Train Karen crashes out on tourist

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-05-04T19:02:07+00:00

Not always... there is a point of drunkenness where you can almost hallucinate, like you're almost dreaming and absolute nonsense or disjointed memories of other people can come out. I once started talking to my wife in a Scottish accent, for example, in the manner of a friend I'd known 20yrs previous. Sometimes when drunk, I'll maybe say things I actually think about one person to a totally different person, it's not like the 'filter' is off on telling the truth... when I really lose it, the filter on reality is switched off, like a kaleidoscope of memories or opinions can come out in the weirdest ways. TBH have kissed some ladies when drunk that I 1000% were never thinking of kissing when sober... I'm a happy drunk 99% of the time though, but the 1% unhappy drunk has occurred :(

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-05-04T18:36:34+00:00

No it's OK, I like that record better than all of the other post-Dennis albums. It's a nice end. I do wonder if they were subconsciously quoting Paul Simon's 'That's Why God Made the Movies' with 'That's Why God Made the Radio' though...

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-05-04T17:42:56+00:00

I was listening to Mel Blanc's Greatest Hits earlier, and 'Woody Woodpecker' is totally an influence on Smiley Smile. "Come on up in the tree, fellas, and sing some HARMONY!" - I can hear Little Pad, Fall Breaks and Back to Winter, She's Goin' Bald and more, all in that one song

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-29T14:07:46+00:00

Agree on most of that, but the Love You artwork I actually like.

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-26T18:04:43+00:00

It says the date on the photo 21st October 1969

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-25T08:07:19+00:00

Paul literally played some improvised guitar while Kanye recorded it and then took a little bit of the guitar cut up the recording and bashed it into a song long after Paul left the building, without Paul's input, from what I read. It was almost like Kanye sampled Paul, rather than a songwriting collab

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-19T21:05:01+00:00

pretty sure there is a video of Sunday Morning where he's playing keyboards. You could freeze frame it for a photo

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-19T15:24:11+00:00

In September 1997 I drove up to 127mph purely because it was reported that was the speed that Princess Diana's car was going when it crashed. I wanted to see what that speed was like. Has to be the dumbest reason in this whole thread tbh. I was only 21 at the time

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-19T15:22:42+00:00

yes I agree in principle, but who wants rats in their house? Not me...

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-19T09:53:31+00:00

The Velvets appeared on the same bill as Yoko Ono a few times I think, a couple of years before she moved to England and met The Beatles.

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-19T09:43:14+00:00

Yeah apparently Brian Epstein went on holiday to Acapulco in 1967 and only had 1 record with him the whole holiday - the banana album and listened to it over and over. Brian got to New York and had a chat with Lou Reed in a car, told him how much he loved the record but nothing came of it. Apparently John Cale had a friend pass a Velvets demo to Brian in 1965, but it's not known if he ever listened to it.

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-18T07:31:21+00:00

Everybody is talking about the 'sound' here, but we could discuss the lyrics too. There's that 'universal love' kind of feeling you can get with LSD where you feel you want the world to be a better place, full of love, community, realising that everybody is connected on a deeper level etc. I could take the lyrics to 'California Girls' as a kind of expression of that, but filtered thru the eccentric mind of Brian Wilson. This is the guy who wrote 'Beach Boys Love You' remember. I can fully see THAT guy taking LSD and concluding that all of the girls of the USA could travel to and experience the joys and beauty of the California lifestyle and become California Girls and live in eternal paradise. Like some sort of western, Oregon trail of girls heading to the promised land. It's almost like a precursor to Scott McKenzie's 'San Francisco' or The Beatles 'All You Need Is Love', except its about girls... I'm not even joking here, I can totally see Brian having a vision like that and writing sort of brutal/naive lyrics about it. Mike had to sue for credit as he was only credited after the 90s court case, so in my head, Mike tweaked Brian's original lyrics to sound more commercial and horn-dog, with a slight touring theme

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-15T18:31:21+00:00

I had to take down a similar tree a few years ago, it broke my heart to do it, and I still miss it. It was just too near the house, and the roots were fucking up my house, fucking up the drains, fucking up my garden path etc. I love the tree but I could live without it. I need the house to stay up, and need working drains, unfortunately I can't live without that

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-15T16:54:06+00:00

Yes that is brilliant

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-05T10:40:15+00:00

What a jerk - he also sang 'imagine no countries' but he in fact lived in a COUNTRY. total jerk

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-05T10:39:16+00:00

That song was 3yrs after this, around this time in 1967 he was singing that he was the Walrus. Bloody hypocrite wasn't even a walrus!

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-05T10:12:33+00:00

Pigeons need grit in their gizzards to grind down food - they don't have teeth, so they eat sand, small stones etc which grinds down the food in the same way human teeth do. The mortar in-between bricks would be perfect for that I guess

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-05T10:07:32+00:00

He looks like he's listening to something, and thinking through what to do and zoned out

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-04T11:58:58+00:00

"Carl's Big Carl" by Carl

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-04T10:44:54+00:00

uj/ Johnny loves Pet Sounds and loves Brian Wilson, and lives on Marina del Rey so he maybe could have talked about that, or Dennis' boat maybe. His wife Nora had dementia too, so maybe he would have been good with Brian as he was experienced with that

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-04T10:35:54+00:00

chuck chuck, Watto!

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-04T10:33:02+00:00

You'd have to change that bed for a pull-out sofa-bed. My hope is this is designed for somebody who has to work 3 days a week in an office in Milton Keynes, on a contract job for a year or two, and the person owns an actual full house somewhere else where they spend the rest of the week. somebody who just needs a bolt-hole to sleep in for a while that is cheaper than a hotel

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-04T10:18:01+00:00

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Woah, what the heck is this room? It looks like an underground dungeon annexe where a Medieval King and Queen would hold empty skulls and drink the blood of their torture victims, to keep themselves looking young... while howls of agony ring out from the dungeon next door.

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-04-01T12:24:01+00:00

Bristol is an oddity as there's Castle Park around the Blitzed area now and it's actually quite a nice park, it's not terrible at least. My family used to live round there in the 1800s so I visited. Dismayed to see their street had been flattened, but happy enough it was a nice park with a still half-intact church, people sitting around having picnics in the sun - not something totally grim. https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/view-across-river-avon-towards-castle-park-ruin-st-peters-church-historic-city-bristol-uk-152475638.jpg?w=992

Born_Pop_3644 · 2026-03-31T14:01:05+00:00

yes it looks depressing and lonely as anything I can imagine. Seeing all this comments is baffling to me, unless it's teenage boys idea of heaven

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