Hmm, and I thought that musicians were all about adulation, no matter which direction it came from, but no, Billy Corgan threw a tanty at one of HIS OWN CONCERTS when fans asked for some Smashing Pumpkins songs. Now, I haven't heard anything from Billy since Mellon Collie, I missed the whole fuss over Adore, but I hear he thinks he is avante guard or something nowadays. Well, if you piss your fans off like you seem to be doing Mr Corgan, you will know that avante guard is shorthand for very few fans - you dickhead LOL.
And hmm, if three fan comments (for the Pumpkins) can be heard clearly onstage how dead and quiet was the concert anyways?
The Crazy Frog song is Number One on the Australian charts. How the hell did this come to pass - the Aussie charts don't include downloaded music or ringtones yet, who the fuck is buying that crap? Not that the song it displaced, Akon's Lonely is up to much chop either, but the order of the universe is that yes, European countries can have ditzy brainless tunes at the top maybe once or twice a year (ah, Xmas hits of the UK, shall we count the inanities LOL), but rock loving Australia? No, never, surely not. The marketers did hit one thing right on the head though, in the Crazy Frog video, it is basically a hunt for the most annoying thing in the world - yes, I concur LOL.
Ooh ooh! A 'space the final frontier' moment! Ignoring for the moment the London arrests of the suspected July 21 bombers, or the associated story of the Brazilian guy who got shot by twitchy London police (grr!), but the line 'Astronomers detect 10th planet' is enough in itself to have me delay the moment where I actually go into the story. Yeah, sad huh.
Okay, I'm in. And it is as exciting as I thought. It is bigger than Sedna, or Sebna, that near enough Pluto-sized rock that was discovered last year, and it is currently more than twice the distance that Pluto is - wow, there was enough excitement about Sedna being found, and there were questions about it being a planet. This is apparently bigger than Pluto, so we have a new planet people - I am sure the name 2003 UB313 will soon be something appropriately Roman goddish. Vulcan or Hades perhaps? The last planets were found in 1846 and 1930 respectively - we have a wow moment people.
Makes me wonder why all of NASA's money seems to go into the shuttle, which is basically a glorified cargo plane that can only go into orbit. Yes, manned spaceflight is a nice thing, and it would be cool to have a 2001 A Space Odyssey kind of space station to visit (never mind Clavius on the moon, or the whole manned trip to Jupiter), but for wow factor compare the mission Discovery has at the moment - dropping a module off to the ISS, making sure that the shuttle doesn't break apart, the phrase 'two million working parts all made at lowest cost with 1970's technology' keeps coming into my head - versus the Cassini mission, photographing Saturn and dropping Huygens onto Titan. Or finding a new planet with either earth based or orbital telescopes. I dunno, maybe I'm too idealistic about the whole concept of discovering new things versus the realpolitik of keeping the Russian space scientists working and not creating better V2's or Scuds for North Korea et al.
I could stay in the space stories all day - this one from two years ago says that something strange was happening to Pluto's atmosphere, and the possibility that the entire atmosphere freezes the further away from the Sun it gets. I'm trying to think of a phrase that will indicate how unimportant Tom Cruise's love life or Australian Idol or most things are, but I just know I will end up being hypocritical sooner or later and be immersed in some trivia LOL, so I will shut up.
As if rugby could ever be unimportant LOL - first Tri Nations test in Pretoria tonight yay.
Two feet of water fell on Mumbai/Bombay in one day. It is monsoon season, but still, that is the most rain ever reported in one day in Indian history. Last I read, about 900 people had died either due to the flooding or landslides triggered by aforementioned flooding. And despite being India's most advanced city, the infrastructure ground to a halt, and the article I linked to is about 'ordinary citizens' sorting through the mess themselves, without help from the authorities.
Back to the arrests in London, it does look like all four suspected bombers from July 21 are in custody - the 'best day' since the bombings for the police forces trying to play catch up to the terrorists. As the Brazilian shot dead at Stockwell station is buried back in his hometown. Oh, and the IRA announced the end of the struggle in Northern Ireland, and will decommission. Got to wonder whether they made that decision so they don't get obliterated by force if another IRA attack took place (I'm thinking the UK has very little patience for any sort of terrorism at the moment), or the fact that Sinn Fein could possibly be in coalition government in Ireland with a few more good PR moments. Or a bit of both.
And was it just two cells in London or more? Yesterday the Met flooded the Underground and other public transport options in London with 6000 police, half of them armed, to send a message to the terrorists. That message of course being, lie low for a few months, we can't keep up cancelling all leave for our staff forever - no, I'm being too cynical there. But I would NOT feel reassured with all those extra guns around, with everyone being twitchy to anything out of the ordinary. I am sure that rucksack sales have plummetted in the UK the last month or so.
