Desert Island discs 2015

Simply because.

Basically I like Eighties hair metal and opera! They're not so very far removed as you'd think.

Eddie & The Hot Rods – Do Anything You Wanna Do

Back from when I used to drive around blasting out my The best punk album in the world ever! tapes (Volumes One and Two) in the late nineties, this great shouty anthem to individualism.

Mozart – Non so più cosa son

From The Marriage of Figaro. Librettist and defrocked priest Lorenzo da Ponte has Cherubino articulate being a confused and horny teenage boy far better than any whiny pop song ever could.

Posted: Jan 1 2015 | Tag: Music

The Chanukah Song

Performed by Neil Diamond, obviously. Adam Sandler's original is here.

Posted: Dec 20 2014 | Tag: Music

Jeremy Thorpe

Index entries from Dominic Sandbrook's Seasons in the Sun.

Posted: Dec 6 2014 | Tag: History

The secret of comedy timing

By the way, the buddy Penn mentioned there was in-fact Lou Reed.

Posted: Oct 14 2014

Harvest

In my opinion combine harvesters are the most perfect example of progress and human ingenuity. Doing more with less.

Consider the number of people harvesting/threshing/bailing required not so long ago. Now: 3 people in air-con cabs can do everything in a fraction of the time.