happy new year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
get mashed, smile, take lots of pictures and feel gooooood!

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best wishes and all that jazz!

tuesday

clap your hands say yeah, yet another band to decide one or two words just don't cut it for the name of their musical collective, have never really struck a chord in my mind. that was until i listened to their song 'love song no. 7' off their latest album 'some loud thunder'. it's pretty haunting, a wee bit cold and absolutely fab.

QI christmas special!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! steven fry is a legend, even if his autobiography is a bit hard going. have you ever wondered what your really saying when you're waving a fan? and do you like ice? do you like air craft carriers? then you will love this special tv program for the festive season. oh and remember, it isn't fire that kills you, it's the smoke.

facebook... wow! i made one today and besides being surprisingly different from myspace, it's not all bad! the search function is massively entertaining!!! apart from that though, it doesn't seem like the revolutionary new site the internet needs to liven itself up. or maybe i'm just looking in the wrong places.

flamboyant bella...


making happy synth-pop with lovely harmonies, meaningful lyrics and generally just a bouncy sound, flamboyant bella are the kind of kids who will fill you up with warm bubbles of happiness on these rainy winter afternoons. with singers both sides of the gender line, the usual complement of drummer/bass/guitar and a space-age synth section, are these chirpy youngsters the future of music? i hope so! darkwave, you can suck their poppy arses.


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black balloon by the kills is such a good song! anyone who was smart enough to go to their gig (i did, and the man bumped into me ;)) will probably remember it as the one with the clapping in it, but whatever you remember it as it's GOOD.

Black Balloon - The Kills



"reads like scrubs: the blog . . . funny and awful in equal measure" the observer
now this is a verrrry verrry very good book! it is pretty much like scrubs, only for the nhs. it's interesting, down to earth, comical in places, depressing in others, and trust me, you'll treat a junior doctor with respect next time you meet them. either that, or you'll laugh in their face and feel really glad you chose to be a secretary.

freddie robins....http://www.freddierobins.com/
using sh*tloads of machine-knitting, mrs robins creates bizarre, twisted, thought provoking and, errr, interesting pieces of 3d knitting. interesting as they are, i don't think your going to want one of these for your new sweater.

'craft kills' and 'headcase' respectively, both by freddie robins

copycats are in supersuper!
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7 days til christmas

in the words of sam, braw crimbo! are your presents wrapped? is your tree up? are you buying alexandra's single to get her to christmas no. 1? (i hope not)... whichever way you point your eyesies at it, christmas is round the corner, and everyone loves the good old festive season! so what do youuu think the best part of christmas is??? don't you just love stockings though! my uber-darned pre-WW1 (probably) stocking will stay with me forever... but what is your favvy bit?





has anyone else had that horrible 'safe drive, stay alive' presentation?? isn't it horrific! we had a different drama production on safe driving a while ago which was dreadful enough, but this new one today had a proper reinactment! gosh it was traumatic. but it makes you think, i'm not a fan of cars anyway but when you see what car crashes do to people it makes the cons of driving seem massive. one of the people who talked to us about crashes was a fireman; one time, he went to the scene of where a car had collided with a train, and they had to collect up the body pieces left on the track. he found an ear, attached to a piece of skull. and what is really amazing is how these people seem to love their jobs! i can see the appeal, horrible as it must be you're saving lives and the feelings you must get from that must be amazing, but at the same time you're experiencing such harrowing circumstances. at any rate, really, do not drive if one of the 'fatal four' applies to you! and remember people, safe drive, stay alive!

Discover Guillemots!

yes, guillemots do actually have some good new songs after the disastrous 'get over it'!



apparently hope is back in! take it or leave it, seeing the silver lining is now unavoidable! so next time you're feeling a wee bit iffy, say thanks to your bus driver, wish the cashier a merry christmas, or go all out and buy someone some flowers. is this the best trend evaaaa? i think so.


you gotta love her. channel number 3 has never done better! rosemary shrager, we looove you


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kjahdfuafi

don't you just love that? it almost looks like a tapestry, though you'd have to be pretty driven/organised to sew that. try doing applique and embroidery on an a1-size very detailed drawing. textiles will be the death of me, i swear.

jeremy warmsley offers us a shocker of a debut album! i don't know about you guyz out there with your cassette players/cd whatevers, but i certainly never expected mr. warmsley's folky toes to dabble in the altogether different streams of electronically powered instruments but the man has, and what a magnificent swim it must have been! drifting away from his earlier and decidedly more acoustic starting, his new-found love of all things electric while keeping his beloved guitar close at heart can only be a good thing, judging from the little .mp3 babies of this unlikely marraige! 'how we became', as unlikely as it may seem from such a bizarre match (especially when you listen to 'i believe in the way you move') of mr acoustic and her ladyship electronica will be one of the best albums you will hear in a long while. give something back to your christmas tree this year. put this album under it!

