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Mar 21, 2006 16:59

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I find these random word streams you get attached to spam e-mails quite intriguing; they remind me of the poem 'Study no.X' by Pierre Coupey which we had to study for English Literature at GCSE...

on the subject of randomness, I bought a 'lucky dip bag' of 10 7" singles from the Oxfam music shop in Glasgow today, it contained:
-'Saddle Up' by David Christie
-'Saving All My Love For You' by Whitney Houston
-'Africa' by Toto
-'Red Light Spells Danger' by Billy Ocean
-'Coming Around Again (theme from heartburn)' by Carly Simon
-'One of Us' by Abba (did Gareth Gates cover this, or was that just a horrible, horrible nightmare?)
-'Get Down On It' by Kool & the Gang
-'Razzmataz' by Quincy Jones
-'Don't Stop the Music' by Yarbrough & Peoples

and last but by no means least...

-'She's So Beautiful' by Cliff Richard

Bugger me those are some awful records! It is a very good thing I'm intending to use these for decoration rather than listening, although Kool & the Gang and Quincy Jones should be okay, and 'Africa' is a cheese-rock classic. But Cliff Richard, I mean, come on...

I did also buy some good records though:
-'It'll All End In Tears' by This Mortal Coil (which features Elizabeth Fraser signing 'Song to the Siren', perhaps the sexiest song ever comitted to record)

-'Hawaii' by The High Llamas (basically an Irishman with a severe Brian Wilson fetish and a fine ear for a tune - think Pet Sounds meets Stereolab)

-'Sketches and Notations' by Sketch Show (two former members of Yellow Magic Orchestra making, perhaps unsurprisingly, crazy Japanese elctronic pop and, in this instance, being remixed by Drew Daniel, Prefuse 73 and other similarly hip electronica-bods)

I love Oxfam music shops, they make me feel so much less guilty about spending money as it goes to a good cause, hence I spend more. Although, I belive that Oxfam are one of the worst charities in terms of what percentage of money donated actually goes to their causes, as I'm informed that they spend A LOT on administration. Oh well.
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