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My Crucial Tracks for last week - Elvis, Pussycat, Black Grape, Sandy Denny, Shane MacGowan and Sinead O'Connor, the Wurzels and my daughter: https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/11/03/my-crucial-tracks-for-last.html

When someone on the telly says “You do NOT want to miss it”, I nearly always do

A movie poster features three rock band members with dramatic hairstyles and leather jackets, set against a stonehenge backdrop, promoting This Is Spinal Tap.

There’s a bit in Spinal Tap where they are accused of being sexist, and the band are confused and bewildered because surely it’s good to be sexy.

I have the same feeling of bewilderment and confusion when people use ‘antifa’ as if it’s a bad thing. Surely it can only be good to be anti-fascist?

A group of people is gathered around a horse-drawn carriage in a bustling street scene, with a dog observing nearby.

I haven’t seen this before…the White Hart is still a hotel in Salisbury. It’s titled “The departure from the ' White Hart', Salisbury, attended by Landlord, waiters, Postboys, Hostlers etc etc”

I don’t know if the statue of the hart would be the same one that’s now on top of the Hotel

Yasuji Ariga [prison guard] He is very&10;&10;polite and has made a good impression on the guards.

Yasuji Ariga, a Japanese prison guard, on Paul McCartney

(Extracted in the Times from the new book about Wings )

A person wearing a leather jacket and a plaid shirt is shown above the text Deliver Me From Nowhere.

I enjoyed Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere 🍿.

I enjoyed the music performances, and the Americana of it. Also it’s fun to be a fly on the wall when the music biz guy (Jimmy Iovine?) first the hears Nebraska LP.

It’s an odd film though - I guess the process of writing music isn’t easy to film.

Caitlin Moran - ’there's England, right there. Patois, Winehouse, custard; golden owls, brews and gurdwaras, and Betjeman keeping watch over the whole thing': https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/10/28/caitlin-moran-theres-england-right.html

Absolutely....also I think tickets that would have gone on the Exchange are now being sold as Club Chelsea for daft money, or at least they're trying to do that first. It's a bit rubbish

Got kicked out of the queue for Chelsea tickets for no discernible reason….I think the new system is worse than the old one 😡😡

I might have to go and support Frank Lampard and Coventry instead

⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

Last week's micro.blog post saying:&10;&10;Chelsea won, Liverpool and Tottenham lost, and Jimmy Floyd is still in Strictly, accompanied by a smiling emoji and hashtags #ChelseaFC and #cfc.

As Harold Wilson almost said, a week is a long time in football, and in Strictly Come Dancing

At least you can depend on Liverpool

⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc 🕺

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My Crucial Tracks this week - the Pogues, the Clash, Stick in the Wheel, Elvis, the Fureys, Christy Moore (and Damien Duff.after a fashion): https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/10/24/my-crucial-tracks-this-week.html

Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper were on This Morning with Josie Lawrence today. I’ve never heard so many west country accents on TV at the same time

"There are the ravens leaving the Tower of London, and then we have Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman leaving Strictly."

"Rylan, Alison Hammond … Bill Bailey? Who could possibly replace Claudia and Tess on Strictly? "

Exactly what I thought

Book cover for The Special One: The Secret World of Jose Mourinho by Diego Torres, featuring a close-up of a person's face.

Mourinho: Whoever has the ball has fear. Whoever does not have it is thereby stronger. ⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc: https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/10/21/mourinho-whoever-has-the-ball.html

Chelsea won. Liverpool lost. Tottenham lost. And Jimmy Floyd is still in Strictly.

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⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc

A man in a suit is seated on an ornate chair, looking directly at the camera.

Child #1 said she’s going to a thing celebrating Samuel Coleridge Taylor this weekend

Me: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, surely?

Nope.

London Mozart Players: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at 150

potentially the Chelsea goat?

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My Crucial Tracks this week - London You're A Lady, London Pride, I Dreamed a Dream, Mulder and Scully, Blackbird, Fester Skank, Skank in Bed, Street Tuff and Dusty: https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/10/17/my-crucial-tracks-this-week.html

God bless him!

#TodayILearned that to substitute more than one thing at once in vim you can do this
4,40s/Arsenal/Chelsea/g | 4,40s/Tinpot/Champions of the World/g
You do seem to need the ‘/g’ (or presumably ‘/1’ or whatever)

I enjoyed this film’s footage of Old London, and Old Suburbia. The film maker is a bit down on the latter.

I think the film was made at around the time of the first 7 Up

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Watched: A City Crowned with Green 🍿

A monochrome image features a woman looking directly at the camera, with the text Alison Moyet and Singles displayed vertically.

Interesting bit on The Rest is Entertainment.

For someone to earn the UK minimum wage from Spotify they need to have 567,000 monthly streams. That is roughly the number of streams that Alison Moyet gets

Thankfully Ms Moyet will have other sources of income

The rest is entertainment

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A colorful collage features a variety of British cultural elements and figures, centered around the title The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination by Dominic Sandbrook.

Video Games are bad for you: https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/10/12/video-games-are-bad-for.html

A festive movie poster features a diverse cast in colorful costumes surrounded by Christmas-themed elements, including a man holding presents and a dog wearing a holiday outfit.

Looking forward to this

Interesting read about Trump and NATO

The Guardian - Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapse

A collage of African American musicians forms the shape of a person in motion, accompanied by the title Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made The King by Preston Lauterbach.

I didn’t know this, about Tiger Man, one of my favourite Elvis songs. It references both Hound Dog, and an answer to Hound Dog.

"[Sam] Phillips penned an answer song to Hound Dog that he dubbed Bear Cat in which the singer reb... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/10/10/i-didnt-know-this-about.html

A woman in a stylish, flowing gown, holding a fan, is featured on the cover of a book titled Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World by Robin Muir.

There’s a new Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

Regular readers will probably be bored with me saying that my Granny was his cleaner

Audrey Hepburn to Salvador Dalí: Cecil Beaton’s bright young things... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/10/10/theres-a-new-cecil-beaton.html

I think many people will instead be comparing the duo to the Judean Peoples Front, and the Peoples Front of Judea

"Zarah Sultana has said she and Jeremy Corbyn have patched up their combustible co-leadership of a new leftwing... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/10/10/i-think-many-people-will.html

Retirement project #4 (possibly)

A psycho-geographic, hyper-local history of some runs I’ve done e.g.

The Big Half

“The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert B... https://mattypenny.micro.blog/2025/10/10/retirement-project-possibly-a-psychogeographic.html