i recommend sins (i try), lose my cool, if he breaks your heart and dancing with the enemy... and craneflies has some really beautiful piano in it too!

what an odd thing to have for coat hangers! jesus' no. 1 fan? or satans? wuteva, these things are pretty cool even though they are just a little bit more weird and, i hate to say it, freaky. i certainly would not hang my parka on these things. though they might look quite nice as lights...


if you haven't listened to 'to lose my life' (white lies' latest single) then either read decembers issue (when it's finally finished), burn your hair or PANIC. and whatever you decide on doing, listen to it now! plus the video is greaaaaaaaaaaaaat, period.
they're playing the underage christmas gig which is this saturday. which i can't go to, but christmas family times must come first, i suppose. for all you super lucky people with tickets, they're also playing the NME tour in january or february or whenever at the dome.
if you can, do see them live, it's worth forking out on travel costs because they're a bloody ace performance



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chhaarrrts!

TOP 5 artists on last.fm...

1... Coldplay

2... Radiohead

3... The Beatles

4... Metallica

5... Red Hot Chili Peppers

TOP 5 tracks on last.fm...

1... Coldplay – Viva la Vida

2... Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire

3... Coldplay – Violet Hill

4... MGMT – Time to Pretend

5... MGMT – Kids

TOP 5 blogs according to hype machine...

1... This Recording

2... Ingrained Refrains

3... The World Forgot

4... PHASE02

5... music is art

TOP 5 blogged about artists according to hype machine...

1... Cut Copy

2... Kanye West

3... Mgmt

4... Little Joy

5... Chromeo




WELL that was very informative!
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PS. december's finish line is around the corner, and the november's should be in shops this weekend!

sunday

i have just realised, how utterly horrible would it be to misspell your myspace url. one time i did do an incredibly complicated url for piczo that i got off a book, but that's different; you can change them.

now for some music!

earlier i stumbled all but accidentally onto this:

Discover The Killers!

yes it's by the killers, and yes it's not from their first/second albums which could be seen as really their only good records, but it's still pretty ace for the boys with a k. i'm not very good at reviewing things, but i'd say this is almost an extra part for bones. the same synthy wallpaper, the same vocal furniture. why isn't it boring then? welllllll! it's catchy, has nice lyrics and is generally pretty gooooood! you should listen, you really should.

Discover Albert Hammond Jr!

niiiiiiiice comforting guitar riffs and great bass too. imagine if foals ditched the uber-annoying yannis and spent more time around the campfire. they'd probably sound something like this. or maybe if you put the whitest boy alive and the strokes in a pot and hung it over an au-natural fire for a while, prodded them with a wooden spoon everytime you remember to, you'd probably serve up a big bowl of tasty albert hammond jr. seconds? i should hope so.

Discover Au Revoir Simone!

who loves au revoir simone? WE DO! and this latest album, reverse migration, is a collection of all the brilliant remixes their arty fab friends have done. if you only listen to one, listen to number 2. it's great! or even better, listen to them all i say.

oh and ALSO, more favourites to be added in a minute

and music lovers, go to deezer.com. they're cooooooooool

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scanners

scanner are quite possibly the most ingenious invention ever
especially so when connected to a printer
set it to black and white, and wahey! your own personal photocopier, a discovery (perhaps more of a no-brainer) that i am fully enjoying/taking advantage of.
watch out, issue 8 is going to be fuuullll of art



now for some morbid poetry.

i 'm standing
on a spot
where 5 years ago
a woman died.

another family trouble
piled high
on a quivering tower
of her other living furniture.

in the morning
her car stayed in its garage
her skirt suit stayed in its dry cleaners bag
her family troubles stayed in their beds
and her blood curdled
in the dust
beneath the floorboards

the night before,
a kitchen implement
implemented a brand new meaning
to the reason
it was forged

and suddenly,
a creeping
swelling pool
of not so eternal lifeforce
found friend in a foreign sanctuary
past the heart
of a form

to the heart
of a home.

between the floorboards
over wood
carpet
and brick alike
memories, past
and thought
stain
where i am standing
where 5 years ago
a woman died.

november - NUMERO 7

also on myspace!
how exciting
as pheobe so eloquently puts it, the issue will be out in print when my printer wakes up and smells the ink

costume time

what is it about costumes hat are so eternally enthralling? i honesttly have no idea but i do know that my wardrobe is going to be saying hello to a lot of outlandish clothes this winter. and it's not only mildly interesting//comical clothes that will be hanging themselves within those four wooden walls, but full-on costume! so start ebaying, go to the sunday market, make your own and generally liven yourselves up a bit to replace the lack of any sun at the moment.

