I'm sitting in Glasgow, waiting for Richard Swift to take the stage before Damien Jurado, anticipating an evening of fantastic storytelling through song. The trains are rumbling past, shaking the walls and the floor of the Arches, reminding us of our smallness in a grand city.

The red lights are strangely calming, especially after all of today's ( Read more... )

Am finding my fingers going numb with these strings-- ouch!

But at least i am finding myself able to remembet the shape if my three chords.... A, D, and E. But how does one strum nicely? My book is not helpful with this and it makes me sad...

Beans and cheese on toast for lunch today, then away into Edinburgh for the evening. Trying to decide whether ( Read more... )

I have been watching a rather interesting set of documentaries on Channel 4, hosted by Bettany hughes, who I am sure is a serious historian, but seems to generally be a sex-pot, speaking in a husky, smoldering voice and often swanning around in low-cut purple tops ( Read more... )

HMS Pinafore last night, ya'll ( Read more... )

So you're probably wondering what on earth happened to your favourite blogger in the world ( Read more... )

I've decided that if I had the time or the money to put into it, I would so definitely be a hipster/music fan type. But I wouldn't wear converse. I'd attend and be a hipster, but I could never dress hipster. More hippie. So hippie hipster ( Read more... )

So here I am in London, bunking in with Ruth for the next few days. Alas, however, her flat is sans heat or hot water. This makes thing...interesting. And cold ( Read more... )

Who's better?
( Common People )

I know I should have updated, but I didn't for ages. I was out having a fabulous time of culture, then I went to Glasgow, then I was working.

That's my life. I'll tell about the other three plays I saw later, when I feel more up to it.

I HAVE to do this mending so I have a skirt to wear to the wedding tomorrow - so I'm going, I'm going ( Read more... )

I thought I'd pop on a video from my current favourite band, Guster, and one of their best songs possibly EVER. But the little guy is just SO CUTE and cuddly, which is really pretty juxtaposed with the lyrical and musical ouput of the song. Go on, you know you want to watch it!

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