Good gag you can do now if canvassed for the Presidential Election is "I'll keep you in mind for a second preference" feel free to use it sure you have to laugh these days don't you
The Nobel Prize for Economics was invented in 1968 by the Central Bank of Sweden, they pay the Nobel Foundation to award it. This is one of those facts which I think should be commented on more often.
About 10 years ago the owner of a well known furniture retail chain availed of my professional services and never paid me. Every time I pass one of this shops I say "that fella owes me money". But now I'm thinking "I hope he runs for president some day"
I like to imagine Jim Gavin's tenants were flat-sharing. They haven't seen each other for a while. It's hard to stay in touch, you know with family and all that. Now he's writing them a cheque and they can meet up for a pint. Nice to see yous again lads, here's to the man who made it happen
Thinking about that time someone asked Seamus Heaney if he fancied being president and he said "Sounds great, would I be elected unopposed? No? Then no"
Some of it, I'll be honest, is off-puttingly strange. Voices and styles of singing so removed from our contemporary expectations that they seem to come from another planet. But most of it is so embedded (via Dylan) in the DNA of rock that it sounds weirdly contemporary
This was a sacred text in the early 60s folk scene. A folksinger could base their entire repertoire on it. If you were fool enough to let a young Bob Dylan sleep a night on your couch, he'd probably steal this on his way out next morning
American Folk Music, better known as "the Harry Smith anthology" for its compiler, the famed New York scholar, musicologist, mystic, vagrant, avant-gardiste, oddball and filmmaker
This is about as perfect as a compilation can get. Five CDs, only one song per artist, organized chronologically. This was like a Rosetta Stone for me, I bought countless albums by the artists I discovered in it
Tidying up my record shelves, I (literally) dusted off a few treasured relics in CD format. I ripped most of my CDs to digital and sent them to the charity shop years ago. But there were a few worth keeping
