Friday Has Been Fucked By FOUND
Those total fucking bastards and their fucking album fucking launch. I didn’t even have my first pint until about ten o’clock at night, but I still feel pretty fucked this morning.
Still, one of the benefits was a trip to Storries Home Bakery in Leith on the way home, somewhere which isn’t really on my way home at all actually, now I come to think of it, but a very welcome detour nevertheless. Mmmm… steak pie!
I have meetings to come this afternoon, one in person and one on Skype, so even though I am self-employed it still feels like one of those days when you’re at work, hungover as fuck, and have nowhere to hide.
And tonight, of course, we have The Leg, Louis Barabbas and the Bedlam Six and Zed Penguin down at Henry’s Cellar Bar, so we get to do it all again. Agh! Thank goodness Mrs. Toad is away and doesn’t have to witness the wreck!
So today I only have one song, and it is this:
Admiral Radley – All Fucked on Beer
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And the questions will be shit, because my head hurts, but please de-lurk and say hello anyway, even if it’s just out of pity.
1. What are you inexplicably compelled to eat when pished?
2. Favourite soap opera.
3. Stupidest band name.
4. Favourite sea bird.
5. What TV series should I waste my Sunday watching?
1. kebabs with mayonaise and ketchup – yum!
2. Corrie
3. First Charge of the Light Brigade
4. Penguin
5. Breaking Bad
I win
1. It used to be pot noodles. Now it’s a haggis supper, awesome stuff.
2. I detest these things and couldn’t possible recommend one. You’d be better off repeatedly slamming your face into a wall.
3. I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness has got to be hard to beat.
4. Cormorants are pretty bad-ass, particularly the one that sometimes sits on a local river island.
5. Spaced. Perfect lazy Sunday hangover viewing!
Damn, beaten by Peenko. That’s embarrassing.
1. Used to be cheese on toast, these days more likely crisps, the weirder the better.
2. The Archers.
3. Beady Eye?
4. Puffin or Sandpiper
5. The Killing (the Danish murder mystery, there’s about 10 hours worth on the iplayer)
1. Pizza
2. Sunset Beach
3. D:Ream
4. Any lady from Baywatch
5. Baywatch
1. Fish and chips from the chippie downstairs
2. I think Neighbours was edged out by Home and Away in the end. Good soap operas are of no interest to me – they have to be utter shit!
3. Guillemots.
4. Guillemots. Actually I prefer Blue-footed Boobies, but I couldn’t resist the rather weak joke, sorry.
5. I am thinking I might have a go at Mad Men for the first time.
1. chipsteak!
2. brookside
3. was going to say scrap brain but i think they’ve had enough now. so ill go with limp bizkit.
4. penguin
5. battlestar galactica or original star trek
Fuck, how did you all manage that so quickly? Loonies!
While Mad Men is awesome, it may require a functioning brain.
1. A mayonnaise sandwich
2. Dynasty
3. Ambitious Tugboat
4. Birds make me queasy. No favorites.
5. Most definitely Mad Men. Goes well with gin.
Good point Steven, very good point. What about a recommendation for someone whose brain may well have turned to marmalade by that point?
And just because they’re awesome in every way:
1) Feta cheese. And sports arena hotdogs.
2). I miss Neighbours so very much.
3) Newage Pornographers.
4) favorite seabirds? It’s bloody albatross isn’t it!
5) I love crap cop shows like Criminal MInds, Without a Trace and Law and Order. Brilliant stuff.
Cormorants are also awesome because they are half seagull and half penguin, which god-botherers always seem to forget when shrilly declaring there to be no in-between species.
Ben, I liked Bones. Don’t ask me why, but I liked it.
Mad Men is brilliant. Battlestar Galactica is a fine example of the need for separation between Church and Sci-fi.
1. Cheesestrings and Tangfastic Haribo. Anything devoid of fucking nutrition.
2. WWE
3. Jet
4. The Shag
5. At the moment Deadwood.
1. Chip ‘n’ Cheese (curry sauce optional)
2. Family Affairs was amazing! No women could change Pete Callan, though many tried.
3. The Mouse That Ate The Cat. Sorry guys! Great songs though.
4. The puffin
5. The Shield. Best series ever. No captain could change Vic Mackey, though many tried!
1. What are you inexplicably compelled to eat when pished?
Pie suppers. Wait a minute, I eat those sober as well…
2. Favourite soap opera.
Dundee FC.
3. Stupidest band name.
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Fuck. Off. Cuntos.