Ooh, and as well as space and current affairs, I am a huge history buff - and this story has found a two foot head underneath the Roman Forum. Has been confirmed as a bust of the Emperor Constantine, stuck in an ancient sewer system - placed there deliberately it seems, obviously not by a loyal subject LOL. But to find a 1700 year old artifact after all this time, in the heart of Rome, is amazing - especially being the size it is, it's not as if it was just a stray coin LOL.
More soon fingers crossed
Pauly
And hmm, if three fan comments (for the Pumpkins) can be heard clearly onstage how dead and quiet was the concert anyways?
The Crazy Frog song is Number One on the Australian charts. How the hell did this come to pass - the Aussie charts don't include downloaded music or ringtones yet, who the fuck is buying that crap? Not that the song it displaced, Akon's Lonely is up to much chop either, but the order of the universe is that yes, European countries can have ditzy brainless tunes at the top maybe once or twice a year (ah, Xmas hits of the UK, shall we count the inanities LOL), but rock loving Australia? No, never, surely not. The marketers did hit one thing right on the head though, in the Crazy Frog video, it is basically a hunt for the most annoying thing in the world - yes, I concur LOL.
Ooh ooh! A 'space the final frontier' moment! Ignoring for the moment the London arrests of the suspected July 21 bombers, or the associated story of the Brazilian guy who got shot by twitchy London police (grr!), but the line 'Astronomers detect 10th planet' is enough in itself to have me delay the moment where I actually go into the story. Yeah, sad huh.
Okay, I'm in. And it is as exciting as I thought. It is bigger than Sedna, or Sebna, that near enough Pluto-sized rock that was discovered last year, and it is currently more than twice the distance that Pluto is - wow, there was enough excitement about Sedna being found, and there were questions about it being a planet. This is apparently bigger than Pluto, so we have a new planet people - I am sure the name 2003 UB313 will soon be something appropriately Roman goddish. Vulcan or Hades perhaps? The last planets were found in 1846 and 1930 respectively - we have a wow moment people.
Makes me wonder why all of NASA's money seems to go into the shuttle, which is basically a glorified cargo plane that can only go into orbit. Yes, manned spaceflight is a nice thing, and it would be cool to have a 2001 A Space Odyssey kind of space station to visit (never mind Clavius on the moon, or the whole manned trip to Jupiter), but for wow factor compare the mission Discovery has at the moment - dropping a module off to the ISS, making sure that the shuttle doesn't break apart, the phrase 'two million working parts all made at lowest cost with 1970's technology' keeps coming into my head - versus the Cassini mission, photographing Saturn and dropping Huygens onto Titan. Or finding a new planet with either earth based or orbital telescopes. I dunno, maybe I'm too idealistic about the whole concept of discovering new things versus the realpolitik of keeping the Russian space scientists working and not creating better V2's or Scuds for North Korea et al.
I could stay in the space stories all day - this one from two years ago says that something strange was happening to Pluto's atmosphere, and the possibility that the entire atmosphere freezes the further away from the Sun it gets. I'm trying to think of a phrase that will indicate how unimportant Tom Cruise's love life or Australian Idol or most things are, but I just know I will end up being hypocritical sooner or later and be immersed in some trivia LOL, so I will shut up.
As if rugby could ever be unimportant LOL - first Tri Nations test in Pretoria tonight yay.
Two feet of water fell on Mumbai/Bombay in one day. It is monsoon season, but still, that is the most rain ever reported in one day in Indian history. Last I read, about 900 people had died either due to the flooding or landslides triggered by aforementioned flooding. And despite being India's most advanced city, the infrastructure ground to a halt, and the article I linked to is about 'ordinary citizens' sorting through the mess themselves, without help from the authorities.
Back to the arrests in London, it does look like all four suspected bombers from July 21 are in custody - the 'best day' since the bombings for the police forces trying to play catch up to the terrorists. As the Brazilian shot dead at Stockwell station is buried back in his hometown. Oh, and the IRA announced the end of the struggle in Northern Ireland, and will decommission. Got to wonder whether they made that decision so they don't get obliterated by force if another IRA attack took place (I'm thinking the UK has very little patience for any sort of terrorism at the moment), or the fact that Sinn Fein could possibly be in coalition government in Ireland with a few more good PR moments. Or a bit of both.
And was it just two cells in London or more? Yesterday the Met flooded the Underground and other public transport options in London with 6000 police, half of them armed, to send a message to the terrorists. That message of course being, lie low for a few months, we can't keep up cancelling all leave for our staff forever - no, I'm being too cynical there. But I would NOT feel reassured with all those extra guns around, with everyone being twitchy to anything out of the ordinary. I am sure that rucksack sales have plummetted in the UK the last month or so.
Ooh, and as well as space and current affairs, I am a huge history buff - and this story has found a two foot head underneath the Roman Forum. Has been confirmed as a bust of the Emperor Constantine, stuck in an ancient sewer system - placed there deliberately it seems, obviously not by a loyal subject LOL. But to find a 1700 year old artifact after all this time, in the heart of Rome, is amazing - especially being the size it is, it's not as if it was just a stray coin LOL.
More soon fingers crossed
Pauly
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