Last weeks memes trends were heavily invested in US Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders wearing recycled mittens and, towards the end of the week, focusing on Conor McGregor's 2nd round tko defeat. As I saw a couple of people complain about these trends exploding and being everywhere, I've left them to the end for you to enjoy, or skip.
The link below will take you to an Oscar nominated short - I was hoping to show the entire video here like I can with YouTube videos, but Blogger doesn't extend the same courtesy towards Vimeo vids.
A little touch of beauty
Come on, Conor, you're already behind posting schedule. Ah wait a minute nobody is reading this thing? Well then, relax, keeping this blog is an imaginary self appointed objective, designed to give me a slight sense of meaning in the existance of a 33 year old pseudo-unemployed single man, partially living in his mother's house during a global pandemic. That sounds depressing, doesn't it? Ah well - it's not like there's probably another massive economic recession on the way, the right wing isn't on the rise and global warming isn't a looming shadow of horror upon the planet, is it? Oh wait! Ahhh, this may just be the mid-January depression that hits alot of folk, that period where Christmas is a distant memory and the New Year's Resolutions have already come crashing down.
Despite all this doom and gloom, here's this week's memes, a few left over from the Capitol Hill fall out of last week, a few jabbing at the Tory/school lunches scandal, where Chartwells was given £30 for each child needing free school lunches to provide five meals, of course as it turned out what they had provided barely amounted to a £5 shop in the cheapest supermarkets.
Tomorrow: Tuesday's Thoughts, yes, the plan was Tuesday Tunes, but I'm still listening to nothing but 'The Hu' at the minute
My taste of music might be awful. There are reams of songs, particularly from the early naughties which I am fond of. I really don't mind a lot of Nu Metal songs, nor do I mind a lot of mainstream rap from the same era. For a man not a fan of homophobia, I have played DMX tunes constant times despite his "show no love for homo thugs" or incessant use of that slur synonymous with bundles of kindling. I mean this is my most listened to 2020 list.
See that top one? That's a weird grime song where rappers like Stormzy rap about getting socks for Christmas, whilst Mr Biggz informs us that "It's a pony for a pumpy", which I feel is the most British gangster thing since the Ice Cream Wars, or Michael Caine said "You're a big man, but you're in bad shape.."
The second top one? ALCOHAULIN' ASS. Which I felt was my "escaping London in this fall of Roman Empire/Will Smith I Am Legend time period" theme tune. Then moving on, we have a couple of "synth-wave" or "outrun" music i.e. electronic music for sad sacks like myself not cool enough for house or techno, but feel that the ever geeky throwback to 80s computer games and Scarface soundtrack tunes is more in line with my "slightly edgier nerd" ethos, a multitude of slightly more obscure than usual classic rock tunes "because I'm an old head in a young-ish body", "desert rock" and even WWE entrance themes. At least 50% of that playlist is guilty pleasure stuff. So I am, trying to "grow up" with my music taste, even though the clock is ticking as according to some studies, we stop discovering new music after 30. I am four years overdue in this regard.
So what have I discovered in recent time? Well, I've been aware of these guys for at least a year but my soundtrack of January 2021 is heavily dominated by these fellas.
