» Mix Tapes

I did a mix tape for me!
Back in 'the day' I used to frequent a nightclub in Sheffield called REBELS. Many many many drunken weekends were lost in that place. It was a complete crap-hole, but it was (at the time) OUR crap-hole :-)

Anyhoo...I was feeling a little nostalgic for those days not so long ago and I put an MP3 CD together of just a few of the tracks played there. Some of these I like, some of them I don't, pretty representative, I reckon!

So heres the track listing in all its unashamed glory :-)

ACDC - Highway To Hell
ACDC - Thunderstruck
ACDC - Whole Lotta Rosie
Aerosmith & Run DMC - Walk This Way
Aerosmith - Dude (looks like a lady)
Aerosmith - Livin on the edge
Aerosmith - Love in an elevator
Aerosmith - Rag doll
Alice Cooper - Poison
Alice In Chains - Them Bones
Anthrax - I Am The Law_0
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69
David Lee Roth - Just Like Paradise
David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo-I Ain't Got Nobody
Def Leppard - Love Bites
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Europe - The Final Countdown
Extreme - Get The Funk Out
Extreme - More Than Words
Faith No More - Epic
Faith No More - Falling To Pieces
Faith No More - From Out Of Nowhere
Faith No More - We Care A Lot
Firehouse - Don't Treat Me Bad
Free - All Right Now
Gary Moore - Out in the fields
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy
Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O'Mine
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Guns n Roses - Mama Kin
Hanoi Rocks - Up around the bend
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Jesus Jones - Real Real
Joan Jett - I Love Rock n' Roll
Judas Priest - Breaking the law
Judas Priest - Turbo lover
KLF - Last Train to Trancentral
Kiss - Deuce
Kiss - God Gave Rock And Roll To You
Kiss - Lick It Up
L7 - Pretend We're Dead
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Love Hate - Blackout in the red room
Love Hate - Why do you think they call it dope
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Motley Crue - Wild Side
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
M”tley Cr?e - Girls, Girls, Girls
M”tley Cr?e - Smokin' In The Boys Room
NIN - Head like a hole
New Model Army - 51st State
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
Pearl Jam - Alive
Poison - Talk dirty to me
Poison - Unskinny Bop
Queensryche - Eyes of a stranger
Queensryche - Jet City Woman
Rage Against the Machine - Bullet in the Head
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
Rainbow - I surrender
Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Ratt - Lay It Down
Ratt - Round and Round
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away
Rod Stewart - Hot legs
Rod Stewart - Stay with me
Sex Pistols - Pretty vacant
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love missile f1-11
Siouxie - Hong Kong Garden
Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
Skid Row - 18 and Life
Skid Row-Youth Gone Wild
Skunk Anansie - Weak
Smashed Gladys - Legs Up
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
The Black Crowes - Hard to Handle
The Cult - Lil' Devil
The Cult - Love Removal Machine
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Dogs D'Amour - Debauchery
The Dogs D'Amour - How Come It Never Rains
The Dogs D'Amour - I Don't I Want You To Go
The Levellers - One Way
The Quireboys - Hey You
The Wildhearts - I Wanna Go Where The People Go
The Wildhearts - Just In Lust
The Wildhearts - Red Light - Green Light
Thunder - Dirty Love
Tigertailz - Love Bomb Baby
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Transvision Vamp - I want your love
Twisted Sister - I Am (I'm Me)
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
Tyketto - Forever Young
Ugly Kid Joe - I Hate Everything About You
Van Halen - Panama
Van Halen - Why can't this be love
Van Helen - Jump
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Whitesnake - Here I go again
Whitesnake - Still of the night
Winger - Can't Get Enuff
Y&T - Rescue Me
Zodiac Mindwarp - Prime Mover


One or two of these in retrospect may be post-Rebels, but hey....what you gonna do?
(Fri 8th Feb 2008, 10:38, More)

» Accidental animal cruelty

Rat Dogs and screen doors
A whole bunch of years ago, I visited a pal in The States - on Whidbey Island, North of Seattle - my friend at the time owned a curious hybrid chihuahua/thing that had a weird bent face and looked bizarrely like a deer which she had named 'Sheila'.

Now my pal worked as a teacher in the local high school so for a couple of days I was left to my own devices during the day, and I would generally fall into the routine of brewing some coffee, opening the patio door, closing the screen door, chilling for the morning, hitting the town later for a look around and some lunch and coming back about the same time as 'S' got in from work.

Now 'S' had this habit of greeting her dog by shouting "C'mon Sheila! Go Potty!" and by the time the dog had bounded downstairs, she had the patio door open and the dog could go out and relieve itself.

'Cept of course I'd closed the screen door.

