“Sara spelled without an ‘h’ was getting bored
On a Peavey amp in 1984
While Zak without a ‘c’ tried out some new guitars
Playing Sara-with-no-h’s favourite song…”
-Ben Folds – “Zak & Sara”
Ben Folds is one of the most entertaining live performers I’ve ever had the good fortune of seeing. He owns both his piano and the crowd, [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Good Morning Son, I Am A Bird
MP3 of the Week – The Wombats – “Let’s Dance to Joy Division”
“Let’s dance to Joy Division,
And celebrate the irony,
Everything is going wrong,
But we’re so happy…”
The Wombats are a Liverpudlian trio making a bit of noise with their cleverly penned indie pop songs. This week’s MP3 isn’t a particularly new one (it was released in the summer), but it finally got my attention this weekend. I’ve always [...]
Red beans and rice
Something about the Thames bursting its banks for the second time in six months put me in the mood for one of the Big Easy’s most famous exports today. Like all of my favorite southern foods, this one required a little bit of fiddling to compensate for ingredients that aren’t easy to find here in [...]
Winning the Sleep War
“There’s a full moon over Galway Bay tonight
Silver light over green and blue
And every place I travel through, I find
Some kinda sign that you’ve been through…”
-Steve Earle – “Ft. Worth Blues”
I love this picture and am a bit wistful when I say that you won’t see many more of these because we are winning the [...]
Science Tuesday on Thursday: It’s a small RNA world
One of my favorite parts of my job is the teaching that I get to do every year around this time. One of Oxford’s many charming idiosyncracies is the tutorial system they use for undergraduate teaching. In addition to lectures and labs, each student gets one-on-one or small group tutorials in their fields of study. [...]
Clean Bill of Health
For those of you who read yesterday’s post with some concern – everything is A-OK. I don’t know what the doctor thought he saw, but it wasn’t there upon further inspection. Kudos to Britain’s (socialist) National Health Service for vigilance and thoroughness.
I would also like to point out that my expect the worst approach has [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Cousins
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“Go ahead you can
Laugh all you want
I got my philosophy
Keeps my feet on the ground
And I trust it like the ground…”
-Ben Folds – “Philosophy”
I’ve always admired the eternal optimists among you – those who look for the silver lining, walk on the sunny side of the street or always look at the bright side of [...]
Z’s Music Monday: Radiohead – “Pablo Honey”
“All the things you got,
all the things you need
I bought you cigarettes,
and pried the company
to come and see you, honey…”
-Radiohead – “Thinking About You”
Some time in the winter of 1994 I went to the RCKCNDY club in Seattle to see a new British band that had hit it big in the Autumn with their first [...]
MP3s of the Week: British Sea Power
“Do you worry about your health?
Do you watch it slowly change?
And when you listen to yourself, does it feel like somebody else
And did you notice when you began to disappear?”
-British Sea Power – “Remember Me”
In the most recent Word Magazine, British Sea Power gets compared to Portland troubadours The Decemberists. This is just the latest, [...]
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