Just got in from seeing Amiina at a small room in the M/cr Accaddemy. f**k a monkey they were good!
It really helped that the crowd were pretty cool. A band like them needs a respectful quiet audience, and luckily they got it. There was a kind of anti-mosh-pit thing going on where the first few feet of people sat on the floor and watched/listened from a frankly perfect viewpoint.
In case anyone is unaware. they are Sigur Ros' string section that usually play as support act to them during the p
I've just started reading a biography of Stalin. It was something I decided to do because I recently finnished reading a biography of Moa Tse Tung and amidst all the references to Stalin realised that I know very little about the man other than 'gulags' and 'many dead'.
There is absolutely no way that I would have considered reding these things a few years ago, being a firm believer that life's just too short to bother.
Starting to get a little worried about myself, the age is really starting
So i'd got this letter from the GP saying that there was something on my x-rays that I should come in to discuss.
I had presumed that this was because of some vertibrae fusing together, which was why they were taken in the first place (I have been told i've got ankylosing spondylitis which apparently leads to spinal fusion).
So I went to the quack expecting that changes were already visible and after scanning through his computer he said "Oh, OK, it's nothing to worry about, it's just that you
Went to see Guillemots t'other day, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that they were even better than last time they played. Unfortuately the promised vomiting did not occur (they all had food poisoning apparently). A lot of new stuff was playd, and on first listen it sounds really good. Hopefully the next album won't be so over-produced because their live aound far surpasses the watered down version that gets released.
On a slightly different note, I had to go for hydrotherapy this week
To be honest, i've been meaning to update this thing for ages, but I couldn't remember how. Well finally that alignment of stoned and bored has occured, and here I am.
First things to begin with, went to see Califone a few days ago. OMG, f**king brilliant!! The pathtic thing was that there were only 60 to 70 of us there. 10 minutes brfore the band came on counted 15 in the room. As far as I know, this is the first time that Tim Ruiti has properly come over here to do his thang, and the turn ou
Not bothered with this for a while because I was conscious of the fact that I was just whinging.
Fun though it is, man cannot live by whinge alone (although Mrs B reckons I make a pretty good try).
The problem is though, that if i'm not in work for a long period of time I seem to go nucking futs.
Went to see Guillemots tonight. The microphone fellah said that it was the biggest crowd they'd ever headlined to, personally I believe him because it would be a crap boast if not true! Mainly
So last night was spent shuffling around the house trying to overcome stiffness, felt like walking through treacle, but you'd be amazed what a healthy combination of pain killers booze and weed can do for you.... didn't get up 'til 4pm today, so something must have worked!
Most of the day has been spent lying on the sofa, so an 'update' seems kinda redundant. What have I learnt today? V for vendetta is better than I thought it would be, Iain Bank's prose can be quite impenetrable when he want
So, what the hell am I doing? Writing stuff down, communicating, all that shit really isn't me, but i'm bored witless and stuck in the house so I may as well amuse myself. I am fortunately realistic and know that this will in all likelihood be read by no-one other than a bored Korean teenager confused as to his google results, so here goes.....
A few weeks ago I started to have a pain in my hip that within the day had stopped me walking. I've not been able to go into work since, so i'm d