NOTHING BUT OWLS!
November 26th, 2007

hawley the owl

lately, i’ve been listening to lots and lots of richard hawey. his new album, lady’s bridge, is quite good (if you like that sort of thing, which i do). he’s playing cafe du nord in a couple of weeks, and i’m really excited to be going with my friend mona. she’s one of the few people i know who really likes hawley, but it makes sense since she’s also one of the few people i know who likes the divine comedy.

i don’t know why it dawned on me, but today i had to check to make sure hawley wasn’t a sheffield united supporter. (it would make me reconsider this whole shebang.) thankfully he’s a wednesday supporter, and very proud of it. this article in the guardian had a good bit about his love of the owls:

Then as now whenever he has returned from touring his first thought on returning home has always been “thank fuck I’m from Sheffield”. There are plenty of other downsides to touring but one in particular is currently haunting the bespectacled crooner. The fact that he is a lifelong Sheffield Wednesday supporter and signed his record deal in the goalmouth at Hillsborough appears to have escaped the attention of his in-laws. When he was last away his father-in-law bought Hawley’s son Danny a Sheffield United kit.

“I came in the house and he was in full United gear. Our lass went, ‘Don’t just simmer.’ I had to go down to the pub to calm down. I was going on and on about it and Lou, my three-year-old, came up to me and put his head in my lap and went. ‘I’m Wednesday, Daddy.’ Wednesday or United, it’s like Harry Potter’s sorting hat. I thought my boy’s going to be Gryffindor and he ended up Slytherin, didn’t he?”

i think this is a cute story, but i really hope the kid isn’t really a blade. it made me wonder if i ever had kids they supported the blades, what’d i do then? i doubt that would happen, but what if? i think i would have serious issues, which is a little sad, but whatever. (no child of mine will ever be a blade, nor will they support the red shite.)

i guess i should be happy i don’t have kids.

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November 21st, 2007

england are rubbish.


he’s probably thinking: “shit.”
fucking england, indeed. there’s too many people to blame, but one person i will not blame is joleon lescott. (if you want to get me an overpriced shirt, a lescott top would fit the bill.)

hopefully england will reorganize and maybe start caring. gah.

i really should start supporting the us.

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November 20th, 2007

peeking. (but alive.)



peeking., originally uploaded by kendrak.

here’s a recent picture of maude. she looks a little weird here, but it’s because she just had a bath.

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November 20th, 2007

patak’s curry.



patak’s curry., originally uploaded by kendrak.

last year in england, neil cooked curry for dinner a couple of times. i remember that it was better than any jar stuff we could get in the stores over here. the other night i was grocery shopping and recognized the patak’s jars in the foreign foods aisle. it was a little confusing because rogan josh was “spicy tomato & cardamom”, but it was the same stuff.

tonight i made robojo and myself dinner with the jar, some mushrooms, onions, green beans, and rice. see dinner? it was tasty. neil, i think it was the green beans!

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November 20th, 2007

lookin’ sharp.

my clothes whoring knows no bounds. i just got my special-ordered black fred perry with white and red stripes on the collar and sleeves. it’s an impressive shirt and i’m tickled to own it. (see? it’s stylish, innit?) it takes me back ten years, to a time when i would have died for a fred perry, but knew there’d be no way in hell i could own one. now i own three!!! (of course i’d like a couple more. they make good work shirts.)

next stop- ben sherman. i think i’m going friday to pick up this, this, or this. then i will be an even more styling moddish library goon than before!

the final piece of my style puzzle will have to be these shoes. then nobody will be able to argue that i’m just another trashy number. i will be the library face!

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November 16th, 2007

gassy jack


i just started listening to gassy jack and other tales, the new record from the evaporators. it’s been too long since they released anything new, but i’m happy they did. hooray!

