Michael MacLennan

It sounds sweet like honey for the ears.

Bought it today. Haven't listened to it yet, but nice cover! In a semi-psychotic sort of way.

the suggestion from this thread is that the final lineup' date=' once announced, is likely to cause mass buying and a fast sellout. thus, if you want to go and haven't already got a ticket, be prepared for when they go on sale again. let's not get a bricker about it people, it's fairly straightforward!

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Sums up perfectly what I was about to say. Most people I know go more for the experience than for a specific line-up, so Ross is just saying that if you're one of those people, get a ticket ASAP, because the acts that will be announced will ensure a quick sell-out, and disappointment for those who delay too long...

This Is What Scientologists Actually Believe

Down, down on my internet DVD rental list is this masterpiece from 'Dr' Boll (read the first review):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/

I figure that after reading so often about how hilariously bad all his movies are, it's about time I witnessed it first-hand... What was Sir Ben Kingsley thinking when he signed up to Bloodrayne?

By the way, the master director doesn't cast until a couple of weeks before shooting, so he can get higher-name actors whose latest project has been scrapped and are at a loose end, without any regards to if they actually fit the part hence why 'party girl' of indescribable stupidity Tara Reid plays a 'young genius anthropologist' in Alone in the Dark...

I shake my fist at the impatient people and their downloads.

I'd agree with you, but I have been lured into their horrible web of illegality, as I need to know what's down the tunnel, and I can't bear my other friends knowing when I don't. Bah.

Two more for anyone interested:

myspace.com/popcornfiend

myspace.com/michaelmaclennan

He knows me as a friend' date=' and knows that I have a small cock, and am not ashamed to admit and on more than needed occasions, display it to the general public.

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Is this being post-modern? Because it is really a dilemma for the modern man, do you say you have a small penis in a self-deprecating way, or joke that it's really huge, all the time worried that when some women hears about the rumours and discovers the horrifying truth, your embarrassing lie will be exposed to the world? Oh, how society twists our souls. Personally, I just say I'm a castrato. That shuts everyone up, and if it doesn't, I shatter their eardrums with my high vocal register. Result.

PS Happy birthday Stuart.

glad you appreciate my obviousness

but the thread does actually ask a very obvious question

*makes note that even leaving the CAPS lock on by mistake for a minute can cause trauma to those with special needs*

etc

Ahaha, special needs! You're making allusions to me having some sort of mental disability, how hilarious! If I wasn't far too dumb to realise what this meant, I'd probably be offended! What a hilarious controversial ageing punk prankster you are Mr Betamax, sir! Woo!

PINK FLOYD

QUEEN

ROBBIE WILLIAMS

TEXAS

COLDPLAY

EMINEM

VELVET UNDERGROUND

STONE ROSES

OASIS

PAUL WELLER

THE DOORS

U2

DEPECHE MODE

ELTON JOHN

FOO FIGHTERS

STEREOPHONICS

MOGWAI

all V over-rated

but most of all......

JOY DIVISION

EDIT: no' date=' i meant NIRVANA.[/quote']

I love how you capitalise all the bands, so CONTROVERSIAL do you consider your choices to be. Oh MY, how could you SAY the UNSAYABLE? This is all so UNEXPECTED.

ETC.

It's not quite in the category you're interested in, but check out the sadly departed Martyn Bennett for someone who combined modern music with traditional Scottish tunes, amazing musician.

Now that you mention it, Celtic Connections is on in Glasgow later this month, sure if you do some research on the bands playing there you'll find something groovy. That's certainly my plan before I head back down...

It wasn't diabolical, but it wasn't great either. Wood was okay, but Charlie Hunman's accent was terrible, and the plot was very silly. Though there was that hilarious moment when that Ian Brown-esque dolt was all upset and contemplating suicide, though it was unrealistic giving him the mental capacity to contemplate anything other than imminent relegation for the rubbish team he supported.

SONY SONY SONY SONY SONY!

After sticking with an i-pod for over 2 years and been driven fucking insane daily with its absolute shite battery life' date=' i bought a sony HD-5. i cannot vouch for any other sony mp3's but this one is absolutely brilliant, sound quality is superb, battery life is amazing and its a piece of piss to use and to transfer songs onto. its also rather sexy to look at. sony is the future of mp3's!![/quote']

Wouldn't you have to spend ages again ripping CDs into a Sony-friendly format though? That's one thing that puts me off ditching an iPod for anything else...

he's already an idiot' date=' as is proved when he goes for the "wine job" in the sunday magazine...he just thinks he is better than the idiots around him.[/quote']

Yeah, that and him getting drunk and getting enthusiastically involved in 'cock muff bumhole'... I'm constantly tempted to learn that game, but am too worried about whether it'd make me an idiot by trying to be ironic.

