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SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > apart from slipping in East Dulwich into the > paragraph, is this ED specific? Or different > enough from the several other property threads on > here? Sean, where were you last week when there were fifty odd different threads all about "snow"? The forum got very messy and we needed our mum to tell us to go tidy our room. Slightly off topic there but it's already in the Lounge so what you gonna do?

What didn't you understand about "thread locked"?

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > giggirl Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Here's my dark contribution to the break-up > tape > > > > Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave and the > Bad > > Seeds (and Kylie too I guess) > > > > Wouldn't this only be relevant if the bloke > murdered the woman, Giggi? Spot on Hooch. I had a blonde moment. I'm going to get a cup of coffee now so I can focus. It's a brilliant song though and I was listening to it on my ipod this morning so I guess it was just on my mind.

I don't know if this is true or not - but I heard that Dave Gilmour doesn't listen to other artists' music when he's writing because he's scared he might inadvertently be influenced and rip them off. No idea if it's true but I think it's very gentlemanly of him if it is true.

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Here's my dark contribution to the break-up tape Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (and Kylie too I guess) You're so Vain - Carly Simon Did Ye Get Healed - Van Morrison The Whores Hustle and The Hustlers Whore - PJ Harvey I Need a Man - Grace Jones Bone Machine - The Pixies Pick Myself Up - Peter Tosh Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Leonard Cohen Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin Shitlist - L7 One Good Man - Janice Joplin Freedom - George Michael Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac Just Go Away - Blondie

Trust - The Cure

First it Giveth - QOTSA

Thanks for all your suggestions - they were a great help. In the end we were so late getting to the Odeon last night that we took the film which was about to start and which had tickets left - which was Benjamin Button. Unfortunately Slumdog had already started. It's a long tale with an epic sweep and for me was a bit of a one trick pony (although my friend was hooked all the way through and cried at the end!). On the plus side there was Brad Pitt on a motorbike looking like James Dean - SWOOOON. There were some marvelous performances though - Tilda Swinton was excellent and whoever played Benjamin's mother was good. Also, it's set in New Orleans, which is a city I've never been to but the movie made me want to go visit. I pretty much want to see all the films on my list, although I will delete "He's Not That Into You" and replace it with "Rachel's Getting Married".

Mikecg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes HB, I like your style, Bob is a great > songwriter. Bob is indeed a mighty songwriter. But a law should be passed stopping him from singing his own songs.

My friend has got a "freedom pass" from her husband and kids so we're going to the Odeon at Beckenham tonight. This hardley ever happens. Last time was Christmas 2007. Frost/Nixon Grand Torino He's Just Not That Into You Milk Revolutionary Road Slumdog Millionaire Curious Case of Benjamin Button (not the Tom Cruse movie though) I'm out of touch. Any thoughts? Px

BlueOne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Is there some sort of > league table that we should consult before > expressing sympathy for an individual who is > suffering from cancer? > You?re right, there shouldn?t be a league table when it comes to compassion. As far as their humanity is concerned, there is no difference between Jade Goody and, say, Princess Dianna, or indeed any other mother who dies young. They are equally deserving of our compassion as death is, after all, the great leveller. But you cannot be surprised when those of us for whom celebrity culture is abhorrent are irritated by seeing Jade all over the media. Celebrity culture is right up there with global warming on my ?legacy for the next generation: reasons to be afraid? list. Jade is the personification of celebrity culture. The woman needs to not be in my face at the supermarket checkout.

Dear Absentminded, Did you forget what you'd given up?

Quite right TT but my point is, how do any of us even know about Jade's current predicament? Because it's everywhere, that's why. And yet she is the very antithesis of news. That's what I question. I'm making an effort not to be personal. I don't know Jade. She may be a good person; she may be a bad person; she's most likely a mixture of both. But why is she news? Mo Mowlam was news, yes, but why Jade?

I love it TLS and I'm smiling from ear to ear, even though I figured it out quite early on.

BlueOne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh my goodness I agree with TLS! I also recall > another woman in the public eye who had a very > public battle with cancer, but not sure why Kylie > Minogue wasn't villified in the same way. Let's take the cancer out of the equation just for one moment, so that we can be less excitable. Some people think celebrity culture is harmless. I?m not one of those people. Celebrity culture is destructive. Making icons out of people who are famous for nothing, or for very little, will end in tears. It de-values real achievement. It impacts on impressionable young people who deserve to have some actual role models to look up to. If you had asked me this time last year what my opinion of Jade was I would have told you that, as an icon of celebrity culture, I find her omnipresence unacceptable and worrying. What has happened for me to change that opinion?

The grapevine speaks of a 2009 tour. Better get that second mortgate paperwork sorted then! As Tears Go By - RS

Jah - you know some pretty obscure Stones songs! I hope you're not doing a Hoochie and making things up. New Faces - Rolling Stones (Voodoo Lounge album says my ipod - see what I did there?)

Waiting for the Man - Velvet Underground

Ha - Reason to Believe - Rod of Muswell Hill

Long Legs - The Magic Numbers

JAYBE82 - please can we sing from the same hymn sheet and stop cross-posting. I'm going to put the kettle on and I'll be gone a while so over to you. HOOCHIE - I love it that you've made things up and nobody noticed. That's delicious.

L.A. Woman - The Doors (my favourite driving at night on my own with the stereo pumped to 11 song)

The devil does indeed have the best ones. Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley

Well blow me down with a feather. I just gogled it. Forgive.