The world won't listen

Part 1 can be seen here... 11) Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible This is one amazing (but very dark) album. The lyrics were written by Richey Edwards while he was suffering from depression and he disappeared not long after. At first it can be a difficult listen but every time I listen to it I hear something different or I pick up on something I haven't noticed before. You can learn stuff from this record. Images of perfection, suntan and napalm Grenada - Haiti - Poland - Nicaragua Who shall we choose for our morality Im thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy Big Mac, smack, Phoenix, R, smile y'all Cuba, Mexico can't cauterise our discipline Your idols speak so much of the abyss Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface 12) Radiohead - How to disappear completely I can understand why people don't get Radiohead, they're not the most accessible of bands and anyone hoping they are going to release another song like "Creep" ...

I wonder how many football matches I have been to? I watched a highlights compilation the other day from a few seasons ago, I hadn't missed a home game for years and had been to a few aways that season yet had forgotten almost all of them. Maybe thats because Ive had to suffer Souness, McLaren and Carver teams over the years or maybe as a Newcastle fans we don't get as many highlights as we would like. The most memorable game was my first one and Ive discussed this already here , but what about the others? England 1 -1 1990 I wasn't there (obviously - I was 13) but this game from Italia 90 featured the best England team of my generation, full of brilliant players it really should have won the World Cup. This was also the first team to teach me to get used to being disappointed, I was absolutely gutted at the end of this game, by the manner of the defeat as much as anything. The Germans fluked the first goal from a deflected free kick, Gazza cried, Lineker scored, Waddl...

Ryton Village and Crawcrook When I first started drinking (at an age a little younger than legally allowed) if we were not going into Newcastle, the local pubs of Ryton and Crawcrook were where we would go. There was a set route that we would  follow starting in the Half Moon in Ryton village before heading along to Crawcrook where we would catch last orders in the Lambs Arms. We took up this route again a few years later when we had all moved back from University. The Half Moon 7 o clock every Friday this was the meeting point. There are (were?) three main rooms to the Half moon, a bar for "older" folk, a pool room and a bar for younger folk. (When we used to meet up we were still classed as younger folk but not anymore), we  had never arranged anything by phone or text (no such thing) it was a case of just turning up at 7 and finding out who was out that night, there was always someone you would know there if the usual group wasn't out. I can't remember th...