Slightly OT, I don't have an irrational fear of moths, like some do (I make up for it with other irrational fears however), but I read a sci-fi\horror book recently which features scary fucking moths. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It's a fantastic book, and I'd recommend it to anyone without a deep rooted fear of moths.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 19:04, Reply)
Still, I can't talk. I read some total guff.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 19:20, Reply)
In a kids scary story collection thingy, about moths.
I can even remember the illustration and the reference to their powdery wings...
Had no effect on me, though.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 20:16, Reply)
journalists found devoured by moths
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 19:17, Reply)
We were going to create a t0riamonkey sequel that night ... but we were tired, and needed our sleep... :)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 20:21, Reply)
Its a bit different, going round to some weird stranger blokes house is not like meeting up in a pub! At least not as far as Mr t0ria is concerned.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 20:23, Reply)
And we got abused :(
And I fully appreciate Mr T's reasoning, I wouldn't :)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 20:26, Reply)
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SXRJPNuXZsc
This was filmed approx 12.30 am... when me were merry...
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 20:34, Reply)
Halloween related flash short my yours truly, enjoy!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 18:28, Reply)
so now I'm going to click it again!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 19:13, Reply)
with Tim Minchin.
he's truly lully.
NSFW for little swearitude towards the end
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:52, Reply)
I didn't know him till he appeared on Buzzcocks.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 18:00, Reply)
he's such a sweetheart and insanely talented.
Like the result of Bill Bailey and Eddie Izzard mating
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 18:01, Reply)
I did look up his material when I saw him on Buzzcocks and me and the missus spent a good two hours watching his stuff on Youtube.
He really needs more airtime here.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 18:09, Reply)
who is far funnier!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sf_pogZ8jE
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 18:20, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFpPRcBeinI
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 19:24, Reply)
......Not of course forgetting to mention the fact that Rowan Atkinson's version was made 16 years ago.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 20:26, Reply)
Sorry break video, but holy fuck she is posessed!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:52, Reply)
That's actually scary, she sounds like Anneliese Michel...
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 18:07, Reply)
I do like how the parent just ignores it, takes more willpower than I have.
I'd slam her screaming face into a table.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 19:32, Reply)
My own remix of Sly and the Family Stone featuring vocals by Barack Obama.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:25, Reply)
and possibly enquiring whether or not we know what time it is.
This is marvellous - made my neck go all tingly!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:42, Reply)
,,,is from when I saw PE live in Newcastle, he shouted, "If there's something smelling in here it's me, 'cause I'm the shit!"
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:58, Reply)
best one I've heard of is from when Ratt played a few years back and the lead singer said
'Ratt shit is better than cat shit...because cat shit stinks'
Course it does dear...
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 18:00, Reply)
cosidering he was the one with the fucking enormous clock hanging around his neck
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 20:01, Reply)
I can also make it bounce at the lights, about 2foot.
It's independent and very soft suspension, mixed with the right heel-toe rhythm.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:23, Reply)
TV gold via a 'man on the street' interview on US news.
I want to marry him...now
GC dit non
Edit - for some reason i think this would sound good dubbed into Little Fluffy Clouds...
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:30, Reply)
That's all my producer asks for.
;)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:51, Reply)
Bless ... just want to give him a big hug - then again my taste in men always has been questionable!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:46, Reply)
look how hurt he looks at the "but there's no proof" comment at 0:50.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:37, Reply)
does he seem happy to you?
I think he's happy.
I wish I was that happy when I was doing the shopping.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:38, Reply)
that's why they couldn't locate him again.
Also, is that a Twin Peaks quote in your sig?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:48, Reply)
big fan, obviously not big enough to remember that quote though.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 19:14, Reply)
I just played them together and it's a thing of beauty akin to listening to Dark Side of the Moon while watching Wizard of Oz with the sound off :-)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:11, Reply)
You were right, they go great together:
www.madcrazydaft.co.uk/little%20green%20men.mp3
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 21:15, Reply)
cause it's just an unidentified flying object. Doesn't have to be aliums.
/pedantry
There's definitely stuff out there, but it's so bloody far away it's very unlikely that it buzzes around scaring hillbillies.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:35, Reply)
No.2 in the series of 'Neighbours' death scene remixes.
Apologies for the shite picture quality - 15+ year old vhs tape.
Next up, Julie Martin.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:27, Reply)
One big click from me!
