Monthly Archives: October 2009

www.rupertmurdoch.twit

Does Rupert Murdoch get the internet thing? Some thoughts from Roy Greenslade.
Has Rupert Murdoch lost his magic touch? As absurd as it may to suggest that one of the world’s most successful media moguls may be in any kind of danger I argue in my London Evening Standard column today that his News Corporation business [...]

More thoughts on country pleasures

The other day I wondered this about the Krauss/Plant version of Through The Morning Through The Night:
I have a thing about this song, and the distinctive country minor-lilt of the harmonies. That interval, that particular pairing of vocal parts, IS country music. How does something like that evolve? Is is just based on a regional [...]

Forty years eh?

We were all going to post our favorite Python sketches this afternoon and combine them into something quite jolly. Then we forgot.

No mention of gerbils …

… but quite possibly one of the funniest things ever:

Morning commute 2.10.09

On the train for the first time in ages. Don’t know why, perhaps fearing some sort of Magda Szabanski open door effect on Bridge Road this morning. Or not.
Shuffle threw up Neil Young’s very lovely Red Sun. This song always puts me in a place. Do you think I could find a video on the [...]