Went to see Nitin Sawhney playing last night in TriPod.  I have wanted to see him play for years.  I got his “Broken Skin” album some years ago and it is perhaps one of the most perfect albums ever.  It is loaded with references to the conflict between Pakistan and India and messages against war, […]

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I find myself rushing around a lot these days.  Not like when I was a student and things were a little calmer and I could take things a little slower.
From my student days I remember spending hours in the canteen in UCG - not spending money or anything, just sitting there and talking.  If I […]

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An East Carolina University biologist has brought his admiration of Neil Young into a class of its own.
Or species, to be exact.
Jason Bond, an ECU professor of biology, has named a newly discovered trapdoor spider, Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi, after the legendary rock star.
“There are rather strict rules about how you name new species,” Bond said. “As […]

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Isn’t this guy’s 10 minutes up yet?
from the BBC:
Singer Doherty is sent to prison
Pete Doherty has been forced to postpone a show in April
Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty has been jailed for 14 weeks for violating his probation and for using drugs.
Judge Davinder Lachar handed the musician the sentence at a court hearing in west London.Doherty […]

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Amy Winehouse smoked crack, got most of herself tattooed, wore hideous clothes, knocked out one of her teeth, wouldn’t go to Rehab, but then she did, has hair like its a kind of disease or at least a fence at Guantanamo bay.
Therefore, she won more Grammys than Paul MacCartney has had hot dinners and wives […]

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Britney Spears is back in hospital after a stand-off between herself and the police when she barricaded herself into her house and refused to let her children go back to their dad, Kevin Federline.
Britney appears to have been taken to hospital in an ambulance while still smiling and was reported to have been under the […]

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If you haven’t heard of the new viral internet thang, here it is.
Let’s try to get Tom waits to the Xmas number 1 in Ireland. If you have no idea who Tom waits is, he is something of a cross between Ronnie Drew and Billy Joel, with a bit of Nina Simone thrown in.
So, […]

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I get goosebumps with 54 seconds to go. There is no need to know anything about Opera to understand this piece of video.

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