For those about to shop...

[hirez]

... Not even the sight of a bloke with a sock on his head, hiding his saucer-eyeness behind a set of Bolle safety glasses and trying not to look like a fat Marco Pantani can put them off running into the street in search of bargains.

Under my bloody bike wheels.

And the reason I'm unaccountably saucer-eyed is that I've just come back from the eye hospital with the news that at least one eyeball is finally having a proper go at exploding. Which, um. buggeration.

Anyway.

Modern SAABs seem to be driven by entire families of complete cocks. Let's hope that Mr. Spyker and his putative 92-emulation do as well as the revisited Mini and Fiat 500.

Watched that there Iron Maiden film on that there BBC4 last even. Jolly good stuff. Even if the entire band now look like Nigel Planer and walk like old man Steptoe. I'm never going to be a fan of that sort of thing, but it was strangely life-affirming to watch all that rock&roll malarkey run by and for the benefit of a bunch of geezers who would have seemed equally at home welding up Transits under a railway arch in Dalston. There are an awful lot of g*th bands who've borrowed wholesale from that lot, too.

Meanwhile.

Does Six-Music play anything other than drippy indie, old drippy indie and Gary bloody Crowley? The state of modern music is clearly not shite, because Warp keep sending me emails filled with mad things and there's this lot.

Perhaps I am the wrong demographic.

(I'm hoping that this overtraining hatefulness is at an end. We'll find out tomorrow when I can't get out of bed for the suicidal thoughts.)

Comments

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

Ack! I hope everything ends up OK!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ta. So do I.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Um - what's with the eye ? That sounds like a Bad Thing.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think it's officially Not Glaucoma Yet.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Bum! Do you have strange drugs for it ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That's what the visit at the end of the month will determine.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok.

I am reasonably religious with my eyetests, on account of my Gran's glaucoma, but I am assured that if they get to it with drugs early enough it is no trouble at all. They'd beter be right.

[silentq.livejournal.com]

My dad's been taking drops for his glaucoma for years now, no explosions yet. Just extra luxuriant eyelashes, oddly enough. All his siblings have it (no explosions there either!), and I'm getting tested regularly.
Best wishes for keeping your eyeballs under control!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's good news. It'll save on extra-bastard mascara, too.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

In a single eye?

You just have to be different, don't you.


EDIT: edited to ensure that the "eek! You poor dear! Hope it's sorted quickly" subtext is more obvious.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yup. The more I struggle to be like other people, the worse the difference becomes.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I'd give up if I were you - it's not working. Bummer about the eye - perlmonger spent far too much time in Brissle eye hospididdle a few years back, but they were fab. Hope they can fix it.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Oh, my Dad had that, woke up unable to see one morning. They gave him drugs and a small operation to relieve the pressure, and it got better.

[willplant.livejournal.com]

here via friend of friendslist

The daytime playlist can be a bit too drippy indie but there is a bit more in the schedule that follows the legacy of John Peel i.e. playing a fair amount of unlistenable noise in order to find the good ones...

try Tom Robinson's friday night show, Bruce Dickinson's show for teh \m/ rawk \m/, Maconies Freakzone does what it says on the tin.

obviously YMMV

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I must say that Maconie was indeed jolly good. I don't think Peelie ever was one for the properly unhinged jazz, which was a shame.

God. In the dim&distant, Peelie was only on Mon-Thurs, so I listened to some truly awful bands rather than re-tune the wireless. The bloody Enid. T(i|y)gers of Pan Tang. Wrathchild.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Yes. That Maconie, vg. Approve.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... And such Tom Robinson as I got to listen to before beetling off to make supper was basically the inside of JHR's record-box. Very fine.

[sallypointzero.livejournal.com]

Not the eyes!
hope u'll be all right - best wishes, um -
if applicable

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear so. So do I, and thank you.

[venta.livejournal.com]

6music played me Dead Kennedys during my brief listen yesterday afternoon. Mind you, maybe you're so hardcore that's filed under old drippy indie :)

Also, have relatives with glaucoma, drugs, and total lack of explodiness. I believe outlook is generally pretty good if diagnosed.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

[FX: Fires up the net-player again.]

You know, the phrase 'Groove Armada in session' does not fill a chap with countercultural confidence.

The thing is, I well remember starting to listen to Peel. It was utterly impenetrable and it look at least a fortnight before I'd assimilated enough of this strange new racket for any of it to make sense.

(Similarly, reading SF is hard unless you've some map of the background concepts.)

Which means I shall persevere, but will still need to leaven the constant guitar-bothering (apart from whatever-it-is that Lamaq is playing now. Oh Gorillaz+MES. And now some old Fall. Container Drivers.) with Icon of Coil up loud. Or Underworld.

[reddragdiva]

Marc Riley's show is not horrible, and at least keeps him off the streets.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the eye.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

What's been said about the eye; as ramtops said, the Brissle Eye Hospital bunch are a good bunch, or at least were back when I went blind and that. If it gets really bad you can always borrow her sheep-sticker to drain off some of the excess pressure.

Now, SAAB 92 is it? As long as they keep the stroker, but tune it to resonant buggery driving a gennie, batteries and traction motors. They should keep the original suspension geometries as well, so it's handy for sideways soratie action, and paint it green damnit.

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

Those of us who are about to shop salute you.

>> [exploding eye]

Ugh. Here's hoping that it can be controlled with drugs/surgery.