The Bookseller to the Stars

"The Jon Stewart of the book trade." -Publisher who will remain anonymous.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

New For You at The BTTS



Now you are all starting to get paid and this weekend is the first official mad weekend for Christmas shopping...

At the Bookseller to the Stars, we have Exclusive trade paperback's of Nick Hornby's new novel, "A Long Way Down" for you this festive season.

Stickered by the publisher as "Limited Christmas Edition" no less...

That's right folks, a novel about people committing suicide...

Happy Christmas Shopping!

Introducing... Potential Fucking Psychos... Part Two

Those of you who have been coming to The Bookseller to the Stars for some time now, should know The Golden Rules. If you check your fine print, down there on page 32 is Rule number 423 and under "Ask a silly question....":


Pale Old Christian Hag: "Do you have a Christian section?"

BTTS: "Excuse me?"

Pale Old Christian Hag: "A section for Christian books...."

BTTS: "Yes, we have a Religion section where.... all the religions are represented..."

I know. I know. Just... don't

Pale Old Christian Hag turns crimson and her face begins to gurn wildly.

BTTS: "First floor and just to..."

Pale Old Christian Hag (spitting violently): "There is only one religion and if you think otherwise young man its death. Death I say..."

She jabs her finger into the ground and then swiftly above her to the sky mumbling heresies and pointing towards me.

BTTS: "Right, I think the majority of the people in this world would actually err... disagree."

Pale Old Christian Hag's Christian Friend motions for her to come upstairs and leave the evil one to his own damnation. I am blase...

"No..." she snaps. "We shall leave the house of ill repute, this sanctimony... burn... burn IN HELL!!"

They both storm towards the exit and again the pointing, this time I follow her direction upto the ceiling and look in earnest for some kind of guidance....

...

...

Nope, just the fire alarm....

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Whores Moaning?

My buddy, John Mendelssohn the writer is branching out into the novelty t-shirt business. The line is affectionately called Whore Moan Novelties. Take a look at the cool designs and you can order them onto a t-shirt or a mug or a cap or something, he may even brand your backside if you ask him nicely.....

There are some really cool retro designs on the site aswell.

John has written two great books, one about The Pixies and the other about Kate Bush. Amazon link coming at ya....

John's Books

Monday, November 28, 2005

Confusion is Next

Sometime I wish I was born much earlier than I was.

Ideally, Ihave always thought that I should have been born around 1960 so I would have come of age around 1977.

My mum had it made but it was instead squandered on creating me. That and hideous bell bottoms.

I could have caught The Ramones, The Pistols and The Clash, all in their seething prime. But not where I was.

Definately where I was. For this moment in time, this fantasy, what if scenario, my place of birth is London and where I reside now.

Lately on the other hand< I wish I was born much later when everything became suddenly less complicated but most importantly had the technology and the smarts to be socially aware of the commuinication opportunites around me.

For that, I don't mind being where I was. In fact, I wish I rather was there than in the space and time that I am.

I cannot desire this althoughas I wont and cant return. Despite the lure of the greatest desires presented to me on the most inedible of platters.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

"I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one."



"In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life."

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

"Every woman who has been with George gets what I call Florence Nightingale syndrome. I've discussed it with his exes. We all ended up feeling that he is a little boy who needs looking after. For long periods, particularly after his liver transplant, my relationship with him was more maternal." Alex Best

