This is Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987.


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Since as far back as I can remember, visiting the hairdresser or barber has been an intimidating, embarrassing experience that seems designed to humiliate me. And yet everyone else treats it like some sort of fun outing from which they emerge, like a butterfly, oozing with joy about their new 'do, finely coiffed and strutting. I always emerge ( Read more... )

In honour of what I now set off to do...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeuNxMY_5Uo

From Love's Executioner by Irvin D Yalom ( Read more... )

There are many noticeboards around my place of work, and I tend to assume that they're largely pointless, that nobody really looks at them, and that people only put notices up out of a sense of obligation and an idea that 'that's what you do'. However, it occurs to me that there is another viewpoint; that noticeboards are a useful, lively resource ( Read more... )

Well, that's not strictly true, but it's the first almost complete thing I've done.

Disclaimers: haven't got the patience to spend much time on the production, the drums are a little rudimentary for the same reason, and the bass was recorded first take. The solos are a little directionless too.

Apart from that, I think it's pretty cool.

Elasmotherium ( Read more... )

I have become particularly enamoured of this band.

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Skip to 3.10 and wait till he starts talking.

'On having given up cricket', by Michael Laskey ( Read more... )

RIP Mr Michael Jackson. I will remember you very fondly indeed.

I feel gutted.