Ah, Scotland. Never again will I complain of your preference for operating towards the cooler parts of the temperature scale. Well maybe until I’m blessed with a body shape that doesn’t exhibit all the hallmarks of the greenhouse effect. Yes, Manchester was still too bloody hot. I was granted enough of an overnight respite from …
Aah, that was good. It’s been what must be a year since I was granted permission by my increasingly penny-pinching employer to travel on business. I don’t know if this journey to Manchester is a sign of improving commercial fortunes or a recognition that some meetings — a training event in fact — can’t be …
While I enjoy the contrarian life in my tastes, the inevitable circuitous path of fashion means that my tastes inevitably become in vogue before, like child with an attention deficit, it discards its old toys and bounds over to the next shiny object. Hideously over-engineered metaphors aside, I was pleased to find out, courtesy of …
Back home in the cool gloom of Edinburgh. As much as I enjoy the sun this time of year, I prefer to experience it reclined on a travel rug nursing a good book and a cool drink. Walking and Tubing it around London not only played merry heck with my feet but I had to …
I was pleased to see that Amazon had ventured into the downloadable music market recently. What’s particularly laudible is that they only offer DRM-free downloads. I have a strange relationship with DRM – or in Facebook speak, “It’s Complicated”. It’s fine when its unobtrusive, for example its use on the Steam games download platform or …
Ok, I get it. Fate is telling me to give up playing the bass: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4HnTSYvJWc&feature=related] Rather talented this chap. J
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthZgszykLs] Since it’s nearly April, I’m way outside the window for doing any kind of “Best of 2007″ without being an arse, but I had to plug this one tune as one of the highlights of the past year. You might want to avoid watching it if you’re playing the video game “Portal” at the …
Another vainglorious attempt to get a series of sorts going. Probably doomed to failure, but it’s worth a flutter. I’d like to share some of the music that’s been caressing my tympanic membranes of late. My tastes are very catholic, so there might be something that fancies your tickle if your looking for some aural …
Stark. Raving. Genius: Shamelessly ripped from http://pencilsatdawn.wordpress.com/ (contains some adult humour!) J
Here’s the new single from one of my favourite bands, UNKLE: [youtube="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=snt0EG00bZM"] J