Toadcast #74 – The Poolcast
Mrs. Toad and I might be gallivanting about the Italian countryside, but we are still thinking of you, our loyal Toadlings. We may be relaxing by the pool, but we understand that life might not be quite so easy for those of you at home. Actually, fuck it, life is never this easy for us either. This is like some bizarre anomaly for us – time, peace, reading books… it’s all so fucking restful I’ve almost forgotten to swear at the locals.
The place we’re staying is just plain ridiculous. We are living in what amounts to the tiniest of little comedy garden sheds imaginable, but the outside space is some great big gigantic plaza. It’s just ridiculous.
Fortunately, there is something to lower the tone. Nature is basically a great big urinal, as we all know, and I have been doing my best to maintain a time-honoured male principle of ‘no place being too sacred or picturesque for having a sly piss’. So when the bladder beckons, so does the wall, and there I go to water the olive groves of Puglia. It feels like a public service, really it does.
Thanks again to Euan and the lads for keeping things going while we’re away. The connection here is so damn slow I really haven’t been able to read it all, but Mrs. Toad periodically checks up on things on her Blackberry (the woman’s insane) and lets me know how things are going. This news I generally treat with an indifferent grunt, before returning to the pondering of precisely which sort of cheese I most fancy for lunch, but I appreciate her efforts.
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01. The Shaky Hands – Summer’s Life (03.26)
02. Lemonjelly – Spacewalk (12.45)
03. Grandaddy – Ghost of 1672 (19.44)
04. Billie Holiday – Good Morning Heartache (24.36)
05. Animal Magic Tricks (with Neil from Meursault & Pete from The Leg) (34.42)
06. Edith Piaf – C’etait Une Histoire D’amour (38.11)
07. The Flaming Lips – Can’t Get You Out of My Head (48.12)
08. Wilco – Jolly Banker (52.17)
09. The Laurel Collective – No Pirates Left (63.04)
10. Yoshimi! – Philosophy For Fangirls (69.12)
has kate recently been either…
a. employed by waterstones?
or…
b. drafted in as a panelist on richard & judy’s book of the week?
just curious.
happy holidays fuckwits.
Ah, taking a piss in the out-of-doors is always a treat. One feels a communion with one’s hunter-gatherer ancestors. But when you combine that kidney elixir with a stunning, sun-baked Mediterranean landscape, well…that’s a holiday in itself.
Great podcast.
Now get back to being on holiday you total fuckwits!
Only four songs in and you two are sounding so relaxed and congenial, it’s damn creepy! But honestly, very glad you’re having such a nice time… and we know you DO TOO miss us! xoxo
Amusingly the holiday song that Matthew is refering to that he like is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yUGDKDOoV0
I remember because I went home and bought it. Oh the shame.
Also they were Canadian that we hung out with. And you can’t be mean about them because the fella was still friendly and pleasant despite the fact that we were basically trying to rob his girlfriend off him.
Spastic?
Fantastic use of phrase Mr Young!!!