Screaming in the distant sea

[sovay]

spatch came in and said to me, "Death finally found Henry Kissinger in the claw machine!"

Realistically I understand that the glitches of Watch TCM have much more to do with the indifference of David Zaslav than the inconvenience to me, but it is frustrating that it really seems to go on the blink when I have been waiting to watch something off it, in this case almost all of the movies that aired last night in centenary honor of Gloria Grahame.

On the pleasanter side of the evening, we made a lamb and lentil stew for dinner and are mulling cider for dessert. Now if my back would just stop hurting and I could get some sleep.

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[sovay]

Well, 2023 gave us that, anyway. Good.

Some other things it could give us, I'll just say. [edit] SHANE MACGOWAN NOT IT.

[kore]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[sovay]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

*hugs*

We should get to keep the artists.

[kore]

//hugs

I thought he was doing a lot better recently! He even finally got new teeth! I read an interview in the Guardian that was pretty good.... This one, about a year ago https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/04/of-course-i-like-life-shane-macgowan-on-the-pogues-his-death-wish-and-his-sideline-in-erotic-art Apparently he got quite sick with encephalitis last year and was just discharged from the hospital.

I remember watching some documentary (I think it was If I Should Fall From Grace With God, dir Sarah Share in 2001, not Crock of Gold) and the way I remember it, it starts off with him in I think a bar and he is totally completely wasted. Not just wasted, it's like he hasn't been sober for years. He is just absolutely maundering on and on and his dad (I think) says, "He had a brilliant brain....still has....a few bilion brain cells later," tears in his eyes, and then it's like a smash-cut to him young and fiery singing the title track live and it's a total absolute gut punch.

It's so hard to pick a favourite song but his version of Waltzing Matilda is just so heartbreaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKURhqmSLmM

[sovay]

It's so hard to pick a favourite song but his version of Waltzing Matilda is just so heartbreaking.

I listened to "Turkish Song of the Damned," because its sea-haunting worked its way into my writing, but around this time of year spatch and I usually start singing along to "Fairytale of New York" no matter what.