i wouldn't normally do this sort of thing...

...what with trying to be all exotic and international woman of mysteryey and all but there could be rare tunnocks tea cakes at stake and besides anne at i like asked and i love i like so here goes nothing...

it's supposed to be some kind of 4x4 thing but you know how vague things get round here so it might be a bit messier

4 jobs i've had

get a job? have you lost your bleedin' marbles? i'm not about to turn in my arthur daley fan club card just yet my dears. i did accept the dirty wage packet of the man once long ago but only the once and never again

football results carrier - saturdays throughout my teenage years were spent in the bowels of the lancashire evening post building next to the tele tape machine waiting for football titbits to pop out for me to deliver to the other side of the building to the ridiculously pissed reporters. why they didn't just move the bloody machine is a mystery.

4 shows i never miss

i haven't got a telly so that's a bit of a non starter too. i am partial to a bit of football tittle tattle on the radio mind.

4 places i've been

the life of the entrepreneur and confidant to the stars doesn't leave much time for your actual holidays and gadding about but i do like a little trip down to the blue posts on berwick street, the lovely french house on dean street, downstairs in the phoenix is always a pleasure of course, and if i really need to get away from it all for a bit then there's the red lion on rosebery avenue

4 music artists i'm listening to

i think a troll about round here should answer that one but i am having a bit of a thing with neil diamond at the mo. not that bloody awful thing he did recently mind all johnny cash and whatnot but the boat that row and i am i said. tapes for the car (when we had a car) always include curtis mayfield, the shangri las and the buzzcocks without fail

there now that was illuminating wasn't it. i'm awful at this sort of thing. but put a large vat in front of me and i'll tell you anything


neil diamond - the boat that i row

curtis mayfield - we the people who are darker than blue

the shangri la's - train from kansas city

buzzcocks - love you more

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don't watch that watch this

so you'll all've rushed out and got the london nobody knows on bright and shining brand new dvd i know but thats no excuse to not rattle on about the lovely old thing a bit more. i mean how can anyone not rattle on about something where james mason james masons about the place tutting and sighing and being disapproving as hell. james mason is ace all round so just imagine how brilliant it is to see him trolling down chapel market or knocking on some old dears door going 'hello i'm james mason may i come in' a lot. top hole. mind you the music is bloody awful and there's way too many street entertainers all over the goddam place. forty bloody years and we've not rid our lovely city of these foul horrors. anyway while you're watching that i'm off somewhere grotty to moan about modern stuff and patronise the hell out of some poor people.
here's some clips to get you in the mood...



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we need more love music

sergio mendes and brasil 77 - love music

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an incredibly bleak half hour

there's a fabulous bit of old telly about the wigan casino over at watchification
go and watch it then pop back over here for a bit of a dance to cheer yourselves up.(if you can tear yourself away from the other gems on show round there)


you'll find the first tune 'turning my heartbeat up' by the mvps over at planet mondo

judy street - what

and the last three numbers they played every saturday

tobi legend - time will pass you by

jimmy radcliffe - long after tonight is all over

dean parrish - i'm on my way

you can go and have a little cry now.

save me sly save me

praise be to sly gawd bless 'im just in the nick of time out pops crossword puzzle to finally satisfy the sample spotting demons. you can always rely on sly. well alright you can always rely on sly if you want total bonkersness and to spend all day making funny noises along to some of the most fabulous records in all the world and hell i've got nothing better to do and even if i did i'd stop it and go make squelchy noises instead

sly stone - crossword puzzle



and now you've got all the bits to make your very own hip hop hit. get to it.

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ooh you are awful...but i like you

so now i'm stuck with stupid breaks running round my tiny muddled brain and there's nothing to do but face the horror head on and dig out the hall and oates records. i never thought it would come to this. i blame somebody else. i mean just look at them with their hair and teeth and oh jesus it's horrible. how did i ever let myself sink so low. bastard de la soul. and it gets worse and worse. unimaginably horrid. i like maneater too. kippers over at too much apple pie hasn't helped matters with his nixon and action biker version . what a bleedin' rotter. i'm all guilt and no pleasure.

hall and oates - i can't go for that

and if anyone plays me eye know i'll be straight on the phone to the hired goons. don't say you haven't been warned. oh who am i kidding it's way past too late. i've thought of it now. steely fucking dan. i'm going downstairs for some crack.

break spotter blog tennis

so davy h plays the gorgeous detroit emeralds - baby let me take you (in my arms) and i just can't resist...

de la soul - say no go

i know i know it's pitiful but i just can't help myself. just shoot me.

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