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brum, west mid, United Kingdom
worlds biggest failure. would've been the worlds un-coolest guy... but J. Clarkson took that hands down ..

Monday, 11 October 2021

Tuesday, 5 October 2021

MARC BOLAN T REX - There Was A Time Everything Was Fine


There was a time everything was fine
You got drunk on the day
Like-a it was wine
And all the children they put flowers in their hair
And all the grown-ups they put daggers  there.... instead...


Monday, 31 May 2021

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Closing titles


Last episode tonight so I can binge watch it again next week.



Friday, 23 April 2021

Monday, 5 April 2021

The Third Man - Final Scene


Just watched (again)..
The Third man.  Film of a  Graham Greene story,
every scene is a black and white classic ...

Friday, 2 April 2021

Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Spitfire - lower your head!

🇬🇧 The Mighty Vulcan XH558 At Farnborough

Poem 33 ... Man oh man

 Man oh man .....                         by Derek Hinks


Man oh man what a mood I'm in

If I had windows I'd  kick 'em in

If I had a cat I'd boil it's head

Then eat it's eyes with a slice of bread

Man oh man what a mood I'm in

They're gonna know where I've bin

They're gonna see a bloody trail

Of bulls balls and sucked dry snail.

They're gonna see puppy's brains

Comin down like tropical rains

They're gonna wish they'd stayed in,

Man oh man what a mood I'm in .....................

Poem 32.......... Time's end..............

 Time's end        by Derek Hinks.


We vowed to love did she and I

Until the end of time.

Now her love is no-longer mine

She has not broken her vow,

For though alone I sit and cry

No matter, for the end of time is now .............

Poem 30.. the morning after..

 The Morning after...   by Derek Hinks


The morning has arrived again

And the mouth is dry.

Sleep restrains the eye from opening.

The ear's are to lazy

To sort out the hazy sounds of the street,

Here today I shall remain, 

I shall not challenge the world today..


Poem 29 Lunar...

 Lunar....   by Derek Hinks.


She has a soft and mellow light

Which even the darkest hour of night

Cannot make harsh with its contrast.

Her very shape is a gentle kind

A shape surely formed by mankind

With looks of wonder in times long past

Poem 28.... Just me...

 ...Just me..           by Derek Hinks


Time and chance are partners old

Space and thought are as the same

Unaware of thoughts I cast the mold

And watch as a universe plays my game.

Orbs of time and spheres of chance

I spin stretch halt or dice,

What visions shall space enhance

What heat the sun or spread of ice

Shall the earth suffer or greet

Who shall conquer or admit defeat?

I am destiny, I am fate, I am life.

Within the skull, behind the eye

That which is straddles the knife

Awaiting the moment they, and my brain shall die...


Friday, 22 January 2021

Amy Macdonald - Shilo (live)

Cable - (eighteen) seventy


...Like all good bands their best work was in the studio,   
so sad that having learnt their "trade" they were about to record
 some great stuff, how great we'll never know and can only guess...


KRO

Saturday, 16 January 2021

Sunday, 3 January 2021

Thursday, 12 November 2020

Thursday, 5 November 2020

Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Thursday, 22 October 2020

Monday, 19 October 2020

High walls

..so this 'nothing' piece of rock in the north sea is our home,
a home of  pirates, brigands and cut-throats. A home from where
we roamed the world doing all that was good and all that was bad.
We still have a monarch and we are subjects of HRH, we don't
have rights but we have 'freedoms'  and they have come with a
heavy price. These freedoms have been earned over centuries 
but in just a few short months we have rolled over, had our
belly's tickled and given away so many of them. We have gone
from being traders and shop keepers to being lighthouse keepers


ps.. has he bitten off his mates finger or is his pipe upside down...
KRO

Sunday, 23 August 2020

Beth Orton - Galaxy Of Emptiness


The stars light a sky
And a galaxy of emptiness tonight
Though I'm happiest
When there's no
Reason for me to be
With no-ones expectation to weigh
Heavy on my heart
And so much hope it some times tears
Me all apart ....
Could you please knock me off my feet for a while.............





KRO

Friday, 3 July 2020

Ozymandias.... poem 26

Talking of tearing down statues...

..when dear Percy Byssh saw this bust of Ramasses 11 in the museum
in London circa 1817 he wrote ......

                    Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said :  Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the dessert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that it's sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear :
" My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty and despair"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. 




Sunday, 28 June 2020

The Italian Job (Car Chase-Mini Coopers)

First car I bought was a brand new Mini from Dents garage
cost me (well my mom actually ) £490 quid. I drove it like
all roads were the track at Silverstone,  I was seventeen,
how I got be eighteen I'll never know but, back then I was immortal..
... and so alive.......



KRO

Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Short People


"Black lives matter"no shit Sherlock..
Me? I'm a white privileged English man so of course
I must be a bigoted racist , but if the law knew what I'd
done for ............................................. they'd arrest me.
   You know I recon if every person on this planet were
stripped naked then sprayed with a permanent blue
dye,  had their hair shaved off and we all wore blonde
wigs, I'd give us a week at most.  Then we'd find some
reason to bully a group of us. Can't think of any?
Well what about short people...............
... "you gotta pick 'em up just to say hello"...



KRO

Saturday, 6 June 2020

Blondie - Dreaming [best pictures of Debbie]


....Oh Debbie....
   ...so sorry I broke her heart..
      so sad she just never got over me...
.
KRO

Thursday, 4 June 2020

Monday, 11 May 2020

...woman's work....

..here hare here..


I don't know just how good this film is, but for me
there are none better. Grants performance as Withnail
is wonderful and the character of Withnail is so close
to how .............................
You need to watch the film to get the ending, but
the closing scene is heartbreaking . It's still the
only piece of Will S. that I love... here hare here...
 


kro