Andy Lewis

YouTube video by Twee Lovers Club Tynal Tywyll - '73 Heb Flares

Happy St. David's Day! youtu.be/0z8VfymHwH4?...

I bloody hope not.

Mark R was so close to being on the receiving end of a forcefully thrown bread roll at some awards do we were both at. The only reason it never made contact is that I was discreetly asked to put it down. I always regret complying with the request. I've never liked the fame-hungry pillock.

I first learned about 15 minute cities (or something very similar) doing geography a level in the 1980s, and it was a positive thing! How this has become a reframed as an assault on personal freedom and liberty would make a fascinating case study for such a course.

- They should be love-bombing places that feel marginalised and ignored, not hate-bombing minorities and immigrants. Again.

- The UK government and the Labour Party should get the fuck off Twitter/X and stop worrying about people who will hate them anyway if they're serious about staying in office. They are already pursuing policies that Green voters will approve of, that can benefit everyone. -

-can reap the benefits of every day. Did you know that the UK is the world's leader in offshore wind generation? Every day, you and I will be using electricity that's almost entirely been made that way. Stuff like this ought to be on the lips of every government minister. But it ain't. -

- The only positive I can gather from recent news is that Reform got stiffed in that recent by-election. The Green Party might not be to everyone's taste, but they're a good deal more palatable than the nihilistic hate-fest on offer from Reform. And "Green" politics is something that most of us-

-of our own media literacy deficiency for at least the last ten years.

Meanwhile, the grifting pot-stirrers and the techbros are the only people who seem to be getting richer. And you wonder why people are looking for more radical solutions than are presented by old politics and old politicians.-

- And here we all are, dissecting the news about a completely avoidable series of military strikes in the Middle East brought about in part because a cohort of American voters have been unable to distinguish between actual facts and the prattling of mad people, having lived with the consequences-

- Of course, some people would think up a conspiracy theory to cover that, if it happened. "That's what they want you to think!" etc. It's utterly hideous how the the promise of the Information Revolution has been, to coin a phrase, murdered by the hand of the inevitable.-

A random chat with a neighbour turned into them ranting about "Fifteen Minute Cities" based on a YouTube video they'd watched and anecdotal advice about their daughter getting a traffic fine for driving in a bus lane in Oxford. There needs to be a crash course in media literacy for everyone.-

Musicland Records in Watford (iirc) was on the site of what became the "bottom" Our Price store (as opposed to the "top" one up by the Pond).

If you like The Time Goes By by Funkapolitan, the new Night Trains release, out in a week or so, will be right up your street.

God, and other 1980s album titles Friends of Hell and the Mona Lisa’s Sister – ALWYN TURNER’s favourite album titles of the 1980s.

From Let It Bee to Filth Hounds of Hades, the eighty best/worst British album titles of the 1980s.
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Eddie Piller from Acid Jazz records! He probably bought that shirt with money I made him. No, on second thoughts, I never made him that much money.

YouTube video by Neil Sedaka - Topic Cardboard California

Now THIS is a song. Bravo, Mr Sedaka. Thank you for everything youtu.be/W0jolmovwDU?...

A LIME! A LIME!

Yeah but what are the rest of the words without googling?
NOBODY KNOWS, not even the band.

Right. Precis without spoilers. A man survives a nazi concentration camp by claiming to the camp commandant that he can speak Farsi, because the camp commandant is fascinated by Persia and wants to go there after the war. It was on the iPlayer for about a year. Maybe still is.

You seen that film Persian Lessons?

Oh he could definitely speak Russian, he taught it to the sixth form (unless it wasn't actually Russian, I mean who'd know?) But I reckon if he learned it, it was in a draughty Nissen hut in an army camp somewhere mundane, rather than anywhere exotic or exclusive.

This is absolutely fantastic. Bravo your mum.

My old music teacher learned Russian doing his national service, apparently in a place in the remote countryside where nothing but Russian was spoken and it was, supposedly, one of the models for The Village in The Prisoner.

I reckon he made that up.

The one time I knew it did happen (my old man being a CofE vicar) the bloke was invited in for a cup of tea at which point it was discovered that he wasn't in fact a Muslim but an alcoholic with mental health issues. I suspect the same might be true of some of those shouting outside mosques.

I can’t say baccaruda

Indeed it is (iPhone 13Pro here!)

Was that taken with your Leica? If so, the definition is so good that I've just been able to open the QR code with the camera on my phone pointed at it on here.

From what I know of such things, they'd get invited in for a cup of tea and it wouldn't make the news at all, except perhaps the next parish magazine.

Some of you will know I’m the son of a preacher man. Some of you know I grew up in Watford. This song was written in my dad’s parish. Years later I found my copy in Past & Present Records, about a hundred yards from where it was written.
If you want a description of psychogeography, this is one.

Some of you will know I’m the son of a preacher man. Some of you know I grew up in Watford. This song was written in my dad’s parish. Years later I found my copy in Past & Present Records, about a hundred yards from where it was written.
If you want a description of psychogeography, this is one.