Here we go again

[j4]

Yes, it's another questions thingy, because I'm bored (and quite probably boring). Stolen from kennedybak this time.


[A] First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:

[B] I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
1.
2.
3.

[C] Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything & say that you stole it from me.

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

1. Unless I am certain people have seen it, I always say A Matter of Life and Death.
2. Mademoiselle de Maupin - Theophile Gautier
3. Hawksley Workman!

1. Has Cambridge gained any good new shops to replace all the fine ones it lost?
2. If you moved to London where would you want to live?
3. Jamie Cullum - why?

[j4.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen A Matter of Life and Death. In fact I haven't even heard of any of your recommendations. Ace! New stuff!

Has Cambridge gained any good new shops to replace all the fine ones it lost?

Um... what did it lose? I've only been here for 4 years. It still has lots of ace cool charity shops on Burleigh Street. :-) And there's Fopp, which is the best record shop EVAH, but they have those everywhere. Well, lots of places.

If you moved to London where would you want to live?

Camden! (Where could I afford to live, now, that's another question.) I dunno really... Greenwich seems pretty damn cool from what I've seen of it so far. But then lots of my friends live in Bermondsey, & that seems like a decent place too. If I was living in London but still commuting to Cambridge, it'd have to be North London somewhere, though...

Everywhere! I want to live everywhere!

Jamie Cullum - why?

Is he the one who did the cover of 'High & Dry'? If so, I suspect the answer to "Why?" is "Because R2 promoted him lots and lots". See also Lucie Silvas (who is boring, but 'What You're Made Of' was so totally the right song at the right time for me); Katie Melua (who I sort of sneakingly like even though she is quite bland, but don't tell anyone); Juliet Turner (who is fucking brilliant); Beth Nielsen Chapman (who I thought I liked, but really I only like the one song of hers, "I find your love"); and lots of other female singer-songwriters. Maybe Jamie Cullum is actually a gurl?

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Everywhere! I want to live everywhere!

It's not where you're from, it's where's your hat.

Hawksley Workman rocks. Traditionally and unashamedly. I convinced verlaine to come to his last London gig in a comment, and I hope to convince you of his merits later.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

You don't even mention the one of that pack I vaguely like, Amy Winehouse! But yes, there are plenty of them and I suspect Radio 2 is indeed partly to blame. I just find Cullum especially tiresome, perhaps because he looks so simian.

Shops Cambridge has lost: Jay's, Pineapple and Unicorn were all far finer record shops than Fopp. And Galloway used to have two branches, maybe even three.

Apparently The Damned are turning on Cambridge's Christmas lights.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Lucky old Cambridge. Here in Bradford, where the first putative snow of winter is attempting to fall, our Christmas lights are about to be switched on by G-G-Gareth Gates. I dare say the lad's fifteen minutes are up and he'll be playing East Bowling Unity Club supporting Black Lace faster than you can say "Berni Flint".

[k425.livejournal.com]

Wogan seems to be the cause of the singers you either sneakingly like, like, or like a bit. I blame Parkinson for any of the jazz people. And I can't remember Lucie Silvas at all.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

jazz people

Jazz-lite people...

[j4.livejournal.com]

Some of us think that having a tune is a feature where songs are concerned.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Feh. So do I; but these people aren't jazz musicians; they just sound a bit jazzy - like Gershwin...

It's the jazz police!

[j4.livejournal.com]

Well, they might be jazz musicians. In their spare time. But who cares? FFS, "jazz" even trumps "indie" in the hierarchy of "musical genres which were clearly only invented so that people could sneer at other people".

Re: It's the jazz police!

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Sorry! For the record, I'm not sneering - I like some of that stuff. It's just that I get frustrated that stations ike Jazz FM, for one, never actualy play any jazz... The term jazz is used by marketroids because, somehow, it still has a certain sophisticated cachet attached to it. God knows why, though - it's just as anoraky as folk (and much the same connection with Real Ale drinkers).

Look, I don't really care for labels on music, but if you are going to use them, they ought to mean something...

Re: It's the jazz police!

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Jazz is NOT anoraky! Unless, of course, you mean bad trad a la Acker Bilk, which is music that came born in a snorkel parka, with a pint of Ramsden's Old Rotgut in its baby bottle.

Re: It's the jazz police!

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Jazz is NOT anoraky!

Uh, yeah, and that's why people don't quote matrix numbers for Parker's Dial sessions, yes?

Re: It's the jazz police!

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

'46 or '47 Dial sessions?

Re: It's the jazz police!

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Bad man!

(I own the domain jazz-police.org.uk, you know...)