In honour of it being December, the Goth-iest Christmas record ever
The marvellous Il est né, le divin enfant by Siouxsie and the Banshees
I very much enjoyed this film. It feels like a properly grown-up film….in a good way
A new favourite Christmas film
Watched: The Holdovers 🍿
Watching Final Score or listening to Sports Report always calls to mind the people I’ve known who supported, or particularly disliked, each club
People I haven’t seen for years, who may even not still be with us live on in my memory through Walsall, or West Brom, Bournemouth or Tranmere Rovers
I hate to see our flag abused by the far right, and it was good to see the bloke from the Council taking them down.
Thirty odd years ago, I was working on the Strand. One lunchtime I wandered into a bookshop, and found someone I vaguely recognised talking to a handful of people about Charles Dickens.
It was Miriam Margolyes. She did a couple of readings, and was very, very good at doing the characters.
I bought a copy of Hard Times, and I’ve been a bit of a Dickens fan-boy ever since
Anyway, this is great
I thought this was a fantastic film. It was fascinating in the way that DJT has a dark fascination.
From a political point of view…. the shocking think about it was that it wasn’t that shocking.
Marvellous news. ‘The job of a lifetime’: Line of Duty to return for seventh season
England and Scotland….both got ex-Chelsea guys as managers. Both top of their groups. Just saying.
⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
I thought Riot Women was great. There was a lot going on, but as Rabbi Lionel Blue used to say…isn’t that a bit like life?
Watched: Riot Women Season 1 🍿
It’s very Beckham-esque the way that Rashford only needs half a yard to whip a cross over
It is, clearly, coming home. ⚽
Some nice quotes in the Cramps article in Vintage Rock magazine this month
“There’s a million sides to Ivy and I just love all of them,” cooed Lux.
And Ivy wrote this in the notes for Lux’s funeral - Lux was"creature from another world, with one foot already out of this dimension,”
AI just described the image on my last post as a “child-like drawing”
I mean….it is very child-like, in fact most children over the age of 3 could do an awful lot better, but AI is normally so polite ! 😡😡
Scored my first own goal for a few weeks.
I can’t think of another sport where own goals are a feature. Players of basketball, cricket, rugby, golf, netball, baseball and ice hockey will never have quite that feeling.
I’m getting attached photos through from Bluesky in my micro.blog feed now :)
(You can’t see too many photos of the Chelsea ’60s/’70s team)
Thoughts on Don’t Look Now at Salisbury Playhouse
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it’s very tense and very dark
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it’s well worth seeing
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you can’t quite get the “drowning in beauty” in Venice thing in the theatre
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I’d be interested to see the film
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I’ve been to Fowey, it was very sunny and cheerful. I can’t imagine the gothic and gloomy Daphne du Maurier living there
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….perhaps I need to go in the off-season
Thoughts on going to a silent disco in Salisbury Cathedral
- the Big Church is a surprisingly good venue for a silent disco
- after a few minutes it didn’t seem particularly weird to be dancing and drinking amongst the tombs of Bishops
- it did, though, cross my mind that it was odd to be wandering around on my way to the loo, mildly sozzled, within a few yards of the Magna Carta
- this probably reflects my low-church agnosticism, and reverence for all things lefty
- the privacy of the headphones has a disinhibiting effect. It does have a dance-like-nobody’s-watching feel
- I’m #TeamGreenChannel (pop), rather than Blue (rock and indie) or Red (‘urban’), apart from the reggae
- but it was great being able to switch when there was a boring song
- it was fun being able to watch people doing the Macarena, while listening to something else
- although I do actually love the Macarena
- it’s not at all silent
- part of the fun was listening to people singing along
- especially on the big anthem-y songs. Hundreds of people singing along to Oasis, unaccompanied, was fab
I didn’t get round to getting a poppy this year so I chipped in a few quid here
Pic is Klatschmohn by Christian Rohlfs from Wikimedia
BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary
Explains why they keep telling me that the Arsenal are at the top of the table ⚽