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All the news... as it happens... which isn't that often....

UPDATED EVERY DAY : Retro-Boy, the poorly titled blog of Mark Reed.

DECEMBER 23rd 2003
Here we are now,our final pre-Chrimbo missive... The Lord Of The Rings : The Return Of The King is dissected in style. Happy Crumble!

DECEMBER 20th 2003
Metallica - London Earls Court - 20 December 2003.
yeah. RAWK!!!! (looks at watch, sheesh, is that the time already?)

DECEMBER 18th 2003
Bluecheeseophobia

DECEMBER 16th 2003
Suede : The Final Tour : 08-13th December 2003. Mini-site.

DECEMBER 15th
Suede - London Astoria - 13 December 2003. See you in the next life.

DECEMBER 14th 2003
Suede : London Astoria : 13th December 2003. PHOTOS ONLY

DECEMBER 12th 2003
Suede - Brixton Academy - 12 December 2003. There is no joy without sorrow.

DECEMBER 9th 2003
Last night we went to see Suede at the Manchester Academy. Is this the end?

DECEMBER 8th 2003
Terribly sorry for lack of updates. Been very busy, in the past week alone I've been to... (deep breath) Manchester, Leeds, Wakefield, London, Brighton, Wolverhampton, Rugby, and Daventry. Zzzzzzzzzz.

DECEMBER 5th 2003
The Wonder Stuff - London Hammersmith Odeon - 04 December 2003.
Like shagging an ex-girlfriend. You like it - but you want something new.

DECEMBER 4th 2003
Blur - Brixton Academy - 03 December 2003. Think Tank? Wank more like.

DECEMBER 3rd 2003
Mao Tse Tung said.... Alabama 3 - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall - 02 December 2003

NOVEMBER 25th 2003
Wow, has it been a week already? Oh my. Anyway 13 new entires in the Verse section. And we bought our Kraftwerk tickets.

NOVEMBER 19th 2003
Yet more rants, ravings, rambles and rubbish inspired by insomnia, incompetence and incontinence...
oh, hang on. And bad movies, bad presidents, and bad stuff... Whoa.
The Matrix Trilogy : Reloaded, Revolutions, Reheated..., Free Speech For The Dumb , CCTV : Big Brother is Watching You

NOVEMBER 10th 2003
Remembrance Day : War And Peace ...where are the poppies for the pacifists?

NOVEMBER 6th 2003
DareDevil and The Death Of American Cinema. High Concept is raping High Art, and we'll all pay.

NOVEMBER 3rd 2003
Yet more from the flowery, overgrown rant garden. Enjoy, or not, the following missives from King Nothing :
Bring Me The Head Of Ben Elton, and a nice helping of Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam,
and Striking Like It's The Seventies : That's So Retro!

OCTOBER 31st 2003
Experience the genius of Jane's Addiction - London Brixton Academy - 31 October 2003. Are you ready for The Riches?....

OCTOBER 28th 2003
Yet more rants, blah blah blah... Good God : The Atheists Religion, and about a particularly hellish train journey surrounded by dirty fucking smelly smokers Dying For A Fag. I swear I am mellowing in my old age..

OCTOBER 26th 2003
Watch The Skies. The last sad flight of Concorde. Mankind turns it back on evolution in favour of Pro�it$.

OCTOBER 23th 2003
Suede - HMV - Oxford Circus London - 23 October 2003.
Rock. Roll. Security Guards. And that stiff British upper lip.

OCTOBER 20th 2003
We've read a lot of crap in the press. We get the feeling we're going to read some more.
If you use the guestbook, please read the guide to Guestbooks For Dummies first.

OCTOBER 16th 2003
Miles Hunt - Putney Halfmoon - October 16th 2003. or
I'm a Drunk Wanker Talking About My Meaningless Life And Should Be Put Down Like The Vermin That I Am

OCTOBER 13th 2003

Here we are, more products of fevered egos Back To The Old House : A Weekend In Birmingham, all about a weekend back in the dismal town I grew up in town. It's not as dismal as it used to be, but it's not like Vegas or anything.

