Dear Green Place
April 21, 2008 on 9:46 pm |Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Garth Marenghi, glasgow, observations
1. There was a ned on the bus today with extraordinarily varied (and sometimes quite good) taste in music. Normally there’s someone at the back playing Happy Hardcore or something really loud on their mobile.
This particular gentleman started off with something like that, and then embarked on a musical odyssey which took in Mellow Yellow by Donovan, I Fought The Law by the Clash, a couple of The Jam songs and finally (and it had all been going so well) I Predict A Riot by the Kaiser Chiefs.
2. There’s something recognisable in this scene from Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (hilarious series btw):
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I still have your Darkplace DVD, sir. Must return it.
RE:Music from neds on buses-the ‘Electric Scarecrow’, the wandering court jester hangover from the ecstacy era that plagues Glasgow, can often be heard on the bus listening to “River Deep, Mountain High” by Ike and Tina Turner. Anytime I see his big grinning mug, he’s listening to it. Discuss…
Comment by Mark Buckland — 23rd April 2008 #
Ah! So it is you who still has the DVD!
God I love the jester guy and his salacious chatting-up of random men. He’s a whole heap of crazy.
ZOMG HE HAS A MYSPACE
Comment by G W — 23rd April 2008 #