Craig White’s Comments (group member since Oct 04, 2017)

Craig White’s comments from the Amazon exiles group.

good boys!

i knew a chap who used the 'hot knife' method on his docs - if you were prepared to put up with the ritual (i wasn't), the finish was like a mirror.

hmmm,

Sleepwalker

https://youtu.be/zgqTh6uoenc

...........when i die!

please see my photos for my afternoon's work with those shiny shiny boots of leather!

i think you'll find most of the n.f. clowns (skins excepted - was there ever such a conflicted youth culture?) preferred the paratrooper boots for maximum impact.
if you can point me toward a more interesting, iconic and varied footwear history than that of the dm's, do tell! they are part of who i am and what i've done, and i'll be buried in a pair!

i'll happily buy and wear tenner jeans from pep & co, but the docs i will gladly pay the asking price - and mrs t's 'blue light card' is good for 20% off from both 'the doctor marten's shop' and 'schuh'.

eftertim.

wee touch of the vini reillys here and there?

2 - gay
1 - thing

Falling Day - 6
Gay Sons Of Lesbian Mothers - 10
Bone Chaos In The Castle - 3
Puzzle Me-You - 2
Doing The Wrong Thing - 3
Great Round Burn
Can't Touch This or That or You or My Face - 2
Happy As A Dead Pig In The Sunshine - 1

i forgive you, my child, for ye know not of what ye profess!

i don't need to justify why they are god's own footwear, but i have not been without a pair for close on 48 years! in that time, 1 duff pair (which were instantly replaced by the dm factory direct). to polish to a high sheen is as close as i come to a religious experience!

and then,

2 - n.birchall/a.breadwinner - (would have bought this if it was available on cd)
1 - p.glass

The Robot - Philip Glass - 1
If I Had A Heart - Camilla M. Ferrari
Highway 61 Revisited - Dave Alvin
No Joshua No - Max Romeo
The River Song - Suzie Stapleton
Algae City - Arch Garrison
Wildflowers - Rose City Band
Me & Mine - American Aquarium
Poodle Power - Avalon Emerson
ADHD - WL
South Popular Guy - Moon Goose
Mystical Dub - Nat Birchall Meets Al Breadwinner - 2
Navvie - Lunatic Soul
Pulling The Pin - Run The Jewels (ft Mavis Staples and Josh Homme]

"I agree with Brass."

well, ye're baith talking shite! popular misconception - the colour may have been generally known as oxblood, but the official title of the colour is 'cherry red' - dm's don't make an 'oxblood' polish (other brands do but that's of no interest to me), they make a 'cherry', which, unless the recipe has now changed, is the crux of my issue! i prefer to blend dm polishes rather than foul the sacred footwear with another brand.

collette - that's a ridiculous statement! that's ok if your footwear is plastic, or if you don't want longevity from them. show the docs the love and you'll get 7 or 8 years from each pair, with constant wear.

"I fell asleep in my chair for 8 hours!"

....while the nurses in recovery tapped their feet and whistled tunelessly?

anyhoo, poor joke out of the way, i'm banking on having enough energy to polish my cherry reds (to go where?). that's not rocket science! in a way it is, see, the official cherry red polish lends a pinkish tinge to the finish, which is unacceptable, really (i've had a conversation with the good people in the doc shop), so i have to measure out a lump of polish with a plastic knife, and then add official black polish in until a rich brownish/cherry is achieved, then apply and buff to a glacial finish. don't bother asking why i don't just buy some (official) brown polish - that would just be daft!

" limited to reissues that contain some additional material rather than just a straight (albeit 'remastered') re-release of the original album"

that's a bit niche, no? so, anything from r/stein's 'herzelied xxv' album would have been invalid as there is no bonus material contained. then i would be excluded from forwarding material from what i perceive to be the 'cream' of the year's re-issues? feels like being thrown scraps!

"in a prison he should never have been in"

he was lucky he wasn't in a high security nutbaggery with the ghosts of dee dee ramone and leonard cohen taking scissors to his ridiculous wigs - moments of genius don't buy you a licence to kill.

i'm reserving comment, but it doesn't read well on a number of levels.

crass release 'normal never was IV' on 12 feb. the 4th (of 7?) in the 'feeding of the 5000' remix programme. the first a mix by test dept's paul jamrozy. £1.50 (or more) for 2 track d/load or £13.99 for blue vinyl 12".

crass.bandcamp.com/album/normal-never...

"give wales back to the irish" (1965)

by the time tom got the gist it was in the can - released in small numbers in ireland, and not at all in wales (or anywhere else!)

"5 rounds"

thank ****! couldnae be boathered unravelling that!

mrs tech has had her first (2nd booked) as she will be joining the vaccinator team.

my father (149) has had his first (but, damn, survived)

me? i just get the ****** covid, innit?

"ROB ZOMBIE"

i will really need to have my people talk to his people. maybe i could settle if he changes his name........to 'robert the undead' or something.

i done didded mine ending 15 feb. i had a weird feeling i'd done 5 weeks (but just let it nag!)

i will re-do if that's the thing.

i widnae. folk'll still moan, and i can't be arsed with it. thing is. folk didn't have to vote for a 25 year old song if they have an issue with it, but the fact that it won by some distance speaketh volumes, doth it not?