Spent the day in bed

I wish.

Remember duvet days? Prior to kids and all of the fun and games that goes along with them? Perhaps after a long night on call in the lab? Or maybe just because you couldn’t actually be arsed to do owt else.

Those were the days.

The primary reasoning behind spending the day in bed in those cases was sheer laziness. Morrissey’s new song, entitled… er… Spent The Day In Bed, suggests that there’s more to his choice of diurnal activity (or lack of it): the acknowledgement of privilege and with it, freedom, with lines like:

I spent the day in bed
As the workers stay enslaved

and

No bus, no boss, no rain, no train
No emasculation, no castration
No highway, freeway, motorway

It’s a great song, but do watch out for the rather too chirpy keyboard intro.
And Joey Barton in the video, bizarrely.

Whatever the excuse or the messages it sends out, I haven’t spent the day in bed today, or indeed for several (or more) years. But the temptation remains strong.

Charming Charlie

An oldie, but a goodie. And with the Peanut movie coming out real soon now, almost re-topical.
Zeitgeist-tastic.

So, what do you get when you combine the drawings and characters of Charles M. Schulz with the musical meanderings of Morrissey’s mind? You get This Charming Charlie – the tumblr that… well… combines those two things above.

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Plenty more where that came from. What a genius idea.
Next week: Roadrunner does Skrillex: “Meep Meep Wob-wob-wob-wob-wob”.