Been mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song? Be afraid.....
Titmus, Fred
first mentioned 07/10/1985 – died 23/03/2011
outliving the curse by 25 years and 167 days
Bongo, Ali
07/10/1985 – died 08/03/2009
23 years and 152 days
Kitt, Eartha
07/10/1985 – 25/12/2008
23 years and 79 days
Bastable, Tony
07/10/1985 – 25/05/2007
21 years and 230 days
Puskas, Ferenc
??/01/1986 – 17/11/2006
c.20 years and 300 days
Farm, George
??/01/1986 – 18/07/2004
c.19 years and 180 days
Quinn, Harry
??/10/1991 – 1/10/2009
c.18 years
Hird, Thora
07/10/1985 – 15/03/2003
17 years and 159 days
Mount, Peggy
07/10/1985 – 13/11/2001
16 years and 37 days
Wolstenholme, Kenneth
03/03/1986* – 25/03/2002
16 years and 22 days
Moore, Brian
08/09/1986* – 01/09/2001
14 years and 359 days
Roddick, Anita
25/10/1993 – 10/09/2007
13 years and 320 days
Vandross, Luther
??/10/1991 – 01/07/2005
c.13 years and 260 days
Hull, Rod
08/09/1986* – 17/03/1999
12 years and 190 days
Vine, David
02/02/1997 – 11/01/2009
11 years and 343 days
Spencer, Di
??/01/1986 – 31/08/1997
c.11 years and 230 days
Beefheart, Captain
25/04/2000 – 17/12/2010
10 years and 236 days
Most, Mickey
25/10/1993 – 30/05/2003
9 years and 217 days
Ball, Ernie
??/06(?)/1995 – 09/09/2004
c.9 years and 90 days
Rayner, Claire
04/08/2003 – 11/10/2010
7 years and 68 days
Todd, Bob
07/10/1985 – 21/10/1992
7 years and 14 days
Mortensen, Stanley
??/01/1986 – 22/05/1991
c.5 years and 130 days
Jackson, Gordon
07/10/1985 – 15/01/1990
4 years and 100 days
Yashin, Lev
??/01/1986 – 20/03/1990
c.4 years and 60 days
Pope JP2
25/06/2001 – 02/04/2005
3 years and 281 days
Queen Mother, The
29/06/1998 – 30/03/2002
3 years and 274 days
Monopoly, Tony
??/10/1991 – 21/03/1995
c.3 years and 160 days
Gerulaitis, Vitas
??/10/1991 – 17/09/1994
c.2 years and 340 days
Dali, Salvador
08/09/1986* – 23/01/1989
2 years and 138 days
Savalas, Telly
??/10/1991 – 22/01/1994
c.2 years and 100 days
Lee, Arthur
26/09/2004 – 03/08/2006
1 year and 311 days
Warhol, Andy
07/10/1985 – 22/02/1987
1 year and 138 days
Rushton, Willie
05/08/1995* – 18/08/1996
1 year and 14 days
Moult, Ted
20/11/1985* – 03/09/1986
287 days
Rous, Stanley
??/01/1986 – 18/07/1986
c.180 days
*Peel session dates have been given, if these preceded the particular track going on sale.
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Those No Longer In Need Of Season Tickets
From: Half Man Half Biscuit: Those No Longer In Need Of Season Tickets - lyrics http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/because-i-aint-got-a-job/those-no-longer-in-need-of-season-tickets/#ixzz1IB9u6fiu
Godzilla in Mexico by Roberto Bolaño
Listen carefully, my son: bombs were falling
over Mexico City
but no one even noticed.
The air carried poison through
the streets and open windows.
You'd just finished eating and were watching
cartoons on TV.
I was reading in the bedroom next door
when I realized we were going to die.
Despite the dizziness and nausea I dragged myself
to the kitchen and found you on the floor.
We hugged. You asked what was happening
and I didn't tell you we were on death's program
but instead that we were going on a journey,
one more, together, and that you shouldn't be afraid.
