Monko-trivia for post-turkey blues

Aristotle’s quote: “There is either a solution to the problem and therefore it is pointless to worry about it, or there is no solution and it is pointless to worry about it.” (some BC)
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"Instead of asking leading questions offer loaded opinions," is Confusious motto 96.
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Chris Martin’s potty-training
(Or, Alan McGee settles the score)

It’s an insult which has dogged Coldplay front man Chris Martin, husband to Gwyneth Paltrow and father to Apple, for four years. But Alan McGee, the bolshie’s boss of Creation Records - that brought Oasis to the world - who memorably branded the multimillion-selling band “music for bedwetters”, has finally eaten his words.

“It was an off-the-cuff bizarre Northern remark really,” he says now. “I don’t get off on their music but eight million people do, so good luck to them.”

[McGee didn’t specify whether he felt sorry for the fans.]

Even so, it looks unlikely that the acerbic Scot will received an invitation to macrobiotic dinner at the Martin-Paltrow household any time soon.
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Elvis, Levis, elves...

Confusious (28 October 2004)
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Graham Coxon [ex-Blur]:

"Like all creative people I am half egomaniac and half self-doubting." (26 October 2004)
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Rotational speed

Fast-food, fast-art, fast-pop, fast-BS… (22 June 2004)
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Dollywood wisdom

"I would wipe out the first three rows. We can't turn these loose on anybody," Dolly Parton commented on why she will not follow Janet Jackson's example and bare a breast onstage. (04 May 2004)
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Slightly different!

Sir Macca’s shows were great and it was especially nice to hear him playing some songs to full potential, such as ‘When I’m 64’.

Sean ‘P.Diddy’ Combs impressed film bosses so much with his performance in ‘Monster’s Ball’ alongside Halle Berry (it secured her an Oscar for it) that he had been offered a baddie role in the next ‘007’ outing.

When Radiohead’s album, ‘Hail To The Thief’, is released, it will be clear who’s who in the ranks of The Greatest UK Band.

Y’know FCUK? It stands for F**k Coldplay UK.
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Each generation creates fresh errors based on self-delusion of righteousness. (03 March 2004)
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Sad is...

... The world where eccentricity is frowned upon.

There should be a campaign – ‘Save our pop stars!’

“I’m of the philosophy – and I know this might seem hard to believe – that what you see in your brain is more intense than anything I could show you,” concludes film director Roger Avery (‘The Rules of Attraction’
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The Watts' dad?

One of these trivia things you can’t live without, honest.

Naomi Watts, the Oscar nominated for her role in ‘21 Grams’ recently [although she should have won for her part in David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ in 2001], has a father with a curious story… and, laughter.

The Kent-born/Wales raised actresses’ father was a sound engineer for Pink Floyd and is responsible for that eerie laughing voice that appears on ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’. Alas, the man passed on several years ago.

But, Ms Watts is known to carry a Pink Floyd lighter.

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17/10/2003

Frightened of ‘culture’, frightened of life.
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01/10/03

Corpocrats are vampires draining creative blood and culture's soul.
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16/09/03

‘Pace, l’Amour, Cojoñes,’ The First Alien attempts Esperanto.
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27/08/2003

If people covet amusement, acts die for fame and biz just cares for profit, who minds our culture? – Aristophe

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20/08/2003

“Grandmother used to take my mother to the circus to see the fat lady and tatooed man – now they’re everywhere,” Joan Collins on the ‘yob culture’ in the UK.

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01/08/03

There is no going back over a burned bridge.

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07/07/2003

Crave not riches, stitches, bitches, but harmonize all.

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01/07/2003

“It’s not funny when you’re actually getting shot but afterwards, yeah, it’s funny,” 50 Cent reckons.

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06/06/2003

“I’m capable of more. I don’t even think what I do is my best,” Shania Twain confessed.

