"What are you in for?"
"I set fire to Keir Starmer's house"
"What, number 10 Downing street?"
"No, where he used to live"
"So just some random fucker's home?"
"Yeah"
"You thick bastard."
Not really a confession but posting it here as the parallel made me laugh
There's truth in this but also it's a bit of a blind alley. The instinct to dismiss all criticism as subjectivity is a boring place to end up, as it leaves little to discuss. Some art is better than other art, and it's interesting to think why.
What George Lucas got right about the original trilogy, but has never managed to replicate since, is that I was a little kid when those came out
I woke up with Duran Duran's Notorious in my head. Specifically the No-No-Notorious bit and I listened to it and notice it's syncopated. Those nos are between the beat - this is what makes it a little bit funky/catchy, that's why it's good. Made me wonder if that's a Niles Rogders' choice and yep.
That thing when you’re reminded that you typed in any old bollocks when the website asked you for your name
