No needs for CDs, cake, dress code

The Ship Inn in Wokingham, 7pm onwards tomorrow evening. All welcome newbies and oldies. Just a few beers and shoot the breeze

Laters

Oh and if any boozers want a lift to and from Maidenhead, just ask

of all for adulation beyond ability, talent or charisma has to be......,the Gerry & the Pacemakers of cult acts"

that is the picked out quote from a piece in a monthly music magazine. My question is - who would you put in the gap in that sentence?

If you know who it is in the mag then keep schtum! I kind of agree with him thou.

This just makes me want to curl up into a ball for so many reasons.
Andrew Neil's air DJ-ing, the look on Portillo's face throughout.
Its "just a bit of fun" but it sends me fetal.

The other TV moment that makes me wake up screaming is Richard Madeley's Ali G impression. Just awful. So bad I can't see to find it on the internet.

What are yours?

Yes The Leader has entered the Twitterverse to announce he is to write his autobiography

However already he has been "punked" by the great and the good in the shape of comedy dude Peter Serafinowicz

Glitter quickly deleted this when he realised but not quick enough.....

Muhammed Ali turns 70 today

I'm no fan of sports or even boxing but for how he has lived his life and for his entertainment, intelligence, wit, style, presence and bravery, he is one of my heroes.

This is an UNREPEATABLE open offer to all 27th Jan Liverpool Mingle attendees. This chance may never come again so take adavantge (missis)

Let me know any dodgy bootleg Cds\DVDs you'd like and I'll try and supply. Specific gigs\titles or just something general. just ask.

You don't ask, don't get and all that.

Live at the Bowery Ballroom, New York City, NY; December 31, 2011

Looking For You (I Was)
25th Floor
Space Monkey
Cash
Drifter’s Escape
My Blakean Year
Beneath The Southern Cross
We Three
Footnote To Howl/Don’t Say Nothing
Redondo Beach
Summer Cannibals
Because The Night
Pissing In A River
Peaceable Kingdom
People Have The Power
NYE Countdown/Auld Lang Syne
People Have The Power
Garage Medley
Night Time
We Ain’t Got) Nothing Yet
Born To Lose
Pushin’ Too Hard
My Generation
Wichita Lineman, with Michael Stipe
Around The World
The Last Time
Until The End Of The World
Not Fade Away
Babelogue/Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger

radio broadcast available here - http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=978

Best: Peter Cook
Worst : Jeremy Kyle

Massive?

Went down to the centre I used to volunteer at yesterday and found one of the first things they'd like me to do is connect their two PCs so that they can share files, share the printer and share broadband net access.

Now my basic knowledge suggest that an Ethernet connection between the two will do the job. I'm going in tomorrow to have a proper look but I'd put money on it that the older PC hasn't got an Ethernet connection. Is there such things as a USB\Ethernet adapter that will solve that problem?

One machine is running XP, the other Vista if that makes any difference

So if someone could let me know the basics I need and any easy to follow guides that don't fall into tech speak then that would be a great help

Thanks in advance

Prof Stephen Hawking - 70 today. A remarkable man in many ways but awesome in this

"Did you have fun with your robot buddy?"

Has had a major effect on me, the music I listen to and how I think a pop star should be. I actually got into Bowie in order to impress my first girlfriend (or get into her, I forget). Her pal told me she was a big fan and as I only knew the hits I went to the library and got out Ziggy, Hunky Dory and Diamond Dogs. Was instantly smitten.

It turned out the girl had borrowed her brothers records and didn't really like Bowie that much. She's long gone but me n the Dame are still going strong. And I would if I was gay. I so would.

So, Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature - Happy Birthday, Dave

Wuzza wuzza wuzzz

was sorting out some vinyl tonight and found my Iron Maiden 'The First 10 Years" box set. These were 10 double 12" singles re-released fortnightly in 1990. From Running Free To Infinite Dreams. They included 'Listen With Nicko' the Maiden drummers tales and jokes - v entertaining

With each release you got a coupon and if you sent them off at the end of the run you got a box to store them in. Well I did it for both editions.

Did anyone else do this with other things? I seem to remember if you collected coupons from Star Wars figures you could send off for a Darth vader collectors case to keep your figures in.

Plus who were you a fan of that made you fall for this sort of release? Wedding Present? Ash? Fabs?

You got this sort of malarky with yer new fangled mp3s

and immediately thought of this

and left me a mule to ride......."

Y'know I must have first seen the Blues Brothers about 20 years ago with their version of the tune and it wasn't until today that I knew what the hell the "katy" is. I'd guessed it was something to do with trains.

The same phrase is in Gillian Welch's 'Revelator' so I looked it up and it refers to the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, The MKT or "the K-T",

Anyone have phrases in songs they didn't understand for years or still don't?

now I know I'm late to the Gillian n Dave party but blimey its one of the most sublimely beautiful songs I ever heard

Anyone else got an obsession right now?