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    Peru! Peru! My light’s hearthouse - Morrissey Central (28th Nov.)

    Yep, hard to argue against your view of Hillary. I think the thing the Dems still haven’t fully grasped is that Trump was, incredibly enough, the better candidate.
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    Peru! Peru! My light’s hearthouse - Morrissey Central (28th Nov.)

    I know a joke about South America: What’s the weather like in Brazil? Chile.
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    Peru! Peru! My light’s hearthouse - Morrissey Central (28th Nov.)

    I watched a lot of Trump and Clinton rallies in the last month of the campaign. It was very noticeable that Trump was painting the type of broad brush strokes you describe, while Clinton started to resort to trying to knit together minority groups to attempt to get her over the line. Perhaps the...
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    Peru! Peru! My light’s hearthouse - Morrissey Central (28th Nov.)

    Politics in every country tends to follow the same basic rules. Bolsonaro, who may or may not be a terrible person, was elected in no small part because of the failures of his immediate predecessors, one of whom, Lula, is still in prison for corruption and money laundering. The further a...
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    Peru! Peru! My light’s hearthouse - Morrissey Central (28th Nov.)

    I was reading that Bowie invited them to support him on his Station To Station tour but they turned him down. In the late seventies there was a truly terrible TV talent show - New Faces, I think - and one group won it for weeks by nicking from other acts. One week it would be a Beatles rip...
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    Peru! Peru! My light’s hearthouse - Morrissey Central (28th Nov.)

    Even Kraftwerk is solo now. I think only Hutter remains of the original lineup. It’s all getting a bit Drifters now, sadly. We’ll all get a chance to join. As for South America I thought there have been a slew of ultra right-wing military dictatorships across the continent over the decades...
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    Morrissey prefers his pints cold? Cary Caldwell (SXSW manager of planning) story in stuff.co.nz

    A friend of mine, quite connected in the recording business, once told me that when Morrissey was recording at Hook End Manor around the time of Ouija Board he refused to come down one morning unless they found him a hairdresser. Not knowing where to get hold of one at such short notice they...
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    Post Whatever You Are Thinking At This Very Moment

    I find it really interesting as I grow older the way the inevitable, so long seemingly repressed by my consciousness for fear it would render all things irrelevant, is creeping in. Around the time of the London Olympics I contracted a virus, exact type still unknown, that attacked my heart. Why...
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