November 2011
1 post
“They claim you never know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. I...”
– Kanye West, in his saner days.
October 2011
1 post
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind...”
– A particularly apt quote from Henry Ford. Watch the Everything Is A Remix video to see how nothing is an original work of genius but rather a reinterpretation of everything that has gone before it.
September 2011
2 posts
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.
You built a...”
– Elizabeth Warren.
6 tags
August 2011
1 post
“Create a society that values material things above all else. Strip it of...”
– Andrew Maxwell
May 2011
2 posts
“I’m not a meteorologist. All I know is 90 percent of the scientists say...”
– Jon Huntsman
“We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor...”
– President John F. Kennedy, 1962.
April 2011
2 posts
“If he made me in his image, then he’s a failure too.”
– Laura Marling - Failure
“It’s every band’s right, you shouldn’t have to do fucking Glee. And then the guy...”
– Dave Grohl on Ryan Murphy: ‘F-ck That Guy’ | Vulture
(via popculturebrain)
March 2011
3 posts
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
– Bertrand Russell
“I wish that I believed in fate,
I wish I didn’t sleep so late,
I used to...”
– The National - Mr. November
“I’m so happy for the Middle East - on a purely selfish level - it’s...”
– My friend Tom Wilcox, from a letter he just sent me.
September 2010
2 posts
1 tag
Storytelling songs
I have no idea what most of the music I listen to is about. I can know every single word of a song without ever understanding what they mean. I often think that some songwriters make their songs purposely cryptic so they seem mysterious and edgy. Sometimes it’s an advantage, if I understood the Christian references in the songs of Athlete, it would probably ruin them for me, and...
Top 5 best things I ever did
Left my all boys grammar school to go to Brockenhurst College.
Chose to study in Bristol.
Kissed my girlfriend for the first time.
Worked up the courage to send my sitcom script out.
Left the job I hated.
If you ever get the opportunity do any of those things, I would highly recommend them. But please don’t kiss MY girlfriend.
August 2010
2 posts
“All is fleeting,
Yeah, but all is good.
And my love is my whole being,
And...”
– Give A Little Love - Noah and the Whale
1 tag
My rampant text life
I’ve been trying to throw things out this weekend, but I’m clinically sentimental and find it really hard. For example, I still have every phone handset I’ve ever owned. The reason I keep them is that they’re full of memories, text messages I’ve received and sent. I hardly ever send texts anymore, thanks to instant messaging, Facebook and the arduousness of typing on a touchscreen keyboard....
July 2010
3 posts
“In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a...”
– Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London.
“Like I said in my non hit comedy Cruise Boat: “I’m too old for this...”
– Tracey Jordan - 30 Rock
“Love is to be valued because it enhances all the best pleasures, such as music,...”
– Bertrand Russell
April 2010
1 post
February 2010
1 post
“Don’t wanna waste no more time,
Time’s what we don’t have....”
– Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies - Biffy Clyro
I’ve been getting into Biffy Clyro a lot recently. As Phil puts it, they’re the thinking man’s emo. I’m always amazed by the soothing appeal of sad music, because in my experience “I listen to pop music because...
January 2010
4 posts
My songs of 2009
I was inspired to put together a playlist of songs from 2009 that I like, because of the awful NME 2009 Spotify playlist that I caught my girlfriend listening to.
I loathe NME, a magazine that applies a high-school popularity contest to the music business, being at once sycophantic to the trendy kids they’ve labelled “cool” and bullies towards the mainstream kids. They...
“Gotta get a juicer, drink juice, lose weight, won’t get chest pains from...”
– Homer Simpson.
This classic line seems to perfectly sum up my current situation. I’ve had a headache for a month, which is likely caused by neck and back pain I’ve developed from working at a desk all day. So, I’m desperately trying to spend time writing in the hope that my...
“I like it when a woman has ambition. It’s like seeing a dog wearing clothes.”
– Jack Donaghy - 30 Rock.
I can’t get enough of this show at the moment. It’s brilliant in so many ways.
The films I watched in 2009
At the start of 2009 I decided that I would keep track of every film I watched in the year, with the rating I give it out of ten. Back then I’m not sure what the purpose was, but a year later I have the perfect platform for such a list. The kind of end of year list that will prove to be so popular with readers who are not at all tired of reading round-ups of the passing year.
The films...
December 2009
1 post
Jon's Christmas Crackers
I’ve created the definitive Christmas playlist, by hand-picking the best recordings of the classic Christmas songs. Let me know if I’m forgetting a classic. Although I’m pretty confident it’s perfect.
Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmastime Shakin’ Stevens...
November 2009
4 posts
WatchI wrote the voiceover script for this video! A flashy Playstation trailer that is on the Playstation site, the Playstation Europe blog, US gaming blog Joystiq and plenty of other places. Sure, they did edit my script a bit, and the voiceover guy is a kind of annoying, but I’m still excited about it! And it’s promoting a rather cool new video download service for Playstation, which if...
“Saw the same two men on the Cally road. Said now they double their offer, I was...”
– The Libertines - Up The Bracket. Heard this lyric last night at Indieoke. It’s nice living somewhere which is referenced in a song. Even if the song is written by the world’s most famous scaghead.
October 2009
5 posts
The Blogging Diaries - Part 2
After SpiroGate, the disgraced radio presenter that I was decided to lay low for a while. I’d been burnt by Google, foolishly forgetting that when I was writing to my friends, it was accessible to the whole world.
However, the scandal had coincided with a rich vein of blogging, and I wasn’t prepared to give it up all together. I decided to take my blogging underground, with a covert...
Plans - Death Cab For Cutie →
I can’t believe I’ve only just found this brilliant album. I could have been listening to it for 4 years and now I’ve only got 75 years left in which to enjoy it. I hold my idiot friends fully responsible.
How did I find it? Thanks to Ricky Gervais posting a song from it on his blog. So, not only did he create one of my top five favourite sitcoms of all time, he also...
The Blogging Diaries - Part One
This tumblog is my fifth attempt foray into the world of blogging and the fourth incarnation of SpiroJunk, which, for the slow of mind, is an anagram of my name. Which, for the bereft of mind, is Jon Purkis.
I first got into blogging in 2004, inspired by the trendsetting Phil and his then successful Phil’s Brains blog. I was at University, so I had plenty of time in which to blog and...