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The Rumer Mill
Two Jags tweeted last night how much he enjoyed Rumer on Later with Jools Holland. The Guardian invited him to express his admiration more fully and so he did.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/sep/22/john-prescott-rume...
I've a lot of time for Prescott because he's untutored in what he says and how he says it which is refreshing despite the oft calamitous relationship he has with grammar and punctuation. His way of talking is like a language version of a fractal: full of self similarity but too irregular in its recursion to be easily described, let alone understood. There's a lot of snobbery in the way people have a go at him (Hislop on HIGNFY springs to mind) so whilst he is still as valid a target as any other politician his simple expression of pleasure at Rumer and the music and artists she reminds him of begs only one question.
Would the Massive like Prezza to blog on here and if not Prezza which famous person would you be tickled pink to see as a regular blog contributor?
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Great post. Thanks for that Ahh_Bisto. This is what I love about Twitter. Who'd have thought that Prezza would even watch Later?
He has his faults but I've always been a big fan. Especially after he thumped that pikey who threw an egg at him!
I'm glad you like Prezza
'cos I do too. I have a lot of time for him, even allowing for a few gaffs and the odd indulgence. Hislop, on the other hand, makes me want to puke; the sanctimonious little twat.
To answer your question, I'd love to see more postings from anyone in the public eye willing to put their musings on popular culture (and all the other things we talk bollocks about) up for Massive consumption (a bit like the m.p.g. of two Jaguars); we never usually get much insight into what they watch, read or listen to, unless it's via one of those, "What's your favourite colour?" features in Guardian Weekend or whatever, which are of course all PR lies.
Chris Packham
Would be a good poster here.
Problem with Hislop isn't being sanctimonious
So much as not being very funny - to put it mildly Private Eye has been right in recent years about corruption in public life and financial circles but its a rare issue that makes me laugh
I had to laugh
at the cartoon of "The Girl With The Sopup Dragon Tattoo" though
Well I can't abide Prescott
he embodied the worst of both 'new' and 'old' Labour in my untutored view.
Good on Prezza.
If you fancy a few minutes fulminating with rage at a bunch of snobby hipster arseholes, check out the comments at the bottom of that Guardian piece. Bastards.
I like old Prezza well enough, and he clearly loves his music. That's a nice, unforced, heartfelt expression of emotion, that piece. Good on him.
do you
really think he wrote it?
I...
...don't particularly see why not. He's a perfectly literate and intelligent bloke, despite attempts to cast him as a thickie.
it's just that
I've worked in the PR/communications team of a local government council for the past 16 years and not one politician puts pen to paper for any statement
You seem to be..
letting your dislike of the man taint the fact that he has every right to like and be as passionate about music as anyone else.
not at all
I'm just going on personal experience of politicians
Prescott to board, Prescott to board
I have it on very good authority that John Prescott believes we never landed on the moon.
Anyone you want to post
could already be posting under a pseudonym. If I had not already met Ahh_Bisto I would have guessed he was Stephen Fry or Michael Caine!
Prezza would be welcome to talk about his trips to New York and seeing acts at the Apollo in my book. If he ever started on the New Labour project I would be out the door.
"Which famous person would you like to see as a regular poster?"
Ooh..
Mark Ellen?
How about .....
Robin Ince & Phil Jupitus
(Brilliant podcasts)
Well in my book
Anyone who really loves music can't be all bad. I remember seeing a picture of Ken Clarke on National Music Day many years ago; he was in a large group of presumably amateur musicians, playing the trumpet. His eyes were closed and he looked transported. I couldn't help but warm to him.
I have the same delusion about cycling. Anyone who cycles can't be a complete bounder, says my heart, while my head looks on pityingly and smiles indulgently.
"untutored"
John Prescott may like to use the "cardboard box, eeeh tha' were lucky" schtick to excuse all manner of things but he is not "untutored". He wasn't some poor urchin who never had no schoolin'. His father was a railway signalman (a pretty decently paid job) and town councillor and he went to a perfectly good school, certainly the type of school that he thinks is good enough for everybody else. As a union official he studied at Ruskin College Oxford and he went on to do a degree at Hull University.
So let's put the onion away about his "humble" origins please. His background was perfectly normal.
Humble in politics....
These days is anyone who didn't go to Eton.
Prescott - the worst kind of politician
Pre 1997 - came across as the gruff, bluff all purpose decent socialist Shop Steward.
Post 1997 - could not wait to get his nose right in the trough and suckled that teat non stop until it all fell apart.
Hypocrite - Lord Prescott? The man who publically stated that he would never accept a peerage.
Do me a favour.
The likes of Prescott deserve nothing but derision. Closet Tory.