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Thursday
26 February 2004
Published by the USSU
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issue number 1076
Situation Vacant
BY CHRIS WARD & PHILIP HOWARD Professor Dowling regarding variable fees,
EDITOR & NEWS EDITOR for example, the university policy would be
directly affected - the new VC will arrive
DO YOU HAVE a PhD? Are you a prominent at a crucial time in the progression towards
professor who has contributed to an awe- the new system. Professor Dowling recently
inspiring research area? Do you have the announced plans to form a team to assess the
academic prowess to lead a top University use of new funding received from variable
into a prosperous financial and academic fees, including student representatives; it
future? If the answer is yes, perhaps you will entirely depend on the new VC as to
should consider applying for the vacancy of whether he chooses to take particular note
Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the of this team or not.
University of Surrey. The position boasts Also at a crucial stage is the Manor Park
a handsome salary and many perks as one development - plans for the new campus
of the leading figures of the University in are expected to have been approved by the
regards to the future of UniS and its future Council in one form or another by the time
educational investments. the new VC arrives, and much of his or
It has been announced that Patrick J. her tenure at Surrey will be involved with
Dowling CBE DL FREng FRS, Professor seeing the project through to establishing
of Civil Engineering, will be standing down the new campus. Many decisions remain to
as Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive be made, and the vision which the new VC
of the University of Surrey. An advert for has will directly affect its implementation.
a suitable replacement is currently being The University of Surrey is at a crucial
publicised on the UniS Vacancy Website for moment in its history, with variable fees,
someone who could provide a notable and new developments, a new campus and the
monumental performance as the University continued expansion of Surrey’s image and
of Surrey’s new Vice Chancellor and Chief fame. The next Vice-Chancellor will be
Executive. The job-description emphasises instrumental ultimately in the success of the
that the successful candidate should have future of Surrey. The question on barefacts’
“strong leadership and vision”, “academic lips is: Who is in the running?
credibility”, and “significant leadership
and management skills” to “continue
the development of the University in the
challenging HE environment.
In addition to retirement from the University looking forward to the opportunities and news last January, he pushed towards
of Surrey, Professor Dowling has agreed to challenges of this position.” independence from the government,
take on the chair of the BA Council, the Professor Dowling has presided over much raising the possibility of privatisation
British Association for the Advancement of the expansion of Surrey on its Stag Hill of the university. Any prospective
of Science announced at the beginning of campus - Austin Pearce, the Duke of Kent candidate would have to conform to
February. In a press release sent from the building, Millennium House, University these ideals, and be able to continue the
University, the Vice Chancellor said, “I am Court, the Daphne Jackson Building, and schemes started over the years.
delighted to be taking up this important the Surrey Management School; he is Precisely who gets the job will have a
appointment as Chair of the BA. It is currently working on the new Manor Park direct bearing on students at Surrey. Those
absolutely fundamental to the future health plans to expand the university across the A3. graduating before the summer of 2005 are
of the nation’s economy and quality of life The VC has been instrumental in making unlikely to be greatly affected, but there will
that the role of science be fully understood, the university known internationally, and be an extensive hand-over period. If the
appreciated and supported by all. I am has promoted UniS far afield. Hitting the new VC has particularly different ideas to
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You may notice a change from next Monday. Because if
It occurs to me that this week has been a week of high
politics. Campus politics - the union sabbatical elections;
UK politics - the AUT lecturers’ strike action, NUS’ ‘day
of action’, inquiries into MMR jabs; EU politics - tough
immigration laws for visitors from the accession countries;
At the top of the university, Senate House is looking for
a new VC - Professor Dowling leaves in the summer of
2005, and a worthy replacement must be found to shape the
future of UniS using their new-found power. Concurrently,
lecturers are on strike over pay and conditions across the
everything goes to plan some 40% of your lecturers may World politics - Putin dismissed his government, Bush has country, or so we are told. Few lecturers from Surrey are
stop marking your work, returning work and setting exams begun his re-election campaign 8 months early. following the instructions of the AUT, so perhaps the
from the 1st March. The AUT voted in favour of this action If politics is about anything, it’s power. You have the lecturers are generally happier at Surrey than in the rest of
in a ballot last week, and it is to show their unhappiness at power to elect in the sabbaticals that you want running the the country.
proposed cuts in their wages. The Surrey AUT have asked the union for the next year. The lecturers are trying to wield One resounding power victory has been GU2 - it has
Student’ Union for their support, and on Tuesday night there their power over universities to gain leverage in pay talks. control of the airwaves for a full month, and as I write
was a lively debate at Union council as to whether or not we The NUS is as power-mad as ever. Parents are pressuring is currently excercising its power over listeners’ funny
should show support. The overwhelming feeling was that the government for an inquiry in the hopes they can regain bones doing a live broadcast as one of their number offers
although students sympathise with the lecturers’ problems, power over the decisions they must take for their children. Security a ‘gift’ - the quote is “Phil Brown, hand over the
as a Union it would be very difficult to support something Our government is excercising its temporary power to donuts”. Free donuts, however, will only be available to
that is going to directly affect the majority of students’ control immigrants from eastern Europe. Putin is stretching immigrants from the accession countries of eastern Europe
degrees. An indicative vote at council confirmed this feeling. his power over his government, and Bush is trying to extent should they get a job. As the plumber crisis begins to
If you are affected by the strike of lecturers, or having any the time-limit on his. pull academics from university with the lure of increased
thoughts on this, write to barefacts@ussu.co.uk. wealth, the gap may be summarily filled by a number of
visitors from our new European neighbours.
In an age where Americans Despite all the cries of British jobs being filled by
not barefacts opinion, but..... foreigners, I for one welcome a new culture set to the
(and ever increasingly Britons) UK - you can never have enough. The Home Office has,
A Slice of Saturday Night seek to ‘empower’ themselves, however, had to exercise their power over the hoards of
foreigners about to invade, presumably to shut the Daily
Let us transport you back to retro 1964, where the hems were
high and the fringes low. Here at, Club-A-Go-Go, you can
power is becoming yet more Mail readers up. All this moves ever closer to a federal
europe, although that is one debate that has not been raging
witness the antics of a group of teenagers out on a Saturday powerful in society. Yet power recently.
