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Never one to trouble himself with being up to date, on the ball, fingering pulses or any such thing, Bruce has fallen in love several aeons after the fact. Driving through town listening to the RRR signupathon yesterday, patiently waiting for the presenters to shut up and play some tunes, he was rewarded with a [...]

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Ahhhh… RRR

Early Saturday morning rise to deposit visiting Scottish cousin at airport.
Turn on the car stereo: Neil Young’s Natural Beauty in all its glorious ten minutes – the track Bruce listened to most while travelling nigh on a decade ago; the perfect accompaniment to the train ride from Kandy to Newara Eliya as every corner revealed [...]

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Admittedly, one of the hosts missed a trick by playing Sam Cooke’s version of A Change Is Gonna Come rather than that by Baby Huey and the Babysitters (in Bruce’s mind, one of the greatest covers ever made – with a twist in the tale M Night Shyamalan would kill for). But, in contrast to the idiotic, racist, lazy, drivel-dressed-up-as-news shite that is paraded as television in this country, he’s willing to forgive this one minor oversight.

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