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Feb

Slippage [2nd]

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For some reason, Yahoo Mail1 thinks I'm an American, and when I log in it gives me USA news stories underneath my mail summary. I don't actively read them, but every so often something grabs me out of the corner of my eye.

I'm sure it's the other way round too – that UK news organizations have their own "headline shorthand" that wouldn't be understood over there – but occasionally it does mean that I have to take a second look.

I mean, how am I to know that "Pink slips stack up as recession drags on" doesn't refer to copious piles of unsold feminine underclothing?


[image nicked from this store.
Shameless Begging: V-Day is coming up... ask me for my sizes...]

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In the post today: Julian Cope: Black Sheep. [I'd link to samples or video here, but JC doesn't seem to like any of his later stuff being on the Interweb, even in truncated form.]

I've loved his stuff for over twenty years now, since World Shut Your Mouth. [Well... most of it....]

First listen impressions: Although it looks from the pic above like some bastardized blend of Motorhead and English folk, this is The Drudion's most immediately accessible album for, ooh, ages [since Interpreter, prob'ly] – less of the "sonic boom", much more mellow, much more Mellotron.

Lyrically it's pretty insane [check out "All The Blowing-Themselves-Up-Motherfuckers (Will Realise The Minute They Die That They Themselves Were Suckers)" for an early contender for the "song title of the century" award] as ever, also continuing Cope's somewhat philosophically dodgy policy of lambasting Judeo-Christian monotheism in favour of more "natural" ancient Northern European polytheism [there's a few raised-eyebrow moments, especially when Cope calls to Odin to rid the land of a false God], which'll require a lot of further listening to dig through.

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Face-Arse: This entry was supposed to be the first that would automatically show up on my Facebook newsfeed via Wordbook. Unfortunately it doesn't sodding work, after I'd already applied two fixes as suggested on its noticeboard. Big Fail, Mr. Wordbook.

So I'll have to do it manually. Arse.

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1 Yeah, I know. I use Gmail for most things now, but I've still got my old Yahoo address for stuff where I can't be bothered to change it.

 

4 Silly Responses to “Slippage [2nd]”

  1. Milly Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 19:53

    Google's in-mail ads amuse me greatly, they're constantly trying to sell me business premises (which I would understand if I used google for my work mail, but I don't), vanity publishing companies and financial advice.

    Thank you for reminding me of a song that my mp3 player needs.

  2. Custard Overlord Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 20:10

    Shout if you want more JC :-)

  3. Zoe Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 20:49

    Same for me with Yahoo. I'll guess that it's because we have .com email addresses, which Yahoo, a couple of years back, exclusively reserved for Americans and forced UK-ers from then on to sign up with a .co.uk email address. I've even entered "UK" in my 'profile' to no avail.

    Face-Arse keeps showing me adverts for weddings and such related things.

    My RSS feeds won't automatically update on my site and it's driving me crackers.

  4. Ang Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 16:04

    Could you add me on Facebook please? I couldn't find you because there's a lot of people with your name but no photo, and the search function always repeats people it's already showed me after a page or two…

    I like Julian Cope. I've liked him ever since that Q interview where he managed to use the term "forward-thinking m*****-f*****" approximately a dozen times. You have to admire that kind of commitment.