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More apolitical blues
I posted last week about my political quandary - how I am struggling to see who I should give my 'X' to on May 6th. Since then I've watched the second TV debate (by all accounts a bit more firey than the first, but not by much) and tried to read up on what the various parties are doing and promising. All of the parties have policies I am for, and ( Read more... ) -
The Apolitical Blues
I was going to watch the leaders’ debate the other night, honest I was. Then my mate came over, we put on some tunes, started gabbing and you know I just plain forgot. Mind you, I can pretty much imagine what it was like - three liars lying a lot.
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If this is How It Is you can keep it
It wasn’t all me me me at the weekend - I also took the opportunity to go into London and see some other people’s art. I realised a while back that I had never actually just walked round the Tate Modern. Probably because when it was first open I was dead against all modern art and wouldn’t have wasted my time on it, and the only times I’ve been in ( Read more... ) -
Bands, beer and birthdays
Crikey. You wait months for a post then three come along at once....
Anyway - this weekend was my birthday and it was pretty damn cool. Had house guests in the shape of friedegg_ntl and purplesuey who are always great to have here. They arrived on Thursday and we headed pretty much straight out to the SECC to see the Dave Matthews Band. I've been a fan since discovering ( Read more... ) -
The problem child
One of my tutors once told me of a time he was trying to paint a sequence of works. It was a natural idea and it all just flowed : right up to the last piece, they just fell out of his brush, each perfectly formed and exactly how it had been envisaged, but the last one faught back. Days, weeks (or whatever) of fighting with it; painting over it, ( Read more... ) -
Jazz and Whisky Night
Playlist:
Monk/Trane - 2LP set
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (CD)
Miles Davis - Tribute to Jack Johnson (side one)
John Coltrane - Blue Train
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Charlie Mingus - Blues and Roots
Brad Mehldau - The Art of the Trio volume one (CD)
Drinklist:
Glengoyne 16yo Shiraz finish
Edradour straight from the cask
SMWS "Toffees rolled in ash" (Glen ( Read more... ) -
Colourlines is back!
Thanks to mhaithaca and LJ's tech support, colourlines is now back on-line and pointing to the new feed URL! Huzzah! So if you were following it before, you will still be, and if you weren't, check it out! If you would like to catch up with what you've missed (as LJ only keeps the last few posts and there's been quite a bit since the move) then you can do so ( Read more... ) -
Assistance request - and also a bit of a PSA....
Those of you who follow colourlines might have noticed it's dried up a bit. This is down to my moving the blog to somewhere where I could make it fit the website a little better visually, and although I managed to keep the URL the same, I didn't realise that (a) I wouldn't be able to keep the RSS feed URL the same, and (b) I wouldn't be able to change the ( Read more... ) -
I think it might be dead....
The iProg may well have played its last epic ( Read more... )