FlyTheNest

Possibly *the* best band of the 1980s?

You need a bit of Steve-O in your life.

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It's not the despair, I can cope with the despair, it's the hope I can't cope with.

In hindsight, being a Depeche Mode fan at school in the Eighties was tough.

Though I do remember ripping this off as a story for an English class and my teacher marking it down for being 'a bit grim'.

People forget Depeche Mode were decidedly uncool for a long time and being a fan during the uncool 80's period makes me a proper fan, I was there at Whitley Bay icerink, I was there at Murrayfield icerink. My Dad drove me to both then sat in the car reading a book.

Good bloke my Dad.

Being a fan of electro was considered to be gay, my own Dad, the good bloke mentioned above even fell for that bullshit.

I came home from school one day and my posters on one wall had been replaced by a massive one of Samantha Fox with her tits out.

So I just sat there for a bit thinking what the fuck then went downstairs and asked for an explanation.

And we had a bit of an argument and it turned out me belatedly getting into Soft Cell had persuaded them I was a shirt lifter.

Ironically of course Samantha Fox is a happy lesbian.

He's a Moody Blues fan.



And he's doing a fine job of looking after my mother with Alzheimer's.

She seems blissfully unaware and happy.

Early onset familial dementia so that means me and my brother have a 50/50 chance of inheriting the defective gene.

I have a 1 in 2 chance of being even stupider than this in a few years time.

That seems fair.

I'm being pedantic now but I think you need the 12" single version of Bedsitter

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It's not the despair, I can cope with the despair, it's the hope I can't cope with.

also I still think The Art of Falling Apart is one of my very favourite albums.

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It's not the despair, I can cope with the despair, it's the hope I can't cope with.

This is rather lovely too



Although i will swear blind that my first album was Parallel Lines (because it was the first one I chose and bought for myself, although I had some other things as presents before then) I have a feeling that the first album that was actually considered 'mine' was a freebie from the Bernie Inn which had a Terry Jacks version of this song.

(Giles Smith in the very good book 'Lost In Music: A Pop Oddysey' says that something as important as the first record you ever bought should not be left to something as arbitrary as the truth, which I very much agree with).

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It's not the despair, I can cope with the despair, it's the hope I can't cope with.

These are Australian.

I listened to an interview with Norman Cook this aftternoon and therefore...

I gotta walk.

I've seen Mr Cope live a couple of times and he does good glam psychedelia.

Anyway I'm in the mood for this...

And then maybe this.

spiritual duvet cover

great title of a song

I think I've listened to this 20+ times in the last week. Never get tired of Tool and this in particular. It's a musically complicated song and this video, made for someone's maths coursework, explains the mathematics behind it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY

Awesome.

And next we have Fugazi explaining quantum entanglement.

Sorry refitman that was naff and cheap but I'm drunk so....

Much as I love the idea of Tool teaching people higher level maths I'm not sure hardcore bands are the way to go besides educating people like us.

Going to see them in Manchester next month.

This is just random.

Meeow meeow me meeow meow meow meow.

How sweet to be a cloud.

Mistakes were made.

Oh, the wind will come.

Fuck that.

Why should I bother with any of this?

You're all idiots like me. Making shit up as you go along. None of you know what the fuck is going on.

We're all just blagging it.

Aren't we though? Just making this shit up as we go along?

I saw an xray of a girl passing gas.