Less than comforting..... redux....

....first they had one ship.......then two.....and now it seems they are back to one again...

Seems the stern section of the MoL Comfort has now sunk

....and to be fair the forward pointy section is not looking too good either

....... think of all those flat screen TV's and XBox 360's and the like, 

now floating around the Indian Ocean....

Only one song for it really..... 

the floor [or should that be sea-bed] 

is all yours Annie !

[the divine Annie Lennox, 

love her young, love her old,

 like a fine wine she

just gets better and betterer with age]

A play list of the day...... Inspired by a man walking around with his knob & tackle hanging out......

... for my last entry, linking to the latest news about Stephen Gough, I did think that considering all the crap weather we have had...... Stephen Gough must be one of the coolest blokes around and so my original SoD for that post had to be.... non other than one of the coolest in music and the song ?

this was my first choice .....

Now....... Iggy Pop apart from being cool, 

he is without doubt one of the prettiest ugly people 

there has ever been, 

but oh what music he has given us.....

I had this album when it came out...

but tapes didn't last very well, so on the strength
of re-finding these songs 

I have re brought the album
in that new CD fangled format.......

what about this song from Iggy from the same album ? 

could you imagine Radio 2 playing this song ?......

erm erm....... think not

In truth you could do an whole blog on Iggy songs
 he is that good...... 

but then of course what about the other coolest men in music ?

how fantastic is this ?

what a fantastic Friday jangly song.....

I have a track by Iggy, singing pretty flamingoes 

and when I youtubed it......

 I got this....

another one of the coolest men in music
with another Friday jangly song....

I love this next song amongst many of Paul Wellers....

he could sing he phone book and still sound fantastic

and then thinking about Paul Weller I was reminded of the time 

I saw him at the Albert Hall and who should join him 

on stage that night...... oh my word..... it was Kelly......

just how cool is this guy ?
{his tribute to Gary Speed}

a few years back I indulged my self and brought a Ferrari

as I drove it home from the garage

this next song was the first song
I played in it........... full throttle

I included this version because the rendition is fantastic....

despite all the blathering at the start
and seriously those people in the back ground ..... 

like a fooking muppet show !!

and so we go from Kelly to Eddie.....

and then this..... with the wonderful Nusrat of course

by now with all this cool we should be damn near artic

but to bring us 9 below zero

.......... how could I miss off my Elvis.... 

oh Jeff......... oh Jeff why did you leave so soon ?

is this really the last goodbye ?

I could write a whole blog about JB too...

and of course the cool list could
go on and on but it is Friday and I need to end
this post somewhere.... so how about I end back where it all started
with

Stephen Gough - The Naked Rambler

Roam Stephen Roam !

A PLoD inspired by a man walking around with his knob & tackle hanging out

You've got to admire his balls.....

.... off to prison he must go again......

stark bollux naked I presume

You can understand why society doesn't know quite know what to do with him, but locking him up..... is that really the answer ?...... Although I did find the story of his ex quite funny....

does anyone want any toast ?

but with all these savillisms in society the natural [as opposed to naturist] argument is to shout at him..... put some bloody clothes on man !

At the same time of course, when you think about it, think really hard.... you do have to ask yourself..... what actually is he doing wrong ? I kinda like his style even if his approach is unorthodox.

He refuses to give in, refuses to be beaten and so the "law enforcers" see no choice but to bang him up...... I wonder....... if he wears no clothes in prison, do they have to paint the stripes on him to replicate the striped uniform that prisoners wear ?

I also find it funny that he is described as the naked rambler...... as if somehow he needs to be differentiated from un-naked ramblers..... are you a naked rambler ? ...... oooooh nooooo, I keep my boots on I'll have you know !

It seems Scotland is his choosen arena to fight the good fight, god help him when the Scots decree they are finally free of us ..... can you imagine Steve Goughs passport photo ?

I think on the whole, Steve Gough is a man trying to prove a point, is he doing it the right way ? who knows, who am I to say...... but I get what he means..... Steve I take my hat off to ya..... but that's all mind ya !

So my SoD must surely be inspired by 

The Naked Rambler

This was not my first choice song, but for my
first choice it led me on to so many other songs
so that instead, for Friday I shall offer up a 

Naked Rambler inspired PLoD

Captain ! Captain ! Captain ! .....