On the scale of Europe’s top level politics, Putin decided
night. Witness the laughter, the tears, the break ups, the
make-ups all accompanied by the psychedelic sounds of corrupts, why do we seek it? he had had enough of his government just weeks before
the next presidential election, and sent them all home. An
the 60’s, that will have you tapping your feet and dancing
in your seats. excellent display of power, particularly as Putin is expected
The University of Surrey’s Music and Drama Society is Unfortunately, it seems that the power struggles of the to walk into a re-election. Not so for Bush, however. On
proud to present The Heather Brother’s fantastically funny most powerful are reflected in the power struggles of the the other side of the North Pole, the President is having to
and fabulously funky production of A Slice of Saturday most local - this past fortnight has seen an unending volley face a strong opposition as he starts his campaign to retain
Night, which plays homage to the music and lifestyle of the of abuse and negative campaigning. Overlying the bitchier power some 8 months before the election. Perhaps some of
swinging-sixties. side of the election process is the ever more aggravating our sabbatical candidates could have benefitted from more
The story takes place in the infamous Club-A-Go-Go, power struggle over the walls of campus between estates & of this kind of planning ahead.
under the watchful eye of aging rocker Eric ‘Rubber Legs’ buildings and the candidates’ campaign teams. Daily rounds In an age where Americans (and ever increasingly Britons)
DeVene. It is THE place to be on a Saturday night, where all to scour the walls of anything paper, not just on UCAS seek to ‘empower’ themselves, power is becoming yet more
the highs and lows of the ‘teenage dream’ take place. days. Smear campaigns, spin, skeletons from cupboards powerful in society. Yet power corrupts, why do we seek it?
The girls are styled to perfection, desperate to look like and fairly painful comedy have all played their part. Society’s collective ego demands that we could do a better
Twiggy, Dusty Springfield and Sandy Shaw. Beneath their By the time you read this, the campus elections will be job of running things, that whoever currently wields power
skimpy Mary Quant style dresses beat virginal hearts on all but over. Voting levels are up greatly on last year, but is doing a terrible job. We want power, but we can’t feel it
the lookout for a future husband. The boys are would-be- that’s no guarantee that more people aren’t being dragged directly. However, we can fight our little corner, where our
Beatles or embryo Donovan’s. Behind their cool hipster to voting stations as they venture through the Lecture vote is one of a thousand rather than one of a million, with
trousers lurk the not-so-virginal impulses, which drive them Theatres. More candidates, more controversy, it seems. As the same venom as wars are waged. Sometime we will need
wild with desire. the candidates wait with baited breath, the adrenaline runs to let go of the throttle, or we will burn out - overpowered,
To introduce you to the characters; Sue is going out with pure. it seems, by ourselves. Oh, and don’t forget to vote.
Gary, who chats up Penny and any other bit of skirt that
looks his way. Sharon fancies Rick, who fancies Sharon,
but can’t pluck up the courage to tell her because she hasn’t
told him. Eddie fancies Bridget, who doesn’t fancy anyone
at all… Just an average Saturday night on the town then!
A Slice of Saturday Night is showing at the Electric Theatre
Elections 2004 - the big vote
from Wednesday 3rd to Saturday 6th March 2004, 8pm This friday sees the culmination of this
and 2.30pm (Saturday matinee only). Tickets are available year’s sabbatical elections. Voting closes at
from the Electric Theatre Box Office on 01483 444 789. midday and the count begins shortly after.
Alternatively they can be purchased in the Union between
12pm and 2pm from week 5 onwards. Tickets are priced
£7/£5 concessions (including students).
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Why do employers use discussion groups
DR RUSS CLARK
UNIS CAREERS SERVICE
Amnesty International
yourselves; sometimes you are given a brief finally, steer the group towards a point
beforehand, other times you’re not. where you can make a short summary of
the discussion. Keep your eye on the clock
So how can I best prepare? because if you over-run, you might be
penalised. The discussion might even be
First of all why not consider attending terminated by the examiners before you’ve BY HELI TIRKKONEN | We have set up an Amnesty International Society here at campus
the next Assessment Centre workshop on had a chance to draw it all together and that and as there are just few of us at the moment, it would be nice to get some help in sending
Wednesday 3 March at 2pm. The Careers would be disastrous. appeals. For people who do not know about Amnesty, it is an independent voluntary
Service also holds a video which shows movement campaigning for human rights. It is important to note that we are impartial and
what happens at a typical assessment And if I mess it up? independent of any political ideology, economic interest, government or religion. It takes
centre and which is definitely worth seeing. literally just couple of minutes to send an appeal: log on to one of the following websites,
Finally, we have a useful takeaway leaflet As with every part of the selection copy & paste the sample text to an email and send it off, but if you want to change the
which summarises the main activities you procedure, don’t panic if you think it hasn’t sample text, please read the instructions at www.amnesty.org.uk prior to sending it.
are likely to face. gone well for you. Candidates are seldom
rejected on the results of just one exercise. STOPPING THE PAIN MERCHANTS preventing torture: the Optional Protocol to
How can I improve my performance on What’s more, if you stay calm and can web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture- the Convention against Torture and Other
the day? bounce back for the next test, your positive 021203-action-eng Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
attitude is certain to impress the examiners “Manufacturing, trading and promoting or Punishment (the Protocol). As of 20
The most important thing is to say and will often more than compensate for equipment which is used to torture people August 2003, Argentina, Costa Rica, Italy,
something early on. The longer you leave previous disappointments. is a money-making business. Across the Senegal, Sweden, Denmark and the UK
it, the harder it is to get going. Don’t world, companies and individuals send are the only states that have signed the
equipment they say is designed for security Protocol. No state has yet ratified it. The
or crime control purposes into the hands of Protocol allows independent international
CAREERS EVENTS | SPRING SEMESTER WEEK 7 government security personnel who often experts to conduct regular visits to places
use them to commit human rights abuses. of detention within states parties (i.e. states
ARMY* HOW TO SUCCEED AT ASSESSMENT In the report The Pain Merchants, that have accepted this Protocol by ratifying
MONDAY 1 MARCH CENTRES* Amnesty International outlines the or acceding to it). The aim of these visits
Visiting to hold informal interviews . Many and WEDNESDAY 3 MARCH
varied career openings across a wide range of 2 – 4 pm in LT B
measures needed to bring this vile trade is to assess the condition of detention and
disciplines. Please contact Careers for details. Another opportunity to attend a workshop on to a halt. These include a ban on all the treatment of those detained and to
final selection procedures. This is a repeat of the equipment whose primary use is to commit make recommendations to states parties for
WOOLWORTHS* workshop held on 11 February. human rights violations such as torture; a improvements. The Protocol also requires
1 MARCH
6.30 pm in LT M * Please sign up in suspension on the manufacture and use of states parties to set up national mechanism
Presentation for finalists and placement students for Careers or email any equipment which might be used for to conduct visits to places of detention and
c.greaves@surrey.ac.uk
the Group Leadership Programme for Retail. human rights abuse; and a prohibition on to cooperate with the international experts.
the transfer and use of such equipment. Amnesty International together with many
Last year, Amnesty International recorded other non-governmental organisations
torture in more than 100 countries. If (NGOs) have long campaigned for a strong
there were tighter controls on the trade in and effective Protocol, and welcomed
security equipment and governments of the its adoption by the UN. By focussing on
world had the political will to stop torture, preventive rather than retroactive measures,
this number would fall.” and by establishing a complementary
Campaign for the signature and ratification relationship between international and
of the Optional Protocol to the Convention national mechanisms of monitoring, the
against Torture: web.amnesty.org/pages/ Protocol offers a new and important tool to
treaty_opcat “On 18 December 2002, the eradicate torture. Now governments must
United Nations (UN) General Assembly sign and ratify the Protocol, and by doing
adopted a new mechanism aimed at so ensuring its prompt entry into force.”