NEWZ IN SUPRA LAND

• future dance robot confirmed to feature on cassette release numero 2
• in fact cassette release numero 2 in future
• november still running into technical hurdles. canon are really shit at making printers.
• the scanned november version should be up tonight or tomorrow latest
• pheobe, felix, ewan, keina and possibly BMCS to feature in december. this is going to be acccceeeeee! a christmas present in it's own right.

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SWIMS at london barfly!

welllll then, the swims boys! if you've been paying attention to this humble little zine you will know who these guys are, and if you haven't, you might not, so pay attention to this people of the world.

here's a lovely tv video showcase on the guys at their recent gig supporting pete and the pirates (yes, pete and the blooming pirates, kings of lovely music, very good live, part of the reason peggy sue are so called...) at the london barfly.
what-ho boyo, they're getting big. and rightfully so, i say.

LIBRARY TIME

i'm putting all the work i have done on supra boring in a book! mainly because i'll lose all of it if i don't and then be really pissed off at myself but there we go, it's in a book
thought you'd like to know




last night i watched this. it is one hell of a good film! you should, should, should get it out on lovefilm asap. really, do

well

i just posted a very (barely) interesting bulletin which i feel needs sharing. immediately. then i'll give you all some lovely snippets of very interesting info you should heed with your golden eyes and ears. but first....


"if you like oompa loompas
listen to my profile song
it seriously reminds me of charlie's time in that chocolate factory
seriously

so happy!
but
my hair do's come out which is rather a sizeable shame, i did love it so
i suppose i'll do it again tomorrow
and take the hairspray out with me

but honestly
this MORNING
i hairsprayed my hair so it looked like how the singer in new young pony club used to have it and now chloe sevigny or whichever annoying model it is who has half their head shaved
(i stand corrected, lovely chani of house of it reminds me it is actually alice delaal, an equally annoyingly over-hyped piece of furniture. though i am sure miss layzell would disagree slightly)
anyway
it looked reminiscent of that
and then it's only just come out
if you want hairspray
get hold it by catwalk
no joke
1.there's loads of it in the bottle/spraycan/thing
2,.IT'S LIKE SPRAYABLE BLOODY CONCRETE
i fed my cat and not a single hair-sprayed strand of hair moved
not
one
folicle

wow that's a long bulletin
i'm off on a joyful crusade against boredom with a fairy wand, hairsprayey hair and a film called the illusionists
and of course
my supra boring book
this is amazing
when i nicked an art book from miss smith
i never knew this would sprout from the pages like a beautiful if slightly prit sticky flower

WAHEY
i really am leaving now
CIAO
leave me comments
i'm so close to 2000 it's unreal

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department of eagles^^^

on mildly less self-indulgent shores, department of eagles released their second album earlier this month and my GOSH is it good.
yes. it's very good. very very good. but i won't go on about these guys too much as they've bagged themselves a charming little slot in november's edition, so you'll have to read that instead if you want to know more. or you could go on their website. personally, i'd read mine, but only because i doubt anyone else will. how depressing :(


'In Ear Park' was released on 7th oct. on 4AD records.

that was the shining section for your lovely ears, now for the similarly charming eyes.


his tetris project

guillaume reynold is a swiss bloke who is seriously, seriously cool. if you're a fan of those 'old skool' video games then hop over to youtube and czech him out NOW. not later, now!
his human stop-animation performances have gained him various awards, and there was a bzzzzz after him at Bellaurd, the French festival, that a full hive of bees would have been asking for from good old father christmas in less than 2 months time (!). he;s even taken to the skies in reincarnations of hasbro transformers, going nuts with a remote controlled blimp over 22 cars, buses, lorries and trains all driving together in open ground.
but even though he readily admits to not even liking console games let alone owning one as a child, he spent hours in his youth developing his very own games via his commodore-64 pc. he says the goal of his project is in fact not to create works for the internet but to “create images or animated videos by reassembling people who have no relationship with contemporary art.”, an intention that might just answer why most of his human pixels in his recreation of Pong are defiantly sitting and have been able to sit for nye-on 90 years a-piece.
his projects develop on popular culture, games, movies and legends “because almost everyone can identify something already known or seen. I don't need to explain the rules. For my TRANSFORMERS series, my goal was just to use the name as a generic term known by the world community that describes vehicles ‘transforming’ into robots.”
all his works are filmed during festivals, and he aims to involve the public, for example in the second of his transformers series he wanted to “honour and run together all the city services. 22 vehicles including firemen, police, roads, parks and gardens, ambulance, garbage were mobilised together with 40 people for 5 hours. it was shot and shown for the festival images'08 in vevey, switzerland.”
after quickly snapping an aerial shot with a small blimp, everybody disassembles again to start something completely new, maybe another robot, or face, or an accusing looking egg-plant, who knows?! but whatever he does, we know it'll be big. very big. very, very big. so keep your eye on satellite images over the next few months for anything... interesting!

