This week I have been

Reading

The 2011 Tour de France race guide.

Watching

An Idiot Abroad

Listening to

The xx

Discovering

(Or rediscovering) Hamlet - Nicki Greenberg's beautiful new version, thanks to the fabulous Snarkattack, who invited me along to see Nicki talk about the creative process behind the book.

Eating

  • An enormous serve of bangers'n'mash and a nourishing pint of Kilkenny at the Town Hall one dismal Tuesday evening.
  • A "Chachi" - chianina meatball sandwich - another brioche donut and some amazing chocolate tart at Beatrix, which Essjay has reviewed.
  • A lazy Sunday lunch at The Crimean. The Polish hunter's stew (bigos) was just the thing to revive me after a chilly bike ride.
  • Generous piles of fried food with oodles of chillies and sichuan peppercorns at Sichuan House
  • Succulent suckling pig at Liberteene.
  • An array of bright, zesty flavours at Chin Chin, where the only problem was having to choose only some of the items from what looks to be a menu that is all hits, no filler.

Links

Mainstream fucking music

I’m supposed to be working.  This means I shouldn’t have Tweetdeck running, but I thought I’d be able to manage both (clearly monotasking never really took root).  A tweet that began “Fucking Mumford and Sons…”1 led to the compilation of this list of annoying musicians.  Feel free to add the word “fucking” as the middle name to the rest of these:

  • James Fucking Blunt
  • Fucking Mumford and Fucking Sons
  • John Fucking Butler
  • John Fucking Mayer
  • Cat Empire
  • Jason Mraz
  • Pete Murray
  • Xavier Rudd
  • anybody from any of those TV talent shows

Who have we missed?

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1. Say this in your hammiest Oirish accent. You won’t be able to stop!

12 comments to Mainstream fucking music

  • MGM Fucking T
    Muse
    Empire of the Fucking Sun
    Black Eyed Peas

  • I have been meaning to ask this for awhile as he is always being tweeted about who is Jason fucking Mraz?

    I will add:
    Status fucking Quo
    Dire Fucking Straits
    Sting Fucking Sting

    Ok showing my age.
    .-= reality raver´s last blog ..Natalie Bassingthwaite Pregnant – Congratulations =-.

  • Oh, Daniel, Black Eyed Fucking Peas! Yes! “I Gotta Feeling” was one of 2009′s worst earworms. I just had to check to see what it was called and saw that it was produced by another person I’m adding to the list:

    David Fucking Guetta

    RR – Sting Fucking Sting! Great! Although I have a soft spot for *ahem* Dire Straits.

    As for Jason Mraz – boring, bland, reggae-by-numbers that makes UB40 look hardcore. Click at your peril .

  • sourkraut

    Talk about lead with ones chin!!!!
    Any Heavy FUCKING METAL band or musician
    Any FUCKING MORON that listens to this crap with the volume turned up full through headphones while on the train GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @RealityRaver You’d love this song by Allen Clapp titled, “Why Sting Is Such An Idiot”.

    @Injera I saw Dire Straits live. I’d honestly rather spend the time watching 3 hours of Dean Laidley’s worst matches as North Melbourne coach (2 1/2 hours of which involve Neil Craig taking the piss with his tactical moves).

  • @Daniel – I also saw DS live – should have been renamed BS for that occasion. I agree that it was a long, tedious night. Even with that, though, they don’t give me the screaming heebeejeebies that the others on the list do; that auto-flinch for the off button.

    @Sourkraut – I’m not a metal fan, but I do have to thank those pioneering metal bands, without whom we wouldn’t have the joy that is Spinal Tap.

    And I can’t believe I left Chris Fucking Martin and Cold Fucking Play off this list!

  • Looking at RealityRaver’s last blog entry, we should add Rogue Fucking Traders to the list. What the hell are they on about? Borrowing riffs from other bands, and turning them into their “own songs”. You can put Jet into that category as well.

  • sourkraut

    You flushed my f…in chain
    Linkin f…..n park
    k f…..n orn
    posh fucking spice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
    emin f….in em
    4 wheel fucking drives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Sour f….in kraut

  • Rogue Traders! Yes!
    Eminem! Of course!
    I’ve managed to avoid Linkin Park and Korn, so am grateful for that.

    Also:
    Jay Fucking Z
    Katy Fucking Perry
    T Fucking Pain (for his egregious contributions to autotune)
    Guy Fucking Sebastian
    Short Fucking Stack
    Simple Fucking Plan

  • I once accidentally tuned into Sunrise one morning, and had the dubious joy of not only watching David Koch talking up the “hipness” of Rouge Traders, but then seeing the Sunrise cast “rocking out” to them while they performed.

  • That just made me vomit a little bit!

  • sourkraut

    david f…n koch
    Injera if you’ve missed Korn and linkin f in park you obviously don t have twenty something sons in the house SIIGGGGGGGHHHH

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