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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... [ Archives ]
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[ Thursday, August 31, 2006 ]Durm Chamine - the Funky Drum MachineStarbuck [18:06] Comments: 0 []  Boom bap baboom-boom bapYo! Durm Chamine here, fourth member of the original Viper Squad X, and the only one of us with the god-given right to say "biddi-biddi-biddi". With the VSX_SP module stuck in run-time execution hell, I've spotted ma chance to crack in on Starbuck's profile. I was going to pass myself off as Mr Powersurge - "Hello, my name's Starbuck, and I'm an annashamed kidult who wishes he was Dr Who. Will you be my friend?" But nah, that'd make me just as big a sucker as that Bluefaced Bugger. And you don't want that, boyeee. What ole' Starbie has been kinda neglecting on this site is drums. I mean, he's never even asked of his readership what their fave'rit drum patterns are. C'mon, just what sortofa halfarsed blog is this? I guess he thinks that since his readership is strictly "limited" ('Buck calls them "executive"), he'd not be expectin much of a response from you lot, and there's nothing Powersurge hates more than lookin like a damn fool. But hell, who cares what that loser thinks. Let me start the ball rollin'. (Breath in now breath out, Hands up now hands down, Back up back up, Tell me what you're gonna do now, Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'. Like.) Durm Charmine's fave drum loop of all time is: Funky Drummer (lifted off some old James Brown trakk)'Spesh if its got a "whooo wheyyyy" sampled all over it. It's THE BEST! Nice work, Clyde Stubblefield. Not only have you got the best rhythm break in recorded history (and remember, I come from way beyond each of your life spans), but you've got the best name as well! Laters, droogs. Unless I droog you first. [ Saturday, August 19, 2006 ]I refer the right honourable reader to an earlier postStarbuck [10:35] Comments: 1 [] HERE. (However you may wish to steer clear of the video if you are of the same mind that the man has now soiled his post-ironic pants) Starbuck's funeral song Starbuck [10:00] Comments: 5 [] I'm very aware of my mortality. Accidents happen. And as such I'd like to record in writing the song that I'd want played at my funeral. Although I've informed a few people of this in the past, they're bound to have thought I was messing around or simply just plain forgotten. Having said that, the only family member who I know occasionally reads VSX is my cousin (her from the Karl Kennedy photo 6 posts back), so its up to you, Cous. The song is called "My Body May Die" and its a collaboration by Pulp featuring The Swingle Singers, and its available on the Randall & Hopkirk (deceased) Soundtrack. It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard - the musical arrangement is magical, the vocal harmonies glorious, the lyrics poignant. Incidentally, those of you who saw Charlie Higson's 2000-2001 remake of R&H(d) starring Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer may still find themselves haunted by this, the music from Marty's own funeral. Pulp Vs The Swingle Singers - My Body May Die [ Friday, August 18, 2006 ]Your Religion Post(s)Stuart [16:38] Comments: 4 [] Sub-editor in confronting editor shock! I would like to posit the following: 1.When you bemoan religion, i think you mean only Christianity. I don't think you view other religions with the same distain, although I am not sure why. Maybe you (as I) know more about it than other faiths so it's easier to take pot shots at. 2. It is easy (and mostly valid) to decry religion for causing wars, hatred and prejudice. It's probably also okay to suggest, if that is your opinion, that people believe in God or a god because they are weak or fear death or whatever. HOWEVER where do you stand just slagging off people because of their choice of beliefs? The same place as you stand slagging people off because they're fat I guess, after all they can choose not to be, right? Or come to think of it the same place as you would stand slagging off people who DON'T believe in God. 3. As you say, everyone is irrational. It's in our nature. That's why we believe in love and souls and get married. Again, I'm not going to slag someone off for being irrational. Let he is without blame cast the first stone and wotnot (oops sorry that comes from the Bible) 4. I don't like hypocrites or murderers or warmongers. I like honest, upstanding, loving and kind people. Atheists and religious folks fall within both catergories. Sure if there was no religion there would be less war, in the same way as if the Beatles hadn't written Helter Skelter Charles Manson wouldn't have killed the people he did (possibly allegedly). What came first, religion or man's desire to hurt his fellow man? If there was no religion, wouldn't we have found another reason to behave like we do? 5. Don't lump together (as the report does) creationalism and intelligent design. One is clearly ridiculous (the former) the other is at best merely a manifestation of a belief that while things happened in a certain (evolutionary) way, there was something behind it. Perhaps on a purely scientific basis this is a contradiction. But a lot of people believe in God but don't believe the world was made in seven days. This no doubt comes down to degrees of irrationality, but see point 3 above. 