The light is quite nice when I walk to work early in the morning.


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A couple of shots from the park where I often walk in the evenings.


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I'm behind on this meme again, partly because I've been travelling all over the country and partly because these questions are really difficult.

Day 12: A song from a band you hateThis question produced the most angst because I just couldn't come up with a band I hate. I'm not the band-hating type.  Eventually, though, I remembered my hatred of ( Read more... )

Well, I can dance to pretty much anything really, if by "dancing" you mean either swaying or jumping up and down.

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This one takes me straight back to university. My friends and I would go to cheap student nights at these dingy rock clubs. As soon as we heard the opening of 'Song 2', we'd run to the dance floor (you had to be quick because it's a ( Read more... )

I had to take a break from this meme thanks to a shoulder injury that made typing a bit of a challenge last week.

Anyway, this one was difficult because I know the words to a lot of songs.  In the end I decided to go with lyrics that are burned into my brain for a reason.

Tori Amos, 'Crucify'

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I was 15 when Tori Amos released Little Earthquakes ( Read more... )

Iron Maiden, 'The Number of the Beast' (1982

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'The Number of the Beast' is a song forever linked in my mind with a Catholic residential retreat. I was 15.  It had been an emotionally overwhelming and highly manipulative experience and, by the time we left, most of us were in a state of near hysteria. One kid, however, had managed to hold out ( Read more... )

R. L Burnside, 'Rollin and Tumblin'

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The first time I visited Andy she was living in Arizona and because Arizona is a big place, we spent a lot of time driving around in the car, and while driving around we played a lot of R. L. Burnside's album, A Bothered Mind.  Now, whenever I hear the song it takes me straight back there, to a landscape ( Read more... )

Ani DiFranco's 'Little Plastic Castle' is a song that never fails to make me feel happy ( Read more... )

For my least favourite song, I've chosen the saccharine horror that is Chris De Burgh's 'The Lady in Red ( Read more... )

It's impossible for me to pick out one song as an overall favourite, so I've chosen a song that I can always listen to and which never seems to leave my mp3 player: Patti Smith's 'Dancing Barefoot' from her 1979 album Wave.

I came to Patti Smith when I was about 20 and picked up Horses in a 3-for-a-tenner CD sale. I just love everything about ( Read more... )