May 2012
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“I can’t tell if they’re in fancy dress or just have terrible...”
– A colleague came out with this gem at work last night after staring at a group of club-goers with utter derision for a good two minutes. Unfortunately for them, it was the latter.
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Only just realising the irony of reading Du côté de chez Swann, a novel with insomnia as a major theme, to get me to sleep every night.
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One more for the post-exams to-do list: sort this shitty layout out
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Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha have, as everyone was guessing/hoping, been added to the TUSK Festival 2012 lineup. Why do you suckaz not have tickets yet?
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Wish I could make it to the Norwich City of Ale... →
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This is great →
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I don’t know why, but over the last couple of weeks I’ve been revisiting all my old favourite noise records and realising just how harsh they really are. I guess I must have just become used to them, but I don’t know what has changed. Whatever it is, it’s just making me fall in love with them all over again. Maybe it’s just a cyclical thing.
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“Better than its predecessor but worse than most other things”
– Ultra Culture on Madagascar 3
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Laurel Halo - Quarantine
Laurel Halo’s new album is up in full on Soundcloud and is absolutely superb. It is not normally the sort of thing I would ever get excited about, so the fact that I am excited is an indication of how good it really is.
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Why is everyone going so gaga for the new Wes Anderson film? I can’t be the only one who finds all the self-conscious kookiness a bit boring.
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I’ve been so obsessed with this record recently and it arrived on vinyl today so I don’t think that will end any time soon.
The bass on the B-side is so funky
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counting down the days till next Monday, when exams are over and I can get back on my bike for the first time in months
EDIT: I’m going to be a total mess but I don’t even care - just want to get out there
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Looks like the John Hamm and Michel Bublé SNL sketch - in which they open a pork & Champagne restaurant called ‘Hamm and Bubbly’ - isn’t so far from the truth:
Former Ledbury chef James Knappett will launch Bubbledogs, an unorthodox marriage of hotdogs and champagne, in July.
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I’ll continue my recent tradition of uploading my coursework essays. As I explained last time, I feel that having spent so much time on them it would be nice for more people to be able to read them.
Here is an essay on the pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce’s account of the method of science for fixing belief. Enjoy!
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decided to listen to Pinch’s fabriclive because I wanted something upbeat to push essay-writing into the early hours. I’d forgotten just how good it is.
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“i want to marry that alexander dude…
‘Ruth von...”
– Courtesy of my sister, Ruth
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Last week’s radio show was particularly good
Small Ideas Radio - Show ??? - Imo’s Slush Special - 04/05/12 by Small Ideas Radio on Mixcloud
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cooking fish and stinking up the house in the first time in far too long
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I had quite an affirming experience last night, in Roar of all places. I was with an ex-housemate, a no-nonsense, laddish, conservative-voting, working-class army guy. He admitted that while we lived together two years ago, he thought my philosophy degree was a frivolous, pretentious waste of time. But with recent discussions in the media about bringing back the death penalty, he told me that he...
mispronunciation pet hate no. 45683: ‘banal’ said so it rhymes with ‘anal’
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Interesting discovery of the day: Harold Pinter wrote a screenplay for À la recherche du temps perdu that has never been filmed.
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