tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post2573045360700856831..comments2023-07-22T15:44:42.859+01:00Comments on More about the song - rambling with Rachel Fox: Anti-phallic?Rachel Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-20168931939373612682010-02-01T13:18:52.250+00:002010-02-01T13:18:52.250+00:00Well, I'll tell her and I'm sure she'l...Well, I'll tell her and I'm sure she'll be very pleased!<br /><br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-64510791036903010612010-02-01T13:12:20.354+00:002010-02-01T13:12:20.354+00:00"We were never the girl DJs known for our loo..."We were never the girl DJs known for our looks"<br /><br />.....I think Daisy is gorgeous!!<br /><br />Shaun - Manchester.Shaunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04433191786541527392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-35903968669607567832010-01-30T21:06:17.989+00:002010-01-30T21:06:17.989+00:00Never been to a club...wow. Though there are many ...Never been to a club...wow. Though there are many things I've never done...heroine, bungee jumping, sking, singing solo at the Albert Hall...yes, many, many things.<br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-65170725805624243552010-01-30T17:24:05.016+00:002010-01-30T17:24:05.016+00:00I actually heard the BANG in that last bit! Clear...I actually heard the BANG in that last bit! Clearly, I haven't lived, never been to a club or anything but would have loved to have the necessary "attitude". Great poem.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-6689370711660600862010-01-30T10:57:23.304+00:002010-01-30T10:57:23.304+00:00Yeah, well, it wasn't white and it didn't ...Yeah, well, it wasn't white and it didn't have spoilers. Or a soft top.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380213493011623153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-41674653935647356382010-01-30T08:42:28.988+00:002010-01-30T08:42:28.988+00:00I see...Essex girls expect better than a Volvo. Co...I see...Essex girls expect better than a Volvo. Co Durham girls appreciate any wheels...much lower expectations! Well automobile-wise anyway.<br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-81656339687438747862010-01-29T22:01:55.014+00:002010-01-29T22:01:55.014+00:00Phew, got here at last. Computer seems to be in i...Phew, got here at last. Computer seems to be in its death-throes, so back to the hated laptop. Feel a bit like the panting queue.<br />First boyfriend had a Volvo, looked very similar to your photo. Deeply embarassed travelling in it, but it was... safe and comfortable.<br /><br />Loved the poem, but it's those final two lines that really do it for me. And love the title.<br /><br />Funny these places TFE takes us, and I think the same about many of his prompts.<br />Me too for Dominic, but I fancy the technology might not allow at present. If it does, see you there! Alternatively, I'm just going outside and I may be some time!Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380213493011623153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-32301965947871637442010-01-29T17:32:46.651+00:002010-01-29T17:32:46.651+00:00It's easier to feel pride now...at a distance....It's easier to feel pride now...at a distance. At the time I had very mixed feelings about the whole thing. DJing was a very macho thing a lot of the time - in fact the reason we started doing it was the local dance pirate radio station didn't have any female DJS to begin with and I thought that was...just wrong. I never really intended to play in clubs but we got some work and then we were caught up in it...you know the sketch. Even though the club we worked at mainly had more female DJs than average we still had a lot of the same issues at work that women can come across anywhere. Plus we were only ever really on the edges of the in-crowd (thank god!) and that was a bit of an issue too.<br /><br />Still, it had its fun moments. We had some good times. <br /><br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-4287002583795501992010-01-29T17:24:39.109+00:002010-01-29T17:24:39.109+00:00ye'll have to reform for one last gig, great p...ye'll have to reform for one last gig, great poem, captures the excitement and pride of the momentNiamh Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519443787482685320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-90307112199749741712010-01-29T15:13:25.239+00:002010-01-29T15:13:25.239+00:00Love the poem, Rachel. It is insouciant (that'...Love the poem, Rachel. It is insouciant (that's the word that comes to mind).<br />I would show up at clubs in a huge boat of a thing - a midnight blue Impala from 1977! It carried a posse and people got out of my way.<br /><br />You're so right! TFE's nudges are truly inspirational, aren't they?<br /><br />KatKat Mortensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877694888419628533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-6651573805010294412010-01-29T10:01:32.669+00:002010-01-29T10:01:32.669+00:00It's an odd one this, Rachel. It is exactly wh...It's an odd one this, Rachel. It is exactly what it appears...but it is quite a lot of other poems too. In fact for a smallish poem it's working very hard.<br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-28027835421085588472010-01-29T08:39:56.846+00:002010-01-29T08:39:56.846+00:00Oh, and I like the volvo link to the title poem of...Oh, and I like the volvo link to the title poem of Nuala's "Portrait...." collection...nice link.Rachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-86954485384132912352010-01-29T08:39:08.344+00:002010-01-29T08:39:08.344+00:00I love the contrasting imagery in it - plus the ma...I love the contrasting imagery in it - plus the many meanings of "hot" in the context of the volvo!