Hard News: He might be crazy, but he's not dumb
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sometimes people on the internet make things up,
Are you suggesting that Jackie's not actually a legist?
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sometimes people on the internet make things up,
I know - you're really a dog!
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<in awe at the legendariness of this thread>
I don't even care if 'legendariness' isn't a real word, at this point.
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I saw black eyed peas' fergy choke down 3 large slices of pav in the performers tent at BDO. I'm assuming there was some throat and finger action in the toilet soon after.
Why presume bullimia? She's admitted to a smack habit (pre-fame) so maybe she just can't give up the sugary treats? And all that jumping around on stage should keep her trim. Witness that chap from Shihad.
Is this a Brush With Fame conversation?
Why not, eh? I once had a drink in a Sydney bar with Harry Dean Stanton. It only took me one drink to realise that Harry would have a drink with anyone, as long as Anyone was paying. Quite sad. Still, there were plenty of takers.
Mostly he lives in London, and he ... once slept with Diana, Princess of Wales,
Well, you would wouldn't you? (Unless you're Simon Le Bon, who evidently declined)
sometimes people on the internet make things up
if this is true I might as well go back to books ...
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I'm not even going to google it, but you just know that somewhere out there is an online community dedicated to ladies who love men with amputated left legs.
Also, because Bryan Adams is awesome, I feel like linking to my track-by-track analysis of his 1984 album Reckless, which is one of the very first things I ever put up on my website. (Shut up. I was only 21.)
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I liked him when I met him. Just hated his music.
Same. I met him him once, briefly in London, backstage at Top of The Pops when we were doing one of our OMC thingies. He'd wandered over to talk to Pauly and congratulate him on his success, which he seemed to know a fair bit about. Pauly said "Bro, do you know Bryan?"....''ahhh...no". The conversation was over in 15 minutes but I was rather impressed he'd made the effort.
That said though, the real highlight that day for me was getting a light for my ciggie off Paul Weller.
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I know - you're really a dog!
jeez man, now you're attacking how I look,
I'm not that bad looking...... am I? -
Witness that chap from Shihad.
I remember him sporting a bit of a gut a few years back, but really he's got white bogun genes so that's what keeps him thin.
fergie did those pavs after a standard meal. I'm just saying, its a matter of physics. I'm not criticising her for it, at least no one's calling her a dog.......
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ps russell (think googly eyes scene from the office) not seriously offended.
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__Bryan may make awful music, but he's a good guy and incredibly bright,__
I liked him when I met him. Just hated his music.
But it must have been The Police at Western Springs ...
I hated his music too, but you know, in hindsight what I didn't like about his music was partly snobbery... it seemed unoriginal, borrowed from an earlier genre. Uncool. And I have always been the first to give arty posers a hard time, but if I'm honest what I really didn't like about his music was the crowd that went with it. This had been true of ice-skating and track-and-field in earlier phases of my life, two other things I also liked but didn't want to be seen doing, and really had nothing to do with the thing I was judging... just that I didn't want to be associated with the sort of people who liked that sort of thing.
When I hear his songs now I find them incredibly catchy, and I quite like them - back then they conjured up an embarrassing sea of the worst (in my opinon then) aspect of Canadians, the beer drinking, hockey following, IQ Slicer-wearing (what we used to call those sun-visors guys wore), uneducated rock and roll types. But I think of how I was to him and how I sound recounting this, and I sound like a horrible, shallow character in a Katherine Mansfield story. Gossip is not usually my thing. Please delete my contribution to the gossip pool from your collective memories.
Though he did volunteer the Princess Di thing himself in an interview, so I'm not violating a confidence or anything on that particular count.
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I talked to her at a party in London once. She was in the kitchen, wolfing down chocolate cake.
And she's not anything like Little Jimmy Osmond? Because they sound kind of similar.
I have had no close encounters with the internationally famous, apart from falling over semi-conscious in front of some members of Simple Minds at Sweetwaters '84. Chrissie Hynde may have been in the party as well (it was around that time she got together with Simple Mind's lead singer) and if she was, great, because unlike Simple Minds I actually liked the Pretenders.
The "Tracey" song - I remember Marcus Lush playing it on BfM back in the early 1990s and he kept yelling other names over the 'Tracey' bit - they sounded like names of people he was at school with, and usually had five or six syllables instead of Tracey's two.
Simon: was there any temptation, when you got a light off Paul Weller, to say, Shit, Paul, the Jam were a great band, why the fuck didn't you....but he'd no doubt had enough of that sort of comment.
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But I think of how I was to him and how I sound recounting this, and I sound like a horrible, shallow character in a Katherine Mansfield story.
No you don't. I think we've all agreed that he's a really nice chap, and if he does happen one day to ego-surf his way here, he will have his heart warmed by that, and be philosophical about the rest.
Hi Bryan!
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And she's not anything like Little Jimmy Osmond? Because they sound kind of similar.
I was too intimidated by her being, like, Bjork and everything to really have a conversation, but she was right about the chocolate cake. My friend Ange made it, with her trademark whole chunks of chocolate in it.
I did have a yarn to the guys from the Sugarcubes (it was that era) though. I told Einaar I liked his interviews. He gave me some of his absinthe.
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Also, because Bryan Adams is awesome, I feel like linking to my track-by-track analysis of his 1984 album Reckless, which is one of the very first things I ever put up on my website. (Shut up. I was only 21.)
Thank you for sharing. I've just been told off for singing 'Run to You'.
