Dearly beloved, it is with a heavy heart and a sad face that i say this to you this morning.
As of last Friday the 28th August, I have been forced to leave the Manchester rock’n’roll pop group Oasis.
The details are not important and of too great a number to list. But I feel you have [...]
Entries from August 2009
more noel
August 29th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: breakup · noel gallagher · oasis
tracy morgan on letterman
August 28th, 2009 4 Comments
could be the best late night appearance of all time. second only to the time artie lange went on conan high on heroin, announcing as much the moment he sat down.
need a little comic relief after the noel news …
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oasis is dead
August 28th, 2009 No Comments
hopefully this means noel will be playing solo club gigs stateside some day soon … a sad day indeed.
A STATEMENT FROM NOEL
28 August 2009
“It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with [...]
Tags: noel gallagher · oasis
completion
August 26th, 2009 No Comments
***as the new semester begins down here, the car saga has come to completion …***
hooch and todd and i arrived in makanda at hooch’s compound at around 4:30 am. todd drank a six pack in a folding chair as he watched me try to set up my tent. i say my tent, but [...]
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newby’s, memphis
August 18th, 2009 8 Comments
***when we last left off, lefty and i were abandoned at a gas station in germantown. thanks to noel for filling in.***
so, lefty and i are abandoned at a gas station in germantown, memphis, tennessee. it’s 8:30pm. i have fifteen pounds of fresh gulf shrimp in a cooler in the backseat of [...]
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noel or die
August 17th, 2009 2 Comments
stumbled upon a shitload of unreleased oasis tracks i’ve never heard recently including an amazing cover of the smiths’ there is a light that never goes out, which got me on youtube, which lead me to a bunch of nonsense including this clip.
noel gallagher on the smiths:
the older i get, i think this is the [...]
Tags: noel gallagher · the smiths
Like wearing brand new digs
August 15th, 2009 No Comments
Taking a break from the trip up north saga to share a coupla firsts:
This is my first post from my iPhone (and i also just figured out that if you hit the space button twice when the phone wants to autoselect a word it puts the period where god intended it to be). This [...]
Tags: iphone wordpress app · southdowns
durant, mississippi
August 14th, 2009 No Comments
climbing into the cab of the truck with lefty and william was one of the most freeing feelings in recent memory. william was from sonny’s auto body out of durant and was a 53 year old with a wife and six dogs who has lived in durant his whole life. durant [...]
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unworthy
August 13th, 2009 No Comments
***this is the first post in a series of installments detailing my trip up to hooch and sarah’s 10th wedding anniversary bash in southern illinois. not to give away the ending, but it was one of the best adventures in recent memory. and i love my friends and don’t deserve their unending generosity. [...]
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