The world loves a bastard...

BRAIN FART

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:04:06 +0100

I just got an email through with artwork for a digital single that was basically a picture of a white bunny rabbit and genuinely thought I was hallucinating. Bring on Amsterdam tomorrow, where hopefully there will be white bunny rabbits all over the fucking shop.

"Pain or damage don’t end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when..."

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:36:23 +0100

“Pain or damage don’t end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man… and give some back.”

- Al Swearengen [Deadwood]

From the @arseblog

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:42:26 +0000

“Save the hatchet jobs for the £35m flash in the pan who punches his girlfriend in the face, the morally bankrupt England superstar who holds his club to ransom to double his wages after going 6 months with just one goal, the drunk drivers, drug takers, serial cheats, dangerous tacklers or indeed anyone who might actually deserve it.”

- brilliant

You know you’re going to enjoy an album when you see...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:03:12 +0000

You know you’re going to enjoy an album when you see something like this on the disc…

thedailywhat: Holiday of the Day: Happy Festivus! Air your...

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:49:58 +0000

thedailywhat:

Holiday of the Day: Happy Festivus! Air your grievances.

[indiecred.]

tumblr4men: Submitted by document-one SUBMIT Hell yeah.

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:01:48 +0000

tumblr4men:

Submitted by document-one

SUBMIT

Hell yeah.

RIP Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:38:21 +0000

When I get lonesome the wind begin t’ moan
When I trip fallin’ ditch
Somebody wanna’ throw the dirt right down
When I feel like dyin’ the sun come out
‘n stole m’ fear ‘n gone
Who’s afraid of the spirit with the bluesferbones
Who’s afraid of the fallin’ ditch
Fallin’ ditch ain’t gonna get my bones
How’s that for the spirit
How’s that for the things
Ain’t my fault the thing’s gone wrong
‘n when I’m smilin’ my face wrinkles up real warm
‘n when um frownin’ things just turn t’ stone
Fallin’ ditch ain’t gonna get my bones
‘n when I get lonesome the wind begin t’ moan
Fallin’ ditch ain’t gonna get my bones

“Fallin’ Ditch” from the album Trout Mask Replica

First gay NBA player on Sepp Blatter's comments

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:26:00 +0000

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has joked that gay fans travelling to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar should “refrain from any sexual activities”.

From John Amaechi:

“The statements and the position adopted by Sepp Blatter and Fifa regarding LGBT fans who would pay the enormous ticket and travel prices to attend the World Cup in 2022 should have been wholly unacceptable a decade ago.

Instead, with little more than an afterthought Fifa has endorsed the marginalisation of LGBT people around the world.

Anything less than a full reversal of his position is unacceptable and if the FA and football and sporting associations around the world fail to acknowledge this insult, they too will be complicit.

If sport cannot serve to change society, even temporarily during the duration of an event like the World Cup that invites the world to participate, then it is little more than grown men chasing a ball and we should treat it as such.”

A post for @JD_2020 on #TomahawkTuesday

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:41:00 +0000

PLEASE put this on your status to raise Tomahawk awareness. Accurate Tomahawk throws are an instant killer and cause great humiliation for the recipient. Tomahawks are responsible for the majority of embarrassing (yet hilarious) deaths in the world, yet nobody is taking them seriously. 93% of readers won’t copy and paste this because they have been Tomahawked. The other 7% are probably out of Tomahawking distance.

People… if you must update your status on a Saturday night by saying things like “Louis...

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:40:52 +0000

People… if you must update your status on a Saturday night by saying things like “Louis is a twat” and “Louis pleas just fuck off”, please be clear whether you’re talking to me or my gay Irish boyband mogul namesake. Thank you.

Fort Awesome… that is all.

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:24:25 +0000

Fort Awesome… that is all.

Hey everyone, I just downed a bottle of cider!!

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:48:02 +0100

Hey everyone, I just downed a bottle of cider!!

You there! You, with that face of yours... I'm so sick of that face.

