"Brazil"

Just running some tests here. Please ignore. This was on the first Bumskipper wasn't it?

  
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Anotherday

  
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Snow outside, puke inside.

Just passing thru...

20p Cat's Protection League on 7" http://ping.fm/HBJ7o

Just got some porn spam referring to "alluring bitches". What a great phrase!

The Doozer "Hornbill" http://ping.fm/YjBjo

Great article about the song. http://ping.fm/hFast

A favourite track of mine http://ping.fm/Qsh1h

Some great hair ideas in this girls http://ping.fm/e5JmJ

Took call to arrange Nextstep careers advice interview on the loo. Next level multi-tasking shit.

If I'm interviewing glum ex-financial sector chaps speaking negatively of competition for the Co-op shortlist that says it all right?

Cassetteboy jokes. http://ping.fm/056Dq

It's beginning to look a lot like the philosophical muzak of 'progressive' corporate consumerism.

Voodoo

Bedevilled by the usual traction issues.

Ah, the old pre-gig ritual of swearing at a printer like a violent psychotic. Cottage-industry scenes from the unfilmed Um rockumentary.

Bad Timing gig in Cambridge TONIGHT. Volcano The Bear/Sculpture/Pete Um http://ping.fm/kLCC4

Anyone recognise this piece of music? http://ping.fm/M46yu

Pete Um/Sculpture/Volcano The Bear 30-11-09
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African leaders advise Bono on reform of U2 http://ping.fm/eAASy

Thanks for following my work as an artist over the years.

http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/cookingmama2/clip1.mp3

Just discovered Adam Curtis has a blog. http://ping.fm/hAIWk

Shit man I think my Moogerfooger MuRF pedal is broken. Lights come on, sound OK when bypassed, but no filterin'. Bummed.

If I drink a Korean beer on Gwydir St before picking up my son from choir, am I a badman?

http://ping.fm/FnJce Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, as someone comments.

Nochexxx Ft. Sensational http://ping.fm/iwMzI

Aggrieved not to be catching Hair Police tonight...

Returning to work following an eschatological overdose?

What's up with Cambridge's fresh mint supply? Rank mint is a big deal for me.

Giraffe? Reviewed? http://bit.ly/2hI5tQ

Breaking news for politics junkies: ZaNu-Lab leaked Spellingate to spin sympathy from the Sun's bullying!

Same shit, same decade, just.

High noon interview seeks to separate me from my social security blanket via inept New Deal advisor. I vlogged about her 8 years ago.

Flaming lesbians kept me up again, tossing on my futon like Prometheus turning in Hell. Why, I ask, must they twirl the fire?

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Whaddup whaddup. Sensational on the cover of The Wire!

Fire safety bods require transformation of door-closers into earthquake-producing devices. Also Simon injured.

Running low on glee...

Doing a lot of complicated, wearying & expensive stuff to see daniel johnston tonight. Reading about the heroic devo!

Fools. Ignorant fools.

Spend some time tonight considering the real reason behind that toffee apple...

When I cop it you lot are gonna get merked by nostalgia.

Looking for a couple of spare passport photos I had done recently = 45 mins of old photos. I am the archivist bar none.

If you took Goofy to a street caricaturist would they render him as a realistic-looking dog?

Bad Timing presents:

Music from Botswana: http://ping.fm/2PP99

Threads Of Life

Possibly as many as ten years ago I received an email from a stranger asking me curtly if I "...still had Threads Of Life, Alco." I wondered what the person meant for for a minute, but then worked out that they must have been referring to a record that I probably had mentioned on my website. I was in the habit of listing records I had bought as a sort of charity-shop hipster's version of conspicuous consumption, so the email flicked a switch that eventually turned the light bulb on that hovered above my head and shortly after that the dollar signs appeared in my eyes. At first Google told me nothing, which was kind of a good sign, and then deep in GEMM's listings I found some dude trying to flog this record for $1403 (funny figure, I know, but worth about half that in sterling at the time). At this point I started to wonder whether I really was in posession of the record myself, but after about ten minutes of sweaty fingering (a favourite hobby of mine) I was holding the 12" piece of treasure I never knew I had. I had bought it in Sally Ann's amongst a bunch of other records just on general cover-based instinct. I'm not a proper record collector by any means, although fuck knows I've got enough of them, but back then I was a real amateur, as this post plainly shows. Amazingly, the record was in really good nick too. I've actually just been in Twitter-correspondence with the always-worth-reading Kid Shirt, who sent me a link to someone selling another copy:

Alco -Threads Of Life - Rare Private Issue Progressive EURO 1350

Alco – Threads Of Life (UK Alco ALC530 – 1972) Ex /Ex+ Stunning condition copy of this incredibly rare private press progressive album. Recorded by the band Alco at University of Surrey Mobile Studio in 1972. A-Side contains a wonderful progressive suite, including sections augumented with the Itchen Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Palmer. B-side is just Alco themselves who are Tim Caesar – keyboards and lead vocals, Paul Fidlin – bass / lead / vocals, Ben Brooke – lead / bass / vocals and Julian Caesar, drums, / synthesizer / vocals. There are some tracks by the Itchen College Barbershop Shoppers at the end. Tracks are
Side A : Threads Of Life Suite (i) When I Was A Child (ii)Rain Upon My Mind (iii) In My Dreams. Side B : (1) Waiting To Be Born (2) Look At The Clouds (3) Hello Love (4) The Chordbuster (5) Carry Me Back To Old Virginny(6) De Animals(7) Humble (8) Bill Grogan’s Goat (9) Ashmolian

