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31 May, 2002 Two or three things we know about the Coup du monde: 1. The defending champion will start slowly (France 0-1 down to Senegal, half-time in the opening game) 2. There is always a ‘group of death’ 3. England is always in it 4. Either Poland or Argentina will be in it with England 5. People will expect one of the ‘bridesmaids’ to finally win it — Holland (didn’t qualify); France (no longer a bridesmaid). That leaves Spain ... Or maybe you prefer Coupe du monde... 30 May, 2002 When punk went prog Daria (Thursday, 5.30pm, ABC TV) went to the end credits with a Clash song ... a kind of ballad-y one and quite nice: something from London Calling or Sandinista — but I haven’t listened to a Clash record in 20 years ... Scrabbling through the vinyl archive I realised that London Calling was a double album and Sandinista a triple ... and I would have to listen to 10 of the most disappointing sides of all time to find the name of the song ... Good friend Paula is a sax player in a band called Moisturizer in NYC. They have a nice pink website — but get Flash 6 before you click. We never hear from her, though — just get lots of spam advertising her side gigs as a DJ. The latest? >May 30th, at do hwa, 55 Carmine Street in the west Village (between 7th avenue >south & bedford) from 9 pm til late. Admission is free, >drink specials are available and the music will be sassy rhythm & blues, >disco, rap, reggae, etc. come early & eat yummy korean >food or just have cocktails at the bar & >shake your groove thing. If you’re reading this in NYC, you know where to go tonight. 29 May, 2002 Works in progress The shelves at home are loaded with books I have started but not finished ... this is the first in an occasional series of posts ... In Search of Lost Time (aka Remembrance of Things Past), Marcel Proust. The biggest and best of all part-read books in the Western canon. Now presented as six volumes in a very attractive Vintage Classics paperback edition — with delicious pink and orange covers. Looping, elliptical sentences that run into hundreds and even thousands of words; digressions from the ‘narrative’ that never return; page after page without sight of a paragraph break; and the whole thing structured into a handful of gargantuan ‘chapters’: this one has the lot. I started more than three years ago and read in bursts: half to one volume at a time. Currently stalled somewhere in volume five. Sonya started six months later and knocked it over in under a year. Be careful around people who say they’ve read it more than once. Read: 2,657 pages of 3,681 pages (approx.) Likelihood of finishing: High. Proust spent twenty-odd years writing it; I figure I can spin out the reading for a few more. 28 May, 2002 Push media Fancy one of those, err, fancy hard-disk recorders? You know, those ‘smart’ VCRs that let you record and watch — and skip the ads — all at the same time? They’re wired up with a modem that lets them download the program schedule from a database — goodbye TV Week. Makes programming them so easy anyone can do it ... So last week, anyone did. Owners of TiVo recorders in Britain found they had all been remotely programmed (by the company) to record Dossa and Joe — and to keep it on the hard drive for a week. The future of TV? Only if you really want it shoved down your throat ... 28 May, 2002 Tokyo no-go Don’t bother taking your Sony digicam to Tokyo — these guys have already logged the stuff you’ll want to shoot, including vending machines, sticker booths, box men, taxi lanterns and some other cool things. They’ve also got the web’s best collection of Japanese drink cans. 28 May, 2002 Don’t go there Checking on Wired I mis-typed the URL and got a porn site instead ... in full view of the office. I won’t gratify their stupid marketing scam by blogging the URL ... Here’s a list of copy protected CDs which may cause your CD ROM drive to lock up — particularly if you drive a Mac. Couldn’t see much there that I want to hear, though ... More fun from Jodi. The downloads will make you feel a bit freaky, but they seem safe... And this, too is Absurdly freaky. 27 May, 2002 Pretty big bang A nearby star is reaching the Chandrasekar limit. Watch that space ... 25 May, 2002 X-ray art, digital trace, colour photocopy, fragment of a page from a medieval book of monsters, something scraped off the windscreen after a long drive, shell, case or skin shed by unidentified creature, sketch of idea for invading alien in a late-20th-century sci-fi movie ... 25 May, 2002 Okapi Guitars 2. Found the lyrics ... in the booklet that came with the CD (where else?) ‘Lukole f.c.’ — unofficial anthem for the World Cup: Force de Lion FC Club We fight 11-fast Lukole is a refugee camp in Tanzania, ‘home’ to 120,000 Hutus from Burundi and Rwanda. 24 May, 2002 Lucky Cup is a good place for a Peach Milk Tea. Stop by if you’re in the neighbourhood. 23 May, 2002 Okapi Guitars. South Sydney plays Africa east and west. Check out Blue Kigara, their latest CD. So far we love ‘Lukole f.c.’ and ‘hey, you people’. It’s great Afro guitar-pop with post-political attitude. You can buy online at the website and the Okapi guitarman will ship it to you in no time. You owe yourself some home-made music. 23 May, 2002 Here is a guide to English pronunciation that will be useful for future travellers to the continent ... 22 May, 2002 Copy of the 1 Giant Leap CD kickng around the office ... Euro music producer and film maker go on the road to make a collaborative CD and DVD of the experience. Includes Baba Maal, Mahotella Queens, Horace Andy, LKJ, Neneh Cherry, Michael Franti ... Some of us object to the same-y mix, which we reckon blands the world/jazz/whatever contributions into western popDance musak ... others, who like it, say we’re too hung up on cultural authenticity ... but I say it’s a problem of cultural context. What, as the EDITOR says, do you think? 22 May, 2002 Sopranos trivia. How do you like this lasagna. 21 May, 2002 Daria, anyone?

Reply to all e-mail from the bloggees oh dear. inspired to blog by our own back page? this'll be weird. "reuse. recycle. rehash"? funny to see it coming back at me. what was that rule number 4 or 5? something about giving credit where it's due . So, do I get to keep tabs on you this way? will you forget I'm watching? Will I forget to watch? Will work continue to feed your blog or will your blog feed work eventually? oh, and you've mis-spelled Britain at one point. I do like it though. Nice design, neat text. Better than my pathetic efforts these days. repeat: must. update. web. site. I totally missed the porn episode. was anyone around? was the porn any good? Anyhow, I might just see you online before I return... TTFN, as they say. --ro Don't apologise - it's cool...here is what I am up to these days. You can do a thing on me in The Rage one time if you like. --Regards, Simon.