Behold, it is time to announce that this site you’re on now is moving to the address above: www.culturevulturezine.com
Please note the only change in the address is the dot com bit at the end.
Well, it needed updating didn’t it? This site’s got mould on it. And i’ve lost all the settings. We can’t even figure out how many hits we’ve had in the last year. The new site has all the CV info & news you need in one place and hopefully you’ll find it alot cleaner and easier to use than this one. You can download PDFs of CV back issues and get info on our Disc Jockeying appearances and events. I have also written a brief (very brief) History of CV page and my blog will continue over there too.
As for the way the site works, there will be probably be teething problems but please bare with me - I will apply soothing teething gel to them. There will be creases to iron out too and blips to… um… de-blip. Soon I will be redirecting this domain over to the new one.
Chris Alfaro aka Free The Robots has posted a free mixtape download mp3 on his FTR Tumblr from back in 2007 - sounds ages ago now doesn’t it? There’s some classic cuts on there from Bad Brains to NWA and Portishead to Shocking Blue and it’s mixed nicely too - scratching over the top of Dead Kennedy’s Too Drunk To F**k anyone? Rad. Go & get it.
This week I am attending my first stamp valuation event. I have no idea what to expect apart from people looking at me and thinking ‘This must be his first stamp valuation event’. These stamps have been lying round for years since my Grandfather passed in 2005 though and its time to do something about it.
I am now officially back in the blog world by the way, refreshed and ready to nail some entries before we move to culturevulturezine.com
The free flowing fountain of NBB blog entries has run dry the last few days . It doesn’t happen to me often but I’ve been ill, sicking out Mexican food through my nose (S/E/R/I/O/U/S). There is always someone somewhere going through deeper s**t than you though. It doesn’t matter how bad your hair is, if you look like a vampire or if you can’t stop puking up.
Acclimatize. Overcome.
Also remember, this site is due to move to: www.culturevulturezine.com in the next few weeks. See post 488 below.
Any day now this site may not be here. CV is moving house (One of the most stressful things you can do apparently).
It could be today. It could be in a few months. I haven’t renewed the domain so It depends when our hosts take the site down. However, If you visit this page and the site’s gone FEAR NOT…
The new sexier CV site is almost (ALMOST) done and will be housed at www.culturevulturezine.com
This will become the new shiny spiritual epicentre of all things CV: This Blog, CV News, CV Downloads etc. All I need to do is finish a bit of content, upload it and we’re there.
This move coincides with the analogue to digital TV signal changeover which will be occurring almost simultaneously. Stay tuned.
Last night I was burning the midnight oil at work – Well, my kind of midnight oil – I was there till gone 7 o’ clock after everyone had left which for me is hardcore as I usually finish at 4pm-ish. Now, In my eyes If you’ve got a deadline then you’ve got a deadline and you need to get things done. I’ve been working on this project for weeks and it was tight for time but these things happen. Today at work though I’ve been greeted like a hero, engineers have made me tea (they never make tea), everyone wants a chat and I’m being offered time off! All this for doing your job. I though everyone did it. Turns out they don’t.
When I got home Isaac was in bed but I did his dream feed (milk top up before we go to bed) and got to hang with him for a bit in his default/factory settings babygrow. See below:
Remember CDs? In the last year especially I’ve not bothered with them, instead opting for digital or vinyl formats. I’m not feeling nostalgic or anything but I did forget alot of what I had. For example, yesterday I found these in the sideboard.
Little Richard – Best of (I haven’t blasted LR for a long time – This went straight to the car slot-in player and bypassed Itunes)
Andy Votel’s ‘Prog Is Not A Four Letter Word’ compilation – This went platinum in my old flat when it first came out a few years back but I only ever added odd tracks I liked to my ipod/iphone. So now I’m rediscovering it as an album. i.e. Not skipping tracks.
Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica (I’ve got this on itunes but couldn’t remember the last time I saw the cover and liner notes. It looks amazing)
Then I saw more…
Aphrodite’s Child – Singles
Robert Johnson – Complete Recordings (There’s a time and a place for Rob, usually on the way to work)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – This may have been the best find. I never put it on itunes for some reason except the track ‘Help I’m A Rock’ so it sounds like it did on the day I bought it some 3 or 4 years ago… weird, sunny and psychedelic-a-rama
It’s easy to get bogged down in the digital era or music formats – I am the world’s worst. Every now and then organise the formats you used before computers declared their domination of our souls. This weekend I’m going through my CDs, then my tapes box. Then in another one million years I will return once more.
