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Rather than it passing me by, I made a conscious decision to not get sucked into twitter. The net already distracts me too much when I could be doing more useful stuff*
Then last week, I’m sitting at work doing work-stuff when E calls me. “This must be important”, I think. “Usually she just texts me.”
I [...]

So a friend at work lent me ‘Guitar Hero’, and this week, when the little tyke is asleep in his cot, we’ve been digging out the pretend guitar and letting go with some classic pretend guitar tomfoolery.
It really is quite good. I’ve told Mrs M that we can’t buy it because I could see that [...]

When I was younger, myself and my sister would know that Christmas had started to arrive when our Mother started to play the Phil Spector album at full blast, usually a couple of weeks before Christmas, and around the same time we would decorate the Christmas tree.
A hundred years later, and that CD still conjures [...]

As I may have mentioned way back when, the plan with this MP3 malarkey was to utilise the turntable and to rip some tracks that I don’t otherwise have on CD, working on the assumption that maybe they’re not that widely available. As you may imagine, that’s a bit tricky. It appears that everything is [...]

Well, I thought it was obvious. My picture of a pink flag, was in tribute to the 1977 Wire album, Pink Flag.
If you’re in the mood, you could do worse than download ‘Three Girl Rhumba’ from this album, and note for yourself that Elastica were a bit obvious when it came to referencing their influences.

Pete linked a few weeks ago to a service called Dipity, specifically to a user who had entered in all the gigs he had been to, and now had a timeline of said gigs.
Naturally my gig/collectivist brain clicked into gear and I thought that would be really cool. The trouble is, I don’t know all [...]

The reason for the title is buried in the mists of time, but this compilation album from 1990 sees lots of popular indie bands (and some less popular ones) covering a selection of classic tracks (and some not so classic tracks). The album’s subtitle, ‘Anti Poll Tax Trax’ gives a clue to the cause, and [...]

I’m sure I recall seeing Age of Chance perform Kiss on ‘Whistle Test’, my memory telling me that they opened it by jumping through a big paper picture of Prince, in their cycling gear. I could be wrong. Maybe I first heard it on the Peel Show. Maybe it was the Chart Show. And I [...]

The second step in a developing pattern sees me digging out some vinyl so as to rip a track, and it not working terribly well, which sees me going back to something else. Which is a long way of saying that this wasn’t going to be the Pixies.
Mind you, if ever I was going to [...]

In the main hall / railway shed now waiting for the wedding present. I’d write about comet gain but they didn’t hang around long enough for me to form an opinion. Have alphabet letters from the burger van, and brennig, it’s wordpress for iPhone.