Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Memories

NSK are releasing Trans Slovenia Express Vol 2, featuring Laibach covering one of their own songs in the style of Kraftwerk and the Internationally Famous (in Belgium) Anne Clark. Among others. Looking forward to a return to the happy days of my Slovenian Techno phase.

I’m in the room at the top corner of the 70s concrete building stood atop one of the few hills in Norwich – our view covers the city centre, giving us a perfect vista for spotting fires in the city. There are six of us there, my boss, Simon, and a co-worker, Teresa, have already […]

“T’anks to Mr. Bush” “I don’t know why we need to tolerate the cheap artwork of a gadfly with a world view that is so offensive to a majority of the people”…couldn’t’ve said it better myself, but I’m not sure the works of Bush are within the realm of what we classically consider ‘art’, and […]

I’m surprised theres enough data for them to say that “Start the riot” by Atari Teenage Riot is an unsafe song….thats gotta go on the ‘must have’ list.

This follows on from a conversation I was having at the weekend…the details of which will remain undisclosed to protect the guilty. Oh, and, beermat: The infinite cat project starts here

“The blaze engulfed a car, burnt one building and scorched the giant teapot itself“

The last of the interceptors

Theres a History of the interceptor and a lego version[0] but thats not what I’m wanting to talk about…I’m worried. I’ve been reading some things lately about whats happening in the world and thinking about them and they are worrying me. Firstly, I don’t know whether anyone else has heard about the possibilities of power […]

Linkblast

Sim skin (temporarily down, but worth a look when its back…) pi – Four Parts in A Harmonic Minor (3:14 long, no less) Prime time Vat-grown beef “Over 85% of Aries owners have a fixed address” “The internet is not the sole basis upon which you can determine existence. It sounds simple but people are […]

1001 Nights without sex

No, not me, its a book review…. Subtitled “The curse of the single girl” this book follows the story of the author through her descent from ordinary girl to desperate ‘still single’ black sheep of the family suffering a drought. I was intrigued by this book, since it seemed to have a certain resonance with […]

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