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- 24.07.08

Gonna walk around and drink some more

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It's been an awesome couple of weeks. Just been having such a good time generally, seeing the people I want to see most and doing …

The start of something

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It's been a long time since I've used my DiS blog but this is the only blog I've ever used and there's stuff I really want to writ…

We're burning our own tonight

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Time for another CD and gig update

CDs I have bought recently:

Idlewild - Hope Is Important
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear
Fountains Of Wayne - s/t
The Constantines - Shine A Light

I wrote a user review

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http://drownedinsound.com/content/view/643379

Read it bitches.

In other news I have bought the following CDs lately:

Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
Million Dead - Harmon…

Bit late, but...

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since I just did this for another site which is particularly slow this year, I thought I'd post my top 15 albums of 2005 here.

1 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
2 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3 The National - Alligator
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You, or your memory

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There is something darkly, sweetly romantic about walking on suburban streets under streetlights on a winter evening. It reminds me of being 15.

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Sweating in the streetlights

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Back home for the Christmas holidays. No one else is home yet - a symptom of the incredibly short Oxford terms. The last 10 days of term were really really good - a bit of a blur at times but in the best way.

Gigs:

Saw British Sea Power…

Mr November

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It has been an interesting few days in which the following has happened:

Spilling water on my laptop and breaking it (temporarily I hope)
Having a very emo few days from Sunday evening to Wednesday afternoon
Seeing Jeff Tweedy live …

Nite and fog

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The temperature in this fair city has not risen above freezing all day and visibility is just about zero. My radiator is not working and my feet are so cold despite two pairs of socks.

Sometimes I wish we could swap climates with California... …

I'm wide awake, it's freezing

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New CDs:

Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires - which I said I had ordered in my last entry. It's a beautiful album, the first two tracks are just outstanding and Tristan is explosive and makes me want to get his first album. The ukelele-ness gets …

I am going to keep this as a CD/gig diary

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although I'm sure other crap will end up leaking in here too.

Anyway gigs in the last two weeks:
Sufjan in London (17/10) - excellent and lots of fun

Wrens in London (26/10) - brilliant. I've said enough about this one already but…

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