Friday Will Be Fudging About on Fresh Air Again
 BUT DON’T WORRY! After last week there will be no surprise eighties bonanza, just good old whinging indie pish, as you’ve probably come to expect these days.
After the radio show there will be a bite to eat, and then a slow slide into oblivion as I go from Collar Up, Sparrow & the Workshop and Meursault at Cabaret Voltaire to the Gerry Loves Records Christmas Party at the Banshee Labyrinth. It might get messy.
On air from 3:30pm UK time – listen live here.
Also, yesterday I dropped off some Toad merch at a new Christmas popup shop on St Leonard’s Street, in the Studio 203 Gallery. If you’re heading out of town past the Pleasance, it’s a couple of hundred metres further out, opposite the Lismore Rugby Club, and there’s a map here, if that doesn’t ring any bells.
Normally an arts studio, I believe, the gallery is now full of all sorts of really nice handmade bits and pieces, as well as releases from some of Scotland’s best independent labels, in the music room through the back. Well worth a visit, I reckon.
Anyhow, in the meantime, delurk, come out of hiding, bother your arses and complete this Friday’s five stupid questions:
1. Have you put any thought into your top albums/songs/etc lists for 2011 yet?
2. At what date is Christmas officially allowed to start being mentioned, in your view?
3. Next film you’re likely to see.
4. Favourite thing to do with snow.
5. Artistic skill you would learn if you had the time/inclination/talent.
And again, as per usual, the playlist for the radio show will appear below once we go live at around half three this afternoon.
1. The Fall – Two Librans
2. Liars – Scissor
3. Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
4. Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed
5. Collar Up – The Boatman
6. Spook School – Are You Who You Think You Are?
7. Jetskis – Moonlight Kawasaki Ride
8. Quiet Americans – Summer House
9. Dead Rabbits – Make Me Believe
10. Robin Grey – The Hackney Gentrification Song
11. Video Thrills – Sports Park USA
12. Trapped in Kansas – Happiness is an Allegory, Sadness a Story
1. Not really at all. That is next week’s task.
2. Once my birthday (19th November) is past, I can live with Christmas starting. September, as happened this year, is just fucking ridiculous, and December 1st would be ideal, but I can live with 20th November onwards.
3. A dodgy copy of Cowboys and Aliens, I suspect. An interlectural I ain’t.
4. Ski, by some distance. Or walk. But I was never one for snowmen and snowballs lose their appeal surprisingly fast these days.
5. I would like to have more time to do proper graphic design work, be it illustration, typography or just layout work, instead of just half-arsing it all the time like I do at the moment.
HA! At least it wasn’t Chutters this week.
1. I’m awash with end of year lists (and yes, it is all my own fault)
2. As soon as you’ve been to your first Christmas night out
3. I really really want to see Drive, but it’s more likely to be the new Harry Potter film when I am nursing a hangover on Sunday afternoon
4. Fuck I am going to sound so middle class, but errrr.. ski on it
5. I am with you Matthew, I’d love to be able to learn some graphic design (or even just get a rough idea of how to work Photoshop)
1. Absolutely, currently working my way through a massive shortlist.
2. Begrudgingly yesterday, it’s December now all bets are off.
3. Harry Potter 3, slowly working through them for the first time. It’s been a variable experience so far.
4. Throw it at people I’m afraid. Preferably people I know but random willing participants are always welcome.
5. Make films, I attempted an effort at a music video a while a go. It really requires a pile of effort to learn a million different skills to make something good though.
1. Submitted my top 3 to the BAMS vote but can’t be fudged doing a top 10 countdown this year.
2. As soon as the advent calendars have started to fill the post-Hallowe’en shelf space.
3. Maybe 50/50 though I want to be prewarned of any upcoming Seth Rogen ‘huh huh’ laughs so I can prepare to shudder.
4. Melt it??
5. Would love to make a huge Art Attack out of all Jeremy Clarkson’s unsold DVDs and books this Christmas.
1. Yes. And I’ve already got some glaring ommissions. I hate doing it.
2. 15th of December. Cycled passed some idiot blaring Shakin Stevens’s “Merry Xmas Everyone” out of their car on the way home last night. Almost vomited.
3. What’s the Christmas Day movie on telly?
4. Look at it through the window.
5. The real answer is probably graphic design too. I can use photoshop fine, but beyond stiching heads onto hilarious bodies, the creative aspect is beyond me. The “witty” answer is “presenting a podcast”.
1. Only cos Peenko kept sending emails, I responded bout 5 minutes ago.
2. Can’t moan once December kicks in.
3. I know Arthur Christmas is on the cards, at least he’s now too old for bastard penguin sing-fest Happy Feet 2
4. Sledge repeated down The Hill Of Certain Death
5. Accordian
1. I’ve just done my BAMS entry, and have some stuff down for my own lists, but am still not really sorted for anything
2. I’m OK with the start of December
3. prob not anything as I’m working my way back through The Wire right now
4. Scelping neds with snowballs
5. Anything to do with graphics and photo editing would save me a fair bit of hassle
1. No… I never do. (Too many lists and awards in the world. I’m banning them when I become King of the World.)
2. Realistically, yesterday.
3. Something in the Louis Malle boxset I got yesterday.
4. Make snowmen.
5. Take piano lessons. I play things with frets… but there’s no independence of hands. I want my left hand to not know what my right hand is doing.
