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by laughingcrow
Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:10 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: Colours
Replies: 27
Views: 21515

Colours

I am trying to get a playlist together for a CD club thingy, my theme wants to be Colours...inspired by the brilliant Ken Nordine wordjazz album of the same name (except without the U)....I've got a fair few tracks, but feel like Im missing some...any suggestions...
by laughingcrow
Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:44 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: now they tell me
Replies: 25
Views: 18110

Hmm, try swimming in warmer water...but then again the lanes in a jacuzzi aren't very big (especially if there's other users).
by laughingcrow
Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:11 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: books, books, books
Replies: 1556
Views: 1510374

Michael Bywater's LOST WORLDS (What have we lost, and where did it go?) - very amusing musings on the things British society has lost since it's 'heyday'
by laughingcrow
Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:08 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: RIP Fayard Nicholas
Replies: 1
Views: 3760

Very sad to hear about the death of Fayard Nicholas. The Nicholas brothers were undoubtedly the greatest dancers of all time, a true spectacle. There will never be another like them.
by laughingcrow
Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:06 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: What are you listening to right now?
Replies: 4056
Views: 3525182

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Basil Kirchin's rereleased masterpieces - scores for imaginary films from a brilliant UK record label called Trunk Records.

http://www.trunkrecords.com
by laughingcrow
Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:03 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: What's everyone think of Kanye West? An open ended question
Replies: 20
Views: 19330

Kanye West is ace...College Dropout and Late Registration are great records, and he shouldn't really to be tarred with the label 'another flash in the pan' - he is a succesful producer and artist in his own right. Listen to the records, they speak for themselves...or turn this thread into another po...
by laughingcrow
Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:28 am
Forum: The Annex
Topic: Wake up you footy fans!!!
Replies: 4653
Views: 2740838

Why are they paying that for Walcott, when they wouldn't pay a figure less than that for Michael Owen, a proven 20 a yr striker in the prem, and soon to be england's leading goalscorer. madness...........whatever happened to Jermaine Pennant? Exactly.
by laughingcrow
Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:52 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: Universal to release 100,000 deleted records online
Replies: 1
Views: 3034

Universal to release 100,000 deleted records online

Download plan for deleted tracks Songs by Jacques Brel and Brigitte Bardot will feature More than 100,000 deleted recordings, including music from the likes of Jacques Brel and Marianne Faithfull, are to be available to download. A batch of 3,000 back-catalogue tracks by European artists from the la...
by laughingcrow
Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:13 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: Dealing with coquettishness
Replies: 6
Views: 7842

He's an A1 representative.

Alexei Sayle is a hero.
by laughingcrow
Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:07 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: books, books, books
Replies: 1556
Views: 1510374

Yeah, the only real problem I have is with the Quantum Physics or deep mathematics books...I just can't get my head around them - partly because of own limited knowledge in the field, and partl;y because they aren't very accomodating reads. I've read The Blank Slate and The Red Queen - both good exa...
by laughingcrow
Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:00 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: fave podcasts
Replies: 23
Views: 23291

Some really good documentaries here...the Congo ones great, and the mobile phone one's interesting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/d ... efault.stm
by laughingcrow
Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:45 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: Recently viewed films
Replies: 1602
Views: 1899602

I saw Brokeback Mountain last night and enjoyed it...some feat turning a 15page short story into that long a film! I don't really see why people rave about Jake Gyllenhall (apart from him being a good looking bloke) - there's nothing about him, for me anyway. Heath Ledger is much more sympathetic an...
by laughingcrow
Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:05 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: Lowe profile
Replies: 6
Views: 7019

Lowe profile

Did anyone get this? Any good? Barely heard of anyone here, Ian Gomm was in the Brinsleys...the rest seem to be off the radar. The Brilliant Mistakes - name sounds familiar. http://store.milesofmusic.com/images/lowetribute-vaH.jpg Lowe Profile was put together by pop and roots-rocker Walter Clevenge...
by laughingcrow
Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:55 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: books, books, books
Replies: 1556
Views: 1510374

A Briefer History Of Time...edited version of the boring original, with colour pictures! I can't get into these quantum physics books at all...although I suppose Universe in a nutshell was half decent. Why are they so popular? The Search for Schrodinger's Cat by John 'do I ever stop writing to sleep...
by laughingcrow
Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:39 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: fave podcasts
Replies: 23
Views: 23291

Extras series 2 is currently in pre-production I belive....tmrw night in the UK there's a special Ricky Gervais meets Larry David hour long special!!! Cannae wait. I read in the paper today that Gervais' epsisode of the Simpsons. to be aired next season I believe, is so good Matt Groening has asked ...
by laughingcrow
Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:53 pm
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Newbie
Replies: 16
Views: 16143

Wilkommen auf forum
by laughingcrow
Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:50 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: Wake up you footy fans!!!
Replies: 4653
Views: 2740838

Glen Hoddle: "I'm sick and tired of saying we played good football. It feels like we have lost. Until we start putting teams to the sword, we're going to under-achieve. "We've proved we aren't clinical enough and I'm looking to bring in somebody up front. Not that it is easy to bring in th...
by laughingcrow
Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:46 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: bad gifts
Replies: 11
Views: 9298

Any kind of 'humorous' pet book....ooh wow, a version of a 'lad's mag' except it's for cats, and features cat things. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha..... :shock:
by laughingcrow
Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:44 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
Replies: 31
Views: 21827

Happy New Year to one and all....hope you all had a good Hogmanay. I got home at 4.30am after a jolly good night out at an old cinema that's become a nightclub.
by laughingcrow
Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:42 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: So, what did Santa bring you ....
Replies: 45
Views: 31371

Beano book, Peep show series 2 DVD, Simpsons series 3,4 & 6 DVDs, a catnip-filled mouse toy,...
by laughingcrow
Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:38 pm
Forum: The Annex
Topic: Baby
Replies: 55
Views: 39720

Congratulations, all the best to you and the missus my friend!
by laughingcrow
Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:37 am
Forum: The Annex
Topic: cyberslackin
Replies: 75
Views: 49250

Maybe I shouldn't tell you about

http://www.yetisports.org

then...


oops :D
by laughingcrow
Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:11 am
Forum: The Annex
Topic: What are you listening to right now?
Replies: 4056
Views: 3525182

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by laughingcrow
Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:03 am
Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
Topic: Rank All This Useless Beauty
Replies: 31
Views: 25109

1 Poor Fractured Atlas
2 You Bowed Down
3 The Other End Of The Telescope
4 Shallow Grave
5 Distorted Angel
6 Complicated Shadows
7 Why Can’t A Man Stand Alone?
8 All This Useless Beauty
9 I Want To Vanish
10 Starting To Come To Me
11 Little Atoms
12 It’s Time