So what is timesnewroman? It's not the font, rather my take on the age we live in. The USA is the new Rome and the times we live in are timesnewroman.
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timesnewroman is listening to: Tiken Jah Fakoly, Arctic Monkeys, Biffy Clyro, Kings of Leon, Bloc Party, Led Zeppelin, Jimi, Franz Ferdinand, Youssou N'Dour, The Strokes, REM, The Kings of Leon, Curtis Mayfield, Jefferson Airplane, The Trashcan Sinatras, Jeff Buckley, Phil Ochs, Stan Kenton, The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Mogwai, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Zombies and Orange Juice amongst many others.
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Checking the facts, Onboard viewing and Oh Fuck not the eighties again!
Not thewifes Auntie.
Yep its a bell. A bell from the ship that thewife's auntie was named after. Okay it wasn't really her auntie, it was a neighbour that everyone called auntie. Auntie Fortie. Named so because HMS Fortitude was launched on the day she was born. I have this vision of a father and mother with THE deepest insight into irony naming their daughter Fortitude because that's probably what she would need a lot of growing up in the East End of Glasgow during the war, or at anytime with a name like that. It was an amusing story and I tell thewife I have to blog that one. I'm not a Sun style blogging journalist (actually I don't consider myself a scum journo at all) though and I will let the facts get in the way of a good story. I was looking for a photograph of HMS Fortitude and the best I could come up with was a photo of it's bell. The reason for this is that HMS Fortitude wasn't a ship at all. It was Ardrossan Harbour which was press ganged into becoming a naval establishment during the war. Which throws some doubt onto the authenticity of the story. How do you launch a harbour?
On my way home from work yesterday, I jumped onto a bus to the station. It was a very modern bus, complete with television. Some crap pop video though. Complete waste of technology.
I heard the Bravery yesterday. I wish I hadn't. Complete shite and if this where popular music is heading dust of your old new romantic costumes folks cos the worst excesses of bad 80s pop is about to be thrust upon us. Of course if we have to endure and at the other end we get the new Smiths it would be worth it.
posted by timesnewroman at 7:04 AM
