“I appreciate your courtesy, your well earned politesse
But you got yourself into your own mess
You know the demons in the design
A good idea at the time…”
-OK Go – “A Good Idea At The Time”
Well, Great Interview Week began with self-indulgent navel gazing and thus it shall end. Hopefully the bits in between have made the [...]
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Great Interview Week: It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Great Interview Week: Scientific Serendipity in Sydney
Great Interview Week continues in a scientific vein today. In last week’s Nature, a paper coming out of Dee Carter’s lab at the University of Sydney described the discovery of a previously unknown marine species. That, in itself, is noteworthy. However, the organism they found – an unremarkable unicellular brown alga – turns out to [...]
Great Interview Week: Scientific Serendipity in Sydney
Great Interview Week continues in a scientific vein today. In last week’s Nature, a paper coming out of Dee Carter’s lab at the University of Sydney described the discovery of a previously unknown marine species. That, in itself, is noteworthy. However, the organism they found – an unremarkable unicellular brown alga – turns out to [...]
Great Interview Week: A Shooter Girl Goes to Paris
I was thrilled when I drew Jennifer from No Place Like It for my second go at the Great Interview Experiment. Like your underwhelming correspondent, Jennifer is an expat (a Canadian in Paris) dragged overseas in a net of romantic entanglement with a furriner. Like myself, she seems happy to stay in her adopted home. [...]
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Great Interview Week: Iron Maiden Ruined Everything
“When I was just a skinny lad on holiday by the sea,
I met a girl in a Rancid shirt, and a tape she gave to me
With the Black Flag First Four Years and the Minor Threat Discography,
And punk rock saved my life.”
-Frank Turner – “Back In The Day”
London based singer-songwriter Frank Turner’s came to some [...]
MP3 of the Week – The Rosewood Thieves – “Honey, Stay Awhile”
Another Northeastern (U.S.) roots rock act caught my attention this week, I smell a scene up in the Hudson Valley. The Rosewood Thieves are a New York based quintet who released their second EP “Lonesome” in the Autumn. Their music strongly hearkens back to the 1960’s with Mackenzie Vernacchio’s organ summoning up echoes of The [...]
Dreamer in my dreams
“Well there’s a child on the way
It could be any day
But how this life will change him
That we don’t know
Well there’s a child on the way
Gonna look just like him
One day, he’s gonna say
“Ain’t you my dad?”
Then he’s gonna look down and smile
And after a while, he’ll say,
“That’s for sure, cause you got my eyes.”
-Wilco [...]
Out On The Weekend In Oxford
Since the decision to leave Oxford became final I’ve begun to appreciate just about everything about it – maybe barring the weather. In the three plus years that we’ve spent here I’ve been able to thoroughly explore this wonderful little city and there are a few places that have become very special to me. So, [...]
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