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"Well, I'm skirting a dubious legal ground as it is... "

Heh ... well, I did wonder about that, Mr Holden ...

Tell you what -- I'll letter it. No, really, I insist.

Cheers!

Jim

Of course, you could always agree to draw the concluding part of 'Live Bait' for Violent! ...

[HUGE]

"She particularly likes Victorian size boots. She likes rock music and punky fashions. She's a UK size 8."

Right ... Whilst New Rock are famous for HUGE clumpy McMahon style boots, they do a couple of mid-calf boots for ladies with a lovely metal heel.

Try these:

http://www.cloggs.co.uk/invt/1832

http://www.cloggs.co.uk/invt/483

http://www.cloggs.co.uk/invt/1516


For what it's worth, I own three pairs of New Rocks, and -- although they are expensive, I have no regrets about any of my purchases. The oldest pair are seven years old and still going strong, making the TCO about £15 per year .. which ain't bad.

Alternatively, if you want to go for a pair of unashamed 'fuck me now' boots [1], might I recommend:

http://www.cloggs.co.uk/invt/1832

I can also unreservedly recommend Cloggs as an online supplier. They've always shipped on time for every order I've placed.

Sadly, they seem to be out of stock of the ones below ...

Cheers!

Jim

[1] UK Goth Scene Urban Legend: the phrase 'nice boots' has now taken on a specific meaning, based upon a supposed exchange at one Whitby Gothic Weekend, where a male attendee is supposed to have approached a female attendee and just said: "Nice boots - wanna fuck?"http://www.blackline-fetish.de/oscommerce/catalog/images/9051.jpg">

"Dog Jr's has been pencilled, he says he'll ink it tomorrow then go for colours."

Bloody artists! Tell him to get on with it! Sleep is for wimps ...

Tsk! In my day ...

Cheers!

Jim

"Ok, now it'll be Halo Jones and Harmony Kreig playing twister

in the nip"

Looks like we've found our level for this compo.

Cheers!

Jim

"The foxy boxing picture is great."

Yes, it is. Dammit, beaten to the 'Shameless Pandering To The Lowest Common Denominator In An Attempt Garner Votes' category.

I may still finish Anderson vs America Mud-Wrestling anyway ...

Cheers!

Jim

[betrayed by my braaaaain!]

So ... it turns out that I haven't been betrayed by my braaaaain!

(I hate it when that happens.)

Cheers!

Jim

"Can anyone tell me what colour Bonjo is meant to be?"

IST(vaguely)R, he was a kind of khaki green ... although I may have completely imagined that, since I'm not 100% convinced he ever appeared in colour.

Yours helpfully

Jim

Umm ... don't want to seem to be doing nothing but whinge, but is there any chance someone could help Thryllseekyr re-save his images from their current bloated PNG format to something a bit more dial-up friendly?

I'd offer to do it myself, but I'm on dial-up, y'see ...

Cheers!

Jim

"'m having a baby"

And you must call it 'Tharg'.

Cheers

Jim

"i'm off to make a cup of tea. anyone want one?"

Hell, yes -- I'll have one!  Yorkshire Gold, milk and no sugar for me ... if that's OK.

Thanks!

Jim

"Beat this! ive just found out i'm pregnant after spending 10k on a garden when i could have built an extra bedroom"

Fair enough -- that sucks. After a fashion. Alternatively: congratulations!

Seriously ... this  might well be a good thing. I hope it is.

Cheers!

Jim

"Little Hitlers the lot of 'em"

Then fuck off.

How does that sound?

You don't like it here? Then go elsewhere -- very simple. Go somewhere else. Try the John Byrne Forum, for instance.

I'm getting real tired of your shite. OK -- you're not Mongo, but you are a complete dick.

So, just fuck off.

Cheers

Jim

"There's not a man I know who's heard it and not been moved. There's not a woman I know who's reacted the same way."

Oh, that's bizarre. That is exactly my experience.

I've played this to everyone I know, and the men -- even supposedly 'manly' men -- have acually wept (as I did) at this video, but the women have been strangely unmoved.

Maybe it's generational: my parents (indirectly, I think) made me aware of Johnny Cash and, somewhere in the 80s, my mental image of him froze.

Twenty years on, I hit this video by accident, and I'm forced to update my idea of him, with this frail old man singing about his own mortality ... and it's just the saddest thing I've ever seen.

Romanek's video compounds this with all its juxtaposition of images of Cash at his most vibrant and ... fuck, it just reduces me to tears every time.

I'm not articulating this very well. It's like ... it's like John Peel. Cash is part of the cultural landscape for me: I've never been what you could call a fan, but he's just there. Knowing he's there provides a feeling of security that's impossible to define.

And when he's gone, you feel a sense of loss of that's entirely disproportionate to your actual knowledge/affection of the person themselves.

I can't remember who wrote the obit of Johnny Cash that said this, but I thought it summed his career up admirably, when they said:

"Too dark to be country, too country to be alterntive, too alternative to be mainstream."

If I could start again,
A million miles away,
I would keep myself
I would find a way

It's just the saddest thing.

Cheers

Jim

Ahem ... sorry for the duplicated link. :-(

Although, in the "Unlikely Musical Crossover" category, can I also offer Texas' Charlene Spitoon doing a duet on a Rammstein track?

Cheers!

Jim

"and the video is a thing of beauty-absolutely stunning"

It's one of the most heart-rending things I've ever seen. Absolutely fantastic. In fact, I've just put it on again now ...

Link: http://markromanek.com/video/14_video.html" target="_blank">From the Director's site