unruly boy
So very sickened.
I have to say, I've gone right off Bloc Party. Couldn't get into their second album either.
I have to say, I've gone right off Bloc Party. Couldn't get into their second album either.
whoa now! Patrick Wolf is hardly just a "weirdo with orange hair".. he is in fact one of the few, maybe even the only really original and interesting songwriter and performer of my generation. i think his music is unique and fresh without being obscure.. all his three albums are amazing and he´s only 23!
besides, he recently posted an entry in his diary when he was touring the states and wrote:
"My band fly home to London and I will stay in Los Angeles to recharge and continue the promotion of the magic position here. I have never been to a city where you can tell so much that earthquakes are living underneath the tarmac.. I was hearing all kinds of voices in my hotel room, I stayed on Hollywood, and a big picture of Le Morrissey was on the sunset boulevard, It was so comforting, like having buckingham palace in the centre of London, I slapped my 16 year old self for being a snob about this man. Like the first time I tasted wandsworth youngs ale and complained about it being flat and warm."
i thought that was sweet..
blaaah....blaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!! we belong to the blank generation, there's no way around it...and patrick wolf cannot change that, nor has he ever even come close to it
I agree I'm loving Patrick at the moment, I just added Lycanthropy to my collection and haven't stopped playing it for the past week, such gorgeous music and such an interesting and amusing guy. I was pretty pleased to read that quote too, I'm glad he's come to his senses concering Moz!
I agree, I've always been angry because of the way stray dogs are treated! I'm especially annoyed with people who go on about them being dangerous and what not... it's always 'ooooh, they will bite some child!' and crap like that. I've met a lot of stray dogs and never, never in my life have any of them tried to bite me! I've never seen a stray dog try to bite anyone. On the contrary, they don't even bark, they're usually following you and acting cuddly as if begging to get a piece of food. When I was a child, stray dogs especially seemed to be fond of me, I've had several stray dogs follow me around (even though I had no food to give them). The only dogs who bite are those who have been trained to do so. So, beware of the dogs' owners.yeah i heard! i work very closely with a humane society from Nis. I am appauled though at the way that the authorities are treating stray dogs though...it is disgusting. you're from belgrade right??? the stray dog situation doesn't seem much better over there either. i'd suggest donating money to those self-run no-kill shelters...they're all such amazing people...and it seems that the majority in serbia regards them as lunatics for wanting to save animals...truly sad!!!!
I'm moving house at the moment, and as a result of that, came across a batch of NMEs from last year. Being the chronic procrastinator that I am, I thought I'd have a read of some of them and see if there was anything interesting that I might want to keep. In an issue from December 2006 I found some comments made during an interview with Kele Okereke of Bloc Party (a self-confessed Moz-fan) and Patrick Wolf (that weirdo with the orange hair.) I checked to see if anyone had posted them on here but apparently not, so...
NME: "You're both sensitive boys, so let's talk about Morrissey and his boycott of Canada."
PW: "I have friends in Canada and they just thought he was very stupid. Some vegans see themselves as so civilised, living in a world where we can afford to eat vegetables all the time, but with the Innuit people, their lives depend on clubbing seals...I know how to kill animals, I was taught on a farm, and there are parts of society that are still like that, so for Morrissey to go in and be extremely civilised is very arrogant of him."
KO: "That's the problem with Morrissey. Everything I've read about his character recently has confirmed that he's quite a bitter person. People in Britain have so much respect and love for him, so why can he not at least appreciate that? I think he was a great lyricist but it sickens me a bit to read about what he purports to believe because he's not really living in the real world, is he?"
PO: "I think it's fine not living in the real world as long as you don't attack the real world for being real."
Some interesting points raised there, not all of which are unfair. I think there are times when Morrissey is very disconnected from reality, in fact probably most of his life. This is what makes him a great musician and poet, but not so great a social commentator.
Coiff.
Hi there. Long time listener, brand new poster to thsi board. Here's confrontational first post...
Just curious here about why the Inuit are getting the brunt of the blame for the seal hunt in Canada. I thought it was common knowledge that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (a dep't of the Gov't of Canada) is responsible for determining how many seals can be killed, at what age seals can be killed and in what manner these seals can be killed.
The largest percentage of seal hunt licences handed out annually goes to the folks in Newfoundland, not the Inuit up north.
And if I may toss in my own concern here, and I don't know if this is the right thread for it (forgive me), why is it not okay for Morrissey to tour Canada on account of the seal hunt, but it's okay for him to tour the US when that country is engaged in a "civilian hunt" in Iraq? In the last few weeks, reports of hundreds of civilians getting killed by US troops while Americans get to sit cozy in their padded chairs in venues all over the country, all pleased as punch while Moz delivers the hits.
Parden me for being totally baffled at Morrissey's priority here.
Lycanthropy is wonderful.. the first Patrick Wolf song i ever heard was Paris and it remains one of my favourites to this day.. my favourite album is probably Wind In The Wires though.. i´m not even that big a fan of the magic position. it´s very interesting and there are some songs i really love (Bluebells, Magpie, Augustine), but generally i prefer his darker stuff..
Lycanthropy as an album is a bit of a grower, at least that´s how i felt about it, but To The Lighthouse, A Boy Like Me, Bloodbeat; Childcatcher are just such fantastic songs!
uuughhh ok. honestly. how do we summarize this. morrissey= animal activist. canada= kills appx. 300 000 seals, 'inhumanely' (although it can be argued that there is no humane murder, to which i agree). morrissey is not a humanitarian, nor has he been involved in stopping the war in Iraq, however, he is an animal activist. he can't boycott EVERYTHING at the same time, and taking it one cause at the time is the way to go.
take 300 bucks out of your account and go see him in the states if you care about him. a little sacrifice for your favorite artist? because that's what i did and will continue to do.
I like Bloc Party but i do find Kele Okereke a pretentious twit