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KHAAAN!

For the benefit of Clare, Lily and Kiki the Kat, I found this via Pete's blog last year and just had to share it:

Books, etc

I don't normally do these things, but here's a book meme I nabbed from Rol.The rules are simple: highlight in bold the books you've read, bold-and-italicize the books you'd like to read again and put a line through the books you started-but-never-managed-to-finish.Whatever's left are books you haven't read.Here goes:* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel * Anna Karenina * Crime and Punishment * Catch-22 * One Hundred Years of Solitude * Wuthering Heights * The Silmarillion * Life of Pi : a novel * The Name of the Rose * Don Quixote * Moby Dick * Ulysses * Madame Bovary * [...]

Flu Fighters

Well, I didn't get around to writing a proper review of last Saturday's absolutely Goddamn awesome Foo Fighters gig at Wembley Stadium because, since then, I've been sick as a pike. Even on the day of the gig I was far from ship shape and Bristol fashion. I started the morning with some low-level nasal congestion, by late-afternoon had numerous achy limbs and and I saw the evening in with some irregular and embarrassing bouts of violent and theatrical sneezing. The surprise Led Zeppelin semi-reunion seemed to sort it all out, though - temporarily at least. It's too bad you [...]

Fook!

Clare and I went to see the Foo Fighters at Wembley last night. It was at very short notice: we were given the tickets by a friend of Clare (thanks Beth!). I wasn't what you might call a hardcore fan, but I thought they'd be fun. As it happened, the gig was utterly mind-blowing and I've become an instant convert to the Church of Grohl.I'll be writing about it all in a bit more detail once I manage to regain my health, recover my composure and process the events. In the meantime, I'll share this with you:We'd originally asked my [...]

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