Reminds me of mr. scruff's fish songs!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:30, Reply)
This is fucking brilliant.
Bless him...he was crossing the road to get to the abortion clinic, if memory serves.
(There's something Partridge-esque about his expression at 1:58. Reminds me of wounded Alan's expression throughout the Dante's fireplace presentation)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:34, Reply)
That's quality editing, like the irreverent backing tune too :D
Todd? . . . . Dead?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:14, Reply)
I my day we had our spleen taken out as a 21st Birthday present*. Basically it's just an accident waiting to happen.
On the plus sign. I used to have an incredible and unfeasible crush on Helen Daniels. I'm just off to the toilet, I may be some time.
*And our teeth.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:29, Reply)
Does anyone else find it strange that Alan Dale looks younger now than he did back then (not to mention the fact that he seems to have found some credibility)?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:50, Reply)
You are my new favourite person. Excellent work and resounding clicky.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 20:37, Reply)
It definitely enhances the drama.
(, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 9:39, Reply)
got drunk on sunday with some barbie dolls, a giant fluffy duck and a webcam. This is what happened.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:13, Reply)
Seems like there is much Cider within ;)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:19, Reply)
I will have to bring my handycam to carnival for similar antics!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 23:22, Reply)
Get bitten that is.
I'm sure that this is ancient, but I'd never seen it - so there!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:52, Reply)
He already broke one hand, why should we give him another?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 18:34, Reply)
Someone really should dub the audio from "Charlie bit me" over that.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:21, Reply)
Only NSFW due to mild swears.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:34, Reply)
Peaches, with all her experiance, has decided to write for a fashion mag.....
...it didn't go well!
www.nylonmag.com/?section=article&parid=2154
The 'FAIL' works well!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:57, Reply)
...they've gone from sensibly critical to overtly nasty...and have now settled on surreal:
"Hi Peaches, would you like to buy any ironmongery?"
"Not that bad for a retard and quite hot. I'd like to see how Peaches would get on, on football on the SNES "
"wibble wibble lets all dibble where is alice today?"
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:15, Reply)
Josef Fritzl10/29/2008
Even though I'm Australian it's obvious to me that people would rather be locked up in my cellar than read another word of your drivel. It seems the silicon chip inside your head is switched to "retarded".
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:39, Reply)
edit: well obviously the most recent ones are. Whoever's Dyering- once was enough.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:47, Reply)
Jack Kerouac10/28/2008
I always wished I could write this well.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:07, Reply)
Harvy Price10/29/2008
I write wif krayons. They pay me in choklit biskits. I get more choklit than you.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:50, Reply)
And doesn't have any dignity. Also his middle frame trick failed poorly.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:55, Reply)
The "i'll give it a go" is very gervaissy. do you think he's doing it on purpose?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:15, Reply)
If so it's a subtle and clever impersonation.
'Noon sir :)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:18, Reply)
that must tick at least a few 'Rules of B3taness' boxes, Shirley?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:09, Reply)
Flatmates are cool and place is lovely - makes a massive change from Crapston Villas!
Why are you bored,sore and grumpy?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:17, Reply)
In answer to your question:
Bored - I can't get out or do much because...
Sore - I've got a bad case of gout
Grumpy - See above
Grr.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:21, Reply)
I love the piano lounge interpretation of Creep:
coverfreak.com/media/081012-Creep.mp3
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:23, Reply)
It's coming, oh yes, like a massive wireless cock, ejaculating freedom all over your moobs.
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24568137-2862,00.html
Ed: Might I add that when this comes about in the UK, prisonplanet.com and infowars.com will be gone. Great stuff.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:52, Reply)
"The plan was first created as a way to combat child pronography and adult content, but could be extended to include controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia. "
GOOD!! these are all things that make the internet horrible.
there are times when you need to bring in common sense and the simple fact is that the internet is massively underregulated, in a lot of ways that makes it a fun place to be, but in other ways it makes it dangerous, scary and an ideal stalking ground for sickos with their own agenda.
i think this is a great idea and the minor worry of "oh but where will it end?" far outweighed by the fact that my 6 YO niece will be able to surf the web without my sis being worried about what she might stumble across.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:59, Reply)
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(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:18, Reply)
I don't think you realise the full implications of this.
