12 Blogs of Christmas: #4 For any of you who have been reading the blog avidly over the course of 2010, well, firstly I’m really, really sorry for your having to put up with all my inane ramblings but you also might have seen that there is a page titled “Music Purchases”, and this post, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ben Folds’
Sounds Like 2010
Posted: December 30, 2010 in MusicTags: 2010, Albert Hall, Ben Folds, Doctor Who, Eliza Doolittle, Francis Dunnery, John Gilmore Smith, Moscow Drug Club, Murray Gold, music, Proms, Review, Tim Minchin
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Hubris & The Fallen Tree
Posted: November 12, 2010 in Countdown, HaikuTags: 2011, Ben Folds, British, Damage, Fallen, Hammersmith, Tree, weather, Wind
The News in Haiku #12…. “Woke up this morning and what did I see? Our tree has fallen over.” There I was blogging away happily about the weather last night, bleating on about how much I’ve decided I love the British climate and look what happens? It goes a blows our laburnum tree over. That’ll [...]
Frogman
Posted: September 30, 2010 in CountdownTags: Ben Folds, Bronze, Frog, Frogman, Lonely Avenue, Nick Hornby, Picture Window, sculpture, Tim Cotterill
“You know what hope is? Hope is a bastard, Hope is a liar, a cheat and a tease, Hope comes near you? Kick it’s backside, Got no place in days like these.” Ben Folds / Nick Hornby, “Picture Window” 2010 Went to Bournemouth this evening after work for a somewhat impromptu visit to an art [...]
Time Flies By Even When You’re Not The Driver Of Train
Posted: September 29, 2010 in CountdownTags: Ben Folds, Lonely Avenue, Nick Hornby
“It’s so easy from above, you can really see it all, People who belong together, lost and sad and small.” Ben Folds / Nick Hornby “From Above”, 2010 (Lunchtime blogging, as I’ll have no time to do anything this evening between getting home and going out to watch the mighty Spurs tonight). If anybody knows [...]
Lonely Avenue
Posted: September 28, 2010 in CountdownTags: album, Ben Folds, CD, Lonely Avenue, myspace, Nick Hornby, Review
“Some guy on the net thinks I suck and he should know, He’s got his own blog. I’m a loser, I’m a poser, Yeah really, It’s over, I mean it and I quit, Everything I write is shit.” Ben Folds / Nick Hornby, “A Working Day”, 2010 If the above quote is anything to go [...]
Rockin’ The Suburbs
Posted: September 12, 2010 in CountdownTags: album, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Lonely Avenue, Nick Hornby
“Let me tell y’all what it’s like, Being male, middle-class and white, It’s a b*tch, if you don’t believe, Listen up to my new CD” Ben Folds, “Rockin’ The Suburbs”, 2001 When I tell most people that I am a fan of Ben Folds, the typical reaction goes one of two ways. Firstly, “Who?”, or [...]
RiOver
Posted: June 4, 2010 in CountdownTags: Ben Folds, England, injury, ligament, Michael Dawson, Panini, Rio Ferdinand, Steven Gerrard, stickers, World Cup
“And I twisted it wrong just to make it right I had to leave myself behind And I’ve been flying high all night” Ben Folds, “Landed”, 2005 England’s captain, Rio Ferdinand is on the plane home and Michael Dawson is flying out to South Africa to replace him in the squad. Apparently, Rio was turned [...]
Scenes Of Money And Death
Posted: May 15, 2010 in CountdownTags: Ben Folds, Chichester, Patrick Stewart
“Town to town, broadcast to each house, they drop your name but no one knows your face Billboards quoting things you’d never say you hang your head and pray” Ben Folds, “Jesusland”, 2005 Well, it was an interesting trip to the theatre last night. A great cast were gathered together in the intimate confines of [...]
Oh, The Weather Outisde Is Frightful
Posted: December 18, 2009 in CountdownTags: Ben Folds, Christmas, cricket, E4, England, iPod, shuffle, snow, weather
“Tread slowly from the car to the spa Like a weary war-torn refugee Crossing the border with your starving child It’s a struggle just to get to shiatsu” Ben Folds, The Frown Song, 2008 Way back in February we, in the balmy south of England, got our first serious dump of snow in many a [...]