4. Favourite sea bird.
I do like a good cormorant.
5. What TV series should I waste my Sunday watching?
In Treatment. Magnificent and compelling. You wouldn’t think a two-hander between Gabriel Byrne the therapist and his various patients would be but it is.
1. When I drank it would have been fish and chips…actually it still is
2. Neighbours
3. !!!
4. Anything but seagulls…actually, yeah, Puffins!
5. Twin Peaks
Actually, at the moment, for all penguins are awesome animals, I think any band with penguin in the name needs to seriously reconsider. Is there a single good use of penguin in a band name anywhere?
Equally, puffins. Great name for a bird, awesomely cool bird, bad band name.
!!! I HATE THAT ONE!
what about zed penguin? do you think that is a shit name matthew?
1. was smash and marmite, then it was a steak pie supper, now it is awesome proper turkish kebabs from Green Lanes.
2. i truly can’t offer an answer to this
3. Last Crack (awesome band from the 90′s).
4. Puffins
5. West Wing.
anyone know anywhere in edinburgh where they do proper greek gyros?
Seems puffins are quite popular. Cue the influx of puffin-related new band names!
1. Actually anything that I would also eat when I’m sober.
2. Don’t watch any soap operas.
3. The stupidest name I’ve read somewhere in recent times was ‘Itchy Poopzkid’ or something. I don’t even want to know how bad the music is…
4. Common Murre, the German name is Trottellumme, what a word.
5. I can only endorse Lucy’s suggestion – The Killing is a fantastic series. Last year series two was on TV over here and it didn’t run out of steam.
MAD MEN IS SHITE DON”T BOTHER AND DON”T BELIEVE THE HYPE
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Mad men is a fine example of the need for separation between Church and 50′s fantasy.
Puffins are also delicious.
However, Emperor Penguin is one if the best songs ever written so let’s not cometely discout flightless seabird/music interaction.
1. Chips with chippie sauce
2. Life
3. Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head.
4. Dead ones.
5. Sons of Anarchy
Emperor Penguin is indeed fucking great.
1) Kebabs it is, I had an all day sesh last year which included 2 kebab breaks.
2) Not for me thanks
3)’The Hundred in the Hands’ is pretty bloomin daft….good album though
4) Sooty Shearwaters more a description than a name
5) Men of Rock was cool, bbci player and only 3 episodes so plenty of spare back down the pub to see the footy time
1. Bacon flavour corn snax has to be a favourite. The really cheap, filthy kind. yum.
2. Have given up on soaps. Used to be Stenders for the comedy value. Definitely NOT Coronation St thanks to 98% of new people I meet making a joke about the name.
3. The Beatles
4. Like many others, I like a bit of a cormorant, but I can’t believe no-one’s said shag yet. What’s wrong with you people?
5. I’d go along with Spaced if you want that gentle Sunday feeling. If it’s all got a bit too much by then, try The Thick of It, and see if you can outswear Malcolm. Should be cathartic if nothing else.
1. Steak pies out of Storrie’s.
2. Me dicking about with the fucked-up phono cable on my record player trying to get it to work so I can listen to Factorycraft, or Dallas.
3. Anything with punctuation marks in it, or Glasvegas.
4. Mackeral.
5. Ski Sunday.
1. Marmite on toast
2. Not a clue
3. I LIKE TRAINS (great band, shit name!)
4. It’s got to be Puffins, they dig burrows instead of building nests and everything
5. The Promise on C4′s been good, although got a bit of catching up to do on that one myself.
Couldn’t believe the Found gig was sold out last night !! had to make do with buying the cd (although was tempted by the very fine LP’s) and a wasted walk into town.
Bloody popular bands!!
1. Microwaveable Kebabs
2. El Dorado
3. Crispy Ambulance
4. Chinstrap Penguin
5. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia – comedy genius
Ditto Bones. I also recommend Sons of Anarchy, its fucking awesome.
1. Pizza and pakora sauce
2. Don’t watch any these days, but hollyoaks was always a staple whilst at uni
3. ‘Aint No Woman Gonna Make A george Jones Outta Me’ is a pretty nuts name. I don’t mind daft names like that though; it’s bland names that make the band hard to find on the net that I think are stupid.
4. Puffin
5. I’ve got really into Six Feet Under at the moment, and The West Wing has to be my all time favourite, but for something that doesn’t take much brain power try Entourage, it’s hilarious.
