Robot Claw – Page 845 – “Life In The So-Called Space Age”

Susans

August 3, 2006

Our black-eyed susans are in full bloom:

We have six plants in total. The one on the left in the above photo was planted last year; the one on the right was planted back in May of this year. As you can see they produce many flowers, and keep flowering well into fall (since the flowers take a long time to die off, we had blooms even when the first snow fell last year).

Incidentally it was only 88F today outside, which is the first day this week that the temperature has not broken 90F. It was 98F on Tuesday!

We had the driveway resealed today as well. You may note it looks unusually clean and black in the above photographs.

21st Century Boys

August 3, 2006

So I bought 21st Century Boys, the Sigue Sigue Sputnik ‘best of’ album from 2001, containing singles, b-sides and rarities from all their releases up till then.

< 21st Century Boys

It is, of course, amazing. I think they describe themselves best in the lyric to the ‘song’ Video Trailer Mix, which goes:

From the nighttime neon wastelands of the 1980’s music scene
Comes the group that will take the fifth step into the future of Rock’&’Roll.
A group whose principal interests are TV, Star Wars, Home Computers,
High Tech Sex, The Ultravixens, Andrenaline and Excitement.
Get ready for the 5th Generation of Rock’&’Roll!

This album is the first time I am hearing such ‘classics’ as Buy EMI and Barbarandroid. Guess what’s on heavy rotation on my iPod now 🙂

Oh yes, check out www.sputnikworld.com, especially the history section. The amount of name dropping Tony James manages to cram in is mind-boggling, and there’s something in there for just about anyone with any interest in the 1980’s-1990’s UK music scene (including lots of discussion of Eldritch and The Sisters). Alas, no details on that cancelled SSS C64 game which was to feature the band, Eldritch, Billy Idol and others…

Which would you choose?

August 2, 2006

We’re getting our carpets replaced and are at the point where we have samples at home to choose the colour/style. The choice is challenging…

< Carpet Samples

The dark piece at front is commercial carpet we are having layed in our second downstairs room. As for the upstairs selection, which would you choose?