Wednesday, 28 July 2010
What A Difference A Year Makes....
I've just been told, and a BBC video backs this up, a former classmate and revision chum of mine from University spent today sitting in on a Select Commitee at the House of Commons with Mervyn King, Whilst all I sit in on is Attendance Disciplinaries. Fourteen months ago we were sitting around the same table explaining macroeconomics to each other. Fair?
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Aweseome Stories # 1
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen (2002)
The Boss hasn't put out an album for over seven years and America is in a state of disaray having just been the victim of the worst Terrorism attacks the world has seen, what the average American beleives in has just been shaken to the core.
A few days after the attacks Bruce Springsteen is out driving in Asbury Park, New Jersey (not too far from New York)and when his car comes to a stop the guy in the next car rolls down the window and says "We need YOU now".
Springsteen goes home writes some songs, calls the E-Street Band into the studio for the first time in 18 years and makes an album to inspire a nation.
Hero.
The Boss hasn't put out an album for over seven years and America is in a state of disaray having just been the victim of the worst Terrorism attacks the world has seen, what the average American beleives in has just been shaken to the core.
A few days after the attacks Bruce Springsteen is out driving in Asbury Park, New Jersey (not too far from New York)and when his car comes to a stop the guy in the next car rolls down the window and says "We need YOU now".
Springsteen goes home writes some songs, calls the E-Street Band into the studio for the first time in 18 years and makes an album to inspire a nation.
Hero.
A new name...
I've decided to change the name of this blog to something much less nobby sounding. Instead I've decided to reference a song I've frequently used in facebook statuses usually during exam time.
The Song is 'Shiver Me Timbers' by Tom Waits, from the album 'The Heart of Saturday Night'. It itself borrows Martin Eden from Jack London's novel of the same name where the protaganist, a struggling writer, feels that the manuscripts he sends to publishers are returned to him by a machine without ever having been seen by human eyes. A feeling I've often identified with. Captain Ahab ain't got nothing on me. Oh and its about sailing away, running away being one of my favorite subjects for a song!
The Song is 'Shiver Me Timbers' by Tom Waits, from the album 'The Heart of Saturday Night'. It itself borrows Martin Eden from Jack London's novel of the same name where the protaganist, a struggling writer, feels that the manuscripts he sends to publishers are returned to him by a machine without ever having been seen by human eyes. A feeling I've often identified with. Captain Ahab ain't got nothing on me. Oh and its about sailing away, running away being one of my favorite subjects for a song!
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Karl Marx's Favorite Band...
A comment on someone's facebook lead me to Youtube and one of my favorite songs of all time, please can we have just one new band capable of something this good please?
Not just some souless tripe from a rhyming dictionary played over one catchy riff...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Better off?
I was just sitting here when the song "Burning Photographs" by Ryan Adams came on, long story short its about getting over a girl and getting rid of all your photos of her. It got me thinking, are we really better off in this ultra technological age?
I mean take this lyric:
"I used to be sad
Now I'm just bored with you
You're doomed to repeat the past
'Cause nothing is gonna last
I burned all your photographs"
Now try and get "I deleted you on facebook and twitter and erased my phone's memory" to scan, it just doesn't.
All this technology doesn't leave much room for dramatic melancholic gestures.
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