Well the plan last night was to pop out to Godalming, have a drink or two (seriously) with Linzi, then get home at a sensible time, and write a review of the new My Awesome Compilation album. However, despite not having an awful lot to drink, I ended up not getting home til about two in the morning, and as a consequence feel a bit balls today. The ( Read more... )

Sum 41 really piss me off. I'm watching the video for what I presume is their new single, Pieces, ont' telly, and it's the most un-rocking pile of mediocre, insipid, middle of the road bullshit I've heard in a long time. But what do you expect when their singer's getting married to Avril Lavigne? A union which, according to Buddyhead 'only ( Read more... )

Well, I just posted this up on my MySpaz, but thought I'd pop it here too, for the benefit of anyone who reads this but can't be bothered with 'that shit site of haircuts and awful' (© 2004, Mike Hemsley), for I'm sure there's literally nearly tens of you ( Read more... )

Was just discussing the merits of various basses with Al in the Comments a few posts down, and was trying to find out what sort of axe is is that the Mighty Slayer's Tom Araya rocks. In the course of my research, I found this picture of Tom as a youngling:


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See, it's things like this that account for the 'hate' part of my love/hate relationship with the internet in general, and MySpaz in particular. Checking my email this morning, I discovered I had received a MySpaz message from someone going by the name of '&hearts Joanne &hearts' Now, I approached it with a certain degree of trepidation (partially ( Read more... )

I'm watching Aliens on Channel Four. I ruddy bloody love this film. It's 'smazing. Why isn't Jim Cameron this good anymore? Seriously... Terminator, T2, Aliens. And then the monumental bore-fest of Titanic. What a sack of piss. Where were the guns? Where was the swearing? Not a single thing blowing up. Just a big boat sinking. And a criminal waste ( Read more... )

Thursday was goooood. After a post-college pause at Home Base Morgan to stuff myself with cheese-on-top-tastic Marks and Sparks cottage pie, I headed up for Islizzington. Dumped my stuff at Mike and Emm0r's (which is technically The Ex's flat; more of that later) and hit up the Bar Academy straight away. In the main Academy next door, none other ( Read more... )

• Incubus are really overrated. They're so boring. I'd like to believe noone would like them if it weren't for the fact that teenage girls fancy the singer, but I think their popularity is just down to a lack of imagination on the part of a lot of people.
• How does the drummer from System of a Down not sweat himself to death, druming that hard whilst ( Read more... )

The new A Wilhelm Scream album is AWESMAZING! Gruffly melodic, harmonised guitary radness. Oh yeah.

Just seen the new All American Rejects song on Scuzz. It's good. Think I might go and see them in September. And it sounds like the singing guy's been paying attention; he's ditched the lame 'Flying V, but a bass', and got a Gibson Thunderbird. Now that's a bass.