Concrete and Clay

Hip Hop, Breakbeat and Soul at Off Balance this Friday 30th September at the legendary Bubblegum, 46 Deptford Broadway, London, UK.

DJs Purro and Boomer bring it back to basics with more phat beats than obese boxing match. Recommended.

Corbert Place, The Old Truman Brewery, Dray Walk, East London, UK.

Preview Party on Sunday October 2nd, 12pm - 11pm, then every Sunday from October 16th (for the rest of your life!!)

Emily Morris (Extraordinary Jumble/Yard Sale) has joined forces with Daniel Batters (Unit Sicks) and Dominic Cools-Lartigue (Retox/Alpine Fever) to bring you The Extraordinary Dancing Bazaar.

A unique fusion of DJs, live music and stalls of every kind - up and coming designers, vintage clothes, accessories, books, records, massage, hair salon, makeovers, photo studio, live graffiti, sideshows, freakshows, fashion shows (look out for The Jimmy Galaxy Experience and Human Lucky Dip!!)

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Basically sir, it was national week of peace and Hammersmith & Fulham was celebrating it on the 14th of September at the Lyric Square. The celebration was public, people could just join in off the street. There were African musicians, steel band players, Phillipino dancers and perhaps a couple of other things as entertainment, while people signed the peace pledge (a book symbolising the hope for peace that could be signed by anyone who wanted to or had a message). People could also place their messages of peace on a "peace tree" (one tree was handed to a representative from every area of the borough) and on balloons which were all realeased at once. Amnesty International was also there. There were 6 main speakers who had to give a speech to the crowd on the peace and maybe a little something about the borough and they wanted a young person to be one of those speakers and that young person ended up being me.

On his 87th birthday, he invited me to dinner. When I arrived, Micheal Jackson was wearing a dressing gown instead of his usual snappy zipped red leather jacket and one glove. His colour was a peculiar grey, his customarily groomed hair was slightly untidy and there was a peculiar smell of methylated spirits in the air.

He was not wearing his prosthetic arm.

After cocktails, his man-servant announced dinner and that he was sick of all the hatred in the world. As usual, I pretended to look at the large water colour of ground zero so that he could be helped to the table unobserved. While he was being moved I thought I heard him cry out in pain, I was comforted in realising he had simply broken out into a verse of Billie Jean. Suddenly, he pushed away his helper, twisted, struck a pose, then fell to the floor. Later I learned he had fractured his hip in a similar fall that morning.

Google "failure" and check out the first hit. I thought this was very funny indeed. If anyone knows any other funny googles, link us up.

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Many thanks to PYKY for designing a beautifully autumnal banner for this month's issue of Concrete and Clay. Loving your work.

Next week I am going to a Facial Hair Party and I just can't decide what look to adopt - who knew there are so many facial hair looks to choose from?

I'm deciding between:

Hitler 'tache
The Monobrow
Pointee Goatee
Bar Mitzvah bumfluff
Uncle Harry's nasal forest

Any thoughts?

Milk and Beef, Legoman, BadR - 4th September 2005.

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