When it left, death didn't even
close our eyes.
What are we? you asked a week or year later,
ants, bees, wrong numbers
in the big rotten soup of chance?
We're human beings, my son, almost birds,
public heroes and secrets.
over Mexico City
but no one even noticed.
The air carried poison through
the streets and open windows.
You'd just finished eating and were watching
cartoons on TV.
I was reading in the bedroom next door
when I realized we were going to die.
Despite the dizziness and nausea I dragged myself
to the kitchen and found you on the floor.
We hugged. You asked what was happening
and I didn't tell you we were on death's program
but instead that we were going on a journey,
one more, together, and that you shouldn't be afraid.
When it left, death didn't even
close our eyes.
What are we? you asked a week or year later,
ants, bees, wrong numbers
in the big rotten soup of chance?
We're human beings, my son, almost birds,
public heroes and secrets.
Popcorn Superhet Receiver
The Magik*Magik Orchestra performs Jonny Greenwood's "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" at Herbst Theatre as part of the Wordless Music Series on August 21st, 2008. Conductor: Beni Shwartz.
Nathaniel Mellors- 'Our House'
If there was any justice in the world Nathaniel Mellors' insanely brilliant 'Contemporary Art Soap' would be on telly, every night, with an omnibus on sundays. NOW SAY 'MOUTH'!
'Ourhouse' trailer 02 from NOMAD on Vimeo.
'Ourhouse' from NOMAD on Vimeo.
'Ourhouse' trailer 01 from NOMAD on Vimeo.
'Ourhouse' from NOMAD on Vimeo.
'Ourhouse' trailer 03 from NOMAD on Vimeo.
'Ourhouse' from NOMAD on Vimeo.
'Ourhouse' from NOMAD on Vimeo.
'Ourhouse' from NOMAD on Vimeo.
'Ourhouse' from NOMAD on Vimeo.
Susan Hiller - Magic Lantern 1987 (Audio)
If you close your eyes and imagine 3 coloured circles, gradually growing and changing (see pic), then you too can re-create Susan Hiller's fantastic 'Magic Lantern' art work in your own home. The 'Voices of the Dead' come from a Freebie flexi-disc that came with issue 1 of The Unexplained magazine from the early 80's (vid here). Being forced to listen to it as a 10 year old by my older brother was pure nightmare fuel and it was duly chucked in the bin. I'd completely forgotten about it until 30 years later when I experienced 'Magic Lantern' at Tate Britain in 2011. Scary.
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Slow Action by Ben Rivers
Saw the whole of this recently at Matt's Gallery in London and it blew me away- wish it was available on DVD!
Slow Action, Ben Rivers from Kate MacGarry on Vimeo.
Slow Action is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film that brings together a series of four 16mm works which exist somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction.
Continuing his exploration of curious and extraordinary environments, Slow Action applies the idea of island biogeography - the study of how species and eco-systems evolve differently when isolated and surrounded by unsuitable habitat - to a conception of the Earth in a few hundred years; the sea level rising to absurd heights, creating hyperbolic utopias that appear as possible future mini-societies.
Slow Action is filmed at different sites across the globe: Lanzarote - a beautiful strange island known for its beach resorts yet one of the driest places on the planet, full of dead volcanoes and strange architecture; Gunkanjima - an island off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, a deserted city built on a rock, once home to thousands of families mining its rich coal reserves; Tuvalu - one of the smallest countries in the world, with tiny strips of land barely above sea level in the middle of the Pacific; and Somerset - an as yet to be discovered island and its various clades.
This series of constructed realities explores the environments of self-contained lands and the search for information to enable the reconstruction of soon to be lost worlds.
The film’s soundtrack - narratives by writer Mark von Schlegell - detail each of the four islands’ evolutions according to their geographical, geological, climatic and botanical conditions.
Slow Action, inspired by novels such as Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, Bacon’s The New Atlantis, Herbert Read’s The Green Child and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, embodies the spirit of exploration, experiment and active research that has come to characterise Rivers’ practice.