Friday, April 27, 2007

changes



I can't sleep. When that happens, I either eat compulsively or decide to change things. Tonight I decided I had enough of my old blog design. For one, I want bigger pictures, since I'm more articulate with my Canon than with the keyboard. I'm now playing with the new Blogger templates, I read ( guess where?) about a way of posting larger images, for which I needed to abandon my old template and switch to onne of the new designs. Let see how it goes (maybe I'll fall asleep before finishing...)

The photo is mine, but the idea was Samu's... Cheers, mate.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

iPods everywhere

Female member of Mursi tribe in Southern Ethiopia.


Apple announced last week that 100 million iPods have been sold worldwide. Nothing compared to the number of AK-47s, I guess.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut, R.I.P.


God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up! "
"See all I've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.

From Cat's Cradle (1963)

Kurt Vonnegut died last night

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Stuck on Amber

The Boo Radleys have always been one of my weaknesses. Formed in Wallasey, England in 1988, with singer/guitarist Sice, guitarist/songwriter Martin Carr, bassist Timothy Brown and now Placebo drummer Steve Hewitt. The band split in 1999. They had their 15 minutes of fame with Wake up Boo!, from their 1995 Wake Up album, but had recorded some excellent work that earned them credit with Indie/Britpop/shoegazing lovers. The songs in that album will always remind me of the great spring of '95 in Liverpool. Stuck on Amber is one of the pop gems it contained (you can download it here)
Even if it isn't hit material like Wake up Boo! or Find the Answer Within, it is amazingly beautiful and catches the spirit of the band.