This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
A song I wrote a few days before leaving Japan to come back to England. The idea was to make it sound quite upbeat and positive, whilst having a message conveying the utter hopelessness of England. I hope you like it.
I just found out that you can filter your iTunes music by rating, just by typing asterisks in the search field. Awesome.
Video of me playing ‘What a Wonderful World’ by Sam Cooke. Recorded using iMovie, and Garageband, with added superfluous vocal sillyness
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Messing around in Photoshop recreating the apple remote, and it turned out pretty well. Hence I turned it into a wallpaper. Head on over to flickr to view it in it’s original size, and download it should you so please.
Also, did anyone else notice that the bits of photoshop CS3 which used to disappear all of the time, don’t disappear all of the time since the 10.5.3 update?
When the majority of your friends leave the country, you tend to find you have a bit more time to yourself. That being the case, I spent a little of that time-wealth today recording a cover of ‘Redemption Song’ by the peerless Bob Marley. The usual disclaimers about technical and performance quality should be assumed.
I’d like to briefly mention terracist a new site from yours truly, which is a football business blog. The idea only came to me a week ago, and after a few nights of no sleep, and the pleasure of working with chyrp it’s sort of ready for some love. It’s not finished, and won’t work unless you’re using a real web browser (probably).
The site launches with a short essay about the Japanese match-day experience, which will be the first of a hopefully long and enjoyable procession of posts based around the world of the football industry.
Leave a comment on the site if you have anything to say, or join up for the mailing list if you would like to contribute to discussions in this field
Here is a snippet from my gig at the Allman bar in Meinohama, Fukuoka in March of this year.
Readers of the afore mentioned football magazine down under might be interested to know that a small piece written by yours truly appears on page 42 of the June edition. It’s a brief introduction to the three Australian players who moved to Avispa Fukuoka during the close-season.
Incidentally, the magazine itself is very good. Having only seen the British version before, this one clearly stacks up to the high standard it’s European namesake keeps, and there are some really good articles and great photography through-out the magazine, kudos to the 442 team in Sydney.
Whilst you were sitting in your plush lounge, feet extended, beer in hand watching the biggest club football game in the world, enjoying a beer in the comfort of an English evening, some of us weren’t so at ease in our pursuit of the Champions League Final between Manchester United and Chelsea last night.
The rhetoric is hard to ignore, it’s the biggest game in the world, commanding an audience of however many millions it supposedly commands. But for the fast growing, and football hungry fans in this part of the world, the champions league final kicked off at 3:45am on a Thursday morning, and that - if the European game is to continue it’s assault on the Asian economies - is simply unacceptable.
The game itself was a tense, typically English affair. Both sides created enough changes to have won in ordinary time, but instead, at 6am this morning, I was still perched on the edge of a bar stool in downtown Fukuoka waiting, hoping for Chelsea to slip up. But how many more people across football mad Japan were staying up into the morning to watch the game? Not many, I’d guess.
The solution probably isn’t that complicated. Make it a day-time kick-off, on a weekend. Had yesterday’s showpiece game kicked off at 3pm in mother Russia, it would have been noon in England, and 8pm in Japan. Great, suitable for everyone within the band of football nations from The UK to the most eastern ports of Asia.
Better? Yes, of course it is. Now lets fix it before next years final, because if kids are going to grow up in rural Shizuoka trying to imitate their favourite European footballing luminaries, they need to be able to see the best of the games that Europe has to offer.
