"What if you ruled the world Michael. There will be no war, no hate, no rasism, no fighting and no suffering. There will only be LOVE LOVE LOVE!! You will always be in my heart Michael, forever and ever. I Love You!! R.I.P. The KING of Pop and God bless your soul."

Imagine seriously holding this opinion.

Best intro ever.



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good youtube comment:

"Might have been something interesting in 1991, but this is just poor as fuck trash."

good youtube comment:

"Whoever you are you are the fucker.
Love,

Paul "

I knew you could

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I was gonna write on my next blog, which is this current blog (because at the time I had the thought I was in what is now the past), about a recent campaign by funny people to vandalise duncan norvelle's wikipedia page with fictitious catch phrases, after richard herring revealed that the page had a catch phrase section which simply contained one sentence, "chase me." There were dozens which have all now been removed by prudish pedants, but there were some great ones, like "The gods come screaming from the ether", but my favourite was easily "Is this the papal legacy you really want?"

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Also recently amongst good people on twitter a daily mail poll was being circulated that asked, "Should gypsies be allowed to skip NHS queues?". So many people went and voted 'yes' (88%, the last time I checked) that the daily mail took it down.

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I don't know how or why, but I somehow find this song exceptionally good, when there is really nothing technically different about this to any other dubstep song. WHAT A MYSTERY MUSIC CAN BE HUH

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If I had the know-how, I'd make a st sanders style video with old beatles footage. It's amazing no one's done it yet-with all the girls screaming and crying in the audience, it'd work so well to switch the music for complete noise.


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This song starts off so wrong but he swings it round in true majesty. That bit around 20 seconds where he's out of tune and gets a lyric wrong, then looks at the floor in shame, then flicks his head up and within seconds he's back on his feet. I think it sums up what I love about david byrne quite well. He's imperfect, but he'll work out a way to get around it and he'll make something amazing from nothing special.

"The better the singer is, the harder it is to believe what they are saying."

"Who's still working on his masterpiece?"




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"But imagine, among the mud and the mastodons
God sighing and yearning with tremendous creative yearning, in that dark green mess
oh, for some other beauty, some other beauty
that blossomed at last, red geranium, and mignonette. "

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Who is Virgilio Anderson?


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xoxox

ain't nuttin but frontin

Yet another mix, probably my last for a long time. This one's on a theme of Mercutio, who as a character I think does a lot of what music should do to you; sweep away negative thoughts and make you feel ashamed to be miserable.


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gets good about half way through


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getting back into the fall recently, stumbled upon some classic lyrics, such as what may be my all time favourite lyric/piece of writing ever:

"The observer magazine just about sums him up; eg. self-satisfied, smug."

Amazin'.

Another brilliant lyric is in 'Second Dark Age', which contains loads of great lyrics ("cause groups can change the worrrrrrrrrld!"), but the best is when mark just screams 'A MEDIOCRE ANTI-JEW' at the start of a verse. I think it's particularly relevant (hate that phrase...) at the moment, what with all these "bnps" running about, messing up the precinct. people are making a massive fuss about the bnp and what everyone is forgetting is that nick griffin is just such an idiot, and a wholly mediocre person who can barely express his own views (which he himself has invented from fantasy) properly. Just let him pass, with all the others.

Interview with nick griffin about a month ago on the daily politics started with, "So Nick, to clear up, do you deny the holocaust?" Two weeks later...

There was a feminist's Austin Maxi parked outside, with anti-nuclear, anti-nicotine stickers on the side

Anyway, two weeks before...

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Made another playlist, this one's on a theme of paradise. I think this one is considerably better than my first one, probably cos the subject matter is more concise. There's a lot of songs about water and beaches on it, which is odd as my idea of paradise really isn't a beach. It also contains Enya, who I always nominate as my 'guilty pleasure' band when those conversations come up, despite the fact that I'm not really that guilty because Enya are well good.

Anyway enjoy it, I'm trying to make a lot of summer playlists but not just called 'summer' cos I think 'summer music' playlists are laaaaaaaaame and belong in the sunday times culture section and nowhere else. So I'm trying to focus on certain aspects of summer and why it's good; eg places feeling like paradise, everyone being more attractive/liberal about who they fancy, and I think my next one will be about drinks.


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To add to what I said about half man half biscuit last time...."ok, lets pedestrianise the high street...."

Objects are simple.

"I can't explain this feeling,
Don't you know that salvation is freedom?"

-Al Green. Nice, very nice.

Everything was good the other night, walking home along the beach, listening to al green. The guitars in al green records, which almost certainly were done by several different session musicians, are the true wonder of it all. They sound so fluid and vacuous and, like everything in al green records, walk the thin rope over beauty and tragedy; whenever it gets too sad, the full beauty of it hits you, and when that gets too much, you realise just how heartbreaking it all is. Like a proper relationship should do.

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I love it when there's a break in a song and someone says or does something really inane in the split-second of rest before the song kicks back into the life.

I went to see Half Man Half Biscuit the other week.


These two facts crashed into each other when, during a few seconds of silence in the middle of a HMHB song before a noisey solo, nigel blackwell said the best meaningless phrase ever:

"Alright, let's jet wash the wheelie bin...."

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"ITV and the media have used Susan Boyle, Now she is distressed. Perhaps the time has come for the Queen to use what power she has to command that Susan sings. such a move would be popular, not least among disabled people,their families and carers.
Angus Winfield, Brdgwater, Somerset, UK"

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"The wind stuck,
fixed me up."

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I remember once reading an article about anthony kiedis which described him as 'banana voiced'. That's what I love to see in writing; a use of words that doesn't really make any sense but also is so, so clear and to the point.


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My friend Hannah has a blog now and it's probably going to be good, I imagine; I don't know very much about this business.

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I've made a playlist on 8tracks about fancying people, check it out if you will. It was sort of rushed and just a first effort to see how the site works (i think i'm gonna get quite into it) so it's not very good. There was loads of stuff i wanted to put on but couldn't eg. the reggae version of the four seasons' 'my eyes adored you' which bizarrely they DIDN'T have.

Also only listen to the first minute of 'you know my name', after which point it becomes incredibly terrible. One good minute, though.

Anyway, listen if you will, as always....

xox

Sunshine and sugar, a taste of believing, I knew you could.

Some beautiful and special person has uploaded a performance of the knee plays by David Byrne onto youtube in its entirety. It's the only completely outstanding thing he did in the late 80s, so watch it, and watch it.