Recent content by boxedjoy

this is the one for me:

thank you for this. I've never been convinced by Sexual Healing as a punchline, to be honest - it always sounds too powerful to be reduced to a meme. I'm not familiar with much of his oeuvre... yet.

amazing to think they managed to make it worse

I can't stand being in a WH Smith. The shops are so poorly lit and miserable, a timewarp from the early 90s. Could you imagine being there all day?

and pitched up, everything sounds better pitched up

this is my favourite 2000 And One

I've been burgled and it's the worst - not just the stuff lost, but the invasion of privacy and safety and the inability to relax. Even five years and two addresses later I'm still reluctant to be out my house overnight. If someone was in my block who had no purpose to be there I would assume...

3.38-3.58 (or, 3.38-end on the album version) - where the stuttering groove disintegrates into filtered glitch and for a few moments r&b sounds like more than the future

the reintroduction of the piano chords at 3mins, it feels like the walls are closing in and I want to be touching all them at once, covered in sweat and urgency

I got this at the weekend for 25p!

if you were writing a novel and this was a metaphor your editor would tell you it was too on-the-nose.

it's all the people who joined and felt buoyed by Corbyn and his alignments - they'll have completely switched off. Starmer's "under new management" is designed to appeal to voters, but everyone knows that when you get a new manager in a business you inevitably lose staff due to internal conflicts.

anyway this is just further alienation of the core Labour base. How could anyone be bothered to go out on a cold winter night and go chap the doors of strangers and make the case for their candidate when what they stand for is so uninspiring and pointless. It's these people - the canvassers, the...

you can't hug your children with nuclear arms!