The world loves Stunners 130!

XFM’s Eddy Temple Morris played some on his show on Friday, cos he’s got taste. Annie Mac sent us a myspace message saying she thinks its great. It is proving very popular in Florida nightclubs, for some reason. And the reviews are coming in, and are mega positive. Hurrah!

“Everything is set to a perfect beat and is peppered with as many songs as you’re likely to recognise – you won’t get bored of this mix session which is as funny as it is inspired.”
Manchester Music

“Back again in his DJ guise, with help from the equally sleazy looking Wade Crescent, The Don is ready to soundtrack your next party or 1 hour car journey with Stunners 130.

If there is to be any criticism, it’s the same thing that makes Stunners great – the amount happening at any one time. Whilst this level of activity makes for dizzying moments of greatness, unless you’re in the mood (drunk and horny), it can simply be annoying, and will sound louder than it is actually is.”
Subba Cultcha

Buy yours now!

Grant Morrisson, my hero, who wrote The Invisibles, which I was banging on about a lot last year, made me cry the other night, did I mention? (Phew, that was a lot of comas). WE3, a story about three animals trying to find their way “home”, might well be the best comic book ever. You should all read it, especially my uncle Maurice and my PPF, who I thought of a lot whilst reading it. I don’t really want to say much about it because the less you know before going in the more awesome and beautiful a surprise it will be, I think… but were I pitching to some Hollywood gibbons? Alien/Water Ship Down. Go geddit.

— Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I was bring filmed talking about myself for an hour earlier, so I don’t intend to talk about myself any longer today. The air is hot enough, here in glorious Stoke Newington. Let’s read Grant Morrisson talking about himself, he is great. Check him talking about CCTV:

“The character Reuben Zion in The Invisibles was created as a comment on [surveliance society] – he was someone who saw the cameras-everywhere society as an opportunity to turn his dull life into an ongoing performance art masterpiece – because that’s what our lives are now. Policemen sit agog before multi-screens, watching the great and endless reality show of our Friday night wanderings through the town centre. We should dress up for them, stage weird dramas in city streets, perform inexplicable one-act improvs depicting scenes of arbitrary kindness, perversion and bizarre revelation. If we must have cameras recording our every move, let’s live up to all this attention.”

Great idea, non? I mean, i tend to flick Vs at cameras. Pretty juvenile, I know. Must Do Better.

Let’s have more Grant.

“Everyone who liked The Invisibles should read the Filth if only for the reason that if you follow the conclusions of The Invisibles to their limits, you will NEED The Filth to make sense of what happens next in your life. There is no ‘magic’. We’re all going to die, like all our heroes. It’s already happening and is just a question of waiting for the moment. Life is an in-between state, a bardo where consciousness sees its own reflection in matter and hopefully learns something painfully beautiful about its nature and purpose.”

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!

I am full of pollen today, and still looking for a house. Where is my house? Is it so much to ask?

Perhaps it is.

— Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Hot with no sun is weird.

Having to find a house to live in when you’re not rich is hard work.

Getting rung up by debt collectors for money you shouldn’t actually owe at all, had fairness anything to do with anything, is depressing.

Discovering you were charged out the ass for a service you did not use for 5 months is depressing as well.

When you tell property managers and letting agents you want to live in Stoke Newington, they show you relatively cheap houses in Clapton.

This is deceptive and shystish.

Stoke Newington is lovely.

Clapton is a shithole.

My flatmates would rather live somewhere very cheap and shitty than somewhere less cheap and pretty.

I see why.

I get it.

Really though.

I am not best pleased with what money does to us.

Lucky

Some of the best things in life

If not free

Are dead cheap.

I shall hop on my bike and ride in a minute.

Swoosh!

That’ll show the lot of ‘em.

— Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I stopped reading Youtube comments a long time ago, as they usually go like this:

User 1: OMFFG BST VDO EVR, (insert name) IS GOD

User 2: FUC YOU COCK (insert name) RAPES BABIES YOU SUK DICK FUX U

User 3: UR ALL GAY

But then Wade told me the comments for our Smells Like Stunners (We Love This Thing) video had gotten pretty funny. So I checked them. Here’s an amusing sample:

pretentiouswitch (6 days ago)
why anyone would even want to be in the same room as “wade crescent” is beyond me, let alone make a “video” with this misogynistic women hating psycho. this really shows the true nature of “akira the don” who is not a liberal but a fake arsed whore. women, beware “wade crescent”.

Sickfucker07 (2 days ago)
what a pair of twats! and the track is fucking awful!
you two deserve a good kicking!!

And so on. For the record, I have never claimed to be a “liberal”, nor would I, unbelieving as I am in the left/right fallacy. I have, on occasion, admitted to being a “fake ass whore”. And dudes should really stop hating on men who get pussy, it’s like hating on women who get dick. Misogyny is hating women, not having sex with them. People, be you! We don’t all have to be Oneperson People! I mean, I am. But if everyone were like me then I wouldn’t seem so goshdang special, and then where would I be? Clapton, that’s where. Ew!

— Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

“If you have two brothers put into a cage and deprive them of the basic essential needs for life, they will fight.”
Ziad Abu Amr

Nice one to all who were safe at Cambridge last night, despite the sub-Nazi weirdness. I am excited about these new songs. Album number two is looking like a great leap forward. I am going to have to recruit a bassist and a drummer to make this work live. Maybe two drummers. Any ideas?

I was supposed to be playing a hip-hop set last night. But no one was dancing to any hip-hop, the room was empty when I showed up, despite sopme fucking amazing music. So I played ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’, and the place suddenly filled with happy dancing girls. So it goes, people! There were a lot of ladies in red for ‘Lady In Red’ too. And boy do those uptown girls like ‘Uptown Girl’.

In the van on the way to the show last night I read the most succinct take on the current Palestinian crisis I have for some time. Go cop Johan Hari’s wisdom, he’s not pulling his po face today.

In other news, L Man’s new video is exceedingly good. L Man is turning into a great emcee. He needs to get back with Narstie, that’d be amazing.

— Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

— Monday, June 18th, 2007