Superpowers...?
Posted: 22 Nov 2003, 00:35
Look. I'll be straight with you. Now I've got to Friday and had a few drinks I can tell you. I'm really Tony Blair, okay, and, so I'm told, I've had a right twit of a week. I thought I'd come up smelling of roses. Truth is I was left to look like I brought my football to school but never got a kick. All I could do to look good was to pay for my mate George to enjoy scampi in a basket (mmm...scampi) at the Dun Cow, Sedgefield.
What's more, last night George wanted to play a game called 'Battle of the bands.' Colin Powell brought out 'The Ghost of Cain' while I countered with 'Hull 4 London 0'. On refelchton, it was no contest. So I wheeled out the big guns: I played 'First and Last and Always', while my mate George (Colin calls him 'Dubya', for some reason) set up 'God's Own Medicine'. George said, 'Shock and awe? 'Blood Brother' was up to 11 as I watched Baghdad shake.'
On hearing my favourite 'Nine while nine' (by 'Sisters of a mercy', who are excellent) my mate George nodded quite a bit, and said it was 'good', which was kind. I think, on reflection, that m*****n sound much more effective and I'll probably like them quite a lot when George lends me the rest of their albums.
The problem is, m*****n tours almost all the time. I like that. It's not plastic. I like things I can have and hold and own. Like records and bombs and people.
I hardly EVER hear from sisters of a mercy. They make a nice sound, but someone told me sound disperses from its centre and deteriorates to close to nothing as it spreads across a vacuum- then they started mumbling about Elvis, who is dead. I don't know what that means but it must be clever. It uses sounds I ain't never heard before.
What's more, last night George wanted to play a game called 'Battle of the bands.' Colin Powell brought out 'The Ghost of Cain' while I countered with 'Hull 4 London 0'. On refelchton, it was no contest. So I wheeled out the big guns: I played 'First and Last and Always', while my mate George (Colin calls him 'Dubya', for some reason) set up 'God's Own Medicine'. George said, 'Shock and awe? 'Blood Brother' was up to 11 as I watched Baghdad shake.'
On hearing my favourite 'Nine while nine' (by 'Sisters of a mercy', who are excellent) my mate George nodded quite a bit, and said it was 'good', which was kind. I think, on reflection, that m*****n sound much more effective and I'll probably like them quite a lot when George lends me the rest of their albums.
The problem is, m*****n tours almost all the time. I like that. It's not plastic. I like things I can have and hold and own. Like records and bombs and people.
I hardly EVER hear from sisters of a mercy. They make a nice sound, but someone told me sound disperses from its centre and deteriorates to close to nothing as it spreads across a vacuum- then they started mumbling about Elvis, who is dead. I don't know what that means but it must be clever. It uses sounds I ain't never heard before.
Scatland? Which parta London is that, boy? Is it near yur Bucking-ham Palace?