Competition Time (Part 2)

There is still one Drunken Master Sampler up for grabs. The four respondents (plus Dezik) will be getting their CDs very soon. If you want a sampler, all you have to do is post… Tracklist/reviews to follow.

Is there anybody there?

I do not know if anybody is reading us. I do not know, after all, if this can be interesting to someone.When we conceived the idea of doing this it looked to me a very nice excuse for everybody to know the others in a different way.
It is ok for me if you think that this is childish and you have a thousand better ways to lose your time. I can even accept to some extent that you do not feel like collaborating because you are lazy. But maybe you just think you do not have anything interesting to say, and we cannot agree here with you. Just turn around inside yourself and point at whatever amuses you, charms you, disgusts you and let us now, because probably whe have not realized yet about its existence.
We do not ask you too much. Write 10 lines every week, five if ten is too much. Tell us which thoughts invaded you when you where strolling along the vegetables section of your usual supermarket.Make a list of your favourite sweets and describe for us their flavour. Which conversations did you hear in the tube or bus this morning? Or if everybody was silent, what do you think they were thinking about? Post a link to your favourites websites, hang in these virtual walls your favourites paintings and photos. Tell us which music we should be listening to…WHATEVER!!!!!!! Your silence will mean our (yours and mine) defeat.

(If you have any doubt about how to use this site just ask Luke or Sergio)

Autumn is here

Hong Kong rain

Three weeks ago a Western naked woman was discovered walking aimlessly around the outskirts of the airport of Hong Kong. It was raining that morning. She was mute and her face was expressionless. When they found her I was getting ready to go to bed here in London, or maybe I was watching TV. She does not know anything about herself, she simply cannot remember anything at all. Now they say that, appartently, she is Swiss. They could not find her clothes, but they are sure that she has not suffered any kind of violence. I wonder which is her favourite colour, and whether she has some pet that is waiting impatiently to be fed.
She does not move, and stays all the day looking through the window of her hospital room, mumbling what it seems to be a man’s name…
I do not know if you noticed those people that came into the English Room the other day. They were two, both of them wearing a grey suit. They did not stay too long. Some questions about the woman and then they dissapeared through the back door. I am afraid I was not very helpful. The only thing I could tell them is what I say to everybody, that I cannot remember anything before that rainy day when me too I was found in the airport…

If you are in South London, why not head down to

THE SUNDAY FISH FRY: A NEW ORLEANS MUSIC ALL DAYER

In aid of the victims of Hurricane Katrina

To be held at:

A Bar Too Far, 40 Mitcham Rd, London SW17 (Tooting Broadway Tube)
Sunday 25th September 2005 from 2-10.30pm.

Suggested donation 3 – 5 pounds

All money raised to go to New Orleans redevelopment charities.

Expect sounds from
Irma Thomas, Eddie Bo, Fats Domino, Lee Dorsey,
The Meters, Robert Parker, Dr John
and many lesser-known greats!

New Orleans CD Raffle, wooden dancefloor, special guest surprise DJs and food available! Not to be missed, come and show your support for a wonderful city!

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There are more questions

than answers. Nothing about the multiple tranliterations and translations of Belarus, though.

Competition time

Drunken Master Hifi sampler CDs for the first 5 people to post replies to this message. (I hope 5 people read this post). No entries from Berlin, please…

The price of skateboarding

I never cease to be amazed by the prices old skateboards sell for these days. A 1982 original Tony Hawk holds the eBay record of $6000, but I stumbled across the price of $250 for a tatty 1989 Jason Jessee (like I had back in the day). This was a decidely average ramp deck, mass produced and far from special. Now if I just had a time machine to go back and stock up…

Make your own

George W. Bush speech