One more

One last blog before I get married and go on my honeymoon. I have more topics but simply not enough time.
Jarvis Cocker, one of the most articulate musicians currently in the business, put in a largely monosyllabic performance on Newsnight Review last Friday. i only watched it because of him. Things were either 'bad' or 'quite poor'; or they were until he got to reviewing the new album. Here he was in his element where he waxed lyrical as he berated all the 'filler' on it. All this very much in opposition to the other guest reviewers (not that that should be a bad thing). He also criticised the publication of lyrics on the sleeve jacket. Kirsty Wark lured out of him whether he though song lyrics should never be published - as I watched intently - and he agreed! I was thinking how he could say such a thing when the song lyrics are published on the jacket of Pulp's breakthrough album Different Class. Maybe the rest of the band overruled him on that occasion.

Indiana Jones is released tomorrow, where he defends Damien Hirst's Crystal Skull; well diamond-encrusted skull but you can fool most of a Hollywood blockbuster with cheap glass baubles. Pre-World War II, Dr Jones often said of relics "It belongs in a museum. Now in right-wing 1950s America, fighting the Soviets, Indiana's refrain will no doubt be "It belongs in a private collection." Times change.