“DINAMO’S SILVER JUBILEE DULLED BY DEATH AND INDIFFERENCE”
“official apathy”…”tragic absence”…”the passing of the glories of this world”
“we’ll just have to go to the pub and drink like we’ve been thirsty for [a] quarter of a century”
“[H]e could not live. There was something too intense about him and about his genius.”
“the urge died in him, the urge he was born to fulfill”
Read More: Alienation and Dread, Guardian
by Brian Phillips · November 20, 2007
Headline from the Liverpool website today:
STEVIE: HEARTACHE WON’T STOP ME
I’m trying to turn those into song lyrics; maybe you have some ideas?
There was another one today in the Guardian:
O’NEILL COUNTS HIMSELF OUT AS OPTIONS SHRINK
(Don’t worry, Martin! You still have options! It’s going to be okay!)
If you’re turning these into song lyrics, my only suggestion is that the music should be droningly minimalist (instrumentation: a cello and a single drop of water falling into an underground pool) and none of the lines should rhyme.
The Guardian writers must fancy themselves the postmodern harbingers of doom; everything sounds like a prophecy of death and destruction if we don’t heed their words:
“Benitez must now conquer America” for today’s match report