GLASTONBURY '07

Jul 01, 2007 15:28


If there is a God, he’s certainly got a sadistic streak. Arriving in the depths of Somerset last Thursday afternoon, we were greeted by weather conditions that, if not quite giving the Bahamas a run for their money, were perfectly cordial and conducive for lazing about on the grass, sipping on over-priced Carlsberg and taking in the sheer scale of ( Read more... )

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epa101 July 1 2007, 21:17:16 UTC
Gypsy-punk mentalists? That is quite hard for me to imagine. I'm tempted to go and download something by them just to see what this could be.

It seems as if you had a jolly good time. I've never liked Super Furry Animals neither. The rest seem to have been good stuff. I'm interested to hear that Bjork were so good. I was surprised that they were still around, and they had ranked amongst probably my least favourite bands ever. Perhaps, I was blind before. You may be the enlightened.

With politics, more and more people who I know seem to be embracing Elmahdi-ist politics. This is quite impressive when I presume that you yourself have not been converting these people?

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epa101 July 2 2007, 21:49:56 UTC
Eureka! I have solved the puzzle. You got your views off of this guy, Ibn Warraq. Now, everyone is enjoying Ibn Warraq due to his popularisation by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchins. So, Elmahdism is really Warraqism. It all makes sense now!

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s386913.htm
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,398853,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,,631332,00.html

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