The Great Plan
Posted on July 21, 2010 - Filed Under Life-In-General | 2 Comments
Once I have some money saved up I’m going to move to some rural spot in New Zealand and raise honey bees on a tract of land, by myself, save for one or two trusty hounds. I’ll only encounter other people when I roll up into the nearest village once a week to collect my [...]
Adventures in Not-Drinking
Posted on July 21, 2010 - Filed Under Life-In-General | Leave a Comment
If having an alcohol problem means that a person’s alcohol consumption interferes with his work or personal relationships, then I probably never had one when I used to drink, but I appear to have developed one since I stopped drinking. I am very much looking forward to leaving this island. The picture is not particularly [...]
Semi-Proficient Guitarist Seeks Semi-Proficient Bandmates
Posted on July 16, 2010 - Filed Under Music | 1 Comment
Title says it all. Influences include Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil, and Alkaline Trio. Plenty of other stuff too, but that’s the general idea. … Reading this back, that band sounds pretty terrible. So let’s expand the range of influences to include the industrial-lite stomp of Nine Inch Nails, the alt-rock stylings [...]
Spain Plane
Posted on July 14, 2010 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
Footage of the Spanish teams’ flight home from South Africa. Probably the only time you’ll ever get to see Pepe Reina, Sergio Ramos and David Villa dance a conga line down an airplane aisle while singing along to Spanish music.
Tiki Taka
Posted on July 8, 2010 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
As Paul the Psychic Octopus foretold, Spain defeated Germany in Durban this evening to progress to their first ever World Cup final. There’s no point going into detail about the match itself; anyone reading this probably watched it: Germany played well but just came up against a much better team, and it was absolutely beautiful [...]