6. Those stats are stats and we all know what they say about stats. 7. Nailing my colours to the mast, I am not particularly religious. I don't go to church but think in the back of my mind there is probably something "out there". (As you know) I just had a daughter. It was a (relatively) difficult and potentially risky delivery. At various points I prayed to a god I don't often pray to because there wasn't anyone else. When my daughter was born safe and sound and my wife was okay, I thanked that same god for the same reason. If you've got a problem with that, buster, come see me about it. [ Thursday, August 17, 2006 ]Monsoon WeddingStarbuck [21:22] Comments: 0 []  Well, there was a downpour.We went to an Indian wedding the other weekend. An Indian wedding in Birmingham, that is. A very fine day, weather excepted, and I'm still got face-ache from grinning way too much. And when you get to my age its always great when a wedding experience is truly different from those previous nuptial celebrations. Weddings and curries, two of my favourite things - a match made in heaven. Anyway, I just thought that I'd mention it as I thought that the nosey or the soppy amongst you might want to view the photos now uploaded into my Flickr Photostream, starting innocently HERE, before ending rather more messily around about HERE. [ Wednesday, August 16, 2006 ]Internal Jukebox UpdateStarbuck [13:20] Comments: 6 [] That tune that the platoon whistle during the marching sequences of the 1971 Dad's Army feature film. Possibly composed by Wilfred Burns. [ Tuesday, August 15, 2006 ]Wireless MatrixStarbuck [17:53] Comments: 6 []  In a long and boring meeting yesterday I finally worked out how Neo could affect and sense machine entities in the "real world" in Matrix Revolutions. Wifi. It makes sense that the machines are connected wirelessly, and it makes sense that they'd embed some sort of transmitter/receiver in the enslaved humans being used as "batteries" (as the spin would have us believe) or whatever, rather than just those big squirm-inducing sockets (quite literally the "fat pipe"). It could be something very low bandwidth included within the metalwork, but rather useful for when they need to locate individual units when disconnected. RFID rather than bluetooth, lets say. But still enough for Neo to master, and to use to his advantage. Lets face it, with enough effort and training you can engineer your central nervous system to enable it to perform all manner of previously-impossible things. Like I said, it was a long and boring meeting... Beggars Belief Starbuck [13:45] Comments: 4 [] Belief in gods is one thing. Hell, we're hardwired by evolution to believe in all sorts of things that aren't actually there - it gave meaning to the nonenlightened human "spirit" back when supposition was all there was. And considering its treated with reverence not ridicule, its no surprise people fall under its spell, whether through direct brainwashing or just the simple osmosis of ideas. But in the 21st Century United Kingdom, supposedly one of the more rational countries in the world (yeah, right), it beggars belief that more than 30% of students now say that they believe in creationism or Intelligent Design. Not good news; belief in gods will drag us to the dogs (that sounded a helluvalot better in my mind than it looks on the page!) The general thinking is "Sod the evidence, its written in scripture." Erm, written in scripture by a politician. Hundreds, thousands of years ago. And don't get me started on Reverend Blair's mission for faith schools. Next stop - Flat Earth Theory. Can't wait. [ Monday, August 14, 2006 ]Electric DreamzStarbuck [19:43] Comments: 0 []  Last night I dreamt that I was sitting with Dr Karl Kennedy out of popular Australian soap Neighbours, taunting - nay, goading - him for just being a fictional character whilst I, your author, am a real human being. His TV ex-wife Susan Kennedy just looked on, smiling sympathetically. And the night before I dreamt I was watching an episode of Dr Who where that Preacher bloke (blonde Geordie Childrens BBC presenter who somehow flooked a few episodes of Dr Who earlier this year despite a few apparent acting difficulties) phased in from another dimension. In-depth New Age dream analysis: I feel gloriously superior to Neighbours characters, and I'm missing Dr Who despite it's various flaws. [ Thursday, August 10, 2006 ]The Exclamation Mark and The Terror ThreatStarbuck [18:54] Comments: 0 [] The current UK Threat Level being critical means that a terrorist attack is expected imminently. Fair enough. But its no excuse for poor punctuation, and there's never any excuse for unnecessary use of the exclamation mark, especially on the website of an international airport.  