<br /><br />Was even better after I'd looked at the pics and gave it a second read! Go girl!Rachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-56998436505204978322010-01-29T08:28:17.148+00:002010-01-29T08:28:17.148+00:00Dominic - working on your task too. It's provi...Dominic - working on your task too. It's proving a bit more like hard work!<br /><br />PF - hello! Funnily enough Daisy got a mint green Volvo after both my red one and my driving went out of the window, as it were. And yes, we are always cooler in retro! Though Vague was a 'cool' club it was like any workplace in many ways - wars of the sexes, power struggles, fall-outs, bullshit fests...the 'attitude' in this poem is not quite what it seems (partluy).<br /><br />Hope and Karen (see above).<br /><br />TFE - if only we had not taken any shit. In fact we took quite a lot! But I'm sure we gave some too...<br /><br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-20255807684071411022010-01-29T02:12:52.599+00:002010-01-29T02:12:52.599+00:00incongruous i mean ms proof reader :)incongruous i mean ms proof reader :)Totalfeckineejithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-65194013090795224062010-01-29T02:10:31.106+00:002010-01-29T02:10:31.106+00:00Memories, like the corners of my mind, misty water...Memories, like the corners of my mind, misty watercolour memories of no shit takin Dj's in their incongrous paradoxical so uncool it's cool heated seated swedish shed.Liked it!Totalfeckineejithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05352708391465031655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-71796390886862358292010-01-29T01:43:17.673+00:002010-01-29T01:43:17.673+00:00I love the attitude!I love the attitude!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12003379181294550035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-5364844301237890352010-01-28T23:10:21.056+00:002010-01-28T23:10:21.056+00:00I can just envision the "attitude" that ...I can just envision the "attitude" that sound carried. :)hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03306622656461205674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-83633098496199901772010-01-28T23:00:35.530+00:002010-01-28T23:00:35.530+00:00I like this - the succinctness of it, the way it&#...I like this - the succinctness of it, the way it's so sparse and sharp, but it still manages to conjure up a feeling of a particular place and time. <br />Drove a mint green volvo 440 in the nineties meself - looking back at it now it seems strangely retrospectively cool.Pure Fictionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04265599089734430505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-39719211153637558802010-01-28T22:23:59.909+00:002010-01-28T22:23:59.909+00:00Love the way BANG fits in there.
Yours is not the...Love the way BANG fits in there.<br /><br />Yours is not the only contibution to merely allude to a red car - swiss' did too. I wish I'd thought of so doing, of sort of hiding a "red car" in the poem.Dominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-50535231609138321752010-01-28T21:56:39.654+00:002010-01-28T21:56:39.654+00:00I can't remember the registration! Not at all....I can't remember the registration! Not at all. <br /><br />And I should point out they were very worthy alternative news and entertainments magazines - nothing dodgy!<br /><br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-42032665274061332772010-01-28T21:19:46.528+00:002010-01-28T21:19:46.528+00:00"Cushioned in red volvo"
Love that lin..."Cushioned in red volvo" <br /><br />Love that line. That old thing was built like a tank wasn't it? I even remember the license - MAG 79 5V?<br /><br />Of course it was mainly delivering magazines to Bradford in the middle of the night at that point. <br /><br />xxundeletedhttp://undeleted.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-25848900711519026562010-01-28T19:17:26.145+00:002010-01-28T19:17:26.145+00:00Yes, Weaver...get that car out of the garage!
And...Yes, Weaver...get that car out of the garage!<br /><br />And Jim...I have done a lot of letting-down the hair...in fact I think I've barely had my hair up! I wouldn't have missed it for the world. And it's never too late.<br /><br />xRachel Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11803852725693518924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-17759070412781534142010-01-28T18:38:25.876+00:002010-01-28T18:38:25.876+00:00There’s nothing wrong with this poem. It’s pretty ...There’s nothing wrong with this poem. It’s pretty good actually. But I’m finding it hard to connect with. This is a completely alien world to me, one I have no doubt I would have loved if I could have got over my own self-consciousness and let my hair down. I made a point of jumping to the poem and then reading the article. To my mind it’s not fair to the poem to read the background to it first. It can make it seem like a much better piece than it is. You’re right. There are people who will read this and know exactly what you’re on about. Just not me. I have never been to a club in my life and so few discos I wouldn’t even need to take my shoes and sock off to count them.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1564859019305736550.post-43907774868908837882010-01-28T18:32:09.118+00:002010-01-28T18:32:09.118+00:00Like it Rachel. I had missed this TFE challenge,...Like it Rachel. I had missed this TFE challenge, shall now go and read about it.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.com