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Monthly Archives: August 2007
>From the sidelines
>Owning up to reading “The Spectator” probably outs me as the right wing, foaming-at-the-mouth conservative that I’m actually not. My (perhaps weak) excuse is that it’s comforting to read about other peoples’ similar experiences in an increasingly frustratingly politically correct … Continue reading
>The best (and worst) of 1973
>Starve the bloody lizards! You don’t have to dig very deep to find something truly evil in 1973. Just scratch the surface.and you’ll find Tony Orlando and Dawn, festering there at Number 1 with “Tie a yellow ribbon” Stuart W’s … Continue reading
Mug of the month #3 – Wim Hos kutsu-gata
The Art of Asia glossary says the following: Pronunciation: “KOO-tsoo-gah-tah” A “shoe-shaped” teabowl—commonly associated with the Takatori kilns—in which the sides are purposefully pressed in. Supposedly, the kutsu-gata reflects the influence of the early Portuguese traders in Japan and their … Continue reading
>Don’t ask me… (about Lighting Doodles) #21
>I know why I am where I am. Interested in too much. Lack of concentration. Planning to drive overland to Europe in a Ford Falcon stationwagon in 6th Form Physics class with Graham Horne and Bruce Hales.Making a “Top 10 … Continue reading
>After the deluge
>Casey over at “The College Crowd Digs Me” has a nice “Best of the unknown Jackson Browne” mix up there today. Here’s a truly great video from a concert in Chicago in 1976, shortly after the release of “The Pretender”, … Continue reading
>This I need – #4
>Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, once wrote that the extraordinary Richard Feynman was “half-genius, half-buffoon”, but later revised this to “all-genius, all-buffoon”. He should know – he was the guy who … Continue reading
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The Vinyl Record Day blogswarm
Vinyl is a GOOD THING. It’s character-forming. No nonchalantly sneaking in with CDs tucked away in your jacket pocket, no feigned innocence when you’re grilled about where the house-keeping money went this week “You haven’t been buying CDs again, have … Continue reading
>The best (and worst) of 1974
>Delving around in the murky depths of Bittorent for some Abba (no, they DON’T feature prominently in my record collection..) for the Waterloo post, I stumbled across Billboard’s Top 100 for 1974. #1 was Barbra Streisand with “The way we … Continue reading
>Another incredibly useful site of the day
>The excellent Dubber at New Music Strategies will doubtlessly approve of my hijacking his strapline for this one… The Crocodile Dundee mugging incident comes to mind: “That’s not a knife… THIS is a knife…”As in “Google Docs isn’t word processing… … Continue reading
Don’t ask me… (about Waterloo) #20
I once worked with a guy back in the 1970s who went on to be immensely famous as CEO of a fairly major airline. (And then not.) But that’s a different story. Appalling musical taste, but we were still pretty … Continue reading
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