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April March: November 2006
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006. But democracy is for fools, given the choice the people would again choose the murderer Barabbas. Also playing at the show were Princess One Point Five and Registered Nurse. Princess One Point Five treated us to a warm set of well crafted pop songs. Posted by James at 1:21 AM. View my complete profile. A Nice Place for Manics. One Foot Down the Rabbit Hole. In Which Our Hero Attends a Ska Show. Sodastream - A Review? Review: [Kes and Band The Triangles].
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April March: August 2006
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Thursday, August 31, 2006. It seems as if the headline of the night show was Dane Certificate. This probably (though I’ll never really know) wasn’t justified. He was just a man, with a guitar and a bass drum. What could he do with it, you may well ask. Well, as you would expect. I decided to leave after the second song. Posted by James at 8:21 PM. Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Posted by James at 4:48 AM. Monday, August 21, 2006. Stumbled across a book meme at comrade armaniac's website. And now I'm tagged.
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April March: September 2006
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Monday, September 18, 2006. Just look at the bands they’ve got playing this year;. Datarock Norwegian new rave according to wikipedia no doubt a pseudonym for old rave just with more street credibility. Midlake Completely unobjectionable indie rock. Augie March I heard a song of theirs on Nova so I guess they’re cool. The Soundtrack of Our Lives This band just, actually sucks. The Bamboos No ones listened to funk music since the early eighties. Tapes and Tapes More generic indie prattle. I’m supposed to ...
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Respectable Street: Iain Banks
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Thursday, April 4, 2013. Yesterday Iain Banks issued a statement. Announcing that he has terminal cancer and is unlikely to live longer than a year. His forthcoming book, The Quarry. A "non-M" novel), will be his last. Banks was vital to me as a budding reader. I came to The Wasp Factory. Epic, intricate, combining intellectual invention with vivid characters and bravura action, Banks's sf took the tropes of classic space opera and made them utterly contemporary. As Mike. And Use of Weapons.*. A writer p...
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Respectable Street: August 2014
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Friday, August 29, 2014. The Writer's Blog Tour. Author of the hilarious new YA novel. Spurt: A Balls and All Story. Has tagged me in the Writer’s Blog Tour. I say it like he’s just done it, when in fact it was some time ago. Sorry Chris! Anyway, here, at last, is my contribution. What am I working on? Short answer: not telling! Slightly longer answer: I’m still not telling! Informative, aren’t I? How does my work differ from others in my genre? Why do I write what I do? Compulsion. Love of language&...
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Respectable Street: January 2013
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Thursday, January 31, 2013. Books I read in January. At Swim-Two Birds, Flann O'Brien. I have resolved to write something. About every book I read this year. It may end up being a plot synopsis, or a sestina, or simply the words "I done read a berk! I'm making no promises of coherence or insight. Anyway, the first book I read in 2013 was Flann O'Brien's comic extravaganza, At Swim-Two Birds. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn. A librarian pressed this into my hands, with the promise that it was the current big thi...
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Respectable Street: Books I read in June
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Monday, July 15, 2013. Books I read in June. The Stand, Stephen King. I read plenty of King in my teens, but if picked up his books during my twenties it was to mock what I considered his sub-par prose, his folksiness, his unbridled. Enthusiasm for emphatic italics. Well, more fool twenty-something-me, because King is a tremendously powerful writer, and The Stand. Is the kind of book that you don't so much read as live. Sure, King's writing is wobbly at times, but taken as a whole The Stand. Goodness tha...
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Quasi Boho Alterna-Whatnot: September 2005
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All binge and no purge. Tuesday, September 20, 2005. Another helping of ersatz-comedic twaddle. (Ersatz-Comedic Twaddle. That's a cool name for a band*! Yesterday, Svetlana and I were having coffee and cake in Pellegrini's and spying on the more attractive clientele by using the mirrors that are affixed to every wall in the shop (when there's that many reflective surfaces in a place it's a crime. In which he appears as. Recently, Svetlana and I have become like Trent and Jesse from. And repeat to infinity.
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Quasi Boho Alterna-Whatnot: May 2005
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All binge and no purge. Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Another look into the creepy inner workings of my soul. It's been a while, I know, but I'm going to be far more diligent in future with the blog. Just like I am diligent about my schoolwork, keeping in contact with my friends who aren't at uni, and continuing with my regime of regular exercise.or not. Don't call in SVU, (thus causing Benson and Stabler to throw me under the hot lights before I can count to three! Because this crush does. Stumbled across on t...
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