The Fall play Holmfirth

With Safy, Eleanor, KT, Paul and last but not least Lee.

Alpach

YES ! am off skiing to Alpach Austria again in January 2009.... can't fucking wait !

Found these pics of old Alpach days .... sister sesh getting a full on snogging from the pervy pig farmer and the amazing basement schnapps brewery urban took us to where we got royally pissed and sledged back down the mountain dropping speck all the way.

Lots of stars, mountains, Tishners bar, black runs, snow machines,

sore ankles, red noses, hot baths, crisp sheets, boiled eggs and 

hopefully lots of sun and snow !!!!!

Bits n pics

Michelle's Matty

Sam's french mushrooms

Why can't they leave the hall like this

Dreams of India

Justyna's chinese shopping trip brings oklahoma sweet gifts

at play

Cousin Simons birthday present, my christmas request has been placed, 

to be worn New year.

Bens Mongolian TV channel

oklahoma's web site begins

Dave, Destinys child, Nick and chocotastic POPTARTS !
Piles n rubberbands, Mushroom rissotto, Last FM, Patsy Cline on vinyl....
The Wire box sets lent to Nicola
and last but not least Mingering Mike....
And we have a holding page !!
www.oklahomacafe.co.uk

Faves o Neil's Faves

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Favorites o Neil's Flickr favorites

Sunday lunch

Caught unawares by Austin

clare n joe

Lucy

cAROL

Jennifer 4 months pregnant

Listening to Jennifer's baby moving and its heart beating was brief but amazing

Saturday night on the town wi KT

    after working all day greeting n seating oklahoma customers,  greedy for their coin, listen KT lets just hav a cup o tea and maybe watch a film, you could stay the night, let your mum know, I'm tired and starving, cant be arsed to go out... whats with this cup of tea routine ? I've got my heels in my bag... so Im on the tea shes on the gin n coke, starts showing me utube videos... destinys child - bootylicious, britney - toxic, get low - tpain, black eyed peas - my hump  we paint r nails electric blue, Im onto the glittery top layer she refuses doesnt want her nails to look like a 15 year olds I beg to differ, ok we could just run by fab check out Darius have one drink and a bit of a dance (Saturday night could be vile) into the bathroom out comes the camera, Im getting back into mascara, drop her lipstick and admit to it later, keys money card camera phone out the door, wont queue for the cash point, trek to find one without a queue, walking to fast for her heels   Fab.... dyke on the door seems to have taken a long term dislike to us, pay there mard, Darius lets us in 4 free ha, Talking heads is playing its a sign says Kt, but inside tedious, one quick drink laugh at one very bad dancer, one very deformed, out the door ... well we could try the Tiger Lounge not to be beaten James will be Djing always wondered what it was like on a Sat..... of we trot tot loosing our way, find it, James as luck would have is outside having a cigarette were on the list  lollipops, better music betterish crowd, meet James's girlfriend, talk to random slightly irritating boys mark and johnny with swallow tattoos about motorbikes, Kt reveals shes doing an art foundation course and then going to Glasgow to do environmental art.. Really ! Heidi the yoga teacher who likes the wall paper at the deaf institute why ? take photos of the bar and start dancing, teenage kicks, nine to five, get trodden on a few to many times but loosen up n let loose !  2 pairs of brothers one offers Kt a nice hotel room a line of coke and nirvana (her tshirt has that effect) she is not impressed, the other is worrying about his receding hair line I assure him its his personality thats important,  3.30 am sat in an empty Tiger lounge, atmospheric lighting, staff tidying, wi James n girlfriend wanting to smoke not tired Hungry.... 

Macdonalds very satisfying, a mildly facinating arena at 4am on a Saturday, busy in and out, club like door men, eating outside only, quite a mcparty atmosphere Nicola gets given a bunch of flowers thankyou your very sweet, pose for a photo on the corner house steps,

dan texts kt just finished work and coming over, ok, flat 32, talking heads french fries tea, he appears dirty tired full camera, finds the last beer n brandy, eggs in the fridge and the computer, requires low volume and a foot massage no offers, nicola falls into a rude sleep on the sofa Kt takes more pictures, 6.15am to the bunks, I wake at 11 am, supposed to be in Sawley for 12 for Sunday lunch, fuk it 1.45 will do, we laugh at Dan asleep on the sofa making disturbing noises and I leave Kt to a spar bacon buttie in my tie died toweling robe ... off to the Toyota autumn leaves n childs play 

Me and the move

No room at the shop

Sun Ra's Arkestra Tues 11th Nov 2008

Well it wasn't Sun Ra just his arkestra sort of ..... but I enjoyed taking photos of shiny sequins, talking & smoking with knoel scott, 84 yr old Marshall Allen on the sax was a cool old dog, Fliss's sarcasm, watching some bad dancing and meeting acquaintances old and new..... 

“Man has to rise above himself...transcend himself. Because the way he is, he can only follow reproductions of idea’s, because he’s just a reproduction himself. He did not come from the creative system, he came from the reproductive system. But if he evolutes himself, he will come up from the creative system. What I’m determined to do is to cause man to create himself by simply rising up out of the reproductive system into the creative system . Darwin didn’t have the complete picture. I’ve been talking about evolution too but I’ve spelt it e-v-e-r.”