Yes, he was a great footballer. No one can dispute that.
Pele even famously called Best, the best. The coverage of his death and tributes have been both overbearing and also sickening. Before his corpse is cold, they are suggesting that as a fitting tribute there should now be a United Ireland team.... and he will get the biggest funeral since Princess Di...
Hmm, perhaps the Irish problems with its political structure should be sorted out first?
...and you want a fitting tribute, have some money donated to Refuge...
Today in a National Sunday Tabloid they tell us that his ex-wife Alex, now a reality TV superstar and author of a bestselling heartfelt memoir was "smuggled" into hospital to say goodbye to him. The couple divorced after reports that Best beat her up in a drunken stupor.
This paper published this picture on the front page and alluded to the meeting:
Now one can assume that this was not taken at that meeting but one of his other many hospitalisations considering the picture the same newspaper group printed with Best's permission days earlier on his death bed, looking thin and well... rather off colour.
I met George Best a couple of times in the mid nineties when he was a guest of Butlins at one of their sport weekends. It was when he was supposed to be on one of his dry periods.
Waitress: "Could you serve the sport table? They are grossing me out..."
Before I was a Bookseller to the Stars: "What do you mean?"
Waitress: "That fat guy with the grey beard... who is it? He's totally perving on me..."
I sneak my head above the swing partition doors and peer towards where the retired footballers are sat.
Before I was a Bookseller to the Stars: "That's George Best... he was a footballer... for someone... Kinda more famous for his antics off the pitch. Champagne swilling and model dating..."
The gum-chewing 18year old in front of me is non the wiser.
BIWBTTS: "Just leave them to me...."
I then proceeded to provide their table with mostly drinks. They were on the pints but I was summoned over numerous times in quick sucession to provide Best and some other faded sportsman with a disgraceful amount of chasers, an amount of alcohol that would have floored a couple of young binge drinking girls.
Waitress: "They've gone..."
BIWBTTS: "Cool..."
Waitress: "He's quite charming really, wants me to go to his chalet later on...."
She skips away. BIWBTTS looks on perplexed.


As I have grown up through the Eighties and Nineties, this man was very seldom out of the tabloids so in my own personal tribute, I present to you:

My Top Five... nuggets of information coincidentally glossed over/not mentioned in any of this weekends George Best tributes.

*In 1984, he was convicted of drink-driving and assaulting a policeman, and was jailed for 12 weeks. An appeal failed, and Best spent Christmas in Pentonville Prison.

*After claiming that the prison experience made him turn over a new leaf, millions watched his infamous drunken performance in 1990 on the Wogan television chat show. Eight months later he was then bound over for assaulting a man in a London pub.

* In the year 2000, he made a televised pledge to stay off drink, telling Martin Bashir:
"I should be dead. But I'm not and now I'm not going anywhere. No one can consume the amount of alcohol I was without eventually affecting the most important organ in the body. Now I don't think about how much longer I can drink, because I'm not going to. "
He was rushed to hospital in March after collapsing with severe liver damage and was told one more drink could kill him. His wife supported him through the operation. Despite a then liver transplant in 2002, Best soon returned to alcohol and Alex filed for divorce soon after when reports of his one nights stands continued. Best, forever the gentleman appeared in a Sunday newspaper hitting back at all his former women, scoring them out of 10. Alex got a zero.

* Victims of domestic violence condemned the decision by the Football Writers Association to award Best with a tribute dinner weeks after Best punched and kicked his wife, Alex in a drunken rage. Sheryl Gascoigne helped to launch a campaign by Refuge, the charity for battered women. She told The Observer: 'I think it's inappropriate to honour a wife-beater such as George Best. Imagine how his wife must feel.'

* Earlier this year, he appeared in photographs with two black eyes after being attacked by his then girlfriend Ros Hollidge, who hit him with a vase after he arrived drunk at her home. He was then arrested and questioned by Surrey Police after reports of him indecently assaulting a 13 yr old girl and then arrested and questioned for nine hours after allegedly punching Vicky Pope, 34, as she tried to stop him from contacting his former lover Gina Devivo.
In a spooky coincidence, George died just hours after new drinking laws were passed so pubs can now open 24hrs. There's yr fitting tribute right there.

Hey, I don't print them....

Friday, November 25, 2005

SFMT

Hey I have been meaning to post these for ages, they are the of the San Francisco Mime Troupe at Wilard Park, in Berkeley, CA. The were doing an outdoor play adaptation of the Jon Perkins book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", it was very interesting and made you think about the current political climate. The book is all about how the US have rampaged their way through the world like Atilla the Hun.












Thursday, November 24, 2005

Giving Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Americans Readers....

....How will you be preparing your Turkey this year?

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

The Streets of San Francisco


I was getting over the gaping hole in my heart that emerged when I left San Francisco. Slowly I was getting over the lovelorn feeling in my soul as I began working again in rainy, foggy London. That is, Until I saw this. This is for Martha and Cornelia.

