Ok let's fly she says this carpet's made for two

Yesterday, I got an email from my mother with the subject line "language". This was not, in fact, a rebuke for having used a rude word in my LJ last week, but a message of bogglement at a phrase she'd read.

The email says:
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There are plans afoot to make a unified something or other of Stockton and
Middlesbrough. The glossy brochure speaks of "the vision of the spectrum of
cityness".
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Now, besides noting that she thinks it really ought to be "citiness" she is requesting any form of translation or, indeed, indication of what on earth it means.

Anyone interested in further linguo-nonsense should read on.

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Dance with the boogie get high

It's Friday! It's about three o'clock! It's time to Boogie At Your Desk!

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Today you were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back

(Webspace kindly provided by broadmeadow, owing to getting-finger-out failure on my part. If the streaming link above flattens his server, this is a downloady link of the same song.)

I've been describing the Hoodoo Gurus to people as "big hair rock". I'm not sure quote how accurate that is, though - various websites seem to want to describe them as things like "trash pop" instead.

However they are cheerfully unashamed (in a very 80s way), Australian, and, which ever way you look it, there's something unavoidably Def Leppard about their sound. If they never had poodle perms, they damned well should have done.

I'm not terribly well educated in my Hoodoo Gurus, really, and don't own any proper albums. But if anyone fancies a good old lump of pop-rock with the occasional daft song-name (I Was A Kamikaze Pilot, Like Wow-Wipeout!) and a few splashes of surf guitar, they could do a lot worse than purchasing copy of Ampology.

(eostar, you may now party. It's the weekend!)

Apocalyptica Now

Apocalyptica are playing at the Zodiac, Oxford tonight.

I got a ticket for Connall, but he now can't make it, so there's a ticket up for grabs. Anyone interested, leave a comment or drop me a line send me an sms/phone my mobile/phone onebyone's mobile ASAP.