FILM MORE FILM
As Oscar Day nears, Win all manner of ‘Bug
Neil Boulton presents Fish’ goodie bags in our
a special barearts run fantastic competition
down of the likely from the good ole
suspects... Guildford Odeon.
No film reviews this week, as such, but the Oscar’s take place this week. I know they never (ever) seem to go to the most deserving films e.g. Oscars for Eminem – 1, Oscars
for Martin Scorcese – 0, but that’s the fickle American voting system for you (oh the possible jokes at the expense of American Democracy… but that’s too far removed from
cinema). The best picture category is notorious for providing the biggest Oscar-awarding mishaps, Kramer vs. Kramer beating Apocalypse Now’s a good example. A lot of them
also involve snubbing Scorcese – a film called Ordinary People beating Raging Bull for best film in 1984… I’ve never heard of Ordinary People… ever. ( Also Taxi Driver beaten
for best picture by Rocky, Kevin Costner got the Oscar at the time when Goodfellas was eligible). Then there is all the back-slapping, hidden agendas, golden watches disguised
as awards… and then there’s Billy Crystal. Billy Crystal will make a small part of the back of your brain hurt if you watch him too much and the song and dance he usually
makes of the Oscars is just about enough to start the pain. Although he’s more at home with it than Steve Martin ever was (Poor Steve). Vast amounts of crying and awful
speeches also await us, so try not to think about the ceremony too much. All the fun comes in the speculation, as I said, the results themselves only bring disappointment.
Anyway, here are a few of the categories and their nominees, so you too may speculate about who should, or who’ll end up winning. The Return of The King leads the pack
with 11 nominations, doesn’t mean they’re going to get 11 Oscars… or does it.
Performance by an actor in a leading Well, Johnny Depp did possibly the and again with Jackson as the favourite. CITY OF GOD Screenplay by Braulio
role funniest turn to get his nomination, Er… Why oh why is Seabiscuit there? Mantovani
Johnny Depp in PIRATES OF THE but I’d be happy with Bill Murray THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE
CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE winning one as well (They’ve both Best animated feature film of the RETURN OF THE KING Screenplay
BLACK PEARL played Hunter S. Thomspon in a year by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter
Ben Kingsley in HOUSE OF SAND AND film…), although the Academy BROTHER BEAR Jackson
FOG may go for an irony bonus and give FINDING NEMO MYSTIC RIVER Screenplay by Brian
Jude Law in COLD MOUNTAIN it to Sean Penn who, while being THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE Helgeland
Bill Murray in LOST IN TRANSLATION a great actor, is notoriously anti- SEABISCUIT Written for the Screen by
Sean Penn in MYSTIC RIVER academy/Hollywood. Glad to see they As long as it’s not Brother Gary Ross
ignored Tom Cruise. Mystic River’s Bear I’ll be happy. Both
Performance by an actor in a supporting dominating the acting nominations, Finding Nemo and The Original screenplay
role which isn’t surprising considering Triplets Of Belleville are THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS Written
Alec Baldwin in THE COOLER the talent involved in the film and great films (The Triplets by Denys Arcand
Benicio Del Toro in 21 GRAMS it’s dramatic very Oscar friendly of Belleville was shown over DIRTY PRETTY THINGS Written by
Djimon Hounsou in IN AMERICA subject matter. Though both Penn Christmas re-titled ‘Belleville Steven Knight
Tim Robbins in MYSTIC RIVER & Robbins deserve Oscars, Rendez-Vous’), though I prefer FINDING NEMO Screenplay by Andrew
Ken Watanabe in THE LAST SAMURAI I’d quite like Pirates Of The the latter as I don’t want Disney Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds
Caribbean to win across the to dominate animation. Original Story by Andrew Stanton
Performance by an actress in a leading board, mainly because it’s a IN AMERICA Written by Jim Sheridan &
role Jerry Bruckheimer film. Achievement in visual Naomi Sheridan & Kirsten Sheridan
Keisha Castle-Hughes in WHALE RIDER effects LOST IN TRANSLATION Written by
Diane Keaton in SOMETHING’S GOTTA Achievement in directing THE LORD OF THE Sofia Coppola
GIVE CITY OF GOD Fernando Meirelles RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE
Samantha Morton in IN AMERICA THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE KING
Charlize Theron in MONSTER RETURN OF THE KING Peter Jackson MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE Extra-Extra-Terrestrial:
Naomi Watts in 21 GRAMS LOST IN TRANSLATION Sofia Coppola FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD The Oscars are on BBC1 at 12:50am – 5:
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE 00am on Sunday-going-on-Monday, if
Performance by an actress in a FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD Peter Weir CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL you fancy sitting through the giant heap of
supporting role MYSTIC RIVER Clint Eastwood backslapping and musical numbers. Or if
Shohreh Aghdashloo in HOUSE OF The visual effects are as good as The you want a more succinct version you can
SAND AND FOG Best motion picture of the year Return of the King’s, they had the skeleton- watch Jonathan Ross’ coverage the next day
Patricia Clarkson in PIECES OF APRIL THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE type effects of Pirates of the Caribbean, from 10:35pm – 12:20am, it will however
Marcia Gay Harden in MYSTIC RIVER RETURN OF THE KING (New Line) but with added war elephants. Master feature Jonathan Ross.
Holly Hunter in THIRTEEN LOST IN TRANSLATION and Commander’s nautical exploits I
Renée Zellweger in COLD MOUNTAIN MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE guess would be very hard to fake, water
FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD everywhere, rigging to climb, again similar
MYSTIC RIVER to Pirates of the Caribbean, but done with
SEABISCUIT more aplomb.
All of the Directors nominated could As for the writing categories as usual I’d
easily win, I’d say Peter Weir’s the weak like the odd-ones-out to win, American
candidate… he’ll probably go and win Splendour (Because it’s based on a comic)
it now. Considering missing out the last and Finding Nemo (Because it’s a cartoon).
two times the award seems to be as good
as Jackson’s. The best film list is near Adapted screenplay
identical to the best director list, with all the AMERICAN SPLENDOR Written by
nominated standing a chance of winning, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman
26 February 2004 FILM 9
Sat
Football
12pm Leeds V Liverpool
Sun 2pm Bolton V M’boro Phone Booth
Comedy International
Exhibition
Tue
Tue Helyn Rose Bar 8pm Main Union 7:30pm
With Leroy Wilson
Citrus Requests, Shouts Main Union 9-2am
Gala Night
Flirt!
FastFlirt© Tickets Main Union 9pm-2am
Available from the Shop £2 before 10:30pm
Main Hall
Fri
£4 afterwards
Guests £5 in advance
7:30pm
12 LITERATURE 26 February 2004
Literature:
Arvind Virdee takes a look at Kurt Vonnegut’s
‘Difinitive World War Two novel’ and likes what
he sees...