Blogs/sites critical of the government - gone
Independent news sites - gone
Midget-horse-fisting - toned down.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:04, Reply)
Or, it'll still be up, but you'll only be allowed to post pictures of cats with amusing phrases underneath them.
Which is a good thing, everyone loves cats..and fisting.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:11, Reply)
who mentioned blogs being removed? you seriously think the government of any developed country would sneakily just start chopping sites off the internet that it didn't agree with?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:14, Reply)
- In December 2006, Republican Senator John McCain tabled a proposal to introduce legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards. It is well known that McCain has a distaste for his blogosphere critics, causing a definite conflict of interest where any proposal to restrict blogs on his part is concerned.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:16, Reply)
They are having a two-tiered censorship system. Tier 1 is unsuitable for children, tier 2 is unsuitable for adults.
You can opt out of tier 1, which merely places you on the tier 2 list instead; which is just somewhat less restrictive.
I think that your 6 YO niece (or anybodies!) should not be surfing the web without adult supervision anyway, to be fair. More parental involvement would solve most of the problems that the OZ government are using as reasons for this.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:07, Reply)
what is unsuitable for adults?
What a load of bollocks
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:08, Reply)
Thinking can be such a burden sometimes.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:15, Reply)
six year olds shouldn't be surfing the web unsupervised in the first place.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:07, Reply)
what's wrong with filters to remove child pornography websites, sites on euthanasia or other such horrible and unsuitable sites?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:10, Reply)
Which surely takes all the fun out of having kids.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:20, Reply)
It's a controversial issue to be sure, but a very subjective one. It may be right for some people, but not for others. I certainly wouldn't presume to tell someone else they were wrong, or a criminal, for helping an elderly\injured relative or friend to die painlessly with dignity.
What about abortion, another controversial issue? Should there be sites that discuss where people can get abortions, if they can't in their home town? Would this apply to people who are carrying their rapists unborn child? As a result of incest?
What about distasteful sites like Fred Phelps' 'God hates fags' website? Whilst I strongly disagree with him, it sets a dangerous precedent to remove someones ability to express an opinion because it differs from your (or societies) own.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:19, Reply)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:21, Reply)
ever, in ten years of being online, EVER seen any child pornography. Ever.
Which makes me think it's not the kind of thing you can stumble upon just by accident - I'd imagine that paedos share images with each other via p2p or something.
And why exactly is a site on euthanasia "horrible and unsuitable"? Because it upsets you?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:23, Reply)
euthanasia is horrible and unsuitable only on the grounds that its illegal.
i have no problem with it.
i simply think that everyones fucking panic over a tiny bit of regulation is extreme to say the least.
the govenrment have said nothing about censoring political opinion, only about sites that are unsuitable (i don't know about you guys but i take that to mean sites that actually break laws within that countries boundaries)
i can't be fucked to talk further on this cos i'm obviously not in with the popular opinion and as such i'll just get pulled apart on everything i say.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:28, Reply)
but information about it surely can't be?
and that's the real problem here.
there's a BIG difference between an illegal act and information about it, however unsuitable some people think that information may be.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:34, Reply)
hang around 4chan /b board long enough.....
just one of the reasons I don't go there anymore
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:39, Reply)
but about euthanasia?
seriously?
it's a controversial issue, sure, but should information about it really be banned like that?
I have a real problem with governments controlling information like that.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:31, Reply)
There are some very good points, but the question is - who would trust a polititian as a moral guide?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:13, Reply)
I live in Oz and there's a huge row over this. It ain't gonna happen. It'll be kicked out by the Senate - which the Government doesn't control.
More bollocks from The Goat's Acolyte.
Cheers
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 23:59, Reply)
Never trust a budgie.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:33, Reply)
In my mind the budgie was tearing into the kitten like a vulture.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:35, Reply)
What a cunning, sinister, diabolical fiendish genius, it must wake up and read The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli before it's breakfast
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:42, Reply)
...whilst a vocal portion of the population ponders the most suitable means of execution for the pair, the less reactionary remainder struggles to give a flaming pigeon shit about any of it.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:17, Reply)
Channel Four News observed last night, the government had no comment about the fucking escalation of the civil war in the Congo yesterday, yet they were all bending over backwards to take the moral highground and comment on this
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:22, Reply)
And haven't any of these people ever seen stuff like Never Mind the Buzzcocks?
