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Saturday, 15 November 2008

How much...

...would you have to completely hate someone to buy them this for Christmas?

Posted by Bright Ambassador at 15:58 3 comments:

Labels: Christmas, me, Melua

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About Me

Bright Ambassador: The voice of the self-educated Everyman who finds himself at one remove from today's popular culture, drawing the line between Syd Barrett and Sid James. What he does is of real importance. He explores that sense of low-fat/broadband/HD-ready/four-lane tedium that makes suburb, city, metropolis and backwater melt into the same grey paradise of empty satisfactions. Were it not for Bright Ambassador's dissenting voice, you might think you were going mad alone - that you were the only one who didn't find Jimmy Carr funny, that Arctic Monkeys are brilliant, that we're being corralled into corners where choice is just a button on your TV remote. Bright Ambassador is a disappointed romantic who wishes that England was green and pleasant still, but can't help noticing the tyre chucked up on the substation at the end of the street.

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Blogs I dig

John Medd

This is what they want!
2 days ago
Glossop Record Club | Listening to albums. On vinyl. In full.

13 August 2026: OS MUTANTES & THE TROPICALIA SCENE
2 weeks ago
Unthought of, though, somehow

Monday Long Song
5 weeks ago
Wicked Vicars

Bon in Fremantle
10 months ago
planet mondo

Podrophenia - ROMAN JUGG & Stray Tracks
1 year ago
Stuff & Nonsense

Knockin' On Heavens Door
2 years ago
The Downstairs Lounge

Hylda Baker – Hot to trot
6 years ago
Gigging Forever

Gigging Forever Awards 2014: Part 6 (The 'Funny Music' edition)
11 years ago
Yes It's... Peake Of The Pops!

2015: The nearest thing to heaven
11 years ago
Songs You Never Hear On The Radio (SYNHOTR)

Exaltations of the Season
12 years ago
Kolley Kibber

13 years ago
No Remorse

24 Carat Purple
14 years ago
Does that make sense?

Heathrow is it, Britney?
18 years ago
The Earl of Hell's Waistcoat

Other stuff I think's cushty

Left Lion
The Rocking Vicar
Trunk Records

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