The Music Banter Members' Journals Monthly Update Thread

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Okay, now that the CIA have released me (that was NOT a fun week!) and agreed that Journaltown is not after all a threat to World (ie American) security and we've been taken off their watchlist, it's time to get back to the proper business of advising you all what's been happening around these parts. Also, does anyone know how to effectively remove an anal probe? I'm just asking...


Aux-in is first up again as he explores Mt. Eden in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...continuum.html while

Black Francis is more interested in games like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ms-nes-ps.html.

Fall in! Stand up straight and listen to http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...es-patrol.html --- I'm serious! This man has a taser and he knows how to use it! More tales from the beat courtesy of our favourite copper here on MB (yes, our only copper: your point?) with this week the story of the charging woman, trips to the PX and of course, fun with tasers...

It's now a case of who will finish first, as http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...63-2015-a.html hits 2010, with albums from Kno, Igorr, Sufjan Stevens and my new favourites Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, to name but four.

Recovered from the (very positive I'm sure) effects of becoming engaged, innerspaceboy is checking out The Orb, KLF, Funky synth music from the seventies and Elliott Smith too in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html.

“Star Wars Video Game Month” (or SWVGM, as we like to call it around here – what? Some of us do. Well, one of us does.) is in full swing down in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html, where he's talking about the freedom of choice in SW games, counting down the top ten weapons used, older Star Wars games he hasn't installed on his computer, and more. Much more. Well, some more. Look, let's just move on, shall we?

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-its-dumb.html has Machine talking about two albums I don't like at all, one being TMR, then there's that one from Ought that Ant likes so much, plus more, and added rambling too.

Since this update began --- nay, since journals began! --- we have searched in vain for a user with a Q in his or her username to fill up the space always vaulted over as we talk about letters like O, P and to a lesser extent N. But now, finally, after literally years of waiting, that day has dawned! Qwertyy (who also has the easiest username to type ever!) starts http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ploration.html where he's (?) kicking off by looking into Grime, and specifically Dizzee Rascal.

And after my experiences at the hands of those who protect our freedom, I've managed the odd update myself. So in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html there's a new “More than words”, while in the absence of Urban we're getting back to my coverage of Doctor Who in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html. Dredd continues his early adventures in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-2000-ad.html and there are albums from ASIWYFA and Robbie Williams in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html.

Finally, 1985 has rolled around in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html as Unknown Soldier reviews Anthrax's spreading the disease.

All right then, let's restore some normality around here! Time for my

This one gets it because of the phrase “pissy funeral director”, and also because it's quite moving in a gruff, punching-on-the-shoulder-shake-hands-but-don't-hold-for-more-than-two-seconds kind of way...

Originally Posted by fiddler

Fall in grunts and act like you know what a straight line looks like!

I love going to the PX because people are parked on the sidewalk. What kind of driver's license you have that allows you to park on the sidewalk like a straight up idiot? Let alone the sign that says otherwise. Had two cars and a van towed. The owner of the van comes out and of course gets ticked off. Sorry lady! Go pay the $50 to get your car out of the wrecker service's lot because you can't read/choose not to.

Had to go to a local cemetery and deal with a pissy funeral director moving the casket of a soldier. Apparently there were about 12 plots which had become so eroded that the caskets were in danger of falling into the river. Any time you disturb a service member's final resting place, you have to have an Honor Guard detail and an MP or two. The director was quite annoyed that his schedule was delayed half an hour waiting on the Honor Guard detail. I may or may not have dropped a line to my Sheriff's Deputy buddy about the expired tags on the hearse. May or may not have.

And of course with the heat wave, we've had people being treated for dehydration by the Medics left and right. Well when a Medic has to treat you for the same thing twice in a week, they're required to take you to the hospital and get you checked out to make sure everything is okay. I got called because this situation came up and the Soldier basically refused to go to the hospital. I told him he could go willingly with the Medics or I could put him into handcuffs and take him myself. He took the Medics.

Alright drop and bang out 10 and get lost!

As for

this really has to go to innerspaceboy for all his work on his journal http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nerspace.html. Ki has done a hell of a lot of work too, but add in the fact that isb has just got engaged and that's a lot of work to be putting out in the face of such a momentous decision.


has been officially retired. I don't have the time for it any more and I've kind of lost interest. It was a good idea for a while but now it's got to the point of being more work than it's worth, so we won't be featuring it any more.

And that's the end of our Midsummer Night update. Watch out for elves and pixies down the bottom (hah!) of the garden tonight (Frownland, you can ignore that: you probably see them every night!) and while we're on the subject, Batty, don't capture them: they don't have pots of gold. That's leprechauns...

Till next week
Toodles!

No, really: does anyone know how to safely remove an anal probe? This thing is sore!