August 2010
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July 2010
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Maxims...
I’m not usually one to utter them, as Aristotle said, it’s ‘unbecoming’ but I think that I can safely say that “if you leave something to the last minute, then it only takes a minute”, and that’s a maxim that I’m willing to abide by.
March 2010
3 posts
Another cheeky Magdalen grace recording. Sicut...
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Magdalen college choir singing (half of) Grayston...
February 2010
2 posts
It's nice to have people say nice things about... →
WWJD, Ban Equality? - Make the Pope Pay
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/02/equality-laws-unjust-pope-uk
http://www.secularism.org.uk/petition-the-pm.html
Above are two links. The first outlines the latest of the Pope’s condemnations against our government’s equality legislation, its ‘threat to religious freedom’ and contradiction to ‘Natural Law’. The idea of a ‘Natural Law’ as...
January 2010
37 posts
The Rules of the Game: A Fuller Thought on J....
agrammar:
Yesterday I posted a fairly peeved note concerning Jessica Hopper’s Chicago Reader article about Vampire Weekend. (She’s responded to that note, very graciously, on her blog, but that seems to have vanished.) My note led to a spike in traffic, which was unexpected: if I’d realized it’d catch much attention, I might have explained myself more carefully. The essay below is an attempt to...
http://www.cherwell.org/content/9666 →
‘Fraudulent LMH fresher sent down’
Ridiculous. Why anyone would go to such lengths is pretty desperate, pretty lame, and beyond me.
Maybe they should keep him on though. I mean, he beat the system, he’s gotta be pretty smart. But then again, he could have been a little more tactful. Be adding like, 1 or 2 A levels, not, like, 10. That’s a bit retarded. I’m sure...
Why I think Mozart is boring...
So we’re currently having to read this beastly book for out anal(ysis) tutes. The initial idea of this was pretty daunting. This is because I find most of what is loosely termed as ‘classical’ pretty boring. To me, the experience of listening to classical music is similar to the experience of having a conversation with someone that just agrees with everything that you say....
“You have been told that real life is not like college and you have been...”
– Meryl Streep (via nancysun) (via danielgarrick)
Mmhmm I couldn’t feel more far removed from real life right now.
MP3: Rogue Wave - "Good Morning"
mitchelinmilwaukee:
minneapolisfuckingrocks:
*MP3: Rogue Wave - “Good Morning”
Rogue Wave’s new album, Permalight, will be out on 3/2 via Brushfire. MySpace (Ian Anderson)
WatchIt all tastes so much better when you feel like you’ve earnt it.
(Not me playing, but if I could film and play, then I definitely would.)
WatchThis is really interesting (except the cheeky Elvis punning). If you think enough about and appreciate how much metaphor influences the way you see and process everything, and the ridiculous amount of connections you make between things without even noticing, you cannot imagine seeing the world completely literally. Blah.
Just to back up my earlier point
From Pitchfork’s review of Contra:
‘Though, as Pitchfork editor Scott Plagenhoef pointed out in 2008, the band’s detractors probably wouldn’t be nearly as hung up on Ezra’s lyrics if the people in Vampire Weekend’s songs— or the people in Vampire Weekend— seemed poor’
True. And if they listened carefully they’d realise that a lot of it...
WatchAnimal Collective-Brothersport [Domino]
New Animal Collective video. I think that, basically, this is what must happen when children are given psychadelic drugs. They probably just gave them the drugs and a camera and waited to see the results. Quite a beautiful thing really.
Why are people so wrong about music sometimes.
Here is a quote from the Times review of Vampire Weekend’s Contra:
‘“Clever” is an accusation frequently lobbed at Koenig in a manner that suggests an Ivy League-educated frontman couldn’t possibly mean it the way, say, Liam Gallagher does.’
This annoys me. I hate the way that a lot of people seem to associate what is ‘genuine’ in music and lyrical writing with...
Oxford Round 2
All packed and thinking, why does decent education involve so much sacrifice? Freely being able to leave an area of about 5 square miles, the ability to watch 3 films in a day and not feel guilty about it, clothes that mysteriously disappear dirty from my room and mysteriously reappear clean a few days late, confidence in my own academic abilities, spending at least 2 evenings a week sober, being...
Christopher Lee (aka Saruman from LOTR) Is gonna... →
‘I SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MEN!!!!’
Such a cool song. In the best possible way, his...
My Top 20 Albums of the 00's
In no particular order.
Final Fantasy- He Poos Clouds (2006)
Modest Mouse-Good News For People Who Love Bad News (2004)
Sun Kil Moon-April (2008)
The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam (2007)
Arcade Fire-Neon Bible (2007)
Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca (2009)
The Postal Service-Give Up (2003)
The Format-Dog Problems (2006)
Interpol-Antics (2004)
The...
I would post today’s video, 8 maids a milking, but that will probably offend some people.
December 2009
5 posts
WatchWhy is it that animated shorts like this can be so ridiculously disturbing and yet just turn out to be hilarious? Classic.