"I'm a Failure, Get me some Work!"


This week's issue of TV Times, the weekly TV guide leads with a feature of ITV's reality-in-the-jungle programme, "I'm a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here".

The show sees TV actors and celebrities that have, shall we say, fallen from grace.... pit their witlessness against each other and as a team all at the same time as they go through gruesome challenges and viewer favourite games like "The nearly drowning in a river game", "Gorging on fish eyes game" and "Putting your head in a box of poisonous spiders game".

The winner of the show finds a resurgence in their career and guaranteed lifetime work in panto and making commercials for supermarkets and home insurance.

Ah, the price of fame...

Another thing.... Jungle Fever?

Is that the best you could come up with?

My hairy left testicle jumping off a speeding train and running a marathon could come up with a better slogan than that? That's just lazy writing aimed at crack whore single mothers and sun readers... and neo nazi popstars....

Wait, aren't they all the same thing?

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

"Do You Wanna be in my Gang Bang, Gang Bang...."

There was a collective shrug of ambivolence in London yesterday.

Come to think of it now, I can't quite put my finger on it. I'm sure it will come to me.

Oh, yeah, that's right...

21 November 2005
GLITTER 'COULD FACE DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD'


Fallen 70's pop star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter could be shot dead by a firing squad if he is found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl, Vietnamese police said today.
Under Vietnamese law sex with a 12-year-old child - even if the girl had given her consent - is considered to be child rape.


Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was arrested by in the southern resort of Vung Tau in Vietnam after two girls, aged 12 and 18 years old, told police he had sex with them.
Conflicting reports suggested the second girl was not yet 18 and Vietnamese law levies a sliding scale of penalties, depending on the charge, for sexual contact with a minor.


One of the most serious crimes is child rape which carries the maximum penalty of death.
A police officer said proof that Glitter had sex with the 12-year-old would be considered the gravest of offences. He explained: "Having sex with a 12-year-old girl, regardless of whether he had her consent, is still considered child rape under Vietnamese law.”


The paper added that the 12-year-old told police she had sex three times with Glitter, who paid her £5.50 each time.

Glitter was convicted in Britain in 1999 of possessing child pornography and served half of a four-month jail sentence before being released.
He later went to Cambodia and was permanently expelled in 2002, reportedly for trawling for underage sex, although Cambodian officials did not specify his crime or file charges.


Millions of people read the news in about 30 seconds and then flicked over to the Su Doku before going about their day. As a parting gesture, feel free to sing along with The Bookseller to the Stars:


"The things they said about the two of us were lies
I knew they couldn.t see the love lights in our ours
They said I wouldn't dare, to show how much I care
They didn't know that we were just two angels in disguise"
"I Love you love, you love me too love, I love you love me love
I Love you love, my only true love, I Love you love me love"



The Breeders Blackheath 201105



So how excited was I when I read on the NME News site that, fresh off seeing my buddy Kim Deal at Reading, that The Breeders were coming to town.... WTF? Within hours the first night was sold out and I was one grinning little bastard when I was lucky enough to get tickets for the second night.

Breeders Blackheath 2005

Not only were the Deal sisters playing with the FEAR guys from the Title TK tour but the also brought along a Carrie Bradley and Jo Wiggs (!!!) the original bass player from back in the "Pod" and "Last Splash" days. Very Cool. We have a new Number Two on the All Time Top 10 aswell as pictures you couldnt pay the professionals to take....

Glad They Played: "Saints"
Surprised They Didn't Play: "Head to Toe"

Check out the pics and The Breeders set list aswell















Monday, November 21, 2005

Thanks Cornelia!

Wow, I have been linked on Cornelia Read's website, very cool.

Cornelia is (another) great female thriller writer from the states and I am really looking forward to getting hold of a copy of her book as it is not available in this country yet. Its out in May in the states for all my american friends and hopefully between now and then get picked up here.

If you are lucky or you are one of the three people that visit this site, you may (on occasion) see her pass a comment... or perhaps a little fart... xx

BTTS on CRead

Oh, Ok if the song says so... We're Sorry, all this time we must have been wrong....