OCTOBER 11th 2003

America : The Nation That Cried Wolf and perhaps nowhere near as important, Microsoft : The New World Order

OCTOBER 10th 2003

A quick review of Battlefield Earth I wrote for Ebay. What an absolute crock of shite that movie is!

OCTOBER 9th 2003
Hiya gang. More rants and reviews on their way shortly. In the meantime, just been to see Kill Bill. It's fantastic. In the meantime, my favourite popstars Suede have included me in their email newsletter and also in the News Page on their website. Yowsa. PS. Visitors to the guestbook might have seen the odd bit of threats and general abuse, which have now been removed. You know who you are, and you're very sad. Don't do it again Ta. xxx

OCTOBER 7th 2003
No news. Just did a lot of background tinkering, reformatting and fixing broken stuff. Hopefully you won't even notice. Whoo-hoo. Guestbook seems lively.But play nice. Despite what you might think I don't like airing my allegedly 'dirty' laundry in public.

OCTOBER 4th 2003
Just a quick photo op. Mark meets Har Mar Superstar

OCTOBER 3rd 2003
And a quick review of Love And Poison : The Suede Biography by David Barnett

OCTOBER 1st 2003

I've been a postman today thanks to the posties asking for a 14.5% wage rise. STRIKE!. Fuck the shirkers, not Up The Shirkers!

SEPTEMBER 31st 2003
Took a while to put this up. Mark meets Chuck Palahniuk. We didn't talk about Fight Club

SEPTEMBER 30th 2003
Yeah, we've been to see Jane's Addiction : MTV 5th Birthday Party at Brixton Academy. Yowsa.
And The Darkness were almost as good. Almost And that makes me The Darkness merely brilliant.

SEPTEMBER 29th 2003
Back To School : The Negative Side Of Positive Discrimination

SEPTEMBER 27th 2003
Suede : Head Music - London ICA - 26 September 2003

SEPTEMBER 26th 2003
Suede : Coming Up - London ICA - 25 September 2003

SEPTEMBER 25th 2003
Suede : Coming Up - London ICA - 25 September 2003. PHOTOS ONLY
Also.... Suede : Exhibition - London ICA - 22-27 September 2003. PHOTOS ONLY.

SEPTEMBER 24th 2003
Suede - London ICA - 22 to 27 September 2003.
Those legendary gigs in full... updated as they happen.

SEPTEMBER 23rd 2003
Suede : Dog Man Star - London ICA - 23 September 2003

SEPTEMBER 22nd 2003
Suede : Suede - London ICA - 22 September 2003

SEPTEMBER 16th 2003

Free material for armchair psychoanalysts... more verse. But don't you worry, we're still turning our neurosis into money.

SEPTEMBER 10th 2003
Where Were You When The World Changed?

SEPTEMBER 9th 2003

As promised, Ticketbastard. Yeah, I know, I know, been busy, working, sleeping, the usual ... and life is beautiful.

SEPTEMBER 8th 2003

Two Long Years..... Yet another look at the moment that defined our generation.

SEPTEMBER 3rd 2003
Meet Elvis.

AUGUST 26 2003

YEAH! RAWK!...Metallica - Reading Festival - 26 August 2003 Get in touch with your inner child here. And he's having a tantrum.

AUGUST 20 2003

This week alone, Chelmsford, Croydon, Edinburgh, Brixton, Reading.... sheesh... and seeing Natalie Haynes, Adam Hill, Big Howard, Gary LeStrange, and (the fucking atrocious) Rudi Lickwood at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival August 2003

AUGUST 18-19 2003

ok, ok, so I didn't actually upload this until September 4th, but I've been very busy.... here's what we did on our summer holidays at The Chelmsford V Festival 2003. Coming up, Ticketbastard,Reading Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...

AUGUST 6 2003

As we said before, sometimes this web page doesn't get updated for a while....but we've been seeing Robbie Williams in Knebworth.. Let him entertain us!

JULY 21ST 2003

Plenty of new Verse. More stuff about love, politics, and presidents. Hooray!

JULY 20TH 2003

Sorry for the delay in service... here's some more Rants. Including... Why I'm An Angry Puppy,The Problem With Footballers, Riding The Charity Gauntlet, The Quest For Approval, and Why This Site Doesn't Get Updated For A While. Hope you like them.

