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carey jeggs 16th Sep 2023		TV I Claudius (1976)	I've been watching the re-run and discovered that Brian Blessed can whistle through his teeth.
carey jeggs 17th Feb 2022		Book Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho	Why does Ellis have the Crystals singing Be My Baby, the Ronettes singing Then He Kissed Me and the Lovin' Spoonful singing Cherish? Are these Bateman's errors on account of him being an unreliable narrator or not being a sixties person?
carey jeggs 12th May 2021		Vinyl Album Lyndon B. Johnson - Liberty Records Presents Mr. President	'Let me show 'em the scar.'
carey jeggs 28th Oct 2020		CD Album Isaac Hayes - Black Moses	I have the original double LP which I bought when it was first released.In spite of all that cardboard there isn't a list of the tracks in the right order anywhere on the sleeve.However,the opened-out picture of Ike is about two thirds life size.
carey jeggs 28th Oct 2020		CD Album Scott Walker - The Drift	On last night's University Challenge a fragment of Clara was played as one of the bonus questions about an artist who did covers for 4AD.The team quickly said Scott Walker,provoking Paxman to say,'Thank Heavens we didn't have to hear any more of it.'
carey jeggs 12th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album Hapshash And The Coloured Coat - The Western Flier	When Mike Batt appeared on a recent episode of Pointless Celebrities.Xander was asking him about his long career,his work with The Wombles and Katie Melua etc. but when the subject of Liberty Records cropped up Batt looked panic-stricken.I could imagine his internal monologue. 'Xander's a gent but that Osman bastard is going to bring up Western Flier just when I thought it was safely dead and buried.' The moment passed with something said about Elton John answering the same ad. Batt sang the show out with Bright Eyes.I think a compromise had been reached.
carey jeggs 12th Jun 2020		TV The Tomorrow People (1973 - 1979)	Nicholas Young was interviewed a few years ago about this.A young woman had recognised him in the street and said that when she watched it as a child she had a crush on him .He asked her to go for a drink with him but she replied,'That was then.' You who turn the wheel and look to windward....etc.
carey jeggs 18th Mar 2020		CD Album Scott Walker - Tilt	From Bouncer,See Bouncer 'Mama danced four feet away,Papa danced four feet away In the rubbing and the fusing,gotta dance four feet away' How very prescient.
carey jeggs 31st Dec 2019		Vinyl Album Elaine And Derek - Elaine And Derek	Can I have some help over here please?!!
carey jeggs 26th Nov 2019		TV The Musketeers (2014 - 2016)	I can't help thinking of Athos and D'Artagnan (Tom Burke & Luke Pasqualino) as Felix & Eddie.
carey jeggs 7th Aug 2019		Vinyl Album Various Artists - I Asked For Water, She Gave Me ... Gasoline	There's a blues singer called Graham??!!!
carey jeggs 5th Jun 2019		TV Mosley (1998)	Spoiled by miscasting Jonathan Cake in the title role.He's a fine actor but far too handsome and louche.The real Mosley was a humourless stiff with a face like a potato.
carey jeggs 22nd May 2019		Vinyl Album Mitch Ryder - The Detroit-Memphis Experiment	Anybody else noticed his resemblance to Nigel Farage,and vice versa?
carey jeggs 22nd May 2019		Book Owen Jones - The Establishment	It would have been more honest if,in the subtitle,'we' had been substituted for 'they'.
carey jeggs 22nd May 2019		Book Elleston Trevor - The Pillars Of Midnight	Probably the only novel ever to have been dedicated to Reg Varney.
carey jeggs 19th Feb 2019		Vinyl Album The Esquires [soul] - Get On Up And Get Away	After all these years I've only just noticed that the cat.number on the label starts with HA as opposed to HA-Q as it appears on the sleeve.
