Head Tale

Category Archives: UK

100 Years of Style

Here’s another of those popular “Take yourself through time” videos – this one focused on fashion as much as music or dance or whatever… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JxfgId3XTs

¶ Posted 23 November 2014 § Meme § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

Music Monday – Strawberry Fields Forever (Slowed 800%)

Brian Eno would be proud… “Strawberry Fields Forever” – The Beatles (slowed by 800%)

¶ Posted 27 October 2014 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “Line one/Is the time/That you/You first stayed over at mine”

Here’s a set from a reunited Beautiful South at Glastonbury 2014’s “Introducing” stage (I guess being re-united qualified them?) featuring Shea’s and my first dance song at 4:30…

¶ Posted 13 October 2014 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

“I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter.”

Here’s a great scene from the highly underrated British movie, “Brassed Off” which I re-watched this afternoon. (Bonus points for this speech also providing a sample for the song “Tubthumping” by anarcho-punk collective, Chumbawamba) This band behind me’ll tell you that that trophy means more to me than owt else in the whole world. But […]

¶ Posted 28 September 2014 § Jobs § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, movies, music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – This One Time, In Scotland…

I know I just posted some old pictures in a post about the Scottish referendum but since the actual referendum is today AND it’s Throwback Thursday, I realise I should’ve held off on that post until today. So , even though you just saw them, here they are again along with a bit more of the […]

¶ Posted 18 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: holiday, travel

A White Paper for Scotland (Guest Blog Post)

So I haven’t paid too much attention to the Scottish Independence referendum (I think my first real glimmer of awareness is when Ryan Meili picked “Better Together” as a campaign slogan a couple years ago and a team member pointed out we’d be working with the “No” side in the Scottish referendum in the world […]

¶ Posted 16 September 2014 § Canada § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, travel

Good Morning Vietnam: An “Un-War” War Movie

In my RIP Robin Williams post yesterday, I mentioned that I wrote an essay while a student in England about Williams’ role in “Good Morning Vietnam”. I don’t think I’ve posted any of my undergrad work on this blog ever but given yesterday’s events, now’s as good of time as any. Oh, and feel free to […]

¶ Posted 12 August 2014 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, movies

Music Monday – “I got no car and it’s breaking my heart/But I’ve found a driver and that’s a start”

“Drive My Car” – Beatles

¶ Posted 23 June 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Friday Fun Link – A Few Links About The World Cup of Soccer

* Jon Oliver on the mixed emotions football fans feel towards a game that’s more like a religion for most of them and the corrupt body that oversees the quadrennial tournament… * Twitter has enabled graphic hashtags of national flags for the World Cup. * Brazil’s inequality summed up in one stark football-related – although […]

¶ Posted 14 June 2014 § Humour § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Here are a few things that caught my eye this past week… What are the best new products nobody knows about? (Quora) How We Die – Then and Now: Comparing Causes of Death, 1900 v. 2010 (Infographic) What Radiohead Song Always Moves You To Tears? (Reddit) How Poverty Taxes The Brain (Infographic) Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” […]