Concrete and Clay

How can I catch these little fuckers?  Tried the glue traps, tried the snap traps.  Can't be bothered with steel wool.  What is a humane way of disposing of them once I've caught them on those horrible glue traps?  I hear the rats bite their legs off in order to get off the glue only to collapse face down onto the trap.  Should I be smashing their tiny skulls with my hammer?  Or simply throwing them alive (trap and all) into the waste bin?

Any suggestions?

George Galloway wanted to make young people think more about politics; I am young and I now think about politics more than I ever have before. I am glad I moved from "Bethers" and he is no longer my MP. It is strange that aggressive people always seem to reach positions of authority.

The results are in. Concrete and Clay's favourite music of 2005.

1. Shy Child - One With the Sun
2. Milk and Beef - Do or Die
3. Raheem Devaughn - The Love Experience
4. Stellastarr - Harmonies for the Haunted
5. Frozen Elephants Music - The Map is not the Territory
6. Suitable Case For Treatment - Of Motets and Misdirection
7. Soft - Soft EP
8. Cagey House - Steel Tantrum EP
9. The Diggs - Commute
10. Savage - Moonshine

Felix Cubin & Wojtek Kucharczyk - Territerrortorium

This record rocks... try combing the Polish and German national anthems to a beat that make your nose bleed. This was created from a series of outtakes from the radio play "Kubinski & the Complainer" broadcasted on Deutschlandradiokultur in 2004. Step into a scary chasm of experimental electronic kultur and buy this recording.

So while more people are entering the arts and entertainment industries than ever before, some of us are content with just recycling existing works and giving them new life and sometimes new meaning. I was recently introduced to the Trailer Parody. It involves creating new trailers from existing material. From the few I've seen, this usually means turning the subject on its head.

But don't content yourself with my poor, opinionated explanation. Check out the following links (they're funny as shit):

• Big
• Shining

My vote goes to Do or Die by Milk and Beef.

Place your votes for Best Album of 2005 in the comments, and I'll compile a Concrete and Clay top ten.

Get voting!

Update: the results are in.

//// Frozenelephants present their first online compilation ////

*** Download the album for free at : www.frozenelephantsmusic.com

A mix of electronic experiments. To hear is not to listen.

Browsing through the Cheshire Street Sunday Market in East London last weekend, I spotted a box of seven inch singles, and of course began digging. There were quite a few gems so I asked the price - 20p each. However, this was immediately dropped to £2 for the whole box, which I happily accepted. Here's a quick mix through some of these great condition 7 inch singles, dancefloor killers all. Made my week.

two_pound_record_box_mix.mp3
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Isn't it odd how people seem to attract certain things and situations? Among the things I seem to attract are:

• Cowboy hats and hats of all kinds, but particularly cowboy ones.
• Dust.
• Holey socks.
• Getting thrown out of nightclubs and bars for no reason...

I have been thrown out of the 333 three times and last week was accompanied to the door of the Old Blue Last by my new Ukranian friend Sergei who identified me as a potential deviant in the upstairs parlour. Even Sergei was slightly taken aback by the calmness with which I accepted my fate, so little did this most regularly occuring of events faze me.

As I stood by the exit doing up my coat and finishing the last of my drink, he told me that as a special favour I could take my drink away with me in a paper cup. Smilingly, I told him where to stick his paper cup and walked into the cold.

1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
3. The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.

I didn't realise how much thought goes into this until the last night when I had the pleasure of attending a focus group geared towards determining microcosmic nuances in fashion for sports brand UMBRO.

"You can wear this but not with that." "This is cool but she's already wearing it." "Golas & Hi Teks are at the bottom of the shoe barrel but everyone's got Air Force."

Is it OK to shop at SIZE? You may think the chances of bumping into someone with the same shoes are slim, but its probably more likely that that person also went to SIZE and will also be frequenting the same establishment you diss outwardly, but love inwardly.

I never thought about these things. My trainers are dirty. My other pair is moldy. I buy most of my shit from charity and the rest from outlets. I love to get fresh clothes from Unit Sicks cause I know the love that's gone into them. I can't see the love going into a pair of Indonesian Nikes (bar maybe the designer).

Thanks to Danny Reakes for lookin out & Al Peters for the laughs.