Category Archives: miscellania

Something for the weekend (summer in the city edition)

Gotta say jez’s post will be keeping me going for most of the weekend. Damn! indeed. Just incase you’re still in need of some weekend loving, here is a brief (but heavy) piece from marc mac’s criminally under-appreciated epic ‘It’s… Continue reading

Category miscellania, something for the weekend

Africa Mon Amour

Some friends of ours have just come back from a trip to Liberia and the Central African Republic. Simon and Laura are involved in setting up the London branch of hl’s favourite charity charity:water so they took the opportunity to… Continue reading

Category charity, miscellania

Let Sleepy Dogs Lie

So it was quite a heavy weekend (one way or another) and it took a massive cocktail of stimulants (caffeine/sugar/exercise*) to get my brain out of it’s semi-catatonic state this morning. A couple of obvious life lessons became more and… Continue reading

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joining the world of missing persons

i’ve been a mite distracted for the past few weeks, too busy and preoccupied to unleash my rambling monologues on the latitudes and slightly bereft of thrilling new music to send your way, but its the freaking weekend (as i… Continue reading

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Sublime/Ridiculous

I’m all for a bit of spaced-out soul music. Hell I love the stuff. In fact that whole seventies cosmic/sci-fi reference thing is where I choose to live. I understand the importance of creating a hyper-real persona (although it has… Continue reading

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A Royal Welcome

We popped to the royal festival hall, last night for the final part of their acoustic tuning events. The line-up was messily eclectic, but we were supposedly there for the sound more than the music. And well, the jazz sounded… Continue reading

Category books, miscellania

time out of mind

Been a few days out for me. Head space is a valuable commodity when life is so permanently crazy-busy. It’s time just staring at the view from my bedroom window, or hanging out in the park with the sunshine blazing… Continue reading

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entente cordiale

j’aime la france. i think i’ve made that pretty clear, not just here but all over the place (pronounced plass in this case). subsidising a couple of london branches of paul, wearing blue and white striped breton shirts every other… Continue reading

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i’d still be on my feet

every so often i’ll come across a song which absorbs me into its sphere in a unique way. a way where the rest of the world could cease to exist and it wouldn’t matter because that one song is so… Continue reading

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A swarm of angels

And so as B-day rapidly approaches-thoughts (in my household anyway) turn to musical selections. Usually, I’m ashamed to say, it’s just a question of taking a few classics from the racks to bolster the virtual record bag I take with… Continue reading

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