Neil Hopcroft

During our project meeting this morning a siren, then a voice came over a loud speaker system I didn’t even know existed. It was an odd sound something like I imagine the Vogon announcement to earth would have been, all perfect clarity in a stern Japanese – something about a fire in the boiler room. […]

The plan, such as it is, looks like: Sat 25th – arrive Heathrow, 1730ish, head to Camberley Sun 26th – sunday roast in Luton, to Kent Wed 29th – head to Whitby Mon 3rd – to Oxford Wed 5th – back to Kent Fri 7th – Fly from Heathrow Theres a few bits I’ll make […]

An addendum. I want to go on a cruise which arrives at big cities at night. And I want to make one of those bizarre clocks where balls run around on little tracks taking different paths and making different music as they go – like the one in Roppongi, or the less three dimensional ones […]

(How do I say, in polite Japanese, “I’m not a damned American”?) The Japanese don’t understand ceilings. Todays cafe had a lone bicycle chained to theirs. On the next table sat an irritatingly upper middle class father/son reunion. They were difficult enough to ignore with their holiday homes in France and hatred of the Welsh […]

EXTREME LJ – WHAT A GOOD IDEA, SHAME ABOUT THE UI ON THIS THING

While I’m at it, anyone heard of Dekoy? Somewhere along the way I picked up a promo for (or of) Heartwork, which contains five absolutely stonking EBM tracks (and one dodgy intro). They don’t sound particularly Japanese so I’m guessing they’re a German or US import of some kind.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=59722 Cute, but theres no instructions to make your own….

Hands up who knows about The 69 Eyes? Why didn’t you tell me? Have you got any more bands like them that you have also forgotten to tell me about? And, while I’m at it, how come these guys are in the top 10 in Finland? I mean they’re good, that normally disqualifies you from […]