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Tuesday Playlist - Melancholy Women and Bearded Men

Hey All,

I've been thinking a lot about this subject lately - what are the best tracks ever by female artists who whine a lot but are still interesting? And weaved together with great tracks by Male artists with beards this wouldn't this be spectacular?

You can hear the playlist here and also add stuff yourselves as it's collaborative. How modern Doug. Yes. Add your suggestions or drop em on a note. If you prefer you can choose tracks by bearded women or suicidal men.

 Kate Bush – The Man With the Child in His Eyes
ZZ Top – La Grange - Re-Mastered LP Version
Cat Stevens – Wild World
Tanita Tikaram – Twist in My Sobriety
Roger Whittaker – Streets of London
Avril Lavigne – I’m With You
Kenny Rogers – The Gambler
The Carpenters – Goodbye to Love
Ray LaMontagne – Trouble - Recorded live at KBCO, Oct 2004
Grateful Dead – Box of Rain
Joe Cocker – You Are So Beautiful
Judy Collins – Send In The Clowns - LP Version
Kris Kristofferson – From The Bottle To The Bottom
Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ You

10 things to miss more than Jacko

It's only been 1 week. I've played the records. I've bought the back catalogue. I've contemplated my own mortality. I even thought about weeping for a moment. But now suddenly I'm over it. It's OK. I'm FINE. And like Elvis he is now just GONE. Nothing more. So here are 10 things I miss more than The King of Pop.

1. Princess Di. It's been over 10 years, but it still hurts. Damn it hurts. I miss the way she looked longingly down the camera. I miss her wistful thoughtfulness towards third world countries.

2. The milk man. Ouch. It hurts so bad. Why can't we have the clink of milk bottles in the morning?

3. Coal. Despise the middle classes turning their terraced home's coal bunker into an 8th toilet against planning permission. Miss the black sootiness of filth.

4. Kenny Everett. His Barbara Streisand impression was TV gold.

5. Mrs. Slocombe's pussy. RIP.

6. Tattoo from Fantasy Island. God love the little devil. And we miss de plane, de plane!

7. Sherbet Fountains. A sticky fountain of eh, sherbet.

8. Yasser Arafat. The man maybe gone but we can still buy the tea towel.

9. AIDS advertisements. Where has the fear factor gone now that the worst thing we have to fear is a pig flu?

10. Bros. Manufactured boy bands just aren't as fun to hate.

11. Woolies. We never ever shopped there, but boy we miss it.

12. John Candy. And not just because he was Canadian.

13. Fanny Craddock. You just don't see enough salmon mousses set in the shape of fish these days.

Did  miss anything?

Come to Cleveland, OH

Goodbye working week

Much more important than finishing that PowerPoint presentation. Surely you need to know about the creatures of the deep.

Any plans for the weekend? Anyone seen the Counting Crows live?

Someone get me some matches

Let's burn the place down and make some noise.

Do you think we could get Kings of Leon car alarms?

Doug's Twitter feed gagged

Here's an email I received from Absolute's Head of Marketing And Free Tickets That No One Else Gets. As usual I have annotated the subtext.

Hey Doug (friendly yet firm, he wont even see this one coming),

I see that you have started a Twitter account (shudder, sweat, little bit of vomit at the back my throat.) Nice work (but maybe you should stick to organising the paperclips). As you are linking back to your Absolute blog I feel it fair to comment on the content of your feed. Yesterday you tweeted a joke about Garry Glitter (a foul tasteless gem from the Gazman). I don't want to sound like a broken record, but let me say it for the one millionth and once [sic] time. We do not want the Absolute Radio brand associated with humor relating to Garry Glitter or harm towards any artist (or fisting of kittens, discrimination against people with too many freckles or my personal penchant for wearing women's knickers underneath Gap Khakis). I would appreciate it if you would remove this particular tweet (you little twerp). I am happy for you to post whatever you like should you wish to remove from your Twitter profile, any reference to Absolute or your role (which I am desperately trying to make redundant) here. You are a valuable brand ambassador (mmm, more mascot that I'd like to pack in a box in the back room) for us Doug. We all love your edgy humor and within the VIP community it is acceptable. But to a wider audience (12 degenerates and counting), on this occasion, you have over stepped the mark. Keep up the great work (what is it you do again?).

Cheers (yet never bought you a pint ever)
C****

PS Some great links yesterday (and here's one for you Doug)

The Greatest Gift of All

Keep one in the cupboard for unexpected guests

Happy Midnight everyone

Biscuit of the Week - Fox's Shortcake Rounds

It's been a while since I've done a Biscuit of the Week. Mainly because we always descend into the debate around whether or not Soreen is a biscuit or not. And of course it is.

So OK let's not debate shortcake versus shortbread. Fox's Shortcake Rounds are the chocolatey daddy. It's the chocolate bite before you get into the shortcake. If you're the kind of person that digs nibbling the chocolate off a chunky Kit Kat, you will have a biscuit climax.

Dunkability is good though you will need to watch your grip here or you will lose you biccy quicker than a bar of soap in the Wormwood shower block.

For me this is a solid 8/10. More a meal than a biscuit. That's breakfast sorted. Let me know your thoughts here without mentioning the words Chocolate Digestive.