you wot, bruv?
Paul Meme has set up an incomprehensible new website to promote his forthcoming vinyl release.
Bo!
I am somewhat less than wild about the aesthetics - but the tunes are wicked.
At least he’s stopped calling himself a soundsystem now, tho eh? 
Martin:
Christian Death meets dubstep?
18 April 2008, 1:17 pmJohn:
I guess it was inevitable really:
18 April 2008, 1:36 pmhttp://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=84
STN:
I think it’s a cool picture myself. I suppose you’d prefer a horned robot crushing a virgin in its fist but some of us are more nuanced…
18 April 2008, 2:01 pmMartin:
Funnily enough, I could always see Paul strolling over a windswept hill, Harry Secombe-style, in a Sisters of Mercy t-shirt and trench coat, booming out, “SOUL OF MY SAAA-VIOOURR / SANCTIFY MY BREAST”…
18 April 2008, 2:13 pmSTN:
It’s equally easy to imagine John shoplifting Merrydown from the co-op in St Albans while wearing one of those funny Fields of the Nephilim hats.
18 April 2008, 2:19 pmMartin:
Come on John, let’s see the pictures of you in the Neph hat - you can stick up some of your teenage poetry as well
18 April 2008, 2:28 pmJohn:
I’ve never denied my inner goth!
Nah, it’s cool what he’s doing - it isn’t like any other dubstep type website and I’m sure he has spent more time than is healthy drawing up a weltanschaung (sp?) behind it all.
Plus it’s a good way of merging the dubstep scene with all the people into the Davinci Code and all that guff, so the marketing possibilities are HUGE!
18 April 2008, 2:34 pmMartin:
True - and it’ll make a nice change from deserted towerblocks / skylines over the Thames at 4am / industrial warehouses ad nauseam…
18 April 2008, 3:02 pmSTN:
my thoughts exactly
18 April 2008, 3:13 pmdubversion:
We’ve got some lovely scatter cushions in that material. Look LOVELY on the sofa.
19 April 2008, 5:06 pmdevotionalhooligan:
not my taste either,sorta ok on the webpage though,maybe cause it’s shrunken… reminds me of those early arqa sound cassette covers…
19 April 2008, 6:26 pmMelissa:
are you mocking your friend?!?!
20 April 2008, 8:21 pmjohn:
I am mocking his taste in imagery, yeah. That probably makes me a terrible friend but I’ve been doing it for 20 years now and it’s hard to stop. To his credit he takes it all in his stride…
20 April 2008, 11:07 pmdanny:
I like it, as I’ve had a chat with Paul about what his trying to do. Devotional, innit?
22 April 2008, 1:56 pmdanny:
AFAIK Paul is doing some magical/meditative work on Erulize Freda, and the picture of saint above is one of her faces - I also don’t think scrawling WTF? over the top is the most sensitive thing you could do. Perhaps he’ll forigve you.
I admit I didn’t understand all the rest of the images. I assume they are awaiting musicial accompliment.
22 April 2008, 2:24 pmsmith3000:
Yeah, bloody so-called John Eden. WTF with the WTF?
22 April 2008, 4:28 pmJohn:
I’m even more baffled now. Is this going to end up like those cartoons in Denmark?
22 April 2008, 4:49 pmdanny:
I’m sure he won’t be launching himself down the M4 in a suicidal frenzy.
22 April 2008, 6:08 pmdanny:
.. but you never know. Be interesting if he does.
22 April 2008, 7:07 pmjohn:
He’s moved to Slough?! Well that explains it!
22 April 2008, 7:17 pmGypsy Lantern:
It’s an image of the Mater Dolorosa, an aspect of the Virgin that is syncretised with Erzulie Freda Dahomey, the Haitian Vodou Lwa of love, sex, pleasure, luxury, dancing, beauty and sorrow. The website looks awesome to me. But then again, I have a shrine for Erzulie in my bedroom and my fiance is a devotee of her mysteries - so I’m perhaps not the most impartial source on that…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzulie
24 April 2008, 10:51 ampaul.meme:
Scatter cushions! I can see that going down quite well with certain aspects of Our Lady.
John scrawling WTF over this carefully selected icon has its own spiritual, or at least existential, force, I think. Actually I think he’s keyed into quite an important aspect of Erzulie Frieda - the tears and despair at the state of the world that come after the lust for temporal luxury.
26 April 2008, 10:28 am