Archive for February, 2007

10 best gigs

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Last week JJ forwarded a message where an unimpressed Em queried the Observer’s 25 greatest gigs ever. She asked for top-10s in reply, and compiling mine turned into a nostalgic evening spent reminiscing. With added liner notes, and in no particular order, here they are:

Leftfield - Liveism at Brixton, ‘96. Famous as the gig […]

Weekly links special edition

Monday, February 5th, 2007

This time last year I was in Tokyo. As a sort-of dolorous nod to the great time I had over there (and the time that will pass before I’ll get to go back), here are the various Japan blogs I read.

Jean Snow likes to hang around in cafés and write about design and magazines (css […]

Weekly links

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Real men play Gradius
…that’s my goal, to complete the game as the game originally intended me to. It’s an overwhelming challenge and sometimes gets me hurling controllers across the room, but it’s a very compelling experience, trying to best a game like Gradius … Nowadays there are virtually no games that are, for the most […]