Not Necessarily Nude

who is me

2011-08-13T04:03:00.004+09:30

How come there's a sun? Why's a flower? Why's a tree? Why are clouds so high? How come they're in the sky? Why's a bee, why's a person just like me? Who is meeeeeee...

NantesSense

2011-07-01T07:22:00.000+09:30

I may not have done a Podcast in god knows how long, but I am still broadcasting, on my very own fully LIVE radio show! Yes folks, I've graduated to Public Rado, voluteer based, naturally. Funnily enough, it's a French station but they do lots of multi-lingual content, and I'm part of the stable of English voices. I've got 3 shows under my belt already, ranging from cringeworthy to promising. I

You've been a very Nantey boy!

2011-06-07T01:58:00.006+09:30

What a lovely time I had in Nantes and Brittany so recently.Frazer and Aurelie made me feel very much at home.Home for them two is in fact, very lovely. I was delighted when I was asked to follow Frazer straight up the local priest's back lane way to discover both Aurelie and he's new abode. Frazer and Aurelia showed me around Nantes, a substantial and characterful town. Also, we spent on the

Saturn photo animation and The Sun

2011-03-17T18:27:00.004+10:30

This one's * for you Rich. You've seen the pics, now see them animated. Not computer generated, folks. This is REAL.When you tire of Saturn, how about some photos of The Sun? These come courtesy of an American photographer called Alan Friedman who prints greeting cards by day.(* If you don't see a film screen automatically, you might have to click on the Title above to get linked to the Saturn

This is just a test

2011-02-05T04:26:00.001+10:30

Are you receiving me? I'm doing this on my phone. Future boy.Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.6

We, the oppressed.

2011-01-28T07:28:00.020+10:30

Sorry to break the peaceful silence that has coocooned this blog for the last few months/years but I felt that I had to post a reaction to a disturbing trend that's been looming large in the western media for the last few years and is really starting to take a turn for the pathetic.Straight White Men claiming that they're the victims of discrmination; oh, DO leave it out, for crying out loud. How

The Message

2010-12-02T20:36:00.004+10:30

For those of you who want to see yours truly act his way to the very limit of a paper bag, please be bothered to watch THIS FILM on YouTube. It's called "The Message" and it was made by a friend of mine here in Nantes, Josh Musgrave, this summer.I will consider your constructive critisism below...For Chezzo and others who can't get YouTube, please send me your postal address and I may mail you a

Russia in color, a century ago

2010-12-01T03:59:00.003+10:30

Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.comIt doesn't look like it, but this photograph is a century old and was taken before the Russian Revolution or WWI.Yet the colour in the picture is so unusual for photographs of this vintage that it's almost impossible for me to believe that it could be so old. CAN - NNNNOT - COMPUTE!Even if you're not interested in photography, Russia,

Welcome

2010-09-15T04:44:00.000+09:30

Oh Ginno!

2010-09-13T23:49:00.000+09:30

Time to take stock

2010-09-10T23:12:00.004+09:30

Life marches on. Time stops for no one. We all die. All clichés and movie lines that we know are true. But how often to we face this truth? We are all frogs, boiling away in the pot as the scientists increase the temperatute. Every day, we change incrementally, physically, mentally. Sometimes we notice; more often the alterations slips by undetected, until you face the truth. The truth can come

Hitler's pencil of doom

2010-09-08T11:49:00.002+09:30

time lapse Tokyo

2010-07-28T10:08:00.003+09:30

floating point from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo. Thought Ginno might like this. Watch full screen.

the making of 'I'm Not in Love', 10CC

2010-07-15T01:56:00.001+09:30

Baz the Bear cleans up his act

2009-12-31T02:56:00.002+10:30

white with one please , Ginno

2009-12-22T22:51:00.012+10:30

This post is a continuation of our conversation re music and music videos of 70s and now 80s... it seemed reminiscent to me of our coffee table discussions, so it seems only fitting to continue it here at cyber 51 Albert St.. I'm boilling the kettle and inviting conversationFry: After scores of my letters of request, David Hasslehoff has FINALLY covered Ted Mulry's Jump in my Car... featuring The

NNN: Gold Class Edition

2009-12-08T00:33:00.003+10:30

Anyone who's seen this website before this post will have noticed the layout change. I hope you like the new style, and are forthcoming with your constructive critisism. I changed it because I found that reading light text with a dark background for long periods of time hurt my eyes, so I took steps to make it a bit more easy on the eye. Also, a change is as good as a holiday and I had a dream

My response to boss man Ginno's memo 2

2009-12-04T08:08:00.005+10:30

Picture one is the most recent.. last Sunday morning.. I laughed out loud as I saw that someone had sicked up down the side of this car.. the laugh all that much more hilarious as it was on a car that was new and a supposed hip car.. I would have enjoyed seeing the poor bugger leaning up on the roof and flowing their vomit out down the carefully suntinted windows of this brand new mini. 2nd snap

