Some Day - Hiromi Uehara grandstanding away starting about 4.30 in (bit worth watching the whole thing)
The Folk America program on BBC4 tonight was excellent - lots of great archive footage. iPlayer if you didn't see it - lots o fine banjo. I wasn't taken by the concert show after though. The Joe Bussard should be interesting.
Oh man, I so want one of these!!!!!!!!! Really, really, really. And that is not just because I was out for a meal with free wine tonight. I really , really want one.
I know it's only a step in the process but I really like the look of the blonde bdy with blue edges....
100 worst guitar soloes - I haven't heard most of these so can't judge, but, my, the writer has a lot of axes to grind.
Here's a forum thread with loads of faked albums, with the added pleasure of track listings and reviews.....
I just got a "Christain job offer" by e-mail! From Pastor Samuel George no less - probably of the Nigerian Two First Names Church of the Blessed Book Repackagers.
I have already seen the pilots of the crashed plane in NYC described as "heroes" in several places. Now, in no way do I wish to do the pilots down - they saved a lot of lives with their skill - but I don't think they are heroes. They did the job they were trained to do (part of which is not to panic in emergencies which you or I would do) in a superlative fashion but that is not heroic. Heroism is about doing something you could avoid doing but do anyway. Another word being devalued.
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On Gizmodo today someone refers to "several Guinness pints". What an odd construction to use, surely "pints of Guinness" is what everyone says?
It is really annoying when the Internet lets you down - I'm trying to get hold of a copy of Romance by the Camels for my son and nobody in the UK or Europe seems to sell it. I can certainly order it from Oz but that seems as though it ought not to be necessary
Can I just say that I have absolutely no interest at all in who plays the next Dr Who. Just so as you know.
I happened to be in the room when the latest Jonathan creek programme started and there was a website mentioned. First rule of t'interweb : make sure that your server for your programme related website can stay up when everyone goes to look at it within 30 secs of it being mentioned...
Listening to the Flying Burrito Brother's Live in Amsterdam 1972. Oh how I do wish I could have been at that concert. Simply wonderful : Byron Berline, Roger Bush, Alan Munde in the version of the band and Don Beck on the pedal steel. You could not conceive of a band playing that kind of music to that kind of audience now-a-days either.