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Gigs #75 - #80 Folk East Day 2
#75 Alden Patterson & Dashwood @ Sunset Stage 18/08/17
Rather sadly - I can't remember a thing about this.
#76 Busking Sharks @ Soapbox Stage 18/08/17
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Gigs #69 - #74 Folk East 2017 Day 1
#69 Various Acts @ The Ship Inn, Blaxhall 17/08/17An Open Mic night at this somewhat famous (in folk circles) pub. Highlights are some comic songs from a lady with a zither, a marvellously dapper gent and his son playing the blues, a woman doing some virtuoso classical guitar, an unexpected visitor of Crystal Palace, a beautiful self penned song ( Read more... ) -
Eat The Book
Well Boy! Was I wrong. At least I have companyThe thing is that just a week or two before I was more-or-less right. The local's weren't just a dodgy poll that undersampled young people, they were an actual election. It wasn't that the available information changed. The world changed ( Read more... ) -
Books #159 - #165
#159 Exploration Fawcett - Percy Fawcett
Curious memoir of a 1920's explorer which had to be finished by his son after he disappeared in the Amazon. Lily picked this up for me at a free book exchange and it sat around the house for months until I got around to reading it, coincidentally just as a film about the same man (The Lost City of Z) came ( Read more... ) -
Big thinks on the election
Probably a good time to look back at these thoughts on Theresa MayAs to my inexpert analysis, I'll award myself a low passing mark. C perhaps ( Read more... ) -
In other places
I largely direct this blog at, well, me. I'm aware a couple of people read it but really it's more a diary I don't mind being public. Somewhere to put down the random thoughts which would otherwise clog up my brain. Also lists of books and gigs. None of this is very well thought out ( Read more... ) -
Some Ramblinbg Thoughts On Logan
I have some small issues with Logan: that the genetically modified super-children are a somewhat tired trope, that the evil-Wolverine never really works very well, that the seemingly endless reams of burly men with guns are nothing but anonymous claw-fodder, that the adamantium bullet is a clunky plot device you can see coming a mile away. I think ( Read more... ) -
Books #152 - #158
#152 Name Of The Rose - Umberto EcoI'd been put off this years and years ago (about when I saw the film) because somebody said it was very heavy going with loads of untranslated Latin and so-forth. It does have little fragments of Latin, and I have little idea what any of them meant, but that did not bother me because it's such a rich enthralling ( Read more... )
