Books do furnish a room

Hat tip to Richard M over on Facebook.

Go back. We fucked up everything.

"Go back. We fucked up everything."?

Now that's campaign slogan I can really get behind.

Via LL over on Facebook.

Scargill, Springfield and Status Quo

Obscure politics? - check

Eighties music? - check

Random stuff about the footie? - check

Yep, 2011 was pretty much a continuation of 2010.

Long may I cliche.

It's a fair question

The only problem with capitalism is that the workers keep getting under the feet of the wealth creators.

Hat tip to the 'I Acknowledge Class War Exists' page over at Facebook.

'It's looking good . . . .'

Hat tip to Richard M over at Facebook.

All kinds of everything

Now this is how you spoil a ballot paper.

iJoke

Jobs-worth.

Hat tip to Robin H. over at Facebook for bringing Matt Bors excellent cartoons to my attention.

'Some of us still swear by that Lenin and Dick Francis joke'

If you're not on Jimmy's long list I think you're on the wrong blog:

"I thought support might be difficult." Wonderful.

Hat tip to Andy over at Ghost of a Ne'er do Well blog for bringing this brilliant clip to my attention.

30 Day Song Challenge - day 02

day 02 - your least favorite song

I'm not the angry young man I once was so picking a least favourite song was more difficult than I imagined.

My decades long hatred of Bon Jovi's 'Living On A Prayer' melted away once I moved to the States and realised that Jon Bon Jovi didn't stand a chance. The poor swine's from New Jersey. He couldn't help myself. My loathing of the BritPop also rans such as the likes of Cast and The Seahorses is so all encompassing that I couldn't pick out the one song to hate above all others. Their combined back catalogues merge into one mass of mediocrity; and it's a cop out to hate a novelty hit or a charity comedy record. They're there to be shot at.

Ten seconds before penning this post, this tuneless pious crock of happy clappy liberalism shite was stepping up for the gold medal - dishonorable mentions also go out to here and there - but I suddenly remembered that one particular song that I always hated above all others from the first moment I heard it. Twenty years on and it still raise the hackles.

Step forward James, Ian, Derry, Mark and Zac:

Number 1 in the US Charts back in '91, and still number one for me - but in a very different sense - all these years later.

April means the 30 Day Song Challenge

From the other place.

A music meme with a difference. Thirty days, thirty musical taste questions. If I had my blogging mojo switched on, I'd have activated a file sharing account but, in these blocked times, You Tube is my friend.

day 01 - your favorite song

Christ, kick off with the hard one. How can you have a favourite song? . . . or novel, film or Socialist Standard front cover, for that matter. If you're anything like me, you have 20 or 30 favourites, and you flip between them from month to month suiting the mood, the season or your angst level.

Favourite song? How's my angst level? Ask me next week and it'll be something different but, at this moment in time, this old standard still does it for me every time. Probably listened to it over a thousand times, and I've never got sick of it.

I'm cheating myself a bit with the embedding of The Tube video when, in truth, I first discovered the song via this performance on Top of the Pops.

But surely you can watch both?

Jersey Shore is dead to me

Hat tip to Morgan.

Democracy Live

Happening now. It's like '68 but this time in colour.

Does it make me a centrist if I could say - hand and heart - that I could support all the motions listed?

(See 'labels' for an explanation for this post.)

"Better to eat shrooms than kill others for your rulers."

Hat tip to MB over at Facebook for both the picture and the post title.

My Year in Stasis Status - 2010

A Facebook thingy, before you ask.

Old music, sleepless nights with the wee one and despairing at Celtic's continuing slide to second place mediocrity is a fair summation of my year.

Late news just in

A mannequin dummy finished fourth in the Labour leadership election on Saturday night: