I’m dead chuffed…

…with this.

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Plagiarism!

You know, maybe it isn’t ‘Born With a Smile on my Face’ that’s been playing on my mental jukebox on heavy rotation, but something else…
Here’s a YouTube video using the Sykes song as background music:

Now, after you’ve listened to the first verse, listen to this:

So…maybe it’s the [...]

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is*

I suppose I must have heard it on the radio recently, or something like that, but I just can’t get rid of this song playing in my head.
It’s called ‘Born With a Smile on my Face’  by Stephanie de Sykes.
I don’t have a copy of it, I have never had a copy of it, I [...]

Mister Panties rides again!

I haven’t mentioned what I do for a living here very much – if at all.
I’m primarily a guitar teacher, but I do get some of my income from playing. I’m with two bands – an electric quartet called the Cock & Bull Band and an acoustic trio with two of the guys from C&B [...]

Twittering on about Twitter

Despite it being another one of those internet crazes that are sweeping the world, I like Twitter.
It’s easy to grasp, not as wordy as blogging and the fact that you only have a limited allowance of characters you can use in each ‘tweet’ – 140 to be precise – makes you think succinctly…or not…
I’m there [...]

Fancy a laugh?

It’s been hard finding something that makes me laugh as much as the series of Ricky Gervais podcasts that swept the nation, but the Cobra Pubcast with Dom Joly and Danny Wallace comes closer than most efforts.
Joly, in particular, is very funny.
The main problem with the episodes is that they’re too short, clocking in at [...]

RIP John Martyn

Sad news indeed.
Rather than say it all over again I’ll just cut and paste what I wrote on a newsgroup:
>So far ahead of it’s time it’s ridiculous, and downright beautiful too.

Yeah, this is my favourite JM period – the mid and late 70s.
I went and saw him a few times and [...]

…yawn…

I’ve just read this.
Ridley’s a talented director, so is it too much to hope that he and other equally talented people in Tinsletown might come up with some ORIGINAL ideas?
If people like the ‘A Team’ so much, then why not just watch the original series?
You can get the whole shebang for a gnat’s pube under [...]

The Daily Mail Ross feeding frenzy continues…

…but this time it’s even more bizarre than usual.
Here’s the Mail’s latest Jonathan Ross story.
On the face of it, Ross and Davies’ behaviour sounds pretty reprehensible.
However, just scratch the surface and it reveals not only further anti-Ross frothing from the rabid Mail, but acts of such crass greed, insensitivity and stupidity that it makes anything [...]

Hot news – Ross doesn’t say ‘fuck’ on TV

Once again the Mail plumbs new depths of inanity and self-righteousness.
Yes, it’s now scourging itself and its barely-literate readership into an orgasmic frenzy over what WASN’T broadcast in Jonathan Ross’ first TV show after his 12 week suspension.
Is it just me, or is this not the stuff of comedy?
Or is it yet more cluster fuck [...]