salt of the earth....

Birmingham

1870

raise your glass to the hard working people.
lets drink to the salt of the earth.
Jagger/Richards
Salt Of The Earth.

Went down to Upper Hutt on the train today.
Sat next to an Englishman who did an engineering apprenticeship in Birmingham in the 1950s.
Heard some great yarns.
He has been back to England recently and Birmingham took some knocks when it de-industrialised but is now the centre for barging on the canals.
It is the terminus for the Grand Union Canal and you can go to Manchester or Staffordshire at 7 miles per day!
hehehehehehe.

Lacy Dalton.
More salt of the earth. 'Survivor' album is up there with the greats.
It is shit hot and I nearly flipped when it arrived in the mail from the USA.
Fabulous songs and great music.

now the nitwits.
I lived through the cold war and I cant ever recall a Soviet Russian leader crowing about reducing the United States to pile of radioactive ash like the Moscow Television person Dmitri Kiselyov. Is there something in the water in Moscow or have you been reading too many comics and playing too many computer games? Or is it too much hashish?  Why would a responsible person say something like that?
Don't they teach any history in Russia anymore or is Kiselyov suffering from what the Germans call, machbarkeitswahn or juvenile fantasies of omnipotence. And knocking out a city won't knock out America and only invite the most severe retribution.
And FYI if they haven't taught you this the Americans have always had better equipment and more accurate delivery systems than the soviet issues.
You are a complete ninny.

And Steve Tew.
"Rugby People" pride themselves on being, upright, honest, forthright, straightforward, direct etc, but the whole edifice crumbles when they use interrogatives doesn't it. I don't care how many chemicals how many all blacks want to bang their brains with but I do care when the head of the rugby union is quoted using invalid, dishonest and disrespectful assertions. If you cant say what you mean without adding an interrogative asking people to agree with you then it would be better it you just shut up. Wouldn't it?


anyway Upper Hutt is a breath of fresh air. Its like going to another country. At the Warehouse I got a DVD of Lou Reeds Transformer with interviews with Lou and the musicians including the thin white dook himself.
and another el cheapo of Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn also with interviews and the BEST songs.
yes indeedy.
Caught the train home and got off at Featherston and bussed the rest of the way up the valley.
Greytown looked busy and the files were green with sparkling corn and yodelayey oh.
tee hee.

and dont forget tonight on Channel 4.
RAMBO FIRST BLOOD.
in THE TOP TEN BEST MOVIES EVER MADE!!!!!!!!!!!