Captain:  ...... what is it able seaman ? .....

Able seaman: .... Captain, are ships meant to bend like that Captain ?....

Captain: .......Man the bloody life boats !...... Captains and children first....

Captain: ..........Get out of my way able seaman....last man into the life boats is a sissy.....

bloody glad I'm not on that ship. Funny thing is the ship is called MOL Comfort, don't think the owners will be comforted by this picture or the next ones in the sequence, which show the owners now have 2 ships not one...
now going in opposite directions it seems

Only one song for it really

Do the RSPCA.........

know about this ?

adds an whole new meaning to the phrase.......

blind as a cat

There can only be one song for it really..... a song from the film of the same name......ooooh the divine Catherine..... oh Catherine ...how I dreamed...... Catherine, every school boys belle de jour......ach erm where was I ?

oh yes, a song from the film of the same name.... but I was reminded of the song from the great scene in Inglourious Basterds...... another one of those perfect placing of a song in a film moments, where the sum of the whole is greater than the individual parts..... and oh my, the song to accompany the divine Mélanie Laurent...... oh Mélanie...... how I dreamed...... Mélanie, every middle aged mans belle de jour...... ach erm ..... the song..... yes the song.....

Come on Davey,

Let's put some fires out

with gasoline

I love......

... pies
.... the blue nile
..... gadgets
......cars
....music

but I also love swearing..... not in a tourettes sort of way but in an uncouth sort of way.
my wife tells me not to swear...she says it's not big, it's not clever and it sounds like you can't express your self properly. The funny thing is, when I swear I think I express my self very well. I once saw an interview with the late great Dave Allen, and he was defending his swearing on Tv, he said it was just words..... he was right....

Fuck, fuck, fucking fuck fuck, fucker, fucking fuck fucker, fuckwit fuck......

Fuck that felt fucking good..... as I type I can hear the words in my head, and I genuinely feel it as a great fucking big pressure relief valve in my head.....

Fuck is a great fucking word.... but not to describe sex, I hate it when people using to describe it that way....... fancy a fuck ? ..... nooooo...... fuck is far too good a word than to simply demean sex..........sexth is a great word......but even so there are better words for that as well.....

But today...my WoD is ..........  F U C K 

my wife does not know I write this blog....

There is even a song for my WoD... 

would you fucking believe it hey

As that was soooooo short 

here's my bonus SoD from the same album

Well would you adam and cregan it........

so this fookers barrister......

managed to convince the jury after all....that Dale Cregan was not guilty of the attempted murder of Sharon Hark. Bet the barrister feels good about himself this morning......although it did get me thinking about the jurys decision......

Dale Cregan is a vindictive evil bastard and clearly deranged. There you are sitting on the jury for the trial of this man, whose criminal contacts extend far and wide. Cregan had already admitted to the murder of 4 people so he was going to prison anyway....so why would I as a jury member decide to find him guilty of a lesser charge [regardless of whether he was guilty or not], and so by saying not guilty, then after the event I can openly say......ooooher Mr Cregan don't get one of your nasty friends to fook me over..... I thought you were innocent..... as opposed to saying he was guilty and shittin me sen for the rest of my life in case he sends someone round, out of pure evil spite...... is that not what he did to those 2 police officers he brutally murdered ?

And even though it would be wrong to find a guilty man innocent for such reasons, by doing so there is no consequence.....Cregan was going to jail for a very long time anyway....

As for the cost of putting this bastard away.... well.....

much cheaper to get a length of rope me thinks.....

The reports say, in prison till the day he dies, apparently....... or until the next vindictive evil bastard appears on the radar that is...... 

For sure there are plenty of Dale fucking Cregan 

lookalikes out there walking the streets.......

Next Please.......

..... it seems that Next has such a low opinion of it's customers, they believe we are incapable of knowing how to wash our hands after a p1ss......

There I was in my local Next super/hyper/mega {delete as appropriate} store when I thought..... I don't need a coat..... I need a p1ss..... so off I went to the powder room..... completed my task and then set about, as I always do after such matters, of washing my hands.....