There's worse insults thrown around on that every week.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:25, Reply)
"the less reactionary remainder struggles to give a flaming pigeon shit about any of it" sums it up for me really
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:29, Reply)
It's a huge waste of time. These toffs go out of their way to read the transcripts of the show, without ever listening to the show, just so they can go ahead an complain. I heard it as it went out and it was hilarious. Fuck the lot of em.
BBC also going on about the granddaughters "aspiring modeling career" rather than "in a shitty group called the satanic sluts"
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:29, Reply)
upside down by his bollocks from a bridge so passers by can throw things at him.
but I've thought that for quite a while now and don't give a rats about some answer phone pwank.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:23, Reply)
sending obscene messages over the public telephone system is illegal in the UK. I think "he f$cked your grand daughter" kinda counts as offensive especially if directed at a 78 year old you don't know personally.
I predict a Faulty Towers re-run this Friday at 10:35pm :-)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:27, Reply)
Uncalled for maybe but I'm not sure leaving mean messages qualifies as illegal
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:36, Reply)
depends whether or not "He F$cked your grand daughter" is deemed "Grossly offensive", and/or
"caus(ed) annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another....... a message that he knows to be false"
I guess it rests on whether Brand had indeed f&cked Mr Sachs' grand daughter and either way whether or not this caused annoyance inconvenience or needless anxiety to Mr Sachs, which it seems it did.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:50, Reply)
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081414/Georgina-Baillie-Brand-Ross-sacked-way-treated-grandfather.html
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:16, Reply)
Oh my, oh my. Is there anyone left that Brand chap hasn't f&cked?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:37, Reply)
She was an adorable child until Ross and Brand turned her into a filhty burlesque vixen.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:19, Reply)
I laughed out loud when I read this story the other day. The Guardian waited until the last paragraph to say that the Granddaughter in question had been unavailable for comment as she was performing with a troupe called The Satanic Sluts. Excellent comic timing.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:28, Reply)
cause Manuel was such an ethical portrayal of a Spanish man.
Also, the majority of the sane population never kicked up a fuss that license fees were being spent on Celebrity Dancing on Jesus and associated bow locks.
Grrr!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:29, Reply)
it would make things much easier.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:30, Reply)
I built myself up too much to think it was going to be just perfect....my own fault. Plus, the colour grade makes it look way too dark, like, just too dark. did you like it?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:46, Reply)
But it's not what I thought it was going to be, it actually looks better.
I'll sit down and catch up tommorow night.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:07, Reply)
Funny, cathartic (as someone who hates Big Brother), clever...but isn't smug and therefore doesn't want to rise above being a damned good zombie yarn.
Also really like the colour grading. It is indeed very dark...but makes the whole thing seem dream-like.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:19, Reply)
"he was from Barcelona" The joke was that he couldn't understand anything because Basil kept talking Spanish to him. Catalan is about as much like Spanish as Welsh is like English.
Now that's proper comedy, not a couple of school kids giggling in a phone box and swearing at a teacher.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:34, Reply)
I studied French, Spanish and Catalan at university. Catalan is way more similar to Spanish than Welsh is to English. I found I could understand the written form before undertaking any study (having previous good Spanish and French). And pretty much all Catalans speak fluent Spanish.. they had to by law up until Franco went in the late 70s. Nowadays you might find the odd octogenerarian who claims not to understand Spanish, but they pretty much always do. They live in a country called Spain.. And Manuel is a very traditional Spanish name.
..to be a little pedantic..
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:33, Reply)
and therefore would probabaly understand Spanish.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:38, Reply)
..so he'd almost certainly speak Catalan fluently too - if he'd been brought up there. But Spanish would not be at all a problem, which was my point. And I think I remember his dialogue in the program to be either English or Spanish - no Catalan.
Catalan is a beautiful language with a rich literary history however. Don't mean to do it down - it deserves to survive.
Right, must get up and do something..
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:53, Reply)
...but I mean it's a pretty damned major city, so presumably he would speako both lingo.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:57, Reply)
Can't we get Alan Carr to call Ian Lavender a cunt or something?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:45, Reply)
...I think Katona's doing a good job of destroying her career by herself.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:49, Reply)
Similarly, Winehouse to call David Jason's mum a piss-puking fart gobbler.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:58, Reply)
I really need to get around to listening to this. Does anyone know where I can find it?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:56, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7IHJ66wj9g
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAxPkcnlyNM&feature=related
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:01, Reply)
It's silly, but not that bad, really.
