there has been some rebuff, rebuke and remonstrant reaction, then. i tried, look you see, to do something a little different with the calendar update for July, to be sure. for some reason this has not gone at all as well as i had hoped, with some insisting that i discard it, pretend like it never happened and put up the usual, more traditional one.
well, i am not inclined to either delete or edit anything on here. but, for the sake or interest of those of you who for some reason wish to have the full set, here you go.
yes, indeed, no you are not mistaken. up on the Winnie The Pooh calendar what we rather needlessly have in our kitchen (except me sister loves the character so there), things are a bit different. out of respect for the month, the artist responsible has not done a picture or painting of a traditional Winnie The Pooh "expanded universe" character. instead, he or she has done a very respectful portrait of Mani out of The Stone Roses, if he happened to be Winnie The Pooh.
quite a fitting (and quite brilliant) tribute, since of course on 1st July this year it was the 7th anniversary of myself, my (considerably) better half, two very dear friends and many thousands of fellow devotees seeing The Stone Roses perform their thing at Heaton Park.
of course i spent the day enjoying as much of their music as was possible. some one hundred and twenty miles over the course of four hours i drove to do this.
my listening encompassed a significant percentage of their vibes, covering the four "main" or principal discs released in their name. to go as chronological as possible, the playing order was The Stone Roses, Turns Into Stone, Second Coming and The Very Best Of The Stone Roses. what i missed out on, then, was Garage Flower, a few things on The Complete Stone Roses, less than satisfactory b-sides from Second Coming (which i think are Breakout and Moses), plus the two (in Stone Roses terms) recent tunes All For One and Beautiful Thing.
sadly, so far, Beautiful Thing has not had a CD release. i mean yes, i have the 12" single here, and the numerous mp3 downloads i ended up buying, so i suppose i could make a copy to listen to on my travels. as it seems a third album, even my much hoped for Christmas with The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses, is unlikely, perhaps they will release (yet) another "best of" and have the two new(ish) singles included.
right, well, back to the more classical calendar rundown for the month. which means of course a look at my "retro" cars one. unlike the Winnie The Pooh one, absolutely no tribute or homage to The Stone Roses is to be found here.
indeed that is a 1978 Austin Allegro, optimistically dubbed or also called the "1100 Deluxe" model. what colour is it? brown, of course, just like how absolutely everything made or imported into the UK during the 70s was brown for some peculiar reason. unless it was one of the few items which were a gaudy, horrid orange instead.
no, so far as i am aware this car has no particular connection or tenuous (at best) link to The Stone Roses. it is entirely possible that someone with this model car played a Stone Roses tape in it, but if asked for an opinion i would say that i suspect not.
anyway, this, i am certain, is enough to satisfy those who wished for a regular look at the calendars for this month. or, at the least, this is as good as it shall get.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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