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Music Monday – “Uri Gagarin/Flew into the sun/The angels in heaven/Look down where he lay”

I think I posted this in a long ago Music Monday but heard it recently and felt the need to post it again. Such great memories of my undergrad exchange to England during the height of the Britpop/Cool Britannia years with a song that pretty much defines the “Britpop” sounds for me… “Angel Interceptor” – […]

Posted 22 June 2015 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

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:

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

Interesting.

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

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: ,

/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: , ,

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

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

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:

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 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:

“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: , , ,