The Earth Moved / April 28 2007
This morning, the Earth did indeed literally move for Audrey and me.
Around 8:am BST there was an earthquake with a magnitude of at least 4.7 which shook householders in parts of Kent and which was also felt as far away as Derbyshire, where we live.
I don’t imagine that the effects up here were anywhere near […]
Oblique Angles / April 27 2007
Whilst it has often been said that yours truly bears more than a casual resemblance to the Hollywood actor Hugh Grant, it is also slightly less commonly accepted that of the two of us, I am the one who is the better looking. (It’s the angular cheekbones, don’t you know.)
I was reminding the bouncing Audrey […]
The Return of Tap / April 25 2007
How delighted I was to learn today that seminal rock band Spinal Tap are to reform. They will play the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium in London in July. The group were created for Rob Reiner’s cult 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap.
I have worked with Rob Reiner’s famous father Carl, who directed my erstwhile […]
Ask Me the Question, Noel / April 20 2007
Due to a fractured ankle bone, I have been forced to take a couple of days off and have had the unfortunate experience of having to endure the execrable nonsense that is daytime television.
I have only had half an eye on the screen – I have been reading Spares by Michael Marshall Smith, mostly – […]
The Triumph of Good over Evil / April 18 2007
Just to keep you informed of the minutiae of day-to-day life in our Derbyshire village: the regional simpleton with the interminable, malfunctioning car-alarm has at last had his vehicle removed by the local authority. Yesterday, a man from the council arrived to carry it away on the back of a big red tow-truck. Hurrah!
It had […]
Stars and Garters / April 16 2007
The young migrant workers who have been living in the house opposite are to leave next week, and I for one will be sorry to see them go.
They have been excellent neighbours, very quiet and courteous. I believe they are moving eastwards, to Lincolnshire, to toil in the fens and fields in their new capacity […]
Telling Teenage Fortunes / April 15 2007
No.7 You will try to start smoking.
On the Fantastic hi-fi today:
Master Série #1, 1991 – Barbara
The Delivery Man – Elvis Costello
Motorcycle Morons / April 13 2007
I’m beginning to sound like an old curmudgeon, moaning about this and that, but here I go again . . .
I bloody hate idiots. That is to say: I do not hate the unfortunate individuals who are idiotic in the medical sense, but in the general remedial sense and more specifically, idiots on motorbikes.
To specify […]
Kurt Vonnegut RIP / April 12 2007
How sad I am to learn of the death of Kurt Vonnegut.
One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature and of 60s and 70s western counterculture, the writer has died aged 84 in New York.
He has long been one of my favourite authors and indeed, my erstwhile band Slaughterhouse 5 was named for his […]
Dreamboat / April 6 2007
Last night I dreamed I was marooned at sea in a small boat. With me were Nelson Galaxy - Big Arena Records’ glamorous and angst-ridden transvestite songwriter, my dog Audrey and Brad Pitt.
We were in the Iranian Ocean and I remember feeling very queasy; it was like being drunk, when the ground becomes variable. Audrey […]
