Old Gold

I reckon I could drink enough beer to make that worth the dough...

My Dream XI is just the Costa Rican 2014 starting lineup.  You're going to see some excellent sportsmanship I'll wager.

I'll take noble Costa Rica.

I'm with Moon Moon on this one. Babies and children are mega boring.

The working for free part is a fucking awful idea.

Thorough debate.

Slump was broken by The Dismemberment Plan though. Fucking yas.

I think Spoon was my biggest disappointment. Might have been my post-Superchunk Superslump, but they seemed well middle of the road.

Today I've eaten a bunch of seafood and ice cream and ain't looking forward to returning to Glasgow.

SUPERCHUNK

The singing during Jesu was hilarious, but the guitar was crushing.

He just fucks off in the books and all. Poor Rickon. 

Also, what books.

I will fight to the death RE Ygritte.  Total dreamgirl.

Still exclusively playing Hearthstone. Still mediocre as fuck.

Frank

What is punk.  Really really good acting, really REALLY good sound track.  A celebration of the people out on the corners.  I just loved it.  10/10

Spotify has been weird recently. The problems aren't even consistent. On my one, offline playlists are refusing to play (offshore anyway. Could be a symptom of shit rig internet) and my ma's iPad app crashes if you try and change the volume while playing a track. Sort it out.

It just occurred to me that I've never put my Les Paul through the Verellen. I think I'll hold off until I aquire two 4x12s.

I have a 2005 Gibson Standard in the cupboard that gets the occasional airing. I'm a bit 50/50 on it. On one hand, it's a cumbersome beast and the clean tone doesn't really excite me. But I really like the neck and with a heap of drive it sounds crushing. I think you can get better bang for your buck elsewhere to be honest, but I think I'd regret getting rid of it.

No room for it in my stable unfortunately, but I really like the mongrel guitar's vibe.  It's like a Telecaster Custom/Gretsch/Silvertone/ES 335 mashup.

Doubt 100 quid is gonna keep you off the streets for long.  You should keep it, travel the country by freight train and be a down on your luck blues man.

Virgin!

Good English Vocation.

A job in a Sheffield Steel Mill.

American holidays must be the worst.  A whole day off and no good telly on.

This week's GoT was amazing.  Dinklage is the boy.  Trial by combat!  I'm still not a fan of the Daenerys stuff though... it feels like I'm watching a presentation about office ergonomics whenever her assistant reels off her massive title.  They should have done that for every subject she sat before her just to highlight how tiresome it is.  Not to mention her emo body guards and her fearsome dragons raising hell by worrying sheep.

It seems like they're downplaying the dragons quite a lot recently.  It's just the odd scene of them larking about really.  What gives.

Gary Barlow's not even the most popular Barlow.

You can't all shrug it off and say that the integrity of music is not open to passionate discussion.  The website would close down.

Barlow sucks!  Fuck you!

Agree about emailing the programme coordinator but disagree about the ease with which you can get a PG course paid for.  In most subjects it's extremely hard and in ones where it might be easier (e.g. science or engineering) then I expect you'd still need a very good first degree grade.

Ah, right enough.  Thinking about it, all the post-grads I know did scientific subjects.