Ever since last.fm went shite it's not let me keep track of musical milestones.

Might as well do it here as I don't seem to use LJ for much else these days...

1st song - Melissa Etheridge - Breathe
50,000 - Madonna - Ray Of Light
100,000 - Wendy & Lisa - Why Wait For Heaven?
110,000 - Joan Jett And The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself For Loving You ( Read more... )

A bit late due to having gone camping. Even more books than usual last year, probably due to mostly working from home and also having a bit more spare time on my hands. Also possibly due to the fact that many of these books can best be described as "enjoyable rubbish" rather than anything approaching literature.
( The Book I Read 2015 )

Time to get my no doubt constantly losing team in.

GK - Hart (Man City) / Hamer (Leic)
DEF - Ivanovic (Chel) / Jagielka (Eve) / Coleman (Eve) / Fonte (Soton) / Clyne (Liv)
MID - Hazard (Chel) / Henderson (Liv) / Schweinsteiger (Scum) / Schneiderlin (Scum) / Wanyama (Soton)
FW - Costa (Chel) / Deeny (Wat) / Benteke (Villa)

I did have a habit this season of transferring players when injured only for them to have been decided fit enough to play and scoring hat tricks.

Despite the fairly poor looking figures, overall I did marginally better this year than last.

Overall points = 1754
Overall rank = 1,352,008/3,502,998
Australian rank = 45,243

End team:Hart (Manchester ( Read more... )

Obviously there are certain genres (R&B, rap, jazz, etc) which I've missed out due to not liking very much other than the occasional moment. The list below are artists, by definition, I should like...but don't.

Grateful Dead
Perhaps simply not jangly guitar enough and no female vocalist to balance the sound.

The ClashI remember listening to their ( Read more... )

I think I beat my record for the number of books in 2014.  I guess having spent a lot of time on public transport going to work might have a fair bit to do with it.
( Books and books and books )

1. What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?
Went to Africa. Went quad biking with the suspected result of being rubbish at it, though it did provide my sister with a lot of laughs. Oh, and SAW KATE BUSH LIVE! AND TOUCHED KATE BUSH!

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn’t make any so ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?
Went to Africa. Went quad biking with the suspected result of being rubbish at it, though it did provide my sister with a lot of laughs. Oh, and SAW KATE BUSH LIVE! AND TOUCHED KATE BUSH!

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn’t make any so ( Read more... )

Not bad at all this year to be honest though selling Yaya Toure for Rooney right as the latter got injured wasn't perhaps my best move...

Overall points - 1,979
Overall rank - 1,120,850 / 3,218,900
Australia rank - 39,308

Final squadHoward (Everton) + £0.5m ( Read more... )

My favourite album of 2014 so far is Suzanne Vega's " Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles".
Track 3 is entitled "I Never Wear White".

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I can't help thinking that if I'd written the song, there would be a verse about not being able to eat anything tomato-based without getting it down myself and that the stains are a bugger to try and get ( Read more... )