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Blackstar: Fuck You, Fake Music Lovers
Originally posted by badmusic at Blackstar: Fuck You, Fake Music Lovers
In January this year David Bowie released one of the finest albums of his career. I listened to it once in the far background as I completed my tax return, occasionally stopping to marvel at some ingenious tangent or digression. In this piecemeal read-through, the use of acoustic ( Read more... ) -
AA
Steps 8 and 9 of Alcoholics Anonymous 12 steps encourage those in recovery to make peace with those whose lives they have messed up. What about people who don't have substance abuse as an excuse?
There should be an Assholes Anonymous. You should be able to set up interventions for people who are shitheads and who fuck up things for everyone else.
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Twitter
My alter-ego Mr. Twain is on Twitter. That version of me is more interesting but updates less frequently than the real version of me:
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Oh come on...
Over on badmusic.livejournal.com I just called Green Day the Paul McCartney and Wings of punk. Look at me! TL;DR? -
Let's Do This Thing
Bad Music - first poll of the new season - now live. Go vote in the comments!
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Bad Music is BACK. Nearly.
Bad Music is coming back. And this time it means business! With an exclamation mark.
For those joining late to the conversation, badmusic.livejournal.com is a blog wher bart_calendar nd I rip the piss out of all the music artists you love. The twist is, Bart rags on UK bands and I stick it ro American artists. It's such fun! And mean ( Read more... ) -
Socialism at work
Top three countries in the Paralympics; China, Russia, Great Britain. USA, number 6. If you needed a demonstration that social healthcare works, that's pretty much it.
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