Surely the biggest waste of public money since 'Howards Way'

BBC 3 Torchwood. Ugh.

Russell 'T' Davies: Your new show is so bad, on so many levels, that it's not even funny.

Your characters struggle to be even two dimensional. Your sets stink. Your plots are full of holes and more predictable than day following night. Your props are from Toys 'R' us, but sprayed silver. Your music is gaudy and intrusive. Your 'actors' seem to be from the 'Santa Barbara' school of realism, and yet—somehow—people still think you have this midas touch for gritty adult SF drama.

Personally I say loudly: “Russell: The emperor has no clothes.”
Listen Russ: Your career peaked around the time you were finely crafting those Chuckle Brothers scripts... (Yes kids - look it up on IMDB). Give it up and live your smug life to it's conclusion in sunny Cardiff...

This show am teh suxx0r big time!
Make it s t o p . . . It hurts so b a a d..... A h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h e e e e ee e e ! ! ! ! ! !

Bontempi Radio Köln: Edition 09 | Tiger Mustard

Tiger Mustard

Welcome to edition nine of Bontempi Radio Köln. 70+ minutes in your own personal headphone space - wherever that may be. I would say relaxing, but this is probably one of the most bass-heavy podcasts thus far. Lots of freestylin' towards the end. Hope you enjoy - my feelers have been out finding the best music, best *harmonic* mixing and most deja-vu inducing snippets of sampled fun iced-gems can buy. Again - sorry for the delay getting this out. I really should stop saying that it's fortnightly as that's patently not true.

Listen here or subscribe via iTunes by clicking the post-title or the Podcast link in the right-hand column

Pull up an office chair, sofa, cross trainer, car seat, train seat, bike saddle or whatever it is you sit on to listen to these, jack in your phones and enjoy!

Please mail with requests or ideas for themes or even to lavish your undying love for my aural travails. I'd love to know who you are, what you like and where you listen to the show. I thrive on feedback!

Bontempi Radio Köln 09; 30/10/06
Tracklisting: (of sorts - it's get a bit layered towards the end)

01 John Carpenter: Assault on Precinct 13
02 OMD: Junk Culture
03 Aneka: Japanese Boy
04 Billy Idol: Catch My Fall (Remix Fix)
05 Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart
06 John Barry: Florida Fantasy
07 Uffie: Pop The Glock
08 Anthony Rother: Punks
09 Modeselektor: Turn Deaf
10 Vitalic: Suicide Commando
11 Meat Beat Manifesto: Electric People
12 Mike Oldfield: Family Man
13 Missy Elliot: Pass That Dutch
14 Madonna: Music
15 David Bowie: The Man Who Stole The World
16 Olive: You're not Alone
17 Krush: House Arrest
18 Felix Da Housecat: Watching Cars Go By
19 Tori Amos: Professional Widow (Armand Van Heldon mix)
20 Deee Lite: Intro
21 Chicks on Speed: Eurotrash Girl
22 New Order: The Beach
23 Missy Elliot: Work it
24 Sheep on Drugs: Motorbike
25 Bis: Shack Up
26 Felix Da Housecat [Feat. Miss Kittin]: Silver Screen (Shower Scene)
27 Studio B: I See Girls (Tom Neville mix)
28 Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Relax
29 John Carpenter: Prince of Darkness (Transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9)
30 Kylie: I Believe in You

Welcome Westy!

Holidays inna Boosh Stylee

It's been a rollercoaster week what with house buying, house selling, Jo going into hospital and such but perhaps the coolest thing that makes it all seem a bit less manic was our aquisition of our new 1982 air-cooled VW T25 Westfalia camper. Left hand drive (ooer) it's only had one owner, near Hamburg, since new. We have lots of paperwork to get it registered properly (How's your German?) but we can't wait to get it running properly and do some camping! It sleeps four so form an orderly queue for joining us on holiday ;)

Is it a coincidence we went for a green one like Vince Noir and Howard Moon's?
I think not....

(Please no jibes on the hypocracy of hating SUVs and getting one of these. I know - I know. This will be a LOW milage thing. No little trips to the school for Tarquin and Jocasta in this beast.)

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Telly-Pathy

For some reason tonight I had an irrational calling to watch Clint Eastwood’s 'Escape from Alcatraz' movie — something I got a copy of a while back in a fit of grabbing "Movies from San Francisco™" to watch after our holiday.  (See also 'Dirty Harry', 'The Rock' (awful), 'What's up doc?', Bulliit, The Love Bug...)

Then The Researcher tells me it's on TV tonight anyway. Spooky. Was I tuning-in to the expectant vibes of Clint-lovers everywhere?
Or maybe I just saw a the TV listings in a dream...

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Taming the Bicycle

Taming the Bicycle by Mark Twain

I love this essay by Mark Twain, published in 1917 at the occasion of him learning to ride a Penny Farthing.

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”...I have seen it stated that no expert is quick enough to run over a dog; that a dog is always able to skip out of his way. I think that that may be true; but I think that the reason he couldn't run over the dog was because he was trying to. I did not try to run over any dog. But I ran over every dog that came along. I think it makes a great deal of difference. If you try to run over the dog he knows how to calculate, but if you are trying to miss him he does not know how to calculate, and is liable to jump the wrong way every time. It was always so in my experience...”