carey jeggs 25th Jan 2019		CD Album Scott Walker + Sunn O)))) - Soused	'A beating would do me a world of good' he sings on the first track and many would agree after sitting this out to the end.However Walker is one of the great humourists of our age and probably wanted us to say that.Besides,Neil McCormick hated it so he must be doing something right. Bump the Beaky indeed.
carey jeggs 24th Sep 2018		CD Album Goldie Lookin Chain - Greatest Hits	Back in 2004 they could see where we were heading. At the end of Half Man, Half Machine Eggsy says 'I am a woman called Janet.'
carey jeggs 5th Sep 2018		TV University Challenge (1962 - Now)	Al Murray doesn't have this trouble. They were all male.
carey jeggs 4th Sep 2018		Vinyl Album Dave Wilkerson - Why Kids Go Wrong!	To use one of his own catchphrases, he's full of Christ.
carey jeggs 31st Aug 2018		TV University Challenge (1962 - Now)	I never joke,007
carey jeggs 29th Aug 2018		TV University Challenge (1962 - Now)	In the new gender neutral version we've been promised perhaps there will be more questions about female painters e.g. Andrea Del Sarto, Alma Tadema & Joan Miro.
carey jeggs 27th Aug 2018		Cinema The Wicker Man (1973)	[YouTube Video] Couldn't Sgt.Howie have arrested them all for aggravated folk singing?
carey jeggs 27th Aug 2018		Book Ian Fleming - Live And Let Die	The most notoriously racist of the Bond novels although,to be fair,Fleming gives his black characters plenty of agency.There's a lot of sexism as well but the most interesting feature is the ageism expressed through Bond's and Leiter's visit to St.Petersburg Fla. e.g.'It's a terrifying sight,all these old people with their spectacles and hearing-aids and clicking false teeth.' 'There's practically no crime,except cheating at bridge and Canasta.' plus the reference to Sidewalk Davenports. This uncharitableness about old people in Florida resurfaced in the seventies with the Jimmy Buffett song Migration.As Buffett is now seventy-two and the Icy Blast should have started to blow it might be a case of Not So Bloody Clever Now,Are We?
carey jeggs 10th Aug 2018		Vinyl Album Hapshash And The Coloured Coat - The Western Flier	The front cover picture and the reference to John Ivor Golliwog seem to have been removed for the American market. Now on to the mystery of Michael Mayhew.He appears on one of the cover pictures together with Mike Batt and Nigel Waymouth.In the Wiki entry for Hapshash his name is one of a handful,out of the numerous personages who have passed through this outfit,not to be provided with a link.So who was he?Where has he been and what has he done since? Well.Brenda Blethyn's husband is the former head of graphic design at the National Theatre and his name is.....Michael Mayhew.Bearing in mind that Hapshash were a very arty-farty sort of group,it seems to me feasible that this could be the same man.
carey jeggs 10th Aug 2018		Vinyl Album Sha Na Na - The Night Is Still Young	[YouTube Video] Glasses. IMO the best track on this album.Just Bowzer plus piano.Very funny but also strangely beautiful. Labels added.
carey jeggs 24th Jul 2018		Book A. E. Van Vogt - The War Against The Rull	Seems like a nice boy.Mark Rogers's cover design is beyond parody.
carey jeggs 20th Jul 2018		Book Owen Jones - The Establishment	'Our generation's Orwell' And there are people who say that Russell Brand isn't funny.
carey jeggs 18th Jul 2018		Book Charles L. Harness - The Paradox Men	I tried to re-read this recently but got bored and gave up halfway through.I prefer Van Vogt for this sort of thing. One thing it does have going for it though is my favourite name for a fictional spaceship. M.John Harrison came close with Heartless Bastard but Harness just beats that with Toynbee Twenty-Two. Toynbee Twenty-Two.Its five year mission: to spread sanctimoniousness throughout the Galaxy.
carey jeggs 18th Jul 2018		Book Fritz Spiegl - A Small Book Of Grave Humour	Did the dedication say 'Tomb it may concern'?

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