Do not think we have not noticed!
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31/05/2003

“Playing Donington, man, it’s the deafening moment of my life,” stresses Corey Taylor of StoneSour /Slipknot. Darn, a typo; that’s – defining.
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19/05/2003

“It is the most wonderful invention ever invented – the dick,” Macy Gray comes to grips with the phallic culture at her London show.
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26/04/2003

Let imagination be your guide and feed the beast of conscience every day.
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16/04/2003

“I’m only a passenger… in your nightmare,” – Esseness.
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09/04/2003

“If you remember the last century, avoid all mainstream music,” – SSW.

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04/04/2003

War is no more an extension of diplomacy by different means but an excuse for (covering own) shortcomings.

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31/03/2003

Pop is the commodification of sex to trigger orgasm, pure and simple. Apology, that should read – pornography.

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28/03/2003

“I’m not a fan of real life,” Nick Nolte explains his universe.

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26/03/2003

"Bombing for Peace is like F**king for Virginity," anti-war slogan
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24/03/2003

“That idiot Bush is turning into Nazi George. I don’t know any Americans who aren’t horrified by what is happening. I just want to take the kids and get the hell out, “ Kristin Hersh (occasional Throwing Muse).

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22/03/2003

Rebel and it'll come to you.

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14/03/2003

Detour ahead leads to a U-turn.

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07/03/2003

“I’m so depressed I’ve started to dig Coldplay” - Ed Freund.

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28/02/2003

Singles: Have the LI’L ‘UNs had its last spin?

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28/02/2003

Every waking up is followed by a step in the dark.

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20/02/2003

Some things you didn't know you didn't know and probably couldn't care a toss.

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14/02/2003

Prepare a face to meet the make-ups we meet. (TS Eliot re-phrased)
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07/02/2003

"Sorry Gareth Gate, forgot to put on the (guest) list. But, Will Young - welcome! You are a f**king genius!" James 'Irony' Walsh commented at the Starsailor's London show few days earlier.
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24/01/2003

"Black Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace," Ozzy 'Revisionist' Osbourne.
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24/01/2003

The world is getting prettier… vacant.
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17/01/2003

“Nothing in the world is accomplished without passion.” – Hegel
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01/01/2003

Men built factories, women demanded malls.
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29/12/2002

“I know how to behave but sometime I can’t be bothered,” Liam Gallagher explains his Oasis’ philosophy.
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20/12/2002

“Happy Christmess!” - the ever-japing Thom Yorke of Radiohead.
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13/12/2002

“(My) Ultimate ambition is to do great new things with music,” Tom Havelock of Psychid.
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06/12/2002

It is awful when you start hearing voices… from TV.
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29/11/2002

“You can do anything when you’re famous. That’s why famous people are so dumb” – singer/songwriter Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp).
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22/11/2002

Fame is the most potent-but-cureless mojo.
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11/11/2002

Nostalgia is officially marketable no more.
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19/10/2002

There can be no freedom as long as there is ignorance.
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18/10/2002

FCUK = F**k culture UK.
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11/10/2002

“It didn’t take when I changed my mind once” – Emal Ashatan
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05/10/2002

“I’m puzzled by one thing only – humanity’s taste or the lack thereof” - Scott Sterling Wilder
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20/09/2002

“To know nothing about their great men is one of the necessary elements of English education” – Oscar Wilde.
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16/09/2002

Soon is never enough.
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09/09/02

“Eccentrics make the world go round” – Björk.
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01/09/2002

Life’s a prison that keeps one locked internally.
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24/08/2002

Is dumbing down ever going to bottom out?
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12/08/2002

Only simpletons can be optimists.
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04/08/2002

Many things occur every day as strange as life itself.
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28/7/2002

There is nothing like a praising dissitude.
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19/7/2002

Carpe diem sine invidia.
(Seize the moment without envy.)
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12/7/2002

Listen to people who don't talk much.
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1/7/2002

If you fear death, you live poorer life.
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19/6/2002

“It is a normal thing, in art, to use the ‘mediocre’ and the ‘banal’ to make a statement,” director Paul (‘Robocop’, ’Total Recall’, ‘Basic Instinct’) Verhoeven believes.
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7/6/2002

