Save ink (I know) and just list the player(s) we should keep.

Is every song by The Last Dinner Party made up of two unrelated tunes crudely brazed together like a cut and shut car? I've heard two so far that are.

A brilliant album I've returned to numerous times. Not many bands had so many ideas in 1986. It seemed to exist outside of pop altogether, brimming with interesting sounds.

Mistress in Morocco sounds a much better title!

The A83?

Yang literally backheeled it for Ralston to score.

Old goths never die, their voices just get added to the chorus.

Final salary occupational pension scheme.

In this connection you may appreciate The Proof Of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe, if you've not already read it.

Nixon springs to mind.

If true is it not a potentially worse admission - that no minister is aware of whether such a senior and sensitive appointment has met the necessary criteria?

I-s funn- cos -ts true.

They're not 'Sporting Lisbon' 🙄

Yes, superb film. There are I think two sequels which also stand up. Best watched in one go while short term memory of characters and back stories lasts.

Yet short sleeves. Make your mind up.

Another holiday, another @jonathancoe.bsky.social novel it seems.

A sign in Tel Aviv. All eyes on Hungary tonight. A man wearing a FCK WAR T-shirt holds up a sign: Orban Out. Netanyahu Next.

A sign in Tel Aviv. All eyes on Hungary tonight.

There's probably a clever epithet to be spun out of that when the time comes, vis-a-vis the parallel of Hitler and Trump both being in a bunker at the bitter end.

Is that Blue Stratos?

No, Pagan Man.

Cheers 🍻

At least not an oven glove 🙄

The view from the afternoon

Having offspring who can drive is a godsend.

That's their global view at least, I hear.

Slint swimming in a creek. Black and white photograph.

Britt Walford, David Pajo and Todd Brashear, discussed a new generation of fans, the Breadcrumb Trail documentary and revisiting their seminal second album

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And all of those seemingly hyperbolic quotes were true.

Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee, 1985

Bank Holiday weekend train themed triple bill for ya:

Snowpiercer (2013)
Bullet Train (2022)
Train to Busan (2016)

Yes but also Natalie Mering, who is very close in style and ability.