That was a joy to read, although it’s not my personal favourite period of Van, I hear where you’re coming from. My favourite album of his is ‘No Guru, No Method, no Teacher’ but I lurv to read any in-depth […]

Wonderful review. It nails my feelings on that album – the background & context is very interesting. Bookmarked your blog and look forward to reading the rest of it. Cheers.

Excellent review. My favourite Joni album is ‘Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter’. I like some of the early folky stuff but that period where she (for me) “moved on,” is where I think her masterpieces are.

I’m walking this road,
because you stole my car,
I’m singing this song,
’cause you have all my CD’s,
You want me to believe in your love,
And yeah I will,
When you give back my stuff.

Fascinoma: “Don’t Go.”

I enjoyed it and I learned a lot from it but it was frustrating.

Sometimes the digressions (that are supposed to be connections) are interesting in themselves, but they don’t always have any relevance to the […]

This is why all pyjamas should have a bleach spray holster by law.

Assuming you’d have the presence of mind and time/ability to get hold of that thing and wave it before the burglar prevented you from doing so. That’s a major assumption that – as the cop explained to me – most […]

I’m excited about Mark Knopfler’s RT collaboration. I still have the first two Dire Straits albums on moderately-heavy rotation. They lost me after that but I heard this the other day and it rubbed my buddha;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd7hR02P_Kg

The second cop was right; how much force you’d theoretically use is usually irrelevant in practice – most of them are not the type you want to confront.

Even if you’re a bit handy in the combat situation (and […]

Here’s a good sketch for 3 (with two additional straight parts) from SNL. A chance to do some accents and have their first major showbiz bust-up over who gets the Kate McKinnon role;

Oh I dunno. They’re both hell-beasts but I’m glad May won as she seems dull and steady enough. I suspect she’s for steadying the plane, not for trying to perform acrobatics. Her Brexit will be the nearest thing to […]

I get paid by the secret cabal of bankers who – no, I’ve said too much.

Huge celebrations, street parties, bunting, cake, flags, sterling falls, a dogfight for Tory Leader job, economic decline, no party able to form a majority, economy down the u-bend, scales falling from eyes, […]

Unless rock and roll’s been lying to us; it is something which is a sin, a heartache and must be taken to limit. But most of all, it is something Abe Simpson used to be with;

Blimey! That looks good. And it’s free.

That’s tonight’s movie sorted – cheers.

It’s shocking how bad a lot of it is, when you consider how high the standard of live standup and home-made comedy is on the net and on twitter. Given how cheap radio is to make, it should be a goldmine. […]

Same here; he wasn’t my thing but obviously millions were moved by his music and he had a rare level of talent.

I found him compelling to watch but it was more on a technical level as his performance and […]

I have never been involved in genocide, which meant that when I went to the US I was able to answer ‘No’ to that very question on the immigration card. Phew!

It would be a bit embarrassing to have to ‘fess up […]

Surf’s Up

‘Where Are You Tonight?’ Dylan

‘Oh The Warm Feeling’ Van the Man

That’s today. By tonight it’ll be 3 others.

Fantastic. Never heard of PMJ (or Puddles). Looking forward to disappearing down that youTube rabbit hole later on.

Thanks for that.