under the weather

What is it with Britain that we all spend the dark months waiting for summer, carefully crafting 'come on summer' lines on our MySpace’s, finding summery pictures just to cheer ourselves up, and then after all that waiting and expecting when it all comes down to it our 'summer months' are spent as knee deep in water as the rest of the time. And what's worse is the endless swimwear adverts strewn throughout the high street, making us feel a bit shy about stripping down to anything smaller than a tunic. That is, of course, if the great power in the sky turns off the taps long enough for there to be any point in swimming; these days you don't need a pool to get soaking wet.

And when nature isn’t emptying the Atlantic Ocean above our heads, we’re hit by winds that could quite literally blow you over. Now don’t take this the wrong way, I love mother nature and I know us and our food need water but seriously, there’s watering the flaming plants and drowning them! No wonder there are deserts, all the rains coming to Britain for a lovely seaside holiday instead.

Another thing I can think to moan about that’s related to the weather is umbrellas, AKA my arch nemesis. One time I actually managed to cut my hand open with one of these ridiculous contraptions. It isn’t the normal brollies I hate, no, but the new-fangled fold up ones. Yes, they are useful, and you can fit them in your bag but they break within about 5 seconds of being outside. The only other alternative is a coat. If anyone knows where I can get a nice, waterproof coat that doesn’t belong in the bin, email me.

recording, recording

Slow Club in-store at Resident!

I must admit that when my friend and I first went in at about quarter to 5, Resident was the busiest I’d ever seen it. I felt a little rude for coming into resident with absolutely no intention of buying anything, not even taking one of the many free mags at the front since I have them all already, so I resorted to looking at Artrocker, and then scanning the shelves near me for any good cds, aka cds of bands I’ve heard of. after recommending cookies by the 1990s, and telling my friend how it's written mainly about girls and drugs but is still very good, I give up on looking occupied and just eye up the rather fancy camera the woman next to me is wielding. And finally, out come Charles and Rebecca, collectively Slow Club and they immediately kick off into 'Let's Fall Back In Love', the title track of their new E.P., released 1st September on the 'ever reliable' Moshi Moshi record label. Charles strums along the lovely guitar riffs we know slow club for on a rather battered but all the more charming for it acoustic guitar and Rebecca improvises with their lack of a percussion section by clapping and stamping with surprising vigour; I wouldn't like to be resident's floorboards! They play a couple old favourites, including one of my own special favourites, 'When I Go', and introduce some new songs. Isn’t it impressive how they manage to remember all these songs?! And not only do they remember endless lyrics, along with the guitar music (I noticed Charles didn't even look at the guitar while playing, even more impressive), but they always manage to sing in time with each other. The conclusion? A pair of musicians who love what they do, and practise a lot! I seriously recommend you have a look at their E.P., and you should definitely jump at every opportunity to see them live!

NO FEAR

where there is a will, there is a way, and i have a will! supra boring, thou shalt not stop being printed! the solution: black and white! okay, so the new editions won't be as snazzy and great as the past issues, but beggars can't be choosers!

so watch out for the new (black and white) look of supra boring, coming to a store near you!
(that's if you live in the north laines, brighton of course)


but don't fear, this blog will go on
afterall, the show must go on

blogging generation ahoy

is it a big surprise that we have transported our mildly tedious but hopefully entertaining rants off the print and onto the interweb? prrrobably not, us being so up-to-date and cutting edge. not. but what is the whole obsession with blogging? sure, i can now write looooonger articles, more often, whenever i feel the need, but no more sticking! no more colouring! no more straining my brain cells for something to do on the cover! it is the end of a little era for supra boring, though hopefully only temporarily. i hope you avid readers out there will keep up, if there are any! but anyway, welcome, roll up, bienvenue to a new supra boring. writing soon.

ah no!

we cannae print supra boring on the same scale anymore :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:((:(

we are still unsure as to how many we can print per month nowadays, but it'll be small!
for max printing, the zine will also have to be black
and
white

to make up for this annoying glitch, we are starting up THIS supra boring blog!
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