http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/feb/03/university-access-social-exclusion"Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg" -George Bernard Shaw "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet" -Napoleon BonapartePulp were ...
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As the seconds tick away and 2009 slides across the globe it seems strange to think we are entering the final stretch of the 21st centuries first decade. The noughties have passed far too quickly in some respects - it does not seem so long since the optimism of the New Millenium and fear of Y2K. But equally it seems impossible to think back to a world when Vladimir Putin was a surprise choice f...
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And lots of dubious look-a-likes...
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One of my favorite Pulp songs. This reminds me of the first weeks I lived in New Orleans. At the time we had just broken up, I was driving around with my then ex-girlfriend, and I felt every word that Jarvis was singing. I recall how the trees in the Garden District looked like green umbrellas shielding us from the summer rain as we drove. I didn't know where I was going. I just loved driving a...
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Mogrades, the unthinkable has happened.Despite the best intentions of a committed gruop of surporters, who acted in all your best interests to steer the competition to a result benfitial to all our peoples, Pulp have been eliminated from the World Series of Ninties Pop Songs. A United Opposition of enemies of the people, led by one Known Human, has been successful in their bourgeois-Trotskyist...
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I never really was a fan of this motion picture adapation of Great Expectations. I hated the way Gwyneth's character treated Ethan Hawke. I guess the reason why, looking back, it was true to my life back then. That was the way I allowed myself to be treated. Look at the way she walks out of the room and just leaves. It's like she's stepping over his self esteem again and he allows it. That used...
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I've always been drawn to dark, hopeless, stick-a-knife-in-your-chest-pull-it-out-re-insert-and-twist type of unrequited love songs. Or more simply put, "I love you but you don't love me" songs. Some songwriters are over-the-top while bitterly trash talking their escaped loves and others paint the pained picture so perfectly. You feel what they are singing about, even if you're not in the sa...
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Woohoo!! the Wednesday have once again been victorious, and this time by a margin of 4-1. (apologies to any Foxes fans out there) So i thought I'd post some great Sheffield music by way of celebration:
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Pulp singing Common People. How did I miss this back in the mid-90s???
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Found thanks to "The Morning News":http://www.themorningnews.org/:Read the rest at "Chris's Invincible Super-Blog":http://www.the-isb.com/?p=308.
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In my new idea, which is going to accompany every Sheffield Wednesday cup-tie (so will probably just happen the once) I've devised a new way of making football predictions. Basically I post a vid made by bands that support each team, the and the better band's team is declared the winner. First up it's the Owls vs Manchester City, represented by Pulp and Oasis.So, who do you prefer?
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Whilst I am too young to remember most of the Britpop era, in thsoe heady days of the mid-nineties. But there was one song I always recall liking from those days, even though I didn't know the name. It was probably the video that appealled to me, and when I saw it on TV years later I remembered how I had liked the song, and thought nothing more of it. It was only a year or so ago that I realise...
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When I'm looking for individual songs to listen to during my commute I'm usually looking for one of two things. The first is a song that fits my surroundings. A song to fit the speed of the train or the gloominess of the day. The second, on those bad commute days or days where I'm just annoyed, are escape songs. These songs seem to be able to take me somewhere else. I don't know where, bu...
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Okay, this is not a plug for Hot Chip's "Over and Over" (and over and over and over, like a monkey with a miniature cymbal, the joy of repetition really is in you), but that song is maybe as fitting as can be for the state I'm currently in.You see, sometimes, I come across a track that I just looooove so much, I got to hear it over and over (and over and over and over, like a monkey with...) ag...
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I just love Wes Anderson films. It gets better with Jarvis Cocker lendiing his voice to Anderson' new stop-motion film and a Roald Dahl adaptation, "Fantastic Mr. Fox." I wonder how it'll go. It's Anderson's first animation film with a few new casts so I'm excited.More about this story at NME.com.
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