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:40:57 +0100

So there are 7 of these people and they’re all tragically ugly. What is the point of buses? Cider is a lie and cannot be trained for circular motion. It’s so upsetting. I just took a tiny bite out of one of my placemats and I hate you… also, my elbow hurts strangely, like there’s a wasp dancing around in there. BATMAN, etc, etc… Superman is an arse. A massive, stupid arse.

Awesome things I have done in the last 2 hours: locked myself on my balcony, called mum in a panic,...

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:00:31 +0100

Awesome things I have done in the last 2 hours: locked myself on my balcony, called mum in a panic, encouraged mum and neighbour to open my front door with coathanger, got mum to phone locksmith, hug locksmith as he opened the door, had a couple of cigarettes and a cup of tea with mum, went to bed and updated awesome status.

jonmtm: i might be drunk… have a video Jon is a drunken mess.

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:17:19 +0100

jonmtm:

i might be drunk… have a video

Jon is a drunken mess.

I'd like to be a drummer again

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:26:44 +0100

If you or anyone you know is in need of one be sure to let me know. No bands trying to “make it” please, i’m only in it for fun so ideally a garage band with a few pub gigs or a covers band… Don’t all rush at once.

#QOTSA - Rated Rx: Sonic perfection

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:39:00 +0100

Now… just to be clear, those of you that know me will know that i’m not some kind of blogging machine who is comfortable with writing a couple of paragraphs about the things I enjoy on a daily basis. Not because I can’t, it’s just that i’m not necessarily happy with what I write and there’s enough opinion going around the internet that eventually, someone will say what I wanted to say a lot better than I ever could. However, today I received a promo copy of the 10th anniversary edition of the album “Rated R” by Queens Of The Stone Age and I decided to break character and share some stuff with whoever feels like reading it.

At this point, I will also say that Queens Of The Stone Age are by far and away my favourite band and probably always will be. I listen to at least one track from “Rated R” on an almost daily basis. The fact is, after 10 years of owning it I never tire of it. It is sonic perfection.

For the past year or so, i’ve been hearing that Josh Homme was going back to remix and remaster QOTSA’s (now deleted) self-titled debut album, which I was unbelievably excited about. Though the album is pretty much Josh by himself, tracks like ‘You Can’t Quit Me Baby’ and ‘Mexicola’ remain arguably some of QOTSA’s finest output. I thought it deserved to be revisited and revitalised and would turn on a lot of Josh’s newer fans onto a superb record. When I heard that the reissue was going to be Rated R, I was actually a bit disappointed. For me, Rated R didn’t need this attention. I wasn’t thinking of the big picture, and I had forgotten how much this album genuinely changed my life as a music fan and a musician.

I was 16 in the year 2000 when Rated R was released. At the time, i’ll admit to the fact that I was listening to Limp Bizkit, Blink 182 and nu-metal as if it was played by the Gods themselves. I was at Reading Festival that year and my friend Ben was coaxing me to go and see this band that he’d heard on the radio and had this song that was basically saying a load of drugs over and over. It didn’t sound great to me, but he dragged me into the Radio 1 tent anyway.

The tent was packed, and the general feeling around the place was that we were all about to be treated to something really special. I was hooked instantly. Here were this group of misfits playing unimaginable riffs and melodies, backed with huge basslines, screaming vocals and massive drumbeats. This was the coolest fucking band on the planet. An effortless powerhouse of brilliant noise and mayhem. Music would never be the same again for me.

When I got my hands on the album, that was what really sealed the deal. From now on if I wanted a love song, I wanted it to be about crawling through a girl’s window or knowing that you’d never do her any good, not some boy that cant grow a beard singing about the girl that dumped them at the movies. If I wanted to hear songs about having a good time, I wanted them to be about smoking and drinking or taking too much acid and thinking your friend’s Dad is warped and bubbling, not some dopey fratboy singing about the time he nearly got kicked out of college for throwing a party on campus. Music was real for the first time.

‘Feel Good Hit Of The Summer’ is still probably one of the best openings to an album you could ever hear. You can almost hear the band punching their way out of your speakers, ready to pour tequila down your throat and make it so you won’t remember anything after that. Then somehow the album goes quieter, but also darker.