Bush Was Right

This sounds disturbingly like "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel. The Right Brothers second album "II" (the follow up to their first, "For My Country") is available through their website (you mean I can't get it in HMV, BTTS?) and features such instant classics as "It's My Money", "Dear. Mr. Reagan" and the pro-life track, "I Want to Live"....

He may have well been right, but we are not gonna let him leave that easily, take a look at this, its fucking hilarious. Stan Laurel has nothing on W....

Sunday, November 20, 2005

The Breeders (Cont...)












Friday, November 18, 2005

Courtney Love back to work


Courtney Love has said that her time in rehab has helped her work on new songs. The singer has spent recent weeks in a facility in California, said that the time has given her the opportunity to work on new tracks, which could feature on the follow-up to her last album, 2004's 'America's Sweetheart'. Working titles include 'The Depths Of My Despair', 'My Bedroom Walls', 'Sad But True' and 'How Dirty Girls Get Clean'.

She told The Guardian: "I've had nothing but time in here. There's not a lot of activities. You have to make your own fn and my fun is my guitar so I'm down to it and I have to really question what it is I do for a living. Primarily I do two things: I act and I sing, and if I don't do those things well then I don't know what my objective is."

Her time out of the limelight has given Love the chance to sample some new music, with current favourites including Kings of Leon, Goldfrapp and The Duke Spirit. She continued: "I really like The Duke Spirit. It's a chick who obviously writes her own lyrics, which is hugely progressive for this day and age. I just don't see ads for females in bands and it's very depressing."

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Update from New York

What's happening in the world of CBGB's?

Thursday, November 17, 2005

An Unwitting White Supremist Paedophiles Dream (Have fun with that Google)



The lunacy of what people knowingly refer to as life never ceases to amaze me. But I have to admit, this one is a little creepy...

Now you probably think theres a joke coming. I know what you're thinking,

"Here's that crazy bookseller who thinks he's gonna be a writer one day... with his little english whimsies and and another one of his quaint little music links...."

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you "Prussian Blue" and their new video for "Victory Day".

I know what you are thinking... Let me put you out of your misery now....

It's real.

Lynx and Lamb have just turned thirteen and they are the new hip face of white supremacy in America. As you can tell from their video and recent coming of age photo shoot here, they are being touted around as some sort of Mary Kate and Ashley/t.a.t.u. hybrid.

They cite their influences as... (I'm being serious) Avril Lavigne, Evanescence, Green Day, AC/DC, and Barney the Purple Dinosaur....

Let's have some background from our friends at Wikipedia:

The group has strong ties to the National Vanguard organization, a white supremacy splinter group formed by disaffected former members of the National Alliance.

According to an article from ABC News, the girls are homeschooled by their mother, April, an activist and writer for the white activist organization National Vanguard. The article further discusses the twins' maternal grandfather, who wears a swastika belt buckle, uses the Naz symbol on his truck and registered it as a cattle brand.

During their ABC interview, the twins said they believe Adolf Hitler was a good man with great ideas, such as eugenic standards and incentives to improve the genetic quality of the German people, such as marriage loans to help qualified German families begin upon a firm financial basis.

They describe their ancestry as English, Scottish and Prussian (German). The band was named after the color Prussian blue, as a reference to the girls Prussian heritage and their blue eyes. They also stated that they think Prussian blue is "just a really pretty color".

In an interview with the Viceland magazine they also stated: "There is also the discussion of the lack of "Prussian Blue" coloring (Zyklon B residue) in the so-called gas chambers in the concentration camps. We think it might make people question some of the inaccuracies of the "Holocaust" myth."

That's right, folks.... The Holocaust was a myth....

Prussian Blue's lyrics contain phrases and images often associated with white power music and Neo-Nazi doctrine, including Valhalla and Vinland. Many of their songs are also dedicated to famous Nazis and neo-Nazi activists such as Rudolf Hess and Robert Jay Mathews, as in the song "Sacrifice":

Rudolf Hess, man of Peace
He wouldn't give up and he wouldn't cease
Remember him and give a pause


Robert Matthews knew the Truth
He knew what he had to do
He set an example with Courage so bold
We'll never let that fire grow cold

This is the Christmas card they are sending out this year, I believe:



This is their site and the girls are also fellow bloggers it seems although it seems the two girls don't seem old enough to form any sort of sentence to post yet, let alone sing in time or in tune. Not convinced?

