I was going to do this a week or so ago, but I must admit to constantly being sidetracked every time I try to do the thing that I tend to call “research”, but which in all honesty actually equates to “going on the internet for a bit”. During that extended period, the main thing [...]
Top Posts & Pages
Browsing Posts published in February, 2013
It is of little surprise to anyone who has breezed through these pages before that I’m rather partial to the Cover Version. Reasons for my love of this particular form of expression are many and have no doubt been mentioned before – a new slant on old favourites, a previously unseen roadmap/blueprint from much-appreciated artists, [...]
There’s much been said about the classic Side 1 Track 1s of musical history, and rightly so. However – and this my be a bit weirdly compulsive of me – when I have a quick sample of something completely new to me, it’s not the first track I head for. Instead, I decide on blind [...]
It’s Shrove Tuesday! And while the rest of the world celebrates the onset of Lent by indulging in big sparkly parades with shenanigans aplenty, we Brits pretty much fry glue. Ah well, each to their own. But enough of this, I need to get this typed out before the unremitting misery of Ash Wednesday befalls [...]
It’s been a silly old 2013 round here. Stresses, strains, constant six-day weeks and a bit of soul-searching have been hammering away at the back of my head, with somewhat inevitable results. The weather not bothering to make its mind up about what it’s doing hasn’t helped the general feeling of unspecified malaise either, although [...]
Men. We do like our gadgets, don’t we? Of course we do. And the more things that a gadget has to tinker about with in a knowing fashion (“knowing”, usually meaning “what happens when I do this?” – generally leading to “honest, it was like that before I came in” mumbled excuses), the better it [...]
Recent Comments