Best Song
Vagabon – Water Me Down
Hot Chip – Spell
Elbow – White Noise White heat
The Comet Is Coming – Summon The Fire
DJ Shadow - Rocket like Rocket Fuel
Ride – Future Love
Best Lyric That Makes Me Laugh Every Time I
Hear It
Black Country, New Road – Sunglasses – “Leave Kanye
out of this”
Richard Dawson – Two Halves – “Stop fannying around,
keep it nice and simple, you're not Lionel Messi, just pass the bloody ball”
Best Musical Re-discovery
It wouldn’t be a very long album, but The Best of Weezer
would be ace.
Best Middle-Aged Man/Men
Doing Excellent – If Hardly Ground-breaking – Stuff
Iggy Pop – Love’s Missing
Best Book
Only
3/5s through but really enjoying The Secret History. Think I’ve known the twist
for a hundred or so pages.
Also:
Alone in Berlin – Hans Fallada
Best Gig/Event
Suede,
Albert Hall – all men in midlife should aspire to be like Brett
Best TV Programme
Not
new but really enjoyed Gameface and The End of the F***ing World. Otherwise: All
European crime drama on BBC4 at 9pm on Saturday, Catastrophe, Stranger Things
Best Radio Programme (That I Haven’t Previously
Nominated)
The
World Service – when the news here is dominated by one too many cunts, it’s a
nice refuge.
Best Sporting Moment
The
World Cup final was the most excruciatingly exciting piece of sport I’ve ever
witnessed.
Website
Vice
– Rental opportunity of the Week – sample: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/bvggmq/flat-to-rent-willesden-green-two-bed
Worst Purchase / Disappointment
Not
going to a proper music festival this year. I intend to ensure that doesn’t
happen this year
Best Child-Related Thing
Not
best, necessarily, but secondary school and the attendant freedom/lack of
control has been an interesting learning curve.
Best Lifestyle Change
Scaling
up from last year – joining a Fell Running club
Sort
Aisling
Bea
Person, People or Thing You’d Most Like to See
Set Upon By a Pack of Wolves
VAR
The Winning Thing You’d Most Recommend Your
Fellow Judges to Own/Have/Consume/Do
Aspire
to be like Brett
Will *this* do?
ReplyDeleteWasn't the World Cup in 2018?
ReplyDeleteI've read The Secret History. I always thought they could have cast a film of it from the members of Arcade Fire c.2005
ReplyDelete(Delayed) Heh.
DeleteJust getting to the end of The Secret History. Twist not as I thought (but was aluded to, so I give myself half points)
I'm adding Mortimer and Whitehouse to top teevee programmes. We should all aspire to be like Brett AND Bob.
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