Three shows a week of the best music radio show in the world. I want to be John Peel when I grow up.
The range of styles on this show is astonishing. Not all the artists sound good, but their names usually do – where else can you hear music by Monster Killed by Laser, When Ghosts Use Knives, or Cat On Form?
You can even play the John Peel game while you listen.
The Sheehan Brothers’ website showcases a couple of their excellent comics. Long Man is surreal, cinematic in scope and otherwise hard to describe. In contrast, Go Gorillas features explosions and excessive coffee consumption as well as the antagonistic protagonists. I don’t think I have the ability to produce comics like this, but I would happily read them all day, every day.
Lots of amusing snippets of writing, and part of an uncompleted third Dirk Gently book. A great reminder of how much fun Douglas Adams’s writing could be.
Nice, downbeat tale of a desperate writer’s tangled web. Mick Jagger is fun to watch in support.
Coffee, turkish bread, great weather (except for the rain) and fun people. Aaah.
1960s bubblegum pop meets modern retro stylings with a New Zealand indie vibe. And if you understand that sentence then you’ll enjoy this album. I did.
Still green, beautiful and mad-keen on sailing, just as I remembered it.
The 11-month drought started to break while we were there. Everybody was a bit confused at all the water that was falling from the sky. Still lots of nice sunshine though.
Fuji is visible from central Tokyo (e.g. from my office building), but only on clear days. In January we went to Hakone, near Fuji, to stay in a Japanese inn and soak in hot pools. Riding a cable car and then a ropeway up a nearby mountin, we got a rare clear view of the mountain.
The photo was taken after riding the ropeway up the nearby mountain. It was a beautiful sunny day, but the wind was so strong it was hard to stand up straight, and freezing cold too. I went through great discomfort getting the photos.