The Cool List |
Dell Buzzard is a great debunker of The Cool. The Cool - the Cribs, art-rock (the genre), art rockers (the people), art rocker (the magazine), Domino records, The Beatles, Van Morrison, Dylan, books ...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:30:00 GMT |
Thou Shall Hev a Fishy on a Little Dishy, Thou Shall Hev a Fishy When the Boat Comes In. |
Here in Sidcup, this morning has been a very sombre affair. News reached us as we arrived of the passing of one of the office's three goldfish, apparently during the night. In classic Quincy ME style...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:53:00 GMT |
Ooh Ah, Just a Lidl Bit or The Brew Ha Ha. |
It's easily forgotten, but the sheer glamour of the music industry can sometimes take one's breath away. Elsewhere in the business, people are being whisked off to glamorous locations for playbacks a...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:24:00 GMT |
New York, London, Paris, Munich, Everybody Talk About Pop Musik |
Kat and I are talking about music. This can only end in tears.
"Yeah, I like Abba" I tell her. "That's just common sense. There is absolutely nothing wrong with liking classic pop music."
"What about...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:22:00 GMT |
One Week to Live |
It must be a dream. Dell and I are standing on the far side of the Maidstone Road, looking across at Cynical Towers. It may be a trick of the light, but like some cheap special effect, the building s...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:54:00 GMT |
Four Guys from Ireland with a Dream and a Couple of Guitars |
"What do you get for the man who's got everything?" Dell asks. He is smiling broadly and stretching like a contented tomcat.
True to form, I am somewhat less content. Inadvertently I have been drawn...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:19:00 GMT |
There Is A Light (That Never Goes Out) In Trap Two |
Nobody's in the mood for my peculiar brand of quirky sarcasm today. Someone sent an email to the office suggesting that in the absence of a company-organised Xmas party, we organise something for our...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:18:00 GMT |
Slightly Red. Slightly Cross. |
We are all a little on the tired side this week, I think. To illustrate our collective mental fatigue I offer the following evidence.
Scene: Interior. An anonymous office building in Kent. Tuesday 2...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:03:00 GMT |
You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties |
This morning I chanced upon the big Indian chap from around the corner having trouble with the vast vending machine in the first floor kitchen. It had apparently 'eaten' his change and failed to disp...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:05:00 GMT |
Verbal Diary |
Kat, our departmental co-ordinator and for the most part, the only smiling face within a fifteen yard radius of me, is ordering up stationery for the National Accounts team.
There is a lot one can g...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:00:00 GMT |
