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Shayne Tod Slaughter
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'Notebooks out, plagiarists!'

"A host of balding, bespectacled, slightly confused looking gentlemen milling about, peering vaguely at prices for exotic sounding ales that look more like Stock Exchange commodities tells me I'm in the right place"

#MD ANT
#PavementThursday

Been listening to a lot of *Punktry & Western* recently. This would be a fair example.

"I can't sing it strong enough
'Cause that kind of strength I just don't have
If you watch the light change
Don't hold them hanging..."

*Dunno if this phrase exists

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Zürich Is Stained
YouTube video by Pavement - Topic
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November 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
#FallFriday

Been under the doctor this week. No good news. And everything hurts...🙄

"I've been pursuing the fuel too long
Got a big fat pain in my chest bone
Got an empty pocketbook
Got a big fat no no in my chequebook
And everything hurts..."

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The Fall - Everything Hurtz (1992)
YouTube video by antippasti
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November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
#PavementThursday

With the weekend approaching, one for all you flat-pack fitting freaks! 🙂

"And we all know that by staying here
It will be a good high this year
So what's the use of staying there
If you've got no use for time..."

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Pavement - Date With Ikea
YouTube video by WeezerFan4Ever
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November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#FallFriday

Black cat season

'All that is fantastic leagues against me
The fantastic is in league against me
Tin can rattle on the path
The bestial greed is on the attack
The cat black runs round the tree...'

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October 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
#PavementThursday

Encouraged by the earlier post by @dirty-old-goon.bsky.social that contained the line:

'What about the voice of Geddy Lee?', I went a different, but similar, way...(some of you may see wot I have done, here 🙂)

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Pavement - Rattled By The Rush (Official Video)
YouTube video by Pavement
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October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A better than good evening at the ever excellent Lexington tonight, viewing that rarest of birds, the nesting Swell Maps. Man, they were good and, erm...danceable! New stuff was getting there, old stuff was exactly what I wanted. And spoke (briefly) to @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Off to Londonville to view what remains of Swell Maps.

🤔

Sounds like I'm off to see ancient ruins...but that's next week!! Boom, tish, etc 🙄

(Apologies to Jowe Head, @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social etc for low-grade jests)
October 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#FallFriday

Seasonal Fall Friday time.

"I really only came back to meet Paul McCartney..."

Skin Mummy!

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The Fall - I'm A Mummy
YouTube video by Contraflow
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October 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
#PavementThursday

Smokin' bones...

"Watch out for the gypsy children in electric dresses, they're insane
I hear they live in crematoriums and smoke your remains
You are the light, the calm in the day
You are the light, the calm in the day..."

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You Are a Light
YouTube video by Pavement - Topic
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October 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reposted by Shayne Tod Slaughter
🎯 read the full thread

#spéirghorm
It's all just so frustrating and predictable, isn't it? For years people have been warning of the far right rising in Ireland and we've been laughed at and dismissed by the media and the government. In turn, the govt. have not acted, have treated right wing agitators with kid gloves.
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
#FallFriday

Head still full of recent visit to the city of York, and the start of the Witching Season:

"Infest my home at night
They are not alright
Ten times my age
One tenth my height

Our city hobgoblins
Our city hobgoblins..."

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October 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
#PavementThursday

War, whatever Forest Trump says, continues...

"Got struck by the first volley
Of the war in the corps
Never held my service
Send 'em a wire
Give 'em my best
This ammunition never rests
No one serves coffee
No one wakes up..."

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Stop Breathin
YouTube video by Pavement - Topic
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October 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Reposted by Shayne Tod Slaughter
I’m Gail, a one woman business, based in Manchester.
I create prints, homewares & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture.
Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#PavementThursday

Malkmus at maximum mysterioso! I admit to being slightly obsessed with this song upon purchase 🙄

"Fun for an hour when the hour's gone
Can one trick nights feed 40 days?
In my bed at the break of dawn
She shivered like a vein slashed bright and new..."

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Perfume-V
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October 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
#PavementThursday

Arranging death! 😬

"I can see the lines open shutters
And the leaves flocked on a grid
That's what they made my hero say
But nothing gets me off so completely
Then, when you put it down
Ten feet down in the ground
Call it response
Negative home..."

