Does anyone want to see Mogwai in Cambridge on April 4th? I realise it is crazy close to coursework deadlines, but it's Mogwai! Meant to be one hell of a live show, and the venue is 850 capacity. I'm pretty sure that's smaller than the LCR. Come on kids, it's a Tuesday night...

Name the first 10 (different) artists on iTunes Most Played:

1 Arcade Fire
2 The Postal Service
3 Brand New
4 Explosions in the Sky
5 Interpol
6 Broken Social Scene
7 Sigur Rós
8 Bright Eyes
9 Death Cab For Cutie
10 Sparta

Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

-- what was the first song you ever heard by 6?
Anthems For A Seventeen ( Read more... )

I spent work tonight convincing my workmates that a real, live bigfoot had been captured in Canada. I could have told them that it has developed a taste for the music of the Arcade Fire, but I wanted to keep it realistic, y'know? They all believed me as well.

Wandered into the city today to watch the kids outside the Forum. In a non-paedophilic way ( Read more... )

[Insert mock-eloquent, pseudo-profound comment on current mental state using snow as metaphor here]

And now for something completely different.

Seriously though, here's hoping for another snowfall before dawn breaks.

This much I know:

• I have reached the point where I feel entirely justified in giving up alcohol for Lent, and to do this I have reached an agreement with my managers, in that I am barred from the Bell, unless I am working, until Lent is over.
• Finding old editions of early Steinbeck novels is a marvellous feeling
• It is difficult but not ( Read more... )

I don't know the exact statistic, or whether reliable statistics even exist, but I've heard guestimations between 30 and 300, for the number of times per day the average person is visible by CCTV. This is a little worrying in general. For a while I've had the idea of spending a day, as ordinary as possible, avoiding CCTV; on campus, in shops, at ( Read more... )

Oh good grief, I suppose I'll have to get in on this one too

4 YEARS AGO

How old were you? Sixteen.

What school year were you in? Year 11, coming up to GCSEs

Where did you go to school? Burleigh Community College, Loughborough. 'Learning For Life'

Where did you work? Woolworths. Mostly the toy department.

Where did you live?Home. Park St, ( Read more... )

I may have to convert to Mormonism. But more on that later.

I've said it before, and no doubt I shall say it again in the future. It is impossible for me to go to Leeds and have a bad time. From the moment I got on the train the good times were a-flowing. Sun shining, tunes pumping, rather attractive girl sitting opposite me...

Act 1, Scene 1
A boy ( Read more... )

I love Wikipedia.

Osama bin Laden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Usāmah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Lādin (born March 10, 1957; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن), commonly known as Osama bin Laden, or Usama bin Laden, (Arabic: أسامة بن لادن) is an Islamic fundamentalist and the founder of the militant terrorist organization al-Qaeda.

I ( Read more... )

John Steinbeck once wrote 'I believe that one day every adolescent will end up going to Hollywood', or similar words, I don't have the source to hand. But it basically compresses every cliché about America into one easy to swallow phrase, and this was written fifty-odd years ago. I am fascinated and terrified by the USA.

Tonight I sat on my workmate ( Read more... )