SKaaaaaaaaaBOING!!!!!!

You'd swear a dog could fly. Backwards. At some considerable speed. And for about 8 feet, too :-)

The first time was definitely an accident, so that's gotta count, right?

The second and third time? Well...they were accidental too!

No.

Really! :-)
(Thu 6th Dec 2007, 13:11, More)

» Insults

A pal, you understand.
Not me. His favourite expletive for a long while was "c*nt my f*ck box" - I have to this day no idea what it really means. He only stopped using it after predictive text turned into "aunt my jewel box". He says that now instead. But we all know what he means. Even if we don't *know* what it means. If you see what I mean.

Gonna stop now.
(Thu 4th Oct 2007, 15:33, More)

» When were you last really scared?

Like a boat out of Hull...
A whole bunch of years ago having recently split up with a girlfriend and really welcoming the distraction, my old friend Johnny (web site for his new boat can be found here: www.enigmasailing.co.uk/) talked me into coming along as crew for a summer of sailing the balmy...uh...thats is to say brown river Humber. Things were going pretty good on the whole, but I was a complete novice at this game. We set out on a big trip down to Grimsby for a couple of days. As we sailed down the river, just a couple of miles east of Paull, Johnny had gone below (fnar) to write up the log, and I was left helming when one of the big ol' cargo ferries came barrelling up river, trying to get in before she lost the tide. She was certainly going faster than anything I'd seen on the river before or since. As she got closer to us, I couldn't help noticing this WALL of brown streaming out behind her.

"Johnny. Wake line approaching. Its a big one" I shouted below

"It'll be ok" came the reply. "Just point her nose into it like you've done before"

"Mmmm. Ok. It is a bit bigger than any one I've seen before"

"I'll be up in a minute"

So I steared on. The rags lovely and full making 7 or 8 knots straight at this wall of Humber.

"Its a big wake, amigo" I called

"In a mo."

The noise of the ferry blasting past us at about 25 knots got Johnny out the cabin quicker than you could blink, and he grabbed the tiller for grim death all the while shouting "shhhhiiiiiiiittttttt!"

The wall of river bore down on us, and we held on best we could. The boat started to raise over the huge wave, at one point the WHOLE of her 23ft length suspended on this wave, before she slammed down into the trough behind, and then she started to raise again, only less so, this time, and again, until finally the river settled down and we continued on our way.

As I popped down below to change my strides, Johnny, salty old sea dog that he is, commented "That was a big wave, wasn't it?"
(Tue 27th Feb 2007, 17:33, More)

» My computer gave away my secrets

Chix!! With Dix!!!
Two things spring to mind with the computers catching you out...

To set the scene a little, me and an ex had gotten back together, which in hindsight was probably a bad idea, but at the time, having no where to got for...um...shenanigans of a moist and damp/hard and probing nature, we would occasionally find ourselves at my workplace, after everyone had left for the evening, making use of...well...*anywhere* for a shag. Post coitus, she would quite happily play about on the companies interweb connection (the company I work for is a software house, believe it or not, and we were NOT at the forefront of the online revolution. In fact, the MD of the company has gone on record as saying 'this internet thing will never catch on' - So at this point, theres only one internet connection in the whole company.) So while she's happily searching the web for news about the latest triumphs of the various Russian swimmers (yes, really!), I was more than happy to leave her to it, and have a blast on whatever FPS was doing the rounds. Probably Duke Nukem 3D at the time, if anyones interested. So, anyway...This goes on for a bit, and the setup suits us both fine. Right until, a couple of weeks into this 'routine' one of the guys in the office decides to have a peruse of IE's cache, and starts slowly loading up a picture of a woman, to much woos and yays from the assembled guys watching. Right up until the rarther large penis appears. Not going *into* the woman, you understand, but attached to her. Oh yes. Transvestite porn. On a works machine. Downloaded by my GF, while I saved the earth from invading aliens. I suggested she stick to russian swimmers in future.

The second thing that happened....the MD of the company was rather messily divorcing his wife whilst having a fling with his rather skinny, rather snooty, and rather younger PA - I don't think he got out much, truth be told, and this was the first woman other than his psycho wife he'd come into contact with in 10 or 12 years. He passed his laptop to the development team to back up as he was getting a spangly new one, and didn't want to lose anything. Every single letter from him to his solicitor about the impending divorce was in there, not even password protected. What was really bad though... Lots and lots of pictures of his PA showing lots of leg, always in tights, and two rather unsettling topless pictures of said girl. It was all quite depressing, really. He subsequently married his PA and because of her fear of being usurped by an even younger model, the company hasn't had one female employee since that day.

Oh hum.
(Wed 15th Feb 2006, 11:06, More)