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alexsarllIt's Spring, hurrah! So I open the curtains, drink in the sunlight - and a bloody great V for Vendetta ad sails past and gives me the fear. Hmmm. Similarly puzzling, given today's supposed to be the day the darkness passes, is that it's apparently Self-Harm Awareness Day. Are we all aware of self-harm? Good - onwards.
Nambucca may have its faults, especially under the new regime - like taking an age to get served, starting to charge admission for lots of events, and closing nights 15 minutes early for no apparent reason - but it's still great to have a night like Smash Hits 7 within walking distance. I am reminded that with "I care enough to know that I can never love you ba doom ba da DUMP!" ABC probably came up with the single greatest moment in the history of popular music, and wish that I was in the Union of the Snake rather than the NUJ. And while I normally get annoyed at seeing music videos without sound, especially if other music's playing, some of the juxtapositions here are more like Morleyesque alternate histories of pop - Ian Curtis looks surprisingly appropriate singing 'Lay All Your Love On Me'.
The office copy of Music Week informs me that there's talk of extending the UK's copyright term from 50 years, perhaps to something more like America's 90. Obviously this is a purely principled and abstract campaign, and nothing at all to do with us being close to the point when lots of sixties pop would start coming into the public domain - just as the US decision had nothing at all to do with Mickey Mouse being about to go free.
Keeping it cheerful and Springy, though, I found this article on saving species very inspiring.
Nambucca may have its faults, especially under the new regime - like taking an age to get served, starting to charge admission for lots of events, and closing nights 15 minutes early for no apparent reason - but it's still great to have a night like Smash Hits 7 within walking distance. I am reminded that with "I care enough to know that I can never love you ba doom ba da DUMP!" ABC probably came up with the single greatest moment in the history of popular music, and wish that I was in the Union of the Snake rather than the NUJ. And while I normally get annoyed at seeing music videos without sound, especially if other music's playing, some of the juxtapositions here are more like Morleyesque alternate histories of pop - Ian Curtis looks surprisingly appropriate singing 'Lay All Your Love On Me'.
The office copy of Music Week informs me that there's talk of extending the UK's copyright term from 50 years, perhaps to something more like America's 90. Obviously this is a purely principled and abstract campaign, and nothing at all to do with us being close to the point when lots of sixties pop would start coming into the public domain - just as the US decision had nothing at all to do with Mickey Mouse being about to go free.
Keeping it cheerful and Springy, though, I found this article on saving species very inspiring.
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:27 am (UTC)Cough.
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:30 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm only back to 9.38 on the flist, hold your horses!
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:43 am (UTC)And it's only called "mid"winter in English...
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:27 am (UTC)You forgot being freezing cold!
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:57 am (UTC)smoking was my only vice
Date: 2006-03-01 11:30 am (UTC)I'd never seen the 'Bedsitter' video before either, it's fantastic.
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:32 am (UTC)And I forgot the Depeche Mode stuff, so I think we're even.
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Date: 2006-03-01 12:02 pm (UTC)P1ssed again, and it's only ten in the morning!
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:34 am (UTC)Oh dere god, I was reading an article about this in top quality Tower Hamlets Council newspaper East End Life this morning. Apparently there is a new support group in TH for self-harmers. All well and good you might think. But what is the name of this group? "Hidden Universe of Self Harm" or HUSH. Perhaps they thought "Mysterious Association of Self Harm (Suicide Is Painless)" was a bit too Manics fan. Jesuschrist.
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:39 am (UTC)Bizarrely, I have been aware of top quality Tower Hamlets Council newspaper East End Life for a couple of weeks, because when I did my Quark training there were mock-ups of it on the training room walls.
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Date: 2006-03-01 12:13 pm (UTC)We were discussing this last night, as regards the pictures of Depeche Mode in Smash Hits just after Vince left - Gahan looks so fresh-faced there, and so utterly unsexy, that he should be used in before and after ads by the Drugs Marketing Board. Nonetheless, it's a very manly sort of sexiness, and not one which would suit a wedding dress!
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Date: 2006-03-01 11:46 am (UTC)(bear in mind that I actually thought some parts of Sleeping with ghosts were tolerable)
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Date: 2006-03-01 12:01 pm (UTC)The Placebo...well, I like some of the last one too. This really isn't any kind of departure - if you liked them before, you should still like them now. There were some lyrics where
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Date: 2006-03-01 12:15 pm (UTC)Oh, and...
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