Grumpy
It’s Friday, it’s payday and it’s sunny outside. I should be full of joy and happiness. Yet I’m not. I’m monumentally grumpy. Everything is getting on my nerves today. Read the rest of this entry »
Wait until next year
Putting off what could be done tomorrow, today
June 24, 2011
June 22, 2011
The Reanimation Library
I do like to throw an image or two into a blog post, y’know, just to make it more pretty and stuff. Now, I’m a long way off exhausting the Flickr Commons for suitable pictures, but I have found (via the good people at The New Enquiry) a funky alternative for free visual delights: The Reanimation Library. It is a growing collection of images from old, out of circulation books, and is full of the weird and the wonderful. I’ve already found a fair few images that would look great for future posts, or failing that, would look pretty cool printed on a t-shirt or something. Anyway, just thought I’d share.
Image from Yearbook of Science and the Future, from The Reanimation Library
June 21, 2011
What does it take to turn you on?
16 February 1993. I’m just a few weeks away from becoming a teenager, but musically I’ve made my first, tentative steps in that direction. In the autumn of 1992 a school friend lent me a beat-up cassette of Nevermind. Christmas Eve I buy my first copy of Melody Maker. I continue to buy it in the New Year, discovering all these new bands, but not actually hearing many. One band is Suede. Their first two singles are number one and number four in the Melody Maker albums of the year for 1992. I’m already a little wary of any hype, so decide I probably won’t like them. Yet, this February night I tune in to the yearly British industry awards, the Brit Awards. Suede are playing. I’ll finally hear what all the fuss is about. Read the rest of this entry »
June 17, 2011
Happy Reading
Apologies for the lack of content, said the uncommitted blogger, always short of time, inspiration, motivation etc. Work is busy, so less time and energy to write. Well, that’s my excuse. To keep things ticking along, here are some other people’s words that I’ve been reading lately. They are far more illuminating and profound than anything I could produce, so this exercise is probably best for all of us. It also helps generate some kind of myth that I’m well-read and stuff. And there’s nothing an ineffective blogger likes more than stroking his fragile ego. Read the rest of this entry »
June 3, 2011
Holding Image
Yes, this is one of those lame posts where I say I’ve been terribly busy, hence the distinct lack of longer lame posts this week. So, anyway, I’ve been terribly busy, hence the lack of posts this week. Apologies and all that. I do have some ideas for future posts that I’d like to give some proper thought and effort to, or failing that, I’d like to avoid writing them for long enough that I can safely reach the point where they no longer seem relevant and I can carry on with this Not Blogging lark. Right, that’s the admin over and done with. Read the rest of this entry »
Wait until next year 