Our kid's done this Desert Island Discs thingy, so I thought I'd nick the idea and give it a go. You can take albums, right?
First up, the whole album, mark you, not just these two songs.
Perfect indie pop.
An-gus!
Perfect, er, pop.
Two for the price of one here. Going to see this lot a week tonight.
Dave Grohl never bettered this. Recently covered by Glen Campbell.
Doesn't outlive its welcome.
Genius.
Luxury - an iPod to render this whole exercise pointless.
Book - The Deeper Meaning of Liff. I've read it hundreds of times and it never fails to make me 'LOL' (eergh). It'd make me realise how much pleasure used to be had by laying on a settee on a Sunday afternoon, absent-mindedly picking yourself.
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Am I talking to myself here? It's like being a Leonard Cohen record - I'm on but nobody's listening. Is it worth carrying on with this?
I'll get me coat...
Obviously I AM talking to myself.
When I started blogging, I always said it was about how it was a way for me to be slightly creative and engage my brain in a way my job doesn't allow. I also said I didn't care if anyone read it or not. Now I'm not one of those people who bleat on about how many comments I'm not getting, but what I have come to enjoy is the interaction with other readers.
Am I talking complete bollocks at the minute and you're too embarassed to tell me? I'd love it if you did tell me because then I'd shut up - you're all wonderful people and I wouldn't think bad of any of you.
Or are my posts so dreary that no one's got anything to add? Again, please tell me.
I don't know, perhaps I put too much pressure on myself to come up with something. It's telling that the best received post over the past month or so regarded a couple of You Tube clips and a few lines of text.
Maybe I ought to step back for a spell and concentrate on No Remorse, which nobody reads anyway.
Being English I don't want to make a song and dance about this, hence writing this in a comments box.
Have a good weekend.
Hola BA!
You said: "Obviously I AM talking to myself."
I say: "Maybe only for a wee while. I haven't been properly online for a few days, but here I am after a long and fraught(!) day at work. As good, old Dr F. Crane used to say, 'I'm listening'"
You said: "Now I'm not one of those people who bleat on about how many comments I'm not getting, but what I have come to enjoy is the interaction with other readers."
I say: "I know where you're coming from on this. It is frustrating when you spend a wee while writing something you think people will have an opinion about only to get fuck all in the way of a response - although that used to bother me a lot more than it does now."
You said: "Am I talking complete bollocks at the minute and you're too embarassed to tell me?"
I say: "No... and certainly not!"
You said: ".. are my posts so dreary that no one's got anything to add?"
I say "I can only speak for myself, but I have really enjoyed the really, really ranty posts like the Daily Star and DFS ones."
You said: "...the best received post over the past month or so regarded a couple of You Tube clips and a few lines of text."
I say: "I always find YouTube embed posts tricky. They are usually my least well-received which is why I don't do them all that often."
You said: "Have a good weekend."
I say: "You too. Toodle-oo-the-noo."
I'm still here, you're not talking bollocks you're as incisive, insightful and entertaining as ever. I think we're all going through a bit of a 'Comment Crunch' at the moment.
*hugs BA*
I do have a couple of comments.
"Doesn't outlive its welcome"
Yes. Yes it does.
Where are you seeing Elbow? I'm going on the 15th
Meant to say...
...with you on The Primitives.
Thanks to the pair of you, that's made me feel a lot better. Hurrah!
VS, I'm at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester on the 16th.
I read your blog all the time - but don't always chip in with a comment.
I'll stop being the 'silent witness' type from now on
Don't feel as though you have to comment if you have nothing to say Mondo. I was just suffering a crisis of confidence in the blog, that was all.
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