Slaughterhouse Five
One day Mr. Vonnegut the hardcore pacifist nuance and vehemence of their homicidal complicated books that can’t have a single angry. But this acceptance has it problems.
decided to write the definitive World War urges are like a veritable Rorschach test. theme or idea pinned onto it. I suppose an When Billy drives through a black ghetto
Two novel. He wanted to portray the truth; However Billy himself seems to barely important one is memory. Both Billy and and ignores the suffering he sees there, we
the unfettered, gritty reality behind the have a mind to peer into; he is simply Vonnegut’s memories of Dresden were so see the problem with complete acceptance.
jingoistic delusions and patriotic fantasies passive and accepts all the terrible things traumatic that they cannot move beyond Vonnegut values the forgiveness and peace
enjoyed alike by the veterans and those that happen to him, to the great annoyance them. It’s mentioned throughout the book that come with acceptance, but his novel
who had never seen a battlefield. He’d of those who are trying to help him. He quite independently of any flashbacks or could not be an “anti-war book” if it called
seen war; and he needed to write about has a good reason for joining the Grin- “time shifts”. You never do figure out on readers to completely accept their world.
war, before the experience became diluted And-Bear-It brigade, mind. In 1969 the anyway if the Tralfamadorians are real In the end, Slaughterhouse Five is one
by rationalization, and Kellogg’s Grape Tralfamadorians abduct him, and they tell or figments of Billy’s imagination, so of those rare gems that manage to take
Nuts and other elements of suburban life. him to. they could be just a manifestation of the bloodily, sordidly real events (fun in POW
So he wrote about being abducted by little Yes...he does stuff in 1945 because of inability to move on. And acceptance - one camps) and combine them with esoterically
green aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, stuff that happens in 1969. Billy in his own of the book’s most famous lines is “So it odd flights of the imagination (living in
who resemble animated toilet plungers words is “unstuck in time” because of his goes,” repeated whenever a character dies. alien zoo) and yet still make some kind of
and experience all moments of time visit to Tralfamadore. The beings of that Billy Pilgrim seems to embody this idea. sense. As such, it earns the stamp of “Pretty
simultaneously. What a guy. planet, as I mentioned before, experience It makes him able to forgive anyone for Cool” from me; surely there is no higher
Vonnegut has often been called a science all moments at once. For example the night anything, and he never seems to become accolade.
fiction author; this is probably the most sky to them resembles glowing strings of
conservative of his works, dealing largely spaghetti, because they see where every
as it does with the very concrete reality of star has already been and everywhere it’s
World War Two. It reads in part like such going to go. They know exactly how the
a story; the hardships and lunacies of war universe began, and how it will end (they
are not skimped on. The man executed for end up destroying it). The problem of free
stealing a teapot springs to mind. Central will in all of this is neatly sidestepped by
to the chronological narrative is one of a quote from a Tralfamadorian pilot. “I’ve
history’s oft-forgotten atrocities - the visited over two dozen inhabited worlds,
total destruction of Dresden by Allied and I’d never heard of any such concept
bombers in February 1945. Vonnegut as “free will” before I came to Earth.”
himself escaped being toasted like the And relevantly, their novels seem beautiful
city’s 130,000 inhabitants by waiting out yet unintelligible to Billy because they
the firestorm in a disused slaughterhouse have nothing like a linear plotline; all the
(hence the title) along with some of his words are meant to be read at once, coming
fellow prisoners of war. And the same thing together to form a harmonious whole.
happens to the novel’s protagonist, Billy Slaughterhouse Five comes about as close
Pilgrim. as a book written by an Earthling can to this
ideal.
Billy’s perception of time - and thus the
Slaughterhouse Five plotline - leaps about all over the place. He
might fall asleep and wake up twenty years
is one of those richly earlier; for example he has the good fortune
complicated books to survive a plane crash in 1967 seemingly
because he segued back to Dresden, 1945,
that can’t have a single for a few moments during which the plane
was hitting a mountainside in Vermont. As
theme or idea pinned a result Billy knows exactly what’s going to
happen to him at all moments, which kinda
onto it. inclines one to fatalism. Billy’s time leaps
allow all the different sections of his story
to be told at once, so once you’ve gone
Billy Pilgrim is out of place. He is a through the second chapter you’ll know
scrawny, dozy chap with no business that he makes it home safe from World War
anywhere near a war zone. He nearly kills II, that he becomes an optometrist, that he
himself and his comrades numerous times marries for money and his wife ends up
whilst wandering behind the German lines dying. But none of this seems to detract
during the Battle of the Bulge, before from the book, because you’ll still be
kindly getting them all taken prisoner. curious as the details and as each individual
Billy’s bumbling is often a handy device story unfolds you’ll be uncovering details
which provides a window into the minds of and strands that do nothing but enhance the
the other characters; they do all tend to end experience.
up wishing he was dead, but the variegated Slaughterhouse Five is one of those richly
26 February 2004 THEATRE 13
surreytheatre
G u i l d f o r d & W o k i n g
Straying from the boundaries of Guildford and Woking, theatre editor Daisy Clay headed to Hammersmith to see Age-Sex-Location, a hilarious
portrayal of when real life meets virtual reality
seeking it. His advice to Trevor, so that he version of their child so they can make
can understand women, is to dress as one all their mistakes when it doesn’t matter.
– advice which Trevor follows. Unfortunately for the audience however,
RoseThorn is a wheel-chair bound paralysed from the neck down and initially
The character of Rachel is largely this meant the addition of two small
dominatrix... Jack once starred in a only able to communicate in the freetopia
undeveloped in the first act, being ‘the children to the cast. The first, a girl of
1980s American TV show... Dave is a chat rooms by blowing into a microphone
one who can’t stop crying’ and we don’t around 7 years old, acted very little with
programmer... Gus lives on an abandoned in patterns to form words. Then with Dave’s
know why. Putting herself on web-cam for only small hand gestures to accompany her
oil rig... Rachel can’t stop crying... creation of a voice recognition programme,
all the freetopia community to see many voice that was spoken by Gus, speaking
MiniMouse loves Dave and Trevor is Rose is able to speak and unleash her pent-
theories are formed as to why she cries. only a few lines for herself. Nevertheless, I
struggling to accept the size of his penis... up sexually explicit passion. MinnieMouse
The storyline for this character became found I could cope with this lack of acting.
