Wednesday, October 10, 2007
It feels like ages since last we heard Karl moan. I understood the reasoning behind the hiatus as Ricky is right that too much of a good thing can wear down the welcome of anything, but there was still a part of me eagerly awaiting the next great parcel of wisdom to dribble forth [...]
This is long overdue. I have been praising Regina for years now, and yet somehow I neglected to make a playlist to celebrate her talents. There is a lot to choose from and aside from the youtube clip and the bonus track ‘Dusseldorf’, I have all but avoided her most recent album, ‘Begin [...]
Inspired by Stephen Merchant’s regular segment on BBC6 Music ‘Songs to Seduce Women By’ a work-in-progress playlist for guys who are too shy to express themselves in the conventional manner but who nonetheless aspire to woo that special someone, I have cobbled together my own rendition, ‘Songs to Pull Birds’, which is essentially the same [...]
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
[On the off chance someone on my Facebook roll does not know who Karl Pilkington is, I give you this taste of his comedic genius. If it does not include a way to listen on Facebook follow the link to my blog]
This year Karl Pilkington was inducted into the Guiness Book of World Records [...]
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
[In my rock n’ roll carefree past I had a tendency to give out playlists to friends without keeping a copy for myself. Later on I came to realize how defining some of these compilations were, and when, eventually, the songs piece by piece vanished from my computer, I was left with only a [...]
Thursday, February 1, 2007
This latest offering is a lovingly manufactured playlist inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ collection of short stories, ‘Labyrinths’ and which in certain circles is understood to be a continuation of the ‘eternity playlist’, a cult phenomenon of the music blogosphere where aesthetes attempt to compose the theme of eternity without falling prey to the obvious [...]
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Perhaps this will become an annual occurence, a celebratory playlist for the year in music… not so much a best of, or top ten, but songs that have an iconic swagger to them and which I enjoy. If this becomes a time capsule for the year I hope these songs say something interesting about [...]
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
An anecdote and then the antidote.
I am/was an underground man. The first time I read Dostoevsky’s ‘Notes from Underground’ I was twenty or twenty-one, a couple years younger than the novel’s protagonist during its second part, ‘An Occasion of Wet Snow’. I was going through my own ‘occasion’ at the time and in [...]
Friday, November 10, 2006
Bob Dylan’s thirty-second studio album ‘Modern Times’ has become something of a revelation which has once again made the world sit up and take notice of this elder statesman of the arts. I am a bit ambivalent about Dylan’s late work (I have serious problems with ‘Love and Theft’, and enjoy only parts of [...]
According to a recent British report the global economy may soon plummet into another Great Depression if the required changes to environmental policy continue to be ignored. The news got me thinking about the Dust Bowl, this looming spectre of the past that I never lived through but which I have grown to appreciate [...]
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