Funnily enough this listing contains several words that seem to allude to various Um themes and private mythologies. I used to clean the toilets at The University Of Surrey, for example, so it's nice to think that the karmic wheel had a done a full 360 with this one. Anyway, I was so freaked out at the thought of the record's value that I metaphorically hugged the thing close to my body and shooed the guy away who was enquiring about buying it off me, and for all I know he could have had very deep pockets. It seemed a cruel twist of fate that he should alert me to the value of the thing and in doing so place it further from his reach, if you know what I mean. The thing is I'm selling records at the moment, as I literally cannot move for the things both in the sense that my living space is severely restriced by them, and also they would represent such a collossal inconvenience if I ever wanted to get out of my current accommodation that it actually puts me off considering it. Plus I've got a lot of stuff that I have no interest in owning due to buying job lots or taking gambles on covers (innit!) or inheriting record collections just because people see you as some kind of record nut (a self-perpetuating myth rather like the harmoniums at Crabapple, where people donated harmoniums because of the harmoniums). And lastly because, although I have been laughably skint my entire adult life, I have never been as potlessly piss-poor as I am at the moment. I'm currently trying to sustain body and soul for myself and 50% of an 8-year old on about 50 quid a week and it ain't really possible, let me tell you. My JSA hasn't turned up this week and that's been just fucking calamitous.

So yeah,

Live rates at 2009.10.25 14:42:58 UTC
1,350.00 EUR = 1,236.99 GBP
Euro United Kingdom Pounds
1 EUR = 0.916288 GBP 1 GBP = 1.09136 EUR

would be extremely welcome, so if you're reading this let it be known that here at Um we say that IT'S ALL GRIST meaning art and life are one and the same if this post could function as an engine that alchemically transmogrifies my fated chance encounter with the certain Threads Of Life into actual Malcom McLaren-style CASH then I could actually go and buy myself the beer I could do with or pay my son's dinner money or something.

Where's my JSA at?

At the spooky disco. Who teaches little girls to dance?

Salt water gargles inna Nurse style.

Old dear in cat's protection league says of her purchases: 'it all helps.' 'yes,' says till lady. 'that could be a mouthful of catfood.' yum.

Slowly but surely Krishnan assumes the mantle of leadership...

Bad Timing presents Pete Um with Volcano The Bear 30-11-09 Portland Arms, Cambridge.

Fuck it, I'll watch the highlights.

I am a smear on the skirting board of the internet.

Fellow passenger says this is 2nd bus crash he's been in on kings rd in a week. I ask if catching another with him is wise. 'it only happens on kings rd' ...

Good Times

Pete Um supporting The Fiery Furnaces Brighton Audio 7th, London Cargo 8th, Leeds Cockpit 9th October.

Virgin's up the spout. No email.

Too poor to tour!

Anyone likely to be able to put me up in Glasgow 10th Oct after a gig w/ The Fiery Furnaces if that helps? Guestlist obv!

If you see a couple of idiots in Brighton that look like me and Bobby, it's probably me and Bobby...

Cigarettes, ice-cream, cadillacs, blue-jeans...

Dude on train discussing future of addenbrookes hospital. Hope my guitar amp dont fall off the rack cos he sounds hella important, if indiscrete.

Joy Orbison sounds totally like a hyph ting to these ears, sorry...

Pete Um One-Stop. (http://ping.fm/ojV2g)

Super Super Magazine on Channel 4's 3-Minute Wonder shows Nathan Barley died in vain.

Sat on my arse drinking mint tea, downloading a cycling movie and reading about beer.

Even if I leave out Bumskipper-era or other things lingering in the dark a first list produces 144 songs. Short songs, granted...

Been putting off doing a proper new (CD-R) album for too long, for many reasons, but foremost the agony of choice.

Ergo Phizmiz's The Faust Cycle

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Cheer up.

Apropos Felix Kubin.

666 videos on YouTube.

Couple in front on train leaving their books on sartre & psychogeography unattended to argue about their bicycles instead.

A pete um walk through clouds to the cheese wring, presumed shut, where i'm greeted as a wet friend by strangers, & sharp's special.

In a range rover drinking coke with the ting tings on. Where did it all go wrong?

Had two completely brilliant ideas late last night. Can't remember either of them.

Off to Kynance Cove later. Meant to be beautiful. Might Ping to say what I'm having for lunch.

Took some vitamin supplements from my Mum's cupboard. Just waiting for them to kick in...

In Cornwall. If you don't like the weather, wait a minute.

Bonus surplus.

More surplus.

Some surplus Pete Um.

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"Spring Tapes 2007"

Ten of thousands waving their hands in the air for some ersatz bullshit. There's even a union jack for the love of god!

Like, if they were on at a festival you'd have a look wouldn't you?

Me and Rob speculating this morning that the Raygun FAIL could end up doing them some good in some grotesque postmodern way.

Wondered if cricket was on telly. Now watching footage of V festival thinking "Who the fuck are these cunts? They're awful!"

Thought hangover was under control until I accidentally watched an advert for the University Of Northampton.

3 of the spodliest dudes i've ever seen are tearing thru a 6-pack of red stripe on the 3.45 from kings x. It's an affront to my rock n roll professionalism.

Ah. Suddenly i'm going to gang gang dance & animal collective. All i did was carry a conga.

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dl-ing lots of free jazz for free that I probably won't listen to, & selling trance for $$$!

Man From Uranus has been making some films!

Be off comms for a few days, apart from mobile.

@nochexxx Rumblefish is like this overloaded, over-stylised, fake avant 50/80s teen movie mutant thing w/ a great soundtrack.

Ice in the cider.

Letter from Virgin Mobile telling me there's a new "nice & simple" way to charge me more money, like I'm nice or simple...