But who are they on the internet? (Amber Agar) is American, with an accent
interesting when she seeks the help of It was the second child, a boy of about 10
Upon entering the auditorium, where that is quick to become irritating. However,
God, through the medium of the internet, years old, who gave wild over-exaggerated
there no actual ‘stage’, rather there was her character worked well as the person
at VoiceOfGod.org! True to form, however, body and facial gestures, as he leapt about
an acting space in front of the seating, who feels at ease when online but when
we were soon met with the error message the stage with StreetMonk, so much so
the audience were faced with five empty describing her real-life persona, Melissa,
that “Voice of God dot org has crashed”. that at times I couldn’t bear to look. I think
chairs spread out across the floor. Knowing we almost imagine an entirely different
The final character is that of Gus, who perhaps this was an intended feature of
that this was a play about chat rooms, it socially incapable and easily embarrassed
lives on an abandoned oil rig, which the play – either that, or someone couldn’t
was clear that these chairs were where person. Feeling so comfortable in freetopia,
becomes host to the expanding freetopia. bring themselves to have a word with the
each character would sit in front of their she falls in love with Dave, but thankfully
Gus represents the scary and unknown side child about his “acting”.
computers. Besides the empty chairs, there not in the clichéd cyberspace way. This
of the internet, where people can pretend to Overall, this play was thoroughly
was little else in terms of set, besides a then highlights Dave’s reluctance at
be someone else – whereby he pretends to refreshing and enjoyable. As with any
small desk in front of the central chair. The expressing his emotions, which he hides
be a lesbian woman to form a relationship good play, there was a contrasting mixture
inner drama student in me immediately between a mask of technical language
with Trevor (who is also pretending to be a of emotion, with moments of almost
realised that all this open space must and freetopia terminology. For comical
woman by this point). unbearable grief and moments of absolute
be there for a reason – a metaphor for relief, of which A-S-L contains a great deal,
The second act to A-S-L was almost side-splitting hilarity. This play is showing
cyberspace according to the programme. Trevor (Ewen MacIntosh, a.k.a. Keith from
like an entirely different play, although at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith
The cast then enter, each moving to sit The Office) is honest and vulnerable, and
the two halves came together nicely at until 28th February, with tickets priced at
in their chair, and then one character is has a complex about the size of his penis –
the end. Exploring the many possibilities only £10. Hammersmith is easily reached
brought on in a wheelchair. During the and it is not an over-abundance of manhood
of the internet, freetopia becomes host to by train and tube, and for more information
first act, the characters take it in turns that is the problem. Trevor’s wife has just
many new sites, including CharlottesWeb, visit www.aslplay.com.
to interact, and spotlights on one or two left him after having numerous affairs
where parents can create a simulated
characters at a time show the audience which she openly informed him of, and he
where to look. There is one thing that links turns to freetopia to find companionship.
all these characters together – the internet Perhaps, becoming the willing cyber- Showing from Monday 1 - Saturday 6 Ma
based world of freetopia.com, which begins slave to dominatrix Rose was not quite the rch at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking;
as a chat room but soon evolves into much, companionship he had in mind. The West End’s celebration of Britain’s
much more. Freetopia was created by Dave As freetopia expands, it becomes host to greatest comedy double act Morecambe
(Ed Stoppard), who we assume from his the website of StreetMonk, an 80s TV show and Wise. ‘The audiences wept with
clothing – ragged grey tracksuit bottoms, (something akin to The Avengers). McGill, laughter’ (The Observer), ‘You leave the
a t-shirt and dressing grown – rarely, if the former star of StreetMonk and a now theatre floating on a cloud of happiness’
ever, ventures out of his flat. RoseThorn somewhat unconventional Buddist runs the (Daily Telegraph), ‘A tear-inducingly
(Katherine Jakeways) is wheelchair bound, website, offering spiritual advice to anyone funny show’ (The Guardian). Tickets start
at just £10.
Following sell-out triumphant runs in
London’s West End, The Play What I Wrote
returns to Woking. Kenneth Brannagh
directed this multi award-winning piece.
You see, Ben has written a play, an epic
set in the French Revolution called ‘A Tight
Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple’. Joe, on the
other hand, wants them to continue with
their double act. He believes that if they
perform a tribute to Morecambe and Wise,
Ben’s confidence will be restored and the
double act will go on.
The Play What I Wrote opened in London,
where every single review was a rave,
every show a sell-out and where it won
every major theatre award.
14 MUSIC 26 February 2004
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LEMAR
ANOTHER DAY
in
Sony
JAMELIA
s
THANK YOU Rising urban music star Lemar
Infected releases his new single Another
Day through Sony Records.
After the massive success of Having recently won an award at
her comeback single ‘Superstar’,
it was always going to be difficult
BLONDE to decide which type of track to
REDHEAD release – another dance floor filler
or a smulchy ballad? Well she’s the
ELEPHANT WOMAN Brits
4AD gone for the latter, although the
subject matter is different to the things
usual Valentines-day type, with just keep
Blonde Redhead are an getting better
American three piece purveying Jamelia tackling the problem of
domestic violence. This aside, for Lemar, and
in shimmer-y jangle-y 50 CENT ZERO 7
the track is not awful, although this single looks set to
orchestration with vocals which IF I CAN’T Home
perhaps not to my taste. If you receive much airplay and
sound a bit like Dido, the sort Shady Records Ultimate Dilemma
like her other songs, there’s a will more than likely do very
of thing that screams coffee well. The song itself is a ballad
table classic at loud volume. good chance this will float More of the same catchy music Predictable though it may seem,
your boat too, and the about him having done something
The highly inoffensive sounds from pop’s most lovable gangsta. Zero 7’s delicate instrumentation
cd came with a nice wrong and trying to get his girl
drift easily into the background Rolling pianos provided courtesy and plinky synths cannot fail to
photograph of back, which is hardly uncommon
and I forgot what the song was of Dr. Dre lace 50’s lazy vocals, evoke the sweeping soundscapes
her some I’m place but why change something
like right after hearing it. The and off key singing on the chorus. of Air – and with interest in the
happy! m.f that works? p.w.
title track sounds like the theme I’m bored already, but then again, latter rekindled by the release
song to a TV show I also can’t I was bored at ‘In Da Club’. If you of their warmly received Walkie
remember. Technically proficient like buying in to the image, then Talkie album, Z7 have a ready-
but strangely ignorable. n.b. pick this up, you suckers. c.d. made audience for their own
distinctly earth-bound safari.
Tina Dico’s soothing yet forward
ALOUD vocals and the intense brass
BOB O’LEAN arrangements in Home’s climax
Open lend it an endearingly organic
flavour, but also make for a
Hailing from across the Channel (explaining the inexplicable title), less involving and evolving
Cyril Bodin and Greg Louis have captured the attention of Pete Tong, proposition than their Gallic
Seb Fontaine and even Norman Cook with Bob O’Lean. So what’s counterparts’ most finely crafted
so special about their self-styled ‘Parisian phunk’? Not much, as far moments. j.d.
as my untrained ears can discern – the funk is definitely there, but the
individuality isn’t. At least the remixes fare slightly better, with Armand
Van Helden’s beat-laden reinterpretation recognising its strong disco JTWR
leanings and Serge Santiago’s reverberating staccato dub proving the PUT YOUR HANDS UP
antithesis of the original’s heavily produced smoothness. j.d. Drop Out Club
u m Reviewer Profile
lb
Each week, we will be running a
JASON
feature where our reviewers will
a
SPARKS
tell all about their musical tastes.
