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What I'd buy if I won the lottery
Posted Jul 13, 2004
A 1930s suburban semi in north or west London
A small cottage somewhere in the country with a couple of acres
An apartment in Manhattan, West Village preferably
An apartment in LA
A house in Auckland
A house in Sydney
A sweetshop with a room in the back which could be used as a sweetmaking workshop, plus two gas fires, a vacuum cooker, four copper pans, a BCH mixing fire, three slabs, a mixer, a dragee pan, a pulling machine, a cooled sleeve drop roller and moulds, a toffee cutter, a batch roller, a couple of cut and wrap machines, a cooling table, and an old sugar boiler to teach me how to make sweets again.
A debenture at The Royal Albert Hall
A debenture at Centre Court
A lease on a box in the Mound Stand at Lords
Two months rental of Richard Branson's island in the Caribbean during the next England tour of the West Indies
All the servers Jim Lynn could ever want for this website
Hell - this website 
A 1959 Cadillac Eldorado convertible - red of course
A '67 Corvette - red of course
A VW Beetle convertible
An AC Cobra
An old style Land Rover
A Routemaster bus
A SMEG refrigerator - well, who doesn't want smeg in their kitchen?
Subscriptions to The Independent, The Telegraph, The Grauniad, and yes, even The Times, for each of my residences
The best damn sound system I could afford, a 5.1 home theatre, and any CD or DVD I want
Cuban cigars
A shave at Trumpers of St James every couple of days
A Crombie that actually fits me
A cherry wood desk and a leather chair
A model railway
All the Thunderbirds toys and memorabilia I can find
Whatever my friends want.
This list is, of course, never ending and will be added to from time to time 
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Paul Weller
Posted Jul 13, 2004
While I was still working at Cheapo I bought myself a promo copy of Paul Weller's CD Illumination, but I only just got around to listening to it.
Wow. The man's a bloody musical genius. That is to say, he pushes all my buttons - him and Tom Waits (and Barry of course, but that's a 
thang 
). I don't know why, I'm not the kind of person who can critique a piece of art or the artist. For me, Stanley Road was the best album of the 90s. What? Nirvana? Who are they?
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Baba-rara-cucu-dada
Posted Jul 12, 2004
Some time in the 80s I think, there was a song - it might have been called Barracuda, or maybe it was by The Barracudas. It had a spoken introduction, and one of the characters kept saying 'bacaruda', until someone asked him to say 'barracuda'.
"I can't say bacaruda"
"You mean barracuda"
"Yes"
Well try this - repeat after me: ba"
"Ba"
"Ra"
"Ra"
"Cu"
"Cu"
"Da"
"Da"
"Now put them all together"
"Babararacucudada"
Wish I could remember which song and by whom - Google's no help 
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What an amazing piece of machinery to be sure
Posted Jul 11, 2004
The Infinite Improbability Drive, that is <./>RandomNormalEntry</.>
And it's just amazing what it turns up
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Baa ba ba baa ba dang a dang dang a ding dong ding
Posted Jul 8, 2004
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/07jul_bluemoon.htm?list130818
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