How not to make a website part 431...



OK, an explanation I think. I've been hanging around the MSM member directory, a strange and wonderful place with a lot of "lurve-ing" and "lol-ing" going on, populated by teenagers, weird middle aged women, and... well blatant paedophiles (singleThirteenYearOld - fuck right off!, you are fooling no one you dirty old man).



Basically it's all part of the plan to make sure I'm the one and only Darth Phil. First I got the "dot com" that you're reading now (a pretty good start I think), last night I got my xBox gamertag (I'm truly shocked no other Star Wars fan called Phil got it) - and I've just got my MSM profile... again a straight "darthphil".



So back to the explanation, as any decent (well, I say decent...) self-respecting single Dark Lord of the Sith would do I've been casually flicking through the entries in my area that belonged to "ladieez" and which had pictures (stop tutting at the back, just send your disapproving emails here), anyway amongst those I found the entry with the link shown above...



That was so worth the long winded explanation wan't it?

I've put a new CD section up, it's basically for my own benfit, just to remind me about future CD releases by bands I'm into.

Hold the fucking presses!! The protest song of the day feature has done itself proud today!



Dr Carl Kennedy of neighbours fame, has done a protest song! You can download it here. OK, so it goes against my previous righteous indignation with a funky beat requirement, because basically it's pants, but hats off to the man.

The latest tigerbeat6 newsletter had a nice little surprise today, 3 of my favourite noise-meisters, Kid 606, DJ/rupture and The Bug are playing at the cybersonica festival on june 20th - just got to find some people to drag along to it now...



PS hardcore giant robot controller action can be found in drnk

Now, this is hardcore! It is also a good reason why I am painfully single and very likely to stay that way for the forseable future...



In case you can't be bothered to click on the link, it's Steel Batallion for the XBox, complete with 40 button giant robot controller - and one of these puppies turned up for me today... I'm slightly disappointed it wasn't parachuted in or escorted to our offices by armed guard, but you can't have everything your own way can you? Anyway, tonight I think I'll be settling down on my sofa with my shiny new 40 button controller, I'll crack open a beer or two, loosen some clothing, crank the surround sound up and kick some giant robot ass... sad and worrying eh? especially the bit about loosening clothing.



Anyway, back to reality for a moment. The protest song of the day feature is on hold at the moment on grounds of taste and decency, it is my painful duty to inform you that Lenny Kravitz has released an anti war song. I'm sorry but I'm not putting a link to a song by someone as dull as him, you'll just have to hunt around for it on your own - I've listened to 'We want peace' and it's shite... there's pretty much zero passion in it. I suppose I'm just not one for the whole 'give peace a chance... please... pretty please with sugar on top' approach, I want something along the lines of 'what the hell do you think your doing!'... righteous indignation with a funky beat basically.



Finally a quick big up!(..sorry, I'm listening to hip-hop at the moment) to Pat at First Season Filmic Frippery, my first email out of the blue wishing me luck with the blog. Good to hear from another spaced fan too!

The on going protest song of the day feature continues, this one goes boom!



It's by System of a Down, a frighteningly intelligent metal band from the US of A, and very good it is too. The link above sends you to a page where you can watch the video, mainly directed by Michael Moore, director of Bowling for Columbine, author of Stupid White Men, and general all round thorn in the western world's side - can't believe the way he got treated at the oscars though... actually that's a lie, I can totally believe it...



I'm thinking of putting this on my site soon, the trouble is there anyone out there who would use it?

well, this is a surprise isn't it?



Anyway, I'm won't start going on about conspiracy theories and what have you now, I'm sure there will be some better ones around by the time the war's over - instead I'll point you in the direction of the protest song of the day! This one from Mr Zach De La Rocha and Mr DJ Shadow, and very good it is too, although I'm not that sure about the title...