Actually' date=' if you read what Popcorn Fiend wrote, it all looks a bit like an admission...[/quote']

Well, I haven't been reduced to going undercover for straight-on-straight sex, but I do remember thinking when writing about a thimble exhibition that it wasn't quite what I had in mind when I decided to become a journalist. The opening line 'Thumbs up for a thimble exhibition!' haunts me to this day...

Yeah, definitely going to buy the DVD at Christmas time.

When first on I liked parts of it, but wasn't too sure on the whole, but it seems a hell of a lot funnier now on repeated viewing.

Working as a journalist, I empathise greatly with the character arc of Ashcroft, starting with his high-minded noble intentions above his peers, but being beaten down and compromising himself until he's more of an idiot than Barley himself. Well, that's my perspective anyway, and a lot of it rings true.

TVgohome was ace, I do half-wish that they'd replicated the sheer vicious awfulness of Barley is that website, although I do like the comical buffoon Barley was in the series. You can see all his entries from the website in the DVD, which is a great extra.

Hmm, not that much from me, but for a short summary:

Subsist

Isolated Incident EP (solo effort despite it being a band, which in retrospect was odd, especially as it would have been more interesting to have utilised the electronic sounds from this) 2000

Live Demo (6 tracks recorded at Captain Tom's, there was a second EP recorded in 2001 that was so bad I have the only copy, and decided to break up the band) 2000

Subsistence

3-track Demo (recorded at Woodside with Mark Nicol before our first performance) 2002

Popcorn Fiend

Fudge theme from one of their compilations

Subliminal Messages Will Mess With Your Mind 2003

Strange to recount that, I've usually been quite prolific as a songwriter, but not released very much. Planning another Popcorn Fiend release (well, perhaps even more than one) for 2006, once it's going as a band...

i think you buy them as normal shotguns and then saw them off yourself. i don't think you can specifically buy pre-sawnoffs.

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Ahh, nice try Spoonie! But I was talking about buying them down a local pub, so touche! An ultra-intelligent Joy Division fan would know better than to betray himself to a police investigation by leaving such an obvious 'fingerprint'. Though how he would cope in a downmarket Glaswegian pub trying to buy firearms, well, I admit there could be difficulties.

Oh, and I knew there was that moment from The Day Today, I didn't mention it as I was unsure who was responsible for writing it. But that's the moment I thought of when somebody mentioned how sick Mark Owen was, and had a little chuckle, though the chuckle was mostly about Fur Q, so technically I wasn't laughing at the dead. Not then.

why bother posting a thread about someone you don't like?

(a) because there's nothing better than bitching about someone eminently dislikable, especially when they're successful or in the gutter.

(b) because a lot of people, myself included, still get a juvenile sense of joy at gratutous use of the word 'cunt'.

So yes, James Blunt is a cunt. And that's a scientific cunting fact.

If this was a Chris Morris sketch most of you would be pissing yourselves at how funny it was.

I think the real reason people are getting pissed off is because it's someone they regard as a talentless dim twat doing it. Which is quite a good reason, all things considered.

For instance, lots of people thought it was ironically a great tribute when Mark E Smith was obstinant and rude on the Newsnight tribute to John Peel, but if it had been Peter Andre doing a similar routine, several thousand indie fans would have been buying sawn-off shotguns and making a one-way trip to London.

and if he didn't have that shock value how else is he ment to get your attention

Totally dude, that's why I introduce myself to people by hitting them with a cosh, before administering a well-timed kick to the genitals, and as they come up for air showing them a photo of myself in flagrante delicto with their mother.

PS You are a racist. Your mother told me.

Yeah, I'd sure like one of those. I need to listen to more dark electronica, I'm starting to get bored of my Shakira CD.

Sexism offends me, can someone ban the moron above? I'm sure there must be something in the rules about that sort of thing.

Hello everyone (or whoever the hell is reading this), I have a new website for my music, given the development of Popcorn Fiend into a fully-fledged band. Please check it out:

www.myspace.com/michaelmaclennan

Add me as a friend if you want, I'd be delighted, and let me know what you think of the songs. Thanks for your time.

michael maclennan

First time, goddam right you suckers! Finally my teeny-weeny nose comes in handy for something, other than eating snot.

people check out this band they are ace.

http://www.myspace.com/titusgein

especially the tune raw teeth. fucking ace!

also check out

http://www.myspace.com/nonemyequal

mmm good bands. yeha blatant plug for me friends bands but hey you know...you will like it i'm sure

Both ace bands, though I can hardly claim to be impartial, given that a couple of members of None My Equal are going to be part of the new-look Popcorn Fiend, now that he's a we. If that makes any freaking sense.