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05.18
2012

weeklyspectator:

The Housemartins - Happy Hour (1986)

05.18
2012

Buzzcocks — Ever Fallen In Love

05.18
2012

soundboard:

Madness - Baggy Trousers

When this song plays, my head starts to nod, my feet start to tap and my shoulders start to move, and then this sensation of pleasant happiness invades me. 

Did you know this song was a response to Pink Floyd’s Another Brick In The Wall? 

Frontman Suggs told Uncut magazine on March 2008 “Baggy Trousers was sort of an answer to Pink Floyd, even at that age I thought the line ‘teacher leave the kids, alone’ was a bit strange, sinister - though I think Floyd are a great band. It sounded self-indulgent to be going on how terrible schooldays had been; there was an inverted snobbery about it too. ‘You went to a posh public school? You wanna try going to my school.’”

This is my favourite bit of the song, I can easily see my past self here:

Oh what fun we had 
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways 
To make a difference to the days.

Damn! Those british dudes knew how to play nice music.

—Viu.


05.18
2012

33-3rdrevolution:

Ian Dury - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick [Official Video] (by IanDuryVideos)

A shining example of why British music in the 1970s was superior to their transatlantic rivals, especially in the early post-punk era.

05.18
2012
legrandcirque: John Thomson, King Mongkut of Siam, Bangkok (European Dress), 1865 - 1866. Source: National Library of Scotland

legrandcirque:

John Thomson, King Mongkut of Siam, Bangkok (European Dress), 1865 - 1866.

Source: National Library of Scotland

05.18
2012
legrandcirque: Ainu man, Japan, ca. 1880.

legrandcirque:

Ainu man, Japan, ca. 1880.

05.18
2012
taikonaut: Yes. Yes I am. Regent Street, you say? Why, that’s right on my way home! I don’t know - I’d prefer a Holiday in Cambodia.

taikonaut:

Yes. Yes I am. Regent Street, you say? Why, that’s right on my way home!

I don’t know - I’d prefer a Holiday in Cambodia.

(Source: grindlebone)

05.18
2012
portailblog: Paris Bordone (1495-1570) : Saint Georges tuant le Dragon (Source : Pinacoteca - Italy).

portailblog:

Paris Bordone (1495-1570) : Saint Georges tuant le Dragon (Source : Pinacoteca - Italy).

05.18
2012
snowce: Thomas Francis Dicksee, Juliet (Note: Dicksee, British, 1819-1895, was a portrait, historical and genre painter with many subjects from Shakespeare. This completely engaging oil on canvas portrait of Juliet was inspired by Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.   The painting is housed in the Sunderland Art Gallery in Sunderland, England. — A Thousand Winds)

snowce:

Thomas Francis Dicksee, Juliet

(Note: Dicksee, British, 1819-1895, was a portrait, historical and genre painter with many subjects from Shakespeare. This completely engaging oil on canvas portrait of Juliet was inspired by Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

  The painting is housed in the Sunderland Art Gallery in Sunderland, England. — A Thousand Winds)

(Source: 23silence)

05.18
2012

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.


--Dorothy Sayers (via zerogate)


The Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., an Antipodean Tory Gentlemen of profoundly Reactionary Views.