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Post by polly on Jan 23, 2009 14:53:21 GMT
I bet you get quite nervous: "What's he said about me?"
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 24, 2009 9:01:38 GMT
Well none of us are angels ..well apart from Horace and i was very suprised at some of the stuff he admitted too. Thats the trouble , everythings free in the land of the Flea*
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Post by polly on Jan 26, 2009 15:00:46 GMT
Well none of us are angels ..well apart from Horace and i was very suprised at some of the stuff he admitted too. He he, that's something I plan to ask Horace if I ever bump into him: "Did you get in trouble with any of your confessions?"
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Post by polly on Jan 27, 2009 9:23:17 GMT
So is Ian Dury's but I would say that now wouldn't I . Are you talking about the one written by Richard Balls? I enjoyed that, but I fancy one a biot more independant. Are there any other worth a go?
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Post by Hugh on Jan 27, 2009 15:42:12 GMT
I liked Jim Drury's: Dury by Drury.
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 28, 2009 7:30:54 GMT
Must get a copy. Just read Ozzy unauthorized Biog -the Ozzy Osbournes story very interesting* I bought Paranoid by Black Sabbath as a lad - great tune!
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Post by polly on Jan 28, 2009 9:20:09 GMT
You picked out the only Sabbath tune I can stand. I bet it's a guitar thang. 5th open, hammer on second fret, 4th open, hammer on second, power chord on E. Just what a kid with a guitar wants.
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 28, 2009 11:32:35 GMT
I was knee high to a grasshopper at the time* Yep the rest i heard dont move me maaaannnnnn@!
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Post by Mr P Nut Esq on Jan 28, 2009 17:56:28 GMT
Both the Dury books are a good read, I miss goint to see Ian & the blockheads...One of my fav gigs was royal weeding day @ The Hammersmith Odeon, Theatre of Hate n Ian Dury & the Blockheads. The Blockheads hit the stage n start playing, & on walks Viv Stanshall from the Bonzo's n does a couple of numbers before Dury hobbles on n boot him off...A wonderful memory, a wonderful gig... RIP Ian Dury
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Post by polly on Jan 29, 2009 13:24:12 GMT
Uncle Ian oi oi. Not a perfect human being, but his life was worth it just for Sweet Gene Vincent.
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 29, 2009 15:40:14 GMT
Nobodys purrfect*
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Post by Hugh on Jan 29, 2009 16:04:48 GMT
Reading another Cormac McCarthy novel: Critics cite its magnificent language, its uncompromising representation of a crucial period of American history, and its unapologetic, bleak vision of the inevitability of suffering and violence.
The novel recounts the adventures of a young runaway, the kid, who stumbles into the company of the Glanton Gang, outlaws and scalp-hunters who cleared Indians from the Texas-Mexico borderlands during the late 1840's under contract to territorial governors. Reinvisioning the ideology of manifest destiny upon which the American dream was founded, Blood Meridian depicts the borderland between knowledge and power, between progress and dehumanization, between history and myth and, most importantly, between physical violence and the violence of language.
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 29, 2009 16:30:32 GMT
OOOh that sounds goooood*
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Post by Hugh on Feb 13, 2009 22:05:42 GMT
McMAFIA by Misha Glenny With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the globalization of organized crime. Current estimates suggest that illegal trade accounts for nearly one-fifth of global GDP. McMafia is a fearless, encompassing, wholly authoritative investigation of the now proven ability of organized crime worldwide to find and service markets driven by a seemingly insatiable demand for illegal wares. Whether discussing the Russian mafia, Colombian drug cartels, or Chinese labor smugglers, Misha Glenny makes clear how organized crime feeds off the poverty of the developing world, how it exploits new technology in the forms of cybercrime and iden t i t y theft, and how both global crime and terror are fueled by an identical source: the triumphant material affluence of the West.
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Post by roddy byers on Mar 6, 2009 16:32:01 GMT
Go East youngman?!?
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