According to some polls, Cameron won, or at the very least tied with Clegg. Which is odd, because to my biased eyes, he looked hilariously worried whenever the others were talking. He often wore a face like the Fat Controller trying to wee through a Hula Hoop without splashing the sides, in fact.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, as the gentle donkey of time is lead into the tranquil Bethlehem of hope, before having his ears blown off by the Israeli army of eternity, I notice it’s the end of the show..

ithankYouGodformostthisamazingdayfortheleapinggreenlyspiritsof
treesandabluetruedreamofskyandforeverythingwhichisnatural
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fortheleapinggreenlyspiritsoftreesandabluetruedreamofskyand
foreverythingwhichisnaturalwhichisinfinitewhichisyeseecummings

It’d be even cooler if the chart was at all attractive..

Playing bop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

(.. implying that you need to get rhythm down to score well?)

Those songs to me don’t exist, you know? “So What” or Kind of Blue, I’m not going to play that shit, those things are there. They were done in that era, the right hour, the right day, and it happened. It’s over; it’s on the record.

Keith [Jarrett] played so nice I had to give him two pianos. I’d say “Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?”

I never practice my guitar – from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat.

Coming from Duke Ellington, Miles Davis (twice) and Wes Montgomery, respectively.

Only the EU could have created a situation where people who are not farmers are paid not to farm.

The stories accompanying the pictures here are wonderful .. this one especially. The man with a wink and a small coin is a strange recurrence and not one whose significance (if there’s any at all) I can decipher. Someone else’s moments.

Wayne Bridge, of Chelsea, after winning the Carling Cup.

0_o