h2g2 is ten years old... To go see it and to find out more about Life, The Universe, and Everything, click here - or to find out more about the late great Douglas Adams click here...
Just read the entry about German wedding traditions and it sounds like an awful lot when you read it all... Although I've never heard of the Hochzeitszeitung before, the Polterabend is a truly wonderful thing. Especially when you're a kid and your neighbours get married. Finally you can smash things without getting punished. :P
And Douglas Adams really was one of a kind. I just read "Last chance to see" since the BBC just finished filming kind of a sequel with Stephen Fry and Adams is simply amazing with words. He can pretty much turn every annoying, frustrating situation into something hilarious and he describes the animal encounters like the reader was there himself. What a gem.
The latest recordings by my solo music project, The Rain Dogs. These are tracks I'm pulling together over a period of time - some old and some new - and just putting out online for sharing. only a part not the whole trust in the you of now in transit
Rivercity
Fifteen minutes into the future, a hot, dry summer in Hull: Coates, a researcher and investigator, is hired to trace the whereabouts of missing adolescent Dominic Russell. Is he the latest in a number of gruesome blood-letting murders attributed to the city’s “Marginals” that exist somewhere in the underbelly of the population? That’s what the Police say, but it’s not what the boy’s mother believes - and as Coates digs deeper into that underbelly he discovers that Dominic’s disappearance is just a tiny part of a much bigger story: one that will bring his world crashing down and endanger all those around him...
Rivercity is a book that can be read at many levels, weaving a main plot - a clear homage to the “noir” detective genre - with a vampire story and a myriad of strands about perception and reality, human nature, signs, superstitions, the histroy of Hull, aesthetics, the occult and political expediency. Above all it's a novel about philosophy and the nature of truth and knowledge in the electronic age.
My 'formerly industrial' band with my mate Rob. We grew out of wanting to be another NIN some time back and have developed into a far more interesting, singular, challenging and fun. With Rob's emigration to the USA, our way of working and creating was fundamentally altered, but we continued to push the boundaries of possible musics as we always have. Rob's return holds promise to pick things up some more - to develop more ideas, sketchpads, rhythms and approaches to keep us on the cutting edge - and maybe a refreshed approach which might even see us revisit and complete our unfinished masterpiece "BACKLASH". Yeah, right...
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Just read the entry about German wedding traditions and it sounds like an awful lot when you read it all... Although I've never heard of the Hochzeitszeitung before, the Polterabend is a truly wonderful thing. Especially when you're a kid and your neighbours get married. Finally you can smash things without getting punished. :P
And Douglas Adams really was one of a kind. I just read "Last chance to see" since the BBC just finished filming kind of a sequel with Stephen Fry and Adams is simply amazing with words. He can pretty much turn every annoying, frustrating situation into something hilarious and he describes the animal encounters like the reader was there himself. What a gem.
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