Monday and Tuesday were the fourth anniversary of my dad's death. I say both days because although he went missing on the 9th and we believe he died that day, his body wasn't found until the 10th and so that's the date recorded on his death certificate, and also on his gravestone. But we don't think he would have waited overnight, because down by ( Read more... )

My job's going fine, by the way. I kept meaning to come and inform you all of this fact, but haven't. I've been getting the train from my little village to the middle of Huddersfield, it takes about 40 minutes and leaves me with just enough time to walk to the big building I work in. It's right next to the station and if I could only skip across ( Read more... )

I'm more sad about Panic than I thought I would be. They were my first bandom band though and Jon Walker was my gateway drug and I'm sad about what's happened. I hope they're still friends and if they're not I hope they can work back towards being friends in the future. Look it happened with Peter&Carl so it can happen with Panic okay. ( Read more... )

So there's this band I like to bang on about and they're called Flogging Molly. So I thought I should write an introductory post for those that don't know them.


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At the risk of sounding like unlurkster (in the best POSSIBLE way, love), where is the fic where Alex & Ryland are cruise ship singers that have to share a cabin and they drive each other crazy with their little foibles and then eventually they fall in love ( Read more... )

So I have this wall next to my computer desk where I stick random stuff and I thought I'd share it. I have an annotated photo! ( Read more... )

This is almost entirely for doublefourtime but I hope some of you like it too. I wrote about the King Blues song What If Punk Never Happened here a few months ago, and I talked to Himself about it and a few weeks ago he said, "I've got a present for you. It's in your MP3s folder." Lo and behold, a mix CD called "What If Punk Never Happened?" with all the bands ( Read more... )

Photos and a lot of ramble. ( Read more... )

This is my 14th - and final! - contribution for 14valentines. It's been a struggle; I'm just not used to posting so much. But thank you for reading, thank you for commenting and answering my questions, and so on :) You can read today's contributions here, and I'd recommend reading some of the other amazing contributions there's been over the past fortnight ( Read more... )