A packet of Fox’s Viennese double chocolate biscuits, with the underwhelming promotional copy of “Really Chocolatey”

That’ll do.
Pub?

There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke

Watching John Mulaney's bit "There's a HORSE LOOSE in the HOSPITAL", and my wife breezily said she'd once worked with someone who'd been called upon to deal with a horse being loose in a hospital. This was, to say the least, unexpected.
Further reading:
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Absolutely loving ‘These Frightening Machines’ — congratulations, I hope it flies! (like those women)

Katherine Priddy - Matches (Official Video) YouTube video by Katherine Priddy

Lyric of the day:
“They weren’t burning witches, it was women on those fires.”

Katherine Priddy, ‘Matches’
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Rose's Turn_Gypsy - Gypsy_2015 London Cast YouTube video by PT MUSIC

#AtoZofTunes
Rose's Turn (Imelda Staunton) My first exposure to Gypsy was in the movie Airplane!, where the real Ethel Merman has to be restrained from singing 'Everything's Coming Up Roses'. Great joke, until you realise the real thing is madder.
Staunton is incredible.
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Belle and Sebastian - The Rollercoaster Ride YouTube video by Jeepster Recordings

#AtoZofTunes
Rollecoaster Ride (Belle & Sebastian) I want to make a video for this song, with someone lip-syncing on a rollercoaster, completely sanguine while everyone around them is screaming, using hi-speed cameras for slow playback. Hit me up if you can make this happen.
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The Last Kings Of Hollywood, about Lucas, Scorsese, Spielberg, etc. brings home that what these innovators brought us — Jaws, Star Wars, etc — were the reconstructed remains of what they set out to do. This lends them a vitality that’s lost when new generations come along and intentionally mimic it.

the album cover for my bloody valentine shows a blurry image of a person ALT: the album cover for my bloody valentine shows a blurry image of a person

I wonder if needy companies still bother contacting Kevin Shields asking him for feedback.

Kurt Cobain, Ian Brown, Angelica Skyler and Yours Truly 🥳

My boy is not asking any of his pals (boys or girls) if they want to hang out in town today, just in case they get laughed at for being together on Valentine’s Day. And THAT, let me remind you, is the degree of self-policing of an early teen.

I have advised him to Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway.

Not watching The Riddle of the Sands on Talking Pictures TV? Good research for that redux episode…

I’m against old-school tough love, but if he ever expresses scepticism about black and white films again, you should sharply slap his legs and tell him to man up. Black and white films are about FORM, not about wishy-washy atmosphere. Start him off with Psycho. 😉

I’ve never seen Mean Girls!

I’m 90% reluctant to attempt to pass on cultural relics to the younger generation, but I indulged in showing my boy, 38 years to the day since my dad allowed me to stay up past midnight to watch it, 12 Angry Men. It went well!

It's rubbish that Kirsty MacColl has been gone a quarter of a century.
But check out this joyous tune to brighten you up, where she affectionately says of her boyfriend "he's appalling, it's true". Give me that. #KirstyMacColl

This is sound thinking, but I have withheld a key piece of data: I think she quietly enjoys it.

Thing is, she doesn’t even want chocolate sprinkles — she only says it to get the concept of ‘cappuccino’ to really hit home…

I mean that would be pretty funny

We have this morning recorded the 11th instance since 2020 of my mum asking for a cappuccino and being served with a cup of tea.

"I even said 'with chocolate sprinkles'!"

Great work — thank you so much for this well-considered approach to a relaxed and expansive Suggs; who knew Liverpool was the key?

Now, who fancies a crack at Adam Ant…

I’ve been waiting for this level of insight from Madness for decades. For many complex reasons they get very self-conscious when reflecting in any chin-scratchy way about their tunes. But no one better than @sodajerker.bsky.social to tease out Suggs’s love of reading, history and chord inversions…

EPISODE 306 // Madness frontman Suggs talks about their new Hit Parade compilation, balancing joy and pathos in songwriting, and serendipitous creative moments.

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Advent calendar torn open. All contents eaten. No we don’t have a dog.

“The bigger the mistake, the harder it is to see”: discuss.

The shape, I'm sure you know, being based on 'Et'.

I like a treble clef, but it's not wildly applicable to everyday communication.

Reading Middlemarch for the first time. I am enjoying it. I like the very peceptive observations about internal motivations between Celia and Dorothea. What do any of you Middlemarch heads like about it?

(This is not engagement bait, unless it’s of the doomed betrothal kind)

Just laughed out loud at Terry Jones's summation of Monty Python:
"We never really stopped being friends, but I'm not sure we ever *started* being friends..."

(from Robert Ross's affectionate biography 'Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones')

Grand Designs opening and closing interview shots, an occasional project.

The bathroom’s free!
Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta…

The Empress Ballroom gig movie was what made me get into a band — I ended up playing bass AND drums. Not at the same time.

Gutting. His poor kids.

The Stone Roses - Waterfall (Live On The Other Side Of Midnight) 1989 1080p 60fps YouTube video by Mucky Fingers

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