back to the US of A

We’ll be back in the USA as of Friday evening.  We fly from Heathrow to Minneapolis to Boston, where our friend Harold is getting married and then on to Detroit.
The picture above is of the Guardian Building where Jeremy and I used to work.  It is, in fact where we spent part of our first [...]

ATP Curated by The Breeders – The really long recap (three days of music takes awhile hey)

So on Friday we took the train from Paddington to Taunton and then a bus from Taunton to Minehead where we began a solid weekend of drinking and music.  Yes, I wore earplugs after Jeremy nagged me for ages, and yes, it was a good decision.  Because, yes, most the shows were really loud.
Anyhow, let’s [...]

Brought to you by the letter M, for MUSIC

Jarvis Cocker is a grumpy old man and he hates everyone and it’s kind of awesome.  His kids are markedly less pretentious.
ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP!!!!!!!!! The Breeders and X and Bon Iver and Teenage Fanclub and Tricky and Throwing Muses and Kimya Dawson and knitting with Kelley Deal and it all [...]

Sacroiliac

So this winter I was all gloaty because I only had a few weeks of arthritic pain.  I was all like, ooh look at me and my mostly working joints, I’m so fancy , I’m practically a normal 31 year old (because I was still 31 in the winter).  I am now being punished.  My [...]

all of the stuff

I gardened the hell out of our tiny little postage stamp garden this weekend.  Most notably, I finally won my battle against the jasmine vines planted by the hippies who owned our house before the previous owner, Charles, whose view on gardening was one of neglect.  So the hippies planted the jasmine and then Charles let [...]

Correction #2

Gates of Steel is not on Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!  I am a dork and knew better.  BUT they still played it in the encore.
Also I always forget how awesome Gut Feeling is.  The intro to that song kills me.
I did a fair bit of jumping last night.

Correction

Devo will be playing at The Forum at Kentish Town tonight,  not the Roundhouse.  I apologise for this error on yesterday’s note.
I have worn sensible shoes today because they are going to play Gates of Steel (this is guaranteed as the show is a Don’t Look Back show put on by ATP of Q: Are [...]

Silence

There’s been a lot going on lately, some good, some bad, and some in between, but almost all of it generally unfit for a public blog like this.
In news that is fit to share with the world at large:

We went to a party on Saturday. The theme was power, Jeremy went as a suspicious looking [...]