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I went to Gina's today to catch up on her news; because I had to keep going with preparing the academic paper, I took the music technolo...

There was a refreshing interlude yesterday afternoon- a visit to a little house in Stratford, where two colleagues, Persis-Jade Maravala and...

It's so funny! Amazon has decided that I'm a Royalty Fan because I bought a second hand book of Prince Philip's gaffes. I want...

Breakfast: coffee, crisps (to come) and writing down of the disturbing anecdotes (aka empirical research) about my own experiences of engine...

Oops: there I was thinking that yesterday's meeting would be serene. I exploded, right in front of the student representatives and all ...

Yesss! I have found the first two pages of the Clawson article, but lost the last two of John Shepherd's Music as Social Text Chapter 8....

A wagtail waddled across the concrete at the University of the East. Strange- wagtails seem to like universities. There are wagtails at the...

We are tired. With glazed expressions, we buffet round the supermarket in the evening after work, hands bristling with packets and boxes, Ed...

It's nice to have an excursion planned; I bounced down the road, wrestled with Foucault on the tube, stopped off at Butler and Wilson f...

Good job I did that distraction therapy on Sunday. I almost forgot- there was the sound of a loud band playing in the street in Camden, and...

Halfway through the marking, I'd had enough, so I hopped on the tube down to Chalk Farm to visit The Museum of Everything. I had been cu...

Yesterday evening, Paul and myself went over to the Southgate Club to play a set for Monty's 50th Birthday. Thirty years ago, Monty used...

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I have put a new set of songs up on Myspace, including the Christmas songs and a couple of Chefs ones and some rare Helen and the Horns trac...

This morning's traffic jam (an hour to drive five miles) was surprisingly fruitful in terms of ideas. I was stationary for long enough ...