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When he was on the slide we couldn't get 14 million for him , when he got back to his best we got 30

Wear the same socks for 2 weeks straight , then go round , they'll be begging you to put your shoes back on.

Florida Driver Gets Owl Stuck In Grill Watch the video . Tough motherfuckers those owls.

23 in a row now , and beat the track record which has stood for 25 years still under a good hold at the finish

Hopefully will still be working in Melbourne in July , if so I'll be having the Friday and Sat off so would be good to have a few pints with fellow forumites.

Interview in the morning paper if anyone is interested Cookies must be enabled. | The Australian Subscription may be required so i'll just paste it. NICK Cave has a history with the Prince of Wales Hotel in St Kilda. His first band the Boys Next Door played there in the late 1970s, just down the road from the Crystal Ballroom, the Melbourne group's second home before they moved to England as the Birthday Party in 1980. Yet the singer's most vivid memory of the Prince is not as the agent provocateur frontman of Melbourne's foremost post-punk outfit, but as a punter. "I was thrown down the stairs by the bouncers here," he recalls, then corrects himself. "Actually, not down the stairs, but off the balcony and down the stairs. I wasn't particularly in showroom condition and for some reason I got it into my head that I should report the matter to the police. I walked into the police station and said: 'Look, the bouncers have just thrown me down the stairs.' And they went: 'F . . k off.' That says a lot about the caring police force." The young delinquent finding his way in life and in music on the streets of St Kilda in the 70s is a far cry from the dapper, articulate 55-year-old holding court in the Prince today. Black suit with white shirt is the singer's favoured ensemble and he wears it with some style. He exudes good health and good humour too, not attributes he would have been readily associated with when rolling around the floor screaming obscenities into a microphone back in the day. The Prince has changed significantly since then as well, not least with its boutique-style apartments above the venue, although the hotel remains a staple of the alternative rock 'n' roll circuit for local and overseas acts. Cave has chosen one of these smart upstairs rooms to talk about the latest chapter in his long, illustrious and multifaceted career. Cave and his band of 30 years, the Bad Seeds, release their 15th studio album, Push the Sky Away, next week. They begin a national tour in Australia to promote it later this month. These are the things uppermost in Cave's mind. He speaks lovingly and animatedly about the songs on the album and about the process of recording them, but as ever there are other projects simmering away on the musician's agenda, projects that demand his proven skills as an author, film composer and screenwriter. It's going to be a busy year, but for the moment the Bad Seeds come first. "I really get excited when a new record comes out," he says. "It's pathetic really." Like many artists, Cave attributes much of his success to reinvention. Aside from his diversions into film and literature, he has moved on musically with each project. The two raucous rock albums by his alternative outfit Grinderman in recent years have proved that, but this latest Bad Seeds work is also a departure from the band's previous album, the critically acclaimed Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! from 2008. There's less of a rock 'n' roll swagger on the new one and more of a considered ambience; more space for Cave's seductive baritone to wander across a variety of topics, from the God particle and spiritual awareness (Higgs Boson Blues) to sexual fantasy (Mermaids). The cover art on Push the Sky Away is a picture taken in Cave's bedroom in Brighton, England, his home of many years. The image shows Cave holding open the bedroom curtains to shed light on his naked wife, Susie Bick. It's a provocative, beautiful photograph, but one also that reflects how much his home is central to the themes of the album. "It's very much set in my house," he says, "where I have these windows that overlook the sea. When I look out those windows there's a garden and there's the sea. So on one level that's the environment it's set in, but it goes everywhere else as well." Cave is methodical about working. He goes into his office in the house and does an eight-hour day. This time the method of creating an album was slightly different. In late 2011, Cave set himself a date to begin writing, and over the following eight months completed the lyrics for the album, writing into two notebooks before committing the final words on to paper on an old typewriter. "In the past I'd write something and bring it into the studio," Cave says, "or I'd have an idea and bring it into the studio and get various people to do things with it, which has been great. This time I went into the studio ready to go." Push the Sky Away is also the first Bad Seeds album where all of the music has been co-written by Cave and his violinist and collaborator Warren Ellis, with whom he has co-written several film scores, including The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Road and Lawless. "That has been a real pleasure," says Cave. "We've worked musically with each other for years, very intimately on all of the soundtracks and stuff like that and increasingly on the records and Grinderman, but this time we really sat down and wrote a lot of songs together." This creative development is what keeps Cave and his band relevant, he believes. "If I'm doing something in a different way now it means there's some kind of creative movement going on. That's what I'm interested in because I know that's the life blood of the band and that's what keeps it going." CAVE'S career has gone off on a variety of tangents since those early days in Melbourne. While his music has been his most obvious talent, he has enjoyed considerable success as a composer, a screenwriter and a novelist. His first novel And the Ass Saw the Angel, published in 1989, is now in the Penguin Classics series, while his most recent, second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, about a sex-addicted travelling salesman, enjoyed positive reviews, particularly in Britain, when it was published in 2009. He has another book in mind, although not a novel, and he says he receives so many offers to write - whether books, film scores or screenplays - that he is turning them down on a regular basis. "There's so much stuff coming in it's ridiculous," he says. "I'm just having to say no all the time, even to things I really want to be involved in. I still try to do things that are challenging and that will give me that gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach about whether it's going to work." He'll find time when the Bad Seeds tour begins on February 26 to start writing again. "With the writing of Bunny Munro ... for years I'd laboured under the idea that nothing could be done on tour," he says. "There's a wisdom among musicians that you do the gigs and that's as much as you can get done. But I found that being on tour is an incredible place to write. I wrote most of Bunny Munro on the tour bus or in hotel rooms or at the airport; so suddenly there's this time where you can do very concentrated stuff because there is nothing else to do. There's a weird kind of exhaustion you get into that is strangely creative." This year, Cave is also taking more control of the business side of his music. After a career-long relationship with Mute Records in Britain, Push the Sky Away is being released through the group's own Bad Seed company in conjunction with Kobalt Music, a relatively new business with offices in London, New York and Sydney (among other places) with particular interests in music publishing. For this reason, Cave says he feels closer to this record than any he has made. "We had a great relationship with Mute, but we felt that the industry is changing and we need to go about things in a different way. It's been fascinating doing it, learning about this kind of thing. I don't know if I'm going to like it forever, but I've enjoyed being involved in this record so intimately. "There's a culture of obfuscation within record companies," he says, "[as if] only they can do it and you don't know what's going on. It has been a pleasure to watch how the mechanics of it actually work. It becomes a much more personal thing. I feel much more attached to this record on a personal level than I have with any other record, where I just handed them in and didn't know what happens after that." A FARMHOUSE in the south of France that houses the largest collection of classical music on vinyl in the country isn't where one would immediately imagine a rock band of the Bad Seeds' credentials setting up home for a several weeks. But that is what they did last year with producer Nick Launay to record Push the Sky Away. "Its secondary function is as a recording studio." Cave explains. "You go into this place and all of the walls are full of classical vinyl, vast libraries. It feels like you're recording in a library ... a very beautiful, spiritual place. It's residential, so you work and then at three in the morning it's time to go to bed. In the morning you go straight back into the room. There's no life outside of the meal you eat underneath the magnolia tree." Such a tranquil setting had an impact on the recording and the feel of the album, Cave says. Ambient sounds and a less structured rock agenda underpin lyrics that reflect their Brighton origins as well as themes of sex, love, social decay and, in the epic, eight-minute Higgs Boson Blues, a musing on the impact of the God particle on religion. "It's a song about spiritual collapse," Cave says. "It's something they've been talking about for years ... this popularised idea that if it [the Higgs boson] exists then God doesn't. It just seemed a nice basis to write a song around." Cave is no stranger to using religious imagery, particularly that of the Old Testament, in his work. Sometimes he has the look of a preacher about him on stage, but in reality he has no place in his life for organised religion. "In fact it becomes less and less easy to turn a blind eye to or to tolerate," he says. "The only thing worse than a militant atheist for me is a true believer. They are both one and the same thing to me." Cave is looking forward to being back on the road; promoting the album will take up much of this year He'll also make a diversion into Grinderman mode when that band plays two shows at the Coachella festival in California in April. When the touring is over, however, Cave will quite happily return to the relative peace of life on the English south coast. "For me it's a beautiful place to live," he says. "It used to have a reputation as a run-down seaside town. It's not like that any more. It has been cleaned up and the place has become really beautiful. And there's an invisibility there. I'm largely left alone. I can do whatever I like and no one bothers me." He can even watch television. "I'm a passionate TV watcher," he says, "which, weirdly, came about through my job, having to watch people's movies. I love it."

