darragh murray

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Archive for December, 2007

Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

“Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end”
You know how freakin’ hard it is to find albums that you enjoy in entirety? Pretty damn hard, at least for someone with as fastidious taste as mine (I was about to say refined taste, but then again I’m a big fan of Phil Collins). Well, [...]

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Mini-EP, Songwriting, Okkervil River

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Well, the 18th of December 2007 is a day to be remembered, at least for myself anyway. It is the day I finished recording what could be described as a miniature EP. You could also describe it as a pretty slickly recorded demo, but I think mini EP seems a better descriptor. For the past [...]

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Zigzag Street

Monday, December 17th, 2007

I noticed my sister had started reading Nick Earl’s “Zigzag Street”, a book I had long been intending to read, but never really had the time. Having not a huge amount of things to do on Sunday evening, apart from dodging the large amount of work I have to do, I took to the novel [...]

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Nintendo Wii, History Masters

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

You might have noticed that as of late I’ve been posting here a bit more regularly than usual. However the last week has been full of activities that have prevented me from writing – moving house, running training courses, doing tax, and playing Nintendo Wii. I got my hands on a copy of the new [...]

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