By mattr on April 12, 2007
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ “
God Bless You Mr Rosewater [...]
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By mattr on April 11, 2007
If through my cracked and dusty dime-store lips I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me?Lay your blouse across the chair, let fall the flowers from your hair,and kiss me with that country mouth so plain
Empty – Ray Lamontagne (2007)
Turns out that Ray Lamontagne is coming to the Uk for another tour [...]
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By mattr on April 9, 2007
So, here I am in Germany – fairly uneventful week in the US, followed by the fun and games of a flight from Seattle to London and then a connection across to Dusseldorf. I’m pretty lucky with business travel, and then yesterday it all happened. Firstly when I got off the plane at Dusseldorf my [...]
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By mattr on April 2, 2007
First, a week in Dublin on some heavy duty training course – then, a week in Seattle at some more interesting and exciting things – some meetings, some fun with my team – the two events punctuated by a horrible weekend of coughing, spluttering and sniffing at home with a chest/throat infection, lurgy kind of [...]
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