Brand does sound a bit manic though. Surely his producer should have intervened, and said 'no, really, that's enough.'?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:11, Reply)
...and the only amsuing bit is his impromptu song.
Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:15, Reply)
I can see how Andrew Sachs felt he had the right to complain, and they have already publicly apologised. I feel sorry for the staff on Ross' other shows, now in limbo as he's been suspended.
Is suspension appropriate? I'm not sure. The likelihood of either of them being sacked is minimal, so it seems like a pointless punishment.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:20, Reply)
..he's had so much of everything in the past all his inhibitions are gone permanently, to the extent that his bullshit-filter is heavily damaged.
But whatever.. Gordon Brown making a statement about it?? Schlebs truely are running the world..
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:57, Reply)
It seems to me his producer said:
"Thats great, lets post it online!"
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:18, Reply)
and possibly the series producer. Brand and Ross will have to apologise, and that will be all.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:05, Reply)
the grand daughter will soon start to appear on I'm A Celebrity, Celeb Air, Celeb Scissorhands... or any of those crappy things
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:08, Reply)
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1081087/Meet-Voluptua-burlesque-dancer-goth-centre-BBC-radio-prank.html
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 13:27, Reply)
She was on a European tour with the burlesque dance group - the Satanic Sluts - but cut short the trip following the public humiliation.
Maybe Brand thought she was into it? - I wonder where he got that idea?
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:20, Reply)
And not her grandad's/the radio audiences business.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:28, Reply)
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(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:17, Reply)
Only $8,539.00. Title: Chemical Shifts And Coupling Constants For Silicon (Check out the customer reviews.)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:09, Reply)
"The Columbia Cartel"
"The Vincentino Family"
"The Fox"
"Slippery Jim Marioso"
"Senator Smith"
"The Charity for Philosophical Debate Society"
"Fast Eddy Giovaninci"
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(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:20, Reply)
$40,000
There are some, apparently, more expensive than this on there. - crumbs chief!
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:22, Reply)
to read it out loud to me whenever I desired.
However it looks a fairly boring book:( Though I'd put up with this for the wenches.
I thought I'd splashed out earlier this year for a whole load of books at £50 each or so, on architecture, 3d modelling and maths. It seems not.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:30, Reply)
Going back from theorising about the tower of babel, through to Taipei 101, Flat Iron building etc. Some interesting ones about the non-building side of architecture (which I'd not thought about) covering the idea of skyscrapers as self contained entities so talking about distribution of leisure, commercial, living areas, covering light\vegetation, the importance of open, communal space etc. Probably the best book I bought was:
www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/showbook.php?id=0470843551
Most of the other books are either half schematic type books, or wildy theoristic (future cities) ideas for architecture.
I just enjoy reading about them more than anything (and trying model cityscapes, which is my current hobby) :)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:39, Reply)
Hopefully will get to go on a trip to Hong Kong, or somewhere similar, to actually see some of these awesome tall buildings in the flesh sometime.
Incidentally, one of the reasons I got fascinated with tall buildings was a short story by Stephen Gould called, 'Peaches for Mad Molly' - worth reading if you stumble across.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:19, Reply)
One reviewer states: "I bought two or three for the house, they are perfect for use as an inconspicuous book safe when hollowed out with a Dremel. I keep the most prized portions of my Beanie Baby collection within. "
I need some fresh air, the world is quite mad
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:40, Reply)
their staple is to print conference proceedings and the like. It's verging on vanity publishing as the only people who "buy" them are the ones who go to the conferences.
Well it's not quite vanity publishing but it ain't far off given only half a dozen people in the world would be interested in buying them so they can cite them in their own research.
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 11:50, Reply)
but that's nothing:
www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Gould%2C+John&bt.x=51&bt.y=13&fe=on&sortby=1
www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Lear&sortby=1
www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Darwin&sortby=1&sts=t&x=71&y=18
If I glance to my right, I am looking at one of these^ books; most of the rest our below in our strong room
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:10, Reply)
I'll see your Gould, and I'll raise you an Austen
www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1189285447&searchurl=an%3Dausten
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:24, Reply)
we've got some books in our strongroom worth a great deal more than that, though i'm stumped if I remember what they are called sat here impatiently for lunch ;)
(, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 12:33, Reply)
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