Posts from January 2007
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Jan 07
FOOD SCIENCE DAY 2: cheese that’s good to fry part 2
The experiment continued: finding which cheeses are good if you fry them. This time I used my tiny wee small frying pan bcz a. i had to carry it by bus to the HOUSE OF THE BOPKIDS and b. it is teh cuet.
Cheeses tested previously: i. red leicester; ii. mature cheddar; iii. stilton & shropshire blue; iv. cheshire; v. camembert; vi. jarlsberg; vii. edam; viii. parmesan — w. haloumi getting a bye obv
method: cut into thinnish slices (a quarter of an inch approx), place on hot surface of pan, allow to melt, bubble, fry in own oils and slightly solidify (see previous results); remove and place on paper towels to drain excess oil; offer to INDEPENDENT OBJECT FREAKY TRIGAN PANEL OF TASTE EXPERTS to partake of and discuss
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Science vs Tanya Round 74
Regular readers of I Hate Music will know that I have little truck with science, unless I’m using it to blind Thomas Dolby. Science has consistently let me down: I have lobbied long and hard to prove the harmful effects of listening to music but the so-called ‘scientific establishment’ continue to ignore my pioneering work, claiming that my proposals are somehow “unworkable”. This is nonsense: the experiment which would have proved that beheading Lemar is more enjoyable than listening to him, for instance, is absolutely watertight.
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Jan 07
Poptimism – Lesson Twenty Six
All You Need Is Love – The KLF/JAMMs
Love it When You Call – The Feeling (Remix)
Inferno – Souvlaki
Supersonic/My Neck/La Rock – JJFad/Khia/Vitalic mashup (Princess Superstar/Alexander Technique)
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Nappies Galore!
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of a quick trip home to see my folks, and took the opportunity to pop down to Sidmouth promenade, where, I was assured by local friends, a bleddy great big ship had run aground. Had it? It had!
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Jan 07
ROD STEWART – “Maggie May”
“Maggie May” doesn’t have a chorus. That isn’t necessarily the first thing you notice about it – you’re more likely to pick up on a ringing phrase, or a particular blaze or choke in Rod’s voice, or on the thumped double-beats that kick-start each verse. But nonetheless, there it is – or isn’t – an absence of chorus.
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Jan 07
Repo shoes
What’s that glow emanating from the box? A pair of Clarks Magic Steps, of course. Slight lack of Timotei waterfall in this particular ad but you get the idea. I love how the only way the wicked witch can get her grubby paws on the magic key is to take on a part-time job in a shoe shop. Also note LACK of trash-compacting foot measuring device.
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Jan 07
Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Week 3
The third in the ongoing series of Lollardry, as broadcast earlier this afternoon between 12 and 1. This week’s edition includes: the puzzle craze of the eighties, the definition of emo, the truth about drugs, gimmicky shoes and movie twists that actually work.
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Jan 07
sweet sweetbread’s badassssss doll
Have intended to research and post this since GIBBONS’ TOY STORE burnt down, now several years ago — in the window at the end of this very extremely weird only-in-a-bad-dream wedge-shaped shop, which in many ways resembled a half-open portal into the HELLRAISER dimension, sat two gus gutz dolls, one black one white — “Plush Internal Organs Toy: Gus spits up his innards for inspection, then they tuck away back into his pocket mouth.”
I have never seen them “on sale” anywhere else, let alone in someone’s home.
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Jan 07
What Album Covers Are Really Trying To Tell Us: 3: Jamie T – Panic Prevention
After this stinging criticism regarding the secret message on Bad from Steve Mannion, I have decided to look closer at an album that is not even out yet. This way I can discover the secret message, and spread it to you BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY BUY IT. And so Jamie T, all new darling of the London music scene J’Accuse…
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