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you know i’m a sucker for that film mate.

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hello

i’m not quite sure if i like joanna newsome. she’s my favourite harpist of all time without a doubt. i think i love her voice but can’t be sure. she really reminds me of victoria williams, from the gas, food lodging soundtrack, that kind of frail but powerful voice that you want to take home, make tea for and introduce to mater.

welcome. there are many nice people here. my new year resolution was to come back here more often. i got fucked off with a twat called jaron and left for a while, but i’ve really missed a lot of my virtual friends. especially since my hamster died.

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at the risk of sounding boring and repetitive, as i’ve recommended these before. and i’m loving them so much, i shall do something i’ve always sworn not to do, and use caps.

PLEASE BUY/DOWNLOAD HOT CLUB DE PARIS – DROP IT TILL IT POPS.

best buy for a long time. i’m no real nationalist, but they are English (please note, English, not British) from Scouseland (aka Liverpool) and the best live act i’ve seen this year. they have a my space thingy which my work prohibits me from accessing, so i can’t provide a link, but listen to "your face looks all wrong"

here’s the guarantee – if you buy the album and don’t like it, I’ll refund you.

but you’ll have to find me first. bwaaaaahahahahahahahah*

* i live in london and you know what i look like.

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captains log….

ok, no one drinks around here. once again, to regress to cockney rhyming slang, i’m fucking mozart and listz. people are still loving my accent, and yet huge men in trucks that one would assume were designed for shipping cattle wish to challenge me to fisticuffs.

there seems to be basketball or advertising on every channel. tonight i watched some canadydudes and ruskies twat a puck around some ice. alas, there were no fisticuffs. until i attempted to perpendicularly dissect a freeway in front of a ford cattletransporter.

the food is still all cream and cheese. how the devil the majority of y’all* texans aren’t on your third triple bypass is beyond my comprehension.

still, i digress. i have met some of the friendliest people i have ever come across (figuratively, not literally, that would have been a masked ball in Cambridgeshire). i’m having a wonderful time, and tonight i purchased a pint of lager for $1.50 (75p, normally what one would offer a homeless for licking ones shoes clean).

I shall sign off with this simple thought – how can i get my shoes off without bending over.

over and out.

drunken ben

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note to self, ben, you absolute idiot.

under no circumstances, send a link to a peer group of you at your wedding karaoking to Jackie Wilson’s Higher and Higher (our first dance). Every cloud, however… i was so utterly arseholed that i made our first dance a first song. those of you who consider me heartless have not seen me dance, believe me, i took the honourable way out.

and with that i bid you adieu. il faut que je fuck off au lit.

jusqu’a le fois prochaine.

i’ve been called frenchie so many times since i’ve been here, i thought i’d speak like one.

before i retire, i’d like to leave you with my favourite joke.

why couldn’t the viper viper nose?

because the adder adder ‘ankerchief.

i thank yew.

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i’ve followed dino since they played a peel session from late 80’s. have seen them over 50 times live, travelling to Australia, Japan, Hoboken (whoa there), CBGC’s, and many, many times in London and Reading, download (freaks) etc. J has been my (musical) god since I was 14 years old (yep, he knocked Otis off the perch for me). In fact, the single biggest disappointment for me was meeting him (althouth Thalia and Brokaw made up for it) at the Rollercoaster tours and since. I suppose no one wants an ex-boxer (ok, fat boy) approaching them however.

Lou, George (jonbonhamisgod), Mike, MURPH (nicest guy you’ll ever meet, when he’s out of gaol – jail for US folk), Watt – all fantastic, but I honestly, honestly wish I’d never met J.

And back to my wife – yeah, I’m lucky. But if you think she looks pretty, you (seeing as I’m in Dallas, I’ll say y’all) should meet her. If I could post her personality as my picturything, I’d most certainly do so).

I’m going to try to get on here more often. Robert, Alison (‘s getting her tit pierced, you remember that? you said don’t give away all your secrets), mattman, jeremiah, sg, spaceboy, are some of the nicest people i’ve never met – miss you all.

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i am as drunk as can be.

and for this reason

http://www.flickr.com/groups/benandjen

any of you cants comment on my mum and you’re dead. i’m in dallas and i have a fackin’ huge expense account, a chauffeur and a bottle of scotch. i’ll be outside yer places in 10.

robert, i love you and have missed you. I just got a job as vice president of europe for some bunch of cants, i can get anywhere for work. it’s high time you and i shared a bottle of norsk.

the rest of you that commented on jen, we met our first week of uni (we were 18) and got married 19th august last year. i’m now 32 and the happiest i’ve ever been. ok, some of that may be due to napa valley’s finest merlot, but she’s my world. i hope you all have/find your own jen.

Ben

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thanks everyone for tips. so far the highlight of my trip has been watching some knackered looking candadidudes and ruskies whacking pucks at eachother at the american airlines centre. going again tomorrow night. no idea what all the fuss is about, but the yokels seem to be enjoying it, and i have a company box that has bad hot dogs and cold beer (so not all bad). everyone seems to be loving my accent (i sound like hugh grant, but look like butterbean), and funnily enough, no, i don’t know prince william.

please, please, please help. alternatively, please tell me where to fly to this weekend. i had to watch the ricky hatton fight (big boxing fan) in a fackin strip club as no one else showed hbo.

please help this englishman in dallas. i’m an alien, oh oh, i’m an alien i’m an alien in dalls. and getting pretty facked off that every meal i order is covered in sour cream and cheese. why aren’t all people from dallas obese?

i sincerely promise to look after any visitors to london who help. as long as you don’t have mullets and say y’all.

see y’all later.

fack, it’s catching…

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i really like your qwrvy song. reminds me a lot of bachmann’s crooked fingers stuff.

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ah, the stick. it’s moved on from blur and pulp (thank robert), and now reserved for fans of travis, keene and hard-fi.

robert, i always think of immortal when i think of you, because that’s what i imagine everyone from norway looks like…

http://immortal.battlegrim.net/”>http://immortal.battlegrim.net/

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saw modest mouse with johnny marr on tuesday night at koko in camden. absolutely fantastic, marr really fits in and adds to the sound. new tracks sound great, can’t wait for the new album.

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thanks sweetheart, you never forget.

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Hi Eric.

Thoughts are with you. Glad you’re out of wendy’s. Let’s change the direction of this thread, and come up with suggestions for a career move for Eric.

I’ll start – how about offering guitar tuition to kids? Not sure how much that goes for in the US, but here people pay £10-£20 per hour. Got to be better than Wendy’s. Print up a few cards, distribute them around schools/bars/shops etc. post them around your neighbourhood.

Good luck.

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Hot Club de Paris – check them out on myspace. these boys are going to go far. Finally an English band to be proud of, even if they are from Liverpool. Album out in October.

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this is fantastic. just re-bought all their albums on cd, have seen twilight singers a couple of times in London. Can’t wait for them to tour. Got my Lemonheads tickets for the Forum today too. Now just need Pavement, Archers of Loaf and Dexy’s Midnight Runners to get back together.

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