Me as Thai people, the chance of seeing Pulp perform in Thailand seemed almost impossible. Yet, that day arrived unexpectedly when Pulp announced a tour in Hong Kong...
On December 2, 2023, I flew to see Pulp at Clockenflap in Hong Kong. It was the first time in my life I got to see an artist I love in person. Honestly, although I've only known this band for about six years, I love their music deeply. Jarvis Cocker's storytelling in his songs captivates me to the point where I almost lose myself in the lyrics.
I find it hard to express my feelings fully and as closely as possible to my native language. What I want to say is, thank you for all of these existing. Your music has helped me through both good and bad times. Thank you, Jarvis, for your unwavering passion in following your dreams and forming this band. You've taught me how important dreams, actions, and self-love are.
Thank you so much.
P.S. Jarvis, please don't fall down any more stairs. Everyone is worried about you!
Another P.S. You can watch this full gig clip that taken by [x]. All of these photos above were taken by me.
Somehow there are actually fans upset that George Russell wants Formula 1 to implement an automated safety system that will suspend racing after incidents where crashed cars are stranded on the track.
Let me make one thing very clear: drivers already put their lives on the line every single time they get in their cars, they do not owe it to anyone to stay silent when measures can be taken to mitigate further risk.
Have we learned nothing from the t-bone crashes that took the lives of Dilano van 't Hoff and Anthoine Hubert?
If the only type of racing you enjoy is one where the drivers are in more danger than they should be, I can safely say that you are not a real fan.
I’ll forever praise the choice of clips of Fourteen used in the trailers for the 60th because it threw out a real curveball when the specials aired - he came across as rather broody and dark in the trailers and I genuinely believed he was going to be rather ‘old man’ grumpy, closed-off and reserved
What a perfect ending. That was an incredible bow to top off a near-perfect season.
Life will always go on. You may not be able to escape it, but you get to choose how to live it. Take risks, believe in yourself, hold your loved ones tight, and never look back. Grab your destiny by the fucking horns and don’t be scared to just keep going forward.
Bravo to Brennan, Izzy, Rekha, Alex, Jacob, Ify, and Ally for such a wonderful season, and remember to never stop blowing up!!!
INT: You have come to Wimbledon a lot, what makes Wimbledon so special for you?
GEORGE: I don't know, I like getting dressed up! Wimbledon is just incredible, like, this is iconic. When you see the grass – I used to love cutting the lawn when I was a kid, when I was at home! So when I see the lawn, so beautiful as well, it's just really iconic – it's British! – so yeah, just love coming here.
Y'know what, I'll say it... George Russell isn't a 'PR robot', and the only reason people believe this is because he's actually got a relatively weak and amateur PR presence around him...
Let's not forget, a lot of these drivers, especially some of the more beloved ones, genuinely do have very large PR and branding teams around them, whose entire job is to manicure their image so precisely and carefully that you as the public believe it's natural and effortless. Some of them have huge PR agencies handling their image. Lewis, Lando, Daniel, Charles, Alex... all fan favourites and whaddya know... all have huge agencies handling their public image.
George wants to be liked... they all want to be liked, but actually he's one of the few drivers in top teams who doesn't have someone specifically dedicated to driving his PR presence. His sister seems to handle his diary and act as his assistant.
The reason George looks like he's trying so hard to adhere to a specific image all the time isn't because of an overabundance of PR influence, it's actually because of the opposite.
He's polite and he's well spoken and also a pretty intelligent guy. He has a very methodical and professional way of speaking which can read as rehearsed, but the reason you can clock when he's trying is because his PR 'machine' is a bit of a slapdash homemade affair with all it's inner cogs exposed, unlike the slick, well oiled and smartly packaged ones some of his peers have working for them.
He's not 'unlikeable' because he's a horrible person, and when you ask people why they don't like George, the 'PR Robot' excuse often gets wheeled out, but I think the main crux of the issue is that people have become so conditioned to accept the PR generated ideal of what 'humble and down to earth' should look like, that they find it hard to comprehend when someone doesn't quite fit into it in the way they think they should. He's not painfully unnatural, he's humanly awkward...