Happy Birthday Alex!
My contribution to Thanksgiving dinner.
That's Maldon salt on top. The peanut butter / honey filling is poping out the cracks. Next batch will be cooked less and have either habañero, cayenne, or jalepeño.
Molten Chocolate cups w/ peanut butter & honey centers...
Alternative titles:
- Bathroom 51
- X Flies
- Kinkiest threesome ever
- "Honey, are you sure the child is mine?"
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Don't even remind me...
Ok friends, i have been a bad VOX'r and i know it. So much has happened that i can't begin to catch you up in one post. The most important event since the last time i updated is the arrival of my nieces, Lucy and Vivian. My sister, Jamie had her two beautiful little girls on October 16th at roughly 2pm. The journey was a long and emotional one but nothing compares to the joy we all felt the day we first met these two precious babies.
The proud parents have already set-up a website for their little darlings. You can see pics and watch videos of the girls at www.vivianandlucy.com. Joe is really good about updating the site so it's been fun to capture their growth even after only 5 weeks.
This past weekend, Joe took video of the girls which makes me smile (and admittingly a little teary...i'm such a sap) every time i watch it. Here is a video of VIvian who is turning out to be the spitting infant image of her adoring auntie Robin:
Here is a video of Lucy taken by Joe with cousin Tara's voice in the background:
I'm looking forward to spending the Thanksgiving holiday with the Green Bean baby girls, Jamie, Joe, cousin Corinna and Aunt Shelley who will be meeting the babies for the first time today.
I struggled getting started writing this week's 90MM because I don't actually have the vocabulary to describe The KLF.
I started off trying to write something comparing them to that scene in [insert name of practically any teen movie here] in which the cool kids are pretending to agree with the uncool kid but actually they're just taking the piss out of them - but that didn't quite work.
Then, worrying that I was revealing a bit too much of my not-so-secret enjoyment of trashy teen movies, I thought about Marcel Duchamps and his dubbing of a urinal 'art' and what it meant when one of the leading lights of art starts, if not rejecting the concepts but at least examining the more self-evident absurdities.
Then I started off on a tract about style-vs-fashion and how some people are able to make whatever they do look good no matter what.
What it comes down to though is that Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty in their incarnations as The KLF, The Kopyright Liberation Front/Kings of the Low Frequencies, The Jams, the Justified Ancients of Mummu, The Timelords, The K Foundation, One World Orchestra, 2K etc etc managed to simultaneously mock the whole music and art industry whilst also changing the entire face of the industry and putting out storming, anthemic tracks like this
and this
They practically invented the modern bootleg with "Whitney Joins The JAMs" whcih mashed "Mission: Impossible" samples with Whitney Houstons "I wanna dance with somebody". Then, as The Timelords they deliberately wrote a nauseatingly catchy "lowest common denominator, something that Timmy Mallet would understand" song which took samples from Doctor Who and crashed them into Garry Glitter's "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" and The Sweet's "Blockbuster!" with the explicit intention of getting a number 1 single. Which they did with "Doctorin The Tardis". Then they wrote a book called "The Manual (How to have a number 1 the easy way)" which told you how they did it and gave the guarantee that if you followed the book to the letter and didn't get a number 1 they'd refund the cost of the book.
They 'retired' in the most spectacular form possible - at the 1992 Brit Awards they performed a live "violently antagonistic performance" of "3 A.M Eternal" in front of "a stunned music-business audience" with crust punk group Etreme Noise Terror. Prevented from throwing buckets of Sheep entrails over the audience a bekilted Bill Drummond theatrically limped on stage and fired blanks from a machine gun into the air
After which they burnt their last million pounds on the Isle of Jura and filmed it.
Every time someone tries to tell you that Green Day or Limp Bizkit or Sum 41 or god-forbid Avril Lavigne are punk I want you to think of this. I'm not saying that their music is bad necessarily I'm just saying that if some one tries to straight faced tell you that those or similar artists are "punk" then I want you to cock slap them. I want you to physically either punch them in the penile or vaginal area and/or lay about their face with your penis or other similarly degrading appendage - work with what both you and they have people. Get creative. Make sure they REALLY TRULY understand.
Because it's important.
Except when it's not.
