Lance Henriksen, on how Paradisi approached this gig: "It doesn't matter what we shoot as long as we can put music and sound to it."

sure, those are secretarial skills, essential for being a helpmeet to your future husband/boss

sold a bill of goods

This is progress, yes, but so much that is sold as 'AI'—I'm looking at you Large Language Models—is not, it's naff, and arguably regressive, to the extent that substitutes for human thought and creativity

My enemy's enemy is my friend: it's okay to be anti-semitic if you are anti-Islam first.

Next up the liberals who "failed to assimilate" to traditional American values.

Halcyon years, '84-'86.

Right, yeah, Wild Boys era Duran Duran were massive in Italy. No chanting on the Steve McQueen tour in Bristol, IIRC. Modest, appreciative echoes from that crowd.

I did not know about San Remo! Wild.

okay so I've never understood why it's called flapjack here, then again 'granola bar' seems too literal, not happy with that

"I am the smartest criminal parrot in the world!" Possibly the only criminal parrot.

definitely worth a trillion dollars, no doubt about it, the market for infantile toys for immature boys is vast

Gooood

I forget when I picked up Swoon, but was playing it to death spring '84—insisted on taking it on family holiday, not sure how I played it, did I transfer it to cassette? 'Steve McQueen' was the Saturday it came out, couldn't wait, already had double 7" of 'When Love Breaks Down.'

One of the great Christmas songs. Nails it.

‘I can feel my aged heart beating.’

okay, but next time I'm bringing invoices