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lucinatrivia

About Me

I was looking to create ... a bridge between Enid Blyton's Beckenham and The Velvet Underground's New York.
(David Bowie)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Dante. Archie Goodwin. A lot of other people who are dead, fictional or both. I'll settle for real live non-fictional people though.

My Blog

Paul McCartney breaks the rules...

.... about it not being cool to wear your own band's t-shirt...Paul at the Grammys 
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:11:00 GMT

Happy 400th birthday Mr Milton

... And fast by hanging in a golden ChainThis pendant world in bigness as a StarrOf smallest Magnitude close by the Moon....Some people like to write about their feelings, other people like to spend t...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Screaming fans

(From the Guardian) Is this not the best ever comment on screaming fans? Props (who would have thought it?) to Davy Jones: ' "They scream," he said, explaining to Braden about his fans, "because every...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:04:00 GMT

RIP Geoffrey Perkins

The man responsible for much laughter of many kinds has died in a road accident where he was knocked down by a lorry. I'm sure he would laugh if it was turned into a good sketch. http://chilled.cream....
Posted by on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:49:00 GMT

All You Need Is Love: Watch This Programme Now

Does Channel 4 think that all music fans have Sky+? Why are all their really good music programmes .. midnight? Can't they watch and learn from wonderful things like BBC Four's Stax Records Night?
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:39:00 GMT

Things I never thought Id say

I think quite high up the list before July 15th was  'The highlight of the evening was Wild Boys'. But then it's always nice to have your hunches (in this case, that Duran Duran are actually...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:33:00 GMT

International Times

I'm sitting at work surrounded by issues of International Times. Oh man I wish reading something really gave you a time machine to go to it. I would be blogging from the Twentyfourhourtechnicolou...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:43:00 GMT

Sunny songs

Playlist: songs with 'sun' and cognates in the title on my computer: Donovan: Sunny Googe Street The Monkees: Sunny Girlfriend Dean Martin: Sunny Side of the Street  Arctic Monkeys: Whe...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:32:00 GMT

Astoria melancholia

The Astoria, famed London venue, is closing down. Sad, sad news. There are lots of other lovely venues in London, there are lots of other great venues which have bitten the dust, but the Astoria ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:45:00 GMT

You can’t always get what you want (but sometimes you can talk utter rubbish)

So the Rolling Stones think Amy and Pete do too many drugs? Leaving aside the usual irritation every time some smug baby boomer who enjoyed sybaritic self-indulgence in the 60s sounds off hypocritical...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:42:00 GMT