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Dear Zome,
I have a terrible affliction which is getting worse with age and has not been cured by a move out of the Somerset area as I hoped it would be.
I have always thought of myself as a kind, sentient animal lover, yet every time I sit on a horse nowadays, I struggle to fight these unstoppable, all-consuming urges to thrash the life out the poor brute as it stands underneath me. It has almost become a automatic, trip-switch kind of affliction – the moment I sit on his back, the right arm jerks violently into life and begins to rain down blows as if possessed by an axe murderer. It is most disturbing.
I have hitherto been able to keep this condition out of the public eye largely through the company I used to keep, and had presumed that a move to a new location and a fresh start in life would eradicate the problem altogether, but has only served to exacerbate it. It can only be a matter of time before somebody notices it and reports it further, with grave consequences.
I short, I need saving from myself. Can you please help me?
Best wishes,
AP McCoy,<br>Jackdaws Castle,<br>Gloucestershire<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 11:39 pm on Mar. 21, 2005)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Flattered as I am, Zome, won’t Laura mind?
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)
<br>PS What’s yr take on the all-new, reborn-as-one-woman-self-sufficient-electroclash-performer Wendy James? Beats all her previous, slightly cringeworthy output all ends up, I reckon.<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Hiya,
Tonight I am mostly listening to albums by Mancunian dream-pop merchants THE MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS, whom myself and Prufrock and some of his mates (hi to all!) saw playing a gig at the Briton’s Protection last night.
Imagine, if you will, the intricate guitar work of composers such as Carulli, the kind of key changes and oscillating chords which characterised Satie’s great series of piano works such as the Gymnopedies, the pastoral indie-pop instrumental workouts of early Durutti Column, and the none more heartfelt lyrics of love and loss – and commensurate vocal delivery – associated with The Field Mice or Trembling Blue Stars. Absolutely lovely.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Burroughhill on 6:22 am on Mar. 11, 2005[br]Have a go at this and post your results. :biggrin:
This is how I did:
You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 88% Expert!
GO ME!
(Edited by Burroughhill at 6:23 am on Mar. 11, 2005)<br>
<br>Hi Gilly,
Would you believe I got the self same scores for each of the sections?
Presumably you also got the gushing message;
"You did so extremely well, even I can’t find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don’t. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you’re not afraid to use it properly! Way to go! " ?
I ought to frame that and show it to my boss next time she calls me "regressive", which by my estimation should be, ooh, around 9:01 am on Monday.
Pity the thing doesn’t tell you which ones you get wrong. Apart from that I enjoyed it immensely.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 10:47 pm on Mar. 11, 2005)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Zoz on 10:38 pm on Mar. 9, 2005[br]And a studio discussion on how we can split up Brody Sodding Dahl and the (strangely and unexplainedly) hot bloke from Queens Of The Stone Age.
:biggrin:
<br>Brody Dalle and Courtney Love – prime U.S examples of how to get the whole Rock Woman with Attitude thing so very, very WRONG. Kathleen Hanna and Kim Gordon are streets ahead and will remain thus.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Snowballs are evil.
Kids like snowballs.
Therefore vicariously kids are evil. :biggrin:
<br>Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from zome on 1:03 am on Mar. 5, 2005[br]
<br>I never thought i’d be discussing Le Tigre on the racing forum!  I’m so happy :D:D:D:D<br>
<br>Next week on yer favourite racing-cum-Riot Grrrrrl forum: a select panel, including Ian Davies and Barry Dennis, debate who was the most hardcore out of Huggy Bear, Voodoo Queens, Silverfish and her out of Th’ Faith Healers. :biggrin:
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from seabird on 7:44 am on Feb. 28, 2005[br]Spot on again, Ian.
Trouble is, putting up income tax isn’t much of a vote-winner, as the Lib-Dems are finding out.
Colin<br>
<br>Indeed we are, but I suppose it gives us something to be recognised by in a political field graced by three increasingly indistinguishable major parties. Vote Kennedy. Ta.
Elaine’s point regarding giving the individual more say over what charities his or her donation (by whatever means, taxation or otherwise) gets to benefit is a valid one; although I somehow doubt that everyone who buys a Lottery ticket would stop doing so if they found out that some of the benefactors were charities to whose ideals they were diametrically opposed. Principles or the chance of a £12m rollover prize, hmm? I’d love to be proved wrong, but I suspect the latter prevails nine times out of ten.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 10:17 pm on Mar. 9, 2005)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Sal on 12:31 pm on Mar. 3, 2005[br]Love Three To See The King by Magnus Mills – not as keen on the Restraint of Beasts though. ÂÂÂ
I remember enjoying Unbearable Lightness, and some Kafka, but strangely can’t recall much else about them.  Have the Mind Police been at work?<br>
<br>I enjoyed "The Scheme for Full Employment" by Magnus Mills, his own bone-dry swipe at the obsession successive governments have with the notion of (as close to) 100% rates of employment (as possible) by whatever means. The basic premise is that van drivers are employed to drive vans all over the country, all of which contain…. the parts needed to repair other vans at the various terminal depots, which can then be driven around the country delivering…. you’ve guessed it, more van parts. This self-sustaining exercise in pointlessness works fine, until some insubordinate drivers decide to use the vans not to deliver van parts, but cakes instead.
