The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. And yet here we are.
This was definitely post-Daniel. He is a lovely, lovely man, and incredibly talented.
It is, but really, Jack just doesn't want to talk about himself or the private stuff in his lyrics, which is fair enough, but also a little frustrating when you're interviewing and you want to speak to the man behind the red-and-white facade.
I think what Jack said there was fairly reasonable, not entirely honest (huge chunks of the WS' lyric book are clearly about what he's going through at the time) and would inevitably be taken the wrong way by an internet that is forever on the radge.
dealt with on a day-to-day basis, and with immeasurably larger amounts of grace. No one drove their car into Billy's house because they thought he was Jesus!
Yeah - I empathise with the incredible pressure rockstars of his generation were under, and am relieved he didn't end up the way many of his generation did. But it's not like he was under the worshipful gaze of a Kurt or a Vedder, is it? I can't imagine fans being as intense as what Eddie doubtless
It's in the alt-text!
"He was for it before he was agin it!"
New Age Doom w/ HR, Angels Against Angels
Breakfast soundtrack
It's definitely a dislike, but also house-style for every magaine/paper I've edited at - "whilst" is archaic, change it to "while" (also, in print mags, every character counts). I've become allergic to it, after years of removing them from copy.
by which I mean stuff like the outernet replaced palaces of joy like the Astoria and thus the west end became a bit of London I was not interested in and by no means was interested in me
every time I see the outernet, which is not often, I think "they levelled the Astoria for this?", which is by no means true, but in a way, also, is true.
Got to be honest, I saw them in 93 at Brixton on the Siamese Dream tour and they were hugely disappointing. Billy came on in a clown costume for the encore, because Everett True had called him a clown, and kept teasing playing Drown, their best song, but then told us we "didn't deserve it".
Definitely after he left. Daniel's a really lovely guy, and a great interviewee, and a fantastic musician.
Ha! Glad I'm not missing out on anything by not watching it. He doesn't strike me as someone naturally suited to interviewing.
I never interviewed Courtney because I'd heard too many horror stories and I didn't want to spoil how I feel about Live Through This.
Never a "whilst", not while I'm editing!
But I came in as a fan (of the first two Smashee Pumpkee records, anyway) and he was fairly wretched to me. I find it hard to forgive, tbh. And I really loved the Zwan record he was promoting at the time! Though as I understand it, behind the scenes of that was fairly vile.
I had one of my absolute heroes start forming a fist to whallop me mid-interview once, and the guys from late-period Yuck barely viewed me as a human being when I came in to do their biog, so he's not the absolute worst.
Let it be this, every time he steps up to the microphone www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ6S...
whenever my YouTube algorithm throws up links to Billy Corgan's podcast where he interviews rock legends I always hope they were as unpleasant, obstructive and demeaning as he was when I had the misfortune to interview him
Can't she eat with her mouth closed??
Roberta Flack, Quiet Fire
Breakfast soundtrack
Oh no he’d have to go too. A full clean sweep.
Started watching the new Netflix series Vladimir and among various distracting tonal and formal tics I was squicked out by how much Leo Woodall resembles JD Vance
You know who does need regime change?
One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.
Hard to hit the streets and overthrow the government when your alleged allies have made it literally too toxic to go outside and destroyed your fragile water sources.
Real galaxy brain thinking there, boys.
100% this
