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