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Giving my heart to a god…

Some lyrics from Gronlandic Edit by Of Montreal:
Guess it would be nice to give my heart to a god
But which one which one do I choose?
All the churches fill with losers, psycho or confused
I just want to hold the divine in mine
And forget all of the beauty’s wasted

boffoonery

Last night I had the joy of helping out at a benefit event for Bletchley Park - dreamt up and written by James Cary - who also writes Hut 33 on radio 4.
It was actually a pretty fun day.  I’d been working with the director for a few days putting together graphics and cleaning up [...]

more easy money explanations

I’ve mentioned This American Life a couple of times before on my blog.  I’ve even bought the t-shirt.  No, really.
Anyway - I’m a little behind listening to the podcasts and finally go around to listening to one called Bad Bank from February this year.  I’m constantly amazed at the clear, jargon busting, explanations and this [...]

so many things to blog about

There are simply too many things to talk about.  In the last month or so I’ve been involved in a hack day at work, been to a U2 concert, spent a week hanging out with monks at worth abbey and been at and involved in the greenbelt festival.
All of these experiences have left me feeling [...]

Stadium gigs

So it seems that I have been seriously underestimating stadium gigs as ways of enjoying the experience of music. Having pretty much exclusively gone to sub 1k capacity venues for the last 15 years it seems that stadiums are not just less personal, less intimate, but some different, something more than the parts.  Apparently my [...]