Posted on 2017-09-28 · 3 min read · Travel · Europe · Italy · Photos · Seventeen
We bought a cheap package holiday in the British Airways Black Friday sale. The weekend spanned Ingrid’s birthday, so it was ideal. £99 each for flights and a hotel, and we bagged a hire car quite cheaply too.
Posted on 2017-09-25 · 7 min read · Understated Classics · Orbital · Music · Seventeen · Electronic
I came late to Orbital’s work. I knew of them through a few remixes and because as a mad Orb fan, they could not have avoided my notice could they? Apart from that, one of my college friends tried to get me into “In Sides” just after its release in 1996. The same friend got me into “Second Toughest In The Infants” by Underworld. I cannot now understand the reason, but “In Sides” just left me cold.
Posted on 2017-07-17 · 3 min read · Writing · Ideas · Blogging · Seventeen
In my last post, I wrote about hills. I tried to use them as a metaphor to explain nagging sense of incompletion when you single out one activity over another. The feeling that there’s always a more exciting hill off in the distance to go climb, instead of the one you’re on.
Posted on 2017-07-15 · 3 min read · Ideas · Blogging · Seventeen
I’m a big fan of books. The way they transport you away to other places and so on. As repositories of knowledge and adventure they can’t be beat. I can think of no better way out of an existential fix than reading.
Posted on 2017-07-01 · 4 min read · Films · Seventeen · Science Fiction
I enjoyed Wonder Woman, which came as a surprise to me given my growing distaste for superhero movies. I can remember seeing the Superman reboot Man of Steel with its phallic rockets and its boring boring fight sequences. But almost everything about Wonder Woman exceeded my expectations. It’s a well-made superhero movie and better still, it gets to the heart of why these kinds of movies matter.
Posted on 2017-06-16 · 2 min read · Writing · Ideas · Seventeen
It can be a struggle to keep writing. I’ve found this happened a lot since I moved the blog. First, there was the business of moving things over. That meant a lot of thought about old posts and which ones I should keep. A lot of the time I thought “how on earth did I have time to write this?!”
Posted on 2017-04-11 · 7 min read · Writing · Blogging · Software · Seventeen
Posted on 2017-03-31 · 9 min read · Album Digest · March · Music · Blanck Mass · The Shins · Rolling Blackouts CF · JFDR · Seventeen
Posted on 2017-02-28 · 5 min read · Album Digest · February · Music · Grails · Elbow · Dreadzone · Seventeen
Posted on 2017-01-31 · 9 min read · Music · Album Digest · January · Mike Oldfield · Bonobo · The xx · Seventeen
Posted on 2016-10-13 · 5 min read · Understated Classics · Aztec Camera · Music · Sixteen · Pop · Rock
The next instalment in my understated classics series is "Stray" by Aztec Camera. Released in 1990, it features two hit singles and the cover is my favourite colour: green.
Posted on 2016-10-10 · 4 min read ·
Heavyweight is a podcast about “heavyweight” issues, in the sense of burdens on the soul, rather than the burning issues of the day. It’s presented by Jonathan Goldstein, who was the host of the WireTap podcast. Each week he helps someone resolve an issue from their past. These include resolving family feuds and understanding mid-life depression.