A Rant - 25/03/2008
The NME darlings are stringently anti-Jags.
They buy knitted instruments from the charity shops...along with a woollen Ford KA, some tweed jackets, quaint little china sets to drink there Nesquik and crushed ‘uppers'' in (going against the grain, yeah), a French dictionary and some Kafka. They're trying to perfect the look that is fashioned by the English gentry, while maintaining the credentials of your Kerouac-esque excessive youths. It's why the program ‘Skins'' features some dick in a cravat swigging White Lightning from a broken kettle even though he's got a perfectly good glass in the cupboard in the kitchen…the kitchen where his Mum is making bolognaise. He snubs his Mums nouvelle cuisine and decides to slum it in his room, eating Ritz crackers, polo's and chips soaked in vodka. That's until Mummy calls up the stairs demanding he ‘come and eat at the dinner table like a normal, civilised family''.
Sidenote: Speaking of charity shops...what is there fascination with Jerry Maguire? I think Cameron Crowe has planted one in every Oxfam across the country.
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Well...
It looks like English, but I have no idea what it means. Sorry Liam. Can someone translate?
Uncle Bryn
would no doubt advise you to "take a chill pill", Liam
What is a Jag? Or are Jags?
It isn't the Costello copyists of Little Black Book, I presume. Or the preferred cars of Mr Prescott. Scots for injection? Drinking binge?
i'm confused.
Fender Jaguar (AKA Mustang) guitars. . .
I assume. Their recent ubiquity is all Kurt Cobain's fault. (As, indeed, are many, many things.)
I've got your number
written on the back of my hand.
That's exactly
What I was thinking.
Skinny tie music
That"s how I always think of that post-punk powerpop stuff. Quite like it too.
I don't undertstand this.
*
I've got your number
Was a hit for The Jags.
Cheers for the heads up
*
And that's who I meant...
God knows where little black book came in, maybe it is another place where I write names and numbers other than the back of my hand. Maybe thats where I have written R*g*l*s name, and the names of the other miscreants!
Roogalator
are one of my favourite "Whatever happened to" bands.
Sadly not whom I meant......
...tho' your championing of them has stirred a memory cell from way back when, and I have added to my wish list on amazon.
I was making a scurrilous reference to one of the trolls referred to in correspondence adjacently, and addressed by the Frazester. (Clue: aka *a*m*l*)
Oy!
I promised Mr Lewry it wouldn't happen again.
I know...
...what I'm harking on about.
Which is good
But we do ask you to use plain English in the posting guidelines. New entries should encourage participation, not bewilderment.
To be fair
Liam's arcane posting was originally a reply in the "Later..." thread, where it made a bit more sense. (Only a bit, but at least a bit.)
Yep, I know
But it wouldn't make much sense to people who hadn't already seen it there. And I'd like anyone visiting the site for the first time to feel comfortable with what they're presented with, not baffled.
It is plain english...
It's just a simple character study of a certain stereotype (namely, Jarvis Cocker...and emulated by the chicklets of the new NME crowd).
R*g*l*s? *m*l*?
I'm still baffled. As I am by most of this thread. It's like The Mad Hatters Tea Party.
Riggles Smelt
He's a minor character in Barnaby Rudge.
You ...
.. are Riggles Smelt and I claim my 5 guineas.
I am trying to protect the innocent/guilty....
A party elsewhere on this blog had to have his postings mutually removed. He had a monicker including most of the above letters, and a few more, but not the s. Reminded one of a tattered donkey, began well enough, teetered off dramatically, but hush, I too will be removed if I go on.
I'm well intrigued...
Please do divulge.
Ragmule....
......offered a running commentary on many random 5 selections, casting possible assertions as to the sort of person who might stoop to have such material on their i-pods. He was removed by the Frazester after it became dull. If you didn't look in on Maundy Thursday you would have never known he existed, as my criticism of his style also disappeared.......
was it initially funny?
I actually enjoy these sort of characters if they dispense a certain amount of funny jousting in there vitriolic assertations.
If it has the sting without the humor, it falls on its arse. This is why I was glad to see the back of Mark Lamarr.
Yes, it was, and i told her/him so....
S/he also raised the not invalid point about the dearth of "black" music represented. This is something my own i-pod seems to demonstrate, as despite 10-15% of jazz/world/reggae/soul, they hardly ever pop up in random mode. I seriously wonder if there may even be a secret bug within the mathematically unrandom random of i-poddery. Am I alone in noting this?
Will we go as far as saying
Will we go as far as saying that Tony Fadell and his Merry Men are definitely dirty racist's?
Depends how legally binding your "we" is...
(Reads better than it sounds)
I'LL ADMIT IT...
...I was under the influence of some 'Grade A'' Strawberry Crusha 'narcotics'' when writing this.
This entire thread
has left me with a distinctly Looking Glass feeling. Must hurry, I'm late.