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November 13th, 2007

give me oats!

remember a month ago when i said maude was dying? well, we’ve been to the vet twice since then, and she seems to consistently getting better. we still have to take her in for check-ups/get her teeth clipped every couple weeks, but she refuses to die. this morning the vet stated a couple of times that he was pleasantly shocked that she not only hasn’t died yet, but is gaining weight and eating lots. i figure we must be from the same stuff- we have the fighting spirit that can’t keep us down.

of course, her condition could change any moment and she could drop down dead, but until then, she seems to be returning to normal. she’s starting to beg for food again and she’s getting excited at the sound of plastic bags. today the vet recommended that we feed her rolled oats. i put some in her dish this morning and she ran out, sniffed them, and then ran away. now she can’t get enough of them. it’s amazing what she’ll eat.

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November 13th, 2007

top bassist? my ass!!!

when i was just a kid, i had two main idols for bass playing- john entwistle and jack bruce. i would add in john paul jones, but i really have a thing against jimmy page and robert plant, so i couldn’t give zepplin the credit. i understood why people liked jaco, victor wooten, or les claypool, though i personally thought their styles were a little wanky and the music sucked. i did have aspirations to play like bootsy collins, james jamerson, or duck dunn, but their music wasn’t loud enough.

i’m watching vh1 classic’s rock band countdown of top bassists. here’s the list:

10. steve harris from iron maiden.
9. geezer butler from black sabbath.
8. les claypool of primus.
7. john paul jones of led zepplin.
6. flea from red hot chili peppers.
4. paul mccartney.
3. geddy lee from rush. (robojoe’s favourite band.)
2. chris squire from yes.
1. john entwistle from the who.

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i know you expect a rant, so here it is:

paul mccartney at no. 4? are they smoking crack? i understand vh1 is extremely deferential to sir paul (as is the world), but i wouldn’t count him as one of the best bass players in rock music. his bass lines were rarely adventurous or revolutionary. it seems to be more of the same old beatle ass kissing, though you would never see ringo on a list of the best rock drummers (except for maybe a filling out no. 10), nor would you see george harrison on the best rock guitarists, even though he was great. no, it’s got to be hammy mcham, “pull me-cock-off”, the biggest sap in the music industry- paul fucking mccartney. i was ready to call his placement the biggest blight on the list until squire was named no. 2 and panicked that enwistle might be left off, but it was for naught. so i can save all my indignation for that gormless tit from merseyside. ugh!!!

i don’t really like most of the people on the list, but paul mccartney is just bang out of order. i don’t necessarily think entwistle deserves to be no. 1, but he definitely should be above sir paul, so that’s something.

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November 11th, 2007

abzorbaloff from bolton?

tonight i watched the episode of the new dr. who with bolton’s own peter kay as a big fat creature called an abzorbaloff. i have to say, it was one of the dumbest episodes i’ve seen in a while, despite it being light on david tennant’s hammy antics. (robojoe thinks billie piper looks a bit stupid. i question how she has an autobiography.)

i thought the episode was good in that it brought kay back to my tv screen. i really wish that phoenix nights was available in the u.s., but since it wasn’t on bbc that seems doubtfull. the best thing about the episode is that the abzorbaloff was designed by a 9-year old kid from colchester as part of a contest on the kids show blue peter. the alien was pretty cool.

and in totally unrelated news… sheffield wednesday smashed southampton today at hillsborough: 5-0!!! could they be catching their stride? they have won more matches than sheffield united, but united have fewer losses and more draws. whatever. i’m just happy the owls are looking better. will everton be able to hold off chelsea at stamford bridge tomorrow? i hope so, but it’s better than the owls won today.

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November 3rd, 2007

it’s all about the cut!

i’m doing homework and planning my show tomorrow. i’m trying to think about things that make me feel happy, and i mean that sort of warmth that comes from within that makes me smile without thinking. it was weird, because this morning when i saw the results for everton and sheffield wednesday, i went skipping through kalx cheering. it was great but silly.

wearing a ben sherman shirt made me feel like that, too, which means i’m shallow. but why on earth can’t they make more mod shirts for the ladies? all the mens shirts are quite nice, but the ladies shirts are fugly.














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