The restaurants at CERN provide menus in English and French, but I don't think the staff take much care when doing the translation (infact, they probably just use babelfish), hence 'Filet de Blue Marlin' becomes 'Fillet of Blue Wizard', 'Champignon Vol au Vents' were offered as 'Mushrooms Flight of the Wind' and best of all, 'Croque Monsieur'... ' ( Read more... )

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Usually I can take or leave the Go! Team, but I've just heard their cover of Sonic Youth's 'Bull In The Heather' and it is ridiculously ace; Some excellently authentic SY-style guitar skronking with added glockenspiel and shouty massed vocals. I hope it is released as a single, a 7" of it would be perfection, but I fear that is unlikely. I heard ( Read more... )

Fuck Yeah!!! This better not be another false alarm getting my hopes up again...

I read a great joke this morning...

What is yellow and smells of bananas?

Monkey Sick

Made me laugh anyway.

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Next time you're reading an LJ post and someone misuses an apostrophe, send them to the...

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The Guardian has undoubtedly the worst music writers I've ever read anywhere. See this article for a case in point. I cannot believe people get to paid to write the stuff they put in the newspaper (even less-so the stuff on the website), a brain-damaged chimp could do a better job. I guess the solution is just to stop reading them, but it still ( Read more... )

Wow, an awesome week has just been had by me. Went down to Manchester last Tuesday to see the Flaming Lips (for the 2nd time in a week) who put on the kind of show that only they are capable of. For those of you who've never seen them - imagine the best 5th birthday party it would ever be possible to have and set it to brilliantly skewed pop music ( Read more... )