Tag: music
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Weekend
I seem to spend most of my time on this blog posting retrospectively about what I did on any given weekend. Will try to spice things up with a little more thought and debateworthy stuff in the future - I've got some ideas. In any case:
Friday was Andy's gig - not as good as the … -
Halloween In Aber
I'm a big bad wolf, it seems. And last night I, along with Little Red Riding Hood (Claire), Death (Bryn), Paul (Andy!), Judge Doom [barely] (JTA), Pinocchio (Matt), and Matt (not in costume... grr), went out to the Coopers Arms to see Pagan Wanderer Lu. And he was good - some songs I knew, some …
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Surprisingly Good Unsigned Artist
I'm actually impressed. My friend Andy's finally put some songs online, and he's really good (for one reason or another, I'd never heard anything of his before, and I'm much impressed - for some reason I'd come to the assumption that he'd be shit). Anyway - so long as you're willing to put up with …
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The Marvellous Breadfish
Tell me, have you seen the marvellous breadfish?
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Hot Puppies, Troma Night, And A Fantastic Transcript Of A Speech On DRM
[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]
Went to the castle to see The Hot Puppies yesterday evening. Everything I'd heard was true - they really are very good. They play well, they sing well, they … -
Live Music, Anyone?
Sounds like an excuse to lounge on soggy grass and drink real ale if ever I heard one. Yay....
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Random Drunken Piano Appreciation Society Of Aberystwyth
So Paul, Claire and I are in The Flat. Paul's reading, I'm coding, and Claire is playing the piano. It's half past eleven. The doorbell rings.
Who could that be? None of us are expecting anybody, and most of the folks we know have already left town to be with their families, etc. I go downstairs … -
Alone, And With…
People who are in on the Secret Of The Jukebox will be delighted to hear that I've had a good long hack at it tonight (hence it being 4:30am) and I've managed to get heaps done and ready for Paul to break test, including but not limited to the new "Alone, And With..." engine, which …
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Bugger
I've just discovered that I have an assignment deadline tomorrow for an assessment I didn't realise I had, in my weakest module. Joy!
On the upside, I've just looked at the assessment and it's got very little to do with the module; in fact, it oughta be comparatively easy: still - 4-8 hours work I didn't … -
I Wanna Wake Up Where You Are
Watching a Goo Goo Dolls concert on VideoCD.
They're really quite remarkably good. I suppose you can't help but respect the artistry that goes into making a song for which you need to re-tune your guitar such that five strings are tuned to the same note. I mean, can you see the conversation now? "Hey, Robby: … -
Gatecrashing
Claire, Peter and I gatecrashed a friend-of-a-friend's house party last night, and ate all of their Pringles. One of the housemates' music collections was fab: all the best of the Goo Goo Dolls, 3 Doors Down, Nirvana... and some weird (but actually quite good) Welsh rock band.
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It’s Over
Tomorrow's the first day of the Fresher's Fayre, and Dan can't sleep.
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Progress!
Working late. I've got Club 977 (best 80's cheese on the 'net!) playing as loud as this computer goes, slamming out code at a rate more productive than I've been all week. Finally got past a bug that'd been troubling me for days. Phew! Just in time for a meeting tomorrow!
I've been getting a lot … -
What Meatloaf Song Are You?
I'm I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back. Excellent.
"When you fall, you fall hard. Maybe you get a bit obsessive. Maybe you get a bit homicidal, even. But you've got a rockin' melody and a beat you can dance to."
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Excellent Article On Music Piracy And CD Sales
A must-read! An excellently-written and concise article in dot.life about the falling sales of CDs being blamed on file-swappers, playing devil's advocate. Go read it, people!