Ginno Challenge: Step Two - Tacky Artifacts

2009-12-02T18:11:00.005+10:30

The last place I visited was Marseille, 2nd largest city in La France with a delicious southern European climate, and gateway to Europe for millions of French-speaking Africans, Corsicans, Italians and other Med-dwelling types. As such, it enjoys a cultural complexity unrivalled in many parts of the world, and is home to many varied things, including The Count Of Monte Cristo, the standard deck

Albert St Soundtrack Challenge - Schoo

2009-12-01T15:16:00.004+10:30

Here are my 5 tracks in response to Ginno's challenge. These reflect my residency at 51 Albert St from late 1993 (November I think) to April 1995: 1. The exercise record This one involves a bit of explaining but I cannot think of a more appropriate recording for entry No 1 to my own personal Albert St soundtrack. For starters, this was the first record (??) I recall listening to on the first day

The Ginno Challenge - Stage One: Albert St Soundtrack

2009-11-25T22:23:00.005+10:30

I couple of weeks ago, I challenged the co-founders of this oft-visited blog to a little bit of creation, so minor that it almost doesn't class as 'creating' as such. Create a soundtrack to an imaginary film about a time in your life where we were all together living in a little pocket of small town called Wickham - though they claimed it was Islington.Such a predictable response from the rest of

just like a rubber band

2009-11-05T20:12:00.003+10:30

The truly funny part of this is hearing Fry sniggering childishly in the background..

1990, Council Street. Reverse Film

2009-11-03T02:47:00.002+10:30

Fry and Cherry explore the exciting world of backwardness, at 21 Council St (Newcastle Australia) way back in 1990. James Galloway on camera..

I used to be so SMART.

2009-10-29T21:29:00.005+10:30

When I was in my last year of Primary School, I got kicked out by the Headmaster. This was not because I did anything wrong, not really. It was because - believe it or not - that the school had run out of things to teach me. Apparently I had learnt so much faster than the others that I was getting bored in class, and messing around in tests and whatnot. I don't remember this at all though, this

Frazer's Fantastic Flight!

2009-09-03T18:42:00.003+09:30

This is just to give you guys an idea of what the highlight of my summer was - Aurelie organised for a few of my friends, including Herr Frei, to chip in and buy me a trip on a helecopter above London. If you've listened to the podcast, you probably know all about it, but in case you don't, I had to catch a train out to Redhill in Surrey and then ride a bike to the Aerodrome. It would have been

Not much happened on 1 October 1970

2009-01-07T15:56:00.003+10:30

Here's a short retrospective of my birthday. I was born at 7.25am on 1 October 1970, the day I was due (and exactly 9 months after the turn of the decade 1969-1970, hmmm...), at Western Suburbs Hospital in Waratah, Newcastle on an unseasonly hot day apparently. But nothing of worldly significance ocurred on the same day, at least not according to the list on Wikipedia. I know I share my birthday

The unabridged history of The Sixth of July

2008-12-19T09:01:00.003+10:30

After reading Dickers Cherry's inspired history of his birthday 22 Feb, and reading his requests for ours, I did a bit of research. Here, for anyone who gives a monkey's, it is...Around 4pm, 6th July 1972, University College Hospital, St Pancras, London, England: After a long birth, I am brought silently into this world. Meanwhile up in Sheffield Mark Gasser, Classical British pianist

The Coin Collector of Old London Towne's many guises

2008-11-26T10:46:00.006+10:30

Those of you who don't have the privilege of living in London may not be aquainted with my close friend, The Coin Collector of Old London Towne. I have managed to get some snaps of him on some of the few rare occasions that he leaves his counting house.In the first photo, he is posing with my delightful lady friend, initially unwillingly, until we not only let him keep his favourite hat on but

Quite the dandy about town!

2008-11-23T20:46:00.008+10:30

Ginno's lament of the modern age continues. I agree to an extent with a few of his points regarding mobile phone use, though he seems to have taken it a step beyond. His discontent with the current world deepens and subsequently, he has lately undergone what I can only call quite a radical change. He paid a lot of money for plastic surgery and now wishes to be known as Uncle Amadeus. He's been

Modern Life is rubbish

2008-11-02T23:54:00.004+10:30

It's Sunday, so even though I'm nowhere near Speakers Corner, I thought I'd get up on my virtual soap box and rant about something that's been annoying me the last few years.I don't usually go to gigs in London. I know that sounds weak, one of the world's music capitals with all that heritage and so much happening right now (though that's contentious), you'd think I'd be getting amongst

"You made my mum eat poo!"

2008-10-30T14:07:00.003+10:30

I've just read Chezzo's latest gastronomic adventure on his blog where he indulged in some battered dog dish and was convinced he could smell dogshit. It reminded me of a story that's been doing the rounds here lately where a family was served some poo in a complimentary ice cream they were served at the Coogee Bay Hotel in Sydney recently. Follow these links for a couple of different versions

English spelling: a national treasure or a disabilitating burden?

2008-09-11T18:05:00.003+09:30

WTF?! yood fink dat as 1 inglish teecha, aid B hapy 4 da folowing 2 hapn but djast finking abaut da konsikwensiz meiks mee feel ill ai prei ai die b4 txting lingo b-cumz akseptabl in jenrl yoos LOL ;-((From The Times