I drew the babies with their latest Performance tour outfits, but... in a mini style 🪽
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day #14
mad hatter is my favorite crybaby mv, because it includes elements from k-12 and crybaby. in the beginning of the mv, it gives us a taste of what the movie will look like. i love how she kept the bedroom pretty much the same in the movie.
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POSSUM KEEPS CHEWING UP MY SQUASH VINES.
AAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Uncool 50 - long live rock and/or roll
Part of the #Uncool50 project, an autobiography told through pop singles.
At some point in summer 1989, I came across BRMB’s evening rock and indie show. Don’t recall if it was when they got a powerful new transmitter, or a schedule reshuffle, or both. Whatever, it was the cutting-edge new music at a time I could hear it properly.
John Slater was the DJ, he had a long interview each week with some pop star or other. One week, it was Katrina Leskovich and Kimberley Rew from Katrina and the Waves. They promoted “That’s the way”, which somehow wasn’t a big hit, or any hit at all. Would it have been better if they’d stuck to the original lyric, “Cooking in the kitchen”?
They Might Be Giants burst out of nowhere in early 1990 with “Birdhouse in your soul”. What is that song all about? Don’t know at the time, don’t really know now. Not sure I care. It’s words as a sound, sussuration and murmuration and once heard, never ever forgotten.
Around this time, I fell in with the group of rock fans in my year. Boozy parties, late nights, cheap beer (enough to put me off the drink for life), and barely-repressed sexuality. And music that was loud, but often more pretentious than quality. Some groups did pass my quality threshold: dirty blues rock from Thunder and The Almighty, pre-grunge from Californian group Love/Hate. From that time, I pick “Radical your lover” from Little Angels, on the grounds that I think it’s the best rock single of the time.
An honourable mention to Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, the local heroes we’d needed since Slade. They put on a show just before Christmas at the Civic Hall, and for many years it was the hottest ticket in town. Closing number was usually their signature hit “Kill your television”. And one of the folk I hung with has gone on to play with the band, the biggest success for anyone I went to school with.
Good rock music remained part of my life, and were this a 100-song list, there would be a few grunge tunes scattered throughout, and some Iron Maiden here or hereabouts. But it’s a 50-song list, and not entirely rock...
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