i was reminded by coming across some really good footage of it on Youtube that I neglected to mention that I saw Shellac live recently. Fantastic really...

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I don't think I need to say much else really ( Read more... )

it's a bad business when you can't even work up the enthusiasm to bullet point what's been happening... so let's cut to the chase. i got a £25 gift voucher pat on the back from work that i can redeem at a whole host of online retailers and i'm thinking of some new music ( Read more... )

Slint are playing Glasgow later this year. this is exciting news.

post about so many things, i've even intended to. but motivation has always escaped me. right now, my whole left hand side hurts. what started as pain in my heel occasionally over a month ago has in the last 3 or 4 days been upgraded to "maybe i should see a doctor ( Read more... )

just a quick note before hitting the hay, and having mulled it over, i think i would rather that Smith just left. whilst appreciating what's he had achieved in his tenure so far, if he's so intent on heading backwards then i don't think he is the man for the Scotland job. any suggestion of a split deal is just going to lead to conflicts of ( Read more... )

i've got a cold and it's nipping my piss... i usually have to contend with one every year or so but this is the second once i've had in recent times. so my sinuses are all to shot and i can't even make any vague in-roads with some music tonight because of that ( Read more... )

back to work tomorrow. it's been good being off but i really am feeling a decided funk about having to go back. i know that's de rigeur but it just really nips my piss. that said, i should be trying to be positive about things - the daemonic commute will give me plenty of time to listen to my recent musical acquisitions ( Read more... )

i don't really subscribe to the thought that music has good or bad years until you've had a good few years to mull it over and decide that is the case. for example, 1997 was a great year. i couldn't comment on 2005 yet. 2006 was good for me although the usual fluctuation in trend perhaps weren't ideal for me. this meant, that i spent maybe a ( Read more... )

where was i? so, the whole Secret Mission #1 thing was a success. looks like something will come out of that. i'll keep schtumm just now. so what else? not a lot, down in Edinburger yesterday induliging in capitalist excesses and wishing Nathan merry birthday. didn't hang around for the Up On Blocks or Schrodingers Beard (what happened to his ( Read more... )

i thought it would've been a good idea to go into work for a day in between xmas and new year, you know to keep on top of things. i'm doubting that wisdom now... i tried to squeeze in a few hours remotely today so i'm only doing a bit of a day tomorrow. but it wasn't really happening - managed to get a bit done ( Read more... )