And so there I was....... wondering.... oh my word what do I do now ?... I was confronted with the complexity of a bowl, soap, hot tap, cold tap.... and these two appendages at the end of my arms......

......god this was going to be sooooo complicated, I thought I may never complete this stage of my powder room visit.....

And then to my relief.... [bearing in mind it was a relief visit anyway] I looked up and what did I see.....

I saw this

I looked upwards and declared 

...... oh thank you Next Risk Management team.... 

oh thank you .... thank you.......   

I consider myself reasonably smart, but I did think, just how pigshit thick do you have to be, that you need to have a pictorial guide as to how to wash your hands in a public bog ?......

What was going through their minds, when The Next Risk Management team, during their weekly team meeting, declared that...... we'll fit one of these posters in all of our wash rooms..... at what point did the intern not think to stand up and say..... you stupid dicks..... unless you think all of our customers have a mental age of 5 or less, by all means remind them to wash their hands.... but give them story book of how to...... seriously ??.....

Honestly no wonder the youth of today are incapable of making a decision or working out a problem.....

So to the NEXT Risk Managment Team.... this is for you....

There can only be one song really...... 

And what a great song it is....

I guarantee before the end is out you will be 

tapping your toes and joining in...

and as the sun is shinning 

and I am in bed bouncy mood 

what about this bonus one too......

this is fab.....

this is for you

postscript......sod it..... let's go full throttle bed bouncy...

yeee har !

How in fooks name could they .......

do such a thing to this boy.....


Look at his face........

How the hell could anyone do such a thing to a child...their own child for christ's sake.... but sadly this is not the first and in my life I have no doubts it will happen again.....

You are left there in utter disbelief at the depravity of his parents...... I don't think this one is going to be a tough one for the jury..... However, will there be any true justice ? I doubt there will.....

But my word, the smile on that boys face, look at how Daniel Pelka looks back at you ......and then his smile is gone........

There's no SoD for this.....

IF 

THERE IS 

ANYTHING 

THAT WILL 

ENDURE 

THE EYE OF 

GOD 

because 

it is pure 

IT IS 

THE SPIRIT 

of 

A LITTLE 

CHILD

and so we enter the end of the 1st half....

of this year and I am left wondering ...... where in gawd's name is my life disappearing to ......

As a kid growing up, June was just the doorway to summer holidays.... but now as a young man grown old, January came and went, then February and the rest just slipped through my fingers..... and now in June, I am thinking nearly half of this year is done already and it ain't ever coming back.........

One consolation is that the sun is shinning and it's not raining....well not here, not over me anyway....

I suppose I can at least be grateful that the first 6 months of this year are nooooo where near as exciting as last years first 6 months ...... this time last year my life, or should I say the lives around me, were turned upside down and inside out, and all I have to worry about today is the container of health supplements sitting in an El Salvadorian port for the last 3 years....

Does El Salvador beckon ? I think not, but should it, I will make sure I take James Wood with me.... he is an expert on matters in Salvador.

So on the theme of days slipping by, here is my Monday SoD.....

Letters from.......

Iceland 

courtesy of the wonderful prose of ......W H Auden

Isn't it true however far we've wandered into our provinces of persecution, 

where our regrets accuse, 

we keep returning back to the common faith from which we've all dissented, 

back to the hands, the feet, the faces? 

Children are always there and take the hands, even when they are most terrified. 

Those in love cannot make up their minds to go or stay. 

Artist and doctor return most often. 

Only the mad will never, never come back.

usual rules apply.... 

phone off the hook, 

Bose headphones on, 

volume up turned and eyes closed...

take it away Kathryn

you're sitting there watching a great movie that.....

.... is sucking you in with each scene, and yet you know you have to go to bed because you have to be up early ........ and then in one of those scenes, comes a great song...... movies are full of them....

This is my SoD

It's been on my iPod for a very long time.....
but I don't know why I haven't listened to it for so long.

Friday's desert Island disc.....

... it's Friday, cold, wet and pretty miserable..... this would be one of my desert Island Discs

a full 360 degrees of utter......

..... insanity....... everywhere you looked yesterday it was a mad world......

It didn't start in Woolwich but it did end there..... but's let's start at Woolwich ......

