Inkwell Paul

Teacher. Ex-Record Shop owner. Proud Dad & Husband. Fascinated by modern history and pop culture. Breaks & beats nerd. There's treasure everywhere.

[Inkwell Paul @InkwellPaul]

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 😉

[Inkwell Paul @InkwellPaul]

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.

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Inkwell Paul @InkwellPaul]

Imagine being the act on Jools who had to follow this 💀

[Nik D @nikidoog]

Wall of sound ‘95

“YES” McAlmont & Butler,
released 31 years ago today, on 15 May 1995.
@NewWaveAndPunk @GCPunkNewWave @FatOldAnarchist

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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.

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

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.

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My favourite World Book Day costume yesterday: “Kevin from Home Alone 2.”

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@AwesomeSir24 This is absolutely brilliant. Amazing recommendation

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@AwesomeSir24 Yes, nice. Bit folky too. Good stuff.

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@cturnbull1968 Cap gets it

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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. https://t.co/UzexthfGRv

[KPMG dad @jenuflexion]

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"

[Inkwell Paul @InkwellPaul]

I had a Global Hypercolour t shirt with Fido Dido on it from C&A in the mid 90s that did this

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Jacket made of thermochromic materials that react to heat
https://t.co/PfcNzZioLq

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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. https://t.co/vr2MQliuGS

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Re BBC news’ “left wing bias” 🙄👇

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Remember when the Mirror’s Pippa Crerar broke the Barnard Castle scandal and Laura Kuenssberg immediately replied directly to her with a Tory sourced rebuttal. Like, how is that in any way ok? It’s not is it. It’s not ok for BBC politics editor to do that.

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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 https://t.co/oIhFugP4qW

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@BorisJohnson Definition of projection. If this applies to any politician of our age, it is of course to Johnson. A man who for many of us was always so self-evidently a lazy, dishonest, manipulative, self-serving grifter, that others not being able to see it was painfully frustrating.

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@BWallArthur U.K. press’ track record on the subject of Russian interference in U.K. politics is abysmal. Very depressing. Real “not a serious country” stuff.

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@ChipsyYCFC Yes, you’re right. Definitely bluesier than my tweet suggested. Glad you liked it, I honestly had totally forgotten about it until I saw a reference to the band in an old MOJO.

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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. https://t.co/4Opybuq3bx

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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. https://t.co/FVDFE4Skw3

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@OasisMania

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@Gibboanxious A perfect joke. Been rewatching Cheers in its entirety on DVD, picking highlights to show my kids. Woody’s stuff tends to play well with them.