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Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:55:31 +0000

[...] “…the words you use should be your own; don’t plagiarize or ‘take on loan’”, sayeth Morrissey of the Smiths. The latest revelation relates not to a relatively obscure blogger, but rather, the President of Russia: The career of President Vladimir Putin of Russia was built at least in part on a lie, according to US researchers. A new study of an economics thesis written by Putin in the mid-1990s has revealed that large chunks of it were copied from an American text. [...]

By: dmac

dmac — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:19:02 +0000

That’s too bad – I heard that Echo and the Bunnymen were terrific last Fall when they performed in my ‘hood, after they got back together. Unlike most ill – fated reunions, I always felt that the Smiths would likewise be as good as their original years.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:35:16 +0000

There’s a club, if you’d like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home
And you cry
And you want to die

How Soon Is Now, the Smiths

That’s it, dmac, the theme song of my college years….

BTW Morrissey revealed at SXSW that it was Marr’s idea and not his to break the group up, and that the Smiths turned down $5 million to reuinite…

By: dmac

dmac — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:18:25 +0000

…”and you go home and you cry and you feel like you want to die.”

Always loved that song – too bad that Mars gets almost no credit for the amazing hooks and riffs he did for the Smiths way back then.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:37:54 +0000

Yeah, that’s occurred to me, too…though I’ve never found anything to back it up…

By: Jim Flammang

Jim Flammang — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:34:41 +0000

Perhaps “Cemetry” is word-play; a cross between Symmetry and Cemetary? I’m not too familiar with The Smiths, although I have Louder Than Bombs on vinyl.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:25:35 +0000

Jeez, sorry about the spam blocker!…I try to check the ‘harvest’ fairly regularly to make sure nothing gets blocked that shouldn’t…

By: david

david — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:02:51 +0000

i dunno…those crazy brits

and to think that they accuse Americans of defacing the English language!!

colour me confused

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:38:10 +0000

Yes, you win! (unblocked your previous comment, sorry about that).

The weird thing is, it’s not Cemetary Gates, it’s Cemetry Gates. Yep, Cemetry…God knows why…

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:25:38 +0000

Oh, and the Joan of Arc was the one you mentioned earlier – Big Mouth Strikes Again (and now I know how Joan of Arc felt / as the flames rose o’er her Roman nose / and her Walkman started to melt)…