Every platform is now stuffed with people talking bollocks. Finance, health, politics… it doesn’t matter. All you need is a camera and the nerve to start blathering hot takes. It’s no wonder the culture is trashed. We’ve given every pub bore in the world their own TV station.
@CAA_Official I am indeed that dude. But the last time I went to the Reading Festival was 2003? 2004? And btw I quit smoking many years ago. Someone is fooling you. How weird.
Am I the last person alive who believes that occasionally in the universe, stuff happens that isn’t a sinister plot by people whose politics I disagree with?
In business, Californians get uncomfortable unless there are 6 or 7 minutes of chilled small talk before anyone raises the matter of money, whereas New Yorkers regard anything beyond the word “Hi” as pointless frivolity.
When I told my wife that I hoped that I died before her, which I though was darkly romantic, she said, “Forget it. You’re not going to get out of paying college fees that easy.”
@industrial_book Yes. On reflection, I’d say that Dylan etc also drank from the same well - Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kerouac. The Beat Generation. But let’s be honest, what really happened in the 90s is that smart rebellious people lost faith in pop music to deliver. They moved on to the internet.
@industrial_book I’m going with the fading influence of Bowie / Burroughs. During the 70s and 80s, it was fashionable to use variations of cut-up techniques. (Look at Numan or Duran’s lyric sheets). But hip hop and grunge stressed authenticity. The Naked Lunch style looked over-ripe by the 90s.
Normally we get a sliced sourdough but last week I thought I’d mix things up so I bought a French stick. When I unpacked the shopping my wife stared at it, then said, “Just who do you think you are?”#Costoflivingcrisis
@idie_youdie No, I think the four albums between 82-86 (Assassin, Warriors, Beserker, Fury) all have some merit. From then on, things get harder to defend. But you just can’t imagine the poison in the media at the time. When we supported in ‘87 there was a siege mentality.