HERO AND VILLAINS
This week, Jon Allen kicks us
Botchet&Scarper
off with his selections.
The breakbeat scene has
LASTDAYSOFAPRIL Five albums I can’t live
forged a truly progressive artist
If You Loose It without
album courtesy of Jason Sparks
Bad Taste Records Mew – Frengers
immaculate Hero and Villains LP.
Great heavy pop-guitar hooks
This is not a collection of floor fillers but
Swedish garage rockers, Last and thunderous drumming
rather a journey of intelligent sound scapes.
Days of April offer a timeless supporting awesome falsetto
He’s pushing his own, taking on the breakbeat called, but it’s got Heaven is a
mix of laidback guitar rock and vocals
sound and with truly affective results. In places Half Pipe on it. No, please don’t
catchy melodies welcoming British Sea Power – The Decline
its breathtaking as Don’t I Feel illustrates featuring ask.
spring. Not really finding their of…
vocals by Pauline Taylor over funky drums. Single release
stride, If You Loose It soft rock Unique nature-loving quirky
with Rachel Modist “secret place” highlights the splendour of Who I would send away to live
vibe is nothing unique, but with garage-rock
sounds Sparks creates as a highlight of Hero and Villains. The on a deserted island, never to
its innocent charm just about pulls Turin Brakes – The Optimist LP
tracks flow into each other nicely which is a treat in comparison to be heard of again
it off no better illustrated than in Beautifully simplistic folk-based
Break Beat predecessors. Sparks keeps reminding you that this is a Kelly Osbourne
the quaint Been Here All Time. guitar creations
break Beat album after all with
Led by lush guitar melodies Tears Brendan Benson – Lapalco
nasty bass lines, crisp chunky beats as on the well crafted hero’s while First gig I went to
On Hold culminates in a strong Singer/songwriter with an ability
Feeling Invincible just builds and builds with twisted bass sounds. So Rachel Stamp @ Tunbridge
mix of blurred vocals and sweetly to produce outrageously happy
if your CD collection is calling for something new to fit in between Wells Forum
delivered lyrics. The Last Days Of guitar pop
your Moby, Chemical brothers and Orbital do yourself a favour buy
April can attract loose comparisons Feeder – Polythene
hero’s and villains now. s.b. Best gig I have ever been to
to a Scandinavian Grandaddy, but Grungier debut album, but
Radiohead @ Earls Court
more downbeat. Forth album If still shows their great ear for a
You Lose It is typically inoffensive melody
My tip for 2004
but never gets going, much Eastern Lane – Spiky, Pixies-
promise but never really delivers. Last album I bought
esque agit-rock
m.b. The Von Bondies – Pawn Shoppe
Heart
‘Rock star’ I would most like
to be
Album that I should have
ILL EASE Didz Hammond – The Cooper
thrown out, but haven’t
The Exorcist Temple Clause’s bassist
OPM – Can’t remember what it’s
Too Pure
A-MAZE-ING
We’ve all played the get out of the maze game, so I’m sure you know the score. Start in the
middle, and find your way out, or vice versa if you feel so inclined! There are only three
bfpub quiz
Who recorded the following albums:
bareafcts left until Easter, so get your ideas for the Interactive Page in to Ben Berryman at
barefacts@ussu.co.uk.
1 Revolver/Rubber Soul/Abbey Road
Revolver/Rubber
By Ben Berryman
2 Insecticide/In Utero/Nevermind
4
Automatic For The People/Out Of Time/New Adventures In Hi-Fi
9
Experience/Music For The Jilted Generation/The Fat Of The Land
Got any ideas for the Interactive Page of barefacts? Well, get them
in to barefacts@ussu.co.uk as soon as humanly possible, and we
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b a r e f a c t s @ u s s u . c o . u k
Sabbatical Officers Ickle Sarah and Funkyberry give a random slice of life from
their humble dwellings within Surrey Court Wey, Battersea Court Tate, and the
University of Surrey Students’ Union... This week I am mostly … learning that the meaning of life can be
found in an arrangement of colourful shapes, an excursion to the
GU2, IN CASE you hadn’t noticed (which, to MY DAYS ARE so busy that it hardly seems countryside, or even an alcoholic beverage or twelve!
be honest, you probably have!) is now into like a few hours have passed when I get the
its second fantastic week of broadcasting on call from Sarah saying “Have you done RC From time to time, my dad and I get together for a bit of father-
FM (107.3FM to be precise). In my opinion, yet? The paper is almost ready to send!”. daughter bonding. We take turns to choose the activity, and unless
one of the jewels in its crown, so to speak, But this week I am making a real effort to there’s considerable resistance from the other party the decision is
is the absolutely amazing ‘Sketch Show’, get Rawson’s Creek written earlier than made. Over the past few years, we’ve acquainted ourselves with
broadcast on Tuesdays at around 4pm on usual, and have so far yet to receive any call Art Deco, marvelled at Matisse, pondered Picasso and gawped at
Jay and Petchy’s ‘drivetime’ show. or email. Goya. Making sense of some of the Tate Modern offerings proved troublesome, though the
LAST week, on the day of its first ever I’M not that into fashion, but I do have to fact that we once managed to interpret three air-conditioning vents embedded in the floor
broadcast, I was sitting in my office, say that girls wearing “slouch boots” and on the basis of a framed description that actually applied to the monolithic bronze structure
toddling through barefacts whilst talking denim skirts look so cool! I used to go to behind us, is proof enough that modern art is, and always will be, what you make of it.
to fellow sabbaticals Claire and Chris, and jazz gigs, theatre and concerts in London, Which in my case, as a Fruitcake with an overactive imagination [unwittingly encouraged
suddenly I heard the words “ickle sarah and there would be these really quite posh early on in life by my mother who used to set me the task of writing stories using words
vice president communications” coming girls there wearing ugg/slouch boots, and as disconnected as “shingles”, “foliage” and “millipede” in a desperate attempt to keep me
out of my computer speakers (listening on the denim skirts… and although they looked quiet], means the possibilities for artistic analysis are endless. I have to admit I struggled
www.gu2.co.uk - amazing)! This in itself very cool, I just didn’t see them that often. rather with a sequence of photos depicting the subject’s genitalia replaced with chicken
wasn’t too unusual, as every so often I get However, over the last few months every carcasses but give me a blue canvas with a single yellow stripe and I could puzzle over it
a shout out or dedication - normally when girl it seems in Guildford is wearing them! for hours. And probably still be none the wiser.
something by Delta Goodrem comes on, So rather than telling each person I see that I Some of our day-tripping adventures have been more culturally-enriching than others,
as her album is my ‘CD of the moment’ think they look cool, I’ll kill a flock of birds but that’s a risk we’re willing to take. I mean, let’s be honest, leaving the South London
in the Media Centre. But the ickle sarah with one grenade, and tell them all how cool ghetto we call home is an exciting enough prospect… anything we might learn from the
mention was swiftly followed by something they all look here! I just have to find one of experience is just an added bonus. In fact the tradition started with a visit to a wine-tasting
containing the word “chris”, and our ears them to go out with before it goes out of museum near London Bridge - I can’t recommend it highly enough [unless you’re teetotal
began to prick up. fashion! I guess]. A reasonable entry fee secures you half a dozen glasses of wine - or in our case a
AND slowly it became to apparent to us I quite like doing random things, and on dozen since we developed a sneaky method of sharing our tokens – and of course there’s
that we were being (rather impressively) Sunday night I was able to try something also a lot of detailed information on different grape-growing regions and methods of
imitated on the radio, in what became random that would drive most people production. Quite frankly though, if you’re not going to remember the actual events of
apparent was a comedy sketch called ‘The crazy – although the effect was somewhat the day in any case, is there any point pretending to absorb these superfluous details as
Sabbaticals’. Now, this is no half hearted different. To start with I loaded up www.bad well? Much better speed round the tasting stations and get testing your newly-acquired
attempt at a few in-jokes or digs at the Union gerbadgerbadger.com and played this very knowledge in the trendy wine bar strategically situated next-door I say. Not that I want to
- it’s absolutely genius. I am convinced that loud over the stereo in my office (for those encourage such reckless behaviour by any means, so consider this tactic accompanied by
the writers/actors must have been stalking us without the Internet, imagine an animated a mild health warning – fellow commuters won’t necessary respond well to you snoring
for months, because their impressions of the group of badgers jumping up and down, and drooling on the train home at three in the afternoon, mildly sweating Chardonnay from
majority of the sabb team were absolutely with a dancy beat and a deep male voice just every pore, lips stained black by a 1985 Chianti. Or so I imagine.
spot on! From Chris’ fake high voiced “He’s saying badger badger badger bager over It’s my dad’s turn to choose next time but I’m kind of in a pickle. See, having put my foot
not here!” when people asked for ‘Deputy and over and over again) . After about 35 down and refused to spend a day admiring a collection of postcards picturing Butlins from
Returning Officer Scott Farmer’ (everyone minutes of this I was getting the feeling that 1960 to the present day, I now have remarkably less ground to stand on when it comes
seemed to have their positions tagged onto I needed something else. to demonstrating my reluctance to cycle 38 miles between Shalford and Shoreham. I’m
their names every time they were mentioned AT this point I then loaded holding out for another global-warming-induced freak snowstorm, or maybe even a well-
in the show) to Chops’ “yup” or “right” to www.seizurerobots.com in a webpage over researched study proving that bike rides between places whose names begin with the same
everything, it was all absolutely perfect. the top of badgerbadgerbadger.com. Now letter of the alphabet can be linked with quicker mental deterioration in old age. In the
THE story was also pure comedy - take five seizure robots also has a rather annoying meantime though, excuses on a postcard please.
sabbatical officers, put them in the broken tune, but this time the animation is a the
library lift, and wait for the consequences. image of robots being flipped back and Catherine Lee
The consequences were, in fact, a lot of very forth, with a flashing background using
Lyrics Quiz
funny references to motions, vice-deputy bright oranges, yellows, greens, etc.
returning officers, lobbying the library with MOST people can only deal with a few
exec in a Union minibus... all on the “Quest minutes of badgerbadgerbadger without
to stop the rising tuition fees” (said, of wanting to throw the computer out the
course, in Chris’ obligatory ‘high voice’). nearest air-lock, but after 3 hours of non-
QUITE simply, the Sketch Show was the stop brain trashing with these two sites on
funniest thing I have ever heard on GU2... my screen I was actually on a total high This week’s lyrics quiz is brought to you courtesy of interactive wiz Ben Berryman - same
and probably the whole of radio, so a – singing along at the top of my voice, and as usual: figure out the name of the band and artist who said the following lines...
huge thankyou and well done to everyone bouncing around my office! Sadly that night
- it’d been a tough week, and you made I didn’t dream about badgers, and instead 1. “This is torture - this is pain - it feels like I’m gonna go insane”
me wander around the Union with an inane dreamt about sailing across the Atlantic 2. “Now what’s cooler than bein’ cool?”
grin on my face for at least a few hours! No in a 25ft yacht… but that’s another story
change there then....! completely! 3. “Since your dad walked out, your mom could use a guy like me”
‘ickle sarah butterworth chris ‘funkyberry’ hunter 4. “Your mother warned you there’d be days like these”
6.Around the garden, 7.Little Miss muffet, 8.Baa Baa Blacksheep, 9.Old Mother Hubbard, 10.I’m the king of the castle 5. “Gee wheeze baby please, let me take you to an island of the sweet cool breeze”
6. “He’s got a daughter he calls Easter, she was born on a Tuesday night”
8.Dogs, 9.Gum, 10.Wagons | 1.Cock Robin, 2.Georgie Porgie, 3.Ding dong bell, 4.The Wheels on the bus, 5.Pat a cake,
1.Fourteen, 2.Dum-Dum, 3.Kookaburra, 4.Take a drink of alcohol, 5.Harrold Bishop, 6.Lloyds TSB, 7.Mozzart,
Never Dies | Jumbled quiz: The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with | Pub Quiz:
5.The Living Daylights, 6.Dr No, 7.Goldeneye, 8.For Your Eyes Only, 9.The Man with the Golden Gun, 10.Tomorrow
7. “Oh Deborah, do you recall? Your house was very small”
the race. | Quote quiz: 1.On her Majesty’s Secret Service, 2.Goldfinger, 3.Moonraker, 4.The World is Not Enough, 8. “So they came into the outway, it was Sunday - what a black day”
final ten meters will belong to the faster of the two. Since Mick is faster than John, he will win the final 10 meters and
started ten meters back. By the time John reaches the 90 meter mark, Mick will have caught up to him. Therefore, the 9. “We’ll start over again, grow ourselves new skin.”
was assumed to be the blue one. So the mean king had to set him free. | John will lose again. In the second race, Mick
picked up the other marble and showed everyone. The marble was black, and since the other marble was swallowed, it 10. “And when we hear the voices sing, the book of love will open up and let us in”
Riddles: The prisoner grabbed one of the marbles from the jar and concealed it in his hand. He then swallowed it, and
18 LIFESTYLE 26 February 2004
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silly
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will you? Cheers!
by Psychic Sandy Go Paintbrush! “The Sometimes are invading, be afraid... be very
afraid...”
