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I feel privileged to have seen a band called Love play live at a huge concert called All Tomorrow's Parties a couple of weeks ago. One of the best bands on all weekend. Love and its lead vocalist Arthur Lee are legendary. Authentic 60s Jethro Tull-esque happy pot smoking hippy pop. Kittensinunderpants sum up the Arthur Lee / Love experience perfectly so I don't have to bother. If you fancy a trip back to the 60s then buy Forever Changes. I'm off to Brighton for a week and it's all I'll be listening to.26.5
My friend Graham recently lent me The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. He was right, it's brilliant. Everyone should own this book. I'm certainly one person who's been wandering around the palace staring at my teaspoon of oil without looking at the walls. It's a simple allegory about the life of a shepherd boy and how you relate his learnings to the complete and utter bollocks we're forced to put up with in modern life.
I'm buying some copies for friends and recommend you get yourself one. It leaves the 'chasing the cheese' book far behind. Cheers Graham.
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My friend Steve (who seems to share my taste in music) has just introduced me to the music of Pearls Before Swine, and I like it a lot. Recorded between '69 and '71, it's Ideal for campervan hippies like me who weren't around to enjoy it at the time. If you're a fan of Jethro Tull you'd love this.
25.5
Today I had lunch with a very good friend called Tricia who edits a handful of sections of The Mirror. Big changes there with Piers being given the boot. Tricia was telling me that one of the biggest changes was that all the pictures on the office walls have been changed following his departure. I would have loved to have seen what they were before. I wish Piers the best of luck. He's done some great work over the years, transformed the Mirror, and Tricia tells me that he's a very decent bloke to work with. He made the mistake of printing some fake pictures. He's a tabloid editor for Christ's sake. Besides, we all make mistakes now and then. I wish Piers luck in his TV career. He's guaranteed to do better than that smarmy orange racist twonk Kilroy.
Tricia, I apologise for illustrating our lunch with a picture of Andy Skinner from Preston having a gun pointed at his head.
23.5
The Decemberist's Colin Meloy sounds like Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Magnum. If you like that kind of music you should check them out. See one of their videos here.
22.5
Rebecca and Tim came over tonight and Rebecca cooked a well-fit meal of some Italian stuff with bloody steaks. Very Nice. Here's a picture of Rebecca dreamily looking forward to becoming my wife.
21.5
Drool.
Seymour may well be traded in for this beauty. I only wish you could make a bacon sandwich and cup of tea in a Stag.
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19.5
At work I've been lacking a good new business campaign for the month. Until tonight. To make sure we're as topical as possible I'm thinking we can kidnap family members of new business prospects, take some pictures faking some tongue in cheek torture, and then post them to their home addresses with a nicely designed flyer and note reasurring them that the children will be returned safe and sound if we're allowed to re-design their logo and do a bit of PR for them. Needs must.17.5
I've spent the past two days catching up with things that are really important to me.16.5
A day verging on the pornographic in Soho Sq with Timmy, Rebecca, Franko and Kris. A few pictures of random people on a bench too.11.5
10.5
I spent yesterday getting to know my new Leica camera. It's absolutely lovely. I go weak at the knees when we're in the same room. It's packed with features but incredibly intuitive to use. I've had to sell my ass on Ebay and live on discarded sandwiches from my local Europa for two months in order to afford it, but it's been worth it. Pictures to follow.9.5
"Una voz.. me llama cada vez
Por mi camino.. allí siempre estaré
Donde quiera que voy.. un amigo haré
Misión cumplida, te das la vuelta, y me fui otra vez
Tal vez mañana.. ya mi vida asentaré
Hasta mañana.. mi camino seguiré
Si me quieres acompañar.. por un día o dos
Ponte tu gorra, camisa, un short.. así soy yo
Tal vez mañana.. ya llegue a ese lugar
Hasta mañana.. seguiré mi caminar
Hasta mañana.. el mundo es mi hogar.."8.5
Marvellous afternoon in Kettners champagne bar with Jonny, Elaine and Graham. Jonny's on the brink of a buying an organic farm in Wiltshire and I'm thinking of a career as an organic farmer. This was followed by a great night celebrating Steve's birthday at a trendy Islington bar called Keston Lodge.
7.5
Today was a demonstration of how good work can be. Sally, our new business director and I spent an enjoyable day touring cafes and bars around Carnaby Street and Soho chatting, laughing and drinking. Amongst all the fun we also came up with quite a respectable marketing plan for one of our major clients which I know will knock their socks off. It's amazing how much better the ideas are after four tequila slammers and two bottles of wine. Monkey tennis, inner city sumo? *SPEW*
5.5
Nice pants.Sondre Lechre is mentioned below. If you're on a PC and have ten minutes to spare, check out his EPK which gives you a flavour of his music- here if you have broadband, and here if you like them small.
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The poem on the homepage is by John Cage (M. Writings '67-'72). He wrote that while composing these prose celebrations he thought he was writing acrostics. Until someone pointed out that the highlighted letters occur in the middle of the word so they should be called mesostics. These were dedicated to Marcel Duchamp.3.5
This is Sondre Lerche. He writes and sings. He's big in his native Norway and he's now chipping away at the US. But he's yet to make a mark in the UK. Not for long I reckon. He has a great voice which one moment is a dead ringer for Tommy Scott from Space and the next is more like Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust phase. He's also written some good melodies - get hold of 'You Know So Well' - great stuff. He has a nice website too.2.5
At work we recently won the contract to look after Blueback - an upmarket private hire car company operating in London. They are doing phenomenally well - apparently the biggest threat to the black cab industry in forty years. We started by producing a series of funky postcards featuring some of the local characters in Notting Hill. Here's another with me, Sally and Steve celebrating Blueback's success.
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Today I gave my website a quick rub down. It was a bit of a mental jumble sale. A jumble sale where I'm the cloth-clad market trader selling to a mad frib-bracket of molting hyenas. All I can reasonably say is that the dogs received their jib.
Adam Green's voice reminds me of Neil Hannon, the lead vocalist of the Divine Comedy. To remind me of my heady student days I bought his latest CD, Absent Friends. It's great. He hasn't lost his touch at all. Come Home Billy Bird and Charmed Life are great tracks.