JUNE 29TH 2003
VIVA LAS VEGAS!

JUNE 27Th 2003

We hate Government hypocrisy... We hate the Ministry of Propoganda and Lies. Lying SCUM.

JUNE 26TH 2003

We've been out and about... seeing REM Live in Brixton. God, they're great.

JUNE 10TH 2003

There's more to life than the web, just NOT that much more... Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds in Hammersmith

MAY 29TH 2003

Saw Lou Reed At The Barbican.Whew. Rawk. With Tai Chi Masters. Om.

MAY 26TH 2003

Aint nothing going on but the rent... more accurately, I've been busy... or trying to avoid being busy... as The A-Z of Displacement Activity will tell you.

MAY 15TH 2003

London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Munich... everybody talk about mmm Pop Muzik!... yet more rants about my frustration at not being God...
It's Good To Talk, Fight The Power,Moaning Millionaire Rock Stars..., The Big Three-Oh.

MAY 13TH 2003

A hive of activity whilst trying to avoid finals.... Hax Off!. PS if you use the guestbook try not to call me names... it makes you look dumb.

MAY 12TH 2003

The outside world is bloody interesting, sometimes... hence radio silence. But, after a bit of a break, new verse

APRIL 27TH 2003

Ladies and gentlemen... Huey Lewis was right, it is Hip To Be Square. And AC/DC were as well... LET THERE BE ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

APRIL 26TH 2003
What else can I say? Homophobia Is Gay

APRIL 25TH 2003

Raised on a diet of insomnia and anger.... enjoy Fear Of A Bald Planet and Fear Of A Blank Canvas

APRIL 24TH 2003

Sorry we've been quiet. Plenty, PLENTY of stuff on its way. Meanwhile tonight we've been doing some tidying up behind the scenes. You won't even notice what we've done... but trust me, it's extremely frustrating to do on a 33.6k dialup modem service supplied by BT. Who are crap.All I want is a connection that works. But that's too much to ask.

APRIL 23RD 2003

Finally added it.. couple of days later than I wrote it... but here it is... a fistfull of rants...
Fear And Loafing, Identity Theft : I Took Your Name, Exhuming McCarthy, Licence To Rock, and The Reading Fiasco

APRIL 21ST 2003

Yep. Smoke And Mirrors. We went to see The Sisters of Mercy. Knew you'd be pleased.

APRIL 15TH 2003

Suffer random abuse in the guestbook, listen to the new Blur album. Think about celebrating the resurrection of an invisible Superman from Outer Space by eating Chocolate rabbits. How strange this life is.

APRIL 12TH 2003

Ah, weekend. Relax. Get your hair cut. Read a paper. Watch TV. Rant endlessly about Ebay... DIE EBAY TOUT SCUM DIE!!!!.

APRIL 11TH 2003

Yeah, well, we've been busy, like always. But we have the new Radiohead single and a fab new dancing Spiderman logo on the index.

APRIL 6TH 2003

Yeah, I know. It's been a while since an update. But we're making up for it. Check out these unformed, half-assed postcards from the edge... The Rules Of Conflict, Cruel Britannia, Cheeky Beggars, and I Am The PKK as well as a review of the masterful Solaris.

MARCH 28TH 2003

Updated verse. And that's it. Far far too busy doing other things to spoil you much more than that. And there is a war on. Any excuse, eh?

MARCH 26TH 2003

Reviewed the latest war movie....Gulf War 2:The Movie. Better than the original, and yet worse...

MARCH 25th 2003

Woo! Yay! the Blue Green Earth site's put up one of the rants from this very site. Check it out HERE
MARCH 24th 2003
Is that the time? Here we go.... Why War Is Good For Democracy and the eminently reasonable DEATH TO FALSE METAL!.

MARCH 21st 2003

A bit of career advice...How To Get A Job In PR aka Dr Spin Doctor : Or How I Learned To Stop Thinking And Love PRSpeak

MARCH 20th 2003
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Voter Scorned

MARCH 18th 2003

Well even on the brink of war, your intrepid reporter comes files copy from behind a suburban front door... and here's yet more about our upcoming war : It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).

