Re: ....So we got humped....

Joel Cooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 
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> oh jesus... 
> I have to say Ive been a bad patriot today - I opted to go and see the
> Mars Volta tonight at the Barrowlands 

I saw the Communards there when I was 14.  I can remember coming down the 
stairs and seeing two blokes snogging, at the bottom.  Wow.  This is real 
life, I thought.  My Mum would be outraged.  

I also bought my first biker's jacket from the market there, on a Saturday 
morning.

> I'm glad I did in the event - easily the gig of the year
> for me and I can say that without contradiction - if you have interest
> in music and can tolerate a severe dose of self-indulgence on the
> band's part, honestly, do your ears justice and give them a swatch. 
> 
> So I was, throughout the gig and the pub afterwards, completely
> oblivious to the severe humping we had been dealt by the dastardly men
> of Orange (and I'm not talking about Rangers btw). There was a idylic,
> Schroedinger's Cat period where it was after 10:30pm and yet I still
> held the belief that, for once, the national side would buck the trend
> - they'd be able to overcome, birth, circumstance and general poor
> odds to actually achieve a significant, if perhaps cruelly
> unrealistic, dream of winning against quality opposition over 2 legs. 
> 
> Alas, I was informed of our fate by the drunken ned at the local
> lunatics bus stop; you know the one - where, inevitably at obscene
> hours of the night, the strays, crazys and general undesireables of a
> large, dirty, city always tend to congregate for the last bus out of
> town.He's also the one thats "no a fuckin' racist" but hates the
> 'gooks'. 
> 
> Then there's the pished homeless kid with his froth teeth missing;
> angry at some nearby holidaying Spaniards for speaking amongst each
> other in Spanish (god forbid!). He also says that he's 'no gonny punch
> me' and that he's 'no a f'kn junky'. He's also due to go back to the
> hostel for midnight or he has to walk the streets (its 12:30pm at this
> time, incidentally). Perhaps its fitting that I discover our fate from
> the people with the least to feel patriotic about. As a nation - are
> we even fit for humiliating defeat? 
> 
> 6-0.... 
> 
> 6-0.... 
> 
> *sigh* 

It was a poor show.  The footy, I mean.

MV are on my "get" list.  Any track recommendations?