What an annoyingly cold, snow/rain day to have a fire alarm.

Jake and I are going skiing in a few weeks time. The place we're going to is in Vermont and isn't called Smuggler's Crotch, but it sounds like it. I'm 37, you wouldn't know it ( Read more... )

Very sad to hear about the death of Roy Scheider over the weekend. I was always happy to see him turn up in films, in a way it almost validated the film itself. He had a unique presence, and not all because of that unmistakable face ( Read more... )

I haven't been around these parts for a while and now I am back I find I have lost some people. I am sad about that but I can't blame them. For a few months this journal of mine has been like an ice cream cone without chocolate sauce or sprinkles, ice cream or, indeed, the cone ( Read more... )

Christmas was great, though full of germs. After careful planning I managed to contract some kind of illness (probably a cold, though it could well have been Martian Fever the way I succumbed to it) just before we flew back to the UK. I infected Jake, as I'm a really nice guy, and we spent the Christmas week sleeping badly and coughing while our ( Read more... )

The following is copied from a yellowed old piece of paper with staple holes in each corner where it was attached to a display board at a school open evening in 1981.

Inside My Head ( Read more... )

(i) The new Jim White album 'Transnormal Skiperoo' is released in the UK on October 1st on the wonderful Luaka Bop Records label. In the US it's going to be released sometime early 2008. In the UK I was always cursing early US release dates for things and since I've moved here it's the other way around ( Read more... )

I know this is a cheat of a journal entry, 95% of online journals go about their business powered by indulgent musical musings and the desire to share your own terribly flawed song recommendations with the world, but this morning has been a medley of James Yorkston and it's put me in an odd, yet good, mood. The only time I've seen Mr Yorkston play ( Read more... )

No more "Runaround... NOW!"

A very sad day for my childhood.

Yesterday, after many years spent out of print, the Traveling Wilburys Collection was released. In 1987 I bought George Harrison's 'Cloud Nine' thanks to my love of the track 'Got My Mind Set On You'. This was a new direction for my musical tastes and when the George Harrison founded Traveling Wilburys released their first single, 'Handle With Care ( Read more... )