Here's another musical gem from them, I shall wait here while you wince in horror...

Already the group have secured themselves a fanbase. From what can be taken from this fan site, I would say that the average Prussian Blue fan is male and over 35.... and on a register somewhere. Probably not what the team behind Prussian Blue had in mind. Creeped out yet?

In an interview with National Vanguard, the girls were asked,

What do you think is the most important social issue facing the white race right now?

"Not having enough white babies born to replace ourselves and generally not having good-quality white people being born. It seems like smart white girls who have good eugenics are more interested in making money in a career or partying than getting married and having a family."

The 11 year old Lamb told Inga Banks of Californian Radio Station, KERN that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preferred white to black prostitutes.

In an interview for the Reykjavik Grapevine, they were asked their views on immigration:

"The immigration is changing our schools because the Mexicans’ behavior is rubbing off on the White kids. Like spray painting and laziness and bad grammar. I see so much of the teachers’ time spent on trying to get the Mexican kids to behave themselves or so much money spent on trying to teach them English that it takes away from the rest of us."

"I haven’t been to any of the countries of my heritage. I might like to move to a European country like Iceland or Ireland or Germany but only if they haven’t ruined it by allowing too many immigrants from non-white countries like the US did. What I have seen White Europeans benefit our country and our society."

Ahhh, They must be a PR persons dream... Aint they just the cutest at that age?

A feature on ABC News about them and a planned tour created a shitstorm and a barrage of abuse and complaint to both their blog and their website, causing them to close all forums and stop all comments on their blog.... much to the girls distress and surprise.

The girls were quote, "In tears. This is going to follow them for the rest of their lives," says Edgar Steele, the sisters' attorney.

Now, he says, the sisters "are living in an undisclosed location and there will be no personal appearances until this thing is long blown over."

I would consider quitting while you are not quite so ahead and in the tradition of backward America, concentrate on that pure family you want to create instead. This is just pure ignorance. Prussian Blue are currently on the road, scouting out new places to live, to get away from the mud invasion that is taking place in their current hometown near Bakersfield, CA.

This bunch started to intrigue me and I found some further info about this California "family" for you.

The mother, April Gaede was born in 1966, raised in the foothills of Fresno, and graduated from Reedley High School in 1984. This high school was mostly non-white; therefore, the experience must have been rough for her. She was raised by a "racially aware" cattle-ranching father.

April majored in journalism at California's own Fresno State University in the middle 1980s, but dropped out before earning a degree of any type. She claims that a black man attempted to rape her in 1986. The story sounds highly questionable because the black guy allegedly ran away after she "bit his finger". Any rapist could have snapped her little finger in half if he really wanted to sexually assault her. 1986 might have been the year of her "racial awakening" if the rape attempt truly did happen.

Lamb and Lynx were born to April in the summer of 1992. Their father is unknown at this time. April married a "white hero" named Mark Neufeldt almost two years ago, and relocated to the "rapidly browning" city of Bakersfield around the same time period.

Mark, a Gulf war veteran, has a German speaking, non-English speaking daughter from a previous relationship named Sandy. They decided to live happily ever after in Rosedale, a mostly white part of town. The bad news for this family is the fact that Mexican people are buying homes in Rosedale; as a result, this part of town is "rapidly browning" as well.

Mark impregnated April in the fall of 2003, and Dresden Hale Neufeldt was the result of careful baking. The ash-blonde infant girl was born in July 2004. You see, Mark and April believe in replenishing the numbers of the white race, so baby Dresden was their critical contribution. Matthew Hale, a family friend of the Gaedes, was the source for the baby's interesting middle name. Mr. Hale, former leader of the World Church Of The Creator, is serving time in prison for conspiring to have a female judge murdered. He's the one who coined the term RAHOWA (Racial Holy War). WCOTC is now called the Creativity Movement.April is currently a housewife who home-schools her children.

