This week’s contrast podcast carries on the journey around the body and has reached the eyes – go here for a gander. There are a few songs I thought about playing before I settled on the Pogues song that I did play, which didn’t turn up from anybody else so I thought I’d give them an outing here – spot the theme? I have strangely happy memories of World of Sport, Dickie Davies’ terrible hair and the odd sports that would turn up (which I would guess are now staples of the cable sports’ channels – Acapulco Diving? Ice Speedway? The once a year 8 minutes of American Football with no explanations at all which treated it as thought it were just a big all-in-together fight?) and the wrestling, obviously (wrestling highlight? Being chased across the auditorium by a yelling ‘Cry Baby’ Cooper after jeering at him when he’d lost a bought at Winchester Rec). I spent a holiday with Gary Gilmore, lying on the beach doing nothing but reading ‘The Executioner’s Song’ (there’s something about big Norman Mailer books – I’ve read that a couple of times, Oswald’s Tale a couple of times, and I’m still eagerly awaiting volume 2 of Harlot’s Ghost, despite the fact that Mailer is now dead and the book doesn’t appear to exist). And I’m without any memories of Bette Davis, which is something I guess I should remedy sometime soon.
Half Man Half Biscuit – Dickie Davies’ Eyes mp3
The Adverts – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes mp3
Kim Carnes – Bette Davis’ Eyes mp3
July 9, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I was secretly hoping someone would play Bette Davis Eyes. I had it on 45 when I was young
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July 10, 2009 at 5:01 am
I love that Adverts song. Indulges my interests in serial killer gore, compelling wiki adventures and punk rock and or roll. Great stuff.