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Stop Breathin
YouTube video by Pavement - Topic
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October 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Reposted by Shayne Tod Slaughter
Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This Sunday (28 Sept)! My last gig of the year! Once you've atoned for your sins in the morning, come and commit some more at The Lexington with me, Jowe Head and Luke Haines – all to benefit Resonance 104.4fm ...

www.thelexington.co.uk/event.php?id...
Jowe Head & Infernal Trinity / Luke Haines / David Lance Callahan at The Lexington London. Live Music, DJs, Beer and Bourbon
8.00 Jowe Head & Infernal Trinity8.55 Luke Haines9.50 David CallahanResonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station specialising in the arts run by the London Musicians' Collective (LMC). It aims to provide a radical alternative to mainstream broadcasting, and features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London’s arts scenes, with regular weekly contributions from nearly 200 musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, and activists. Resonance FM offers London over 100 regular weekly broadcasts, while Resonance EXTRA reaches out on small-scale DAB to Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, London and Norwich. Resonance also attracts listeners worldwide by the web - over 700,000 last year in over 100 countries. All this relies on volunteer broadcasters: their contributions have garnered Resonance the prestigious Gold Award as Audio UK's "Network of the Year" for two years running. In 2006 the station was nominated for "The Community Award" by the Sony Radio Academy Awards, and has won the Radio Academy Nations and Regions Award for London for three consecutive years between 2009 and 2011. Resonance is currently fund-raising to equip their new broadcast studio near London Bridge - and to stay afloat in this difficult time for the arts. Luke Haines Luke has recorded music under various names and with various bands, including The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder. Haines formed The Auteurs in 1991, and they were nominated for a Mercury Prize. Soon after, Haines formed solo side project called Baader-Meinhof named after the German far-left terrorist group. Haines formed Black Box Recorder with John Moore and Sarah Nixey. Recently, Haines and Peter Buck, formerly of R.E.M., collaborated on an album, Beat Poetry for Survivalists, which was released in 2020. David Lance Callahan Former singer with The Wolfhounds and 90s ‘post-rock’ innovators Moonshake, David Lance Callahan has also toured and collaborated with PJ Harvey, Stereolab and My Bloody Valentine, and played at Lollapalooza and All Tomorrow’s Parties. Over the last few years, he has pursued a well-received solo career, writing and performing spooked social commentary, accompanied by his unique guitar style. His two solo LPs so far – English Primitive I and II – have seamlessly mixed folk, blues, West African, Arabic and post-punk influences to produce a distinctive blend. His recently released LP – Down to the Marshes – adds a horn section, string quartet and musical saw to the recipe. Jowe Head and Infernal Trinity Jowe Head (aka Stephen Bird) is a British guitarist, singer, and visual artist, was a founder member of Swell Maps. He has also released a large amount of material as a solo artist and as band-leader or collaborator in various groups. After Swell Maps broke up in 1980, he embarked on a solo career, and also performed with Television Personalities, The Palookas, The Househunters, Angel Racing Food, Eleventh Hour Adventists, the Demi- Monde, Rude Mechanicals, and Infernal Contraption. His current projects are Swell Maps C21, and Infernal Trinity, who also feature Ravi Low-Beer, Catherine Gerbrands,and Kathryn Davies
www.thelexington.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
#FallFriday

Turn on my hotel tv. Still, the orange man-baby looms...

"Every time there's orange on TV
The brass are saying good news to me
Every time there's orange on TV
the brass are saying good news to me
I've been duped
I've been duped..."

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The Fall - I've Been Duped
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September 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
#PavementThursday

Marking the final week of the cricket season:

"Carrot rope, feed my thrill
I got beat by weather
Carrot rope, feed my thrill
It's time to get me off of the ground
The wicket keeper is down..."

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Pavement - Carrot Rope (Official Video)
YouTube video by Pavement
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September 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Shayne Tod Slaughter
It’s UK publication day for ‘A Poem for Every Question’, my new collection of poems for children, illustrated by the brilliant Joe Berger.

It should be available through your local bookshop. Alternatively, here’s a page with links to some online booksellers: harpercollins.co.uk/products/a-p...
September 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
We share a car park with Wickes. Odd what people rock up in/on to pick up their sand, cement, and ironmongery 🙄
September 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My business is next door to a branch of Wickes. Odd what people rock up in/on to pick up their cement, plaster & ironmongery...🙄
September 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#FallFriday

Can't wait for the Big Orange Baby to be out of my news feeds. Gives nothing, takes everything 🤨

"Endless outstretched hands
Are the result of all you've given
Close it out just for now
There's a by-way to the south..."

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Jim's "The Fall"
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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September 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
#PavementThursday

2nd week on the trot: a really cute Pavement song ❤️

"Honey, I'm a prize and you're a catch
And we're a perfect match
Like two bitter strangers
And now I see the long
The short of it and I can make it last
I could spit on a stranger..."

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Pavement - Spit On A Stranger (Official Video)
YouTube video by Pavement
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September 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
##FallFriday

The perils of driving...🙄

"He sees life through the back of the blackheads at in front
He sees life through a broken chip
He sees life through a chip
He sees life a broken glass window
Chip!
Glass
Glass..."

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Auto Chip 2014-2016
YouTube video by The Fall - Topic
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September 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM