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VSX, A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist: Starbuck Powersurge - a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of Viper Squad Ten, a long-disbanded group of stranded timetravelling troubadours, formed to help finance repairs to their time-machine. Now very much stuck in C21...

Sometimes guest editors: Mr Stu and DJ Tim.

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[ Wednesday, September 03, 2008 ]

[breath drawn]
Starbuck [20:57] Comments: 1 []

I AM ALIVE!

[rib cage expands outwards]
Starbuck [20:56] Comments: 0 []

[intercostal muscles contract]
Starbuck [20:55] Comments: 1 []

[Diaphragm creaks downwards]
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[ Wednesday, June 04, 2008 ]

Come back
Starbuck [20:14] Comments: 1 []

Hello. How are you?

My name's Starbuck, and I've been very quiet of late.

It's my throat you see. I can't make too much noise.

I've been feeling a little horse.

ha ha ha

ha ha ha

[ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 ]

Co incidents
Starbuck [19:44] Comments: 5 []

Talking of coincidence, I'm obviously feeling low level guilt about neglecting my online duties of late. Ideas spill from my brimming head and are lost in the mists of memory, one taut timeline amongst many stretched to breaking point.

I dreamt last night about third daughter. I can't recall what it was now, but no doubt I was checking her blog to see how life was shaping up, something I should be doing for her and for many others. So much must be happening in others' lives, so much to care about. I wish someone would invent Really Simple Syndication. Others' lives might not even be accessible now. So much has been happening in my own life, so much to share from my new life - from Starkid's life.

And today, by another coincidence, the morning after the dream, threed contacted me through Flickr to comment on a photo of Starkid.

I know that coincidence doesn't mean anything, I know that its just the human mind that makes it appear more than it should be, I know that our reality is purely a mental construct, that the present is not even something that is happening but is actually something that has happened and is then reflected upon, I know all that...

... but its still great fun!

More precognonsense
Starbuck [19:28] Comments: 0 []

Further to THAT, I've managed to precog another high profile death - Arthur C Clarke. Sort of. Well, more of a postcog really, with a bit of paracog as well.

I was lieing in the Bath Friday morning, unaware of the passing of the classic sf author. I was thinking about a piece of music, tying to work out where it was from. I thought it was from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Until I realised that it was from Superman.

A bit later I was watching the film version of the Magic Roundabout, where another piece from the 2001 soundtrack was used. "Hmmm, coincidence", I thought absently.

Late that night I was flicking channels and happened across Damages, just as the Blue Danube was being played. "Wooh" I thought, inaccurately.

The next day I learned the truth.

Clarke was dead. And I was suffering from coincidence and extrapolation
again.

Yeah© - infringement by MLC Ritchie
Starbuck [19:11] Comments: 0 []

That new Madonna single, right? 4 Minutes To Save The World - the one that sounds a bit like The Final Countdown? Or was it Brian May's theme to Star Fleet#? Or does that sound like The Feeling's Thought It Was Over (as I always think to myself upon hearing it)?

Whatever, that Madonna single. The "yeah" in it. It absolutely rips off the "yeah" in Dieticians Featuring Fat's breakthrough track Fat City Arizona, both in tone and word-for-word.

I want royalties.

# Having just revisited Mr Anita Dobson's classic theme tune, evidently not. Check it out puppet fans...

[ Thursday, March 06, 2008 ]

Starbuck [17:59] Comments: 3 []

Hmmm, so much for the big VSX comeback.

Short, is time, yes.

So here's one that I made earlier. Or rather, here's one that MIA Co-editor Stu made earlier. Or even, here's something he emailed me.

Just as well, since I can't see myself getting round to my annual music & film review for 2007, considering my 2006 review only came out in September, and since I've not really absorbed much music or film in 2007 anyway.

So.

Here's Stu:

Best singles

Manic Street Preachers - Your love alone is not enough (I'm sorry but I really like this song)

Andrew Thompson - What's up

Klaxons - Golden Skans

Scroobius pip - Thou shalt always kill

Best albums - in order at least to begin with

Battles

Arcade Fire

Radiohead

Queens of the Stone Age

Everything Jesu has done this year (and ever forever)

Band of Horses

65 days of static

Maps

Bloc Party

Editors

Also rans

Nine Inch Nails, Broken Family Band, Klaxons

Best album that I had never heard until this year (so to me it is an album of the year, yeah?)

Slint Spiderland

Most rubbishly disappointing album of the year

Interpol

(Chemical Brothers came close)

Best gig

The whole Barcelona "experience", Tool at Brixton, Battles at Koko

Most irritating musical person of the year

Jack Penate

I hope that you've found that edifying.

[ Wednesday, March 05, 2008 ]

Robot Wars on Terror
Starbuck [22:21] Comments: 2 []

You may have seen news fluttering across the news wire recently that Professor Noel Sharkey PhD DSc FIEE FBCS CITP FRIN FRSA, Professor of Arificial Intelligence and Robotics, Professor of Public Engagement and EPSRC Senior Media Fellow at the University of Sheffield had been publicising his concerns that terrorists might start using robots to carry out their atrocities.

Well he would say that. The man has a vested interest - Prof S was a judge on the UK version of Robot Wars, for chrissakes. He's obviously missing his fix of BREAK FLUID!!!!!!

Still looking for Osama Bin Laden? Send in Sir Killalot! Need reinforcements against "Al-Qaeda In Iraq"? Send in Hypnodisc, send in Razer, Cassius & Chaos 2.

Tony Blair was right. The world truly has changed. Where's Rex Garrard when you need him?

[ Friday, February 22, 2008 ]

Moc-moc-a-moc
Starbuck [15:14] Comments: 4 []

[ Thursday, January 31, 2008 ]

Welcome Back [Sychic Starbuck]
Starbuck [14:48] Comments: 3 []

I've been mentally drafting various "VSX comeback" posts since Christmas now, occasionally punching reminder notes onto my phone when something suitably momentous came to mind. Despite my absence its never been far from my mind.

I'd been meaning to tell you what I've been up to, to reveal in glorious detail the wonderful happenings that have prevented me from coming near this blog.

A hundred and one witticisms have crossed my cortex, but not got as far as my fingers.

But I hadn't reckoned on returning with the following words:

I precognised Jeremy Beadle's death.

Last night. I dreampt about it, hours before first hearing the sad news about Beadlebum.

Or rather, I dreampt about Radio 1 DJ Colin Murray's death (in remembrance the radio station had removed all music and chat from the schedules, leaving just half-hour news bulletins within a sea of silence).

And I happened to catch a few minutes of the ex-R.I.S.E. presenter's show last night whilst washing the dishes, during which he talked about the prank TV shows of yesteryear.

And of course, the small-handed tidy-bearded brainiac Beadlebum was the best TV prankster there ever was!

Coincidence? Selection bias? Pah! Enough of this guff. See you next time / next year.

[ Tuesday, December 11, 2007 ]

Starkid Smell
Starbuck [20:27] Comments: 4 []

I realised something special at work today.

Although I am unable to properly imagine most smells (presumably my other stronger senses have more bearing on my world and drown out my olfactory imagination), I am fully able to imagine the smell of new baby Starkid when I am apart from him.

He should think himself privileged!

Starkid Smile
Starbuck [20:19] Comments: 2 []

OK, I know I've not been around these parts much of late, and when I have its been on a strictly functional basis (I've got too much on right now, aside from when I'm in the bath), but for the record, and as a Christmas present to any stray Powersurge pals out there (New Years resolution will be to look y'all up), I bring you a special treat - a photo of Starkid's first proper smiling session...

A wonderful feeling!

[ Wednesday, November 21, 2007 ]

Ravey Baby
Starbuck [20:36] Comments: 0 []

Baby Powersurge's new favourite record - the Bandulu remix of U.F.Orb.

It gets him waving his arms around like its 1992!

Incidentally, I'm finding myself becoming influenced by his Starkid sounds - I've started cooing when I'm occupied with something!

Christian Voice
Starbuck [19:42] Comments: 0 []

I hate these guys, especially bigot-in-chief Stephen Green. Why the media gives them the time of day I don't know (here they are again, wanting to sue the BBC for blasphemy in screening Jerry Springer The Opera, one of their pet obsessions.)

I hate them for their hatred (one of the few forms of hatred I understand). Their hatred of anyone who doesn't share to the letter their closed-minded world view, forged in a literal interpretation of a document written thousands of years ago.

You just need to look at their site to see the bile they pour out, spewing misinformed reaction to the world that they rightly see as being at odds with them, against them. If you look beyond the poorly-written text you'll see some very questionable opinions.

Censure the Beeb for blasphemy? When we can't even censure moronic religious bigots?

The impression one gets from the media are that CV are the mainstream pressure group for fundamentalist Christianity in this country. They grant them the respectability that they badly crave.

Don't think I'm picking on Christianity here - there are pressure groups and hate campaigns cosseting the insecurities of all the main religions. Its just that, in this "Christian country", Christian Voice get free reign to broadcast their hate.

[ Sunday, November 18, 2007 ]

Radio 1 news
Starbuck [13:31] Comments: 1 []

Thank Christ the BBC got rid of JK and Joel, 2-DJs-in-one who are not fit to broadcast on the "nations favourite" national radio station.

No wit, no discernible interest in music, no redeeming radio features.

So what the flip were they playing at employing Dick and Dom - 2-DJs-in-one who are not fit to broadcast on the "nations favourite" national radio station.

