if you wear lemon juice you become invisible
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 April 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
xp whoa
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Friday, 14 April 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
See also: pulling out poison ivy vines and then going to pee
Don't ask how I know
― doja catharsis (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 April 2023 19:44 (one year ago) link
jmotherf-ingc at lime juice + skin + sun, i had no idea
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
if i'm feeling scrungy i sometimes do a baking soda & limon juice face scrub and henceforth i will be so so so careful to stay out of the sun after
thank you Josh you might have saved me from turning into a blister
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
John Lydon's recently deceased wife was a German heiress who inherited $180 million on her father's death.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 15 April 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
Which does make you wonder why John felt the need to do butter adverts.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 15 April 2023 01:15 (one year ago) link
The great rocknroll swindle innit
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 15 April 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
think a lot of his motivation boils down to "what will make people mad"
― bloompsadaisy (cat), Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:27 (one year ago) link
John Lydon once said he caredBut he never really gave a fuck
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
xp 100%
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 02:55 (one year ago) link
I did a triple take on the "she was Ari Up's mother" reports, like, "wait they're contemporaries, how can that be?" but then read more detailed accounts to learn she was 14 yrs older than John.
― nickn, Saturday, 15 April 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
Yeah and it helps that Ari was only 14 when she was in the Slits. It boggles the mind now to think her mother was perfectly ok with her doing all the shit she did at that age, but rich people gonna rich I guess.
Viv Albertine's autobio gave me the impression Ari was just left to do what the fck she wanted and her behaviour in any modern context would have had her medicated at the VERY least if not institutionalised.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 15 April 2023 03:46 (one year ago) link
prob true, and thankfully that didn't happen. RIP the 70s I guess...
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 15 April 2023 03:52 (one year ago) link
Almost everything about Nora's life was surprising.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 April 2023 08:05 (one year ago) link
I've just learned that Americans call coriander cilantro. I knew about arugula being rocket, but somehow cilantro escaped me all these years.
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, March 25, 2023 8:25 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
The most confusing one is "public school"
in the US it means the opposite of what it means in the UK
― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link
Yes, in the US public schools are ones that are open to the public, free for all to attend who live in their districts, as opposed to private schools, for which one must pay to attend. That makes sense to me.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 01:19 (one year ago) link
Yes, the brits are wrong on this one.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:08 (one year ago) link
People do say private school here too. Public school tends to be reserved for a subset of them that are old and prestigious (Eton, Harrow etc). But yes, much better to call them all private schools. I think the term dates back to when the alternative to not going to school was being privately tutored at home!
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:33 (one year ago) link
you could also see it as a reminder that if you want to participate in public life in the UK you'd better have gone to Eton or Harrow
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:35 (one year ago) link
Until NV posted the fees for The Leys School on the 6Music thread, I don't think I realised just how expensive a public school education was these days. Fucking hell.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:49 (one year ago) link
even the cost of building a gallows has skyrocketed
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 10:52 (one year ago) link
Yeah and it helps that Ari was only 14 when she was in the Slits.
OK that I did not know tho I guess we are talking their year of formation?
― nashwan, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 11:18 (one year ago) link
Born Jan. 1962.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 12:02 (one year ago) link
Partly as a result of this thread I've been listening the Slits lately and, boy, does Bjork owe a lot to Ari Up.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 12:04 (one year ago) link
This has the slightly dubious distinction of being the first record I ever disliked. I barely knew about records at all, I was four and three quarters: so my cynicism started early, if you like. This one was inescapable – number one for nine weeks, two million sold, flattening the opposition through Christmas ’77 and then on into ’78. I didn’t know what number ones were but I guess I just got bored of “Mull” being around, its comforting lullaby sway pushing into even our pop-free household*. I remember not being able to figure out what a Mull was, or a Kintyre: I’d been reading the Hobbit, and the Narnia books, so I reckoned it was an honorific, like King, or Tarkaan. And this dark haired guy singing it, he’d be the Mull, then?
TIL Tom Ewing was a reading prodigy
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 05:12 (one year ago) link
The Georgie Fame/ Matt Bianco hit, "Yeh Yeh", was co-written by Pat Patrick of Sun Ra's Arkestra.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
I never knew that, I never knew that!I never knew that, I never knew that!
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
That Bonnie Bedelia is the Culkin brothers' aunt.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
The blonde woman on the cover of "Led Zeppelin II" is Delphine Seyrig.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 April 2023 07:20 (one year ago) link
!
― The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 April 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
The brown shirts taht gave the right wing thugs attached to the Nazi party their name were ones initially made for the Schutztruppe the foreign legion manhandling natives in South West Africa. They had been stranded in Germany and not shipped to the troops concerned because of trouble with shipping during the First World War, Subsequently had never been worn and were acquired from a government contact of the early party.
― Stevo, Friday, 21 April 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
The blonde woman on the cover of "Led Zeppelin II" is Delphine Seyrig
I think I had always assumed it was Lucille Ball, which evidently is a very common misapprehension. But many sources claim that it's Glynis Johns, as a play on Glyn Johns, the engineer. Which would make sense except it was his brother Andy Johns who worked on LZII, not Glyn, who had worked on the first Zep album. Plus the blonde woman doesn't look anything like Glynis Johns (to me) - much more like Delphine Seyrig.
― Josefa, Friday, 21 April 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
ugh sorry for formatting mistake
― Josefa, Friday, 21 April 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
(xp) It's apparently taken from the film, "Mr. Freedom".
https://kinoimages.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/12_delphine-seyrig-in-mr-freedom-william-klein-1969.jpg
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 21 April 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
... though obviously not that particular image.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 21 April 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
For the past 45 years, I've thought it was Lucille Ball. I am shockingly old to have learned different.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 April 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
TIL that there's a woman on the cover of Led Zeppelin II! (When I first encountered the album as a kid, I focused on the four members of LZ and didn't pay any attention at all to the other people.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 21 April 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
Here is the album cover side by side with the photo from which it was taken
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b0T05NgBjPc/U6sIBxegFDI/AAAAAAAAC4Q/4bjEO9o9WjY/s1600/Led+Zeppelin+II+Album+Cover+1969.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 April 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link
Who are the other people on the cover I wonder?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 21 April 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
Thats the Red Baron sat in the cockpit of the plane iirc xp
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Friday, 21 April 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
I always thought it was Led Zep hanging with some Hells Angels
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 21 April 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
(xp) Always thought it was Desi Arnaz.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 21 April 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
I think they mostly just added facial hair and sunglasses to the other four.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 April 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
It's Christopher Lee, James Coburn and Michael Parkinson
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 21 April 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
first time i saw it as a kid (on my stepmother's 8-track!) i assumed everyone on the cover was in the group, and i was like dang that is one big, tough-looking band
― orifex, Friday, 21 April 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
I definitely never realized that their faces were just pasted in there
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 22 April 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link
same
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 22 April 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
also xxp that is amazing, ty
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 22 April 2023 00:12 (one year ago) link
I think the first physical LZ release I saw was also an 8-track, circa 1975