kept awake, dreaming someone else’s dream (in the year two thousand)

“Needless to say, I took a lot of criticism, some of it deserved, some of it excessive. And it hurt like you wouldn't believe. But I'm telling you all this for a reason. I've had a lot of success and I've had a lot of failure. I've looked good and I've looked bad. I've been praised and I've been criticized. But my mistakes have been necessary.”

“I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them. When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era. When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England — things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now. We had some characters, too, some lively boys who could teach a wide-eyed little kid a thing or two. So I had an introduction to the old way of doing things, just as the whole mentality began to change in football.”

you’re in my mind all of the time (i know that’s not enough)

i caught her in the act and grabbed her large, beautiful bounty with my bare hands, before heading home to watch footie on the telly

i took it out of my bag to stuff more things but forgot to re-pack it in

aesthetically recreating the look of high end audio visual equipment

this week’s line-up

[s] peter crouch, collins john, luke more
[m] gavin mccann, steed malbranque, steven gerrard, tim cahill
[d] steve watson, jamie carragher, paul robinson
[g] maik taylor

from one source all things depend

“we love the sound of music that seems to be barely under control. we love music that’s out of tune in a beautiful way, or dissonant, or damaged. we tried to make the record work as a giddy, swirling soundtrack. it’s okay to be imperfect — in fact the imperfections are where the magic is. to us, perfect music sounds sterile and dead. the tunes we write are imperfect, the sounds are imperfect, even the artwork.”