4am Infernal

Getting older. Insomnia increasing. I'm aware that as one gets older sleeping all night becomes less likely. This could be the real start of middle age. The extra time I'm finding at the beginning of the day is not unwelcome but is hard to practical use as I live in close proximity to three others who most definitely do not want to share my wakefullness. So I'm limited in what I can do with this time. Maybe a time for refection and organising rather than doing.

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1999

love the video matching the samples....

1998

I'm a sucker for breakbeats

1997

can't embed this so here's a link

Mogwai : Mogwai Fear Satan

1996

bootiful

1995

toss up between detroit and dusseldorf, dusseldorf won

1994

soaring riffs

1993

The greatest rock n roll show on earth

1992

u gotta love most mc5 samples, including julian cope's entire career!

1991

Best heard coming out a very large Spriral Tribe rig in a field surrounded by cops....
still my fave dance tune ever and I have it on vinyl as pictured below

1990

Bitch Magent Mesentery

Those of you at the venue in new cross that night know bitch magnet are the best yank band eva!

My mind races so fast

But now I have a blogging app on my phone I have a chance of capturing some more of the bollocks 'for posterity'.

Gadgetophiles and geeks, this new means of downloading the drivel from me head is Blogger-droid for Andriod phones.

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Awesome

A while back I had a faceache whinge about inappropriate use of the word 'awesome'. It crops up so often as a result of American (TV) cultural hegemony. It litters the speech of American youth to a similar extent to the use of 'like' by British youth.

I have been privileged to see two truly awesome things in my life. Mount St. Helens and it's surrounding zone of devastation which I visited a decade or so after she blew her top. The landscape there is simply other worldly. The scale of the destruction is staggering.

The other was the full solar eclipse visible in the UK in the 90s. I've forgotten the date and time. It was a cloudy day with no glimpse of the sun. I was sat high up on the western edge of Dartmoor which has a view miles to the west across Cornwall. From this vantage point I saw the shadow of totality sweep in across the twilight penumbra vista at great speed, followed by the reverse event after a minute or so of night. I just got this very powerful sense of the immense masses and angular momentums of celestial mechanics which was very profound and belittling.

Like totally awesome dudes!

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