i got 80% for my dissertation, which i'm proper chuffed about. this has mitigated quite a large chunk of my gloom, and made up for the slightly less sparkly grade i got for my other work (which i knew was sub-standard anyway ( Read more... )

esplendor geométrico - 80s tracks ( Read more... )

so carter last night was a barrel of monkeys. the gig was great even though we had upstairs sitting-down tickets - we were right at the front so had a perfect view, without being crushed by shirtless sweating overweight middle-aged blokes. we turned up to the venue with our spare ticket, with memories of last year's sell-out experience making us ( Read more... )

…and so far the new album is much much better than the first two. and the last two skuppy albums. still has that annoying sing-song/nursery-rhyme vocal style that ogre is doing these days. but it's noiser, more distorted, less "pop", and certainly stranger than any of the skuppy clan's output in the last decade or so. if TGWOTR had sounded more ( Read more... )

i wasn't writing it down so the order's a bit skewed and i think i've missed a few out but here's roughly what i did ( Read more... )

well hello lj; it's been a while ( Read more... )

anyone free tonight there's a chameleons special at the dev!

had my crit for the term yesterday; was very good - 79% for the term. got a couple of firsts - one in photography (the meat-stitching beast) and one for my flash project - and i got 90% for my semiotics project! glee etc ( Read more... )

i'm still only reluctantly using itunes as my media player. i do actually really like winamp, but whatever, i'm being slowly converted to mac things. anyway randomly on itunes just now three quarters of my music collection disappeared and for some reason i noticed that the longest track i have is that really shit techno remix of "cry little sister ( Read more... )

fantastic gigging weekend! great to spend time with maxinemogadon; we should do this again soon (there's another fest coming up with allerseelen and a bunch of others). i'm guessing, madbird, that you weren't too taken with der blutharsch?

full gig reviews (herewent to antilight after der blutharsch on saturday and i have to say that i really wasn't all that ( Read more... )