Teacher. Ex-Record Shop owner. Proud Dad & Husband. Fascinated by modern history and pop culture. Breaks & beats nerd. There's treasure everywhere.
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Start teacher training tomorrow. Can't wait. Been a funny old journey from record shop to the classroom...but anybody who visited The Inkwell will know it maybe isn't that big a leap 😉 – at York, England
I always said Trump would literally never get over it if he lost to Biden. That it would detonate a brain melting level of cognitive dissonance that his ego would fight to the death. And so it has come to pass. 6 yrs later, still utterly fixated. Full Biden derangement syndrome.
Picked up The Graham Walker Sound’s “Famous TV Themes” LP for a quid today - features this fab and thumping Hammond UK library-funk version of the Theme from Crossroads youtu.be/oDY1RDIYV9w
I’ve had a successful run crate digging wise recently; I take cheap punts on interesting looking LPs; means I end up with some rubbish but it’s great when it pays off. This ‘69 Sergio Mendes LP title track is wonderful - orchestral, tripped-out bossadelia. youtube.com/watch?v=Er2OfUSz…
This is tremendous. Colbert’s dedication to a lifetime-long performance art piece of meta, hyper-culturally literate, self-referential comedy - with heart and consistently funny material- is a rare, rare thing. Somebody who still believes in using the medium to do special things.
Imagine being the act on Jools who had to follow this 💀
Wall of sound ‘95
“YES” McAlmont & Butler,
released 31 years ago today, on 15 May 1995.
@NewWaveAndPunk @GCPunkNewWave @FatOldAnarchist
Historians will never be able to express this sufficiently. If Carter, Clinton or George W had said this, this one sentence would *define* their presidencies *literally forever.* With Trump - nothing. Not sure young people will ever be able to grasp the magnitude of the shift.
This gets said every week (and its always correct btw).
Just this statement which will be forgotten in 2 hours would've sunk any other president in US History and their entire party for ~2 decades minimum. No exagerration at all. It would be quoted daily for eternity in US media. You would learn about in high school US history class. And this doesn't make top 100 worst actions / statements this week.
Never even knew PE performed live on TOTP. I guess a PE appearance might be better known if they’d been on during their absolute late 80s peak, but this ‘91performance of Shut ‘Em Down (the superior Pete Rock remix version, too!) should be legendary. youtube.com/watch?v=YrKJccfD…
Inkwell Paul retweeted
Past 15 years has basically been lecturing british millenials that cuts have to be made to secure a healthy economy for the future.
Now it is the future and it's "oops yeah, still no better than 2008, ah well, thats life innit"
Richard Madeley "How realistic is it for any profession to expect to be paid in real terms what they were paid in 2008?"
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
I had a Global Hypercolour t shirt with Fido Dido on it from C&A in the mid 90s that did this
Jacket made of thermochromic materials that react to heat
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Managed to get to this second hand / new comic book shop - focussed primarily on US DC/Marvel - in Walthamstow yesterday. If you’re ever in East London and comics are your bag, absolutely essential visit. Mountains of mountains of stock. kryptoncomicsonline.com/inde…
Time passes in weird ways for record nerds. First heard this on an Ace Records comp (“Stax Breaks”) in 2002. Been looking for the OG Dramatics LP ever since. Finally came across a copy today, for a tenner. 23 yrs. Somehow both an eon, & the blink of an eye youtu.be/8-oHwBkZAvs?si=cAQr…
This was a minor obsession of mine for a while - The Greenhornes: Go Tell Henry (2010). Retro garage-RnB act stepping their game up with very loopable vibraphone soul-jazz fracturing into Revolver-era Beatlesy freakbeat. Still like this a lot. youtu.be/CPCEJZdQsk0?si=FVyz…
Only ever been a fairweather BJM fan but always absolutely loved this, from the overlooked side-project-y Musique de Film Imagine LP. “Elle s'échappe”. If this was a Jean Claude Vannier track from 1970 people would be totally obsessed with it. youtu.be/FiOxFlBUMok?si=6z4F…
Got this out from the library. From the Sugababes to S Club, Billie to Busted - a fantastic oral history of U.K. pop from the Spice Girls through the Heat Mag era. The only book to ever have me Googling Lisa Scott Lee solo singles. Scandalous, hilarious, and somehow poignant.