A shame, then, given his talents, that when I escorted Mills for the day at an Author’s Day at the library where I used to work, he proved to be duller than dull pudding and harder to get two words out of than a slug with a throat infection. Imagine Richard Digance but with a vocabulary of about eight words. The "Meet the Author" session was a hoot, as you can imagine :biggrin:
Kafka, meanwhile, was responsible for my favourite work of all time, Die Verwandlung ("The Metamorphosis" ). Having parents hailing from two different countries, and having never felt entirely at home in either, the trials of half-man, half-beatle Gregor Samsa are pretty much my life writ large – except there is no obvious immediate prospect of someone taking an apple and squishing me alive with i….
[thud]
<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 10:04 pm on Mar. 9, 2005)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from zome on 12:54 pm on Feb. 22, 2005[br]Le Tigre are just becoming popular, although they’ve been around for about six years.  I’ve heard them being played in Topshop, and on a advert with Jamie bleeding Oliver.  This is all much to my discust.  Pfft.<br>:biggrin: <br>
<br>The new Le Tigre stuff isn’t as good as the first two albums IMHO – "TKO" was a very underwhelming first single off "This Island". It would be very lazy and convenient of me to ally this dip in form to them having now moved a major label and been given some proper money to play with this time around, but I doubt it’s wholly coincidental.
I saw them play in Bristol last April, and the songs off the then-forthcoming new album didn’t go down at all well comparatively. The irreverent cover of the Pointer Sisters’ "I’m So Excited" curried a bit more favour with most, but irritated me – they’re better than that.
"Decepticon", "Keep on Living", "Whats Yr Take on Cassevetes", "Hot Topic" etc etc all still kicked mighty ass, though, and their movie show backdrops behind the stage make me giggle.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
"Watch us wreck the mic,<br>Watch us wreck the mic,<br>Watch us wreck the mic…… psyche!!"
– PJ and Duncan, "Let’s Get Read to Rhumble [sic]"
"She’s like a watermelon,<br>I want to find out what’s inside her"
– Scorpio Rising, "Watermelon"
<br>Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Congestion charges in cities? Absolutely fine by me. If a city is big enough to lend itself to that sort of scheme being considered, chances are there are already adequate enough public transport connections into, out of and within said city to provide a wholly satisfactory alternative. And if there aren’t, that’s what you lobby for, rather than another six lanes adding to every last thoroughfare.
Compare and contrast – I went from Brum to London for a gig a few weeks ago in the car, coughed up £40 for petrol, £15 for parking AND got got by the cameras a few days later for forgetting to buy a ticket for entering the city centre. Conversely, I got my sh*t together quickly enough to get one of those Stagecoach Megabus things from Brum to London and back for just £3 each way last weekend, and only forked out another £9.50 for a return to Lingfield. Even discounting my silliness with the city centre fees, the public transport way worked out over £35 cheaper, for all that it took a little longer. No contest.
In fact, I must just check Megabus.com just now to see what the Brum – Perth timetable is for late April…..
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 11:21 pm on Feb. 27, 2005)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Hiya,
Unless anyone knows differently, I believe those old favourites Clever Folly, Centre Attraction and Music Be Magic still live on within the grounds of Brancepeth Manor Farm at the ages of 25, 26 and 26 respectively – certainly they were all still standing last I heard just over a year ago.
Norman Mason is a complete softie about looking after his favourite horses properly long after their careers have ended – Richard Guest has unsurprisingly followed suit by giving Red Marauder a home for life at the farm, and both Nosam and Xaipete will also get one once they finally pack in racing (probably later this year).
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Khotso Moabi on 2:22 am on Feb. 7, 2005[br]tut tut, bad elmo!<br>if anyone thinks "shes the main man in the office in the city and she treats me like im just another lackey, but i can put a tennis racket up against my face and pretend that im kendo nagasaki" is not the work of a genius, then theyre just plain wrong:cool:
<br>"Everybody’s doing the Len Ganley Stance", Khotso. :biggrin:
<br>Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Oh, oh, oh! I’ve just remembered this abomination from Sheffield’s most objectionable, nine-armed big-haired rock combo Def Leppard.
From  "Let’s Get Rocked";
     Well I’m sorry girl, here’s my confesssion -<br>      suppose a good rock’s out of the question?
<br>Leery tossers.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 12:36 am on Feb. 7, 2005)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I add these because they sound crud written down but make me (and probably me alone) scream laughing when I play the tunes. Herewith some entries from the mighty Half Man Half Biscuit;
<br>From "******* Hell, It’s Fred Titmuss";
I was walking round my local superstore,<br> I was searching for the 10 pence off Lenor
<br>From "Reflections in a Flat";
Wife works for Marks and Spencer<br> La la la la Lech Walesa
<br>From "Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes"<br> <br> There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves<br> There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves<br> With the possible exception<br> of being Garth Crooks<br> There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
<br>etc
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Prufrock on 12:14 am on Feb. 7, 2005[br]I’m afraid that after decades of delighting in digging out new musical talent nearly as much as I delighted in digging out new racing talent, I seem to have lost the plot and have precious little to add on this subject now.
But after graysonscolumn has shown such a fine appreciation of Boards of Canada, Divine Comedy and Magnetic Fields (amongst many) on this and other threads I have to say that I intend following what he has to say very closely hereafter. :cool:
<br>Yoinks! Have I done something right at last? :cool:
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
