In Rod we trust
I know that Oscar Wilde once made some comment along the lines of ‘The most frightening sentence in the world is the one that begins with “I had a really interesting dream last night”‘, but forgive me because I’m going to indulge myself…
I had spent a good hour or two last night combing the internet for some background information on various local candidates and wasn’t getting anywhere. Incomplete CVs, unexplained party politics and general spin prevailed. I went to bed disgruntled and my sub-conscious quickly took over: it was now Thursday morning and time to vote.
So I rolled up at the local polling station only to discover that all of our usual candidates had been mysteriously de-selected, disqualified or disgraced.
‘Don’t worry’ said the chipper election official to the growing crowd of disgruntled voters, ‘Rod Stewart has volunteered to be your MP instead.’
Murmurs ran through the crowd. We turned to each other and shrugged. Why not? Perhaps he’d get The Faces together again for a jam at the local pub? None of the other parties could do that.
Sadly I woke up before I could find out whether The Faces did play the Standard. And it was with a certain degree of resignation that I dragged myself off to the polling booth this morning to vote for the usual suspects.
Happy Election Day everyone.
May 6th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Speaking of the Standard, I walked by it this morning and saw a flyer up on their board for a band called Cheesecloth. I can’t decide whether that’s the best or worst name for a band I’ve ever heard.
May 6th, 2010 at 10:44 am
Hmmm, Cheesecloth sounds like a dodgy Dutch pop group from the 70s, the sort that F-C would probably like.
May 6th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
I wouldn’t care what party Rod was standing for. I’d vote for him.
Cheesecloth is the best name for a band ever. And yes, very Dutch. I might nab it for my own imaginary band.
May 6th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Rod would surely have to be SNP – the rosette’s a dead give away.
Cheesecloth – they sound like a London pub band with dreams of of being the new Eagles.
May 7th, 2010 at 12:21 am
Hate it when you don’t get to the end of a great dream!
Now we know who he was singing about when he sang “wake up Maggie…” maybe…
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May 7th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Well, we’ve ended up with a well-hung parliament, so maybe your dream was prophetic?
May 7th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
I sure as hell hope that Rod isn’t SNP Mondo. He lives in London. Hypocrite!!!
Piley and ISBW, my response can only be ‘oh dear’ and clearly you know something that I don’t!
Right, I’m off to distract myself from the woes of this country by listening to Cheesecloth.
May 8th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Never understood the whole Rod of Higlands bit he was born in London and when he’s not in LA lives in Essex (must be like that other famous hibernian Surrey born John Martyn) ! But each to his own not bad set of pipes on him but think Rod would be best as Chancellor Exchequer seeing as by all accounts he’s close to a pound
May 8th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
I can’t enlighten any of us as to Rod’s political leanings but if we are going to be governed by a hastily-cobbled-together coalition of veteran British rock stars from the 1960s I suspect we could do worse. For example Bill Wyman, who I caught on BBC’s Election Night Special whinging to Andrew Neil about how the Labour Party had never done anything for him growing up and how we was praying for a Conservative Victory. I seem to recall his bandmate Jagger (ex-alumnus of the LSE) may be a True Blue also, but then again this may be slanderous and I might even have dreamt it.
May 9th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
I was thinking BLTP that if there’s a job for Rod in the Cabinet, it is Minister for Hair. He’s still got a good head of it there. It will be interesting to see how quickly the next PM (Dave C? Dave M even?) goes grey. Gordon looks shockingly grey and haggard these days.
How could I have missed Bill Wyman on the boat Jonathan?! I must have been having a ‘comfort break’ at that point. That election party was clearly the one to be at – I was truly impressed by the random people they wheeled out.
And Mick lives in Richmond doesn’t he? I wonder if he feels about non-dom millionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith? Mixed feelings I imagine…
May 10th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
What a wonderful dream , i love Faces , Jeff Beck Group and early Rod Stewart. I think he’d make a fine candidate. Compulsory blondes on tap and football made mandatory. Top man :-)
May 10th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Football made mandatory Carl?! I’ve just gone right off him. Could think of nothing worse!!
July 6th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
cheesecloth are very good, i think their drummer is dutch or is it the bass player. but worth seeing..