May 2009
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WatchA kite in the park today.
I tried to film the dude learning to hula hoop but I think he sensed I was impressed and went all camera shy.
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Eels - Tremendous Dynamite
From the new album,...
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WatchThis opens in Leicester the week after I move there. Completely makes up for my life effectively ending. :-)
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A few words about footnotes in fiction, because...
I just finished reading The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien, which was kinda cool because it was mostly about forgetting your name and turning into a bicycle, which isn’t dissimilar from some of my own Saturday nights. I like how some literary types aren’t afraid to spazz out and write some nonsense every so often. And Lost viewers will be able to tell you how the strategic...
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Little Feat - Willin’
This song makes me...
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“When a man lets things go so far that he is half or more than half a bicycle,...”
– From The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien. Sergeant Pluck explains the perils of spending too much time riding your bike.
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I fucking WISH you could look at these fucking...
So, yesterday the whole of the UK went apeshit, myself included. Springtime is like playing Russian Roulette with your umbrella in this country, because although it may well be warmer than zero and hailstones are no longer travelling horizontally, it has a tendency to piss it down. Like, absolutely fucking hammer it down so you’re wet to the knees and your feet squelch while you walk and...
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Re: a Travelling Band gig in the company of my...
Mum: My favourite bit was when they came and stood against the barrier for the final song.
Ellan: Yeah, it was brilliant!
Mum: I think Jo moved away from us because he thought you were going to grab his balls.
Ellan: Yeah. With my mouth.
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First of all, may I extend my heartfelt...
Man, how do you people read this reblog shit?
It’s like, it’s hard enough to focus at the screen after four wines and a whisky and coke without all these staricase conversations. Just swap phone numbers already.
In other news, I got my song tonight. All I had to do was write some offensive shit on the internet and then Jonnie Common rehearsed my song and got his new band to rehearse it and then they played it and I told them I...
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Elbow covering Black Sabbath’s “The Wizard,”...
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“A sculpture is a sculpture/ Marmalade is marmalade/ And a sculpture of marmalade...”
– Wave Pictures speak the truth
Dear SecretDark,
secretdark:
I am quite enjoying the blog Synonyms for Churlish. So.
You will hereby be referred to on these pages as The Tumblarity Doctor. :-)
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Also,
Jacko told me last night that when he dies he wants to be cremated and put straight into a wheelie bin in order to continue his rebellious streak into the afterlife. I thought I’d better post this in case his family get other ideas and I have to print my Tumblr and wave it in their faces as evidence. Like when that dude had to steal Gram Parsons’s body to take it out to the desert...
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This is what you're missing when I review plays by...
ragbag:
when the dust jacket of a novel informs you that miss x is “the new jane austen,” you instantly know that her book is full of bitchy remarks, and any novel written “in the style of virginia woolf,” obviously has no plot. similarly theatre criticism can be understood once the technical terms used by the modern critic are decoded.
brechtian production: the company couldn’t afford a set.
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My respect for Carol Ann Duffy just gets bigger...
“What did we do with the trust of your vote?
Hired a flunky to flush out the moat.”
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JJ Cale - Call Me The Breeze
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“He’s absolutely brilliant, especially the Troubadour album. I think it was...”
– Ben Ottewell on JJ Cale
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Something bordering on sensible
A little while ago I decided it would be great fun to make my living as a music journalist. So, I reduced my hours at work, got my friend to make me a website, and then sat on my arse for a bit, occasionally throwing some hyperbole in the direction of friends’ bands when they needed a press release and I needed fifty quid.
My bank manager told me that this probably wasn’t a...
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Andy: I was teaching a Travel & Tourism class the other day and I was trying to get the kids to think of reasons why tourists would come to Manchester, so I mentioned the Industrial Revolution and the football teams and then I put pictures of Ian Brown and Liam Gallagher up. Not one kid knew who they were.
Me: You should have used a picture of Take That.
Andy: That would have destroyed my credibility.
Me: Andy, you're a GEOGRAPHY TEACHER.
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“And there was this one lady at the bar and she was trying to buy gin/ And this...”
– Regina Spektor, from ‘Daniel Cowman’
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NEWSFLASH: I AM THE MESSIAH (not really... sorry...
So, I work in a theatre, and the backstage area is like a rabbit warren of narrow staircases and underground passages and, even after three years there, I sometimes get a bit panicky if I don’t have a compass and I can’t see the North Star. And it takes me, like, ten minutes to get from my desk to the sweet smell of freedom at the end of the day sometimes. Ordinarily, this is...
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jenrobinson:
Regina Spektor - Laughing With
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It's been far too long since I posted something... →
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