Showing posts with label swinging sixties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swinging sixties. Show all posts

Wednesday 16 August 2023

Opraheimer


 



 



 


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Monday 17 April 2023

Coincidence Theory









During lockdown I noticed that the less educated a person, the easier they understood a concept I conveyed to them. The educated are too clever and materialist to engage with information and pattern recognition that is an existential threat to how they wish to be perceived in the wider world.

What I asked people was, did you notice in the middle of the propaganda guff about masks and taping up benches in parks and urinals in restrooms, that it was SIX people at a gathering, SIX feet social distancing (subsequently rounded up 18cms to 2 metres) and if one died from the flu statistics that disappeared during the pandemic, they would be buried SIX feet under?

For the memory-wipes and the too-busy-types, may I remind you of Churchill's most precious quote?

"“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Orwell also weighed in on the subject.

Sunday 6 December 2020

Sleaford Mods - Shortcummings




"Shortcummings"

You have the vision when you move a notch
You get permission to be what you want
I snog it now 'cause the sexy spot is prancing on my garden
Look, I'm elevated, I'm Captain Hook
Just round the back of the shop shut street
The rain in the wood is like a thinner sleet
It hits my nose and all I got is twigs and fat weeds and grass snakes please
When did I get so fucking down on my knees?

You have the mission when you walk a lot
Don't be a slider, get it how you want
I snog it now cos the sexy spot is dancing like
Baby, Dirty Dancing aka another crisis next to the magazine stand
Where's our picture on the front of this magazine, man?
It's such a shame that every job here is dead
It's such a shame that every person I meet needs smacking in the head
When did I get so fucking down on my knees?

He's gonna get all his dreams
He's got short, short, short, short, shortcummings
He's gonna mess himself so much
But it's all gonna come down hard
He's gonna get all his dreams
He's got short, short, short, short, shortcummings
He's gonna mess himself so much
But it's all gonna come down hard

One, two, three, four

You really don't know what they've probably got
They've got your arms if you resist the trot
I'll dance it now 'cause the rest is turned up in a microwave
Dark brown with the wavy wave
Just round the back of the bridge, no sleep
Lines of the road with the yellow lights brave the night to my mind, who lives in that house
And what do they think all the time?

He's gonna get all his dreams
He's got short, short, short, short, shortcummings
He's gonna mess himself so much
But it's all gonna come down hard
He's gonna get all his dreams
He's got short, short, short, short, shortcummings
He's gonna mess himself so much
But it's all gonna come down hard
(What do you get for killing me
A tighter grip, a bled of dying thousand) [x4]
He's gonna get all his dreams
He's got short, short, short, short, shortcummings
He's gonna mess himself so much
But it's all gonna come down hard
He's gonna get all his dreams
He's got short, short, short, short, shortcummings
He's gonna mess himself so much
But it's all gonna come down hard

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Might be about Dominic, might not be. 

I discovered Sleaford Mods on Radio 6.

I'm a SIX

Pure Tavistock

Sunday 4 November 2007

More out and about - London: Swinging Sixties?


Spotted this sign on the way back from the creative geeks drinks at The Endurance, and thought it was a must have addition to the blog. I'm still having trouble remembering if it's the Endurance or the Endeavour but there's only one pub on Berwick street market isn't there? Going back a day or two I saw this while out and about with Charlie the other week.


You can't beat a bit of complex pipeworkery can you? Yahoo Pipes should sponsor this immediately. Is anyone using this yet on a regular basis.


And looking upwards a bit, The Gherkin is definitely the 21st century archictectural landmark of London. You can see it all the way from Brixton, and features in that brilliant 'We live in Financial times' poster which is so so true.


More Creative Geeks action down The Endurance. Curiously we were talking about Tunng during the day as a friend is touring with them around the States.


Dead insect came along which is great because Anthony is just brilliant, a creative and digital planner bursting with ideas and now working freelance around London after a few years at Glue.


And Fiona tipped up with her boyfriend Richard of Creative Apes. I heard she has started blogging again which is always good news to hear. Fiona is half Indonesian and half Scottish. Quite an exotic creature, and a really nice young lady too. Keep up with the Blogging Fiona!


And no get together is a proper one if Sam the man from Adlads and Adgrads doesn't turn up. Check his Ali G impression for off the cuff grown men knicker wetting. Me like very much....Don't say I didn't tip you off about the headphone look Sam :)


And not many days later there was that Octopus twitter from Johanna and Amber. Later that day Richard and I came across this at an art gallery exhibition opening in Shoreditch.


Proving some trends are Global, but the piece that looked most provocative was this


Then we popped into The Owl & The Pussy Cat confirming my suspicion that I think is about to burst on a wider stage, which is a sixties revival in London. There was even a Beatles mop top haircut in this pub. Don't say I didn't tip you off about that swinging sixties revival first, although my friends tell me that Beijing is closer to the real thing for atmosphere; now that drugs and sex are quite common over there. I'll be clutching my Gideon Bible close to me at all times then :)


The next day Richard and I took a stroll around Lewisham where we noticed this incongruous couple from the bridge crossing the river.


I have no idea what the scooter and the pineapple were doing there but it felt like the start to a great novel or the middle part of a Morse episode. I should at this point include a clip of Richard playing in his band The Rank Deluxe from the night before. They play 'sewage music' according to their site. Gulp!

This clip is on the N95 again (as indeed is all this photography/video) and I think its quite good for the conditions although the sound recording is terrible. Not bad for a phone though.




I've always been fond of markets. All around the world if you want to get a feel for the people and skip the tourist hot spots, just get down to the market and you'll figure out quickly enough if the natives are good or not. I really like these old carts which still serve their purpose in the 21st century and have loads of character. Here's my local one packing up that saturday night.


I'm slowly but surely catching up with the media files on my camera and I expect very shortly to be blogging pictures and video that are almost real time. Which should make my posts a bit more interesting than this one.