My God. The Arcade Fire last night. Probably the most impressive live performance I've seen in a while, and quite possibly ever. I'm not going to make (any more)outlandish statements like saying it was the best gig I've ever been to, as there are others which hold a greater significance because of personal 'stuff', but it honestly was great last ( Read more... )

Not too busy today, which is good news. As the person who schedules and assigns all the work in our team, it would be pretty easy for me to give myself an easy ride, but that’s not what has happened. The fact that I’m taking Friday and Monday off to pack and unpack (we’re moving Saturday) helps, because most jobs have a 5-day turnaround. So it’s by ( Read more... )

I know most of the people who read this will agree and that i'm very much preaching to the converted, but seriously....

* Bush asking Congress for $82bn extra funding for Iraq and Afganistan. That's in addition to the $2.6 TRILLION annual budget he submitted to Congress last week, and the $300 billion a year the Pentagon already gets ( Read more... )

Just browsing on the iTunes store for no particular reason, and stumbled across the Four Tet remix on Bloc Party's "So Here We Are." Bought it, and it sounds fantastic. The shimmery guitars and vocals of the original are absolutely made for Kieran Hebden to rework, and it's nice to see that he hasn't ditched the drums at the end either ( Read more... )

Just got a voicemail to say that our references for our new place have checked out and they want to arrange a time to sign contracts etc sometime soon.

Yay! :)

New user pic ( Read more... )

Zoe had just typed the first line of a journal entry, but her Mum has just phoned so I may as well jump on here and do an update myself ( Read more... )

We have this thing everywhere we go in Europe which involves going to a supermarket just before we leave for the airport and our flight home, where Zoe generally buys chocolates, biscuits and cakes, and I buy weird things you can't get in the UK. Whilst the Danish supermarkets were on the whole disappointing, Sweden's were really good, and had lots ( Read more... )

Yesterday was such a lazy day, and there isn't really any reason why today has to be any different. That said, I do actually intend to leave the house later as I need to pop to the supermarket. How exciting ( Read more... )

I've been listening to the Bloc Party album today, and it's good, but not totally mindblowing, mainly because there are three or four songs that do seem fairly similar, which has been my criticism when I've seen them live too ( Read more... )