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There was wine. There was dancing. Me and an evil pretty boy flirted for most of the evening and then I stole his gold hat. A good new years' by all accounts.

Hope 2009 is everything you all hope for, and then some.

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Stayed up 'til 4:30 consuming red wine and talking book-based bollocks with a new friend. Good night.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

Starting 7:00-8:00 at the Bell on Friday night, then moving somewhere a little classier as the evening progresses. It's quick, ill-planned and dirty, and you know you want it.

Nice work, America. I am so relieved, so pleased, so hopeful. For once the idiotic knee-jerk rightwing scaremongering got thrown out the window. The people are not fooled, not intimidated - they are smart, calm, and reclaiming the American dream and wrestling control back where it belongs: with we, the people.

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These guys are seriously underrated as lyricists. Like the best of bitter Dylan. Also, these are chords I can learn on guitar. Some of the chords are new and will take me a little while, but it's doable.

I was the token guitar-player when I was hanging out at Kate and Emma's place in Brighton. Even performed one I wrote not that long ago - my ( Read more... )

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Some discerning citizens amongst you may recognise and remember this particular editition of XKCD:
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First lines meme: The Rules
* Put your music player on random.
* Post the first two lines from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
* Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
* Strike the songs when someone guesses correctly.
* Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is cheating, and in a ( Read more... )