It rather takes away from the seriousness of the situation...The Foreign Policy Threat Starbuck [11:03] Comments: 1 [] This country faces "probably the most sustained period of severe threat since the end of the second world war", according to Home Secretary John Reid. When I heard this yesterday I thought archly to myself something along the line of"Blimey. Worse than the Cold War? Things must be bad. Planes being driven into our every nuclear powerstation, I would imagine (pity that the decision has already been made that nuclear is the 'fuel of a future')". And then today we hear of this morning's disrupted terrorist plot to blow up planes mid-flight from the UK to the US - perhaps it was just a start, a call to arms, a practice run for the nukes? That said, you could still do a terrible amount of damage to a city like London with a plane heavily-laden with fuel. According to Reid yesterday, "sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse and abuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms in the modern world." That of course won't work - its just doing the terrorist's job for them - causing terror. Its not about "opposition to our fundamental values" and "destroying all of our freedoms in the modern world". It's people radicalised by opposition to our foreign policy, which is brutal either by its action or by its complicity. It's kind of like we oppose their fundamental values and want to destroy all of their freedoms, opposition through bombing and through occupation. Let's face it, sometimes it looks like freedom = capitalism, and democracy = globalisation. But I could be wrong. Reid says about people like me that "they just don't get it." And perhaps its true that Bush and Blair and those steering them have taken it too far - we've reached the fabled "tipping point". Well, at least they've got the Rapture to look forward to. But as for the rest, it looks like we're all doomed. And with the UK facing increased terrorist threat, the only thing to do - arrest the people responsible. Blair and his co-conspirators please step forward. (Starbuck steps unsteadily off his political soapbox) [ Wednesday, August 09, 2006 ]Coming on like a blaxploitation Star WarsStarbuck [21:02] Comments: 2 [] Reflected off Doppelganger's, sourced from Bubblegumfink's. [ Tuesday, August 08, 2006 ]Reasons why I'm an idiot... one, two, threeStarbuck [17:38] Comments: 0 []
[ Sunday, August 06, 2006 ]World Cup Final ScoreStarbuck [16:00] Comments: 0 []
[ Wednesday, August 02, 2006 ]The New ArrivalStuart [23:21] Comments: 4 []  So this is shameless. It's not even my blog. But I want the whole world to see Alice and I know the whole world reads VSX. Ain't she a beauty? She may look like a baby to you, but to me she looks like the most beautifulest baby in the whole world. All the cliches are true. [ Tuesday, August 01, 2006 ]VSX Member Fatherhood CongratulationsStarbuck [15:06] Comments: 2 []  May I be the first to congratulate (on these pages at least) my esteemed VSX co-editor Stu and his good lady wife Mrs Stu on the birth this morning of their first-born (pictured left).Brilliant news! In a bizarre form of celebration I was going to put together an anthology of all of Stu's good works within the fatcityarizona domain... however... I've ran out of lunchtime... (to be continued) Starbuck [ Complete Viper Squad Ten blog archives ]April 2003 / May 2003 / June 2003 / July 2003 / August 2003 / September 2003 / October 2003 / November 2003 / December 2003 / January 2004 / February 2004 / March 2004 / April 2004 / May 2004 / June 2004 / July 2004 / August 2004 / September 2004 / October 2004 / November 2004 / December 2004 / January 2005 / February 2005 / March 2005 / April 2005 / May 2005 / June 2005 / July 2005 / August 2005 / September 2005 / October 2005 / November 2005 / December 2005 / January 2006 / February 2006 / March 2006 / April 2006 / May 2006 / June 2006 / July 2006 / August 2006 / September 2006 / October 2006 / November 2006 / December 2006 / January 2007 / February 2007 / March 2007 / April 2007 / May 2007 / June 2007 / July 2007 / August 2007 / September 2007 / October 2007 / November 2007 / December 2007 / January 2008 / February 2008 / March 2008 / June 2008 / September 2008 / May 2010 / June 2010 / July 2010 / October 2010 / November 2010 /[ VSX Latest ] |
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