BAIBS Friday 7/12/12

Those that know me will know I have just two policies for when I'm PM. First one is to fill every IKEA with chavs and blow them all up. I'll admit this was a policy founded without ever having visited an IKEA. Fancy a politician coming up with a policy without any personal experience to base it on! It was based upon the flat pack furniture that'd occasionally turn up that I'd then struggle to put together. I've mentioned before my total ineptitude at all things DIY, this includes flat pack furniture. Screw B never lined up with hole Q. Panel F was always too short for base K etc. And there were always bits left over. And it always fell to bits exactly 47 days after my woeful construction attempts.

Anyway, I've now visited an IKEA store and can now base my policy on experience and the policy stands. Harsh maybe but no gain without pain, we're all in it together etc. I need a better spin doctor. So IKEA. The words hell, on and earth spring to mind. It's a maze and designed that way so there's no escape. Not until you've purchased something do exits miraculously appear. It was a relief to see that their efforts on constructing their own furniture were not much better than mine though. The cafe was an interesting experience. Had to construct my own mug before I could have a coffee. The handle fell off.

Oh and the stupid names they give their furniture too!! There's now a box of bits that wont quite fit together properly, but will vaguely resemble a wardrobe when finished, loitering in the hall going by the name of Flailingkrapness or something.

Oh and my second policy once I come to power is compulsory Dickensian Christmases every year. We'll import snow if needs be. Everyone to dress accordingly. Gentlemen to doff their top hats to ladies and every hour, on the hour, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen to be sung (with gusto).

I'm contemplating a third policy of annexing Suffolk but not sure yet.

So a weekend beckons again. Seriously need one of those lie ins I talk about. I'm fancying a quiet one but probably wont happen. The Graceholme tonight for The Yorkshire Main Commemorative Trust Christmas Variety gig. Sine FM session band The Colliers are playing. Now there's an apt name for such a gig. And host of Sine FM's Vinyl Daze, Pete Liversidge, is playing with his new band No Folkin' Around.

No Tom Harking again as Rovers away at Swindon. I'll take a point. Open day type thing at Doncaster Brewery tomorrow though. Be rude not to.

Gotta go. Flailingkrapness to shift.

Laters

SS

Playlist Friday 7/12/12

American Slang - Gaslight Anthem

Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Madness - Madness

Tangled Up In Love - The Rifles

Ride - The Vines

Comerade Dog - Propane Rats

Jack And Diane - John Mellencamp

Do Anything You Wanna Do - Eddie And The Hot Rods

Roll The Dice - The Colliers

Black Chandelier - Biffy Clyro

Pumped Up kicks - Foster The People

Girl From Mars - Ash

Jimmy Jimmy - The Undertones

Chi Town - The Cribs

 

MARTIN BLACK LIVE SESSION

My Fingers Bleed

Time

 

Teenage Icon - The Vaccines

This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - Sparks

The Magnificent 7 - Bad Manners

Medicine Show - Big Audio Dynamite

Hey Ho - The Beeds

Ruby Soho - Rancid

This Is Real - The Enemy

Open Your Heart - The Human League

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen

Another Love - Tom Odell

Sound Of The Suburbs - The Members

Real Gone Kid - Deacon Blue

Last Christmas - White Valentine

Country Girl - Primal Scream

Pretty In Pink - Psychedelic Furs

Just Like The Rain - Richard Hawley

Suburbia - Pet Shop Boys

Antarctica - Sound Of Guns

Uprising - Muse

Chevy Thunder - Spector

Going Out West - Tom Waits

Valentine's Day - The 48ks

Love Me Two Times - The Doors

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers