Second of all, thanks. I’d like to see some fresh voices in here, but that’s how it goes and I like enjoying the banter with you all.

But yes, I love it too, it’s like a village square. And also I can’t think of anything that I want to do with my blog that you haven’t done already - you’ve set the bar beyond which imagination cannot venture, you’ve created a world in which things cannot exist without it, and for that I salute you. Possibly with two fingers, but the sentiment is there. Don’t wish it never existed, because one day it won’t and you shall sit wistfully poring over the days when you had a vent and a muse in one, and people to enjoy it with.

Sometimes. Other times I wish it never existed, but I think all bloggers have that.

Franko - thanks, that’s brilliant. I love this blog.

for the record, i don’t think jackson’s lyrics are “pretentious”, even though he was 17 when he wrote them, any more than i think that ben gibbard’s lyrics on the death cab’s “plans” album are, even though he is (by my standards) quite the youngster. i prefer the terms “worldly” or even “wise beyond his years”.

Pretentious? Lui?

And as for Jethro Tull- you got it all wrong. They were classic rock posing as cod-English tripe prog. Or minstrels.
While we called them Jethro Dull when they played live, I still lost my virginity to ‘Thick as a Brick’.

Thanks Franko - The arrangement on this song was done by Gregg Allman, southern rock legend and all round dude. I’ve never heard the Nico or the Allman version, but I’d very much like to one day.