| New BJM album |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|03:35 pm] |
I've long lost track of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, a former musical obsession of mine. Seems they have a new album due (Anton finally put his money where his mouth was and worked with a guy from Spiritualized, too), and the album cover is a bit predictable (Christ imagery). The title is a pile of old pants, namely - Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=2642
Let's hope this album's better than the last one which sounded like a day in the life of a dentist.
I much prefer my accidental creation of a BJM album title, when I was eating dinner the other night:
I'm Choking on My Ignorance (That's Charming)
I was trying to get my fiance to guess the real new title of the album, with a couple of clues, and he came up with the following three guesses from the comfort of his bath:
- Fuck.
- Is Flat Cop Really Dead?
- Where is Abbey Road Anyway? |
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| Formidable error |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|03:15 pm] |
A mailshot from We Got Tickets I got in my inbox today quotes from one of my reviews of The Joy Formidable, but attribuites the quote to the band's singer, Ritzy! The cheeky beggars!
Here's the screenshot, which you'll have to click on to see clearer/bigger for some reason:
The dolts! I don't think anyone in a band would go to those lengths to describe themselves. Nice to see that my music writing does the rounds though. Think it's on their Wikipedia entry too and that We Got Tickets simply misread who said it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_Formidable
Here is the original text from me:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3463&type=Interviews
Sounds better in context. |
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| Show Tonight With Cruxshadows |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|03:03 pm] |
Hello everyone
Just to let you know we are playing tonight at the Cockpit in Leeds.
The Cruxshadows
Zeitgeist Zero
Ayria
Doors open at 7.00pm with Ayria on shortly afterwards, so please get there early.
All the best
Teresa
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| Dear Internets... |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|02:52 pm] |
... Ansel Adams did not bust his butt acheiving a perfect greyscale for you to wade in with your wishy washy muddy filthy "black and white" images that quite frankly offend my snobbish eyes!
Even in an image where the overall feel appears to be shades of grey you will still have a distinct dark point and light point. There are many ways to achieve this but levels is probably the simplest. If you dont know what levels are in potatochop then go to image, adjust, levels. Then bring you black and white points on the edges to the start of the histograms or even further in for a more extreme effect - but be careful doing this as you will start to lose detail in your shadows and highlights. The higher the peak of the histogram the more of that tone is prevelant in the image.
Here are some visuals pertinent to what I am ranting -
http://www.inkjetart.com/2450/48bit/page4.html
NB - Using levels is not just for greyscale, it also produces an effect similar to curves but less hap hazard and fuckupable.
/rant over. I have been meaning to do that for some time. Despite the bitchy, arseholish tone I do hope the above will be of actual use to people :) I fully believe if "ur doin it wrong" then dont just bitch, tell people how to do it right! Oh and if anyone has a different effective way they do it personally I'm always up for learning new trix myself! |
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| Rhetorical question/RTFS. |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|01:50 pm] |
Do you suppose that there's any documentation covering the interaction of Samba, AD and Kerberos other than the usual Linux pish of 'Do this, do this other thing, magic happens, profit!' ?
I don't.
(Clearly I need a usericon that means 'Rochambeau Linux weenies' and 'I am already running several proper operating systems.') |
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| Strange and Luxurious? |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|12:59 pm] |
Luxury Stranger upcoming shows:
11/12/09 'A Funeral Party' at The Central, Nottingham (with The Amber Herd, In Isolation) 
12/12/09 G Fest, The Library, Leeds (with Vendemmian, Rhombus and Legion)
13/12/09 G Fest, The Bull and Gate,Kentish Town, London (with Vendemmian, Rhombus and Legion)
19/12/09 GrooveStation, Dresden, Germany supporting Die Art
31/12/09 NYE Party, The Central, Nottingham
28/01/10 The Central, Nottingham
12/02/10 'Rip It Up, Ripley' @ PJ's, Ripley
19/02/10 Misery of Sound, Blackpool TBC
21/02/10 The Purple Turtle, Camden (with Screaming Banshee Aircrew and Hindley)
27/02/10 Pitch Black, The Appleby, Burton On Trent
04/03/10 P60, Amstelveen, Netherlands (supporting Levinhurst)
Stay strange and luxurious!
