So last year the Arcade Fire released an album called the Suburbs. After being impressed by their original release, ‘Funeral’, I was eager to give this a listen. The first run through was hampered by distractions and maybe disinterest, I wasn’t that impressed and might have put it down for months had I not accidentally [...]
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suburbs
Posted in Music, Oxford, World, tagged Arcade Fire, Suburbs on 12 March, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
give up?
Posted in Music, Oxford, Science, tagged Jen Wood, PhD, Postal Service on 3 August, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so probably my favourite album of the last 10 years is the (so far) only release of the collaborative band The Postal Service. It’s brilliant, its highs are high (Brand New Colony single-handedly makes the case for the use of 8-bit retro game music in brilliant songs) and its lows are still kinda high [...]
“I’ll eat you up, I love you so”
Posted in Film, Music, tagged Where The Wild Things Are on 8 January, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve watched Where the Wild Things Are twice now and enjoyed it immensely both times. Works really as a piece of art on it’s own – it is stunningly pretty and all its ideas are wonderfully realised – but also as a microcosm for childhood, growing up and how hard both these things can be. [...]
Pretty much the best song ever:
Posted in Music on 14 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://open.spotify.com/track/5ZTkm3WuaSUAuwpfhVSORg Nina Simone plays a live version of House of the Rising Sun, it really is truly brilliant. Can’t think of a better song.
Indolence and indoline
Posted in Lists, Literature, Music, Oxford, Science on 2 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few things I realised in the last few days: – The chemistry of organic dyes is more interesting .. and interlinked than might otherwise be expected (and makes for puntastic titles). – Hot Shots Part Deux is a brilliantly stupid film that puts the world in perspective (a perspective that is no where near [...]
