Joe
No Agenda

Or floury baps.

I find having a great sense of humour and a winning smile helps a lot. Most people like to talk about themselves, so being a good listener is another...

And Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole.

Maybe they have enough self-esteem/self respect not to care what anyone thinks about their appearance?

I think it pre-dated Einstein by several decades. 'Long-haired' musicians, for example Liszt, and artists, were a staple joke of Punch cartoons in...

Actually I have a full head of hair, and my wife would be the first to tell me if I looked a right tit! When I start to look like Michael Heseltine,...

You have four feet? Personally, I wear whatever I want and couldn't give a toss what anyone else thinks about it. (Note to self: must book in my...

Sorry, Chris.

I've just Googled them. A fruit slice is oblong, an Eccles' cake is round. I used to eat fruit slices, but thought they were Eccles' cakes!

Ah, just like me then.

That's an Eccles' cake!

Maybe you don't have a sense of humour? Not that's there's anything wrong with that! .

So the lyrics don't matter, unless they do. Hmm.

I guess it's like when Freud said 'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar', or when someone tries to 'explain' a joke and ruins it in the process. Some...

That'll be the day!

Actually, the only music I've grown out of is prog, not that I was ever a huge fan of the genre.

It's interesting that Marco enjoys rap music, given how much he dislikes ostentatious displays of/boasting about material possessions, and...

No, I'm way too stingy to do that. I've watched some opera on TV, but just got bored.

That would be Wagner's 'Ring' cycle, plus any other opera in my collection. But I wouldn't call it 'shite', just music I don't 'get'.

The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse.

Is there a list somewhere that I can check my music collection against to ascertain which of it is great, good, mediocre or shite?

Last night I was mostly listening to William Byrd (1543–1623) and Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837). On vinyl. There's living in the past for you.

I fucking hate the Eagles, man. As far as Steely Dan is concerned, the first five albums are essential and I often play them, the later ones less so....

No, had had a nice day out visiting a National Trust place, didn't eat anything odd, had one large glass of wine, listened to some music, went to bed...

Dramas are either adaptations of 'classics' (like the current dramatisation of 'War of the Worlds'), where they monkey around with the plot,...

I had one of those horrible nights last night where I kept having very realistic and slightly scary dreams, half-waking up, then drifting back into...

I was going to wait and see if I could get a smartphone knocked down for my wife's birthday present, but forgot and bought her one anyway. Not...

We were TV-less for several years, until a couple of years ago when my elder daughter's then-boyfriend gave us his old TV as he was upgrading. I...

I'd deffo have one if you paid me, but not otherwise.