tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35095682024-02-28T00:12:21.195-08:00Cupcake CanastaShack Whensday sins 1785.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01054726602489899276noreply@blogger.comBlogger253125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3509568.post-26639184453493127322022-11-07T07:19:00.000-08:002022-11-07T07:19:17.349-08:00Bang your tin ear<p>I was thrilled to hear David Sylvian talking a little about his career and artistic process on a <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d5w7" target="_blank">special feature</a> for Mary Anne Hobnobs on BBC Radio Six Biscuits. Sylvian doesn't pop his head out much these days - certainly it's been many years since he last begged me to collaborate on a new piece. Disappointingly, he didn't say anything in the Hobnobs recording about how he writes his remarkable lyrics and what on earth they might mean. So I thought I'd take to the blogwaves to rectify that omission - or, at least, to share my beehive-style secrets for interpreting these dense, allusive texts.</p><p>Take Red Guitar, for example. This song is almost certainly not about a red guitar, or indeed any musical instrument of any (forbidden) colour. We learn that the titular red guitar is both "the devil in flesh" and "the iron in my soul". We also learn that the singer turns to the red guitar at times of despair and discombobulation. The common substance that figuratively unites the colour red, the devil and iron is surely blood. Therefore we can deduce that the lyric is a carefully coded admission of vampirism - perhaps even a celebration of this ultimately life-enhancing practice.</p><p>It's all there in the song - and you don't even need to play it backwards.</p><p>I will reveal much, much more about the hidden meanings of Sylvian's lyrics in my forthcoming book <i>Quit Life: How Noo Romantic Art Rockers Japan Introduced A Generation To Stylish Nihilism</i>. There's an especially convincing bit about Gentlemen Take Paracetamols. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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When exactly did reality jump the shark? It would be neat to say
that from a global perspective the whole show went out the window
when Donald Trump fulfilled the prediction of a Simpsons episode of
2000 when he became president – life following art and all that.
But that won’t work because – fake news! – <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/simpsons-trump-prediction/">the
Simpsons made no such prediction</a>. Nevertheless, the orange dawn
of the Trump White House is the mother of all watersheds.
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Zooming down into the increasingly unrecognisable mini-savannah
that used to Britain, it’s harder to pinpoint a similar
era-defining moment. It wasn’t the moment the outies “won” the
referendum, because at that point Nigel Farage was busily plotting
the next stage of his campaign for the UK’s economic and cultural
isolation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/26/nigel-farage-remain-won-brexit-bloomberg">on
the basis that they’d lost</a>. It might well have been the day
David Davis and his crack team were photographed opposite their EU
negotiating oppos with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/17/brexit-talks-uk-underprepared-david-davis-michel-barnier-eu">nothing
on the glass tabletop</a> to hide their shame. We all doubtless have
our favourite memories of the moment when we heard ourselves saying
out loud: Now it’s just got ridiculous. <i>I’m not going to watch
this rubbish ever again.</i><br />
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Some soaps follow threads that turn into nasty knots and the only
way of avoiding cancellation is a desperate reinvention. Emmerdale
famously did it by having <a href="http://emmerdalepastpresent.wikia.com/wiki/Plane_Crash_(1993/4)">an
aeroplane plough into the village</a>. Most of the alarmingly perfect
characters in Dynasty survived <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2017/10/12/dynastys-10-insane-storylines/">a
season-end hail of bullets supplied by “Moldavian” terrorists</a>
though it can’t have been a very relaxing vacation for the cast.
And now that Dominic Raab has referred to changes in Brexit
responsibility at the top of government as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/24/brexit-raab-sidelined-as-may-takes-control-of-eu-negotiations">a
“shifting of the Whitehall deckchairs”</a>, it’s surely time
for a major script conference. Iceberg ahead!<br />
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My guess is that we’re all living in somebody’s dream and,
<a href="https://dallasdecoder.com/2016/05/16/dallas-bobby-ewing-dream-season-shower-scene/">like
with not-dead-after-all Bobby Ewing</a> from off of Dallas off of the
seventies, it’s time for Pam to wake up and smell the shower. Then
we can all get back to worrying about whatever we used to worry
about, when we had nothing to worry about.<br />
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George C Scott in <i>The Hospital</i> (1971)</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Leadenhall Market, London</span></div>
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These charming medieval sculptures depict the traditional "four angels" of the City of London: Pestilence, Fraternity, <span class="st">Pavarotti and Libor. </span><br />
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