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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard. 'Mediocre blogger and a piously boring and unfunny writer'. Enthusiastic purveyor of the KLF sheep.

Essential Listening: Champagne Holocaust – The Fat White Family (2013)

Posted on 06/10/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

Listening to ‘Bomb Disneyland’ allowed me to appreciate the authenticity of visiting Disneyland Paris twenty years ago. Its pugnacious and distressed delivery is revelatory of the latent contempt held within Disneyland’s sanitised bourgeois aesthetic. Now I vividly recall the power … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged Andy Warhol killed Lee Harvey Oswald, Aspiration, Bard Of Salford, Bomb Disneyland?, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Champagne Holocaust, Cynicism, Drink, Drugs, Essential Listening, Fat White Family, Jimmy Saville, Paganism, Richard Hell, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, Suicide, Wickedly puerile | 1 Comment

Song Of The Day – Minipops 67 [Source Field Mix] by Aphex Twin

Posted on 05/10/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the album ‘Syro’ (2014)

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Song Of The Day – Rock Your Body by Justin Timberlake

Posted on 02/10/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the album ‘Justified’ (2002)

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The aftermath of the independence referendum.

Posted on 28/09/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

I’m ready to embrace the challenges ahead that independence will bring. The only remaining question is do enough of us want to write our future? That would be No. Currently I’m reading Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy. Every engrossing page … Continue reading →

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Song Of The Day – This Feel Within by Annette Peacock

Posted on 24/09/2014 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

From the album ‘X-Dreams’ (1978)

Posted in Song Of The Day | Tagged 70's, Annette Peacock, Jazzy, Loungy, Mellow yellow, This Feel Within, Timothy Leary, X-Dreams | Leave a comment