MARCH 16th 2003

Christ, it's been yonks since we last updated the site. We haven't forgotten you... promise. Anyway, here's a review of Natalie Haynes, Britain's funniest woman. (She was in the year below me at Bournville Juniors back in the Eighties, not that that counts for anything).

FEBRUARY 21st 2003

We looked down the back of the sofa, and found this.... Nostalgia : A look back on 2001

FEBRUARY 18TH 2003

Ministry - Animositisomina. It isn't very good. Choke on the black bile of vengence, jaded rock star!

FEBRUARY 17TH 2003

We look at Nick Ryans expose of the nationalists... sorry we mean Modern Nazi's...Homeland

FEBRUARY 16TH 2003

You've Made Your Jihad... Now Die In It Yes Tony and George, you WILL go down in history. For all the wrong reasons.

FEBRUARY 13TH 2003

It was Mr Plaid. In The Garage. With A Shotgun. Kurt Cobain's Journals exhumed.

FEBRUARY 12TH 2003

Oh boy. We're busy. Busy like a bee with a battery up it's behind. And here's why.... Tory Blair... A Public Service Announcement
and some more verse...

FEBRUARY 8TH

The Wonder Stuff At The Cabot Hall. Just keep on rockin and don't make any new songs...

FEBRUARY 6TH 2003

Right. The sites not going to be updated much for the next few days, because real life is a tad more interesting than the net.Here's some stuff to tide you over.. Adverts... Don't Believe The Type!, Adverts and Music ....Gold Against The Soul, and Adverts and Spam...Make Her Scream With An Extra 1-3 Inches! AND some record reviews.... Pet Shop Boys - Disco 3 and also Rollins Band - Rise Above

FEBRUARY 3rd 2003

George Bush is really annoying me today. Can You Tell? ...I'm So Bored Of The USA AND Appetite For Destruction

JANUARY 31st 2003

Another train journey in the snow... Great Britain Goes Off The Rails and... Service With A Sneer

JANUARY 30th 2003

Stuck in Leeds fuelled by rage and wit. What else is there to do but type furiously... All The News That's Fit To Pulp and also...
whilst we're thinking about girls,girls,girls... The Ex Files, all about how we use Friends Reunited to gloat about our ex's and ...
How Was It For You?. Quality vs. Quantity. Bad Sex vs. Great Love. One Great Woman vs. Several Average Ones. No contest.

JANUARY 27-28th 2003

Boy oh boy. We love travelling around the country. But it's productive. A couple of reviews... Lard - "The Last Temptation Of Reid" and a pop at Eminem's 8 Mile

JANUARY 25th 2003

Changed the general design of MOST of the site. Not the multitude of reviews and poems, but the top-layer. Added verse. And also a little tribute to Bill Hicks : You Can't Get Bitter

JANUARY 24th

Ha Ha Ha, ever get the feeling you've been murdered for profit? Nobody cares. Go On Soldiers, Do Your Jobs! DIE FOR OIL!

JANUARY 23rd 2003

MP3's= Drugs, Guns And World Crime. Look! An industry desperate to lie to justify profits and treat us all like criminals. Numbnuts.

JANUARY 22nd 2003

About Moi.One of those forwarded email thingummys. P.S.most visitors to this site look on Google for "Domestic Terrorist News". HELLO STRANGERS!

JANUARY 19th 2003

Thatchers Statue. We feel really strongly about this. How dare they erect a statue glorifying the evil psychopath.

JANUARY 18th 2003

Sorry - we're trying out a new design on a couple of pages... try this The Temp and let us know what you think on the guestbook

JANUARY 15th 2003

Been a tad busy - built a 33 page site about Stanley's Kubricks 1980 masterpiece The Shining.
14,000 words - and essential for any movie buff. Use the guestbook to compliment my shattered ego : that's whats its there for.

JANUARY 10th 2003

Looks like the Sisters Of Mercy are touring again. "...Excuse me whilst I overdose..."

JANUARY 7th 2003

What is the Domestic Terrorist? Why choose that name? We think this somewhat odd rant The Domestic Terrorist : Manifesto, might help. It makes it, erm, clearer - but probably not by much. Also added more verse in both 2002 and 2003.

2002's HEADLINES HERE

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