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[alexsarll]

I forgot to mention that though we lost badly, we at least lost honestly. Bernard Butler's team were seeking advice from the barmaid who's always really snotty with non-regulars, the cheating swine. Though I heard her give them at least one wrong answer in apparent good faith. Ha! In your faces, snotty barmaid and self-obsessed guitarist!

The flatmate was listening to one of the talk stations this morning and they were discussing shops which need to rebrand. In particlar, no one could work out how to make Matalan a destination brand.
Goldie Lookin' Chain, clarts!

Finally heard Morrissey's new single on XFM last night. As with his last album, the song seems to be stronger than the singing. Still, at least I know I'm ahead of my time; for me the day has already come when I'm bored of Labour and Tories and spit on the name of Cromwell. In fact, I go one better than that, and give him two fingers whenever I pass him outside Parliament.

Last night I had a very long and involved dream of which I can now only remember a conversation with Christopher Priest (the comics one) and attending an inaudible play. If it did mean anything, I'd probably rather not know what.

I wonder if the fat bin bird has started its quest to look like Brad Pitt yet?

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[angelv.livejournal.com]

That Mozzer song WELL sounds like Gene, the more I hear it. Something off Revelations.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

IRONY OVERLOAD IMMINENT.

[angelv.livejournal.com]

I know!

[jamesward.livejournal.com]

Heh, did you see that ABBA programme on Five the other week? H from Steps was on it and he said once he was at the Brits or somewhere and Benny (or Bjorn) was there with his daughter and she said "Daddy, why does ABBA sound like Steps?" and Benny (or Bjorn) said "Ahem, actually Steps sound like ABBA"

[angelv.livejournal.com]

Oh balls, I missed that programme. Nice to think that Martin Rossiter's kids might be saying the same kind of thing to him, though.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

yeah except MARTIN ROSSITER CAN SING and doesn't sound like a whiny fvck i'd punch in the face.

see, if morrissey shut the fvck up and got a singer in, the smiths may well have been a great band. as it is , they suck donkey c0ck!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

There's a new serial in 2000AD about strange creatures living on a plane of reality at an angle to ours, whose world only intersects with this one very occasionally. I hope they paid for the rights to your story.

[shewho.livejournal.com]

yeah, but my reality has no morrisey, and as such, is an infinitely preferable place to live :)

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

S'alright that song. Cromwell was a king-killer, a fenian-killer, and more importantly a humourless bore.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It's the dismissing Parliament for which I can never forgive the hypocritical old fvck. The Taliban-style repression of the arts was evil, but at least it was in the manifesto. The minute he dismissed Parliament he was the new boss, same as the old boss, and lost any legitimacy he may have had.
Come the Restoration they made a point of digging him up and executing the corpse, didn't they? I approve.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Yeah well, that was his stupid fault for building up Parliament in the first place. It was hardly Parliament as we know it today, was it?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

No, but if he's fighting against the King's refusal to consult it, he can't then dismiss it himself.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Good point, like the way Russia has become a gradually more open society since the Bolsheviks displaced the centralist autocratic tsar, and then the Yeltsin - Putin democrats replaced the centralist autocratic Gorba.... hang on a minute!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

This being my problem with revolutions - they tend to produce a lot of sound and fury before ending up, within a decade, back at square one (see also: France).

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

That's because they tend to be under the control of someone other than the revolutionary, right back to, umm, dunno, Marius?

[drasticsturgeon.livejournal.com]

My Dad is a tad obsessed with Matalan - he even has shares, bless him, his dabbling in the stockmarket has proved disasterous.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Does he also have shares in the Newport draw industry? Is he in fact Eggsie?

[drasticsturgeon.livejournal.com]

As I explained last night, having neither a computer with sound or flash capabilities I haven't actually ever seen or heard GLC, all I know of them is via word of mouth. So I have no idea who you mean.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

(I know, but I'm hoping some of the others might have found it amusing)

[jamesward.livejournal.com]

Primark > Matalan

[johnnybrolly.livejournal.com]

Yes, but why stop at Primark when Peacocks exists?

Hey Sarlo! You know Chrstopher Priest, the novelist one? He wrote a really good book called The Prestige. It's about a fued between turn of the century (C19->C20) magician types. I think you would like it. A couple of years ago a saw a novel in a charity shoppe by one or other Christopher Priest. It was one of the most racist, anti-black immigration rants I have ever come across. I had to throw it away after reading the first chapter and the last paragraph. I hope it wasn't the same bloke.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, the comics Christopher Priest is black, so it's unlikely to be by him...

Never read owt by the novelist but yourself and Rodders have both put in good words for him so at some stage I quite possibly shall.

[missfrost.livejournal.com]

Aye, The Extremes was the one I read. The paperback copy's often in North.

[drasticsturgeon.livejournal.com]

Definately they do like totally mint pyjamas innit!

[peacockpunk.livejournal.com]

I shop or have shopped at all these stores, yes Peacocks included hahahaccident, but TX Maxx is greater, fules.

Eggsie? DCI Burnside's where it's at.

"Get yer tracksuit on lad, we're going on a case"

"Yer going to have to wear it son, yer going to have to F###IN' wear it."

[666inmyheart.livejournal.com]

So it's not just my Dad then.
Last time I was home, he gave me some money and went "There dear, go buy yourself something nice. I'll drive you down to Matalan if you want. You can buy a lovely pair of jeans for a fiver from there you know..."

xx

[drasticsturgeon.livejournal.com]

They have no idea do they? bless

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

Oi!

[drasticsturgeon.livejournal.com]

Just because you have a computer - you got their first but it was my idea. Dagnabbit!!

See my user interests.

[bulletme.livejournal.com]

basically, y'know, irish blood, english heart is so f#cking immense i sort of can't really talk about it, but i would say that, wouldn't i. i mean, dude, it's MORRISSEY. and dude, he can sing. don't make fun of daddy's voice.

and did i mention i'm GOING TO SEE HIM IN JULY? i predict lots and lots of spaffing all over myself for hours. yes. marv.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

He certainly *could* sing. Maybe even still can. This is certainly better than his voice was on Maladjusted but I still get the feeling he could try harder.

[bulletme.livejournal.com]

i actually really like his voice on the single. and y'know, for someone who's been singing professionally since before i was born, he's doing pretty well. obviously i can never be objective about morrissey, but basically, yes. i still like his voice. he can still sing.

[publicansdecoy.livejournal.com]

Dude! You have a flatmate? I always thought you lived alone.

-x-

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I wish! There are two flatmates, we just don't mix in the same circles. Or much at home, for that matter.

[myfirstkitchen.livejournal.com]

Poundstretcher are rebranding as "Instore", it involves laminate flooring and wider aisles, apparently. Duuude.