April 14th, 2007
My uncle leant me The Earth is Not a Cold and Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky around this time last year. The whole album was recorded as a single MiniDisc track, so if I started listening to it, I listened all the way through. In a way this was quite liberating, as I […]
April 12th, 2007
Heard about it yesterday, read the article on the BBC website.
Another neighbour, Richard Sterban of country and gospel band, the Oak Ridge Boys, is quoted by the AP news agency as saying the fire may be “the good Lord’s way to make sure that it was only Johnny’s house”.
February 3rd, 2007
The sexy sixties, the suave seventies, the awful eighties, the neurotic nineties. Each preceding century seems to have an interesting musical character. Perhaps it’s just a symptom of youth–that things nowadays don’t seem somehow as exciting as “back then”:
Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair,
In 77 and 69 revolution […]