1. something out of the jar
2. Nope
3. Shut Your Eyes and You’ll Burst Into Flames
4. Great Auk RIP
5. Madagascar. Great photography, lots of lemurs
i’l be watching Nathan Barley this weekend
1. What are you inexplicably compelled to eat when pished?
Toast. Kirsty makes loads of chutneys and preserves so I’m spoiled for good toast.
2. Favourite soap opera.
Eastenders, I actually really enjoy it. Especially Tanwar.
3. Stupidest band name.
Get cape, ware cape, fly. Tool.
4. Favourite sea bird.
Orville the Albatross from The Rescuers Down Under
5. What TV series should I waste my Sunday watching?
Goodnight Sweetheart, I’ve got all 6 series if you want to borrow them? Thank you Nicholas Lyndhurst, thank you.
Bloody hell, meetings. Now the pork scratchings and other fun can commence!
1. A fried chicken sandwich and french fries.
2. Gossip Girl
3. clap your hands say yeah
4. Puffins. They look like sad, little clowns. I’ve heard they’re tasty too
5. House Hunters. It’s different people going around and trying to figure out what house they’re going to buy. It’s strangely addictive. House Hunters International is much the same thing, only you get to learn about the housing market in Malta and it occasionally answers the question of who in the world moves to Mongolia.
1. Left-over spaghetti bolognaise and cheddar-cheese toasted sandwiches. Although this is not inexplicable, as it is obviously genius.
2. Not anymore, but used to be properly addicted to Hollyoaks when I was a student. Mainly because the end credits signaled the time we were allowed to start drinking again.
3. The Courteeners.
4. Puffin. Apparently I look like one (???)
5. Def either ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ (you can get all 6 seasons on http://www.sidereel.com) or some quality CSI (Vegas, mind, not that New York or Miami pish).
Also, Tom: Green Lanes kebabs = FUCKING YES!!!
1. yesterday’s plain bread. i get the illusion that it’ll absorb any liquid left in me.
2.i don’t watch soaps
3.Tim And Sam’s Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam.
4.uhmm…northern gannet?
5.how i met your mother. i’ve watched no more than six episodes, but it’s good for a sunday.
1. Poutine, which is becoming a problem now that I don’t live in Canada
2. Passions. Can’t even make that stuff up. They incorporated warlockes…somehow.
3. Vampire Weekend
4. Plain old gull. I love them, even if they are like sea rats
5. Battlestar Galactica is pretty decent, and has good enough pacing that you could truly waste your day watching it without getting sick of it.
Hello.
1. Kebab, should have had one last night, it might have made my day abit more productive. Aargh, thanks, Found!
2. Eastenders.
3. Elbow.
4 Kittiwakes, they make a great sound.
5. Man V. Food, it always make me want to travel and eat loads!
Cristina, aren’t you also in nyc? there’s a poutine place in the lower east side near pianos.
1) Carbonara!
2) River City, as it’s so staggeringly shite.
3) Tim And Sam’s Tim and Sam Band With Tim And Sam. Just stop it.
4) Heron
5) THE WIRE OBVIOUSLY
1. Quesadillas
2. The wife’s monthly cycle
3. Toad the wet sprocket
4. Egrets
5. “Episodes” has been pretty entertaining. Maybe I get it more because I live close to LA, but I love shows that point how fake Hollywood can be.
1- sour dough bread and butter or cream cheese
2- 44 year old american female with kids and soaps are just so sappy. When I was a kid I watched The Edge Of Night. Weeds and such shows are my soaps now, I suppose.
3-Vermicious K’nids
4-Don’t have a fave. Penguins are cute.
5-Lots of good recs here w/ mad men, twin peaks, six feet under, in treatment,deadwood…Rescue Me, United States Of Tara, Walking Dead. Flight of The Conchords is amusing.
Love your blog!
1. Those tins of ‘full english breakfast’ beans. With an egg on top.
2. At its finest it was difficult to say a bad word about Brookside. I haven’t watched any soaps for years now.
3. Prince Boo Hoo and his Little Smuts.
4. Kittywake.
5. Six Feet Under is brilliant but is another that would require you to engage rather than kind of float around it. I watched series one of ‘Cheers’ over the last month or so and it was completely lovely. Alternatively ‘The Walking Dead’ is very good if you like a bit of Zombie.
Ducky, I’m not in NYC, but next time I am I will check it out!
5 – The Wire, Dexter, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle, Red Dwarf, The Prisoner (60s version)……one of these would do. Get to it.