It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you, without a terrible blog post to step to. Yesyesy’all: I've been AFK, IRL for too long and the longer I left it, the harder it became to jump back into the blogosphere. I got a taste of reality and trust me, that stuff's more moreish than barbeque-sauce flavoured crack.
It's not like there hasn't been anything about which to rant. Shitloads has gone down. Since we last spoke: Studenty tossers across the nation left it till the last minute to exercise their democratic rights and The Great Yarmouth council election was decided by cutting a deck of cards.... Britain's got a new, coalition government...The Guardian gave Professor Green's new album four stars, Smurfkind rejoiced...The most newsworthy thing about the soccer World Cup was a psychic octopus and his plastic trumpet..."DJ" "Super producer" Solar *eventually* told us that Guru had gone to live on a special farm where he can run around and chase rabbits with gay abandon - but we are not allowed to visit....The Digital Economy Bill means that entire families/libraries/colleges/streets will feel the full force of criminal law if one member of said household/cafe/library/wifi-hotspot is *suspected* of downloading copyrighted material...
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One of the then-child-killers of James Bulger violated his probation twice before being found guilty of distributing child-porn....Ras Kass and Public Enemy went cap-in-hand to their fans - and, so far, standing on the information superhighway with a begging-bowl is paying off for Ras Kass.... The BP Deep-water Horizon oilrig blew up in the Mexican Gulf and Barack Obama tried to vilify the British for the actions of an American sub-contractor employed by an internationally floated corporation (apparently Jingoistic bigotry is fine when coming from a Black American).... Having "exposed" the questionable use of expense accounts by politicians and BBC fatcats, those courageous scribes at the tax-dodging Telegraph decided to "expose" the Truth that some severely disabled people are exercising their rights as adults and choosing to use some of their Direct-Payment benefits on adult dating and sex workers (no mention was made by the same publication of the tax-payers' money used by bailed-out banks to take their clients to lap-dance clubs and 'massage parlours' on corporate jollies)...This summer the cinema's been revisiting our childhoods but they should've left The A-Team well alone... Summer also saw several ‘80s style mass-murderer tribute acts: Cabbie Derrick Bird flipped out like Michael Ryan, Stephen Griffiths (aka "The Crossbow Cannibal" aka "Ghostface bedwettah" aka "U-Nob" aka "Ol Dirty Coward") is a Yorkshire Ripper redux and Raoul Moat spent more time writing faggy essays than carrying out his revenge fantasy and so was barely a passable Doobie Duck homage…
N-Dubz have their own 'Reality' TV show and you're never more than nine minutes away from a Lady Gaga song (what a talented fella)...Somme nonce/murderer Ian Huntley had his throat slit by a fellow inmate and has tried to sue the prison service for failing to fulfil their duty of care (prompting the tabloid media to decide that fundamental human rights should only apply to non-convicts and only then if They are deemed worthy)...The Fat Beats record stores are to close, marking a significant event in the mass extinction of bricks & mortar record stores selling physical recordings. The demise of these stores (as with the Stateside closure of HMV and Virgin Megastores five or so years ago) was chalked-up to a drop off in record sales - well don't blame me -
I've bought loadsa new albums:
- B Dolan Fallen House, Sunken City (4/5)
- Big Boi Sir Lucious Leftfoot…son of Chico Dusty (4/5)
- Braille Weapon Aid (3/5)
- Diversion Tactics Careful on the way up (3/5),
- Flobots Survival Story (1/5)
- Foreign beggars United Colours of Beggattron (3/5)
- Gon Consider Violence (4/5 - still waiting to receive the CD)
- Lews tewns PUP3: Bar Wars: Return of the Piss Heads (2/5)
- Magnum KI Magnum KI (4/5)
- MF Grimm You only live twice: The audio graphic novel (2/5),
- Murrey & The 9th Wonder "Forever" (according to the index card in my HMV anyway) (3/5)
- Nas & Damien Marley Distant Relatives (3/5)
- Open Mic Eagle Unapologetic Art Rap (3/5)
- Pip Skid Skid Row (2/5)
- Random & K Murdock Forever Fanicom (4/5)
- Ras Kass ADIDAS (3/5)
- Rhyme Asylum Solitary Confinement (4/5)
- The Roots How I got over (3/5)
- Sage Francis Li(f)e (4.5/5)
- The Let go Morning comes (4/5)
- The Trillionaire$ By hook or by crook (3/5)
- Ty Special kind of fool (3/5)
- Vinnie Spaz The Herbal Homogram Season of the ass assin (1/5:
(Reviews available on request)
Yup: plenty's gone down but I felt every angle of most of these topics had already been blogged to death. If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in today's blog post (or simply have a novel suggestion for a post) please get in touch.
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ReplyDeleteIn terms of novel suggestions for a post, as a hip-hop afficionado (perhaps I should say 'head' but I'm too clever for that shit), I would love to hear your take on the Wycleff for president business.
I gather Wycleff fell at the first electoral hurdle and was not approved for candidacy. I think that whereas the Haiti-born geez considers himself Haitian, the people of Haiti see him as "That Brooklyn rapper/pop star." I would like to believe he did this for all the right reasons but I think his naive idealism was seen/portrayed as American arrogance. I d'know..... Arnie's the 2nd most powerful politician in the USA; Ronnie Reagan was President; Jerry Springer was Mayor of Cincinnati; Glenda Jackson was an acclaimed actress; Alastair Campbell used to write the letters in pornos - and former newsreader Dianne Abbot now wants to be leader of the opposition here in the UK. Isn't Rustie Lee a proud member of UKIP? Chester P for mayor!
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