No wit, no discernible interest in music, no redeeming radio features. And really fucking annoying in that jarringly blunt, soft-agressive style, especially since they both obviously think they're the funniest double act since, oh, Ant and Dec. I guess they put them on the radio for "the kids". Well, the kids should rise up and protest.

In the words of Scaramanga, there's a four letter word and they're full of it. In spades.

Global Warning
Starbuck [13:17] Comments: 0 []

Despite what right-wing deniers of man-made climate change deniers might claim (and it is always right-wingers, such as a local Conservative MPwho thinks its all a socialist conspiracy, Jeremy Clarkson having a dig on screen at the end of Top Gear's four-wheel drive to the North Pole - if they can drive there then obviously the ice caps are OK and there's not substantive evidence to global warming -, or one of my in-laws whose suspicions are fed by every morsel of selective misinformation fed to him by the Telegraph), the scary thing is that there isn't anything we can likely to as a planet's population to stop it. We know we're in for trouble, and each nation is going to do its best to safeguard its interests for the future, and sod the rest of them.

They've known about it since the 70s, but given that they've not wanted to here, denial has been the easiest option.

If only 80s thrash metal combo Nuclear Assault had declared independence from the rest of the world and declared their own country - NuAssland, perhaps. Then they might have played their magnum opus Global Warning in full at one of the security council meetings, and the world would be a better place.

Review: The Mighty Boosh - S3E1 - Eels
Starbuck [12:40] Comments: 0 []

Godarnit, why did they have to bring back the Moon from series 2?

Aside from that, business as usual. Inspired surreal comic brilliance, or childish comic fantasy, depending on your point of view. I'm very much in the former camp, and if you don't agree, you know nothing of the crunch!

However, having been weaned on the DVDs of the first two series, watching on telly just wasn't the same without Barratt, Fielding and Fulcher's commentary track...

[ Tuesday, November 13, 2007 ]

Hilarious soundalike
Starbuck [20:19] Comments: 0 []

It's with good reason that Starbuck Powersurge is famous for his hilarious soundalikes. So here's another one.

My car.

And the start of Madness' "Driving In My Car".

Hilarious. Grumble.

[ Sunday, November 04, 2007 ]

Baby in a Basket
Starbuck [16:00] Comments: 2 []

Ah, that's better. Sorry for that bandwidth-draining p h o t o s p l urge - its been such a rollercoaster of a year that I felt the need to found some positive anchors within this chronicle. Or something.

No wait, there's another one coming.

Enough. Back to the baby stuff.

It's been an interesting time getting used to our newly-expanded family, and I can now appreciate just how different this is to anything else I've experienced. It's a little bit more complicated than keeping a tamagotchi alive.

Its become apparent that I'm alot more used to needy canines than infant human beings. And I can't stop speaking to poor Starkid as if he's a little doggy!

I talk about "putting him in his basket", or "putting him down on his mat" - I'm sure it won't be long before I'm sternly telling him to go "On your mat" in deep commanding voice with a biscuit in hand.

One step further than calling him a "good boy", I even accidentally said "there's a good dog" earlier...

[ Thursday, November 01, 2007 ]

Crap
Starbuck [22:29] Comments: 2 []

Toilet Door Notice, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

Photo Flashback 9
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The Greek Theatre above Taormina, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

Photo Flashback 8
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Mount Etna, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

Photo Flashback 7
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Above the Villa Romana di Patti, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

Photo Flashback 6
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Break, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

Photo Flashback 5
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Cefalù - town/sea interface, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

Photo Flashback 4
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Sicilian sunset, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

Photo Flashback 3
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Sicily - Aeolian Islands 10, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

Photo Flashback 2
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Summer Floodin' Happened So Fast, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

Photo Flashback 1
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Defeat of the Triffids, originally uploaded by Starbuck Powersurge.

[ Wednesday, October 24, 2007 ]

Infant Music
Starbuck [14:44] Comments: 0 []

One of the unexpected joys of new parenthood is the escape from social conventions about spouting nonsense in a loud voice. Freshly released from the shackles adulthood, I have been thoroughly enjoying the freedom to sing absolute tosh whenever the need arises. And Starkid's hopefully enjoying it too.

The subject matter of my current Top Five ditties are as follows:

Serial Killers
Uncle Vernon Kay
Alexei Sayle, and how we love to see him swear on the TV
Daddy's Bottom
Captain Kirk

Obviously the Wiggles have got nothing on me for lyrics. Next stop, the Dieticians featuring Fat and Viper Squad Ten back-catalogues...

Coming up with these tunes on the fly, it becomes apparent just what a piece of piss the act of composition for kids entertainers must be. Very embarrassing when you find yourself out and about singing merrily about Fred and Rose or Uncle Vernon coming from Bolton, though!

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