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We’re officially Pregnant

August 23, 2007

Debbie and I have known since the end of June that we’re pregnant. We wanted to keep it pretty much to ourselves until we had our 12 week scan and told all our family.
We had decided very recently to start a family after years of ‘thinking’ about it. I’ll spare you the graphic detail but [...]

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Sigur Ros – At Home

August 20, 2007

I’m a huge Sigur Ros fan.
They’re releasing some new material over the next few months. A compilation album featuring some previously unrecorded songs (including the beautiful Salka) is due out in November and the band have a website up for their ‘Heima’ project which is a DVD of their recent Icelandic tour.
They’ve released a trailer [...]

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Excellent Elevator Music

May 10, 2007

The Arcade Fire are one of my favourite bands and their latest album “Neon Bible” is a brilliant snapshot of life in the 21st century.
Here’s the band playing “Neon Bible” live in an elevator.

Brilliant.

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Spider Man

May 8, 2007

If this doesn’t make you want to keep your ears clean, nothing will.
A nine-year-old boy complaining of “Rice Krispies” sounds has discovered he had two spiders living inside his ear.
Jesse Courtney from Albany, Oregon, complained of snap, crackle and pop noises in his ear but his mother Diane had no idea what his local doctor [...]

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130 minutes into 5 seconds

May 8, 2007

Don’t want to spend over two hours watching Scorsese’s latest mob epic “The Departed” (although you should, because it’s very good) – then get the gist of the film in 5 seconds.
Genius. Check out his other movies. My favourites include “The Return of the Jedi” and “Edward Scissorhands”.

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