Come on Alex, you can do it!

[alexsarll]

Given how much music means to me, I've long been saddened by my name's absence from it. While the Alices and the Johns and even the bloody Jeans got all the action, the only Alexander was a beetle in a rather substandard Melanie song. No more! My thanks, then, to The Arcade Fire for 'Neighborhood #2 (Laika)'. That they also sound like Bright Eyes covering New Order makes this particularly sweet.

Franz Ferdinand fans! I read in the NME* that the album by Alex's previous band, the Karelia, is to be re-issued. Obviously I bought it the first time round, because I'm that cool, so if you want a taster I'm sure to play a track from it at Love Your Enemies this Sunday (/plug).

Last night I realised that with a little tweaking one of my dad's theories demonstrates an intrinsic connection between homo sapiens' position as dominant species, and the tendency to webskive. Now, even as it stands this is a powerful argument against the complaints of parents and employers, but apply a little Science! and it demonstrates that those of us who webskive most are in fact the master race. Result!
(While pondering evolution and invention along these lines over breakfast, I felt a moment of desolation as I realised that generations must have lived and died without ever knoowing toast.)

Turned on the TV this morning to see someone I used to fancy at university talking about flirtation. That was weird.

Some more questionable answers; if your name's not down, expect mail later.

hairyears: Not to the best of my knowledge.

p_dan_tic: I'd really rather not think about it in that level of detail.

my_red_dream: Alas, my powers can be erratic; right now they're not even managing to summon my copy of the new Richard Morgan.

katstevens: A few, but they're easily ignored; action would be more trouble than it's worth.

miss_newham: Hmmm. I'm not sure if I want to see the evidence or not.

*Look, it had a very nice picture of Brandon Flowers on the front, and it's not like I paid for it, OK?

Comments

[euphoricstimuli.livejournal.com]

youve never heard the iron maiden classic Alexander the great then? :)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

No. But now I feel I should; they're intermittently rather good. WHY DID METALHEADS NOT BRING THIS TO MY ATTENTION SOONER?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Also, Alexander Graham Bell by The Sweet.

But lest people be fooled by this, let us all remember that your name is Barry, and ever so shall be.

toast

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

well, bread and fire have been around for quite some time. I would postualte that more generations have experienced, or at least have had the potential ability to experience toast than have died without knowing such pleasures. Which is an altogether more warming way to look at it.

Re: toast

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

that would be postulate there, marvellous

Re: toast

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

And of course there are more people alive than dead, so the majority of humanity is now eligible to eat toast. I do hope that the American quest to civilise the world makes sure to take toasters as well as democracy to all.

[666inmyheart.livejournal.com]

Obviously I bought it the first time round, because I'm that cool, so if you want a taster I'm sure to play a track from it at Love Your Enemies this Sunday (/plug)

That's only if I can tear myself away from Alex K's pretty face.

xx

[london-imp.livejournal.com]

He's not so pretty now he's had his haircut. :(

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

While I'd rather have the album to work from, even without it I'd still have the singles!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself lucky. I've only got Que Sera Sera, or if you really want to go down that route, Sarah by the Fat Tulips. Pushing it - everything on Sarah records. Pushing it further, Sarah = Princess apparently so anything by Princess Superstar. MORE SONGS ABOUT SARAHS PLEASE.

Perhaps I'll wear my Karelia tshirt on Sunday.

Or perhaps not.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh, there must be other Sarah songs! Though admittedly none spring instantly to mind.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's not a proper answer!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

This is why people should have email addresses on their profiles!

[london-imp.livejournal.com]

There's 'Happy Birthday To You' of course which does inevitably include your name.

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

arcade fire are causing great confusiton in belfarce, as anytime anyone posts anything about them, everyone assumes the poster is talking about north street arcade burning down.

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

and i DO apologise for my poor typing this morning.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I think you're the first response here to even mention them, which puzzles me, because they're really very good indeed.

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

The Arcade Fire album is good, isn't it? Reminds me of Mercury Rev thinking they're Radio 4, but in a good way.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Ah! At last. I don't really know much Radio 4 so can't comment on that comparison but yes, I hear the Rev resonances. Which reminds me, have you got their new one?

[shewho.livejournal.com]

name me a song about a melissa.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Look, I can't find songs about namesakes for you all! Each of you must take your own quest.

[vivid-blue.livejournal.com]

Who was talking about flirtation?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Clare from King's, the poet. They were reading out/dramatising poems and then various poets discussed them - I missed which poem the flirtation was in, but it was a female Restoration poet so presumably Aphra Behn. Then it was Yeats' 'Irish Airman', and Wordsworth's 'Westminster Bridge'. The response to the latter was particularly annoying, as it involved several of the poets totally missing the point of Blake. And missing the point of Blake always gets my goat.

[suicideally.livejournal.com]

I can only think of two songs about Alices (and one of them is not to be spoken of under any circumstances) - are there more?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Off the top of my head there's the Sisters, the Mary Chain and Jefferson Airplane, but I'm sure there are others too.