Lawy Lawson:Attorney

Goddammit.

You just got hit with an internet anvil, mate.

In other news, Paul McCartney was reported as saying: "I turned on Music Television and all it was was pornography being shouted over by men with gold-teeth while someone drops hammers down stairs. Kids today!"

Due to Le Reno Amps being unable to support Piney Gir at SNAFU on Wednesday the 2nd of March' date=' we can announce a second chance to see both MOTORMARK and PINEY GIR together on the same bill.

We're aware that some people couldn't get in to Dr Drakes to see their sold-out show together, so here's a second chance to see them both in action. Doors are at 8pm prompt, Motormark on first followed by Piney Gir for the total bargain price of 3.

SNAFU is at 5 Union St, where Po Na Na's used to be. It's on the small island of buildings between the Tilted Wig and the Court House.

Our best wishes to Scott from Le Reno Amps for a quick recovery.

PINEY GIR

+ Motormark

Wed 2nd March

SNAFU

8pm / 3[/quote']

I'd like to extend my best wishes to Scott too, but I'm glad for the chance to see Motormark as I just bought their album the other day. Are tickets going to be available in advance?

I think an inability to deal ith tragedy through humour proves that the person reacting badly to the humour still has trouble dealing with the tragedy. For example, someone who claims to really hate jokes about 9/11 hasn't resolved all their feelings about 9/11 yet.

People should be careful though. There is a genuine diffrence between understanding the gravity of a situation but accepting and understanding it and people who go "OMG! LOL AIDS! Hurrrr!"

They're apparently doing a larger UK tour before the summer...

With possibly Edinburgh AND Glasgow on their schedule. The drummer said they'd look into playing whereever they're asked if feasible if people e-mail them...

It was in this day in 1958 that steam was invented by Dr. Light, who later went on to invent Megaman. You should be proud. Happy Birthday.

fantasia scared me when i was little

i think it was the idea of mops etc going crazy that creeped me out

It frightened me and Burton C. Bell from Fear Factory too, so you're in good company.

fantasia(i think thats how its spelt)

Fantasia is OOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLD.

i dled their album and i liked about two songs on it

Really? What album? Some of it grows, but I guess they're not for everyone.

I play 'em in the Chill Out room at Moshulu' date=' great band.[/quote']

Just when I thought you couldn'nt get any cooler, Alun. Can you fly or build robots or anything? If so, you're so cool you make penguins feel cold.

What did they hope to achieve by renaming taz 'spaz'? o_O

They heard some "teens" saying it on the street and their marketing classes at UCLA taught them street slang was "fly and fresh".

"Buzz Bunny' has lazer vision

wtf is up doc

Yes, sir.

Loonatics (Oh, God) is WB's new cartoon series, set in teh far future about a super-hero team led by "Buzz Bunny" with sidekicks like "Spaz" the Tazmanian Devil. Jesus, someone tell Hollywood that their coke habit is ruining our childhoods please.

If so, haven't you just died a little inside?

*Cough* *PiratesOfTheCaribean* *Cough*

That wasn't bad at all. Well put.

I'd argue that the Lion King was actually pretty good too.

Surprised not to see any threads on this new project - various ex-members of Pitchshifter etc on instrumnets' date=' and a host of vocalists, like Colin Doran, Casey Chaos, Karl Middleton, Mikee Sikth, Andy Cairns and.....

JEFF FUCKING WALKER!

I need to lie down.......

That's actually pretty cool. A few members of bands I've really liked in there.

Love the comparison' date=' plus you made it seem much more interesting. Scene point![/quote']

Aww, thanks. But the Doc Hollywood thing wasn't really mind, the source I got the news from used that film as a point of reference.

I don't think so at all. Of course you can criticise me all you want when you're utterly blown away and don't think that it's just a mediocre cartoon which deserves to be shortened dramatically. But I don't think that'll happen now. Cars just seem like boring subject matter.

From what I hear it's going to be similar to Doc Hollywood. Y'know, arrognat ass-hat car learns a lesson kinda story. Even though I think "Cars" has fugly character design, it could be good. Who though a story about a missing fish would be interesting?

I searched the forums and have only seen one other poster mention them in the "Best of 2004" thread. Who am I talking about?

