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Maybe I’m Amazed

December 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Maybe I’m Amazed · Life

I had a bit of a shock seeing those pictures of Guildford cathedral all over the news.  I was there 24 hours before the police shot somebody in the grounds of the cathedral. It is still unclear exactly why the police shot the man, and it is even less clear why the BBC website threw […]

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Making Your Mind Up

November 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Politics

The Rev John Stanton gets about a bit doesn’t he?  According to the Times he appears on the infamous BNP members list, but before that he had been a local party chairman of the Green party, had spent four years as a Lib Dem councillor, five years as a Tory and before joining the BNP […]

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The Man With The Golden Gun

November 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on The Man With The Golden Gun · Life

At my age I shouldn’t worry have to worry about spots… and yet for some reason I had a real belter suddenly apear yesterday, and it has now grown to the point where I am considering adopting the nickname ‘Scaramanga’.

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Relax

November 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Music

On Saturday I bought a couple of CDs while shopping in France.  I have been picking up French music for about 20 years now with mixed results.  It started when I mistakenly thought that it would help with my language skills.  This was before the days of the Internet and its many lyrics databases, so […]

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Sailing On The Seven Seas

November 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sailing On The Seven Seas · Life

It is good to see some results in the fight against piracy in the Aden Gulf area.  According to the Guardian, at least 32 ships have been hijacked in the area this year.  It has been going on for years, and also in other parts of the world, but doesn’t really get much prominence in […]

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Rock The Casbah

November 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Rock The Casbah · Music

From Wikipedia’s entry on Punk Rock: Punk rock (often referred to simply as punk) is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the […]

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Spoilin’ For A Fight

November 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on Spoilin’ For A Fight · Life

In an ideal world “brawl” and “monks” are two words you would not find in the same headline.  Unless its something to do with a new Jet Li film, obviously.

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Straight Outta Compton

November 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Straight Outta Compton · Music

I love a good cover version, and if the cover is in a style wildly at odds to the original then all the better – hence the presence of the Balanscu Quartet doing Kraftwerk and Hayseed Dixie’s bluegrass versions of heavy metal in the Skudder CD collection.  None of them prepared me for this cover […]

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Dizzy

November 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I did enjoy seeing Dizzee Rascal being interviewed by Paxman this evening. Dizzee was a lot less eloquent than I would have expected, and Paxman looked bemused by him, and then I got a fit of the giggles when he addressed the rapper […]

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The Impossible Dream

October 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Politics

Did I miss a meeting or something?  I received a letter from the Labour party today.  Nothing unusual about that: once you get on those mailing lists you can look forward to a lifetime of emails and as a parliamentary candidate you get even more.  I was expecting that.  What I was not expecting, as […]

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