Stunning. I… excuse me, I think I have something in my eye…
I want to go to Iceland (oh yes, very funny, but you know what I mean).
music
Global Warming
A song wars song from Joe Cornish. It has whistling and an anguished polar bear in it. Win! Not so sure about the video, but just close your eyes and imagine something amazing directed by you, or Michael Bay. Boom!
The Rat Control The Cook plus Sausages
New from Adam Buxton. Mesmerisinginging!
Bonus! Buxton sings about my favourite breakfast ciabatta filling:
If I Didn’t Have You
I met Tim Minchin once, at a party in Edinburgh. He was very nice, especially considering my drunken opening gambit was “I usually hate comedy songs, but…”
Anyway, I usually hate comedy songs, but Minchin’s stuff is funny and clever and thoughtful and musically ambitious and funny, and seems to come from a good place. As ever, there’s more to find on YouTube.
I saw him play If I Didn’t Have You live last year. And I loved it, cos at its heart… it’s true. Lasting love is about choice, not necessity. About knowing that you and this person complement and delight each other in this way, and it’s wonderful and it’s all you want. Other possible connections are always available, but you simply don’t want to know about them.
Isn’t that love? Or at least a big part of it? I think so, and it’s all the sweeter for it.
Hehe, that’s a lot of waffle about what is, after all, just a funny song, innit?
The Jamming Arabs
Ha! Well, talking of music, I just found this footage I’ve never seen before of fat Harris bopping about on stage with a bass guitar. I think this might have been the last gig The Columbos did. The song is The Peacock’s One More Chance.
The Columbos used to be The Jamming Arabs. I know, terrible name, but it seemed funny at the time. We had a record out last century. Surf-punk-ska-pop-a-gogo.
If you’d lke to hear what a big mix of The Ramones, Beach Boys, Madness and the Banana Splits might sound like, you can download the album Never Bin Surfin here. It’s high-speed shouty sunshine!
Made-Up Love Song #43
This is just fantastical in so many ways. Beautiful song, inspiring performance.
Hope you find some wonder this Wednesday. x
Nature Anthem
When people ask if I have any ambitions: why yes, I wanna…
Taken from “Below the Radio”, Grandaddy’s compilation of tracks that inspired and influenced them. It’s a great album.
I swear, where I am right now, this could be happening right behind me. It probably is. I shan’t look.
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At the back of my mind, I was always hoping that I might just get by. Ha. Ah well. Sing on.
More comedy later. x
Sello Tape
For lovers of love and stationery.
It’s coming to something when New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk parody duo can write a better love song than… just about anybody else. Or maybe it’s just me, just now, but today it makes me smile and swoon a little and that’s a neat trick, the way I’m feeling at the moment. It hits me in the pencil case of my soul. Enjoy.
Ramshackle Charm 