Posted in Music on 15 March 2008 | No Comments »
Despite my dwindling funds, I’ve just ordered some more music from an eBay shop called The Electric Trousers Store. The description says they ’specialise in rock, metal, punk and indie’, but they don’t have an especially extensive range - there’s certainly very little contemporary metal. The shop has over 50,000 positive ratings and 11 negative.
I [...]
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Posted in Books, Life, Music on 11 March 2008 | 6 Comments »
Last week I posted a box of books to a friend in Korea. The books are for me - they’re a selection of books I own but haven’t read, and really ought to read. Plus, it’ll save me having to buy books over there (although I like buying books - hence all these unread ones). [...]
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Posted in Books, Films, Music, Television on 19 February 2008 | No Comments »
In the last couple of days I’ve learnt two annoying and disheartening facts.
Annoying and disheartening fact number one: Although the Hollywood writers’ strike has now ended, the somewhat silly but utterly fantastic 24 will not return until January 2009. Damn it!
When the strike began in November, eight episodes had been filmed, so it wouldn’t take [...]
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Posted in Music, Quotations on 26 January 2008 | No Comments »
‘My World’, Metallica
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Posted in Music, Quotations on 17 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘Happiness in Slavery’, Nine Inch Nails.
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Posted in Music, Quotations on 6 January 2008 | No Comments »
‘Escape’, Metallica.
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Posted in Music, Quotations on 12 August 2007 | No Comments »
‘Midlife Crisis’, Faith No More
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Posted in Music, Quotations on 1 August 2007 | No Comments »
‘Fear of the Dark’, Iron Maiden
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Posted in Music, Quotations on 1 August 2007 | No Comments »
‘The Sound of Silence’, Simon and Garfunkel
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Posted in Music on 24 July 2007 | No Comments »
I was listening to music this morning when one particular song caused me to have a particular realisation. This really ought to have been a realisation I should have had long before, but for some reason this realisation was only really realised this morning.
The song in question was Metallica’s cover version of Queen’s ‘Stone Cold [...]
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