Jimmy Cargopants

Tell her that we've been married for six months ! I wish I was living there and could keep my favourite in a dungeon.

Gawd it sucks being old. I just can't relate to any music lbs like. It just underscores the fact that I am twice their age . A dad-in-disco disaster story!

Barfine-able? 55 Not the Stones obviously but I wonder why bands with a smaller audience but still very well known don't perform in TH. Especially in a place like Pattaya with its large visitor numbers and expat community. It's a ready-made audience for those bands. I think it's some kind of visa issue which prevents Western musicians performing (you'll see a few in Bangkok but they probably only play for beer money). Only the Filipino musicians seem to get a pass. It's a big missed opportunity by Thailand IMO.

Wickedly funny Grunt ! I imagine explaining the rules of cricket to them might have the same effect.

Tell them you have monkey pox. More seriously you can say you're not staying for long.

Details on what happened were pretty sketchy. A friend demanding money. Both high. Jen impulsively over reacting. It was out of character but she'd been heading for a big fall. F*cking drugs. Was her sentence only nine years? As this happened several years ago, she might be out in 1-2. I liked Jen a lot even though it was only a brief acquaintance - I hope she can sort her life out.

My favourite Radiohead track (*audio only* / there is a video but it's naff IMO) -

I think seeing the Stones and Dylan is money well spent mate. I haven't visited LOS since 2019 but did about ten times in the seven years before, and to be honest I was and am a bit jaded with Thailand. I'd rather see a music legend at home. (ladyboys.....meh!!) I like Beck too but heard a few stories which suggest he's a bit of a dick. Talented though.

You lucky cashed up concert-going bastards...! (Kidding - good luck to you all). My evening last night was at home listening to blues music - the old stuff like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Little Walter, Buddy Guy, Leadbelly, all those guys ... I don't have much patience with those today who say white people "stole" black music (music is supposed to break out of its culture and infect others), but it's totally true that white rock and roll couldn't have existed without the black man's blues. I would have loved to have been at this gig, a couple of years before Muddy passed -

QG had better not be the jealous type - Sunny says she wants "10,000 husbands by the time [she's] thirty". I think she's well on the way... I figured August might have a more traditional view to the sanctity of our marriage vows (which she doesn't know about yet).

I spent a fortune on the wedding to August (which she was absent from...can someone tell her!) So I have to start saving again from scratch... but like that yank, I shall return .

I'm glad to hear it was a top night. I wonder how August got on (frequent visitor, not staff) - She doesn't know it but we're embroiled in a passionate tempsterious (sp?) affair at the moment. In fact I've married her - She doesn't know that either!

Or wardrobe malfunctions?

This one was Jen, Cocktail and Dreams bar Phuket. Nearly 10 years ago. A great little femboy who I wish I'd known longer. Unfortunately had a bad drug habit and ended up going to jail for murder of all things. Totally out of character - she was very sweet and honest when I knew her...

This is an issue that grinds my gears - the expense of ticket prices these days. I saw bands all the time when I was younger, as we all did. Being young was part of the reason, but it was also affordable. I haven't seen many of the legends I want to (Stones come to mind) because I can't afford to pay bloody hundreds of dollars for the privilege!! I don't think it's always the musicians or promoters being greedy (though some are - looking at the Eagles). I understand there are huge overheads in mounting a tour, but it never used to be so expensive -- it's just something else that sucks about modern times!

I wish I knew how Mick dyes his hair (surely he must). It's a good job and looks alright. I tried just before my last trip to TH three years ago. I decided it looked awful (dead animal on my head!) and got it cut off with a severe hair cut in Jomtien (then looked like a criminal!)

I honestly don't think they do. These events made a lot more sense twenty and more years ago when there was far more active discrimination and hostility to alternate lifestyles. Nowadays they have achieved that acceptance, at least in our countries... There's no such thing as a LBGT+++ community btw. They're just as disparate a group as hetero people are. (That comes not from me, but an e-friend in the UK who is in a same sex marriage).

Pride months and gay parades leave me cold tbh. I don't relate to them as they don't seem to have anything to do with me. And the trans debate in the West gets pretty extreme and ridiculous IMO. But Pride month is a big deal for ladyboys in Thailand. It's meaningful for them and for that reason alone I applaud it. (Wish I could upload a 'ticktok' of a favourite BKK lb celebrating her pride month).

Apropos of nothing, a long time fav Bob track (one of only two original songs recorded on his first album) -

I've been impervious to Tom Cruise's charms almost from the moment I ever heard of him ......a big miss for me.

My last favourite bingeworthy tv series was Justified, which ran for six seasons I think. It's about US marshals in Kentucky. Unnecessarily violent but good story lines and characters. All time favourite series is The Wire. I don't think any other television drama ever made touches it or comes near. Epic in its scope and writing.

What a load of fuss about nothing. Ok I did watch the incident once. As duke said, only in America, and I'm all for it. Oscar nights are a bore anyway (very few decent films still made) so a bit of biffo might bring us back... Nothing I'd like to see more than Hollywood trash and the rich and shameless getting stuck into each other. They should drop names into a hat to pit celebs against each other. Oscar night becomes Fight night. Personally I'd like to see some child actors get belted like bells by men twice their size.

I hope they're easy questions. E.G. Who's bum is nicer - Kylie Minogue's or Grunt's?

I think "Mick" may have tried to enter the country dressed and appearing female. I don't think they can do that. Sunny had a haircut and needed to dress as a male to get into Dubai. I'm not sure about changing the gender shown on passports. I see it as a slippery slope to other changes. (Though tbh those changes are already happening).

I take it mandatory masks in TH still apply? At home it hasn't been compulsory for several months. But you still see some who do, like a neighbour here who wears hers to go to the letterbox.