Check out this song. "(Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. I've got a flashbulb memory of when I first heard it - in primary school, on my friend Nick's handheld FM radio. I was, for some reason, amazed I had never heard it before. Like if a chemist suddenly found a new element, and all his associates just casually remarked 'oh, you ( Read more... )

Right! On a train again, and I've alotted anywhere up to half an hour to blog before I crunch down into a self-help book for the remainder of the journey ( Read more... )

Woo! The postman just came and dropped off my plush pet rock (as seen here) and the ladyscraper vinyl I bought ( Read more... )