Not much to report on the old BC front as we once again hunker in BC Towers writing new beats for ya’ll so lets get into a nice fat pointless rant….
As the man said ‘It is easier for a camel to lie about being gay than a needle to pass through the eye of a potato’ and this is more true today than it has ever been… Which leads me very neatly on to the hilarious sight of David Cameron valiantly trying to whip up some publicity by going to Africa whilst his constituency is doing a passable impression of Atlantis.
Now, obviously the concerns of Africa are of global importance and considering our dominance over the ‘dark continent’ in the past, Britain does owe them big…BUT, if you’re huddled with your entire family in a leisure centre watching your entire life’s possessions drift away down the high street, then you would hope that your local MP would at least have the decency to stay in the country and not try and draw focus away from your plight to try and improve his party’s image.
If the insane amount of flood damage across the country has proved one thing, it is the unique peculiarities of the British character. Ever since the first British newspaper came screaming out of it’s medieval printing press, every adversity Britain has had to face has been overcome by the ‘plucky’ attitude of us Brits…The problem is that it’s not really so much a brave attitude of ‘we can face it come what may’, but more a level-headed assertion of ‘There’s fuck all we can do about it, so we might as well just get on with it.’
During the various terrorist attacks on London, the news would always play up us ‘Plucky Brits’ defying the terrorists by carrying on as normal. Personally, my defying the terrorists by going to work was mostly due to the fact that if I didn’t I would have lost my job. Now, this may sound highly cynical, especially as I sit in my warm and dry environment, without fish waving to me through my blinds, but it’s actually meant as a compliment to the British spirit that when the shit (or massive deluge of water) hits the fan, people just get on with it….Apart of course from the basatrds selling drinkingwater for a tenner a thimbleful...
Maybe someone should follow Spike Lee’s incredible 4 hour opus about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (If you ain’t see it, then do) with a very British movie about the floods. Alan Bennett could write it, something along the lines of ‘My oh my, my Macaroon is moist’ or maybe an opera from Paul McCartney, ‘Requiem for a Soggy Sofa’. Plucky Brits could stand arm in arm defiant against the onslaught of the Thames drinking tea and whistling about Hitler’s missing testicle… Or maybe it would be easier just to jump on a plane and fuck off to Africa for a couple of days.
In other news….BC’s old bass player the fabulously bearded Jethro is getting hitched this very weekend to the ‘far too good for the likes of him’ Jen.
To the soon to be happy couple, Bomb Culture sends their enormous love and a massive salute to their happiness. J & J BC Salutes you!
Tune in next time when I’m sure we’ll be putting up some actual band news instead of a pointless rant about nothing…then again….
Bomb Culture – Like a giant umbrella of love in a deluge of hate.
As the man said ‘It is easier for a camel to lie about being gay than a needle to pass through the eye of a potato’ and this is more true today than it has ever been… Which leads me very neatly on to the hilarious sight of David Cameron valiantly trying to whip up some publicity by going to Africa whilst his constituency is doing a passable impression of Atlantis.
Now, obviously the concerns of Africa are of global importance and considering our dominance over the ‘dark continent’ in the past, Britain does owe them big…BUT, if you’re huddled with your entire family in a leisure centre watching your entire life’s possessions drift away down the high street, then you would hope that your local MP would at least have the decency to stay in the country and not try and draw focus away from your plight to try and improve his party’s image.
If the insane amount of flood damage across the country has proved one thing, it is the unique peculiarities of the British character. Ever since the first British newspaper came screaming out of it’s medieval printing press, every adversity Britain has had to face has been overcome by the ‘plucky’ attitude of us Brits…The problem is that it’s not really so much a brave attitude of ‘we can face it come what may’, but more a level-headed assertion of ‘There’s fuck all we can do about it, so we might as well just get on with it.’
During the various terrorist attacks on London, the news would always play up us ‘Plucky Brits’ defying the terrorists by carrying on as normal. Personally, my defying the terrorists by going to work was mostly due to the fact that if I didn’t I would have lost my job. Now, this may sound highly cynical, especially as I sit in my warm and dry environment, without fish waving to me through my blinds, but it’s actually meant as a compliment to the British spirit that when the shit (or massive deluge of water) hits the fan, people just get on with it….Apart of course from the basatrds selling drinkingwater for a tenner a thimbleful...
Maybe someone should follow Spike Lee’s incredible 4 hour opus about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (If you ain’t see it, then do) with a very British movie about the floods. Alan Bennett could write it, something along the lines of ‘My oh my, my Macaroon is moist’ or maybe an opera from Paul McCartney, ‘Requiem for a Soggy Sofa’. Plucky Brits could stand arm in arm defiant against the onslaught of the Thames drinking tea and whistling about Hitler’s missing testicle… Or maybe it would be easier just to jump on a plane and fuck off to Africa for a couple of days.
In other news….BC’s old bass player the fabulously bearded Jethro is getting hitched this very weekend to the ‘far too good for the likes of him’ Jen.
To the soon to be happy couple, Bomb Culture sends their enormous love and a massive salute to their happiness. J & J BC Salutes you!
Tune in next time when I’m sure we’ll be putting up some actual band news instead of a pointless rant about nothing…then again….
Bomb Culture – Like a giant umbrella of love in a deluge of hate.
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