Synthesizer Patel

there's this little known black performer called Little Richard, don't know if anyone here has ever heard of him?

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you do know that the bible & christianity were developed/created & honed over many hundreds of years, by many many people - ignoring certain gospels, and including others for whatever reason, as well as absorbing elements from other religions of the time. older religions even had the jesus figure for christianity to draw inspiration from. the greek religion and all those gods for EVERYTHING - now that is complex. as is the pagan religion, and surely if religion were a "PERSONAL" thing as someone said in this thread (i can't remember who it was now, maybe a couple of people) then cert

it depends what you mean by "attacking"? if religion is detrimental to social, cultural & political progress, then it's ok to point that out. and that can simply be by people not joining in with that progress - ie. if you've got 20 people in a boat and 15 think that oars are a bad thing, then those 15 are dead weight, and the best thing they can do is jump over-board (or get pushed).

i kind of almost agree with what satan has to say in that, although i do think that he is the actual satan rather than apparently his nephew, and so he is making the child believe in nothing so has to lead him from the heavenly path. or maybe not? hmmm. i don't really know. i do know he wrote a number of versions of the ending - so what is your take? the whole piss-take of "the moral sense" issue throughout the story is certainly something i agree with.

ok. well, i guess i'll have to play then. that knocks adams into a cocked hat. and for all you heathen yankee doodle-types this is what you get for your dollar: or

we'll play, but only if you can name one worse first.

anyone in here ever read The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain?

get familiar with him fast. vintage violence, paris 1919, fear, slow dazzle, and helen of troy are some of the finest albums of the 1970s. i can always upload a few choice tracks to get anyone interested, who might be wanting to be interested, if need be. as for covers; well, these really aren't up to much, but are fun enough, i guess: I Don't Know Why They Kick Me Dog John Wesley Harding Froggie Went A Courtin' careful with the last one, it was recorded live at an extreme volume!

why? the ad campaign has that monkey as their symbol apparently; the idea of the ad is clearly that changing a mobile phone is important, inspirational, and akin to the supposed desires of a politician (in this case obama) to make things better for the people - clearly more of an appalling, and actual, message displayed in the ad given that it's a fudging mobile phone, rather than any racist message. the fact that the japanese didn't see anything racist in it, but americans did, is very interesting too - this cnn report explains things slightly better: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O3U8UXMv

next time you should probably post a link like that into the Now Playing or Now Watching On Youtube thread, then people would have no complaint. although, when most people post a link to something they like they don't tend to post the release date and a little pr blurb to accompany it unless people ask for these details afterwards. there was even a recent thread about noel getting pushed over, which you could have posted the link in, too. what is so wrong with being childish, by the way? there are far worse things to be in life.

i've not heard that yet. i heard it leaked, and i sought it out, but never found it. i'm going hunting again now, i think. edit: found it! as for dear science, i'm loving it at the moment. i had high hopes for this, and it's living up to it at the moment. now, as long as animal collective put out an album this year and it equals what i'm expecting it to sound like, this year won't have been a total wash out for my tastes.

i personally take alternative country to refer to all country music which positioned itself on the opposite side of the populist market place from the 1950s on, after people suddenly realised money could be made out of them. so, basically when the nashville sound emerged - and the sound was 'tailored' to suit the mass market-place. a bit like how classical music and pop music split at the start of the last century, and went their seperate ways. to be totally honest, i don't really think about the term much anyway; there's just good country music and there's bad. however, if alt country music d

that would have worked far better if you'd have said "bored discussion"

i like them. although their last 2 studio albums seemed like a drop off in quality to me. i really loved rehearsing my choir, and then have not been so struck by those last 2. i've heard about this live set - isn't it mixed to sound like you are at the concert, but from various locations (ie. at the front, at the bar, in the middle, in the toilets etc...) and it changes location throughout the songs? it sounds like a great idea, and i've meant to get a copy of it, so maybe i will now.

it WAS another song entirely, but one of those short songs that gets left in the bin - apart from it didn't, because they stuck it in the middle of A Day In The Life. I think that's true, from what i've read. i agree with you totally about o'rourke. they definately need him back, even if it's just to mix the next album and remove the chaff.

they didn't show that bit - they just showed a few clips. i guess that gives you some idea of what our media wishes to portray though, doesn't it. which is wrong, but still these things do help form opinions unfortunately. to me, our media seemed to be taking the piss out of it all, showing the people who'd come from miles around in silly hats and stuff like that - showing the whole thing as a show rather than having any real political merit.

they showed the some of the clinton speech on the british news earlier today, and i'm sure i heard him finish it with saying something about Obama leading America, and America leading the World. or did i make that up? apart from the fact that the man is a grade A plonker, and i find/found most of what he says offensive to my tastes, if i did hear it correctly, i find this slightly more offensive than his usual balls. it just kind of showed me that, republican or democrat, there's still a long way to go before the political class in america wake up the modern world and how it wishes to be run.

this has nothing to do with the election, but it has something to do with politics/current affairs. it's brian blessed presenting have i got news for you - possibly the maddest guest presenter of a quiz ever seen. (i hope people know who brian blessed is - he's in flash gordon as the hawk king, or whatever he was - shouts "GORDON'S ALIVE!"). i thought i'd put it in here cos i found the link on youtube after looking at one of those mccain ads. part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 4.5 part 5 watching part 5 first might give you some idea of what it's like

how dare you, sir! i'm british. the british press is almost completely in favour of obama, as am i. well, over choosing between john mccain & him, that is. i have no problem with the guy on that level - i just serously doubt he'll be willing or able to make the sort of changes that i'd like to see being made in your country as a foreigner - ie. foreign policy issues, or just a general cultural change that will impact on the world as a whole. i think he could quite possibly inherit such a mess (in much the same way as Gordon Brown has from Tony Blair) where his hands will be too tied for

because i type too fast. because i don't read things before i press "add reply". because i think i'm a little dyslexic. and, above all, because i can!

see that's just being negative - and picking out the silly errors i make! i didn't say i knew - i was predicting. let's not get carried away. i think i can make comments can't i? your politics is on our news enough for me to not be completely in the dark on the subject.

that's the bit i don't agree with you about. i think if you keep your morals and fight for something you believe in, the way you intended, and don't win then that's just the way it is - that's just a fundamental thing about competing against others with fairplay. more so in politics than any thing else, because ultimately your being chosen to represent the people - if the people don't want that then let them burn - you can guarantee there'd be a lot of change then, for the people that are left to rise from the ashes. anyway, time will tell. i'm just putting my two-pennies worth in now to pre

yeah, but that's the fundamental issue with 'change'. obviously it's easier to continue on the same path, but doing so isn't going to bring about change. if you have to win that much that you must corrupt yourself in the process it's a bit of a shallow victory - it's not you changing the system, it's the system changing you. and so, nothing changes. you do know that once he's in power you'll have at least his first term blaming the bush administration for any negative issues that arise within that time frame? - his advisors will tell him it's alright to do that, cos it's the norm, and people w

oh, it happens just the same in england. but, i think we tend to have a bit more fun with it at times - i kind of think that some of your politians actually believe the spin. it's still bullshit, whatever way you look at it. your point about obama losing if he didn't play the game is kind of one of my biggest problems with modern politics anyway. it used to be that people and parties had principles and they were voted in based on those principles, so if the people wanted a conservative government, that's what they'd vote for - or if they wanted a labour government, then they'd vote labour. a