"What's the name of that Blondie song?" inquired your friendly narrator's mother.

Your narrator had to clarify because she could not work with so little information provided. "Which Blondie song, mother dear?"

"The one from Parallel Lines."

"Which one from Parallel Lines? Heart of Glass? One Way or Another? Hanging on the Telephone"No!" the ( Read more... )

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FORGIVE me if I can't get too exercised about the latest accusations hurled at Opera Australia. Same show, different cast. In fact, Crisis in Standards at the Opera ( Read more... )

If I could only take 5 albums to play in my solar-powered CD player on a desert island for the rest of my life, I would have to take ( Read more... )

In 1994 James LaBrie, the singer of Dream Theater, ruptured his vocal cords whilst vomiting due to rather nasty food poisoning.

Is that even possible? Is it really possible to vomit involuntarily with that much force?

I'm struggling to keep my lunch down now.

Let's see if SCIENCE (or to be precise, Thompson, a quick google) can settle my stomach

It's been haunting me why I want to flee ( Read more... )

... and the sweetest moments, or the bittersweet ones that are still worthy of recall, are just how Tim Freedman and Nick Cave describe them.

Jesus of the Moon

The Lights Are Back On

This is my holiday project.

Inspired by Minty and Potter's Original, I am going to make a teensy weensy and delicious mp3 player ( Read more... )

The OverClocked ReMix community has introduced me to video game music (other than the Silent Hill OSTs), which in turn makes me want to play the games they are from. There are not enough hours in the day damn it, and too many Final Fantasy games!

This is better than Metallica.

Yesterday I snaffled a book from the library, Russian from Dummies. ( Read more... )

Spose it's about time I updated on what I've been up to recently ( Read more... )

Reading Grimm's Fairy Tales and stumbling across The Giant and the Tailor reminded me of another book my class was read in grade 3: the Tailypo. I decided to see if I could find the book (linked above), and to my surprise, Tailypo is an old and well-known story ( Read more... )