Entries from January 2008
January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Oh yes, I have been waiting to see this for ages - the brand new video from Elbow - Grounds for Divorce. Listen to the savage fuzzed up guitar and Garveys amazing voice…
I’ve been working on a cocktail called ‘Grounds for Divorce’
** its been down, and then up…and now its back again **
This is truly [...]
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Tags: music
After Shirley Bassey last year, Neil Diamond will be the Sunday headline at Glasto
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Tags: asides
Guess where I am working today:
There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren’t worth what a pin can spit and it goes [...]
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Tags: movies · travel
January 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Boulogne-sur-Mer - sent in 1934 to H. Headham (sp?), Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich - the trip was just a couple of days…from Brighton?
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Tags: postcards
Chirp is a screensaver that pulls info from Facebook, Flickr etc
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Tags: asides
I wonder if TwitterFeed works
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Tags: asides
January 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Gore blimey, etc - there are a million puns that could be made about Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I’d waited long enough to see it, and I wasn’t disappointed when I finally did.
Adapted from the Steven Sondheim stage score, and directed by the perfectly suited Tim Burton - this ‘musical-macabre’ [...]
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Tags: movies
Gotta love a bit of people power - commuters holding a farestrike on Great Western
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Tags: asides
What a contrast - in one corner we have queen of the red tops, Amy Winehouse, apparently 3 months from death and certainly 18 months after Back to Black was released. In the other corner, Adele - fresh faced, spread across most of the newspapers ahead of tomorrows release of ‘19′, her debut album. [...]
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Tags: music
After reading this report - I’m really glad we went to see Morrissey at the start of his tour - appears that his gigs tonight and tomorrow (Saturday and Sunday) have been cancelled as Moz has some kind of illness. Big shame for his fans.
I hope he didn’t catch a cold when he whipped his [...]
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Tags: music