"Lady Macbeth was probably an architect."

Dub

I don't listen to dub much these days.  I could be wrong here but I blame it on CDs and worse still mp3/iTunes type formats.  Music played on a great turntable just sounded "warmer"; the bass deeper and "rounder".  I imagine none of these are terms of which audiophiles would approve but of the sentiment I expect, or at least hope, they would.

Knitting The Day The Earth Stood Still

Not quite so menacing atop a Christmas tree.

Bowie turns 65

"We've got some half price cracked ice and miles and miles of carpet tiles,
TV's, deep freeze and David Bowie LP's..."


Even Only Fools and Horses caught on.  Apparently Dud was asked to contribute to Hunky Dory; shame Peter Cook wasn't.

Inspiration - I

Jonathan Miller, perhaps the last great polymath.  Medical doctor, opera and theatre director, atheist.

PBS INTERVIEW

Pub Grub

A crisp cold day here in Toronto.  Just the day to spend at a window seat in a pub with a glass of good bitter and a book (and no, not a kindle, iPad or any such thing).  Perhaps a day to reflect on the excess of the past week and have one more for the road.

Nous in 2012

I hope this year, with the US Presidential stakes higher than ever, each and everyone of us has the nous to not only ask the right questions but to make the right decision.

Jeremy Paxman interviews the then UK Home Secretary