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I can't at the moment, got too much on. It's the kind of exercise that I would become agonisingly obsessed about, fretting over inclusions, placement etc. Then a week later, I'd be like "aaargh, forgot that".

Ah well it turns out (according to Internet) that "rock up" has a particular meaning: "To turn up at a place or function spontaneously or unexpectedly, without notice or prior warning" Which sort of fits my sense of it having this vibe of insouciance and irreverence. Edging into...

Ah, that is interesting. However when I've heard it used, it's not really retained any Jamaican flavor to it, unlike other expressions like I dunno "big up". It seems very... well, sort of Britpop / Loaded / New Laddism in a way. Rocking up to events or places would be something that Noel and...

I feel like I've heard both those phrases. Ah, apparently they are interchangeable terms for anything impressive or, well, large. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bad-big-boy They claim it's a largely American expression - but I don't recall anyone here saying it...

A couple of idioms I've noticed that people didn't use when I was last living in the UK fulltime ie. the early '90s. Etymological thoughts and argot-semiotics welcome. As are other contenders for UK vernacular that's emerged in the last decade or so. 1/ "rock up" I notice this being used in...

I wonder if it is possible to blush on your own, in the memory of a social embarrassment that happened, or in the imagining one to come. Or do there have to be people around for the signaling to signify.... (C.f. Koestler who says it's impossible for person to tickle themselves - you get the...

who can remember the last time they blushed? I was a chronic blusher when i was a teenager I feel like I might have blushed about something in reasonably recent memory, but I can't remember the circumstances - it's hard to imagine what they could have been. you would think at this age one...

so 90s slang uses like snide E is actually more authentic or at least deeper-rooted meaning of the word (whereas I thought it was creative slang - snide shifting over from its more recent meaning as "mean", "nasty", snide remarks etc)

there's an overlap between embarrassing and the authentic... like this is when people are at their realest, when they reveal themselves (even when the embarrassingness involves a pose or pretending to be something you're not, because that is an authentic desire or wish manifesting itself...

it's what that K-punk feller called the Big Other innit

surprising number of these I have never heard and a few of the names (River Detectives, The Essence) never even heard of: The Church - No Explanation (1984) The Essence - The Cat (1985) The Essence - Only For You (1988) 29:23 The Big Dish - European Rain (1988) 32:00 The Wild Swans -...

"plodding water carrier prose... l be thinking hes never had an idea in his life what are you on about" someone who's clearly never read any David Thomson

I beg to disagree: that book is exquisitely written, and enjoyable even if - especially if - you disagree with his verdicts on films you like or dislike. I'm always blown away by the way he deftly threads together background stuff about the making of pictures (money, the process of a script...

talking of Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger, finding out about this track did my head in - this is the original source (okay, filtered through Cuba Gooding) of all those samples

the Cold fresh air vybe

Now this one is totally on the "LK (It's the Way)"/ "Carolina Carol Bela" template

this is really nice

this is like getting in the time machine, except the coordinates are set not quite to the absolute best era - more like 2002 and DJ Marky Mark "LK (It's the Way)"/ "Carolina Carol Bela" (which is not the last d&B tune I liked but the last one I spent money to buy).

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