D.O.A. Best opening sequence ever.
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D.O.A. Best opening sequence ever.
10 million years ago, our lineage of apes got a tiny little evoutionary tweak, to one amino acid, that is the reason we can now drink alcohol. I trace the evolutionary origins of alcohol consumption to explore the rise of civilization and why our relationship with alcohol matters for our history:
This reminds me of that Pimms ad where everyone was slightly soiled.
"We will blaze it, we will raze it, bring the mol-o-tov tov tov."
Anything that was branded 'American Cola'. I don't believe my parents considered the ethics of it.
That was wonderful. Northamptonshire has a County Championship side. Cumbria doesn't. Lincolnshire doesn't. Did you seriously consider the apprentice jockey offer?
I think the BBC is trying to appeasement those it sees as a threat to its existence. Those don't include Labour, The Greens or LibDems.
I think it simply comes down to the fact that the BBC will slather praise on anyone or anything that threatens the existence of the BBC. They did it with the Tories, they don't do it with Labour. They do it with Reform, they won't do it with the Greens or LibDems.
Dreadful, isn't it? I abhored Country House personally. Graham Coxon's detestation of it on TOTP, he must have been close to leaving the band.
#forgotten80s This predates Duran Duran & Spandau's New Romantic credentials by a year. At least.
This could easily be Bon Jovi #Forgotten80s
Corbett, the Casuals' Ace Face
Rock Family Trees - The New Merseybeat - Liverpool post-punk documentary filmed in 1995 and featuring Echo & The Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, Wah!, Big in Japan, OMD, The Crucial Three, The Mystery Girls, Nightmares in Wax, Dead or Alive, Frankie Goes To Hollywood etc youtu.be/jIhogeam58k
What happened to that doc of the Liverpool post punk scene that had Drummond & Balfe sitting up in bed together like Morcambe and Wise?
I have a joke but I'm shit at jokes. An apprentice outsize tailor. How's he doing? Really well! He's making enormous strides.
Happy 45th birthday to When I Dream by The Teardrop Explodes, released on this day in 1980 according to @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social
Cat appearing in the last few seconds there... biding his time...
The 9am snack is white bread and gravy.
Dandruffy shoulders?
This is like Bette Midler's house in "Ruthless People"
Those are stupendous!
I guess all of us who served after 1945 served in a woke military, per Cadet Bone Spurs.
Teardrop Explodes live at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham in 1981 - complete concert including Books, Passionate Friend, Ha Ha I’m Drowning, Like Leila Khaled Said, Poppies in the Field, Suffocate, and Treason youtu.be/Q8d6i3sHx_E
I saw the gig at Hammersmith Odeon in June or July. "You think thats a classic? THIS is a classic." said Julian as they finished Books and launched into Reward. The Castro-looking trumpeter: that's not Hurricane Smith is it? I know he played on Kilimanjaro.
Sheila makes my heart burst.
Missing an a, am I right, eh? Eh? Am I right?
Never change, Scotland
Especially as they're mostly "washed and ready to eat" now.
Is this the safari equivalent of a bubble for the spirit level?
Also one of the great song titles.
"Bloody 'ell, Del..."
Happy birthday to Archie Bell. Here’s a playlist of funk, soul and disco gems that he recorded with The Drells in the 60s, 70s and 80s ▶️🪩 open.spotify.com/playlist/5jf...
And here are Archie Bell and The Drells performing Tighten up in 1968
waka wake
AutopenWatch
Carl Craig's Paperclip People.
Celery: canines' - and waste disposal units' - natural enemy.
Ah, no problem, thanks anyway!
Some people shouldn't be allowed to do things.
Very true. The cocks are vicious to the hens too for 11 months of the year, the 12th month all is forgiven as the hen acts like a chick, fluttering her wings as the cock feeds her.
Ah, uovo e soldati con fagioli cannellini. 🤌
Julian Cope's 1995 tour programme - branded as 'Ur-Pagan magazine - included a page of Cope explaining who all the different mothers were. @jameseller.bsky.social
Do you know who it was who wrote the scathing, almost abusive, review of The Teardrop Explodes' Wilder lp in late 1981?
