Pull-quote of the day

[webofevil]

"Mars is going to crash into Scotland" says Ultravox's Midge Ure

Obviously that's not what he's talking about, but still, I look forward to a Wellesian War of the Worlds-type screaming exodus of Scottish people who've only had half an ear on the radio.

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[lowlowprices.livejournal.com]

I learnt the other day that it was rumoured in the Estonian press in the early 1920s that Mars had exploded and the pieces were headed straight for Estonia.

And, apropos of what you said about Bulgarian folk and machine guns the other day, here's pianist Jean Wiener on early European jazz:

"People understood almost too well that jazz was improvisation - but they didn't understand how to do it. So you got jazz bands whose only purpose was to make as much noise as possible - bells, klaxons, drums, revolvers, etc."