I did not think I could love Edward Norton any more than I do, even though I have gone right off wiry chaps. Anyway then I saw him got up like Archaela and changed my mind like a bloody woman.
“Just because you use Tumblr does not mean you have to make it like a teenage girl’s Tumblr; all gingham cakes and photos of people you fancy.” (Me, to a class of young people who object to Tumblr, about a month ago).
I saw a lady at the baths today who had absolutely no clothes on - you could see the HRT patch on her bottom and everything. I did not think this sort of thing happened in Great Britain but then perhaps she was A Foreign.
Pushy Parents - ‘Secret Secret’ (Elefant)
Wendy Roby’s single of the week…
Pushy Parents are dirty cheats and magpies - in actual life they are a) dead old and b) Swedish musicians Amanda Aldervall, Roger Gunnarson, Daniel Jansson and Johann Emmoth. But for the purposes of pop presentation they are teenagers, gaily gidding about pretend-playing instruments and singing to you about how they ‘gave you the truth,’ but ‘you don’t know what it means’. As it is unlikely that such a grave thought would occur to youths as youthy as the ones in the video – much less provoke them to dance in front of pastel graphics, you must not be fooled. Nor must you ignore the fact that this single is so very like a modded DeLorean with no ambition; dials set for 2006, when ‘Young Folks’ and ‘You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve’ both found their home in the hearts of those too old for hairslides, but too young to throw their hairslides away. And though all three share the deliberate, self-conscious air of distilled laboratory pop; and though it is easy – especially if you are feeling cynical – to spot the strings, all are rather affecting. I am convinced that in ‘Secret Secret’s case, this is due to the power of the now oft-overlooked key-change-chorus; a musical trick that still works on me, even though it is capriciously silly.
It has been ages since I had a pash like the one I have on television’s Ron Swanson. Mainly it is his insistence on NEAT HAIR for men. Also, he laughs in the face of SALAD. Plus he likes to fish for sport. Basically he is the ultimate manplate in a world in which baggy-necked ladies t-shirts are increasingly worn by men with bloody wheat intolerances and no flipping idea how to wield a Japanese pull saw. Not that he would ever have anything Japanese in his tool box. I ♥ HIM.
ANYWAY.
The Ron you see here was drawn by the inestimably talented Dan Berry, who is not only well good at comics, but so good at comics he teaches other people to be good at them. He drew this because he is also nice. So do look at his peachy website and feast on its many, many riches here. What a ruddy dude.
Free tip: PEOPLE WHO ARE GOOD AT DRAWING ARE THE BEST PEOPLE TO FOLLOW ON TWITTER.