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<quote?I saw black eyed peas' fergy choke down 3 large slices of pav in the performers tent at BDO. I'm assuming there was some throat and finger action in the toilet soon after.
Why presume bullimia? She's admitted to a smack habit (pre-fame) so maybe she just can't give up the sugary treats? And all that jumping around on stage should keep her trim. Witness that chap from Shihad.
</quote>Jeez, no shit, at 50 I am absolutely at the zenith of my weight ever and I am about 52kg, or about 114bs. In my youth I weighed much less - about 48kg and have a truly legendary appetite. I just like to be active... still.
When we visited my brother and his wife in the Rockies last holiday we spent a typical day like this: 25 km bike ride, climb for 3 hours up a trail in the Rockies, swimming for a couple hours, then pick up haybales for a neighbour in a field... then go for a walk. You wouldn't believe what we were eating at the time. Two breakfasts and two dinners and a million snacks in between. Only one lunch though. But god, active people can pack it away. I remember seeing a documentary on the NZ Ballet company, Paddocks and Tutus or something, good doco, but the interviewer said to the male dancers "Oh, I suppose the ballerinas are always on diets and barely eat so much as a lettuce leaf, and the guys kind of fell over laughing, saying "more like, if you get between them and the food you're likely to lose and arm, and you'd better bloody hide any snacks you have..."
I come from a family of fearsome eaters (and excellent cooks, if I do say so myself) none of whom have ever weighed much more
than a cat. But as a neighbour of my brother's asked me "So, are you bizarrely energetic like your brother?" my sister in law and I both simultaneously said "Yes".But as for the appetite, it is what I am known for. Once, when my Chinese cousin Barbara was trying to describe me to an Italian lunch bar lady (who made the most incredible cannelloni and cibatta) had gone through the pantomime of "this high, this eye colour, so-and-so build" the woman could not place me until Barb finally said "She looks exactly like me only white and she eats an incredible amount for her size" and the woman exclaimed "Oh I know who you mean!".
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Kate Bush wrote a song about a spell for invisibility, which basically involved being female and middle aged.
Oooh what is it called?
I think it's called How To Be Invisible and it's off her latest album... a couple years ago or so. I always quite liked her music, but I don't think she ever toured, not to Canada anyway.
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I would so have gone out with him.
You say that now, but if you'd seen Jimmy, who had this whole James Dean look going on you'd have made the same choice I did, even if he was a waiter/math student and Bryan a rock star. Jimmy was just so... incredibly cute. And a math geek, and I liked that kind of thing, still do. Plus he was English, which as I say, was exotic at the tiem. Though he did become kind of a rock star (in Canada anyway) years after I dated him. the math came in handy eventually... Jimmy quit Sons of Freedom (the band unfortunately shared the name with a religious sect in Canada who are keen on naked arson, no kidding, though this was not the reason for them splitting up) and he became an engineer while Trent Reznor joined the rest of the Sons of Freedom and they became Jakalope.
Though English-ness can work against a guy. I remember seeing an episode of Friends and someone said of another character "Is he gay?" and someone else said "No, he's English" and my NZer husband asked me "Why do North Americans always think English people are gay?" and I said "Do you remember my boss Brian at AIDS Vancover?" to which Paulu replied "Yes" and I said "Well, he wasn't English" and Paul said "Yes he was" and I said "No, gay" and Paul said "But he wore a Burberry raincoat... he drank Earl Grey Tea, he collected antiques... he listened to chamber music for god's sake... " and I said "From Winnipeg...". Paul still can't quite get over that, but has experienced the phenomenon of finding Englishness indistinguishable from Gayness in North America.
Jimmy was working class though, which seems a bit more hetero to Canadians. Interestingly he completely identifies with Canadian-ness now, and doesn't consider himself English at all.
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Thank you for sharing. I've just been told off for singing 'Run to You'.
Now this is a Bryan Adams song I actually like.... but mostly for the guitar work.
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I like to think we're only invisible to people who are too lazy to read beyond our age or appearance. And they're people I don't really want to know anyway. Scratch the surface of most middleaged women and there's someone who's got a very interesting story, I've always thought.
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3410,
What is rock? It is perhaps a term that holds different meanings for different people. But if someone were to ask me what rock is, I would reply “Reckless, by Bryan Adams.”
Robyn, 11 years with "0 responses"?
I would've thought that was a pretty controversial article. ;)
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Robyn, 11 years with "0 responses"?
As it happens, that article moved into a commentable state about four months ago. I wonder what 11 years of Bryan Adams comments would look like.
I've just been told off for singing 'Run to You'.
It's such a brilliant song, especially the bridge with its moody, guitar that erupts into real a bad-ass guitar riff. The listener is left in no doubt that Bryan is going to run to you.
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I know - you're really a dog!
jeez man, now you're attacking how I look,
I'm not that bad looking...... am I?Who you calling bad looking? :)
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Who you calling bad looking? :)
me, a 65 year old one legged and apparently dog ugly, (unless he meant those nice husky dogs) jordan luck fan, who fondly remembers the day at the hilsborough when jordan nicked my crutches and threw then into the crowd. (great sense of humor that man) .......only got one back, but that's all I really needed.
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(unless he meant those nice husky dogs)
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(unless he meant those nice husky dogs)
Nice husky dog and polar bear playing together!
ahhhhh, so polarbears and sharp toothed dogs are our friends. thats a relief.
now I wonder what jordan meant by the dolphin references, I'm hoping its a late 80's rock band reference myself.
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