Monthly Archives: August 2008

28/08/2008 – REM At The Rosebowl – Everybody Hurts…

… After standing up in the midst of thousands of strangers for five hours. But that’s okay, because we were watching live music. I’ve no idea what the capacity of the Rosebowl is, but it’s a pretty big cricket-ground venue, and by the time the band played it was packed. The weather kept threatening to …

29/08/2008 – 0:29 | By Nicolas Papaconstantinou | Posted in now playing, ongoing saga, opinio nation | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

2008-08-28 Digital Breadcrumbs

@steevbishop A pretty late night for all, I suspect. Everything aches this morning. But the takeaway chow mein tasted all the sweeter on it. # @steevbishop See? Your ass hurt TOO. My legs feel a bit weaklingly. Oooh, your after-concert food sounds as good as ours & now I’m hungry! # @steevbishop Red Bush here, …

28/08/2008 – 23:28 | By Nicolas Papaconstantinou | Posted in digital breadcrumb | Comments (0)

Amazon Persona

Just faffing around, and noticed that I actually once filled out my Amazon profile details. I don’t really know what I was thinking when I wrote the “In My Own Words” bit, but it tickled me, so I’m sharing it here: I was a teenage gameboy. I was a fireman in my brain. I led …

28/08/2008 – 16:28 | By Nicolas Papaconstantinou | Posted in ongoing saga | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

SD/TT 28/08/2008 – Big Brother, Jesus Christ And The Extra Terrestrial

Three favoured tracks from this week: 3: Big Jumps – Emiliana Torrini I had never heard of Emiliana Torrini before reading This Recording. This is something I have now addressed. I am struck by the variety of her songs, and her ability to carry off all styles convincingly, but this is the perkiest of the …

28/08/2008 – 12:28 | By Nicolas Papaconstantinou | Posted in now playing, SD/TT | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)