Wishing a happy and overcast Groundhog Day to all my American Chums – here’s hoping that the Groundhog sees not his shadow and your winter can start to end.
Now I’d like to take a moment and say a prayer for world peace 😉
Author: Maleghast (Page 19 of 38)
Here is the playlist, in order… The first 23 are the ones from the meme, and then I let my iPhone play on, just to see… I’m going to make it into a playlist when I get home 🙂
Venetian Snares – My Downfall – Hollo Utca 2
Clutch – Strange Cousins From The West – Motherless Child
Pink Floyd – The Wall – Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)
Nine Inch Nails – Survivalism – The Greater Good
Venetian Snares – rossz csillag alatt született – Szerencsetlen
David Bowie – Heathen – Afraid
Yeasayer – Wait for the Summer – Wait for the Summer
Eliott – False Cathedrals – Drive on to Me
The Levellers – Levelling the Land – Fifteen Years
Dylan at the Movies – Feel the Pull E.P. – Momentary Breakdown
Eliott – U.S. Songs – Second Story Skyscraper
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
Depeche Mode – 101 – Pleasure Little Treasure
David Bowie – Heathen – A Better Future
Kansas – Leftoverture – Carry on my Wayward Son
The Streets – Original Pirate Material – Weak Become Heroes
Cloud Cult – Live at KEXP Volume 5 – Mr. Tambourine Man
The Whore Moans – Live at KEXP Volume 5 – Holey F*?king Moment
Nine Inch Nails – Survivalism – Another Version of the Truth
Kevin Pollak – What are the Chances? – Holidays with the Fam / Christopher Walken
Clutch – Blast Tyrant – Promoter (Of Earthbound Causes)
Aimee Mann – Lost in Space – Pavlov’s Bell
Prince – Purple Rain – Take Me With U
Portishead – Third – Magic Doors
Linkin Park – Meteora – Numb
Tori Amos – Abnormally Attracted to Sin – Lady in Blue
Thievery Corporation – Cosmic Game – Sol Trapado
Alice in Chains – Music Bank 3 – Died
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live at KEXP Volume 5 – Midnight Man
Prince – Purple Rain – The Beautiful Ones
Live – Throwing Copper – I Alone
The Dresden Dolls – Dresden Dolls – The Jeep Song
Nine Inch Naile – The Slip – Letting You
Mastodon – Leviathan – I Am Ahab
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking – Idiots Rule
I was excited to discover last night that I have been selected as one of the 20,000 volunteer “Givers” for World Book Night 2011, the inaugural event…
You can find out more here:
http://www.worldbooknight.org/
and if you’d like me to give you a copy of John LeCarre’s “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold”, then you need to be in Seal on the evening of March 5th 😉
(click on the image to see the cartoon in its original setting)
1.) Put your Itunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2.) For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3.) YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4.) Tag 20 friends. (I’m skipping this in favour of a more autonomous selection process, feel free to consider yourself tagged if you like)
5.) Everyone tagged may do the same thing.
6.) Have fun!
7.) My addition – bonus points for anyone who can name the bands!
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1.) IF SOMEONE SAYS ‘ARE YOU OKAY’, YOU SAY? Hollo Utca 2
2.) HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF? Motherless Child
3.) WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL? Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)
4.) HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY? The Greater Good
5.) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE? Szerencsetlen
6.) WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO? Afraid
7.) WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? Wait for the Summer
8.) WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? Drive on to Me
9.) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? Fifteen Years
10.) WHAT IS 2+2? Momentary Breakdown
11.) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR BEST FRIEND? Second Story Skyscraper
12.) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? A-Punk
13.) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? Pleasure Little Treasure
14.) WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? A Better Future
15.) WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? Carry on my Wayward Son
16.) WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? Weak Become Heroes
17.) WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? Mr. Tambourine Man
18.) WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? Holey F*?king Moment
19.) WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? Another Version of the Truth
20.) WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW? Holidays with the Fam / Christopher Walken
21.) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? Promoter (Of Earthbound Causes)
22.) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MEMORY? Pavlov’s Bell
23.) WHAT WILL YOU NAME THIS NOTE? Take Me With U
I have to be honest, I don’t imagine that this is an unusual feeling for anyone out there holding down a full-time job, but I know that both my wife and I were left feeling a little shell-shocked when we realised that it was 1930h on Sunday evening, we had not yet started thinking about cooking and soon enough it would be Monday morning…
We made the best of it, had a lovely meal that was ninety percent down to my brill other half, and ten percent down to me and Knorr… We then settled down to watch “The Black Dahlia”, Brian de Palma’s confusing and rather rambling attempt to bring James Ellroy’s classic novel of the same name to the silver screen.
By the time we went to bed we were somewhat numb to the Monday morning issue, but morning soon came, in the shape of my first run for ten days (my back is now finally well again, at least as far as I can tell), and by the time we got out of the house and on the way to the station it was clear that neither of us were even remotely happy about this state of affairs. Now you may say that no one enjoys getting up and / or getting to work on a Monday morning, and I am pretty certain that that is true for ninety-eight percent of the population, but I also think that there has to be another way…
A fair old while ago I read a fantastic article about working four day weeks – you can read it too, here – and I am starting to think that even before we become parents there might be merit in trying to move towards this model for my working week / arrangements, now that I am working on a freelance basis… I want to have time to really get stuck into my side-projects, my creative projects and still have plenty of time to invest in my wife and marriage, and in the fullness of time my children as well. Working five out of seven just doesn’t leave enough time… Well it’s just a thought – what do you think / do on the subject, dear reader..?
TTFN – hope you had a good weekend and today didn’t completely ruin it 😉
I saw this on the way from my car to the station in Sevenoaks this morning, and all I can say is that when the shooting and explosions start we’d better be getting a visit from Shia and Megan along with the forty foot robots and non-PC characterisation…
Seriously though; how cool!!?!
…in no way the shape that I expected it to be, and so the joy I find in it currently (which is by far the happiest / most content that I can remember in adult life) is such a wonderful gift.
I don’t think that there is any reason quite so obvious as the fact that I have met my soulmate, and against all of my expectations she agreed on that score, and now she is my wife 🙂
We were married on the 2nd of January just gone, and it does rank as the happiest day of my life so far.
The last fortnight since have been a wonderful cementing of our life, and I face the future with my wonderful partner filled with optimism, hope and excitement; I cannot thank her enough, it is that simple.
I’ll be married in 12.5 hours or thereabouts, and all I can say is that I am very excited, happy and also properly aware of how lucky I am…
I can’t wait!