stravinsky is just so insanely bad

A friend played me an LP of Stravinsky conducting Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). It is a stunning version, recorded in 1960. But even more stunning is this immensely rigorous photo that occupies the entire album cover:

Impressed, I went looking for a photo I'd heard existed but hadn't seen: a Stravinsky mug-shot. This was taken when he was arrested for using an unconventional chord in his arrangement of "Star-Spangled Banner". It was worth finding. The rigour!

secret blogs albatrossing up in this motherfucker

i had a very good, pity post about the local bowling club but when I signed into google, I accidentally click 'new post' on one of the secret blogs. then - because I am drunk - I got dreadfully confused and went to the bar for another drink. By the time I got back to the table, I'd forgotten the post. so this is what you get for all that secret post provocation. eat it, reader!

ashfield clown-fest

i'm on the train and there's a cheump using his laptop in the seat ahead of me, browsing his images. he's stopped - and is now editing to perfection - a photograph of him sitting at his desk, using his laptop! the very same!

[update: he just said into his phone "what a fucking circus"!]

cheumpadee is as cheumpadoo does

just playing 'celebrity heads' with carlita and when I figured myself for the hammer she wouldn't accept his name as the answer, allowing only 'cheummpadee'. genius!

new event rough on pants

a friend's staying with me - trying to give up smoking and other things. yesterday tore up his last pack of cigarettes then spent the evening going through the bin for ones he could reconstitute. this turned into an event when matches ran out and the stove was brought into play; a dash from the kitchen to the front yard through three sets of doors I'd hold open along with a necessarily over-full wine glass to hand over.
my co-ordination isn't the best, and this friend does a mean non-expert rendition Xenakis's 'Mists' whenever he gets his paws on a keyboard.

Only high-cheumping. That's NOT a reply-all.

Only high-cheumping. That's NOT a reply-all.

Dooley jerking off

I'm a comedy genius! A-booyah! So Dooley was pretending to play golf - I know, right? - and then I said he was jerking off. Mark burped and it sounded like he puked a bit, in his mouth. And we all laughed, and Dooley's pants were suggesting something un rigourous, blogosphere

Fuck you,
love Mark