Struck down by the blues |
Well I woke up this morning and wished I was dead (cue painful harmonica solo and tortured slide guitar)....Actually I woke up this morning and felt a bit better than I did yesterday, but not much.Why...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:31:00 GMT |
Festive thing |
I don't feel I've got it in me to say happy/merry Christmas/yuletide/solstice sorry, got a cold so evil it has wholly enveloped me...
Anyway, here are some of the bah humbug-type things I've had publi...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:30:00 GMT |
Headline made me cringe... |
...especially as I didn't have any pizza while I was there.
Plus, here's some exciting places not to plan a trip to.
Now I'm begging Maggie Thatcher to take to her death bed or be in the news in some ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:06:00 GMT |
Its the end of the world but I feel fine |
Yeah the recession is happening here in old Blighty, the local rag is cutting back on my services and at the moment I have less than £1 to my name, plus I'm recovering from the mos...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:35:00 GMT |
Travel to hell and back |
MSN has published a second list-based piece on me relating to Hell in its myriad earthly forms. They wanted it to coincide with Hallowe'en and the editor said, just before he went ...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:08:00 GMT |
Taking the Microsoft dollar... |
... or at least I will be when they've paid me for this article on the top 10 animal adventures. The next one I've done for them is 10 ways to go to hell (actually there are lots more), but can't stop...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:55:00 GMT |
Guardian blog about Mark Stewart (of Pop Group/ Maffia fame) up at long last! |
I really had to hassle the music editor to get him to put this blog up (read here... because it wasn't strictly pegged to a hot news story it wasn't top priority. But oh how I'm glad it has gone up co...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:47:00 GMT |
Knowing your onions (in Newent) |
While I wait so far fruitlessly for the Guardian to publish my latest oeuvres - one on SST records and the other on Mark Stewart, I just thought I'd share with you the unedited versions (they usually ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:55:00 GMT |
What they did for entertainment during the War, vids from the 1940s |
I've posted other compilations I made from the enormous British Pathe newsreels archive, from 1930 and 1940... but this morning I went to town and uploaded a series from 1941 to 1943 on to YouTube. Do...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:45:00 GMT |
Insomnia spawned a song |
A little while ago I was trying to give up 'jazz'-smoking (unsuccessfully, it turned out, so far anyway), and I found myself unable to sleep and in a very low place. There was no one ar...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:49:00 GMT |
