Farewell, then, Anthony H Wilson

Posted on August 10, 2007 by blogmywiki

Farewell, then, Tony Wilson.

Yes, you should have signed The Smiths. But you were right about Mick Hucknell, his music’s rubbish and he’s a ginger.

Have a look here and remember, and smile.

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Smile

Posted on August 6, 2007 by blogmywiki

Who was it who said, of literary criticism I think, “we murder to dissect”?

Who said that writing about music was “dancing like architecture”?

Well in the Guardian Guide on Saturday, Tim Jonze wrote about the comedian Josie Long. He said ‘you do have to be there’ to appreciate her sketch where she just repeats the phrase “Who here, out of everyone here, likes Nelly?”

I don’t need to be there. Just reading that phrase made me laugh out loud and thinking it still puts a big silly grin on my face.

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Everyone likes a nice co-incidence

Posted on August 4, 2007 by blogmywiki

Reading Calvin and Hobbes in bed, I turn out the light and briefly turn on the radio to check the alarm. First word I hear is “Calvinistic”.

Just now, watching Cape Wrath. Line of dialogue: “How’s Jack Donnelly?”. I turn to the bookcase and the first thing I see are the words MILLS/DONNELLY.

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Vinyl solution

Posted on July 24, 2007 by blogmywiki

The Official Colourbox World Cup ThemeI dug the old turntable out of the loft months ago and never had the time to dub off any of that precious vinyl… and when I did get round to it I discovered the stylus was missing. I didn’t want to shell out the best part of £100 on one of those USB turntables, so I sent £20 to the Diamond Stylus Company in Wales. A few days later a shiny new stylus arrived.

And I know why vinyl died out. It’s crap. It pops, hisses, clicks and is horribly prone to sibilance. But listening to ‘Glad it’s all over’ by Captain Sensible and ‘The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme’ for the first time in over twenty years put a big stupid grin on my face.

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Time travel makes you queasy

Posted on July 22, 2007 by blogmywiki

Shaun the Sheep - Take AwayFurther to my pathetic joke “Is ITV 2+1 the same as ITV3?”… we were just watching ITV 2+1 and the announcer said “…and if you missed this programme, it’s just starting now on ITV 2+1″. You’re twisting my melon, man.

Anyway, I think ‘plus one’ channels should be banned from DTT / Freeview. That kind of profligacy with bandwidth is ok for you Sky types, but not us down here on Planet Perky.

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