Steady As She Goes.

Ugh. I have been feeling absolutely horrid the past couple of days. Down with the bloody flu (oh, and for good measure why don't we throw in a little sore throat as well?), and compelled by the fact that I'm the only doofus from the old 1V who can't join up with the same class next year. Someone up there doesn't fancy me too much. Ha.

Amateur Footy League's coming up on Sunday, and I had best be in better shape soon. I just hate being sick. It's different if you banged up your arm, or getting bruised; being sick feels worse.

And you always have to drink a mélange of different-smelling, dark coloured mysterious Chinese herbal drinks. One of which, is pictured on the right, on the Hoegaarden coaster. Taken with my bloody cell phone camera, it manages to make Lost In Translation DVD look like a porno.

The only good to come out of any of these, is that I'll hopefully be getting my freelance paycheck in the next couple of days, and it's gonna be a toss up between the Zara blazer or the Freitag bag from Actually. These are the few perks when you don't have a girlfriend. And besides, the Freitag's equally attractive.

Okay. That was the flu talking, so I'll better stop here. And for the record, girls are definately more attractive.

Need to get some rest for footy training tomorrow, so I'll leave you with an extract on the Red Hot Chili Willies, I mean Peppers. And some live tracks. For good measure.


(text extract courtesy of LeedsUnited.com)

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have unleashed a two-CD set, ‘Stadium Arcadium’, on Warner Bros. Records. ‘Stadium Arcadium’ is a 28 track double album with discs entitled ‘Jupiter’ and ‘Mars’.

The band — Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith — entered the studio last March with producer Rick Rubin (Beastie Boys, System Of A Down) to commence work upon the album in the same house in the Hollywood Hills where they recorded 1991’s groundbreaking, multi-platinum album ‘BloodSugarSexMagik’.

"We set out to write 13 songs," says Kiedis. "But as has been the case every time we've tried to do that, we ended up with 30-some-odd songs. The difference this time was we ended up liking all of those songs and finishing all of those songs, and it actually became a very difficult process to even whittle it down to 28." "Every album we do, we try to have a concept and a sense of direction," Frusciante explains. "The most important idea for this album was movement." Smith elaborates, "Something new is constantly being introduced, in every chorus or verse, whether it's a backing vocal or a guitar part, a different rhythm or an unexpected style." "The chemistry was in better order than in a long time," Kiedis told Spin earlier this year. "Everyone is frighteningly happy at the moment." Although he says he's again exploring "the dark and nefarious side of Los Angeles” in his lyrics, he clarifies, “but not in a judgmental sense," venturing, "It's all about the joy of dysfunction."

The lead single, ‘Dani California’, debuted worldwide on April 3rd and was supported by a video directed by Tony Kaye (‘American History X’) portraying a history of rock 'n' roll. The ‘Jupiter’ CD track listing comprises: ‘Dani California’, ‘Snow (Hey Oh)’, ‘Charlie’, ‘Stadium Arcadium’, ‘Hump de Bump’, ‘She's Only 18’, ‘Slow Cheetah’, ‘Torture Me’, ‘Strip My Mind’, ‘Especially in Michigan’, ‘Warlocks’, ‘C'mon Girl’, ‘Wet Sand’ and ‘Hey’. The ‘Mars’ disc features: ‘Desecration Smile’, ‘Tell Me Baby’, ‘Hard to Concentrate’, ‘21st Century’, ‘She Looks to Me’, ‘Readymade’, ‘If’, ‘Make You Feel Better’, ‘Animal Bar’, ‘So Much I’, ‘Storm in a Teacup’, ‘We Believe’, ‘Turn It Again’ and ‘Death of a Martian’. ‘Stadium Arcadium’ will also be available in a limited-edition black box that includes the 28-song, two-CD set, plus a DVD with the ‘Dani California’ video and behind-the-scenes “making of the video footage; a one-hour band interview; a 28-page booklet; original artwork by the band; and "special space-age discoveries."

Kiedis says of the double album’s title: "I hope it means something different to everyone, but to me, in the chorus of the song 'Stadium Arcadium’, I get the feeling of being off in the wilderness with a large group of people creating a huge light, playing music for those people and reflecting the love that's going on between us and them."

"I think we're aware that we're all vehicles of something much bigger than ourselves," Flea allows. "And we also know it's up to us to do the footwork to get in a position to receive all this energy flying around. Spirituality can be a pretty vague term, but each of us in our own way is interested in looking beyond what's directly in front of our face."

‘Stadium Arcadium’ is the ninth album from the Chili Peppers and the first since 2002's ‘By The Way’, which sold more 1.6-million copies in the UK alone. All told, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and enjoyed UK Top 20 success with nine singles.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California(Live)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Don't Forget Me (Live)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Charlie (Live)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue (Live)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Me And My Friends (Live)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze (Live)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away (Live)

Enjoy these "live" tracks from their concert in Spain, then go buy the album.

I'll return tomorrow with Dangerdoom's new EP, Occult Hymn. Which will be up here for you to download, absolutely FREE. All seven tracks.


So, see you tomorrow then.

"Goodnight everybody! Gimme money!"