And at the desktop there's crying sounds
For all the projects due
And no-one else is around
And the sprinklers that come on at 3am
Sound like crowds of people asking
"Are you happy what you're doing?"
I think I saw Grandaddy first on Jools Holland’s Later. Can’t find some of my favourite on YouTube - from Under the Western Freeway there’s Miner at the Dial-A-View, Collective Dreamwish of Upper Class Elegance and the haunting Everything Beautiful Is Far Away. Here’s one I hadn’t heard before about day out in the countryside:
Becky wondered why
She'd never noticed dragonflies
Her drag and click had never yielded
Anything as perfect as a dragonfly
This MP, who famously used Britain’s much-derided libel laws to sue The Observer newspaper and then lost, spectacularly, having to pay costs, also ran into a spot of bother over 9/11
Feedburner is a very useful resource on the web. For those not in the know, it allows you to use its cache of your RSS or Atom feeds as your public feeds. And it can convert RSS to Atom, and can present the feed nicely styled with CSS and it delivers usage stats to you.
That is the problem with Brit Art, with artists like Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin and the others. I believe that much of this English, very biographically-oriented art is bullshit
it may be time to consider the possibility that young people who behave as if privacy doesn’t exist are actually the sane people, not the insane ones
Sam Ruby over at Intertwingly, on the Generation Gap
