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I’m always interested in hearing a cover - some can be bad (i.e. Celine Dion’s covering AC/DC), some can be strange (Of Montreal covering “Know Your Onion” by the Shins), and some can sound as good or better than the original (Elliot Smith’s divine cover of the Kinks’s “Waterloo Sunset”).
You can listen to what I [...]
Well, well. I’m well behind on my travel blogging, but I’ve decided to skip ahead and report some of the details of my recent adventure to the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Arts which I experienced for the first time during the past week.
Glasto has the reputation for being a muddy and patience-trying experience. Luckily [...]
The evil evil Pitchfork have released their top 50 albums of 2007. Of the ones on the list that I think deserve a place.
30 Caribou - Andorra.
11. Jens Lekman - Night falls over Kortedala
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
The albums I would like to listen to.
41. Life Without Buildings - Live at the Annandale [...]
“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, [...]
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 [...]
I went and saw a really great film last night. “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” has pretty much got it all - great direction, great acting, great photography and cinematography, and a great story. Kudos to Casey Affleck, younger brother of the mostly sterile Ben, who puts out an impressive [...]
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