It’s probably about time for me to admit that I haven’ the faintest idea what I’m doing with this blog. After over three years, one would have thought that I would have settled into some sort of happy little groove, but I haven’t really. If anything, this is all going backwards – and much I [...]
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This is taking a while to type as my right arm, as is its wont, is dangling somewhat uselessly and painfully to the side of me. That I am having to take extra care and consideration about what I type means that not only is this taking a lot longer to do than usual, there’ll [...]
There’s just something gloriously mad about Blade Runner, as it’s a film that is almost impossible to explain to anyone who has never seen it, especially if they start asking awkward questions like “so, why is he called a Blade Runner then?” It’s one of those films that has very slowly and carefully created a [...]
Because, quite frankly, my previous post was basically me spending the thick end of 800 words about hanging about outside a shop, when the best bit was spent hanging about briefly (there was a queue behind me!) inside one as well. Yes, I bought some records. It would have been frankly rude not to have [...]
There’s very little that will get me out of bed at 6 on a Saturday morning. A fire perhaps, or possibly someone at the door with a million pounds. Or, as in this case, the opportunity to stand some distance away from a record store with a few hundred like-minded individuals on a slightly frosty [...]
What a strange week this has been. If it wasn’t enough to be told by all and sundry that apparently most of the socio-economic history of the 1980s (including pretty much all the bits I remember growing up, mostly spent in abject terror of impending nuclear war while the TV was full of images of [...]
First of all, a heartfelt “Happy 25th Birthday!” from this idiot scribe to the lovely people of Sub Pop Records. Which feels kind of strange in a way as, to put everything in an awful “how on Earth did that happen?” historical context, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon was a mere 15 years [...]
How strange. This is the third soundtrack in a row that I’ve posted on here, which wasn’t how I’d planned it (as if I plan anything on here anyway), but it’s panning out rather nicely. As with the last one, it’s good to get through the day with something incidental to pave the way rather [...]
What better way to ease the vague stresses of trying to work through a pile of new CDs (and the huge stresses of everything else) than pushing them all to one side and digging out something weird from ages ago? I bought this one in a huge CD store in Tokyo in 2001 and must [...]
What constitutes an actual definition of an EP nowadays is clouded in mystery. It’s probably written down somewhere, hidden away from the rest of humanity and guarded constantly by successive generations of big men with no eyebrows. It all used to be so much easier back in the day when it used to be defined [...]
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