It is frightening when a college dropout mother has the opportunity to educate her baked goods. The two members of Prussian Blue are, however, surprisingly articulate in interviews. Their mommy has helped them learn vocabulary words that will aid in their futures as saviors of the white race. They are thoroughly knowledgeable on subjects such as Hitler, eugenics, reproduction and poor quality whites.

At this time, they are most interested in the pacific northwest area, they are looking for a town that is at least 90% white.

Puts a whole new meaning to the term, blame the parents... doesn't it?

I shall leave you now back where we started (once more with bloodcurdling feeling now)....

Well sit down and listen, to what I have to say.
Soon will come a great war, a bloody but holy day.
And after that purging, our people will be free,
and sing up in the bright skies, a sun for all to see...

Times are very tough now for a proud White man to live.
And although it may appear that this world has no life to give.
Times are soon changing, this cant go on or long.
And on that joyful summer's day we'll sing our Victory song...
The women, they'll smile, on Victory Day.

And the children, they'll laugh and they'll sing and they'll play.
And the forests will echo our grace, for the brand new dawn of our Race...
You are my brother and in war we proudly sing. Our Cause shall never tire.
Our gift to you we bring: A holy creed of Racial purpose, A mighty Race to defend.
And when we fly our holy flag Their oppressive reign shall end...

And when we finally conquer, our people will be free.
And all across this great land, the bold Truth we shall see.
So as we march together, to avoid catastrophe,
let's remember always our sacred Destiny...


The new Prussian Blue DVD is called "Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes" but you probably won't find it in HMV....



Another lost music gem from the Eighties

Love Your Mothers...

Monday, November 14, 2005

Introducing... Potential Fucking Psychos... Part One

This week's lesson at The Bookseller to the Stars has been all about dealing with the more avant-garde patrons.

Potential Fucking Psycho: "Do you have the new Andy McNab?"

BTTS: "Sure, let me go and get it for you...."

As I venture over to the hardback fiction table, I should clue you in on a couple of things. Wherever possible, I take from the sections and not the front of store which is sometimes closer but its one less book I have to replace if I take it from the section and secondly, at this juncture... I cannot say that I have a Potential Fucking Psycho on my hands. But I do...

BTTS: "Here you are..."

Potential Fucking Psycho is in his fifties and greying. He has shaking hands, vodka breath and comatosed eyes behind his NHS lenses and he seems unnervingly excited about the plush white hardback with the glorified firearm eblazoned upon it.

Potential Fucking Psycho: "It reminds me of my new .44 from Guns and Ammo, oooooh that is one sexy gun..."

BTTS: "Really..."

Potential Fucking Psycho (deadpans and imitates): "Really..? Surely you mean... really?"

I really don't know what I meant. I couldn't really give a fuck.... But, the company handbook and all of its rules and service guidelines deems that I grace this loon with a polite reply, instead the sane procedure I have in mind of dragging him outside by the throat.

BTTS: "I'm sorry Sir, I am just not familiar with what that is..."

Potential Fucking Psycho: "It's one of the most lethal firearms on the market today.... It's so sweet man, it's got this horny little kick to it... (holds arm out straight in front of him and points the imaginary firearm at my head) it goes pop and it lifts your arm up like this... (he demonstrates).... Hmmm... I'm sooo in love...."

BTTS: "Right...."

In his orgasmic fit of delight, his head has drooped to his hands upon the writing surface in front of me.

BTTS: "That's £29.98, Sir...."

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Another Fox News Idiot

Bill O'Reilly asks Al-Qada to bomb San Francisco, why is this man still working?

Bill O'Reilly's new bestseller, incidentally...

Rap the Draft

The Draft Rap

New Designs... A Winter Coat

Hey There,

I am going through a bit of a makeover on my website, come and check it out

Thursday, November 10, 2005

I'm not one to judge...

I'm ringing up some books at the till point and this lady asks me,

This Lady: "I bet you can tell a lot about a person about the type of books they buy?"

Now honestly, I stopped looking a long time ago.

Because... people's taste in books... suck. Not only are they driven by the "pretty posters on the wall" but also tend to be influenced very easily by any other random strangers they have never met, who are also browsing around the promotional tables.

I have never understood this. You don't see this in Tesco over the baked beans, for example.

Anyway, you don't want to know about this...