Or you could just leave them there ; after all they were born and raised there. Give the islands back to Argentina then just wait for the next fascist junta to disappear them. Problem solved.

Shut up you ignorant fucker

Stop speaking out your hoop about things you know nothing about

141 , but I haven't had a drink today.

negged

It's been nearly 3 months since I stopped with only one lapse , and that lapse was a blessing really . I had a smoke and it tasted revolting . Now if I ever get cravings I just remember what that was like . I do know that taking champix for a week fucked with my mood , and even a month later I still wasn't feeling good till I started taking 5-HTP and Tyrosine. After 35 yrs of smoking I'm certain that my brain chemistry would not return to normal without a little help. Another thing I did was never admit to myself that I had given up , it was always just putting off having the next cigarette . In the past I've been able to stop for a few months but once I'd lapsed I just started again , a result of me being an all or nothing personality type I think. This time I walked around for 10 weeks with a full pack of ciggies in my pocket and just put off having the next one . Worked a treat really , a bit like the AA mantra , just for today I won't drink ,I suppose.

Your revenge neg to me stated " no need for insults , riiight " . Hoisted by your own petard , you massive revenge negging cunt.

I should add , that it opens a new tab on that page even if I just click the tab of a current page or a blank spot on the page . I've never seen anything like it .

I seem to have been infected by something which redirects me to this page Lottery Tickets Online . Nothing I have tried can detect what it is . It is some kind of flash trouble because when I disable the flash for Firefox addon or stop the plugin-container.exe process it goes away . Malwarebytes , avg and tdsskiller show my system as clean . At the moment I am running with the flash addon disabled , but as I sometimes like to use youtube this is not a long term solution . Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of it ?

Listen dopey , read this http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/forum/members-forum/93269-please-read-before-posting.html#post2365171 and understand why I negged you . I know it might be hard to wrap your tiny little brain around it , but keep trying and you'll get there in the end . Then you revenge negged . Cunt.

Let me explain so even a simpleton like you can understand . I haven't offered you a straightener down Otterspool Prom or County Rd KFC nor have I complained about being negged. I have just stated the fact , like a public service announcement , that you are a revenge negger which makes you a massive cunt . Hopefully even a thickhead like you can understand that .

The kiwis certainly don't think there is . I can't remember the last side that was all out in the first session of a test; didn't even make it to lunch.

There is no irony. I negged you for insulting someone on the MF , you then had to search back nearly a month to find a post of mine after a particularly heavy night on the booze and negged me for it . Therefore you are a revenge negger , ergo that makes you a massive cunt . No irony.

I have no idea what this game is about , surely it can't be more time consuming than Travian . I'll join and give it a whirl.

Iceman is a dirty dirty fucking revenge negger . He even goes searching weeks back for posts so he can revenge neg . What a cunt.

Whenever there is talk of gun control in the states , i always think of this from a surrealstic art book from the 90s

Saw this on a newspaper site with the title best haircuts for 2013 . Very very strange I thought .

Crystal Meth is good for flu and bugs I've been told. Take some and report back .

RIP Dancing Dave . http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/forum/ff-football-forum/13933-luzi.html#post117930