certified

driving theory test i laugh in the face of your measly multiple choice i spit on the screen of your hazard perception i skip out of your test centre beaming (waving my frankly underwhelming bit of paper)... when's the parade? the lap of honour? the open top bus whatsit?

a cheese and onion pie on the bus home it is then. go me...

i bet there's not a soul that pops round this way has ever had to do the theory test neither. 

how about a little bank holiday weekend proto disco celebration ?

the intruders - win place or show (she's a winner)

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torment tuesday

beat ballad bliss the orbison way...

roy orbison - it wasn't very long ago

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featuring the magic lens of saul leiter

buckle up

 

clear the streets people stay off the roads lock up your daughters for gawds sake stand well back i've only gone and got a provisional license. saints preserve us i might just use it. there is every chance this will not go well. lifelong pedestrian and all. and this close to getting my free bus pass. brrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmm

perhaps now i'll finally understand all those cars and girls songs

 

kevin rowland - thunder road

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present

 

creased crumpled shoddy as all anything but still here...

up and at 'em

walter jackson - it's an uphill climb (to the bottom)

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discover a whole world of walter at ace records

 

buried

these last weeks i've not been able to quite help myself but think that thatcher's foul pageant hogging every page and screen and transmitter was a cackling dispicable last breath victory the sneakiest snakiest cloak and dagger deception all timed perfectly to miraculously disappear all thought and the most outraged outrage at the social cleansing of our cities the spitting on our spare roomers the oh you know everythinging that has just happened while the cameras were turned away. you're not not telling me she didn't do it on purpose...

this rawkussed out the other day to boot me back here...

the wolfhounds - rent act

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the little blighters have a new record out would you believe. mighty fine...


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inspiration information

 

"i believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty". it's just the day for it. go astound yourself with in no great hurry : 13 lessons in life with saul leiter. it'll swell your hearts.

dusty - to love and be loved (live)

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*with huge thanks to the lovely second opinion for lighting the way

outings

time to step out to spring sweet dears... do join us if you're that way...

here's a bit of what goes on before most folk waft downstairs... a warm up of sorts some things to soak into the wallls and ease the boards

 

99p soul - the twilght hour by Dustysevens on Mixcloud

 

or download the whole gosh darned thing right here

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