The barbaric behaviour of yesterday is incomprehensible to describe ...... walking along the pavement one minute and then the next thing ........ and the victim of whose name we are not yet told loses his life...... and for what ? Terrorism ? I don't think so ..... sure it suits our government and the law enforcers to tell us it was an act of terrorism, they want us to be scared ..... but this was a simple act of sheer murderous brutality ...... whilst the public stand there and look and video and even chat with the killers as though they are in some sort of reality TV program.....

Look at this picture and ask your self what's wrong in this photo ? .... not spotted it yet ? look carefully.... it has bothered me from the moment I saw it........

In the back ground you can see a police officer crouched over one of the now shot killers, and in the foreground a small crowd looking over the victim..... considering since murdering this man, the killers have been chatting to bystanders and in turn been shot by the Police themselves, it would seem that the victims body will have been in the road sometime by the time this photograph has been taken..... at what point did any of those bystanders not think..... out of respect they would elect to cover over his body...... at what point did it not occur to them that this man has a family, this man was a person, this man deserves better respect rather than becoming the latest twitter trend...... why did not one of these bystanders [or even the photographer of this picture] not think, out of some sort of respect for another human being..... to cover the man over, instead of leaving him there lying like you would a dog that had been run over in the street.

And what about mother-of-two Ingrid Loyau-Kennett who today is being described as incredibly brave, even to the point she went on breakfast TV to tell us how brave she was....... well do you know what ..... she was not incredibly brave ..... she was incredibly fucking stupid ...... yes thats right fucking stupid ..... a mother of two who says that she put her self in the way in case the killers wanted to harm children and it was better her than children that were harmed ..... utter fucking stupidity  ....and what about her own children...what would they be doing if she was now dead..... but why is she fucking stupid ?.....

Simple...... because for no good reason she stands there having a conversation with the killers, as though you can reason with these two lunatics and then......then......she goes on national TV and recounts virtually word for word her conversation with the murderers and what has she done..... given these fucking lunatics a voice.... she has helped spread their message to the world.....

The papers are no better..... look at today's front page of the telegraph .....

And so they show a image from the now infamous uTube/ITV clip and instead of saying ..... look at this murderous bastard.... what do they say..... they quote him and give him a voice !..... the telegraph are fucking stupid too !

So with this madness before your eyes, you think I know what I'll turn round abit..... but instead you are confronted by this man..... remember him ?

Dale fucking Cregan

Initially in his trial he denied the murder of 2 police women... then he changed his plea..... but his trial continued as he was denying murdering Mark Short and 3 months later David Short [father of Mark]... but yesterday he changed his plea and admitted the murder of both men...but his trial continues .....why ?.... well because he denies the attempted murder of Sharon Hark.... really ....

But yesterday, Dale Cregan's Barrister said in his closing speech:

In his closing speech, Mr Csoka said: "Members of the jury ... You now know for sure that he has murdered four people and that he has attempted to murder others inside the Cotton Tree pub.

"You may think after what has just happened ... 'what does it matter now?', 'what difference does it make?, 'why does Dale Cregan care?'.

But he said the standards of judging the evidence against him on the allegation of attempted murder "remain exactly the same".

He said Cregan had already given an explanation in January in prison to a psychologist and psychiatrist as to why he killed the Shorts."The threats to rape his sister, the threats against his son the threats to rape his son, threats going back years and years.

"You remember Dale Cregan saying he was not able to sleep, that he had obsessive thoughts of killing and him saying he had the best night's sleep of his life after killing David Short."A clear explanation as to what he did to the Short family."

But he said all the evidence of what happened at Ms Hark's house, did not point to attempted murder.

Mr Csoka said: "We are dealing with someone who when he sets out to kill, he kills."

[sky news]

Now I realize barristers have an obligation to represent without fear or favour, but with someone like Dale Cregan there comes a point where you are beginning to seriously question the barrister himself.....

At what point in this trial did his barrister not think to himself..... this fucker is not worth wasting an ounce of piss on, let alone defending him. Then standing up proudly and looking at the jury and saying in his closing speech.....

