GAINING INSPIRATION
I was mentioning the other day about the top quality of the blogs that are listed over on the right-hand side and how you should all go and pay them a visit.
Well......I absolutely insist that you read this bit of work by Anglopunk over at Condemned to Rock'n'Roll.
It got me thinking about when I was 15/16 years of age, and how lucky I was that a love for music, combined with the fact I was blessed with enough talents to head on to university, stopped me becoming a character in this song:-
mp3 : The Jam - Saturday's Kids
I'm not sure what Weller thinks of this lyric nearly 30 years later, but I reckon its one he should be proud of. He has captured perfectly the sheer mundanity of being a teenager on the edge of an adult life when your choices (such that they were) had been made for you.....and I only need to look around the area where I currently work (inner-city Glasgow) to realise that not a lot has changed.
Its criminal that it was only ever available as an LP track or an import single.
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I was at the Harry Benson exhibition in Kelvingrove Art Gallery yesterday and thought this photo was pretty apt for this post...
http://www.lissgallery.com/benson_collection/Photojournalism/gallery_photo_pages/Let_Glasgow_Flourish.htm
(hope the link works)
The link works perfectly....I must get myself over to the exhibition.
and you're right about it being apt...
eh up did you keep your eye on the lik I sent you... think someone has put up the nick cave thing you wanted... is this it Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - BBC Sessions - 04 July 2008 (PDTV [XviD]).torrentbookmark
if you want me to download it and send it via somehow... drop me a line.... palyniam at gmail dot com
Thanks for that. It's always nice to know when other people are inspired by something you wrote.
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