Suzy Shaw & Mick Farren - Bomp!: Saving the World One Record at a Time(Ammo Books)

Can't even begin to tell you all how effin' cool it was findin' this here book on the doormath earlier today. Finally the long promised Bomp anthology has arrived, and it has turned out a fittin' tribute to the late Greg Shaw, mastermind behind both the magazine and the label. Suzy and Mick have done a great job mixing original articles with personal recollections and putting Greg's work in perspective. What you also get are contributions by Lenny Kaye, Mike Stax, Peter Case and others, plus a look at Greg's pre-Bomp Mojo Navigator and sci-fi 'zines, not forgetting the Lester Bangs classic "James Taylor Marked For Death" in facemile (all 24 pages!) and best of all the unpublished issue #22! Droolin' is what I did on notechin' that...
The entire roots of what you people worship is spelled out here in great detail. The only thing missin' is a discography of the Bomp group of labels, and all the other discs Greg's been involved with. But you can mark this as an essential part of your edumacation and order it a.s.a.p. anyways. Get it direct from Suzy, the coolest kitten in transatlantic mail-order...

The great JD King sent this St. Nick pic and what better way could there be to convey the age-auld message of "I hope you kids get what you deserve". The atches on this end are all polished and ready to be batoned down. I hope that 2008 be a better year for us all, although there have been some fun times scattered about in the debris of '07. This is probably it for today, there's crap TV to be watched. Might get to a short Proclaimers report later but I wouldn't bet on it. There's something very comforting about a pissed-up Barras singing "Whole Wide World" though. It suggests some kind of fair play is actually active in these tosspot times... so on that happy note...