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and there are other Squeeze songs that are more flowery and clever-clever lyrics in the Costello punmanship mode

My wife's theory with "Up the Junction" is that the rhymes are deliberately clunky to convey the idea that it's the character in the song - who's not especially literate or well educated - actually attempting to write verse. It's meant to be artless.

Chic / Sister Sledge

Actually a better analogy since he went straight to writing a book without any intervening period of journalism is Colin Wilson. Not quite as hardcore as Wilson, who wrote The Outsider in public libraries and cafes while sleeping at night in a tent on Hampstead Heath (so he wouldn't need to pay...

Fun fact - he left school at 16. This means he is the most street credible British music writer since Julie Burchill. Plus he lives on a street where kids listen to drill on their phones while selling drugs. ;)

another beauty (and no cows mooing or babies crying)

good typo here - "recorded at Black Art Studio"

Woebot turned me onto this one

Alcohol can distort memories What I meant was something more like a Letraset image of a clean-cut young man - like a modern-day Platonic archetype Then he grew a beard and had more of a young John Martyn vibe Now the beard's gone but the hair is long so the effect is a bit like Daniel...

my actual boy wonder talking with the other boy wonder.

Never thought of that - I was just thinking wunderkind Also he's very fresh faced and boyish. When I first met him I said "you look like a drawing of a boy"

I'm not sure. I think most of the Repeater Radio things end up Soundcloud or somewhere like that, eventually.

steering it back to promoting Kit's work ;) me and the boy wonder are chatting tomorrow (well, we chatted last week but it's "airing" tomorrow) on Repeater Radio - 8 pm UK / 3 pm East Coast / noon West Coast repeated (for early risers / night owls) starting Sunday 8 am UK / 3 am East Coast...

"assessing their trembling buttock cheeks for beads of tumescence" -it's a trope too far. something got poetically condensed there.

And here's a thing I wrote about Dead Fashion Girl https://blissout.blogspot.com/2019/12/books-bonanza-part-1-woebot-fred.html

After the war, the explosive growth of mass media accelerated and amplified celebrity, improving on Romantic devices in a number of ways. Take spontaneity, which dissimulates the distance between an artwork and the experiences it provokes. A Romantic artwork is really only there as provocation...

Here's a piece Fred wrote for the missus when she was editing the Village Voice Literary Supplement FANTASTIC VOYEUR BY FRED VERMOREL Lurking on the Dark Side of Biography Village Voice Literary Supplement, November 2001 There was a metal fire escape up one side of her house. At the top...

get your sick bucket ready Thirdform

Well Paul Weller made a Style Council goes house album didn't he? “A New Decade of Modernism' - Polydor refused to put it out. I don't know if it ever got released later. Style Council did put out a cover of Joe Smooth "Promised Land" He used to go to a deep house club called High on Hope.

If you'd come through the Sixties and all that, and Sly and the Family Stone, political soul etc etc .... it kinda makes sense you'd resent disco, especially if you were not aware (as most people weren't) of its roots in the gay underground. Most people first encountered it as this commercial...