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I've recorded my segment off Listen Again and here's an MP3 so you can listen to my dulcet tones rambling about mix tapes whenever you like!

People that have known me for a while will know that the Great British Bear Bash in 2009 was a bit of an epiphany for me. I *knew* about bears, and I'd been to the King's Arms and XXL in London but it wasn't until I was at an event where pretty much *everyone* was chunky and hairy and (on the whole) happy about being that way that I really got it ( Read more... )

Metallica - Enter Sandman

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This song will forever take me back to 6th form through to the end of University and the Hollybush Inn in Witney. At the time one of my mates from school, Dan Goddard, was running the shed at the back of the beer garden as a music venue and as such it became the regular haunt for me and my peers. When bands weren't ( Read more... )

There are a few songs that remind me of someone, but in this case I think I'll go with an LJ specific memory.

Franz Ferdinand: Take Me Out

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This song will forever remind me of brassyn due to her tales of living in the same tenement as Alex Kapranos. As much as I wanted to hate FF (as Kaparanos sounded like the neighbour from hell) this track sounded ( Read more... )

This is a really easy one.

Rufus Wainwright: Dinner At Eight

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There's just something about this song that really resonates with me and tears me up every time. It makes me sad, but its a good sad. It strikes me that the relationship between Rufus and Loudon Wainwright is the relationship between most gay men and their fathers writ large and I ( Read more... )

This is quite tricky. There are lots of songs that lift my mood - mainly they are of the f-you variety (Goldfrapp 'Rocket', McAlmont & Butler 'Yes', Armand Van Heldan 'U Don't Know Me') or dancing the blues away (Little Boots 'Remedy', Sophie Ellis-Bextor 'Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)') but they aren't necessary songs that make me happy, more ( Read more... )

It has to be something mawkish, probably by Paul McCartney. I'm thinking one of those god-awful saccharine Beatles ballads. Ahh yes, I have of the perfect song ( Read more... )

This is hard. My favourite song changes quite regularly, but thinking about this my mind keeps coming back to one song ( Read more... )

I saw that 50poundnote was doing this and I thought 'that looks like a meme I can get behind'. Might actually start me blogging again ( Read more... )

Today we have been doing something we should have done a long time ago. Sorting out and shredding/burning old bills. We decided on keeping stuff for five years - its a bit of an arbitrary number but if we can stick to it it will keep the mountains of paper to a minimum.

So - a poll!

Poll Bills, bills, bills