h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Pilchard I believe is old Cornish word meaning 'small sardine'.

There are a great many songs, that make me feel something.
However, I think that there five artists the absense of whose music would add greatly to emptiness I'm prone to feel. Their music can even allow me to explore what I feel more safely and one line of their songs can spark a torrent words and ideas in my head.

!. A Perfect Circle

£. Tool

^. David Gray

*. PJ Harvey

%. Coal Chamber

Music is wonderful, gets to the spaces in the rest of the nonsense that is life like nothing else can.

I am currently obsessed with Mescaleros "Global a go go"; it helps!

So, how is life going generally? Did you finish decorating the new flat yet?

zdt

I've been listing to The Incredible String Band today, for similar reasons.

I find The Lightning Seeds very useful, too. Have you heard of them?

I really need to start previewing my posts....

Incredible String Band; wow! Haven't heard them for about 30 yrs; used to adore them.

Can't see anything wrong with your post Snaily!

zdt

I never preview my posts. Doubt there be much point, I never see the errors until I've pressed the post button, then suddenly they are revealed to me.

Lightening Seeds..yays..

You showed me... I like that particular one very much..

Erros..hmm

Been listening to U2 alot - Joshua Tree.

Crying a bit too, but that's neither here nor there.

Oh, Vix! I'm sorry to hear you're unhappy too!

"I never see the errors until I've pressed the post button, then suddenly they are revealed to me."

That has happened with every one of my journal entries so far!

I've pretty much stopped worrying about errors... I hate grammar. I've been listening to a lot of classical lately. Bach esp., and I don't know why.

I like grammar, inasmuch as I get paid for being obsessive about it. On the other hand, applying fixed rules to something as mutable as language is never going to work properly.

But I digress.

I used to have something of an instinctive grasp of grammar and language. I don't now... My mind is perpetually in decay.

I think you do.

"So, how is life going generally?"

Not as well as it might.

"Did you finish decorating the new flat yet?"

No.

"I've been listing to The Incredible String Band today, for similar reasons."

I'm guessing this band isn't the Japanese new wave collective that performed at Glastonbury a few years back whose name is similar but completely different who came to mind before I read later posts?

"I find The Lightning Seeds very useful, too. Have you heard of them?"

Yes, I've heard of them, but I've not lisened to more than two of their songs, the one off the car add and the football anthem.

"...applying fixed rules to something as mutable as language is never going to work properly."

This is ture, but I reserve the right to hate txt-speak, regardless.

"But I digress."

'Digressions incontestibly are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.'

"I think you do."

I doubt there is a rational explaination for that.

"I'm guessing this band isn't the Japanese new wave collective that performed at Glastonbury a few years back whose name is similar but completely different who came to mind before I read later posts?"

Er... no. http://www.makingtime.co.uk/beglad/story1.htm

"the one off the car add and the football anthem."

They did a car ad They did a FOOTBALL ANTHEM Now I've got an image of stoned fans swaying gently in the stands.

"but I reserve the right to hate txt-speak"

And I reserve the right to be anal about all forms of writing.

'Digressions incontestibly are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.'

You like Laurence Sterne?

"I doubt there is a rational explaination for that."

I hope you're not suggesting that I'm irrational. Nothing could be further from the banana.

"They did a car ad They did a FOOTBALL ANTHEM Now I've got an image of stoned fans swaying gently in the stands."

One of their songs was used in a car advert, I'm uncertain if they appeared in it themselves...
They did 'Three Lions [On A Shirt]' with Skinner and Baddiel.

"You like Laurence Sterne?"

I've not read anything of his, apart from the quote...

"They did 'Three Lions [On A Shirt]' with Skinner and Baddiel."

Oh, that one. I didn't realise that was them. I've just got the one album, given to me by a friend; I hadn't heard of them before that. It sounds nothing like the football anthem!

"I've not read anything of his, apart from the quote..."

Me neither. I was supposed to read Tristram Shandy for my degree, but never got round to it. I've heard a lot of good things about it, though. It's supposed to be quite funny and surreal.

The humour is not unlike that of my beloved Robert Rankin. However, I am not knowledgeable enough to fully understand all the references, they come at a pace and although I see there is a joke there, I am too ignorant to fully comprehend it, but I can see it is rather good.

btw Tristram Shandy has been "adapted" for the screen, kind of. Into 'A Cock and Bull Story' staring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and the lovely Stephen Fry...
http://www.shadowsonthewall.co.uk/05/cockbull.htm

I gave my dad a Robert Rankin for Christmas... The Witches of Chiswick. Let's see what he thinks of it. And if I can nick it from him!

Witches, I regard as one of Robert's best tales and I think should be quite accessible.
It touches on the mythos of Jack the Ripper and the event the Saturday after the London meet is called Saucy Jack Day which is going top an sorta educational tour of the area/pub crawl.