What I spectacularly failed to tell you about last weeks post is that I got on the bus home to find a friend of my was the driver.
We keep in touch via facebook and have written letters before but we hadn't met face to face for a good 18 months and that was briefly. So its a good thing he contacted me on facebook to say that it was his wife's birthday and that there would be a party at his place and would I like to come.
I gave it a few minutes to mull over I didn't know the place where he was living, and after googling it came back as a few streets away (I had an old address of his in Bexleyheath) so when a man says jack... you jack.
It was pretty cool too, he has a cool cat that consistently tried to snag chicken from the table and a lot of kids there, mainly his. His eldest had been to Tossa De Mar the same as me and I wished I could have asked him where he stayed (he went with the scouts) but mainly I remember it for him playing acoustic guitar and singing some odd blues songs with another guy.
We got talking about the good old days and of people, of Beavis and Butthead, (we were fans and used to do the voices all the time back then). All in all a good time, as they say online 11/10 would definitely go again.
The online home of Bear or Bust.
Sunday 26 August 2018
Sunday 19 August 2018
500
Its my 500th post here. I didn't realise that I'd reached that milestone til I'd logged in. Officially I'm coming up for 9 years here on blogger and for better or worse I still enjoy it. I should celebrate and that or at least put a cake gif up or something.
Celebration over I wanted to talk about Tit bits magazine a sort of weekly world news but old dead and English. I'd seen it about in shops that dealt with ephemera and the like, and always wrote it off as some sort of porno wannabe. It doesn't exist now but it was a magazine that summarised the news into bite sized stories and tabloid style trash. Looking through the discarded boxes at the bootsale today we finally grabbed a copy along with Drexciya The Quest CDR and some shoes.
My copy's from Nov 1977 so I'll do a run through on this.
On the inside cover is some Elvis tat celebrating the newly dead king.
Page 3 is the only political bit here going after then PM James Callaghan.
A weird story about martial break ups in high rise blocks. This is from an estate in Mitcham South London. Battery Hen wives barks the title, its all a bit sinister if you ask me.
A nice ad for Ultra Hi-Fi units (part of Thorn Emi)
Some quite frankly odd looking sculptures here, from a berk in Switzerland. Also looks like they'd fail health and safety if done today.
A few bits of interest as visionhire are offering a pong tv game along with their 20'' colour telly rental. Also a brief bit on palaeo diet / preserving wild food stocks a good 30 odd years before Kew decided to do the same with all the worlds flora. Interesting it starts with scientists believe.
Its Sterling Hayden and he's on the grass. A weird one this as the Dr Strangelove actor claims he quit booze and took up marijuana. Lived on a houseboat and died of cancer.
Weird Z list celeb precursor thing with the Schwepps ad blokes daughter saying he's a sexpot. Looking up on IMDB it seems she was briefly married to Boycey from Fools n horses and had a bit part in Fawlty Towers.
A buzz box to help you kick the fags, I wonder what ever happened to bio feedback devices sounds like quackery to me.
A big ole ad for Embassy fags here and some dubious slimming advice on the facing page. Just douse yourself in cold water and you could lose weight too.
Center pages have a full colour pictorial of a motorised harem complete with titty shots. Personally its just an upmarket paedo van / passion wagon but what do I know.
More car bollocks here along with an ad for Mobil super oil.
We hit the problem pages here along with an ad for Southern Comfort on the facing page.
We have a page on how to kiss and how to put marzipan on a cake also Angela Bradshaw says what happens to film stars after 40.
Eric Morecambe had a column here and there is a vaguely naughty comic strip from the Sporting Spagthorpes.
Coming to the end here so as its all sports bollocks will say there is a full page ad for a proto vape thing called MD4, a passion Pill for the over 50's (its an implant) and the classified ads (porn, dating, new age tat and accordions). Finally we have the letter pages and on the back page a bunch of music on tape or LP, looks bastard horrendous if truth be told.
So there you go if this gets to I don't know 100 views I'll make this into a PDF for you to download.
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| Happy anniversary. |
My copy's from Nov 1977 so I'll do a run through on this.
On the inside cover is some Elvis tat celebrating the newly dead king.
Page 3 is the only political bit here going after then PM James Callaghan.
A weird story about martial break ups in high rise blocks. This is from an estate in Mitcham South London. Battery Hen wives barks the title, its all a bit sinister if you ask me.
A nice ad for Ultra Hi-Fi units (part of Thorn Emi)
Some quite frankly odd looking sculptures here, from a berk in Switzerland. Also looks like they'd fail health and safety if done today.
A few bits of interest as visionhire are offering a pong tv game along with their 20'' colour telly rental. Also a brief bit on palaeo diet / preserving wild food stocks a good 30 odd years before Kew decided to do the same with all the worlds flora. Interesting it starts with scientists believe.
Its Sterling Hayden and he's on the grass. A weird one this as the Dr Strangelove actor claims he quit booze and took up marijuana. Lived on a houseboat and died of cancer.
Weird Z list celeb precursor thing with the Schwepps ad blokes daughter saying he's a sexpot. Looking up on IMDB it seems she was briefly married to Boycey from Fools n horses and had a bit part in Fawlty Towers.
A buzz box to help you kick the fags, I wonder what ever happened to bio feedback devices sounds like quackery to me.
A big ole ad for Embassy fags here and some dubious slimming advice on the facing page. Just douse yourself in cold water and you could lose weight too.
Center pages have a full colour pictorial of a motorised harem complete with titty shots. Personally its just an upmarket paedo van / passion wagon but what do I know.
More car bollocks here along with an ad for Mobil super oil.
We hit the problem pages here along with an ad for Southern Comfort on the facing page.
We have a page on how to kiss and how to put marzipan on a cake also Angela Bradshaw says what happens to film stars after 40.
