Today is the 1 year anniversary of the last post...

...made on this blog. We started this over 4 years ago, 4 years ago! When did we grow up and decide writing stuff purely for our own amusement and that of one or two other people was not what we wanted to do with out lives? When? I miss being young. I've been thinking today about what real jobs I want to get. Not jobs like rock star or a job where I sit in bars all day smoking and writing articles for obscure magazines that say things like, 'The flower died yesterday' and only that. No, real jobs like teacher or maybe a law conversion course or maybe joining a graduate scheme. But I'm still writing this so maybe all hope isn't lost. I wonder if Ric still gets e-mails when the blog gets updated, we will have to see.
And, yes, before you ask I do have 12,000 words in for two weeks today, and yes I should be doing them and not writing on this. But...what I have written is really quite wonderful, honest.

This blog has been dormant for 1 1/2 years

That's a long time. Things that have happened in that time:
LOTS.
I have an exam tomorrow, I probably shouldn't have decided to post on this now, it seems like I might be purposefully ignoring my study. That would be a lie.

Syd Barett - Legend

Syd Barrett has died at the age of 60. (There are too many of these having to be done) Even though he wasn't doing anything at all, and hadn't even given an interview for over 30 years, he was still a major figure in British psychedelia and music in general. Despite only doing one truly great album and two poorly receieved solo albums, many people (myself included) find Piper At The Gates Of Dawn to be the greatest by quite some way of all the Pink Floyd albums. Even Graham Coxon managed to some not knobhead like when talking about him. On a side point, I took both Piper at The Gates of Dawn and Wish You Were Here out of my shelves to listen to yesterday, didn't get round to it - I will know. Messed up, drugged up, but magic. Syd Barrett - RIP.

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?

There was a king who ruled the land.
His majesty was in command.
With silver eyes the scarlet eagle
Showers silver on the people.
Oh Mother, tell me more.
Matilda Mother - Pink Floyd


Observer article from a few years ago:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,804928,00.html

Hello there

Hey families! Dinosaur Adventure Land has got so many wonderful events coming up that you may want to stop in sometime! Since the success of our Home school Appreciation Day of 2006, we have decided to do more themed-events at Dinosaur Adventure Land. To start things off, we have decided to make April fool’s Day (April 1st) “Darwin Day”. We will have tons of great rides, puzzles, treasure hunts, and prizes to fill out the day. We sure hope to see all of you here at Dinosaur Adventure land, where Dinosaurs and the Bible meet!

Go find out more!

Long time no see

But it's been worth it, as the return coincides with the new Flaming Lips album, oh so good. So have a ganders at this Marvellous. As is this. Wayne + Big Ball = Cool. Which can be expanded into the equation : YouTube+ Flaming Lips = Lots of Good

More Beta Band Members Return With Music-y Stuff

This time in the form of The Aliens.

There's only a couple of tracks on myspace but they sound fucking great. Sadly this means we are going to end up with many, many groanable half baked articles in the music press over the next couple of weeks:

"Aliens invade UK electropop scene"
"Alien sounds from ex-Beta Band members"
"I got taken away by aliens and now have three eyes"

You heard them here first.

This...

......is not nice but a tiny but funny, but very sick.