Been waiting for this one - a compilation of Leisure Process's four singles along with demos and sessions for their unreleased LP. Arriving in November via @cherryredrecords.bsky.social www.cherryred.co.uk/leisure-proc...
Flipping lived those Leisure Process singles. And was jealous of Gary Barnacle for dating Kim Wilde. Baby's got a brand new toy, She's smashing up the eggshell boy.
Malkovich at the BBC
Not quite as amazing as I remembered but pretty damned good all the sane! www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ut8yd
Steady with swinging that mic Cliff, you could blind a Christian.🙄 #totp
Stranglers never had any qualms about appearing on #totp 👌
There's a routine he does with Andy Williams on an AW show that's amazing.
The Specials were the coolest - and coolest looking - band in the world for a little while... #totp
I do like Sail On but they do sound like Dr Hook. #totp
Despite myself I did like BA Robertsons singles... #totp
The sound of those synths... #totp
Great hair too.
I reckon Legs & Co could break out of those traps if they put their minds to it. #totp
Borehamwood is better than Chiswick?!
The Music Box
Hoovering the red paint off the mini-roundabout 👌
As hip as being named Barry.
I have to nominate King Trigger - The River youtu.be/EEm7egWUWf4?...
I still fondly think of when QPR were beaten by Vauxhall Motors on pens in the FA Cup.
Cleanse your timeline with the most wholesome Velvets cover ever. Worth watching all the way through.
On the bright side, no Fiona Bruce 👍
Shiraz
Rod Temperton v pretty much any Mancunian songwriter. 🤌
Rod Temperton would give any Mancunian songwriter a run for their money.
Sadly, the capitalisation doesn't signify a murder clue.
And daisies, I'm betting, in Spring.
Feathers from the pillows all over the bed.
Looks like she knocked out the guard. Chloroform, I'll wager.
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
I know rewilding is a fine and virtuous thing but a neat lawn with kaleidoscopic chaos complementing on the fringes, is just a joy.
Saw it Friday. The first hour is impossibly slow, and it's a 2.5 hrs movie. Good performances by the leads though. I saw Weapons a couple of weeks beforehand and I couldn't stop thinking about that. Eddington didn't stick in my head at all.
Not seen this one before. Proper cackled.
👍 Here's I'm So Sorry from the same show youtu.be/VXRbrC80hRQ?...
Ah mate... huge grins on the pair of them the whole gig.
It always alternated between I'm Not In Love and Stairway to Heaven, didn't it? "And Stairway to Heaven wasn't even a single! Extraordinary!"
They're still so good aren't they? We saw them at Cross The tracks earlier this year and joyous was the word youtu.be/K6p1nnBF_5c
Oh man... big smile on my face watching that 💜
Yep, they were wonderful! Chock full of warmth & positivity. Janet letting the crowd sing Silly Games like the Small Axe scene. Carroll doing the same with I'm So Sorry. We travelled home on a cloud.
Sweet. Saw Carroll Thompson & Janet Kay together at the Jazz Cafe a month or so ago and it was just joyous. x
Here's another playlist for Notting Hill Carnival weekend - 30 great Lovers Rock tunes from the UK. Sweet sounds for a sunny Bank Holiday afternoon 🇯🇲🇬🇧🔊▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/1ql...
Also this. 👌 youtube.com/watch?v=5DmO...
It was definitely Dooble on TOTP
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Bootlicker Exchange Bristol via Shitty Futures.
Ooh, this is gorgeous...
She does waddle when she walks tbf.
Not quite Jason Donovan, but not bad...
This is an amazing story about the legendary Norman Watt Roy
Mrs Sprat
Poppies are just the most beautiful wild flowers. I hope you're inundated next year.
Big ol' Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 from Istanbul just passed the window shortly to land at Heathrow.
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What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.
Smugglers, Scramblers, Burglars, Gamblers, Pickpocket Peddlars even Panhandlers