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Been offline for a leetle while. Quick round-up:

• Have bought car, a ’96 Honda Civic LS 1.6i, it had some major overheating problems, it’s now fixed, no thanks to the guy in South Woodford who charged me £115 to replace a part that wasn’t broke, MASSIVE thanks to the guy in Leytonstone who actually knew something about the car and bled the system and charged me £30 for the trouble, saving me from the ~£600 the first guy was talking about for changing the head gasket.
• Am in new band, is a covers band, will be doing the rock thing in and around the Hastings area starting in roughly 6 weeks, is called JackBarrel, features occasional lead vocals from Moi.
• Am becoming mildly worried by the extent of my addiction to the works of Stephen Fry.
• Am spending spare time (yeah, right) watching the entire archive of The Show, by Ze Frank. My favourite episode so far was 5th May 2006. Well I don’t know if it was my favourite, but it made me laugh far too loud in the office and make people stare at me. Ze is my new hero.

On that subject, would you watch something similar if made by me? Soon I’ll have a laptop with a webcam built in and a processor that can handle video editing, so it’s a possibility. I’m thinking I’ll probably more-or-less rip off Ze’s format. However:

1. Ze is funny, intelligent, witty and sexy, whereas I am… English. I don’t have the mental or social equipment to produce satire of the quality that Ze does, but I can probably manage a few knob jokes and a couple of “laugh at the stupid news story” moments.
2. There’s no way I could do a show 5 days a week – even once a week. It would probably be more like once a month or so, which was what I intended for the rock podcast Bucket of Rocks, and even that just got too time-consuming in the end.

So yeah. If I build it… will you come? (No, not like that… ew.)

–c.

The Flag of Breakfast!

Originally uploaded by Clive Murray.

The Flag of Breakfast!

Velvet FUCKING Revolver

Originally uploaded by Clive Murray.

Velvet FUCKING Revolver

A couple of weeks ago I bought a second-hand Honda Civic, and it looks like the guy saw me coming.

When I got home it was overheating, and having the thermostat replaced hasn’t fixed the problem. The local guy who did the thermostat job reckons it’s the head gasket, and reckons I’m in for about £600-700 to get it fixed, which is what I paid for the car.

Does anyone who reads this have engine repair experience? I am not car savvy at all, but I am prepared to help out where possible, obviously buy the parts needed, hold things, supply all the tea/coffee required, get dirty, do anything that I can to aid the process of replacing said gasket. I cannot afford to pay a garage to get this done, but I’m prepared to pay what I can (which isn’t that much) and maybe build you a website if you can help me get this done.

Anyone? Please? Maybe you’ve got a mate who does this stuff? I just need to get it done without being ripped off. Time I have, money I don’t.

Any and all help gratefully appreciated. Feel free to mail me direct on “stuff” at clivemurray.com if you have any ideas/suggestions/words of consolation.

–c. (Desperate)

IKEA HAT!

Originally uploaded by Clive Murray.

IKEA HAT!

Christ. No, really. It’s time to be quiet now, you insane fucking bitch.

In other news, “HEATHER MILLS TO STRANGLE A BADGER”.

–c.

Nothing of woman born moves like this:

The moonwalk-on-the-knees at approx 3m35s is impossible.

FACT.
–c.
(via Iain’s Crack)

At the risk of sounding like a hopeless fanboy – which I am, but that is neither here nor there – here are three MORE reasons, as if you needed any, to adore Stephen Fry:

1. He currently holds the UK record for saying fuck the most times on a live television broadcast,
2. He is related to legendary England cricketer and polymath C.B. Fry,
3. He knows precisely why the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42.

Forgive me, I am having a mildly moist moment.
–c.