Down House.

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Here's my review of the new opera by the Knife about Darwin which I really loved. Increasingly obsessed with talking about albums in terms of their own subject matter, just as a bit of a 'lark'.




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Just got back from Paris, where to give my French a bit of revision and, of course, cos this is what you should do when you travel (there's a good David Byrne song about this, see below) I listened to the radio a fair bit.

Anyway, it was just weird hearing lyrics like 'niggers be talking shit' on daytime public radio without being bleeped. Not sure if it was utopian or dystopian.



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GLORY BE GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH BLISSY LUSCIOUS RnB IS BACK IN THE CHARTS.



Well I mean it's not really in the charts, but y'know, it's out there, 'in the public domain'.

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BIG DADDY'S BACK.



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It feels so lame linking to Twitter but I feel I have to mention to the robert popper twitterfeed. It's one of the funniest things ever written.

'A joke: "I just saw a baby driving a car". "Really?" "Yes,well he was a baby 30 years ago!" (i.e it was a man now)'

Also, apologies, but the (obv) fake one for Dr Johnson is masterful....

Five Items Or Less (adv.) Costermonger's shepherding Call to herd the forlorn Souls who would buy but one PASTIE

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Finally, to end on a slightly cooler note, this recipe by Paul is the kind of stuff that I wish I was writing.