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| Wolverhampton Giffard 28th Nov 2009 |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|11:46 am] |
Wolverhampton Giffard 28th Nov 2009
Lee-Anne and Nev Having a Strum
Tony the Merch
Matthew with Des from Balaam who helped out loading out (thanks mate)
Hi all
This is being written at the Travelodge in Stafford, the reason we are in Stafford is that the Travelodge we booked into was over sold, and they had to send us off to another one! Still its actually an advantage as it’s a lot quieter than if we had stayed in the city center
Anyhow I guess you want to know how last night went? Well as I said earlier, the sound check went very well and we popped to a pub up the road for some food.
The support band was Ted the promoters daughters band, and they were rather good, doing the modern indie pop things, they were very tight and for their first gig pretty amazing.
We went on stage at around 11.30 was a late show, we played out set, I’m not going to post the set list until after the tour.
There was in essence one major problem, the sound engineer had simply disappeared nowhere to be seen, so we did have a problem of constant feedback for most of the gig. This unfortunately put a bit of a damper on yours truly. Still were off to stockpot now for more rock and roll. |
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| *Crack* |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|01:24 am] |
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I have an external Firewire hard drive and don't have permissions to view certain files because I'm not the creator of them. When I'm done clearing-out a storage unit, I'm going to try to crack them. |
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| Mininova |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|02:47 am] |
Hey, musicians!
Mininova is only distributing legit content now, and they don't have lots of it (yet) but are still getting a lot of traffic (this may die away over time).
Now would be a really good idea to head on over there and upload your material to them, it's free and it looks like I just got 100 downloads in my first hour of ToRights being online there. Which is not to be sniffed at!
That, too, will die down when I'm no longer featured on the front page, but if I can get my music to another 1,000 people in a day, I'll be over the chuffing moon :) |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
VARIOUS ARTESANS
FRESH GOTH MESS
KS
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kid_sportswear knows a thing or ten about unruly, quintessentially nosiy bastards, and he’s thrown a variety together here in the belief it represents a gathering close to the finest Goth spirit, but without the social stigma, which is an interesting concept. He doesn’t realise that having veered off to investigate the Art-Punk-Indie (translation: tuneless timewasters)/Dance-Hippy (translation: Hippies dancing) vortex he is now slowly being assimilated, drawn back into the richer, darker world. You can jog, but you can’t hide.
It ends up as a 2CD set, and here we go. Eyes down for a haunted house. (Do bingo jokes work outside the UK?)
( Read more... )
http://www.mediafire.com/?qqjmlkyizzm |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|10:49 pm] |
WOW.
I need this so much.
This could revolutionise modelling for games.
Imagine if you paired it with a reprap. "hey, that thing's cool. I'd like one. pass it here a minute..." (scan/cleanup/duplicate).
FUUUUTURRRRRE! |
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| Advance warning... |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|10:19 pm] |
Geordi, Paul and Karen are having a bit of a hoedown.
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|10:01 pm] |
Random acts of kindness ftw :)
a mate just sent me a hearwarming text out of the blue.
thankya, dude :) has much improved the gloom i was in! |
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| First report on the road |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|09:19 pm] |
New Voice Tour - Arrive in Wolverhampton
So hear I am in the Giffard Arms in Wolverhampton. The Drive up was good, we made a detour as part of the M5 was closed, however, this also saved is 10 miles in travel too.
 
Sound check was good, we did a little bit of tweaking to the overall sound just to get it right. They have great monitors here as good on stage sound is always good to have.
Funny thing in the room where the gig takes place we just did a really good rendition of Jessica acoustically with Nev on Guitar, Lee-Anne on Bass and me and Niall singing. Maybe ill post a video of it he he.
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| Hello Seattle |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|11:33 am] |
Seattle workshop underway! Gabriel and Kai photographing Georgia. Students completely rocking. More on Twitter most likely if you're curious about how it's going. @finallykyle 
Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
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