Archive for the 'Weird & Wacky' Category

Alastair Crowley’s Curse

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

I feel I should ‘get with the program’ and voice a comment on this bloody Aleister Crowley business.

Apparently our song ‘One Voice’ contains an antidote to the curse Crowley placed on Hastings in East Sussex (UK). Kamakura is based in Hastings and so, I suppose, we have a vested interest in not suffering by the hand of Crowley. I would like to add that I think he was a self obsessed and begrudging seeker of celebrity and it pains me to have to talk about him here; I think he’s had enough fame for one lifetime.

Some of our fans have told me that playing this track brings them good fortune, and for this I thank them from the bottom of my heart as it means they’re listening to our music … and what more can any musician ask?

If we were seeking publicity I would have rather gone a different route, but as they say “any publicity is good publicity” and I suppose I should be grateful.

There it is!

All my love, Mick.

A Graphical Site

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Go to this site and enter you URL to see what your site looks like.

This is ours:

Kamakura site as a graphic

Thanks to Kapitano for the fun.

The Birthday Season

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

In around fifteen minutes it continues with me (Mike was the 1st, Simon and Ray the 16th). Followed in a week by Mick, then shortly thereafter in early April it’s Dan, then Charlie.
Others follow of course, but this is the intense period and yet again I’m brassic and fed up.

I know there is supposed to be a male menopause, but every year? :(

So back to working on ‘Sleeper’ which is rather good, getting better, and in dire need of finishing before I get thrown out of Nur Ein for tardiness.

Happy Birthday to me! Gah…

Planet Under Pressure + Mad Cow!

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Here’s cheery for you!

After that watch this which should end the fest with a laugh before rushing round switching off electrical appliances… Not that it’s gonna help in the long run.

I feel a song coming on.

Wire mesh land

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

hb-ironwiremesh.com
Anping Hengbang Metal Wire & Wire Mesh Co., Ltd. is a manufacturing company founded in 1996, located in Anping County, the well-known Wire Mesh Land of China.

Well as I live and breathe. Another great holiday destination.

I wonder why large multinationals don’t pay for professional translation… Unless of course their translator was badly treated and decided to get his own back.

Damn - but hey, it amuses anyway

Friday, January 6th, 2006

You know how you see something that you just have to photograph, and you don’t bother - then it’s gone?

I drive most days through a hamlet called Westfield. Over the last few Christmases one row of houses has taken the decoration ‘thing’ to the extreme. It started off as a small effort, then, obviously spured on by the ‘better than neighbour’ syndrome, it got grossly out of proportion until this year it was hard to drive by without running into badly parked cars and gawpers. Several detatched houses also went overboard and murdered their shrieking credit cards at B&Q or somesuch.

Everyday I meant to snap the ‘thing’, and finally, today, knowing twelveth night was nigh I parked and: woe and thrice woe! Only one lit up. Still I think it’s a worthy snap (though the picture doesn’t really do it justice). This Christmas I’ll do better.

Westfield Garden, Sussex, UK. Christmas 2005

Anyone who says the british are lunatics are right.

Found it again!

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

There are things I find on the good ol’ world wide web that I think are wonderful, and then (as is my brains wont) I either forget them or loose the URL. The Trip Wonker was a case in point. I come across it every so often and then it dissappears… Much like it’s effect. So without further ado click HERE and have a gooooood time.
It is of course inadvisable to use this whilst driving. But if you do please send me a photo of your car!

Intradimensional Claptrap

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

A damn fine place to start research into those conspiracy theories you’ve often wondered about. Also how to make your own Aluminium foil deflector hats that stop those pesky aliens from reading your thoughts… Though quite why they’d want to I have yet to fathom. They only have to ask.