The book in which I was reading about Patti Smith is The Long-Player Goodbye” by Travis Elborough – the the sub-title “The album from vinyl to iPod and back again”. I finished it this week, and the reading of it got a bit spooky at times.
Entries Tagged as 'Nostalgia'
I Know What I Know
November 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Music
Having an interesting dialogue with the sister in the comments here which has got me thinking about gaps in (musical) knowledge. Really, there is so much music that it is difficult and probably impossible to keep up with it all. I guess it is easier if you are really into a specific genre or style […]
Computa-mensch
October 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Technology
I am going to have to give up any pretensions I may have had to geekdom. I only scored 7/10 in this quiz about old computers. My total lack of knowledge of anything from Apple was my downfall, along with ignorance about obscure games consoles.
Green Onions
August 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Green Onions · Music
Here are Booker T and the MGs playing Green Onions, first of all back in 1967 and then again nearly forty years later in 2003 – different drummer but Booker T, Steve cropper and Duck Dunn are still there. Dunn deserves a medal. It must take a great deal of patience to play the same […]
Careless Whisper
August 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
Is it really such big news that Cadbury are bringing back the Wispa bar? I’m not saying that I wouldn’t turn one down, but they have only been out of the shops for five years and, lets be honest now, were always a poor attempt at trying to appeal to Aero fans, and when Aero […]
You Build Me Up (To Bring Me Down)
August 1st, 2008 · Comments Off on You Build Me Up (To Bring Me Down) · Life, Work
I couldn’t believe it today. Only a couple of weeks ago we saw the end of a whole week of chaos while the road outside our workplace was dug up and resurfaced. ((Just one side of it))  Today it was down to a single lane while another lot of blokes were digging holes in […]
Superstars
July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Superstars · Life
I don’t usually find myself watching Five, but tonight I had a look at Superstars.  I tuned in because I half-remembered reading somewhere that the show was going to be in Crawley’s K2 leisure centre at some point: I kept watching because the format is pretty compulsive.
Basic computer terms
May 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Basic computer terms · Technology
One of my favourite books is a little thing called ‘Glossary of basic computer terms’, published by ICL Training in 1978. Every now and then I will dip into it to see how much of it is still even remotely relevant, and every time there is less that means anything in contemporary computing. It is […]
Andrew Lloyd-Who?
March 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on Andrew Lloyd-Who? · Music
I think that my cultural compass may be a little out of line with normality.
Yahoo! Woohoo! Yazoo!
March 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Music
I don’t make any secret of the fact that I think the sun shines out of Vince Clarke’s bottom, so imagine how chuffed I was to see an advert today for a Yazoo tour.
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