May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
A great “showcase” montage clip of SM at the 9:30 Club in Washington. Starting to think that, if I had been able to get to one North American gig…this would have been the one to go to. Sounds amazing…and the intimacy of the venue! Never seen them anywhere quite that small. I suppose the smallest…
I know I shouldn’t laugh..but just, holy fuck…this cracked me up and I need the laughs…and the reminder that – nobody’s perfect (esp. me) and that IT’S OKAY to be a fuck up…and as a good friend said to me…that, maybe I’m being too hard on myself. Hard NOT to be hard on yourself when…
All the stuff whirling around in my brain… Mum. My sister. The money. When will it arrive? How soon is now? (Yeah…Morrissey lyrics are forefront in my head most days at the moment). Can I make it home by the middle of November? Should I try? How purposeful can I actually be? Can I bring…
It’s the small things… It’s the small things that seem insignificant to many others that means the whole world to me. And, it took a second to do. The finger touch of a FB reaction emoticon… Thank you for endlessly filling my world with hope and joy.
It’s lovely to hear him talk. And good to hear the descriptions of the songs from him. The interview was being conducted by Q’s Editor In Chief and he wasn’t the most natural of interviewers. Not that I can pass judgement! On the way back to St Pancras, I started to cry…which is just so…
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Off to London shortly to see John Grant give a talk to Q Magazine about his imminent release of Love Is Magic. Looking forward to it. I have my GMF fan group badge on and all…
And they very well COULD be North American tree swallows! Swallows in America flock and perform murmurations similar to European starlings. Oh, wouldn’t that be wonderful if SM actually had “crowded swallow skies” above them? God, I’m such a romantic, sentimental fool. But…I couldn’t think of anything more beautiful… *tears* View this post on Instagram…
This was the sequence of photos I was referring to earlier…
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I love intimate backstage shots like this… This one is akin to those shots of him, Charlie and Mick. The ones I started a painting on and just aborted cos it was shit…like all the other shit I do. Photo by theparietaleye