Dom's Rambles

Part of Down & Out in Sheffield & Lincoln

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Strike A Pose There's Nothing To It...

After 27 yearsof lusting after one, I am now the proud, fully paid up owner of a vintage Ibanez Iceman - which calls for loads of celebratory booze and a major rock star pose!

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The Iceman Cometh...

...provided my offer is accepted! Should that be the case (fingers crossed) then I shall, after going to collect the thing on Saturday morning, be spending the rest of the weekend running my trousers over its fretboard.

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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Does Anyone Else Remember Fuzzbox On The Chart Show?

I used to fancy the pants off these girls - well, except for the guitarist who I always thought had something a bit mannish about her. I remember that my ex girlfriend 'Helen' (as I called her in the D&OiS&L pieces) went to see the band shortly after she moved to London in 1986 and reckoned it was one of the best gigs she'd ever been to.

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Bitten By Midgets!

I woke up last Sunday morning with a mysterious - and fucking enormous - blister on my elbow. I duly popped the thing only to have it go all gammy on me; a week later it still hasn't healed up and it still hurts like hell. A guy at work reckons there must have been some midgets in my bedroom and that they'd taken a bite out of me sometime during the night.

The evil little bastards.

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Friday, November 21, 2008

A Rare Photo Of The Wapentake Main Entrance.

I found this shot of the outside of the legendary Wapentake bar in Sheffield on Facebook tonight. I'm having a little trouble dating it though as I don't recognise the guys in the picture - even if I seem to remember that those identikit checked shirts were very much in vogue with the thrash metal crowd around 1988-1990.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Women I'd Happily Crawl Over Broken Glass For!

Here's Lush (fronted by the absolutely gorgeous Miki Berenyi) doing the song Lady Killers. As one of the YouTube commentators puts it, '... rip-my-dick-off sexy'.

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

A Weekend Spent Working On My Wanker's Tan.

Dom prepares to storm the Reichstag

Wanker's Tan: Ghostly pallor effected by [young] men who spend far too much time alone in their rooms with the curtains shut playing computer games.

Bugger all got done at Dom Towers this weekend because the latest installment in the Call of Duty PC game franchise hit the stores on Friday and I've been blasting my way through the Pacific and Eastern Front theatres of WW2 ever since, finally hoisting the Red Flag over the Reichstag earlier on this afternoon.
I'm surprised the thing got a 15 cert as it's very violent and gory and it certainly pulls no punches in recreating the brutality of the conflict - in fact I'm surprised the final level of the Berlin campaign doesn't involve spending a week drunkenly rampaging around the city, raping anything with a spinal column.

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Nick Tullet, From Dallas, Texas, USA, This Red Stripe's For You!

Cheers my man, I particularly liked the line: "Your story was even inspirational to me in some weird twisted way". That's definitely going on the 'Praise For The Online Version' page of the hard copy!

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Another New Old Dance Tune.

Over the past few weeks, and through the medium of Facebook, I’ve been reacquainted with a number of people I used to work with at Royal Mail in Sheffield. These include the guy who looked like a cross between Jimmy Somerville and Avid Merrion and who used to brighten everybody’s Monday with tales of the prostitutes he’d availed himself of over the weekend (right up until some Trippet Lane crack whore stole his wallet after battering him unconscious with a glass ashtray while he was going down on her).
I’m also delighted to have caught up with the girl who reminded me so much – both in looks and manner - of a certain female from my distant past that I used the former's name as the latter’s pseudonym in Down & Out…. That said, the Sally I knew from Royal Mail differed from our leading lady inasmuch as she wasn’t a shallow, self-obsessed, pathologically insincere moral coward with a fabricated nickname and a habit of clinging to, and being able to rationalise the behaviour of, abusive men.
Another of my former colleagues tagged me wanting to know if I’d got a copy of the song which he had very kindly allowed me to record him wolf-whistling for. After an afternoon trawling though the world's most disorganised audio archive I located it.

I’ve been meaning to remix this tune for some time now – the reverb is too loud and messy, that quirky bass line doesn’t really work in a full-on club stomper and the way OTT break down/build up needs sorting out - but until I get around to it enjoy the 2001 mix of Get With It.
There’s a Chocolate Noddy for the first person to tell me where I got the vocal samples from.

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Saturday, November 08, 2008

Dom's Dinners.

While we're waiting for a more substantial offering, here's a pic of tonight's dinner - especially for Beth, the Valkryie she-warrior wife of Tim 'God of Thunder' Hall, who I know finds such posts amusing (even if I see that she's already checked in today).
A simple but hearty fare tonight, pork ribs, chips and garlic mushrooms. The ribs are done in this BBQ marinade stuff you can get at Asda and which is surprisingly good considering it only cost £1.48 a bottle. Regarding the mushrooms, I always fry vegetables in extra-virgin olive oil rather than the regular stuff, which is the opposite of what Henry Hill advises throughout The Wiseguy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes from My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run. However, I do slice the garlic with a razor blade so that it liquifies in the pan with just a little oil!

UPDATE: Here's Sunday's effort. Beef, mushrooms and red peppers in Dom's special chilli sauce on pasta.

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Lesbian Outreach Co-ordinator.

Now this comment on a post on the Samizdata blog did tickle me.

Thanks to our wonderful higher education system with it's emphasis on 'Studies' degrees, we have a plethora of young people who are ideally suited to the kind of hard jobs in the local community that no one has bothered to perform before.
Take, for instance, Lesbian Outreach Co-ordinators. I'm willing to bet that we have the best Lesbian Outreach Co-ordinators in the world. Well, certainly the most.
Now, as we head into parlous economic straits, our army of trained local government workers can lead the way into recovery.
I can think of any number of counties in the world who are in dire need of Lesbian Outreach Co-ordination services, even if they don't know it yet, and Britain is ideally placed to provide these. and many other, vital services to the betterment of all.
So how about a bit of praise for the far-sighted policies of our government, who have placed us in the enviable position of having a ready workforce superbly trained in the kind of jobs that are really necessary for our economic survival in these parlous times.

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