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Song Of The Day – Old Dollar Mamie by Inmates of Louisiana & Mississippi’s state penitentiaries
From the album ‘Negro Prison Blues and Songs from Louisiana and Mississippi’ (2007)
Essential Listening: Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit (2014) & Key Markets (2015)
There’s that annoying occurrence where mainstream attention invariably corrupts artistic purity. It slowly assimilates its intent and tone into safer spheres. Once it’s commoditised it’s then more likely to be sold, well, that’s the theory anyway. This partly explains the … Continue reading
Song Of The Day – Nobody But You by Lou Reed & John Cale
From the album ‘Songs For Drella’ (1990)
Song Of The Day – Ramblin’ Rose by Nat King Cole
From the album ‘Ramblin’ Rose’ (1962)
Happy to go lucky?
Connor was pre-occupied with a women’s UFC match-up. Many would consider that sentence an indictment of progress. We could dwell on whether his bet on its outcome was just another attempt to make money, some kind of morbid curiosity, or … Continue reading
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Tagged 'dwelling on morbidity', Chance, Connor and Carina are just names, Dodgy goalkeepers, Fate, Feel like a dickhead for putting a copyright thingy at the end, Fiction, Gambling, Gambling on darts is less dramatic, Gambling society, Luck, Shortish story, UFC undercard bouts
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