Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
Tripping Along The Ledge
“I really admire any game that can go on for five days and not produce a winner”
EOIN BUTLER talks to Neil Hannon about cricket, Britpop and “Father Ted”.
What are you listening to these days?
I listen to far too much music that is not considered cool. I’m a lifelong fan of Cole Porter and Noel Coward. I also love Maurice Ravel. As far as pop music is concerned, it tends to be strangely commercial stuff. I’ll find I’m just mad about a Sugababes song or something. The new Jarvis Cocker album is brilliant too, much better than his first album. I was always a massive Pulp fan.
Do I recall that you and Jarvis once had an argument about an anorak?
That has a basis in truth. Jarvis and I once did a joint cover shoot for a French magazine. I turned up wearing an anorak, basically, because I had no clue. It got back to me afterwards that Jarvis had been outraged. The phrase he used was “You’ve got to live it” [referring to being a pop star, presumably]. Afterwards, I thought “Hmm . . . He was probably right.” But we never had a face-to-face argument. Read the rest of this article here.
NOW I’M A FOOL (2008)
This starts off like it’s going to be an epic melodrama in the vein of Don’t Worry Baby, but quickly morphs into one of those slithery Stones numbers from the 1980s, in which Mick Jagger would pretend that evil women were taking advantage of his good nature. Read the rest of this entry »
“I really admire any game that can go on for five days and not produce a winner”
EOIN BUTLER talks to Neil Hannon about cricket, Britpop and “Father Ted”.
What are you listening to these days?
I listen to far too much music that is not considered cool. I’m a lifelong fan of Cole Porter and Noel Coward. I also love Maurice Ravel. As far as pop music is concerned, it tends to be strangely commercial stuff. I’ll find I’m just mad about a Sugababes song or something. The new Jarvis Cocker album is brilliant too, much better than his first album. I was always a massive Pulp fan.
Do I recall that you and Jarvis once had an argument about an anorak?
That has a basis in truth. Jarvis and I once did a joint cover shoot for a French magazine. I turned up wearing an anorak, basically, because I had no clue. It got back to me afterwards that Jarvis had been outraged. The phrase he used was “You’ve got to live it” [referring to being a pop star, presumably]. Afterwards, I thought “Hmm . . . He was probably right.” But we never had a face-to-face argument. Read the rest of this entry »
AS A PORN MOVIE TITLER, I MAY LACK PROMISE
* When Harry Met Sally, They Had Sex with One Another
* The Matrix-sex
* Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines Are Humping
THE TAYTO YEARS
This week, I’ve been inveigled into writing on the topic ‘Food Memories of the 1980s’. It’s kind of a tall order, given that I was only a small boy during that decade. It was all a blur of penny sweets and Subbuteo as far as I can recall .
Go on, they said. There must be a few special Eighties food memories that stick out… Well, there was that time Duran Duran dropped by my house and we ate Rice Krispie Buns and played Space Invaders together.
Really, they gasped? No, of course not, you idiots. Read the rest of this entry »
THIS IS FUNNY (1965)
FAITH ALIVE
1. Amazing footage: Connecticut church uses exorcism to cast ‘gay demon’ out of teenage boy. (The only downside, according to Stephen Colbert: there’s now a ‘gay demon’ on the loose.)
2. Louisville pastor hosts bring your gun to church day.
3. Scientologists play musical chairs to the music of Freddie Mercury. It all makes sense in context, honestly. Much like the Intergalactic Confederacy…
“WE ARE LIVING IN A WORLD OF SHIT…”
…And other fond recollections of my Dating Boot Camp experience. Read the rest of this article here.
TEHRAN, DAY 16: BON JOVI TO THE RESCUE
Veteran poodle rockers Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora have teamed up with Iranian singer Andy Madadian for a version of the old Ben E. King classic Stand By Me, recorded as a gesture of solidarity with the freedom-loving people of Iran.
Meanwhile, an obscure U.S. website called the Huffington Post posits the ridiculous theory that photographs of attractive Iranian women might somehow be fueling Western media interest in events in Tehran. Pretty outlandish theory, but that’s the internet for you… Read the rest of this entry »