December 2008
43 posts
Screw revision. Baking is where it's at.
One Turkey & sweet leak pie
Chicken & mulled wine casserole for eleven
Two Kiwi fruit pavlovas
One dark chocolate torte
Zero revision.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Georg Friedrich Händel (19)
Pink Martini (16)
Michael Nyman (15)
Morcheeba (13)
Gwyneth Herbert (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Poorly gift wrapped →
Tim Douglas:
Amazon is probably the best shopping website in the World.
In one foul swoop, and a severe lightening of the wallet I had bought all bar 2 of the presents I need to buy this year. Shopping shouldn’t be this easy. Now all I have to do is wrap them up - and that’s the one bad thing with Amazon, they’re too good. Let me explain, I am crap at wrapping presents. Really crap. ...
Walking along a sunny, if freezing cold, Jacobs...
Write off that first hour →
Elliot Stocks:
Don’t expect to get any work done in the first hour of your day.
Resign yourself to the fact that it’s just not going to happen. Better yet: don’t even attempt to get any work done. In all seriousness, you will feel much happier - and end up being more productive - if you spend the first hour of the day catching up on your RSS feeds, replying to blog comments, reading...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Georg Friedrich Händel (19)
Pink Martini (16)
Michael Nyman (15)
Morcheeba (13)
Lenka (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
τα μὲν διδακτὰ μαντηάνο, τὰ δ' εύρετὰ ζητῶ, τὰ δ'...
I learn what may be taught;
I seek what may be sought;
My other wants I dare
To ask from Heaven in prayer,
My old school’s motto, taken from Euripides.
To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat
by John Keats
Cat! who hast pass’d thy grand climacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroy’d? — How many tit bits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green, and prick
Those velvet ears — but pr’ythee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me — and upraise
Thy gentle mew — and tell me all thy frays
Of fish and...
“Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with...”
– Mark Twain
(via fadychamaa, havent-got-a-prayer, singlescoop, & nruth.)
1 tag
Michael Nyman — Becoming Jerome from the...
Where are all the miracle cures? →
Tom Feilden, the science correspondent on the Today programme, writes about the potential of Regenerative Medicine and why ‘Big Pharma’ has, until recently, been reluctant to invest heavily.
1 tag
Pilgrimage →
A beautiful essay by Jessica Francis Kane in The Morning News:
We both wanted something that afternoon over the quiche, but I was waiting and he was hoping and he illustrated the world of difference between the two.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-14) →
Georg Friedrich Händel (44)
Tenebrae (16)
Faded Paper Figures (14)
John Mayer (13)
doros (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
1 tag
Gwyneth Herbert — Nataliya
Your cold...
Drunken Christmas carol singing from the residents...
“‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need...”
– John Keats (via elt)
1 tag
Isaiah 53 verses 3-11
King James Version:
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised...
“Simplifying things slightly: We had the Crusades because we said that Mohammed...”
– My housemate getting things ever so wrong.
García Márquez is writing new novel, says friend →
The Guardian:
Fears that Colombia’s Nobel prizewinning author, Gabriel García Márquez, had put down his pen forever were allayed today when a close friend confirmed that the master of magical realism was working on a new novel.
García Márquez’s next book will be a love story, though his friend and fellow writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza said today that the author was struggling to come up with a...
1 tag
Starsailor - Four to the floor (via emmas,...
WatchScience Commons and Why They Matter in 120 Seconds. (via swissmiss)
Sara Bareilles (with Ingrid Michaelson) - Winter...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-7) →
The Streets (41)
Josh Ritter (39)
Michael Nyman (24)
Pink Martini (15)
Susheela Raman (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Loveliest of trees
by A E Housman:
LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I...
3 tags
The Human Button →
Fascinating BBC Radio 4 program documenting the people behind Britain’s nuclear deterrent.
1 tag
1 tag
Last night I drank...
A crisp but fairly standard NZ Sauv Blanc
A surprising and lovely NZ Chardonnay from Hawkes Bay
A peppery Crozes-Hermitage
An Aussie Shiraz that was silky smooth
A 2000 Sangiovese that was a little too old but open nicely with time in the glass
A Gladstone Pinot Noir from NZ that tasted like eating a jar of mixed herbs
A 1996 Chateau Climens Barcac. Still very young but none the less sublime...
2 tags
Josh Ritter — Empty Hearts
There’s...
2 tags
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-30) →
Max Richter
Joni Mitchell
The Streets
Tegan and Sara
Elin Sigvardsson
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz