25th November - recent playlist

DULLI

this is my confession angel
let's not make too much about it
this is my confession angel
let's not make too much about it
don't say a word
don't do a thing
don't you move a muscle
worship silence as your king
hide in the dark
block out the light

dulli

Juliet's Fixed Gear Blog

Most people that know me are aware I like riding my bikes.. Thats basically an under statement - I bloody well live for riding my beautiful steel slim machine.
Unfortunately I've been told I may have to stop riding for 6 months to a year... I've taken the news extremely badly and am not happy. You could go as far as quoting the Black Flag lyrics 'depression's got a hold of me.
I'm currently seeking a 2nd opinion from a specialist.
If worse comes to worse and i do end up having to stop i will still take an active interest in Fixed Gear Riding from an arm chair.

One of my favourite blogs in the whole world is "HELL YEAH" by my friend Juliet Elliott. She's been responsible for setting up so much within the scene, she's been a total influence on me and constant source of enthusiasm and excitement.. I read this blog daily when im at the my lowest ebb of boredom and it always brightens my life

I urge anyone thats got a spare few mins to read her blog and spread the word...

http://iliketoridemybicycle.wordpress.com/

ADOLESCENTS

Buy this album..... Fucking amazing

There's nothing to do
Excitement level zero
I can't find a girl
Cos they're all out chasing heros
We're just a wrecking crew bored boys with nothing to do
Alone in a corner of a room with a knife
Better ways out than taking your life
Home's not so bad don't need to run
Come join our primitive ways of fun
We're just a wrecking crew bored guys with nothing to do
Safety in numbers an enemy to beat
Let's overturn cars and rip up the street
I'm tired of being a peaceful citizen
Noise and destruction are in my vision
We're just a wrecking crew bored boys with nothing to do
You're not all by yourself
You've got a few friends
When we become one
The violence never ends
We're just a wrecking crew bored boys with nothing to do

Hands all over the eastern border
You know what? I think we're falling
From composure
Hands all over western culture
Ruffling feathers and turning eagles into vultures

Got my arms around baby brother
Put your hands away
Your gonna kill your mother, kill your mother
And I love her

Hands all over the coastal waters
The crew men thank her
Then lay down their oily blanket
Hands all over the inland forest
In a striking motion trees fall down
Like dying soldiers

Hands all over the peasants daughter
She's our bride
She'll never make it out alive
Hands all over words I utter
Change them into what you want to
Like balls of clay
Put your hands away
Your gonna kill your mother
And I love her

Last one out, lock the door behind.

Today's UTTER MISERY posting is a dedication to my comrades and homies -both made jobless AND still in "the line of fire" @ my workplace in South Bristol

Some of my closest friends have lost their jobs today, and two of my brethren / allies are still working amongst the ruins and chaos left behind the collapse...

Big part of my life has been swept away by this Redundancy Tsunami.

i know i speak for at least one other person when i say that those affected today have affected me in a positive capacity over the past couple of years......

Redg.

LONG WAY BACK FROM HELL.....

what a Twist (of cain)........ Jesus (snakes of) Christ !!!

Former D.O.A. drummer Chuck Biscuits 'alive and well' despite Internet reports

By Nick Patch (CP) – 2 days ago

TORONTO — The founder of Vancouver punk group D.O.A. says that his former drummer, Chuck Biscuits, is alive and well and Internet reports of his death are part of a "cruel hoax."

Joe Keithley told The Canadian Press on Friday that the drummer's brother contacted him and confirmed that Biscuits is indeed alive.

"He's well and alive, so that's good news," Keithley said on the line from his Vancouver office.

Several major news outlets in Canada, the United States and Britain reported Thursday that Biscuits had died of throat cancer.

The reports seem to have originated from a single blog post written by New York freelance writer James Greene Jr., who has since claimed that he was duped by an anonymous emailer.

"I'm sorry I unknowingly spread this horrible lie," Greene blogged Friday. "I apologize to the world, Chuck's family, Chuck's friends, and especially Chuck."

Biscuits was the original drummer for metal band Danzig, and also performed with L.A. hardcore innovators Black Flag and Social Distortion.

"(The) guy was an incredible talent, probably the best punk-rock drummer of all time," Keithley said.

Keithley heard the news of Biscuits' death on Thursday after getting some "weird emails." He took to Wikipedia and found that Biscuits was listed as having succumbed to throat cancer on Oct. 24.

There were memorial pages on Facebook and reports of Biscuits' death had spread instantaneously via Twitter and through blogs and some mainstream media outlets, all of which attributed the news to the original blog post.

Keithley thought it was weird no one had told him, so he phoned Biscuits' brother, Bob ("he got freaked out ... he was driving a bus, so I figured he might drive the bus off the road, because he's getting the news from me," Keithley said).

Biscuits' brother calmed down, called the drummer and drove to see him, said Keithley.

"You go on a rollercoaster of emotions," Keithley said. "Chuck and I aren't that close anymore, right, but we sure played some great music together."

In fact, Biscuits is only the latest in a wave of celebrities who have had to announce lately that they are still alive.

Twitter was abuzz a few weeks ago with rumours that Kanye West had died in a car crash ("R.I.P. Kanye West" remained a top trending topic for days). The report emanated from a fake Fox News mainpage design, generated by Internet pranksters.

The story was snapped up widely by blogs who did report that it was only a rumour, but furthered the speculation anyway.

And in June, Jeff Goldblum's personal publicist was forced to publicly dismiss Internet rumours that the 57-year-old actor plunged to his death on a movie shoot in New Zealand.

That story, too, circulated in blogs before being spread at supersonic speed via Twitter, which has become something of a misinformation superhighway.

Paul Knox, chair of the School of Journalism at Toronto's Ryerson University, points out that hoaxes have been around as long as journalism.

But Biscuits' story spread from blogs to major media outlets, which Knox says must do better.

"I think the lesson for serious news organizations here is: don't repost or republish unless you have verified and if you feel you have to do so because of competitive pressure, make sure you have some way of flagging the post or the information as unverified," he said in a telephone interview.

"Make sure that you distinguish and your hopefully trustworthy staff have been able to check it out, and that you're passing this on because you feel that its mere existence is newsworthy, but it's unverified."

Toronto rocker Kim Mitchell, meanwhile, experienced a situation similar to the Biscuits death hoax several years ago, when reports circulated in the blogosphere and on Facebook and MySpace that Pye Dubois, his longtime collaborator, had died.

At the time, Dubois and Mitchell weren't speaking to one another after having a falling out. Dubois had become reclusive, Mitchell said, and when friends couldn't reach him for days at a time, rumours began to spread that he had died.

When Mitchell heard the news, he was understandably upset.

"I felt horrible," Mitchell recalled in a telephone interview from Edmonton. "I panicked a bit. ... Because I thought: 'Holy crap, I wrote a ton of music with this guy, and he's holding a grudge against me to the point where (he won't) notify me that he's really ill."'

Fortunately, Mitchell still had channels of reaching Dubois and verified that he was OK.

"Funny how before something's checked it can explode into nonsense," he said. "In seconds, it's all over the planet."

Keithley agreed.

"It just shows you the power of the Internet," he said.

"You can say something that's completely untrue, and I mean, I was bombarded with emails and phone calls within about an hour. It was a real drag."

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