I came across this gorgeous clip celebrating 50 years of the National Trust #loveyourcoast campaign.
https://youtu.be/J9p4pVUsFrs
I came across this gorgeous clip celebrating 50 years of the National Trust #loveyourcoast campaign.
https://youtu.be/J9p4pVUsFrs
Great poetry collection from “the people‘s poet” of Britain. If you like Bob Dylan, punk, humor, biting social criticism, this is for you. https://cannonballread.com/2020/10/the-luckiest-guy-alive-elcicco/
This is hilarious. I've never listened to a poetry audiobook before (I've always preferred reading poetry on the page), but obviously John Cooper Clarke is a master of performance and his deadpan delivery is the best way to read his poetry. The language is neither PC nor suitable for work/family friendly - Crossing The Floor made me wince, but Pies and Get Back On The Drugs You Fat Fuck made me laugh out loud. Great dry, vicious wit.
Somewhat disappointing. Would certainly be a better audiobook, or better yet a live performance, however, on the page, the Bard of Salford often missed the mark. There were a couple of interesting verbal flourishes, but also, if I'm not mistaken, a whiff of both homophobia ("Your Metrosexual Ex") and transphobia ("Crossing the Floor"). I'd hope to be mistaken about Clarke's intent in those poems, but the others didn't take away the bad taste.
"You ain't nothing but a hedgehog
Foraging all the time
You ain't nothing but a hedgehog
Foraging all the time
You ain't never pricked a predator
You ain't no porcupine"
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- I Wrote the Songs
“Five a.m. and mooching round
Compartments in my brain
Every corner occupied
By garbage and disdain
Down all day - up all night
Beneath that energy draining light“
- The Paperboy's Wife
Merry Christmas, Littens 😊🎄🎁📚🎅🏼
Christmas books, and my traditional Christmas CD present from Mrs Bookwomble this year is by Eric Clapton 🎅🏼🎸🎶🎅🏼
This is the kind of advice I need in my life. (Also my phone camera needs fixing - those spots are not a cool new filter ... but who needs a working phone camera when there are books to spend all your money on?)
Just to make it clear - I do own books that are not called Good Omens. These two lovelies showed up today as well...