February 2012
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Watch
This has become my go-to videothing when I need a mood-lightener. It wasn’t easy to before, but you definitely can’t take the album too serious after. WELL DONE EVERYBODY.
January 2012
12 posts
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This is why journalism is so ruddy annoying.
1. ‘feisty, eccentric’ - this is but a whisker away away from calling these five women ‘nutty tarts’*. Did the sub-editor done it? Awful, awful, awful. JUST BLOODY AWFUL.
2. These women have not ‘just arrived’ - Kreayshawn’s single was released in June last year, when she had a Guardian Guide cover...
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
6 posts
Ask The Oracle
Every now and then I like to try to work out what people have been asking the Oracle. Here are some favourites:
I have, for reasons of taste and decency, omitted the wronger ones. But it makes me think about how*
WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
BUT ALSO THE SAME.
[*Carrieface]
La Bo
If you want a proper demonstration of what it is like when singers give it 110%, you could do a lot worse than La Bohème, which is about ART and POVERTY and STRUGGLE and DEATH FROM ALL OF THE ABOVE (PLUS BOOZE). I think this (from Sir Thomas Beecham’s marvellous Come To The Opera!) describes it very well:
“La Bohème is a testamant of youth. For that reason it is an opera one...
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Ruddy Poshes
I don’t know why it has taken me so long to get round to reading Clarissa Dickson Wright’s autobiography, especially when I have a special fondness for mad books by raging Tarquins. It seems to me you end up reading two books; the breezily unsentimental words on the page, and then, the gaps between them. Aristos, it seems to me, are capable of recounting extraordinary events with an...
October 2011
4 posts
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Drawing Bums: A Masterclass
I have long been pestering The Little Dude to draw me a picture of a bum for my office, as my sister has a family bumtrait in her downstairs loo and I have admired it for many a month. After much hectoring on my part he relented, and I present the work above.
As I live by myself, I qualified for an extra rear to complete the composition; which I need hardly point out represents the bum of next...
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September 2011
3 posts
August 2011
6 posts
Durrrr
The more of Thomas Paine I read, the more amused I become with the Christian Right for adopting him.
“Can any man of serious reflection hazard his future happiness upon the belief of a story naturally impossible; repugnant to every idea of decency; and related by persons already detected of falsehood?”
HE’S TALKING ABOUT THE RUDDY BIBLE YOU MASSIVE MENTILEISTS. Although...
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AnguishFace™
I want an emoticon for the exact gesture this lady is doing. I am calling it ‘anguishface’. Anguishface is TM me, it is NOT THE SAME as facepalm or :/ or the detestable :-s and I invented it. You are meant to use it when something ‘well bad’ is happening but you cannot be arsed to write a whole tweet or pointless blog post headed ‘Thinkings’. In the same way...
July 2011
9 posts
“…if by feminism you mean, uh, women, uh, trying to be all that and a bag...”
– Go Teenagers!
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Songs & Singles of 2011, So Far
DiS have started doing a countdown of their Top 25 Songs of 2011 So Far - all the contributors, writers and editors submitted a dozen or so. I’m not sure how many of mine have made the list, but the following songs are the ones I put my hand up for.
TOP TWO
Metronomy - The Look
I did my ankle in dancing to this and I am happy to inform humans that it is a song that ameliorates any...
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I think I get less literate the more I like a band; it is hard to rein in the superlatives because you get all breathless and giddy and and and and and AND. Low are a good example although it was a close run thing with Metronomy, because you cannot not like The Bay. You cannot not!
June 2011
22 posts
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I no get it #9279234934
If you want someone to write something impassioned about your music, send them your music. I know it is knuckle-gnawingly hard but the brilliant thing is that although The Machine says you have to PR things in a certain way, you actually - W@IT IS THaT TEH SKY FALLIGN IN - don’t have to. I mean, if you don’t really want to give a person your song and you think they have the time or...
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In this week’s singles column I may have accidentally written the phrase ‘robots on the blob’. I don’t know how that happened but if you like glassy hip-hop and psychedelic music for people who try to avoid psychedelia at all costs (i.e. me) there is probably at least one song released today that you will actually quite enjoy listening to in the background while you put the...
