dan's earworms: Archive

“Wasn’t Patti Smith into candles?”

– Robyn, more than adequately fulfilling her role in rambling New Years Eve conversation.

Dec 30th

Dec 29th

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Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

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The Leisure Society - The Darkest Place I Know

Dec 27th

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Dec 27th

Vic Chesnutt

A number of people I follow on Twitter, whose taste in such things I never thought would overlap, are lamenting the loss of musician Vic Chesnett. Their sense of loss is palpable, and it’s making me feel like I’ve missed out on knowing something important.

Dec 27th

The Decemberists - Won’t Want For Love...

Dec 26th

St Vincent - Black Rainbow

Dec 25th

Retroactive Continuity

So, I just watched part one of “The End Of Time”, the latest Doctor Who special. I’m not going to give away anything more than what could be seen to be given away by heading this entry ‘retroactive continuity’, but I think I’ve made my distaste for how The Master has been written as a character in New Who fairly clear. Also I’m concerned about how the...

Dec 25th

A Vinyl Dilemma

I love it when bands release their albums on vinyl, especially lovely heavy, quality vinyl. The only trouble is, because of the physical limitations of the format, you’re pretty much stuck at 22 minutes a side to make the audio quality worthwhile. I miss records that were 20 minutes a side, and each side structured by flowing the songs into two halves rather than just having to turn the...

Dec 25th

Seven Inches Of Heaven

I think I’ll be spending today using my new turntable to dub all my 7” singles to USB stick. The turntable does that automatically, you know. I just press record, then press play and it’s like magic.

Dec 25th

Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

Happy Christmas?

So I saved up all this week’s Christmassy T-Rex comics to post tomorrow, but posted one just now as it had a ‘get the party started’ kind of vibe. I just hope that they’re taken in the spirit in which they’re intended. I think the catholic Christmas story is pretty awesome (I was raised on it) and while I question most everything that came after it, there’s...

Dec 23rd

Dec 22nd

Planning Ahead

I’m so glad that I bought She & Him’s “Volume One” on vinyl. That way, when my hypothetical kids are old enough to be digging through their dad’s record collection they can put it on and wonder ‘what that old crap is that sounds like something grandpa would listen to’ and then I can give them a lecture about musical timelessness and they’d roll...

Dec 21st

Credit Card Security

I got an email from my bank asking me to call them to verify a transaction. Fine. Lady on other end of phone: “Daniel, we were just concerned about a charge made on your card today to a company listed as ‘Rough Trade’. You haven’t been…downloading anything from the Internet, have you?” Earlier today I ordered £70 of stuff from Rough Trade Records online...

Dec 21st

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What kind of software allows the keyboard shortcuts to still work when in the middle of a “Save As…” dialogue box? Audacity, that’s what. It’s ridiculous and I can see why it’s free.

Dec 20th

...I'm tempted to just take bad iPhone photos of...

Dec 20th

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Who are these people!?

So, the Coldplay auction started today, and pretty much everything is over the $400 mark. This includes the signed posters and stuff. Who are all these rich Coldplay fans with large disposable incomes!? If I’ve had to give up on my dream of a “Don’t Panic” lithograph (desired because it was the song that made me a Coldplay fan), what chance do I have with the autoharp,...

Dec 18th

Dec 17th

So, I bought a Kristin Chenoweth Christmas song, “Don’t Rain On My Parade” from Glee and a handful of Charlotte Gainsbourg tracks which I’m loving so now I’m going to have to go somewhere and find her actual album.

Dec 15th

So, I’ve got $10 to spend at a non-iTunes online music store. You guys probably have a fair idea of what I like by now. So what should I get?

Dec 15th

Oh no, there goes another Laurie Anderson clone

So. I went to the doctor today. And he told me that I was dying of bone cancer. “Bone cancer?” I said. “I think I might want a second opinion.” So I called my mother and said “Hi mom. Do you think I might be dying from bone cancer?” So I called my father and said “Hi dad. Do you think I might be dying from bone cancer?” And then I...

Dec 14th

“So I went to the doctor today. And he told me I was dying…of bone cancer.”

– Anything is funny if you pretend it’s Laurie Anderson saying it.

Dec 14th