bear grilled

on this blogspot we like to keep one step ahead of the pack

http://owenmartin.blogspot.com/2007/05/bear-necessities.html

earlier this week bear grylls was exposed as a fake.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=474866&in_page_id=1770


as a medium, television is becoming worse everyday. the shows are either set-ups, boring, depressing or operations on someone's stomach.

Anyway, now Channel 4 are considering issuing a disclaimer before each programme "stating that Grylls receives help from survival experts and health and safety officers."

Somehow, that aint good enough. How about:
certain dangerous situations are faked in this programme to ensure the safety of bear and the crew. The island that bear is stranded on contains a five star hotel. Grylls is not alone, per se, some survival experts and safety officers help him out a bit."

all tv needs is a bit more integrity.

Possible Dylan Album

1. Tell Me Momma
2. She's Your Lover Now
3. Positively 4th Street
4. California
5. I Wanna Be Your Lover
6. I'll Keep It With Mine
7. Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence
8. Can You Please Crawl out your Window?
9. Love Is Just a Four Letter Word
10. Farewell Angelina

Well Ive just been listening to this quite a bit and i have to say its a pretty great listen. It would be very much a lyrical tour-de-force, like the end of BIABH. I had to leave out love is just a four letter word coz joanie's singing didnt fit in well at all. Unfortunately, there are no known recordings of this song by dylan. Anyway, it works great - you've got dylan joking around on some tracks too which is always a bonus. And as Paolo says in the comments the new Dylan Box-set is a waste. So maybe, instead of re-buying the same old songs, you could play around with them like this..

The Lost Single

Great singles that were not on albums are a thing of the past. Only the great show-offs could really do it. You could include B-Sides too - in that case Oasis were the last band able to do it. But in terms of great A-Sides that were not on albums you'd probably have to go back to The Jam for the most recent group. Nowadays, the purpose of a single is to promote an album. Back in the old days you were expected to produce new product every few months. Anyway on to the (preliminary) list:

Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
Bob Dylan - Can you please crawl out your window? (B-side)
The Jam - Going Underground
The Jam - Butterfly Collector (B-Side)
Oasis - Masterplan (B-Side)
Beatles - She Loves You
Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Beatles - This Boy (B-Side)
Beatles - Hey Jude
Beatles - Dont Let Me Down (B-Side)
Beatles - Rain (B-Side)
Beatles - Strawberry Fields
Beatles - Penny Lane
Beatles - Daytripper
Beatles - We Can Work It Out
Beatles - Ballad Of John & Yoko
The Who - Substitute
The Who - Pictures of Lily
The Who - Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
The Who - Can't Explain
The Who - I'm A Boy
The Who - Happy Jack
The Who - The Seeker
The Who - Magic Bus
Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown
Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
The Kinks - Dead End Street
The Kinks - Berkeley Mews (B-Side)
The Kinks - See My Friends
The Kinks - Days
The Kinks - Autumn Almanac
The Kinks - Wonderboy
The Kinks - Polly (B-Side)
The Clash - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais (released on belated US album)

Of course, its all a matter of taste. you could easily pick 5 or 6 more from the beatles, for example. These are just songs I can think of at the moment. There are probably plenty more. As can be seen from this list, the single was the most important thing in the pre-Sgt Pepper era and then that album kind of changed things. As Paul Weller said recently "You'd never get away with that now"

if there's an original thought out there....

bob dylan once said "The world don't need any more songs"(1991)* and he probably had a point. there's a song about everything...well, just about everything. so maybe he came to this conclusion sometime around the Oh Mercy and Under the Red Sky albums. Afterall, he released no original work for 6 years after that interview. An album that was his last real statement - on aging and mortality of course.

After Time Out of Mind, he released 2 albums which were practically cover albums. Using these old tunes and styles (mainly from the 20's, 30's and 40's) he wrote lyrics which reflected his worldview, old codes of conduct, and themes on love. There are also plenty of quotes and allusions from books such as The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn and Confessions of a Yakuza (released in 91 - is this what bob spent his time studying for the next few years instead of writing songs?). There are also plenty of re-arranged lines from the poetry of Henry Timrod in there. I dont buy the argument that these lines slipped into bob's songs unconsciously. Bob probably marked out lines from these works that he liked and incorporated them into the songs.

The desire to write new songs is gone, but bob dylan now is like some out of time crooner from the 30's in a world that has moved on - a time when bing crosby regularly topped the charts. It's hard to imagine a similar singer regularly topping the charts today. But Bob has moved full circle. When he was just a young kid in new york he used to say in interviews "I had to write these songs simply because nobody else had and these were the kind of songs i wanted to sing"

*http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/1991zollo.htm

Harry Potter! OMG!

OMG! the new harry potter book is out! OMFG!!!

so without giving anything away and spoiling it for those who havent finished reading it, ron marries herpies and harry becomes pregnant. gordon gimpweed gets turned into a toad by the evil witch vordbitch. dumbdinger and dubby fall down a cliff but dubby's double chin saves the day. gibblygibb finds the secret potion of eternal everlasting snot and picks his nose happily ever after. Mr.Snitsnatsnob sat on his arse...again...while the dark lords army ran rampant but they were eventually defeated thanks to some cunt sacrificing himself....

you would have thought this wizard and ork crap would have gotten old by now...but alas human nature has a tendancy towards fantasy kind of stuff. great stuff for kids but grown adults wetting their pants for this stuff...im sure a psychologist or philosopher could write some interesting stuff on the appeal of wizards.