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Quick one - Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd's song, Time. Wow. What an amazing lyric. Don't think it'd be going too far to compare it to the poetry of Philip Larkin in particular "hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way". Just wonderful.
That's all, anything else will just descend into hyperbole, but wanted to say something in praise of it anyway. -
Frankie Boyle and freedom of speech
So Frankie Boyle's revealed his true reasons for leaving Mock the Week as being due to both being censured by the BBC Trust and to feeling restricted with the material provided to riff on by the programme's producers, which sheds a fair amount of light on the initial smokescreen of 'new commitments' and brings into play again the argument of ( Read more... ) -
Incongruous much...?
I can write a dissertation. I can pass an illustration degree. I have an IQ somewhere in the region of 140-150. If pushed I can put up a shelf that doesn't fall down. I'm a fairly good all-rounder in my abilities and when faced with learning a new skill I'll usually find a way to do it.
So why can't I get a damn earwig out of the shower?*facepalm -
Quick music musing
One of my favourite tracks at the moment is Aenema by Tool. Yeah, it's brutally misanthropic (Green Day's American Idiot, while always fairly tame, sounds by comparison like David Gray) but it's musically deft and sums up fantastically all that was wrong with pop culture - in 1996; it makes me wonder just how much more bilious the lyrics would have ( Read more... )