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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 32m

gonna read The Berlin Wall Story by Hans Herman Hertle instead

colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 34m

every fucking chapter is "Misunderstood Genius watches the people walk by. he cares little for them, or their lives. he walks into Stuffy Professor's office. he explains his radical genius plan in an erudite and polite manner, only to be shouted at by Stuffy Professor". give it a rest.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 36m

tried reading The Fountainhead but have had to give up. i don't give enough of a shit about some long-dead woman's politics to be annoyed at her (or her work's) ideology but her *prose* is staggeringly dry and didactic, to the point where it's just fucking patronising.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 48m

it's a *far* superior song, but i've had friends wonder the same about Lily Allen's The Fear. once you write a song that's a bit of a Through the Looking Glass moment, a disconnect forms between yourself and the pop you're being asked to make. and that's probably how you end up with bloody Sheezus.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 53m

i think it was Todd in the Shadows (?) who said Katy's career was always gonna go *weird* after CTTR because once you make "purposeful pop" (like Katy said CTTR was) you partially disassociate from your persona/identity as a popstar and become almost too self-aware to carry on in the same way.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 56m

do you remember the Donald Trump / Theresa May skeleton puppets from the Brits performance

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 9h

the plan is to "turn the worst team in Denmark into the best team in Europe" on Legendary difficulty.

won the Danish title in my first season by 10 points. so, erm, maybe that career won't last very long.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 9h

currently doing a FIFA 16 career mode with Sonderjyske FC in Denmark. they're the lowest ranked Danish team on the game and have the smallest budget. the challenge i've set myself is that i'm not allowed to use any non-Danish players and that i can only sign/promote Danish players to my team.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 14h

39. The Girl is Crying In Her Latte - Sparks #TheTwen2ie5

the best band *from* the 70s continuing to be quick thinkers and fresh idea-makers *in* their 70s. have you ever heard noises in your life that even come close to the noises this makes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTAx...

Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte

YouTube video by SparksVEVO

www.youtube.com

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 1d

watched Annie Hall as a way of pouring one out for Diane Keaton. pleased by how much more i've grown to hate Alvy in the 10 years since i saw it last. knucklehead.

colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 1d

they make you eat lots of this before someone drops a glass in a crowded pub

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 1d

Kyle Walker:

colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 1d

i love Walker so much but i haven't stopped laughing at this since i read it. he's talking like this happened years ago and he's reflecting on it as a different person now. he went to Milan literally in the January just gone, lmfao.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 1d

40. Nowhere Game - Patrick Wolf #TheTwen2ie5

Patrick Wolf finally returning to music after almost a decade has been one of my major highlights of this decade. so good to have such a talented person back in the game and sounding just as good as ever.

youtu.be/5st6sAjBi9s?...

Nowhere Game

YouTube video by Patrick Wolf

youtu.be

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 2d

and then who knows.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 2d

think i might start looking for music writing jobs again.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 2d

my dreams are always mental when i'm a bit under the weather. i could actually feel myself in my dream trying to wake myself up and pull myself back into the real world, but nothing happened for ages until my eyes just popped open. can you tell i've had a heavy cold the past couple of days.

colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 2d

then without warning i'd been evacuated to some unknown country in eastern Europe where i befriended a guy called Hahn who gave me a sandwich with friend onions and then took me on a subway system in his city that had no platforms. you just had to lean on a wall and then jump on the passing train.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 2d

had a very weird dream last night that i was standing in a crowd outside the corner shop near the house where i grew up, and the chippy over the road blew up and flew into the sky and the explosion was as big as an atomic blast and it wiped out everyone in the crowd except me.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 2d

Celeb Traitors is no good. civilian Traitors works cos it exploits the desperation its contestants have for fame and money. they will screw over anyone to get the cash. the celebs are playing for charity and will all go back to their comfy lives when it's over. the main selling point is absent.

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 2d

Nur's mum's road has about 20-30 houses on it that all look exactly the same. semi-detached, red brick, some white paint and pebble dash, rounded bay windows, paved driveways. and then THIS appears out of nowhere.

colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 2d

London (and surrounding areas) absolutely insane for this. you'll be walking down a street on which 50 houses all look alike and then ONE house (two at most) will be like "... No" and look like this

Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social · 2d

46 Ailsa Road, Twickenham

1935

Couch and Coupland

www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/ailsa-road.h...

A colour photograph of an art deco house in Twickenham with a colourful abstract door mural

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 2d

41. Beautiful Boy - Sprax Heart #TheTwen2ie5

shout out to my actual friend @jennybriar.bsky.social on this one. two of my favourite things in pop are quiet storms and a sense of genuine yearning and 'Beautiful Boy' has both of those things in abundance.

spraxheart.bandcamp.com/track/beauti...

beautiful boy, by Sprax Heart

from the album the first Sprax Heart EP

spraxheart.bandcamp.com

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 3d

i don't think Actually Romantic was particularly becoming of Taylor - or 100% warranted - but the fact that everyone immediately clocked that she was singing about Charli when all she'd said was "cocaine" was... a bit revealing, lmao. her media persona is a *bit* The Annoying Cokehead?

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 3d

i've known ppl like Brat-era Charli and they're... not that nice? they hang round Shoreditch & Acton to be "part of something" while still keeping middle class comforts, and they tend to only associate with arty folks and queers in the hopes of obtaining some of that magic via osmosis, ya know?

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