Year: 2011
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Rise Above The Flamewars
Commenters on Stereogum rise above the usual flamewars: Read more
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Old Age Is Just Around The Bend
Since my divorce, my social life has opened up again (they don’t call them a ball-and-chain for nothing…). Actually, it has really ‘had the ability’ to open up, because I haven’t actually done anything. The point is that I could have. If I’d wanted to. This week I finally decided that it was time to integrate myself back into indie society by getting out to a gig (and not before time – this blog tells me that my last gig was back in March – of last year!). It took me a while to find something that I wanted to… Read more
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Learning from The Decemberists
Rock’s most erudite lyricist. 10 new (old) words courtesy of The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy: Palanquin (The Infanta) – A covered seat on poles carried by bearers Dirigible (Sons & Daughters) – An airship Fontanelle (The Crane Wife 1 & 2) – any of the spaces closed by membranous structures between the uncompleted angles of the parietal bones and the neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull Tarlatan (The Gymnast, High Above The Ground) – Heavy cotton fabric Bombazine (The Soldiering Life) – A twilled fabric with silk warp and worsted filling Laudanum (The Legionnaire’s Lament)- An alcoholic herbal preparation… Read more
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Evacuation Desperation
At work, we are in the middle of a critical (to me…) stage in the project – training development. It’s now the training team’s time to shine, and because all of the prior activities (build, data loading, testing) have over-run their time, we’re being really squeezed on how much time we have left to deliver everything they made us promise we would have done by now. So it’s long hours, unrealistic deadlines, and frayed tempers. Luckily this is all old hat to a seasoned project resource such as myself, so this is the perfect time to put into play the… Read more
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My varied music tastes
My most common genres according to iTunes: Alternative Alternative Rock Alt. Rock Alternative & Punk Alternative/Punk Alt/Punk Avant Rock College Alternative Rock General Alternative Indie Indie Rock Indie Pop Post Rock Post Punk Never knew my taste was so wide-ranging… Read more