‘The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret’ is a melodic warning that you’ll get what’s coming to you. It’s also got this chorus which can only be described as beautiful fucking rock music with a soulful edge that very few bands could ever dream of pulling off.

‘Leg Of Lamb’ just makes me want a drink whenever I hear it. It’s like some trigger I have that I feel that I should be taking huge pulls on a cigarette, drinking my 17th bottle of Corona and doing things I shouldn’t be.

If you’ve never listened to ‘Auto Pilot’ whilst high. Go out and buy yourself some weed now and try not to sway when the beat stops and Josh just sings: “Aaaaaaaah, Auto Pilot no control…”

‘Better Living Through Chemisty’ takes you back and forth on this crazy kind of quiet/loud musical magic carpet ride. As far as the album goes, the track has a sort of unexpected quality. Almost as if it shouldn’t be on the album, it should be out of place and stick out like a sore thumb, but somehow it works so damned well.

‘Monster In The Parasol’ is just a great song about being absolutely fucked out of your head and seeing the the scariest things, but “oh well”. What other band in the world would have even dreamt of this song?

‘Quick And To The Pointless’ is probably my favourite Nick Olivieri moment. His personality oozes through the music. It’s a filthy, wrong and most of all really enjoyable minute and a half of utter brilliant mayhem

‘In The Fade’ is my favourite track on the album. Most people will probably say ‘Feel Good…’ or ‘The Lost Art’. For me though, the combination of production, melody, lyrics (“I never do you any good”) and a superb vocal from Mark Lanegan make this one of QOTSA’s finest songs.

‘Tension Head’ any song that has the words “I’m feelin’ so sick… on the bathroom floor” needs to be heard. Over and over and over…

‘Lightning Song’ is the other track on “Rated R” that can be labelled as unexpected. It’s another really great piece of music. Personally, I see this track as the perfect antidote to ‘Tension Head’. Almost like taking aspirin after a heavy night out.

‘I Think I Lost My Headache’ is warped, drug ridden, nasty and sinister musical brilliance. “It’s all my head I know / So they tell me so / Until my head explodes / Into my head it goes…”

The bonus disc on the 10th anniversary edition has more tracks that need to be listened to, though any self respecting QOTSA fan will already have them they serve as an reminder of just how fucking good this band are. I will happily pay £10 for any album that has ‘Born To Hula’ on it, even though i’ve already got it in about 8 different formats.

The bonus disc ends with THAT Reading set in 2000. Which I thought i’d never get to hear again and i’m so fucking pleased that other people will get to hear just how fucking amazing it was. So whoever had that idea, I owe you a beer or twelve.

BUY THIS.

Breaking News:

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:58:14 +0100

Police in Liverpool just announced the discovery of an arms cache of 2000 semi automatic rifles with 250,000 rounds of ammunition, 10 anti-tank missiles, 4 grenade launchers, 20 tonnes of heroin, £50 million in forged UK banknotes and 25 trafficked Ukrainian prostitutes all in a semi-detached house behind the Public Library in Toxteth.

Local residents were stunned. A community spokesman said: ”We’re shocked. We never knew we had a Library.”

A tale from the music industry...

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:13:09 +0100

Dear Mr Mills,

I have purchased one of your 4 disc box sets and the 4th disc doesn’t work. I have sent it back to the store I purchased it in 3 times now and every time it doesn’t work, so there is an obvious production error.
Please let me know how I can get a working copy of this 4th disc. I’m sure this is a large scale error, so i’m sure you have some sort of system for sending working replacement or a refund.
What exactly is the problem with this disc anyway?
Thanks.
Mr ******
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Dear Mr ******
The 4th disc in this collection is a DVD, this is clearly noted on the packaging. If you put it in a DVD player, that should get it.
Regards,Louis Mills

I have just woken up with some kind of terrible affliction. Upon opening my eyes, I am suddenly...

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:33:17 +0100

I have just woken up with some kind of terrible affliction. Upon opening my eyes, I am suddenly overcome with a sharp pain in the head. What’s more, it feels like moving would be a bad idea. Hmmmm… something awful must have happened last evening. If I hadn’t of had those 20+ beers, perhaps I could remember.