My boyfriend is trying to explain cricket to me again. “He’s only got two balls to make 48 runs”, he says. The camera focuses on a man. Underneath him it says LEFT ARM FAST MEDIUM. A ball flies into the stands and presumably fractures someone’s skull. “There’s a free six”, my boyfriend says. 348 SIXES says the screen. A child in the audience waves a sign referencing Weet-Bix

The first time he showed me this I assumed he was pranking me

This is what American Football looks like to the rest of the world.

‘Girl And The Sea (Cut Copy Remix)’ by The Presets I listened to this endlessly, endlessly when I was at university- such a gorgeous, shimmering, heat mirage of a song and all sweaty, sad dancing to a sunset over a bay. Only just rediscovered it on my computer and sitting in a hot flat full of the wood sap smell off my bed, it’s like a lovely, lovely pint.

Ah god yes, this is an amazing record. IIRC it was Australia’s first round entry in the original FT Pop World Cup. Proper microgoth, like they don’t make any more.

Though actually, listening back now, eight years after the fact, there's not much identifiably micro about it. Balearogoth would have been a better description, but I don't think that genre name ever made it out of Tim F's subconscious (where it must surely still be lurking).

‘Girl And The Sea (Cut Copy Remix)’ by The Presets I listened to this endlessly, endlessly when I was at university- such a gorgeous, shimmering, heat mirage of a song and all sweaty, sad dancing to a sunset over a bay. Only just rediscovered it on my computer and sitting in a hot flat full of the wood sap smell off my bed, it’s like a lovely, lovely pint.

Ah god yes, this is an amazing record. IIRC it was Australia's first round entry in the original FT Pop World Cup. Proper microgoth, like they don't make any more.

For all that I appreciate the sentiment and enjoy reading it, “Britpop ruined everything” has exactly the same effect as “Britpop was the last great blah blah blah” - it turns the really quite large chunk of everything that happened since into a non-issue.

Aye. I suspect it *did* permanently screw the rock press as was, and pretty much did for English indie as an even halfway artistically vital force, but unless you happened to be super-invested in either of these things (i.e. you were in fact an MM writer in 1994) that's a hell of a long way from everything.

sure thing “tim”

If ever there was a motherfucker who looked like his pants were literally on fire.

indie disappointments i have known (old fart!!!!! edition)

The only version of “Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft” by the Wedding Present on Spotify is some sh1tty live 1991 version!

IT BARELY EVEN GOES “JANG!”, for goodness sake! I’d be surprised if Peter Solowka was even the guitarist!

Ah, this is because Spotify have effed up. They seem to think there are two different bands, one called The Wedding Present and t'other called the Wedding Present. I dunno which one George Best is under but I was definitely listening to the correct version of ETHLD a couple of weeks back.

capitalists HATE him! German economist reveals systemic exploitation of surplus value with this one weird tip

You will be shocked at what happens next.