Tuesday, September 23, 2008
BACK OFF BOOGALOO
Well, no one came up with the correct answer to the previous post's question about the terrible punning title.
It was a reference to the *zany* interjections between the musical bits in the film Born To Boogie ...
I'm sure that would've appeared on Auntie's Rock And Rolling Bloomers, if such a programme had existed at the time.
I saw Born To Boogie for the first time the other night while drunk, and it's one of the great live in concert films, even if the sound is obviously overdubbed. Marc Bolan bashing the guitar with a tambourine! The whimsical Liverpool bits courtesy of the otherwise wonderful Ringo (why are Liverpudlians whimsical?) over egg the pudding, but the live footage is tremendous. In about 1972, every girl I knew was absolutely obsessed with Marc Bolan. What's the modern equivalent of T Rex - McFly? ... or McFly featuring "the Sonia Jackson one" as Nick Grimshaw pointed out on telly yesterday. Well said, Nick!
Sonia
The Sonia Jackson one from McFly
It was a reference to the *zany* interjections between the musical bits in the film Born To Boogie ...
I'm sure that would've appeared on Auntie's Rock And Rolling Bloomers, if such a programme had existed at the time.
I saw Born To Boogie for the first time the other night while drunk, and it's one of the great live in concert films, even if the sound is obviously overdubbed. Marc Bolan bashing the guitar with a tambourine! The whimsical Liverpool bits courtesy of the otherwise wonderful Ringo (why are Liverpudlians whimsical?) over egg the pudding, but the live footage is tremendous. In about 1972, every girl I knew was absolutely obsessed with Marc Bolan. What's the modern equivalent of T Rex - McFly? ... or McFly featuring "the Sonia Jackson one" as Nick Grimshaw pointed out on telly yesterday. Well said, Nick!
Sonia
The Sonia Jackson one from McFly
The nearest thing to a competition winner is The Dog, who said something about Lol Creme which was quite funny, so he's getting one of the deck shoes which will be winging its way to him in East Angular.
Actually, I might give the remaining deck shoe to the person who can answer the question "why are Liverpudlians so whimsical?" most convincingly ...
Actually, I might give the remaining deck shoe to the person who can answer the question "why are Liverpudlians so whimsical?" most convincingly ...
Labels: columbian marching powder, Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr, whimsy
Saturday, September 20, 2008
SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO ROCK, SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO LOL
This is well behind the times, but you can find out about the results of the greatest blogging project of the year here. Sorry I'm a bit late with the info, but a few of the readers of this blog are mentioned (well ... probably ex readers what with my absence from these shores).I'll hopefully get back into putting in the hours on this blog and commenting elsewhere soonish, once I've got all the washing up done.
The first person to work out what the dreadful punning title refers to will win a pair of size 14 (American size 3600) men's deck shoes from M & S that I foraged from a skip (don't let the vaguely salty aroma and toe stains put you off, there's plenty of wear left in them).
Labels: 10cc, absence from Bloggers' shores, deck shoes, Kid Shirt, Marc Bolan, Ringo Starr
