Friday Gives You a Bunch of Fives
After a day of indolence yesterday I am back on the horse, so to speak, to bring you our favourite time-wasting indulgence: the Five Friday Favourites. I can’t think of anything more tedious and unfair on Friday than being expected to actually do the work which we are paid to sit at our desks and do, so I spend the day pottering about on the internet, sorting out artwork for Toad releases, playing silly computer games, and keeping a nice Photoshop rendering ready to pop up onto my screen should anyone happen to walk by.
What are your plans for the weekend, then? I have to do some tedious DIY stuff on Saturday like wiring up the light in the kitchen and stuff like that. Then of course there’s the small matter of installing Mrs. Toad’s gigantic fucking Mirrorball in the living room. Yes, mirrorball. It’s at least two feet across as well, so if I don’t kill myself by trying to balance on top of the ladder then I may snap my spine in half trying to lift the sodding thing up onto its hook thingy. Mind you, think how cool the Toad Sessions are going to be with that bloody great thing in the room. Splendid!
This week’s five have been submitted by Dylan from Blueback Hotrod, official Toad photographer and proud sporter of the Golden Leek award for excessive Welshness. He insists that it is currently Mo-vember, when we should all be growing beards and moustaches for charity. This sounds like a load of old bollocks to me, but I can’t be bothered to look it up, so we’ll just have to take his word for it.
See all the Edinburgh lot tomorrow night in the Bowery for Alex Cornish, and as for the rest of you, get your weekend greetings in here, and wait for tomorrow’s podcast. Have fun Toadlings.
1. Best celebrity moustache.
2. Optimum sideburn length.
3. Nasal hair: trim or pluck?
4. When does beard sculpture go too far? Discuss.
5. Your own best personal achievement in the field of facial topiary. (Alternative ladies’ question: favourite knitting pattern.)
And this week’s five random songs come from an enormous pile of music I downloaded from my friend Morgan a while back, but still haven’t had the time to go through properly.
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Bass Culture
Captain Beefheart – Grown So Ugly
Red Sovine – Phantom 409 If you’re thinking ’surely not that Phantom 409′, then the answer is yes, that Phantom 409. Fucking cool, eh.
Serge Gainsbourg – Couleur Cafe
Fela Kuti – Viva Nigeria
