Friday, December 21, 2007

Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3

Written by Ian Dury and performed by Ian Dury And The Blockheads
(from the single released on July 20th 1979, recorded at Eretcia Studios in Rome)

Why don't you get back into bed?

Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)

Some of Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats

18-wheeler Scammels, Dominecker camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oats

A bit of 'grin and bear it', a bit of 'come and share it'
You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 - no electric shocks

The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing smallpox

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Health service glasses
Gigolos and brasses
Round or skinny bottoms

Take your mum to Paris
Lighting up the chalice
Wee Willy Harris

Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico
Harpo, Groucho, Chico

Cheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motorsickle
Slap and tickle
Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale
Ba la ba la ba la and Volare

Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy
Saying okey-dokey, singalong-a-Smokey
Coming out of chokey

John Coltrane's soprano, Adi Celentano
Bonar Colleano

Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)

Yes, yes,
Dear, dear,
Perhaps next year,
Or maybe even never
In which case...

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Explained on BBC: H2G2 - The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography


Today, he is best remembered for his sexy James Bond credit sequences. But Brownjohn's legacy is far more significant...

The Fader:
"Alongside skills with line and form, Brownjohn was the hetero hero of '60's swinging London--friends with Mick and Miles, notorious ladykiller and, erm, heroin addict. It was the latter that eventually drove Brownjohn to an early death at the age of 44, but his masterful ability to make graphics, well, graphic is all the more reason to celebrate his passion today." (Oct/Nov '05)

Princeton Architectural Press, natch.

I Can't Believe We Don't Have Any Cat Pictures!

feel better already...