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Hi folks, it’s time for #5albums70s1 this being the 1st of 5 semi finals to ultimately determine the decades best album. You can vote on Bluesky or X (but just once). Please find to follow the list of 100 albums in the 1st semi final, your task is simple 😉 pick your top 5 in order. Here’s mine…

Please please let this end up in court. Please.

Maureen Cleave describing the Rolling Stones to Evening Standard readers in 1964. I think this is my favourite passage in all music writing. It's packed with detail and tension, but nothing is unnecessary.

The Past Glasgow annual retrospective #5:

"Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it 'the antidote to the rest of the world.'" Anthony Bourdain, who died on this day [8th June] in 2018.

The numbers:

TT: N/a FB: 298 X: 5200 T: 5498

Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024

So I'll be back around then. We'll be trying to raise a bit of money for Centrepoint, bearing in mind that there are a bunch of people who have nowhere to go this evening. gofund.me/637d21d0 ENDS FOR NOW 🎄🛏️

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem

Listened to this a while back having only a basic idea of the Enron scandal, but had no idea the scale of the crimes they committed. Unfathomable that they could make any kind of comeback from that position.

Apropos of nothing. Oasis disbanded the season before Man City ended a 35-year wait for a major trophy and they reformed earlier this season.

a loch at sunset with the mountains and purple sky reflected in it almost to the point of symmetry

an old arched stone bridge over a river, with mountains in the background. The light is visible in the background in a haze of mist

a snow covered image with the road visible on the right hand side and a car driving away from us

a castle (Eilean Donan) with its bridge leading to it, in the middle of a loch. It's winter and there's a dusting of snow. The colouring is a cold pale purple as the last of the light goes.

Some of the many moods of Scotland.

#Photography

really decent first half, looking forward to seeing more of him

Same - I think I was 11 or 12 when I read the Rats trilogy, completly terrified me in the best way. Fortunately, my parents were fans of Stephen King and that lead on to another wonderful terrifying journey. I do wonder what my reaction would have been to The Rats had I been older.

Dust jacket bio for Cher’s autobiography: ‘Cher is a global icon.’

Cher’s author bio is NOT messing about.

YouTube video by earthquake1755 Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Live Primavera S - Porto - 2024)

Playing this on repeat today and manifesting tickets come Friday 11am.

No luck this morning in the LDR pre sale which is a bugger. Will try again on Friday but who knows how much they will cost by then. Ach - who needs two kidneys anyway?

Sláinte.

This is what the US is dealing with for the next 4 years. Just horrible.

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

Hi folks, quite a few people have asked me, so here’s the upcoming polls. Friday 29th Nov - voting for #5albums80s5 Friday 13th Dec - voting for #5albums80sfinal Friday 27th Dec - voting for the best of this year’s music #5albums24 Then in the new year we’ll have some 60’s, 70’s and debut albums 👍

This little beauty was my first computer - played it endlessly. Spy Hunter, Atic Atak, School Daze, Daley Thomson Decathlon - loved it.

The Booker in the 1970s: 10 novels that are well worth rediscovering, five decades later | The Booker Prizes The Booker shortlists of the 1970s are of exceptionally high quality, and while some of the novels may have fallen out of fashion, they’re essential volumes for any keen reader’s library

Which judge resigned because the books were "mere pornography"? Which author, according to another judge, "puts one off sex"? Which book did Saul Bellow dismiss as a "tinkling teacup thing"? Who refused to give the prize to a book about cannibalism?

I wrote about the Booker Prize in the 1970s:

Think my eardrums will just about have receovered from seeing them back in June in time for this one at the Barras.

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banter years are back with those 4. giving me ptsd just thinking about them.

Photograph of book page which contains a short poem by Raymond Carver which reads 'And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.'

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

did a similar move once on a new carpet...not good.

It really is. Saw them play a few tracks live at Southport Weekender years ago and I ended up a blubbering wreck such was my connection to it. Also pints, but mainly emotions.

I remember my brother buying this and just becoming obsessed with it. Still sounds fresh 40 years later...

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