sand.

'cause now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Well, c'mon!
Woo!
$gutteral grunt
Woo!

-- 

   sheridan

http://www.wildewood.co.uk/

cuts you up

2006-06-01T16:08:11Z

By Pete Murphy (I'm not the only one who thinks Peter Murphy just doesn't sound right, am I?)
Available all over the place, including: Deep; A Live Just for Love (live); Wild Birds: Peter Murphy 1985-1995.
It was even released as a single

Cuts you Up

I find you in the morning,
After dreams of distant signs.
You pour yourself over me,
Like the sun through the blinds.
You lift me up,
And get me out,
Keep me walking, but never shout,
Hold the secret close, I hear you say.

You know the way, it throws about,
It takes you in and spits you out.
It spits you out, when you desire,
To conquer it, to feel you're higher,
To follow it, you must be clean,
With mistakes that you do mean.
Move the heart, switch the pace,
Look for what seems out of place.

On and on it goes,
Calling like a distant wind,
Through the zero hour we'll walk,
We'll cut the thick and break the thin.
No sound to break, no moment clear,
When all the doubts are crystal clear.
Crashing hard into the secret wind.

You know the way, it twists and turns,
Changing colour, spinning yarns,
You know the way, it leaves you dry.
It cuts you up and takes you high,
You know the way, it's painted gold.
Is it honey?
Is it gold?
You know the way, it throws about,
it takes you in and spits you out.

Cuts you up.
Cuts you up.
Cuts you up.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la-la-la.

You know the way it throws about,
It takes you in and spits you out.
It spits you out when you desire,
To conquer it, to feel you're higher.
To follow it, you must be clean,
With mistakes that you do mean,
Move the heart, switch the pace,
Look for what seems out of place.

Cuts you up.
Cuts you up.
It's okay, it goes this way,
The line is thin, it twists away,
Cuts you up and spits you out,
Keep me walking but never shout.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la-la-la.

-- 

   sheridan

http://www.wildewood.co.uk/