{"id":141,"date":"2005-01-08T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/01\/you-naughty-dirty-evil-minded-scumsucker\/"},"modified":"2005-01-08T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-08T14:40:00","slug":"you-naughty-dirty-evil-minded-scumsucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/01\/you-naughty-dirty-evil-minded-scumsucker\/","title":{"rendered":"You Naughty Dirty Evil-Minded Scumsucker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I considered it a compliment. These were words of tenderness, whispered over a dusky romantic dinner, her half-lidded eyes looking deep across the flickering golden candles, a hint of heaven’s reward tempered by the knowledge of our blatant mutual carnality. Or so it seemed to me at the time.<\/p>\n

Last night went well. I think we have raised about 1k in Great British Super Strength Pounds<\/b> (that’s about 2:1 to the appallingly weak Deficit Dollar<\/b>) and we also raised some… I was going to write “consciousness” but I am tempted to put “cous cous”. Have you noticed how predictive text on phones is altering the way we conceive and formulate language ? I live (according to my phone) in Hgigatsz rather than Highbury… I actually prefer that, it makes me feel I am living in somewhat of a more Bohemian quarter than the smelly but somehow trendy borough I really inhabit.<\/p>\n

World Vision<\/a> sent the redoubtable Lucy to help out (poor woman hadn’t had a break since boxing day) and we put posters up and asked for donations on the door, and there were a host of acts including Planetman with his rock funk psychedelia, the fantastic samba drumming of Rhythms of Resistance<\/a>, some really cool young vocal acts whose names I ought to remember – Shauna aka Angel<\/a> I thought was strong – a great reggae artist called One Jah, The Rub, Nubu, Itch, Bass6s & GunSmoke, DJ Daggers. Yours truly contributed a rabble-rousing speech, and sang half a song, before moving hastily on to the young people with proper beats and a future in entertainment.<\/p>\n

DJ Dags played his usual, “guaranteed to move your feet in-between acts” set, and I was bopping at 2.30am to “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick”. I fell in love with all the female members of the samba band and I wanted to take them all home with me. God I admire a strong woman who can wield a big stick. Still, enough of my pain. It was a good showing for a winter windy night a week after the new year. Marathon-running Pop Star Tyrrell<\/a> was there, the huge and talented artist Lisa Muten<\/a> was there. I met a creative brother and sister: Latifa Spiker is showing her art at The Foundry, Old Street, and her brother Hasan Spiker<\/a> (Happy 18th!) – check out his music. I haven’t heard such unusual music for a while. Natural successor to Julian Cope, Beck ? With several slices of Hendrix, and something else besides.<\/p>\n

Here are some photos from last night all taken with the trusty Sony Errricccsssoonnn K700i:<\/p>\n

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I considered it a compliment. These were words of tenderness, whispered over a dusky romantic dinner, her half-lidded eyes looking deep across the flickering golden candles, a hint of heaven’s reward tempered by the knowledge of our blatant mutual carnality. Or so it seemed to me at the time. Last night went well. I think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}