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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 Vic finally twigged that Shane was responsible for Lem's death. Not that I'm accusing either show of copying the other, but the confrontation which followed necessarily had resonances of that which came when Avon Barksdale found out that Stringer was responsible for D's death in prison. I do not say this lightly - but the Shield scene was better. 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.

Current music: Insanely Jealous - The Soft Boys

Date: 2007-08-04 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mylifebythesea.livejournal.com
CHOON!

I may go to Bowl thing tomorrow. I've been drinking since Friday morning and I'm sure when I return to London I won't be able to see a good reason to stop. Christ I'm drunk, God knows why I'm on this, I'm only on t'net to check my email for chavscum wanting to buy my Xbox. There is gin here. Gin beyond gin. Fountains of gin. Not in my email though. That would be silly. And wasteful.

Finally read Wormwood btw. Great stuff.
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
Has it finished yet? I don't know why I'm asking you, I'll probably have hit the shop before you respond. Xbox as in the 360, or the previous version?

Mmmmm, gin...

Underwater Moonlight really is an astoundingly brilliant album, but even so the concept of the second disc of rough versions &c fills me with fear.

See you tomorrow then, maybe. Have fun in the fens!
From: [identity profile] mylifebythesea.livejournal.com
Aye, it's done.

I've got the Underwater Moonlight reissue but it's still shrinkwrapped due to the same fear you have. I dunno, I think demos and the like will destroy the mystique in a way.
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
Even the bonus tracks on the first disc aren't great, which is odd when I think of how much I like the equivalent extras on other great albums of roughly that period.
From: [identity profile] mylifebythesea.livejournal.com
Wasn't Black Snake Diamond Role (the song rather than the album) an extra? I rather liked that.

What time are you heading down to Bloomsbury btw? There seems to be about fifty bands on.
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
It was. Maybe I should give it another go in isolation; I sometimes fail to spot good songs amid mediocrities, having more or less switched off.

I'm aiming to get there for 6ish, which is when the NRF are on. Then I believe it's Low Edges, some other band I've never heard of and Lux, at roughly an hour interval between start times.

Date: 2007-08-04 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] invadergaz.livejournal.com
Your title somewhat reminds me of Sandsharks:
being a "wombed fish", as it were, the embryos start eating one another as soon as they've develloped a gut and jaw to do the whole eating with.


But if God supposedly created us equal, why would he tell us to subject ourselves to worldly authorities? And make us buy books about him. And give money to poor people. Surly we'd been created equal, and they just didn't want to be rich. And were does cream cheese come into this anyhow?

I think I might be overworked!

Date: 2007-08-05 08:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com
Or even more obvious than that stuff - why disabilities, demonstrating so clearly that we're not created equal?

The sandsharks sound like they'd be right at home in the scene from which I grabbed my title. Good old politics.

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