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alexsarllAs many of you will doubtless already have seen all over your friendslists, the New Royal Family once again decided to use my 'unconvincing disapproval' face to spice up the video to their latest smash, which for all I know may be the last music video Britons can watch on Youtube. The NRF are also playing the Gaff on Holloway Road this evening, so why not come along and see if I can look as unconvincingly disapproving in the flesh? Or alternately just watch the band, which would probably be a better idea all round.
Which item leads because it at least makes me look halfway cool, and since last posting, I have been otherwise been engaging in high-grade geekery to such a degree that even I still feel a little nervous about admitting to it. Well, OK, and I did go to lovely Soul Mole. But still, too many dice. As has been pointed out, compared to the various other midlife crises on offer, it's less deleterious than most.
I'm reading Graham Greene's The Human Factor - not one of his best, thus far. But it is a late effort, coming from 1978. Which feels weird right off - Graham Greene, whose Greeneland always feels so thoroughly mid-20th Century, was writing during my life. I'd...not even forgotten when he died, just never even considered the notion that he might not have passed with his age, like the Elves departing Middle Earth for the Grey Havens. But he had a book out in 1988. He died in 1991 - the same year Will Self published his first book (which I mention not as a passing of the baton but because Self is one of the few writers anywhere near the modern British literary mainstream whom I think worth reading). 1991 is, of course, 18 years ago, which is odd because in my head the eighties are still only circa ten years ago. And is Greene being anachronistic by having MI6 business sealed over grouse shoots in 1978, or am I forgetting how much of old England still persisted then? Especially given recent musings on Black Box Recorder and Red Riding, I suspect it's at least as much the latter.
Which item leads because it at least makes me look halfway cool, and since last posting, I have been otherwise been engaging in high-grade geekery to such a degree that even I still feel a little nervous about admitting to it. Well, OK, and I did go to lovely Soul Mole. But still, too many dice. As has been pointed out, compared to the various other midlife crises on offer, it's less deleterious than most.
I'm reading Graham Greene's The Human Factor - not one of his best, thus far. But it is a late effort, coming from 1978. Which feels weird right off - Graham Greene, whose Greeneland always feels so thoroughly mid-20th Century, was writing during my life. I'd...not even forgotten when he died, just never even considered the notion that he might not have passed with his age, like the Elves departing Middle Earth for the Grey Havens. But he had a book out in 1988. He died in 1991 - the same year Will Self published his first book (which I mention not as a passing of the baton but because Self is one of the few writers anywhere near the modern British literary mainstream whom I think worth reading). 1991 is, of course, 18 years ago, which is odd because in my head the eighties are still only circa ten years ago. And is Greene being anachronistic by having MI6 business sealed over grouse shoots in 1978, or am I forgetting how much of old England still persisted then? Especially given recent musings on Black Box Recorder and Red Riding, I suspect it's at least as much the latter.
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Date: 2009-03-11 11:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-03-11 11:38 am (UTC)I missed your bit in the video the first three times it was posted! Good work, though.
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Date: 2009-03-11 01:06 pm (UTC)Will bring the DVD, sure.
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Date: 2009-03-11 12:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-03-11 12:18 pm (UTC)ummmm
never let the facts get in the way of self-promotion eh barry?
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Date: 2009-03-11 01:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 01:15 pm (UTC)in all honesty I'm not out for a fight (for once) just thought you'd missed out an important piece of information, like.
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Date: 2009-03-11 01:21 pm (UTC)Link A was disproving the assertion in Link B (selected as a sample from dozens of similar pieces) that "all music videos" are currently unavailable to UK users - a misrepresentation of the real situation whereby all *premium* music videos are unavailable. Not that anybody seems entirely clear what 'premium' means here, mind.
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Date: 2009-03-11 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 01:29 pm (UTC)(One reason I like Emusic so much is that it doesn't favour the majors like so many of these other efforts do)
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Date: 2009-03-11 01:32 pm (UTC)any sugestions? I'm looking at the 3rd jack album or one of the anthony renolds solo albums. Also a fan of the school of language/the week that was/field music? if so which album would you recomend?
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Date: 2009-03-11 01:36 pm (UTC)The third Jack album isn't atrocious by any means, but nor is it as good as the first two or most of Jacques, though I do love 'Emperor of New London'. And Anthony solo...I really didn't much like British Ballads, but Neu York had its moments.
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Date: 2009-03-11 01:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 01:45 pm (UTC)Neu York
Date: 2009-03-12 05:14 pm (UTC)But British Ballads was lovely, you clot. Except for the way he pronounces "cat" in "standing naked in the kitchen, with your arms around the ca-t", like that weird woman who used to do the gocompare.com adverts and really heavily accentuate the "t" in dot-com.
The third Jack album is excellent, just not as excellent as the first two. The poorly-written eMusic review was me (I think I was still delirious with flu or something), I still agree with its conclusions.
Re: Neu York
Date: 2009-03-12 05:15 pm (UTC)Re: Neu York
Date: 2009-03-12 06:09 pm (UTC)Did you ever download the various other demo tracks from his website? A very mixed bag, but some real gems in there, which make me wonder if maybe he's better when he doesn't know people are watching, so to speak.
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