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The High Life
“If you’re feeling kinda tedious, if life is seriously mediocre..” The High Life is back; previously only available for a shocking price on Ebay, this DVD of Air Scotia’s finest can be found on Amazon. It’s possible that the dvd release, after 22 years, of Tutti Frutti – hooray! – has sparked this.
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Doctor Who Exhibition
In Glasgow we went to see the Dr Who exhibition at the Kelvingrove Gallery. Our pictures here.
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Busy week
Been a busy old week, we were at a wedding in Blair Castle last weekend, at which we saw many of the family. Torchwood has been running at 9 p.m. each week night, and miraculously I was only five minutes behind the curve by the end. Anyone who knows my complete and total failure to…
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Sculpture Park
You don’t need to know what I dreamed about last night. New sculpture park opened near Kirknewton, could be worth a visit but they are understandably fairly prescriptive about who turns up when.
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Film
Tension mounts in Château Holmes as the launch date for the new Star Trek film draws tantalisingly closer, it says here. To stave off cultural drought until that time, we raided the world cinema section of HMV yesterday, realising that for the price of 2 cinema tickets (without trough of popcorn (bleurgh) or vat of…
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John Martyn
Link to one of my favourite John Martyn songs, which has Eddi Reader on backing vocals. She waves about a bit, but you just have to imagine me on the 07:46, listening to this while I read the Hootsmon, and fulminate at the writing therein. Oh, and they can’t spell whisky on YouTube. RIP big…
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Work, Music
Back in the harness at work, and having weird dreams. I am into quoting Bare Naked Ladies just now, so it’s “La, la, la, I can’t hear you,” if you have found me from another dimension. It’s been a long week.
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Elbow
For some intelligent, rocking, lyric-led music that doesn’t sound like a load of rubbish … and who just happened to win the Mercury Music prize for 2008!!!!!!!! Ha. Look on my works ye mighty and despair. Umm, perhaps not.