Members of the jury I have been defending this man throughout this trial and I have come to the conclusion he is a complete and utter callous murdering bastard and you should no have hesitation to find him guilty of any charge this court puts before you.....

At which point all 12 jurors stand up and in unison start clapping, and as they do they break out in to song, urging the judge to gather up all the rope he can find and do away with this murdering bastard......

I saw an interesting statistic yesterday on the train whilst heading back from London, it said there are only 3,200 tigers left in the world....... that's not many I thought..... and that got me thinking..... there's only 1 Dale Cregan left in the world..... and I bet we put more effort in to keeping Dale Cregan alive than we will those tigers.... there's even a chance the 3,200 tigers will be extinct before Dale Cregan..... how fucking sad is that ? 

So, saddened by the acts of Dale Cregan, we turn once more in our circle and shit what are when then faced with...... this man ......

Mark Bridger..... you read the updates on his trial of yesterday, now that his defence has commenced and some of the commentary on the cross examination and you think..... this guy is in some kind of parallel universe.... the utter shite that he has so far come out with..... is beyond belief.... and yeah yeah I know the trial has to take it's course..... but defending him ? ...... really ? should anyone really really bother..... and like the tigers...... like Dale Cregan..... will Mark Bridger become extinct anytime soon ?









So saddened by that view, we turn some more degrees in this circle of news and what now are we confronted by...... this man ..... don't know who he is ? ........

still don't know who he is ? no I didn't till yesterday, seems a lot of people didn't either....

His name is David McGreavy..... and until yesterday the press were not allowed to name him or give details of the victims of whom he murdered in 1973. The murdering bastard, murdered 3 young child and then impaled their bodies on a fence....... and the court had granted a gagging order over naming him in 2009 on the basis that...... he was making a bid to be moved to an open prison ...... and naming him would put his life at risk ....... what the fuck are we doing letting this happen.....

I fully respect that prisoners/offenders should be given the chance to rehabilitate ....but seriously this man ? who as you can see even gets day release back out on to our streets....

Who knows, perhaps in 40 years they will be debating a gagging order about this man.....

yes this murdering bastard... the one with blood on his hands ..... will we be worrying about his personal safety in 40 years time ? ... will we ? really ? more than perhaps the 3,200 tigers ? or Dale Cregan ? or Mark Bridger ? I fucking hope not.....

So once more we seek to turn away and yet yesterday is filled with more despair..... we see this....

He was being questioned by the FBI and they shot him ....... why exactly ? ...... The Boston bombing was appalling.... a murderous [and maiming act] of utter futility ..... but whilst I am not a big fan of conspiracy theories.... and this is not one.... I am intrigued why the US authority have used such fire power on the Boston Gang, without the public truely understanding what that bombing was all about.... reportedly he was about to sign a confession and then they ...... shot him ..... because they thought he was getting violent..... well then just fucking hit him really hard....but shoot him ? why was that ?

So what can we do ? well we turn once more and we end up back where we started 360 degrees of utter insanity..... back at Woolwich..... Sure we are told it was a terrorist act and we'll debate whether soldiers should wear their uniform in the street and now we'll get all patriotic ..... but was yesterdays murder really an act of terrorism ?  .... on the radio news as events unfolded yesterday, I heard the BBC reporter say.... he'd seen the video footage and the Muslim looking man had blood on his hands..... how the fuck do you look Muslim ? I am a church of england christian , do I look different to a catholic christian I wonder or different to a Buddhist ? what a bizzarre comment.....

In truth the two men in woolwich with blood on their hands.... are murdering bastards..... are they really any different to the Bulgarian man who murdered Jennifer Mills-Westley .... or even different to this.......

Or for that matter, are they really any different to Dale Cregan or Mark Bridger or David Mcgreavy or even perhaps Mick Philpott and the list it seems is endless and it will go on for sure.......

So as you stand and look all around you ..... you wonder how there are only 3,200 tigers left in the world and yet these murdering bastards still exist.....

No SoD today.... 

 I don't think it's a day for music..... 

it's a day to shake your head in utter despair....

 

bugger it.....

mein gott !

the Doors were effin good..... 

let's have this one too.....

a day to listen and work... 

7 minutes of some the greatest music there is...... 

it will not disappoint.