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Thursday, 18 August 2011

The Greatest Songs You've Never Heard #005: Built to Spill - Twin Falls

Built To Spill


Highly suitable for those with little attention span, this track from Built to Spill's 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love weighs in at just 1 minute 49 seconds. Short enough for ya?

The band from Boise Idaho have released seven studio albums over a nineteen year span.

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Monday, 15 August 2011

My Old School

      1970s  "New School"                                                  Artist's Impression of "New" New School


Yours Truly
A year after I left my junior school they demolished its Victorian buildings and built a new one a quarter of a mile away. I recall thinking it was a bit of a shame but the new site looked fabulously modern, and that those younger kids were really lucky (while I was now ensconced in the altogether more scary and dark secondary school 100 yards away).
On a visit last week to my Dad, who still lives nearby, I learned that this too was being torn down and replaced.

My initial reaction was to feel old. So old that the school which replaced my old school was itself now so ancient that it must be put out of its misery by the wrecking ball. That so many pupils had passed through its corridors since I was too old to do so, that it was just used up and worn out. Pretty depressing stuff, especially when you never quite think of yourself as a grown-up.

Then I figured it out. Should have been obvious actually. It must be down to poor building standards. The whole place was probably riddled with damp, maybe even asbestos, like in Our Friends in the North. Those poor kids were no doubt coughing and spluttering all day instead of learning. Just one of those things, really.

Yes, that'll be it.