Eric Morecambe had a column here and there is a vaguely naughty comic strip from the Sporting Spagthorpes.
Coming to the end here so as its all sports bollocks will say there is a full page ad for a proto vape thing called MD4, a passion Pill for the over 50's (its an implant) and the classified ads (porn, dating, new age tat and accordions). Finally we have the letter pages and on the back page a bunch of music on tape or LP, looks bastard horrendous if truth be told.
So there you go if this gets to I don't know 100 views I'll make this into a PDF for you to download.
Sunday 12 August 2018
Cuntendo.
For those wondering why the heading up there is all in aid off, Cuntendo is the specific name given to Nintendo, when the big N uses its muscle to crack down on the little guy, either Youtube lets players or game genie dudes. If you haven't heard the news, Nintendo has been going after rom sites ahead of their Switch VC revival thing (oh and mini console remakes).
An obscure bunch called loveROMS and Love retro were the original recipients of the ban hammer but it looks like many other sites have caved and removed TOSECS. Planetemu the french guys do not host Nintendo roms now (and were my go to guys for old roms) and Emuparadise have removed all their romsets now and have effectively shut up shop which is bad.
There is a great set of tweets on Twitter by Frank Cifaldi about the whole preservation side of things, (given that twitter is a left wing echo chamber that in itself is a miracle) and from someone else who travelled halfway across Japan to preserve some obscure bits of SNK history. If you want a job doing well its worth giving it to a pirate.
I've been downloading on and off ever since I had the net and before that with a few discs of stuff gotten from bootsales. I've seen places fall such as Cherry roms, ICEroms and even downloaded stuff from Dope rom and a few Angelfire places back in the day. Along with the last bastions of good journalism such as Insertcredit and Andriasang. True I've seen a few horrible places (full disclosure I had a porn dialler from one back in the day) but I'm sure those won't return thanks to these going under.
Then there is the other stuff such as art project / homebrew fan translation side of things which attempt to make new games or just port stuff that wasn't deemed commercial back then. Or make innumerable hacks out of SMB or Marioworld, or even fix up the the emulator in the NES and SNES Mini to side load extra roms and such, and that's without going into the straight up preservation side of things, backing up 30 year old plus media and ensuring future people get to play these games.
An obscure bunch called loveROMS and Love retro were the original recipients of the ban hammer but it looks like many other sites have caved and removed TOSECS. Planetemu the french guys do not host Nintendo roms now (and were my go to guys for old roms) and Emuparadise have removed all their romsets now and have effectively shut up shop which is bad.
There is a great set of tweets on Twitter by Frank Cifaldi about the whole preservation side of things, (given that twitter is a left wing echo chamber that in itself is a miracle) and from someone else who travelled halfway across Japan to preserve some obscure bits of SNK history. If you want a job doing well its worth giving it to a pirate.
I've been downloading on and off ever since I had the net and before that with a few discs of stuff gotten from bootsales. I've seen places fall such as Cherry roms, ICEroms and even downloaded stuff from Dope rom and a few Angelfire places back in the day. Along with the last bastions of good journalism such as Insertcredit and Andriasang. True I've seen a few horrible places (full disclosure I had a porn dialler from one back in the day) but I'm sure those won't return thanks to these going under.
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| Surely rom corruption is classed as modern art right. |
Then there is the other stuff such as art project / homebrew fan translation side of things which attempt to make new games or just port stuff that wasn't deemed commercial back then. Or make innumerable hacks out of SMB or Marioworld, or even fix up the the emulator in the NES and SNES Mini to side load extra roms and such, and that's without going into the straight up preservation side of things, backing up 30 year old plus media and ensuring future people get to play these games.
Sunday 5 August 2018
An AFX Advert.
Or rather c'mon you cunts lets 'ave an AFX advert.
I first heard about this, from my Twitter timeline, a photo of the Aphex Twin logo on a wall and someone saying this is at the Elephant and Castle (our closest tube back in the day, put this down to living in the South East). My ears perked up at this and we decided to go down that way and take a detour and find it.
It is indeed at the Elephant and Castle tube station, more specifically if you want to find it or just happen across this post 6 years from now. its located just outside the middle exit to the south bound branch of the Northern Line, as you come in or indeed, go out. Took me ages to find, even though its not small, exited at the far entrance and looked along the Bakerloo station before doubling back and finding it at the last.
Of course what I found out, is that there were two posters exactly opposite each other. I could bark up the wrong tree here about mirror magic and getting caught between two images. Think Granny Weatherwax from Witches Abroad and such, but if I'm honest I don't know what it all means.
As far as I can tell I have no idea what this is all in aid off. It could be like last years live show at field day complete with Fingers Inc intro. Or more likely a new album along the lines of Syro or Cheetah. I will of course update you when I know more.
I first heard about this, from my Twitter timeline, a photo of the Aphex Twin logo on a wall and someone saying this is at the Elephant and Castle (our closest tube back in the day, put this down to living in the South East). My ears perked up at this and we decided to go down that way and take a detour and find it.
It is indeed at the Elephant and Castle tube station, more specifically if you want to find it or just happen across this post 6 years from now. its located just outside the middle exit to the south bound branch of the Northern Line, as you come in or indeed, go out. Took me ages to find, even though its not small, exited at the far entrance and looked along the Bakerloo station before doubling back and finding it at the last.
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| Northern Line |
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| this is the opposite side of the wall. |
Oh and when I got off at Morden this shit was going down. Cue lots of 20 something ladies in not very much (it was baking out) and blokes in their best tees and beards (Seriously would have killed for the I love techno shirt). On our way home from Sutton we saw this stretch jeep limousine thing outside a church and thought of Windowlicker. So will leave you with that image here.
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| Lemme put mah shit on. |
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