Art is like a visceral sex with strangers that provides multiply orgasms - Confusious.
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31/5/2002

“The immediate political environment I was brought up in and the dictatorship of the class system,” is what formed Johnny Rotten.
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24/5/2002

Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.
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17/5/2002

There is always an excuse for making a mistake we condemn in others.
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22/4/2002

Every single moment, but the next, is history.
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19/4/2002

“I like the whole Joy Division approach, two albums then... well, not hang yourself!” – Coldplay’s Chris Martin gets roped by comparison.
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12/4/2002

Music provides repair service and maintainance for soul.
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5/4/2002

Nic-Nat, paddywhack/give the bitch a bone; the Appleton sisters’ CD title should be ‘Quatermass’ Blondes’ - SSW
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26/3/2002

“Anythinig that, in happening, causes something else to happen, will happen” – Douglas Adams
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19/3/2002

Arrive blanc, exist ignorantly, expire blissed, is the recipe – Confucious
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12/3/2002

2 Wild 2 B Filed - deo2 T-shirt slogan
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05/03/2002

We are all made of stars and money.
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03/03/2002
Top 5 - Whatever

1. Shagola
(none)

2. Mental gardening
www.amsterdam.nl

3. CART
www.cart.com

4. Basketball
www.nba.com

5. Sci-fi
www.startrek.com
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02/03/2002
Quote of the week:

"The biggest threat to the future of culture is what mainstream-ers flog now" – Mrs Kerstin Confusious
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21/02/2002
Quote of the week:

“Music - Is - Its - Own - Reward”- Sting at Brits.

So, what happened to yours?
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15/02/2002
Quote of the week:

“Nickelback is Gap-grunge.” © Mr Stephen Ewashkiw of Canada
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08/02/2002
Confusious saying:

Lust after everything, expect nothing.
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01/02/2002
Confusious saying:

Narrow brainers explain everything and populate culture.
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14/12/2001
Quote Of The Week (51)

Music is the air that souls breathe... but it's been stale of late. (Confusious)
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10/12/2001
Quote of the week (50)

“Awards are silly,” Madonna (presenting Turner Prize).

Award ceremonies are despicably dumb - Confusious
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01/12/2001
Miniscule gig review:

Will Haven gig is like a hard-on, the size of a bulldozer, penetrating you - Confusious.
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30/11/2002
Quote of the week (49)

“Money can’t buy you happiness but it can make you very sad in very comfortable surroundings.” (Hugh Cornwell, The Stranglers’ former frontman)
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23/11/2002
Quote Of The Week (48)

"People say my legacy is that everybody would like to be Ozzy for a day. But if they were Ozzy for a day, they'd change their minds," Ozzy (John) Osbourne appears to be somewhat confused.
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17/11/2001
Quote of the week (46/47)

“We are actually people who like music, we are actually people with ideas in our heads, we are actually people who want to create music,” claims Mark of Westlife.

Confusious's comment: Is he genuine or terminally deluded? Unfortunately both.
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03/11/2001
Quote of the week (45)

“The mistake the corporate world makes is that it completely underestimates the discernment and good taste of their audience. The audience are pretty clued up, far more than the people who are making the decisions,” is esteemed opinion of Johnny 'Guitar' Marr - formerly of The Smiths, The Pretenders, part-timer with Electronic and leader of The Healers - on mainstream media and music industry.
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28/10/2001
Quote of the month

"I'm past writing angst songs for kids. My angst is when I can't get my Porsche roof up and when I can't get my golf handicap down." (Alice Cooper targets nostalgists)
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21/09/2001
Weekly motto

Don't flow with the go - Confusious
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20/09/2001
Monthly wisdom

HE is out (of it) and busy creating another imperfect world - Confusious
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10/08/2001
A thought for to-day

Que sera surf - Confusious
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06/08/2001
Mantra One

Don't fake it home - Confusious