January 2011
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So, it’s 1am, I’m wide awake, and all I want to do is surf the Internet and play my ukulele. This is not a wise plan. Nor do I think my neighbours would appreciate it. Sigh. I will fight the urge to stay up and do fun stuff and just go to bed.
Jan 30th
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ListenAimee Mann - How Am I Different Was listening to...
Jan 30th
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My favourite albums: Tallahassee by The Mountain...
I was talking about favourite albums in a pub with a friend (her choice was Otis Redding’s The Dock of the Bay, which is an excellent selection, btw). This got me to thinking about The Mountain Goats’ Tallahassee (undoubtedly my favourite album). I would never argue that it’s the best album ever made - how would you define that anyway? – but it’s something that’s exceptionally special to me. So I...
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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UK libraries are at risk of severe budget cuts.... →
hague-nite: 1) “But the library really came into its own for me when aged 18 I went from academic over achiever (a much nicer word than precocious) to seriously ill and almost completely housebound. The Ormeau Road library became the centre of my weekday world. Just close enough to be possible for me to walk to and feel a sense of achievement, I would. at least once a fortnight, go there...
Jan 27th
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Listenmeetingofthemimes: letitride: Ryan Adams,...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first...”
– Oscar Wilde (via rytalias)
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Listenblissandzen: starsgowaltzing: Talking Heads -...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the...
I finished this book a couple of weeks ago, and it was one of the best things I’ve read in ages. It’s a gothic tale of two sisters living with their sick uncle in an isolated house in New England in the aftermath of a poisoning which killed most of the rest of their family, for which Constance, one of the sisters, is blamed, although was not convicted (the details of the poisoning are slowly...
Jan 23rd
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ListenA.C. Newman - Submarines of Stockholm Carl Newman...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Listenvalerie2776: The Mountain Goats — Damn These...
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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ListenJens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah ...
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ListenLaura Veirs - Cast A Hook I was going to post a...
Jan 16th
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Listenpersimmonsareberriestoo: Flight of the Conchords...
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Listenearlyfrost: A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off, The...
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Listenasenseofperspective: Attention All Pickpockets ...
Jan 14th
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I just ate some tacos.
mar-see-ah: All is right with the world. This is always the case when tacos are involved.
Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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ListenThe Magnetic Fields - Epitaph For My Heart This...
Jan 11th
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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ListenThe Magnetic Fields - I Don’t Want To Get...
Jan 9th
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Listenjaredalexandra: “This is Yesterday” - Manic...
Jan 8th
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Listenthecrookedcircle: Iggy Pop, The Passenger
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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Listenmusicfromthe90s: Losing My Religion by R.E.M.
Jan 5th
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Listengodiseven: The Avalanches -Frontier...
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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