The Dresden Dolls. The last new band that I actually feel excited about, that actually give me that little butterfly-feeling in my stomach I haven't felt about music since my mid 'teens.

In some ways, they defy everything that's populatr right now. They shun guitars for nowt but piano and drums, they have a definte image but it's influenced by German cabert rather than any off-shoot of punk or metal (although argubly, they're a bit goth, I guess) but even so, they have a sense of humour and can't help but make each other laugh and have fun whilst playing live. Their music ranges from musical pastiche (The Jeep Song) to thrash-piano (Girl Anachorism) and they are completely and utterly fucking awesome.

I know guitar based music is the big thing right now, but these guys really, really deserve people's attention. Anyone here see them on their current tour?

They're supporting NIN on their next tour so perhaps that could be their breakthrough. I always kinda expected The Faint to go stellar and that never happened, so I could be wrong (again) but I'm bursting with enthusiasm about this band.

I never read the thread, but how many people posted boring variations on "LOL! IT'S JUST 'ARMLESS FUN GUYS!"?

Believe me' date=' the last thing I want to see is a world which becomes just a series of slices of homogenised Americana. I just think that NE Scotland, as one small corner of one small country hasn't particularly contributed a great deal to world culture. I love rowies, but I don't feel the need to hail them as an example of wonderful Aberdonian cuisine. It's just a geographical coincidence that they were invented here, although you could argue, I suppose, that it's a tribute to canniness that something so tasty could be made from lard!

Ach, it all boils down to absorbing bits of the world you like and rejecting the bits you don't but I feel uncomfortable when I hear trumpeting about all things "local". Strange, we've just come up with a song on that very theme, tentatively titled "A veritable cornucopia of colloquial platitudes and sesquipedalian provincialisms", which I look forward to announcing live![/quote']

I think you and I are pretty much on the same page, really. We've got a couple of local authors too who are worth attention and some (although not much) interesting architecture due to the granite, for example, but I did find your rowie example funny. But you're spot on about "taking the good stuff".

Anyway, doric can be quite lyrical (Aberdonian is uhhh-glee though). I'm off to find a proper web-site about it.

Well' date=' I've lived in NE Scotland my whole life and the prospect of losing any "Scottishness" doesn't bother me in the least. There's a whole world out there and we would do well to take off the blinkers and stop being so parochial and provincial. Lenin got it right when he talked of internationalism as opposed to nationalism. Like pride in race, it's a dodgy road to go down, I think. I don't consider Doric part of my culture in the slightest.[/quote']

I agree that pride in country often leads to people adopting an exclusive attitude and then to that hottible, stinking "my country is better than yours, nyah!" bigotry, but whats the point of their being a "whole world out there" if every area loses it's character and traditions? Surely a variety of traditions, languages and ideas enriches the world rather than sullies it? Should Bollywood and Japanese cinema become just like Hollywood because they are "too should Japanese or Indian", should every nomadic tribe in the world give up their traditions and open a Burger King in the name of progress?

Doric does not equal Aberdeen slang, which is Moronic rather than Doric.

But I agree in-so-far as blind national pride is a dangerous road. I think it's better to be proud of the world, and the variety that entails and Scotland's North-East is a part of that.

She was a fantastic suprise last time and I STILL have teh first track she played lodged in my skull. I'll do my very best to be there.

anyone ever see the old thing cartoon

"thing rings do your things!!!"

seriously it fooking rocked

The one with H.E.R.B.I.E. replacing the human torch so kids wouldn't set themselves on fire in emulation (seriously) or the solo series? I get them mixed up.

heh claire your a legend

happy birthday Craig my good man

Thankyou muchly.

I own the Pac-Man toy on the left. FACT!

the amount of people that speak Doric (ish) one kid not speaking it is not gonna kill it off and anyway he will go to school and learn plenty of it as I say he will learn to adapt to different situations (hopefully)

It isn't really taught in schools. I'm not a nationalist to any degree whatsoever, but when you can travel to a city and see the same repeating pattern of McDonalds, Comet, Safeway on the outskirts and repeating patterns of Top Shop, Gap, Subway, Yate's Wine Lodge in the centre, I think retaining a sense of place means something.

Anyway, I was only light-heartedly pointing out that Doric and "common" are not the same thing. I think that Doric in it's truest sense is pretty much dead, though.