Oh, and from proper left/right independence I’d be able to move on to harp. Like so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aabqmOX720
1. a bit
2. 1st Dec, although we tend to decide where we’re going / who if anyone we’re going to inflict ourselves on in about September, but then forget about it for a good couple of months. I’m now officially in The Zone though, having had my first mulled drink last night.
3. Whatever’s on about half six at the Cameo on Monday (cheapskates) night. Not really fussy.
4. Walk on some virgin stuff, especially if it’s the crunchy, custardpowdery kind
5. Learn some form of musical instrument. But I am far too lazy.
1 – Yes, I think I know whats going to be top album but thats about it so far
2 – Yesterday, just got to get myself together enough to go out and buy some presents without wanting to kill half the people in every shop for walking toooo slowly in front of me!!
3 – Possibly “another planet” (if its on at the cameo at 6ish on monday)
4 – Anything but ski really
5 – I’d love to be able to draw, unfortunatley god seems to have given me two left hands.
1. Aye, I picked my top three albums to stop Peenko harassing me.
2. December 1st. You are allowed to punch anyone who says you can mention it from when the Coke advert is on telly.
3. I plan to watch Mean Girls soon, for the billionth time.
4. Ram it down the back of the top of the little oiks who tried to hit me with a snowball.
5. Aye, graphicy things for me too. Or website design, I used to be able to cobble together a decent one in the late 90s, then they went and made lots of new fancy stuff that confuses me and now I don’t know anything.
1. No
2. Mentioned: 1st December. Actively anticipated with decorations etc: 13th
3. I will give in eventually and watch Black Swan and Bridesmaids. I’ve resisted thus far.
4. Writing a song about the lazy fuckers who use it as an excuse for a day off work (“Crisis in London now, some white stuff seems to be falling down/don’t let the children out, there may be snowmen about”).
5. Piano. I bought a large keyboard to teach myself but instead of learning, I just banged about on it, wrote one song and that’s still the only thing I can play on it.
1. The Contrast Podcast deadline made me get in gear and finish my list. Never an easy task.
2. I suppose when the calendar turns December. Now that I am Santa for the masses, I’d just as soon open my eyes and have it be the 26th of December right now. Bah Humbug, I know.
3. The Muppets.
4. Make Snow Ice Cream.
5. Improve my photography skills and learn Photoshop.
1. Yep. Pretty much there.
2. December 1, I’m now feeling quite festive.
3. I suspect it will be Arthur Christmas with the wee one. Can’t beat a bit of Aardman. Although she may want to watch her Aristocats DVD this afternoon (I’m off work, hooray!)
4. Piss in it. Then throw it.
5. Faecal sculpture.
Faecal sculpture? Get practising then.
‘Piss in it. Then throw it.’ ie the frozen golden shower
Ewwwwwww that’s fucking horrible! Golden snowballs. Yeuch.
Dear BAMS, stop yer moaning it’s tiresome
Lots of love
Mr Peenko x
Dear Peenko,
no.
Love, BAMS.
They’d hardly be BAMS if they weren’t grousing about something.
1. Have you put any thought into your top albums/songs/etc lists for 2011 yet?
already started mine yesterday. one album counting backwards until december 20. but then i will be mentioning more i think. i so much like this process.
2. At what date is Christmas officially allowed to start being mentioned, in your view?
last days of november is fine i believe.
3. Next film you’re likely to see.
“Dangerous method” with Freud and Jung.
4. Favourite thing to do with snow.
watch it as it falls and maybe take a walk and be covered in it (because it is so rare around here).
5. Artistic skill you would learn if you had the time/inclination/talent.
funny, i was talking about it today. i ‘d like to design web sites.
and get improved in photoshop,of course.
i used to draw as a kid and everyone said i was talented, hehe.
I see I’ve lowered the tone. Marvellous!
1. Got my BAMS in and that’s about it.
2. Rather it didn’t get mentioned at all, frankly.
3. Don’t know.
4. Yeah, skiing on it’s fun.
5. Gather together a collection of instruments and finally get some recording done.
Splendid! Fresh Air show started, get tuned in you fuckers.
1. No, not really, except for my panicked oh I haven’t listened to enough music to make a good choice thoughts.
2. November 27, the day after thanksgiving
3. A Dangerous Method or Coriolanus
4. walk around in it make snow balls
5. pointe
Speaking of snow… Do all of you across the pond have maple syrup? An old fashioned treat used to be pouring maple syrup onto fresh snow and then eating it (its called sugaring off). I suppose that someone might like to try it.
THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!
But we rarely get enough proper snow to try it, sadly. At least here in the city anyway.
1. Everything’s Getting Older by Wells & Moffat
2. 18th of December! And even then just in passing as oh look it’s Christmas next week.
3. All depends on work. Either summit awful on the Christmas channel or ‘for a few dollars more’ on the laptop in the staff room if the guys girlfriend comes round.
4. Walk through it.
5. Any musical instrument or dry stone wall building.
1. Not really
2. November 29th
3. The Last Waltz
4. Build rude snowpeople.
5. I think painting looks quite fun.
The next film I watched was indeed Mean Girls. I’m a man of my word.
Why am I not surprised. Hands where we can see them, Jim.
I watched it with the girlfriend. Not that that improves matters really…