rescuing aunt sally
Now that i no longer have broadband all week i'm going to have to do some bullet point type posts begining now:
1. A Tale of Two Gigs
So two Mondays and two gigs at the Union. Firstly there was Ben Folds (www.benfolds.com) and then there was Interpol (www.interpolny.com) this week at very short notice. Both were excellent but were very different. Both are very cool but in completely polar ways. Ben Folds very much embraces his geek (he does look like a maths teacher) and uses that to his advantage whilst Interpol are NY cool wearing shirts and ties (the guitarist even wore a suit- he must have been boiling). Ben Folds goes mental live to the extent he has to tape his nails up he plays so hard whereas Interpol just move in very angular ways which given their amazing light display looks awesome with huge shadows of the band appearing on the walls. The audience at both was a very broad church but Interpol had Phil Oakey so they win but Ben Folds is far better at the whole participation thing. Oh yeah, and both play very good music
2. Muffins
In her infinite wisdom, my mum gave me some muffin cases when they moved up north so upon deciding to use them yesterday i realised only too late that i had no muffin/cake tins to put them in so ended up with some very strange looking (all be it still tasty) rasberry muffins.
(ps. my parents have found a house)
3. Team America
Fuck Yeah!
4. Wimbeldon
Now i have real problems with Mr Henman in the sense he embodies everything that is wrong with us as a nation. He's well respected (he is world number 6) but ultimately rubbish. You get your hopes up that he might win but at the end of the day it's more a case of, "well he tried his best didn't he." That may be true but he still didn't bloody win did he. Also in tennis i find it less important to support the homegrown people but go for individuals. Disappointed Henin-Hardenne went out, i like here.
5. Current mood
6 1/2
1. A Tale of Two Gigs
So two Mondays and two gigs at the Union. Firstly there was Ben Folds (www.benfolds.com) and then there was Interpol (www.interpolny.com) this week at very short notice. Both were excellent but were very different. Both are very cool but in completely polar ways. Ben Folds very much embraces his geek (he does look like a maths teacher) and uses that to his advantage whilst Interpol are NY cool wearing shirts and ties (the guitarist even wore a suit- he must have been boiling). Ben Folds goes mental live to the extent he has to tape his nails up he plays so hard whereas Interpol just move in very angular ways which given their amazing light display looks awesome with huge shadows of the band appearing on the walls. The audience at both was a very broad church but Interpol had Phil Oakey so they win but Ben Folds is far better at the whole participation thing. Oh yeah, and both play very good music
2. Muffins
In her infinite wisdom, my mum gave me some muffin cases when they moved up north so upon deciding to use them yesterday i realised only too late that i had no muffin/cake tins to put them in so ended up with some very strange looking (all be it still tasty) rasberry muffins.
(ps. my parents have found a house)
3. Team America
Fuck Yeah!
4. Wimbeldon
Now i have real problems with Mr Henman in the sense he embodies everything that is wrong with us as a nation. He's well respected (he is world number 6) but ultimately rubbish. You get your hopes up that he might win but at the end of the day it's more a case of, "well he tried his best didn't he." That may be true but he still didn't bloody win did he. Also in tennis i find it less important to support the homegrown people but go for individuals. Disappointed Henin-Hardenne went out, i like here.
5. Current mood
6 1/2
posted by hugh at
11:11 AM
1 Comments:
everyone always says, about both henman & english sportsmen/women/teams in general, that we lack the 'killer instinct' that, say, americans have. which is strange, given that we used to rule half the world. i wonder if we suffer from some kind of guilt because of this, like we've had our turn & now it's just polite to let some other people dominate for while - to win all the time would be a bit arrogant & selfish, rubbing people's noses in it.
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