Ah hoy-hoy! Yes it's me, back again and fighting fit. Amazing what the blood of a young child can do, isn't it? Anyhoo, thanks to my various understudies over the last few weeks, this update has gone to hell (er, sorry, Lucifer old chum!) and I'm here to get things back on track. Now, let's see, how do I switch this confounded thing on again? SMITH-ERS! Where IS that blasted fellow? Oh yes, I remember now: silly me. He's spending an eternity as the guest of Satan, writhing in eternal torment, noxious vapour everywhere ... hmm, sounds like my annual colonic irrigation treatments! Ah well, we must push on, mustn't we? Can't let poor old Smithers' tortured soul get us down, now can we?
Huzzah! Success! A buzzing sound issues forth from the machine! Now, password, password...? PASSWORD? DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM, COMPUTER? I'M CHARLES MONTGOMERY BURNS!!! What do you mean, password accepted? Oh, I see. Very well then. On we go...
Still trying to educate people to the delights of soft jazz,
Anteater maintains his journal
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ed-masses.html here, where it would appear he just missed the cutoff for last week's update by a few hours. Anyhoo, he's reviewing an album by Jean-Luc Ponty, whoever the devil he is! Check it out, as the kids say!
That highly amusing
Batlord fellow has finished his epic story of the triumph of True Metal over Poseurs (ehrm, yes, quite) but he has lots more to say in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...t-schemes.html. This week he's looking at the most Metal people in history and some fellow called James and the Contortions. Hmm. And he's not content to leave it there, either, as he also listens to ...
Country??? Yes, indeed: seems that when he says
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...lks-about.html he really
means random! Who could have ever thought Country music would assail his ears? And yet here he appears to be giving it a fair shake, with people like Uncle Tupelo (wasn't he the one I pulled the plug on, er I mean, died suddenly of completely natural and unprovable causes?) and Townes Van Zandt. Hop on board, y'all!
Burning Down has been relating her
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...sic-major.html as she considers her history on music and how she got to be where she is today. Rivetting stuff.
Goofle11 has changed the name of his journal to
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-sessions.html --- cool title! He's looking at an album by Catherine Wheel, (didn't I go out with her in '23?) which seems worth a listen.
That brings us back to
Trollheart already. Hmm. Well, in his main journal
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html he has a "200 word album review" of Fleetwood Mac's "Mirage, as well as albums by Chris Rea and Passenger, the latter one of his new sections entitled "Rolling the dice", and of course he's continuing his feature on Rory Gallagher. Over in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html there's a review of an EP by Nina Nesbitt, while on
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html he has more eepsiodes from season one of Supernatural and a character profile of Dave Lister from Red Dwarf.
And so to
Unknown Soldier, who's really stepping it up in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html --- he has reviews of albums by Budgie, Blue Oyster Cult and Bad Company: the three B's, eh?
Well, that's about it then for this week. In fact, that's it for
every week from now on! I've had it, pandering to the likes of you and drooling over how great your pathetic scribblings are! I have an empire to run, you know: I don't have time for this! Get off my property! Smithers! Release the --- ah, yes. Well, wait there and I'll see if I have anything I can scald you with...
Note: Due to Mister Burns' unexpected withdrawal, the journal update post will be presented from next week by Trollheart again.