Free Fire (2016)

Gregory's Two Girls (1999)

Lucky Logan (2017)

The Terminator (1984)

Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)

Pineapple Express (2008)

Blood Father (2016)

The Hateful Eight (2015)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

The Nice Guys (2016)

Back to the Future (1985)

Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

The Best Way To Walk (1976)

The Likely Lads (1976)

Knives Out (2019)

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)

The King of Staten Island (2020)

Mystery Road (2013)

Round 430: The Shendish Hundred

Darts Thrown: June 9th 2020
Blog Written: June 21st 2020

Highest Score: 140
Lowest Score: 7
Sixties: 50
100+: 20
180s: 0
180s Missed: 0

Blogger's Note: Written in haste, so there will be spelling mistakes and slapdash grammar.

When we went into lockdown, I thought I would come out the other end playing darts like Peter Wright. Instead, most days I play darts more like Edgar Wright. So, it's nice to occasionally play a half decent round. My first 50-Sixties round in a long, long time.

I put it down to my anarcho-capitalist/Peñarol dart flights:

*'The Shendish Hundred'? It's a Hemel Hempstead pub darts term from back in the day.

Now for a random video. Alex R. shared this one on Facebook a few days ago. I'd never heard of them before, and part of the reason I'm posting it on the blog is because I know I'll forget it otherwise. The comments on YouTube are annoying 'cos people will insist on making the Talking Heads comparison . . . but it's better than that. I'll need to dig out the lyrics sometime as I'm sure they hold up. But it's the tune that grabbed me initially, and I was adult enough to put to one side that grown men shouldn't be on skateboards.

De Lux - "Oh Man The Future"

Goin' South (1978)

Breaking Glass (1980)

Metropolitan (1990)

Good Vibrations (2013)

My Favorite Blonde (1942)

Subway (1985)

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Whisky Galore! (1949)

Random George Orwell quote of the day

Found the quote below in amongst my drafts on the blog. I presume the words were uttered by Martin Newell, but the magazine, Rolling Stone, is one of the labels and I find it hard to believe that Martin Newell was quoted in said magazine. I mean, he should, the bloke's a lost and neglected songwriting gem, but it's strange all the same. If nothing else, it has reminded me that his autobiography (part 2) is on my bookshelf, and should be read:

  "Everybody's quoting Orwell nowadays on the blogosphere for some reason. Something to do with quintessential Englishness and such like. (England must be getting tanked at the cricket again.)"

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Gregory's Girl (1981)

"What do you mean, I have to be kneecapped?"

120/50

Fever Pitch (1997)

"Exhibition . . . Exhibition of Italian surrealists . . . Kelvingrove Art Gallery . . . "

119/50

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 23

A song you think everyone should listen to.

Dexys Midnight Runners were so much than Come On Eileen . . . (please bear in mind that I originally posted this song choice on an American person's timeline on Facebook.)

Dexys Midnight Runners - Let's Make This Precious (Live Shaftesbury Theatre 1982)

The Hard Way (1991)

Short Cuts (1993)

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 21

A song you like with a person's name in the title.

Two for the price of one. On the album, it was listed as GoodBye Lucille #1, but when it was released as a single it was retitled as Johnny, Johnny.

Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (Vintage Crime 1965)

He opened his mouth but closed it again without saying anything. There would only be an argument and this wasn't the moment for it. Instead he drummed slowly with his fingers on the formica table top. He looked at the empty cup with its blue rose pattern and a chip in the rim and a brown crack down from the notch. That cup had hung on for almost the duration of their marriage. More than ten years. She rarely broke anything, in any case not irreparably. The odd part of it was that the children were the same.

Could such qualities be inherited? He didn't know.

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 20

A song that has many meanings to you.

What the fuck is this hippy shit? These sort of 'challenges' always piss me off big time. I do not have a scooby what to pick. Maybe I'll pick 'Frenzy' by The Ex, because I've never found the lyrics online and I'm still not 100% sure what the lyrics actually are. I can't just about make out 'Sit Down Strikes', and after that I'm just making shit up every time I listen to. It's still a stonking tune, though.

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 19

A song that makes you think about life.

I'm nothing if not obvious:

This so easily could have been my choice of song for Day 11. Easily in my top five of songs of all time, but it has to be the demo version because that was the version that I first heard on the Snap compilation.

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 18

A song from the year you were born.

Nice try, FBI. What next: a song with my social security numbers in the lyrics? Fuck it, you already know that I'm old, so I'll just 'fess up.

Love this song but not the radio version. If it doesn't have the 30-second solo guitar intro, I'll switch it off and find the album version and play it instead. More is more:

PS - Kara's friend? The person who I nicked this Song Challenge from? She named her eldest daughter after this song.

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 17

A song you'd sing a duet with someone on karaoke.

Did you see my previous post in this music challenge about dancing? You think for a minute that I won't dance in public but I'm ready to belt out a tune in public? Fuck that. There's not enough alcohol in the world to get me so drunk that I'd agree to sing in public.

Okay, that's my shortcomings out of the way. Time to now pick a tune. I could have picked 'Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)' from the same album but tonight, Matthew . . . just fucking stop . . . it has to be 'You Are Everything'. Both songs were written by Thom Bell and Linda Creed, and originally recorded by The Stylistics. Christ, to have the talent to write one of those songs, and you wrote both?

Please take a bow:

I Am Not Okay with This (2020)

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 16

A song that's a classic favourite.

Two Abba songs in such a short space of a music challenge? Either one of them just died (they haven't) or this lockdown has unlocked from my inner depths my 9 year old, 16 year old, 27 year old, 36 year old . . . old man 'lustcrush' (not a word; just made it up).

Anyway, it's a stone cold classic. Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve thought so, and they know their pop onions:

Abba - Dancing Queen (1976)

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 15

A song you like that's a cover by another artist.

Leon Rosselson is an amazing songwriter but he can't sing for shit. Thankfully, Dick Gaughan can sing and his version of Rosselson's 'Stand Up For Judas' is brilliant:

"I was merely showing my contempt for the record selection."

118/50

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 14

A song that you'd love to be played at your wedding.

You can have music at a wedding? Brooklyn Town Hall didn't tell us that.

 I will, however, throw in this track from a great album:

Billy Bragg 'Mother of the Bride' (1991)

Clue (1985)

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 13

A song that you like from the 70s.

So many great songs from that decade but I'll highlight this one, 'cos I'm guessing that it never reached the States at the time. Must be played fucking LOUD:

Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do anything you wanna do (1977)

Haircut 101

I'm in desperate need of a haircut - the 1970s and its hairstyles are not coming back in fashion, people - but this meme knocks it out of the park:

#HaircutsAreHistory