Libra Aries Chunks you should feed the poor lad if he’s that
Boring, boring, This weekend, you’ll hungary! Igloo igloo igloo igloo!
boring…life’s been a find another one who’s
anyone got any goggles I can wear to play Cullen RAY’S MADNESS | PURE SEX COMING OUT OF
tad – yes you guessed it just dying to get into
at squash? Oh yeah shin pads, mouth guard, YOUR SOUNDSYSTEM | SUNDAYS 11AM - 1PM |
– boring this week. Take your favour, so take full shoulder pads and a scrum cap might also be GU2 1350AM OR MW | NOW ON 107.3FM | OR
up a new hobby. I gather advantage and you may useful! LISTEN LIVE ON WWW.GU2.CO.UK
paragliding is a popular one. Or perhaps find yourself with a new sugar daddy…
Great sandwiches dudes and the pain au Great first match Flash x x
a spot of riding? Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake watch out for your curtains by the way
chocolate were fab too x
bakers man…etc. Get rid of the scissors. – don’t tell me, you’re the only one who Never fear, Captain Eveready and Loose Woman
didn’t know they’re transparent. Thanks Big John and Manakin for a great training will save the day!
Scorpio session, muchly appreciated guys
A formal apology to Chunks and Unlucky, I
Howdy! Well, the honte Taurus
Thanks Loose for looking after me so well when promise to lay off you guys from now on x x x
of Friday night’s in your You’ve found yourself I’ve come to visit, it’s been great
world! Misbehavin’ isn’t lacking in inspiration Cullen why are you single?
the word! Alcoholic lately, but it should all Kebab, I hope you’re ankle’s better! More ice?!
Thanks guys for giving my cousin a great night
doesn’t even begin come together in the
think that squash ball did more damage than you out, I think we scared him real good! x x
to describe it! Sit on the roof this week, next few days. Watch a thought!... lanky, hunchbacked and geekish is not
especially if you live in Slag Hill… It may bit of Bargain Hunt and you’ll realise that attractive! loose + alan forever! Since the plane’s leaving on Friday I guess there
be cold, but it’s cool. As will you be.... things are never as shoddy as they seem. can’t be any more ‘final’ matches, so thank you
“ive had no valentines day cards! give me a guys for all the great matches and socials, you’re
rubber man!’ all the best and I’ll miss you loads! love always,
Sagittarius Gemini Bok xxx P.S. See you freshers in September!
There’s only a few I think its time you what’s that on your neck?
weeks to go, so make chilled a bit on the Well done Kenney, hope #10 won’t always be as
Hey Unlucky can you let Chunks get to bed at a damaging
the most of it! Pancake vodka front…its
reasonable time on Mondays and Thursdays so
day was lots of fun not been doing you she can get up for breakfast fitness, thanks. Well it wasn’t great, but it was better than
– perhaps a new theme any favours lately – nothing at all
is in order to liven things up a bit? You’ve particularly last Wednesday night. All good Josie and Tom sitting in Wells-3, K.I.S.S.I.N.G. Nice
one you two, you look so sweet together x Oli, my oli. I love you so much. I hope you win
had your eye on that special someone for though, ‘cos you made up for it on Friday!
the elections. But if not you will always be the
a while now, and its about time you made Speaking of which, this Friday, it looks like Great to have Sez back on the team next week we president of my heart. xxxxxxxxx
your move. things could take an interesting turn... WILL kick butt!
Skippy wait till the photos come out!!
Who exactly drank us egg chasers under the
Capricorn Cancer
table???? Skidoo, why are you now after Mullet men in
Those random A weekend away shorts?
encounters with the beckons in the near ‘Look will you just get in those toilets and get
milkman have got to future, so make the most your shorts off! Just do it, trust me you’ll love it. Have you still got those stockings on?
It will make all the difference!’ Keep it in the club
stop! You’re beginning of it. However, you may
hey boys! Staying sober doesn’t stop some people from
to acquire yourself a find you miss out on throwing up in the morning!
delightful reputation. Stop wearing out some fun, so make up for it when you get Angie did we break you? Have you found all the
your welcome and start going to school. back… how’s Monday sound to you? A trip pieces yet? Ems just where exactely did you go in Warwick?
You will discover the greatness that is the up to Cinderella-find-a-fella’s could be in
2 crates for the price of 1.. 10am Sunday morning! Pob masterbates over women.... but only when
take-away this week. Fortunate, what with the pipeline - sparkle baby, sparkle! Result! they are asleep!!
the fact that you’re a terrible cook.
Leo Satan loves you guys too but Im guessing Cullens Soggy Biscuit? Depends what biscuit it is.
in trouble again, do you want more tour fines? Be Hobnobs!
Aquarius Hurry up and sort out
nice x x
Late-night taxi rides and the house-hunting – The Fox from Robin Hood, Lady from Lady and
an interesting inability some of us are getting a I did say I didn’t wanna go to the union, you guys the Tramp and Nala from the Lion King, and the
to recall exactly what little impatient! Genius! are just bullies and you say Im evil!! mouse from American Tale. I’m sorry Funhouse
which Disney character is the hottest?!
it was you told the Its all about getting a
Hey scrumpy I think you made up on the dancing
bouncer will hold you in job for you at the moment, but try not to front this week. Mullet was allowed to pay 5p to feel just the
good stead this week… On a serious note, lose sight of other priorities in your life corner of the bag!!
get your head down soon and the resulting – your hamster might start to get jealous. Kebab nice shimmy even on one leg
I’m not wrong - just 3 or 4 times a day!!
rewards will multiply tenfold. Green is great on Thursday.
BULLSH*T!!
PRINCESS 28 - MOULET 8
Pisces Virgo ....so, if Eveready was alone in your bed.....whose
Pro-activity is what it’s Bring on Saturday! bed were you in? When I bought 2 pints, I was scared I was going to
have to neck a pint
all about for you this You are going to have i know it’s old, but gotta ask.....did Unlucky just So I necked one anyway
week! So bring on the lotsa fun and frolics. get lucky?
new, and scarily loud Unfortunately not in the B we love you!
Piscean… A full-on sea as it’s a bit chilly on Whose sh*t?
We’re collecting for the RSPCA, if you don’t
beard is just what you need to get noticed the old willy, in case you hadn’t noticed… Plans to take over the world are underway.... contribute by pulling me, Skippy will kick a cat on
this week – particularly if you happen to be loving good old chezza. Blonde is a good his way home!!!”
a laydee. Dye it pink if you really want to look for you – you might wanna check your just want to say hi to all the nipple-loving
ensure that people still know you’re a girl. reflection in your cereal spoon though! boohbahs out there! i love you all! love jingbah Trouble... you make me smile!
xxx
I am the one and only!
Apologies to those of you who realised Psychic Sandy appeared to be in a bit of
“Hunny, I Know I keep saying it, but I’m really not
a psychic rut last week - put the words ‘barefacts’ ‘media centre’ ‘computer’ and gay!” The Dream Team 03-04 - i love you all! xxxxx
‘crash’ in the same sentence and it goes some way towards explianing it - sorry!
26 February 2004 SPORT 19
teamsurrey
Federal Victory For Surrey
BY DAVID CHAPMAN
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T h r e e C o u r s e M e a l , W i n e , L i v e B a n d , D J , Vo d k a L u g e , C a s i n o , a n d M a n y M o r e E n t e r t a i n m e n t s
L a u n c h Pa r t y : T h u r s d a y We e k 7 i n t h e H R B
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