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Music Monday – “Wishin’ I had money/Wishin’ for the time to spend it all/Wishin’ I was pretty/Wish that I could twist the world ’round my finger”

Stumbled across this folk/Americana version of “Wish I Was Skinny” by 1990’s Britpop band, Boo Radleys, which makes one of my favourite songs possibly even better! 😉

¶ Posted 11 May 2015 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

How JK Rowling Plotted Harry Potter With A Hand-drawn Spreadsheet

Interesting.

¶ Posted 08 April 2015 § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book

Music Monday – “I’ve had enough of watching scenes/Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas/All I want is the truth now/Just gimme some truth”

“Gimme Some Truth” – John Lennon

¶ Posted 06 April 2015 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: beatles, music

/r/Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day

It’s a perfect day to check out what’s being posted on /r/ireland.

¶ Posted 17 March 2015 § Humour § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday, reddit, travel

Friday Fun Link- A Hard Day’s Night First Chord Solved?

¶ Posted 13 February 2015 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: beatles, cool, music

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…

¶ 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 […]