Lucy's BURST of inspiration

N i c o l a s   f i r s t   b u r s t

hustling with KT

Friday night,  animals in outfits.. tea.. not queuing for the cashpoint

.. 2 halves of guinness .. 2 pints of fosters ....

Goth pub, pool, oitering out side arguing over lighters fending of pissed perves

smoking

tattoo talk

cheering ourselves up... 70ps on the table £5 deposit,

Im not playing gay doubles

touch screen duke box

NIN Nirvana

limbering up

she'll wipe the floor with you and she so did !

Hungry FIRE

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Rag pie - grab it while its fresh

Rag Pie (or Pudding)
A rag pie is made of suet and meat, and in many ways resembles a steak pudding except that it has a limp pastie shape. Favoured in many parts of Lancashire and Rochdale and still available at local butchers shops... There are references to it in Victorian times, when the pie (or pudding) clearly had humbler and less savoury beginnings - the following excerpt describes it being served up in an orphanage (Mr Bogryne's establishment):
"There was a dreadful pie for dinner every Monday; a meat pie with ... horrible lumps of gristle inside, and such strings of sinew, alternated by lumps of flabby fat. We called it kitten pie—resurrection pie—rag pie—dead man’s pie. We cursed it by night, we cursed it by day: we wouldn’t stand it, we said; we would write to our friends; we would go to sea. Old Bogryne kept Giggleswick seven hours (sitting) on a form with the pie before him; but Giggleswick held out bravely, and would not taste of the accursed food. He (Bogryne) never ate any of the pie himself".
(Gaslight and Daylight, by George Augustus Sala, 1859 - How I Went to Sea )

Halloween with little red riding hood !

How to Prepare a Shrunken-Head

After an attack on the enemy, the victim or victims were killed and immediately decapitated.
Sometimes the decapitation process occurred while the victim was still alive.
The head is cut off below the neck with a section of the skin from the chest and back is taken with it.
The killer removes his woven head-band and passes it through the mouth and neck of the head and ties it over his shoulder to facilitate a rapid retreat from the victim's camp.
Should the killer have no head band, the warrior will utilize a section of vine.
The head shrinking process occurred in the following way:

With the immediate fighting over, the warriors assemble back at agreed upon camps alongside a river away from the enemy's territory. It is here that the head shrinking process begins.
Now safe, the killer begins to work on the head.
A slit is made in the neck and up the back of the head, allowing the skin and hair to be carefully peeled from the skull.
The skull is then discarded into the river and left as a gift to the pani, the anaconda.
Carefully, the eyes are sewn shut with fine native fiber.
The lips are closed and skewered with little wooden pegs, which are later removed and replaced with dangling strings.
From here the tsantsa goes to the sacred boiling pots or cooking jars.
The head is simmered for approximately an hour and a half to two hours.
If the heads were left for any longer, the hair would have fallen out.
On removal from the pots, the skin is dark and rubbery, and the head is about 1/3 its original size.
The skin is turned inside out and all the flesh adhering is scraped off with a knife.
The scraped skin is then turned right side out and the slit in the rear is sewn together.
What remains is similar to that of an empty rubber glove.
The final shrinking is done with hot stones and sand collected nearby in order to sear the interior and to shrink the head further. These stones are dropped one at a time through the neck opening and constantly rotated inside to prevent scorching. When the skin becomes too small for the stones to be rolled around within the head, sand is heated in a food bowl and substituted for the stones. The sand enters the crevices of the nose and ears, where the stones could not reach.
This process is repeated frequently.
Hot stones are later applied to the exterior of the face to seal and shape the features.
Surplus hair is singed off and the finished product hung over a fire to harden and blacken.
A heated machete is applied to the lips to dry them. Following this procedure, the three chonta are put through the lips and the lips are then lashed together with string.
This entire process would last for approximately one week, with the head being worked on daily while en route back to their own village. The last day of work on the trophy is spent in a forest a few hours away from their village where the first tsantsa celebration will take place. Here, the warriors will make a hole in the top of the head and a double kumai is inserted and tied to a shirt stick of chonta palm on the inside, so that the head can be worn around the warrior's neck.
The Jivaro Indians were preoccupied with realism, which is clearly shown in the careful preparation of the head.
Due to the meticulousness of the tribesmen, the warrior tries to prepare the tsantsa with utmost care in order to maintain the original likeness of a the slain victim's face.

Final destiny of the gods

It sates itself on the life-blood

of fated men,

paints red the powers' homes

with crimson gore.

Black become the sun's beams

in the summers that follow,

weathers all treacherous.

Do you still seek to know? And what?

Brothers will fight

and kill each other,

sisters' children

will defile kinship.

It is harsh in the world,

whoredom rife

-an axe age, a sword age

-shields are riven-

a wind age, a wolf age-

before the world goes headlong.

No man will have

mercy on another.

Chapman Gallery retrospective opens

cat draws

katebush

Taxidermy

Posada

The deep blue sea

Church St Records

Richard

HELL YES !

Why me ?

JPW

Ken Brown

at arabs tidy flat

elf Gro liquifies