All We Are Saying Is Give Booze A Chance
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alexsarllMan half-blinded in school sporting accident backs campaign for more sport in schools. Yes, watching and talking about sport is a "national obsession", Gordon. That doesn't mean it's a good thing.
"If you live in a castle, you're going to write about living in a castle and who wants to hear a song about a fvcking castle?", asks one of the bumwarts currently trading as The Enemy. Well, off the top of my head I can only think of a couple of songs about castles - one by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
martylog and two by Stephin Merritt. All of which are (it should go without saying?) seven grillion times better than anything The Enemy (of taste? Fun? Meaningful band names?) could ever dream of - and none of whose writers live in castles. They possess a little thing called imagination, you see, though you might not have heard of that - I had at least done you the undeserved courtesy of assuming the album title We'll Live And Die In These Towns to encapsulate a certain longing for escape, but given the same interview sees you state your determination not to let success remove you from frakking Coventry, clearly I gave you too much credit.
For no apparent reason, I received a free sample copy of Press Gazette, "the only magazine for journalists". "From our Freedom of Information campaign to the threat to your contacts books, we are breaking news you won't read anywhere else", trumpets its covering letter. O RLY? And indeed, most of the content is the sort of stuff which - if sufficiently interesting - would be covered perfectly well in Media Guardian. The rest is the sort of local press so-what-ness the NUJ rag handles; the sixth form politics are mercifully absent, but so is any suspicion that media conglomerates might be anything less than principled trusts. The standard of the writing is mediocre, and the subediting worse - I spotted one 'who's' for 'whose', at which even the Grauniad would still baulk. The money saved on quality journalism has instead been spent on the paper, which is of a ludicrously thick and glossy Hello quality for something which still essentially looks like a newspaper (and incidentally, isn't it funny how the devastation of the landscape to provide china clay for glossy paper is one environmental issue which never seems to get much press coverage?). And this is meant to be worth three quid a week? Fvck off.
It would appear that I am not going to Cherry Bomb after all, as pretty much everyone (myself included) is being a bit straight this evening. Or just plain Elsewhere. C'est la vie.
"If you live in a castle, you're going to write about living in a castle and who wants to hear a song about a fvcking castle?", asks one of the bumwarts currently trading as The Enemy. Well, off the top of my head I can only think of a couple of songs about castles - one by
martylog and two by Stephin Merritt. All of which are (it should go without saying?) seven grillion times better than anything The Enemy (of taste? Fun? Meaningful band names?) could ever dream of - and none of whose writers live in castles. They possess a little thing called imagination, you see, though you might not have heard of that - I had at least done you the undeserved courtesy of assuming the album title We'll Live And Die In These Towns to encapsulate a certain longing for escape, but given the same interview sees you state your determination not to let success remove you from frakking Coventry, clearly I gave you too much credit.For no apparent reason, I received a free sample copy of Press Gazette, "the only magazine for journalists". "From our Freedom of Information campaign to the threat to your contacts books, we are breaking news you won't read anywhere else", trumpets its covering letter. O RLY? And indeed, most of the content is the sort of stuff which - if sufficiently interesting - would be covered perfectly well in Media Guardian. The rest is the sort of local press so-what-ness the NUJ rag handles; the sixth form politics are mercifully absent, but so is any suspicion that media conglomerates might be anything less than principled trusts. The standard of the writing is mediocre, and the subediting worse - I spotted one 'who's' for 'whose', at which even the Grauniad would still baulk. The money saved on quality journalism has instead been spent on the paper, which is of a ludicrously thick and glossy Hello quality for something which still essentially looks like a newspaper (and incidentally, isn't it funny how the devastation of the landscape to provide china clay for glossy paper is one environmental issue which never seems to get much press coverage?). And this is meant to be worth three quid a week? Fvck off.
It would appear that I am not going to Cherry Bomb after all, as pretty much everyone (myself included) is being a bit straight this evening. Or just plain Elsewhere. C'est la vie.
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Date: 2007-07-13 06:26 pm (UTC)Coventry is the most depressing place I've ever been to. Even more so than Cowdenbeath (it's major claim to fame is that it has a Woolworths while the neighbouring town does not).
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Date: 2007-07-13 06:30 pm (UTC)Coventry has its rivals - Burnham-on-Sea springs instantly to mind - but it's definitely among the frontrunners. I suppose, in that sense, the fact that the Enemy have condemned themselves to an eternity there is all the punishment any of us could ask for them.
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Date: 2007-07-13 07:17 pm (UTC)quitereally like Forty Days & Forty Nights. Aside from that, everything else I've heard by the Enemy is a bit grim. A lot Jam. In fact, almost note for grunt Jam.I've never been to Coventry and hope nobody dares send me there.
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Date: 2007-07-13 07:20 pm (UTC)So, songs involving castles.
Castle on a Cloud.
Swords of a Thousand Men
Spanish Castle Magic
Mon Pays Bleu
Le Vagabond
Erm. Castleford Ladies Magical Circle...
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