Atheist Christmas

by | Dec 14, 2012 | Family, Music

It’s that time of year where I point well-meaning friends and family, confused at my attitude to the festive season, at a video that sums it up. Tim Minchin nails it: [embedplusvideo height=”390″ width=”645″...

Music to write to

by | Feb 18, 2012 | Music, Writing

These days I tend to mix up my writing habits in order to prevent myself becoming too dependent on a single setting to write. I don’t ever really want to be one of those writers who can only compose when the wind is blowing south westerly, listening to...

Back soon…

by | Dec 30, 2011 | Cool stuff, Music, video

Recovering from lurgy and post novel/end of year ennui. In the meantime, have some music. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP9pnSXhibw] For dreaming nerds everywhere.

Hallelujah

by | Dec 4, 2011 | Cool stuff, Music, video

The Cohen classic, covered to varying degrees of success over the years, suffers more often than not from people not interpreting the lyric correctly. Tim Minchin and Geraldine Quinn do not have this problem in this great raw version from Edinburgh ’05. They...