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Denon DL-160

01 Jan 2009 22:25:16 +0100

So today, after nineteen long days of waiting, my Denon DL-160 arrived. I spent about two hours installing it, I'm now enjoying the high output of its moving coil.

The Dark Knight -- not that dark

12 Dec 2008 21:08:39 +0100

I finally saw The Dark Knight which had everyone talking a few months ago. To begin with, it's not a good film or a particularly bad film; it's not properly a film at all, rather an action flick along the lines of Die Hard and should be regarded as such, rather than with the inflated value that people I know seem to have assigned to it.

Trust

09 Sep 2008 22:50:46 +0100

Of his 1981 album Trust, Costello writes:

Two french films

07 Jul 2008 23:21:27 +0100

Perhaps it's just having seen its latter incarnations, Stalag 17, The Great Escape, etc., but I found The Grand Illusion greatly overrated. Renoir's mixture of comic and bleak works in Rules of the Game, whose void leaves its audience to ponder society's vacuity. In The Grand Illusion, most of the jokes fall flat, and one is left questioning the point of the film.

Lou Reed's Berlin

07 Jul 2008 00:50:22 +0100

About three weeks ago I saw Lou Reed perform his 1973 album Berlin, live at Royal Albert Hall. I'm not a huge Velvet Underground fan, and I can't say I know all of Lou Reed's stuff either, but Berlin is definitely an amazing album.

Firefox 3

06 Jun 2008 22:24:29 +0100

My first impression is that it's quite a lot faster, and it supports the new version of the completely indispensible vimperator plugin (don't bother clicking if you don't know what vim is). This version of vimperator adds a bunch of useful things; I'm most pleased with the fact that C-u now clears the line as it should, rather than opening the source window which it used to do.

Meat Puppets Concert

05 May 2008 00:27:51 +0100

Oddly exactly one year after my last article on the Meat Puppets, I write about them again. I saw them on Monday at Scala.

Shell history

05 May 2008 02:39:53 +0100

This is a silly post to document what linux commands we use the most. I got it from here. (With zsh you have to run: history 0|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head)

Thinking about Syd Barrett

04 Apr 2008 02:23:57 +0100

Tonight, listening to a vinyl rip of Loveless and Harvest, I started reading about Kevin Shields, then Brian Wilson, then Syd Barrett.

A romantic allusion in Doggystyle

03 Mar 2008 03:12:52 +0100

So to write this post I have to admit that I was listening to Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle tonight, but if you have it, listen to track 5, 'Tha Shiznit'. Sound familiar? The bassline, hook, and guy making noises are all Grieg's 'Hall of the Mountain King'. I wonder if he was watching Fritz Lang's M when he came up with it.