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I'm playing a video game! Doing research:). Btw: I suck pretty bad.

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QotD: It's Never Too Early...

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Ok friends, i have been a bad VOX'r and i know it. So much has happened that i can't begin to catch you up in one post. The most important event since the last time i updated is the arrival of my nieces, Lucy and Vivian. My sister, Jamie had her two beautiful little girls on October 16th at roughly 2pm. The journey was a long and emotional one but nothing compares to the joy we all felt the day we first met these two precious babies.

The proud parents have already set-up a website for their little darlings. You can see pics and watch videos of the girls at www.vivianandlucy.com. Joe is really good about updating the site so it's been fun to capture their growth even after only 5 weeks.

This past weekend, Joe took video of the girls which makes me smile (and admittingly a little teary...i'm such a sap) every time i watch it. Here is a video of VIvian who is turning out to be the spitting infant image of her adoring auntie Robin:

Vivian video

Lucy is Joe's clone - so stinking cute and SUCH a good baby. Lulu loves her schedule and so do mom and dad becuase predictability is the key to a parent's sanity i've learned, especially with twins.
Here is a video of Lucy taken by Joe with cousin Tara's voice in the background:

Lulu's video

I'm looking forward to spending the Thanksgiving holiday with the Green Bean baby girls, Jamie, Joe, cousin Corinna and Aunt Shelley who will be meeting the babies for the first time today.

90s Music Monday

I struggled getting started writing this week's 90MM because I don't actually have the vocabulary to describe The KLF.

I started off trying to write something comparing them to that scene in [insert name of practically any teen movie here] in which the cool kids are pretending to agree with the uncool kid but actually they're just taking the piss out of them - but that didn't quite work.

Then, worrying that I was revealing a bit too much of my not-so-secret enjoyment of trashy teen movies, I thought about Marcel Duchamps and his dubbing of a urinal 'art' and what it meant when one of the leading lights of art starts, if not rejecting the concepts but at least examining the more self-evident absurdities.

Then I started off on a tract about style-vs-fashion and how some people are able to make whatever they do look good no matter what.

What it comes down to though is that Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty in their incarnations as The KLF, The Kopyright Liberation Front/Kings of the Low Frequencies, The Jams, the Justified Ancients of Mummu, The Timelords, The K Foundation, One World Orchestra, 2K etc etc managed to simultaneously mock the whole music and art industry whilst also changing the entire face of the industry and putting out storming, anthemic tracks like this

KLF - Last Train To Transcentral

and this

KLF - What Time is Love?

(the less bizarre video for the more conventionally dancey UK version of the track available here and the "Pure Trance" version is available here)

and this

KLF - 3 am Eternal

thus inventing the whole "Stadium House" concept whilst getting Tammy Wynette to sing about ice cream trucks and discordian theory in "Justified and Ancient"

KLF - Justified & Ancient (Stand by the Jams)

This is a band, if calling them that isn't a huge understatement who put out some of the best tracks and one of the best albums of the 90s (in the form of "The White Room" a sort of not quite soundtrack for a film of the same name that was completed but never released) but also managed to build up their own self mythology and wrapped it cherry picked parts of "The Illuminatus! Trilogy". They made art films and they made number 1s and they made fun of the whole industry and life style whilst completely mastering it and subverting it to their will. And they did it all in such a way that you were 100% sure that they had their tongues firmly in cheek except, maybe, just maybe, they were being serious.

They practically invented the modern bootleg with "Whitney Joins The JAMs" whcih mashed "Mission: Impossible" samples with Whitney Houstons "I wanna dance with somebody". Then, as The Timelords they deliberately wrote a nauseatingly catchy "lowest common denominator, something that Timmy Mallet would understand" song which took samples from Doctor Who and crashed them into Garry Glitter's "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" and The Sweet's "Blockbuster!" with the explicit intention of getting a number 1 single. Which they did with "Doctorin The Tardis". Then they wrote a book called "The Manual (How to have a number 1 the easy way)" which told you how they did it and gave the guarantee that if you followed the book to the letter and didn't get a number 1 they'd refund the cost of the book.

They 'retired' in the most spectacular form possible - at the 1992 Brit Awards they performed a live "violently antagonistic performance" of "3 A.M Eternal" in front of "a stunned music-business audience" with crust punk group Etreme Noise Terror. Prevented from throwing buckets of Sheep entrails over the audience a bekilted Bill Drummond theatrically limped on stage and fired blanks from a machine gun into the air

The KLF & Extreme Noise Terror "3AM Eternal" (Live at The Brits 1992)"

After which they burnt their last million pounds on the Isle of Jura and filmed it.

Every time someone tries to tell you that Green Day or Limp Bizkit or Sum 41 or god-forbid Avril Lavigne are punk I want you to think of this. I'm not saying that their music is bad necessarily I'm just saying that if some one tries to straight faced tell you that those or similar artists are "punk" then I want you to cock slap them. I want you to physically either punch them in the penile or vaginal area and/or lay about their face with your penis or other similarly degrading appendage - work with what both you and they have people. Get creative. Make sure they REALLY TRULY understand.

Because it's important.

Except when it's not.

Tweets for Today

08:17 @haruca いや、言われてる相手によるんじゃない？w #
09:50 RT @memokami: 絶妙に @yamaji @kansai_takako が写ってる。 @nseki さんは背中がバッチリ。 realdgame.jp/v/event/index.php/002 #
10:43 vol.3は千葉（市川）、vol.4は堺（大阪）から出荷されたからの模様 RT @nseki: 東のエデンvol.3のブルーレイが届いたので見ました。同時に買ったのにvol.4は明日届く。Amazon謎 #
16:11 三連休で、やっと部屋の掃除や洗濯、洗い物が終わった。郵便物の整理が終わったので、机がかなり片付いたのも大\xE3 \x81\x8Dな成果！ #
17:45 洗濯乾燥機を即買いモードで有楽町ビックカメラに行ったが、何分たっても販売員の方が「ちょっとお待ち下さい」だったので諦める。自分が販売員なら、男ひとり客は指名買いの可能性が高そうと思うのだけど、本当のところはどうなんだろう… #
17:51 @shuiro よし、 @yanabo さんからのリプライを待とう #
17:55 結局、有楽町まで来て手ぶらは悲しいので、スタバに寄る。六本木にもあるけど、ささやかな意味付け行為w #
17:59 @yanabo いや、一日も早く欲しいので、ネットで買います。というか今の洗濯乾燥機もまだ3年ですが、あまりに故障するので買い換えるのです（いまは乾燥機のヒーターが壊れている） #
18:01 @neohawk その有楽町ビックカメラに洗濯乾燥機を買いに行って失意なう、なんです（過去ツイート参照） #
18:07 @yanabo そうそう。毎日使う物は、故障が多いと生活に支障が出ますからね #
18:17 ちなみに洗濯乾燥機の販売員ネタですが、自分以外はすべてカップル客でした。仮説としては、1)女性客の販売員確保能力が高い、 2)販売員がカップル客を成約率が高い客として認識、あたりかなぁ… #

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I am so gleefully/nerdily/squeeingly happy to have met him. We talked shop, animation and he drew me MADAME FOSTER!! I was in heaven! What a great guy. Please support his new work!