Things you learned through the Clash
- Heston
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Things you learned through the Clash
A potted history of the Spanish Civil War
What the "Missa Luba" is
That Montgomery Clift was a drug addict
What the "Missa Luba" is
That Montgomery Clift was a drug addict
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
- 101Walterton
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Re: Things you learned through the Clash
Where the budgie went.
- Flex
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Re: Things you learned through the Clash
This for sure.
Probably got a bit of an early intro to South American revolutionary politics with the title of S! in general and Washington Bullets, specifically.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Silent Majority
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It's a matter of continuing small surprise to get heavily into an exciting era of history or politics or culture that I was only superficially into before and then re-learn that Strummer had been the one to prime me with a couplet here or a set of lyrics there.
- Flex
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Re: Things you learned through the Clash
learning more about fingerpoppin' for example.Silent Majority wrote: ↑05 Mar 2018, 7:38pmIt's a matter of continuing small surprise to get heavily into an exciting era of history or politics or culture that I was only superficially into before and then re-learn that Strummer had been the one to prime me with a couplet here or a set of lyrics there.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Silent Majority
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Re: Things you learned through the Clash
As a young man, I talked shop. Now, with wisdom strewn across my shoulders like a white waistcoat, I fingerpop.Flex wrote: ↑05 Mar 2018, 7:44pmlearning more about fingerpoppin' for example.Silent Majority wrote: ↑05 Mar 2018, 7:38pmIt's a matter of continuing small surprise to get heavily into an exciting era of history or politics or culture that I was only superficially into before and then re-learn that Strummer had been the one to prime me with a couplet here or a set of lyrics there.
- 101Walterton
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Re: Things you learned through the Clash
1st WW was 14-18.
- Heston
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I like it when there's a question in a quiz on the telly and I can pretend I'm a smart arse but I only know the answer through the Clash.Silent Majority wrote: ↑05 Mar 2018, 7:38pmIt's a matter of continuing small surprise to get heavily into an exciting era of history or politics or culture that I was only superficially into before and then re-learn that Strummer had been the one to prime me with a couplet here or a set of lyrics there.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
- Dr. Medulla
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Re: Things you learned through the Clash
This for me. Growing up with the Reagan administration's meddling in Nicaragua, I learned one perspective, but the Clash gave me an entryway to another.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: Things you learned through the Clash
Monty Cliff
Travis Bickle
Apocalypse Now
Sandanista's
Travis Bickle
Apocalypse Now
Sandanista's
- 101Walterton
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Re: Things you learned through the Clash
I know where to find Mick.
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Low Down Low
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The charts were rigged
TOTP was totally shit
There was no Elvis, Beatles or Stones in 77
Phoney Beatlemania had bitten the dust
TOTP was totally shit
There was no Elvis, Beatles or Stones in 77
Phoney Beatlemania had bitten the dust
- Dr. Medulla
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Re: Things you learned through the Clash
In his shed, burying things?
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: Things you learned through the Clash
Applying a cooling gel to his footsy-wootsies.
Re: Things you learned through the Clash
Hello,
Never trust a woman named Julie.
Never trust a woman named Julie.