I am presented with three titles.... this, this and this....

Bookseller to the Stars: "Well, I'm not one to judge..."

To be honest, I really don't notice anymore. I am too concerned with getting people out of the door as they fume and vent their general disdain at how long they are being made to wait.

This Lady (scoffing): "I probably won't even read them..."

Bookseller to the Stars: "Well, I am sure they are very good..."

This Lady (snatching the bag from me): "I doubt that"

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Lost music gem from the Eighties

One For The Boys

Monday, November 07, 2005

Not in any stores... NOW!


While I was away this summer, I came out of retirement for one night only to rock a wedding party in the middle of the Ontario countryside mixing the likes of Madonna, Led Zeppelin, Beyonce, Snoop, Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim, The Breeders, Hendrix, INXS, Gwen Sefani, Aerosmith, Scanty Sandwich, The Knack, The Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder and many more, resulting in "The Wedding Album"Anyone interested are more than welcome to email me for a copy...

Saturday, November 05, 2005

NYC August




This week, Sorry...

Sorry I have been quiet this week folks, the lap has been in the shop and work has been manic. I am currently in the conception stage of a brand new charity project which I will talk about soon.

First off, I saw Jimmy Page in Bayswater coming out of the tube station! I was like "RockNRoll, dude!!!" and also like, "How the Fuck did that happen?"

Lots been happening in the news this week, everyone has forgotten about Harriet Meirs now Alito is seen to be a suitable person for the Supreme Court. I couldn't help thinking why the hell if he is so great why he wasn't nominated in the first place. I wonder how he feels being a sloppy seconds choice to her aswell...

Inquiry after five killed in car crash by Denis Campbell
(Sunday October 30, 2005 in The Observer)

Relatives of five young people who died yesterday when a stolen car they were travelling in crashed have demanded to know if police were chasing the vehicle immediately before the fatal accident.
Daniel Carwardine, a 17-year-old trainee mechanic, two other boys and two girls were all killed instantly when the blue Metro they were in left the road in St Leonards, East Sussex, and hit a wall.


Carwardine's father Lee, was among dozens of grieving relatives who were demanding answers. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an inquiry into the incident, which happened early yesterday morning.

Its probe is focusing on what happened between 1.40am, when the car was spotted by police, and 1.42am, when it careered into the wall of a house. It is thought a member of the public rang the police minutes before the crash after the Metro was involved in a collision with a cyclist, although the IPCC would not confirm the claim. IPCC deputy commissioner Mike Franklin would not say whether officers in a marked patrol car pursued the car.

'We understand that they [officers] were at the accident scene very quickly so they could not have been that far away', said Franklin.

An IPCC spokeswoman said its investigation would examine 'whether or not a police car was following the car, how close it was and whether or not its blue lights were on, for instance.
'At this stage it is too early to say what the exact involvement of the police and the vehicle was.'
Relatives laid flowers at the scene of the crash yesterday. Sussex police have passed the accident to the IPCC 'due to police involvement with the vehicle prior to the crash.


This is very sad, I have to admit.... but just give me a second here....

Five kids.

Joyriding.

In a stolen car.

Crash...

Five kids die.

Parents of dead angry at police for chasing the car...?

Am I missing the loop here? Yes, very sad but..... they broke the law!

Not only breaking the law but then did an OJ... I mean, err.. what's wrong with this picture?

Again, very sad....

I'm not one to point the finger of blame here, unlike the parents of the kids that (once again) broke the law... but err how was this accident really caused?

Come on.... Inquiry? I know the questions that need to be asked here....

Your Shitstorm Forecast

Shitstorm - This is hilarious!

Friday, November 04, 2005

Little Howard

Now tell me you don't want to take home Little Howard....

What will the Reverend make of this?

Countdown

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Protests in Seattle 021105





Wednesday, November 02, 2005

This year's list to Santa

Dear Santa,

I think that this year I have been a good Bookseller to the Stars. I do not want for much and as the Lord taught us, it is better to give than receive so this year, I am not going to be greedy.

This year, I would like one of these:

...or I would settle for one of these....


Cheers, oh and yeah.... the suicide girl...

New Rules at The BTTS

Indeed, Sir

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