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{ Monthly Archives } March 2007

Back to the slow comforts of home

I sit in my room and read books for nerdy children (apparently the walls of the Taj Mahal are filled with rubble, the marble is just a facade), look at a few hundred CDs and have to pinch my mum’s cheap player as I’ve none of my own, play Mortal Kombat’s puzzle mode over-and-over and [...]

Trouble v2

An overhaul is good for the soul. Events have clearer significance, thoughts and words show entirely different meanings and subtleties, stresses fall in different places and most importantly, everything takes a little less effort.
In other words, I’ve completely redesigned the site and am quite happy with the current outcome. It’s an extension of [...]

So Break Me

Some fascinating pictures of foot binding on Yahoo at the moment, in particular this one. Toes by heels underneath your feet 0_o Great piece about it all here.
Iain Paisley sat next to Sinn Fein what the hell is going on? Not fully side by side though, let’s not get too carried away [...]

A shiny head, a sex face, E.S.T.

Saw the Esbjörn Svensson Trio on Sunday night at the Usher Hall, I hadn’t been quite so excited about a gig in a long time! After the brilliance of the show at the Barbican in 2005 I knew what to expect and I had that strange nervous chill that only gets you when you [...]

City Farming and Italian Doorbells

This story is really quite odd, and how it ever came to be passed as legislation makes no sense whatsoever..
Only the EU could have created a situation where people who are not farmers are paid not to farm.
The stories accompanying the pictures here are wonderful .. this one especially. The man with a wink [...]

Another evening spent listening to electronica

The one event you’ve spent the last few weeks waiting for sells out, the one person you’d like to talk to leaves without saying goodbye. Try to type and the words won’t form. Turn the bass up a bit, let bleeps take you away.

Prog Not Frog

Found a great blog showcasing some of the best and least appreciated music from around the world .. no idea where the name is from though .. they’ve some great Indian fusion kindofthing made in the seventies, or thereabouts, by an Australian band called Kanguru here, and some great ‘psychedelic afro funk’ (perfect description) by [...]