Each week, a different artist comes out of the jar and I listen to them solidly. This week it was the turn of duelling guitar aficionados, Thin Lizzy. What I Knew Before: My dad had Jailbreak on vinyl when I was a kid so I knew those songs better than I knew how to spell [...]
Music Jar – Week 1
Each week, I pull a new artist from the jar and listen to their stuff. This week it was the turn of stomp-feet extraordinaries, The Lumineers. What I Knew Before: They played at some point during a Glastonbury I was at. I was on a massive comedown and someone told me the lead singer had [...]
The Music Jar.
I can't claim this idea as my own, as much as I would like to. It originally came from The Larson House and even finding that can be placed at Jazmine's feet. My Spotify artist of the decade was The Beatles. There's nothing wrong with that but I know I am missing out on listening [...]
My big commitment.
In 2019, I committed myself in a way that I had never done before. I paid in advance for a Odeon Limitless card for the year. This meant that I could watch as many films as possible for one fixed fee. I don't know if it's of any interest to anyone else but I watched: [...]
Top 10 of 2019.
I've had an incredible year. To think that the Fyre Festival documentary came out this year means it really has been a wild ride. I didn't have to resort to anything of the sort to make a deal with Evian but here are the ten best things that have happened to me in no real [...]
New York – Day Seven
I woke up and felt the melancholic dread of having to go home. There's always something that hangs over the final day of any time spend anywhere else. We packed up the last of our things and said goodbye to our cute apartment. We dropped our bags at a nearby hotel so we could explore [...]
New York – Day Six
I learnt about Thanksgiving through Addams Family Values, which is a fairly solid historical depiction. I was excited to experience my first one in the land of the free and the home of the brave, but first, Dunkin’ Donuts. Jaz and I set off early. We had a lot to get done. We got Beyond [...]
New York – Day Four
On Tuesday I got to live out a dream I’ve had for most of my life. I got to have what she’s having. When I was twelve, my best friend was a girl called Amy. My grandpa told me that “men and women could never really be friends because sex got in the way”. When [...]
New York – Day Three
On Monday, we picked up breakfast in Dunkin’ Donuts and took the subway to the financial district. We visited the 9/11 Memorial but I had little interest in visiting the museum (because, you know, grief porn). The sky was a beautiful blue after the cold and wet of the day before so it made sense [...]
New York – Day Two
When we woke up on Sunday, the sky was grey and rain was falling on the fire escape. I put on my giant orange coat to explore. We got the Subway to Times Square and wandered around, wasting time before our matinee show, To Kill A Mockingbird. While debating whether we were hungry, we wandered [...]
