I asked Alexa to play the Sisters of Mercy this morning (yes….I’m an aged Goth, I guess), and got this
I quite like it, tbh
I’m pleased for fans of Oasis, but it’s triggered a form of Fear of Missing Out
They’ve reminded me that I’m never going to have the excitement of seeing any of my favourite bands reform.
Not in this life anyway 🎵
I’m not much interested in the Oasis reunion from a musical point of view, but it would be nice if the Gallaghers are reconciled…especially for their mum
I always enjoy the annual list of top 10 one-liners from the Edinburgh Festival…but none of them are as witty as Barack Obama’s physical comedy when talking about Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd size”
I’ve started watching the 2009 Day of the Triffids
I don’t know what I was expecting, exactly….but I’m finding it a bit grim
Disappointed to discover that my favourite ever sports commentator, Barry Davies, is Spurs….but impressed that I never twigged
Rock sages Mark Ellen and David Hepworth discuss musical plagiarism lawsuits in the attached
At one point I think Hepworth refers to ‘ambience-chasing lawyers’….which I think is genius.
I enjoyed the 1970s Death Race 2000
It’s Wacky Races meets Russ Meyer, with shades of the Running Man and the Hunger Games 📽️
I maybe need to get this tattoo-ed on something prominent
“The road to programming hell is paved with “best practices” applied too early.”
Winning is the worst thing that can happen in Vegas – Signal v. Noise
They are not having it back
“The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found.”
BBC News - Famous Stonehenge stone came from Scotland not Wales
I enjoyed Trap….but there’s very little you can say about the film without giving away some of the story 📽️
A marvellous pub name
Johnson grew up in the Two Puddings pub in Stratford, east London, a Kray twins haunt before his father, Eddie – the landlord from 1962 to 2000 – turned it into a live venue that hosted the Kinks, the Who, Rod Stewart and many others.
Lovely
Department of Putting the Best Possible Spin on a Situation: high-jumper Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy, who lost his wedding ring in the Seine during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, says, “It will remain forever in the city of love.” 💯
He’d get my vote, just for this
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday [ in 2023] signed a bill into law that renames a stretch of highway to honor the late Minnesota icon Prince.
It’s not Barca and Bayern on the way to winning the Champions League, but it’s a start
⚽ #MastodonFC #ChelseaFC #CFC
These are fun
photographer Hector Vivas has created a series of astonishing images called Layers of the Games, which aim to show in one image the multiple moments that happen in a game or a day of competition in Paris
I read that there’s an iceberg slowly spinning around and around the same spot in the South Atlantic
It would be a good place to deport far-right rioters to
This would almost make it worth doing jury service
“I swear by the River Roding, from her source in Molehill Green to her confluence with the Thames, that I will faithfully try the defendant and give a true verdict according to the evidence.”
SPOILER ALERT re: ‘Gaslight’…. although, given the play came out in 1938, maybe I shouldn’t worry too much
This is an interesting article about the meaning of the term ‘gaslighting’
I’ve seen Gaslight as a play twice, but I’d forgotten that the actual thing about the gaslight was accidental
Chelsea’s new signing Kieran Dewsbury-Hall has followed the new manager from Leicester
The other players are therefore calling him “the teacher’s pet”
I’m delighted to learn that they are just as childish as the rest of us ⚽
Good quote: “Churchill was a racist and an imperialist, and also the most important anti-fascist who ever lived”
Origin Story - Churchill, part 1 - Rebel Without a Cause open.spotify.com/episode/4…
