TooMuchGreen

My good friend Phil (fellow geek, blogger & purveyor of the gadget world) wrote a contemplative post a while back about our relationship with music related physical media in comparison to storage of MP3′s, a subject I also reflect on. I’d replied with a retrospective aside on how we used to play one side of an album then physically turn it over to play the other, a differential listening experience from absently flicking across disjointed audio tracks plucked as we all do today from a monolithic vat of data.  Read more... (estimated reading time 3:21 mins)

When I was a kid I used to listen to the radio when I went to bed at night, I loved it and would drift off into nights from the cutting edge alternativity of John Peel (at the wrong speed) and the drifting European bandwidth of Radio Luxembourg (I’m showing my age now) all through the tinny little speaker of an 1970′s clock radio set to 59 minutes of ‘sleep’ , this has continued throughout my life and is still one of my favourite nocturnal activities (not that I have many apart from sleeping) and although the clock radio went many years ago I do vow to replace it one day, maybe when I have somewhere to live again other than a suitcase.  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:55 mins)

Check it out, somewhat retro in design now but in 2001 they were the cutting edge. It’s an old G4 unit, this one (well, not THAT one actually but the one this blog is about) is a 466MHZ jobbie, and credit to Apple – we’re still using it (almost daily too as it goes)

Admittedly it doesn’t see much of YouTube or Faceache, nor does it do much video editing or high end design work (although it used to, if you can call a few leaflets and illustrator logos high end), no, it sits and stores, and downloads (and sometimes *burns* – woo hoo….!)…it could *Serve* too if we wanted but to be honest there’s not that much need for Directory services and replication around Johns house and our two laptops.  Read more... (estimated reading time 45 secs)

Many years ago when I lodged in Harrogate at Johns (the first time…!) we ended up going to the Blues Bar most Sunday lunchtimes to watch a guy with a guitar called Jason Feddy, the guy was an icon and we enjoyed a full year of his alluring and heart warming sessions. He was more than an icon in fact as others who were as privileged as us during those 12 months across 1999 to 2000 will agree, to this day I’ve not heard anyone in his genre even remotely as good, and that’s quite something……so why isn’t he famous? That’s just it, why isn’t he, it beats the hell outa me.  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:38 mins)

After a lifetime of appreciation I finally got to see Billy Bragg the other evening. It was more than worth the wait and has easily dropped into my top five gigs of all time, perhaps even top three, in fact yes, most definitely.  Read more... (estimated reading time 56 secs)