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While I think Popjustice may have gone slightly overboard as regards Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad, it really is a lot closer to being consistent and consistently very good than most R&B/pop albums. And when you've got something like 'Umbrella' which could so easily make even pretty good tracks seem like irrelevances by comparison, that's no small achievement.
I used to draw images of tanks and bombers all the time as a child, but I recall no international court taking that as evidence of war crimes in the Midlands. And mine had robots, sorcerors and Cthulhoid entities to boot.
When The Shield returned a month or so back, I was worried that it might suffer by comparison with The Wire after my recent binges on the latter. I needn't have; their moral universes are sufficiently different, the violent disorder and brutal corruption of LA is more than the width of North America away from the inertia and decay of Baltimore - even the hopelessness has a different flavour. But there remain, inevitably, points of connection. I have to avoid watching them too closely together simply because the gang slang of one tends to throw my ear for the gang slang of the other. And in last night's Shield ( spoiler, also for Wire s3 ) Absolutely staggering.
Relaxing at the moment, in the knowledge that I have a real flurry of activity coming - Paul St Paul & the Apostles at Stay Beautiful tonight, then two Tubewalks tomorrow running straight into the free New Royal Family/Low Edges/Luxembourg show at the Bloomsbury Bowl tomorrow.
I used to draw images of tanks and bombers all the time as a child, but I recall no international court taking that as evidence of war crimes in the Midlands. And mine had robots, sorcerors and Cthulhoid entities to boot.
When The Shield returned a month or so back, I was worried that it might suffer by comparison with The Wire after my recent binges on the latter. I needn't have; their moral universes are sufficiently different, the violent disorder and brutal corruption of LA is more than the width of North America away from the inertia and decay of Baltimore - even the hopelessness has a different flavour. But there remain, inevitably, points of connection. I have to avoid watching them too closely together simply because the gang slang of one tends to throw my ear for the gang slang of the other. And in last night's Shield ( spoiler, also for Wire s3 ) Absolutely staggering.
Relaxing at the moment, in the knowledge that I have a real flurry of activity coming - Paul St Paul & the Apostles at Stay Beautiful tonight, then two Tubewalks tomorrow running straight into the free New Royal Family/Low Edges/Luxembourg show at the Bloomsbury Bowl tomorrow.
