Ceridwenscauldron

The Ghost Dance sent me looking for something by the sisters and I found this by a German Goth Metal band called Crematory

Like the jolly synth!

I used to love this band.

Formed by Gary Marx who was one of the early guitarists with the Sisters of Mercy and Anne Marie formerly of the Skeletal Family. I saw them twice, once at the Pink Toothbrush in Rayleigh and then at the Marquee.

The sound quality on this video is rubbish but its a great song that we'd all go bonkers to live. They split up after recording their first album. Shame.

This is something I knocked up to use some left over salad and herbs and some reduced to clear chicken and wraps. Made six burrito style wraps which served three.

First into a pan goes some oil, smashed up garlic, chopped chili peppers (how many will depend on how hot you like it I used three)and an onion. Let that soften up then chuck in two chopped chicken breasts and a good spoonful of Spanish pimenton (paprika will do if you don't have any of that), a couple of twists of black pepper, two teaspoonfuls of mustard and a load of tarragon leaves. Cook off for a bit so the chicken colours then add a tin of black eyed beans and give it a stir to coat the beans in the sauce. Then chuck in a can of lager (Becks Vier 50p from reducedtoclearman)

As this reduces make a salsa by chopping some tomatoes up and mixing with lots of chopped coriander and the juice of a lemon.

To serve fill the wraps with the chicken and bean mix and some grated cheddar. Then plate up with the salsa, a dollop of guacamole and another one of sour cream with chive dip. I'm afraid the guacamole and the sour cream dip came from Sainsbury as I could not be fagged to make either. Although guacamole isn't that hard to make. It's just too much of a fag to clean the food processor. Essentially you blend a couple of avocados and a red onion with some chili, coriander and lime juice.

I see that a group of 56 Islamic countries want the international community to implement laws making blasphemy a crime.

This won't do. While I can respect people having belief they must not be allowed to dictate what others can say or do. Europe was fortunate enough to go through something called the Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries that eventually freed us from the tyranny of blind belief in religion and we must not turn the clock backwards to the Middle Ages and have people stoned and burnt for perceived slights to supernatural beings, or being gay, atheist or mad.

And what is blasphemy anyway? making graven images, believing in evolution or being an apostate? can you imagine a society where what we see or hear is dictated to by fundamentalist Christians? and what would people of other faiths be allowed to practice.

Slippery slope.

They were round this morning going from desk to desk with their little bucket.

Look I have nothing against charity but it pisses me off when people are coerced into it by exerting peer pressure at work, "ah go on don't be mean, its for children in need"

where the expenses will be brill.

Call me Dave's latest idea is to put Carol Vorderman in the Lords so that she could be Minister of education in a Tory cabinet.

Is he having a laugh, at this rate the next Tory government will have more celebs in it than the Groucho Club what with Kirsty Young and hopefully Lemmy.

Nominations now for who should join Dave and his funky pals in No 10.

Will I ever stay awake beyond the bit where Halle Berry is wearing those little orange pants?

What is the problem with waiting at Traffic Lights?

On my way to Sainsburys tonight this mad bitch decided not to wait at the lights but drove her fucking enormous pig ugly Rangerover around the three stationary cars and through the red lights on the wrong side of the road. This is the second time I have witnessed this sort of ignorant arrogant behavior around here within six months. To make matters worse it was dark.

Still busy mum, probably late picking up Jocasta and Kumquat from ballet, perfectly safe in her gas guzzling monster. What does she care if she hits something, she will be OK, just have to clean the blood and brains of the radiator, oh no she's probably got a Kosovan to do that for her.

Bitch

Reading the BBC News pages today I discovered that Michael Moorcock has been asked by the BBC to write an all new Dr Who novel. Ohhhhhh I thought that will be interesting given Mike's interest in multiple incarnations of the same character within a multiverse.

Funny thing was back in I think 1977, I interviewed Mike for a publication I was working on at the time and over the course of the afternoon I spent at his Notting Hill pad we spent about half an hour talking about Dr Who and Mike said how much he'd like to write for it. Tom Baker was the Dr at the time and I'm not aplogising for saying he was the best!

Anyhow the new book will probably be out in 2010 so something to look forward to there even if it is 33 years late!

Here is Joan Rivers introducing Husker Du