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Movember – fin

  • November 30th, 2011
  • Posted in life

It’s funny how you can get attached to your mustache… ’til next year… Day 22 Day 23 oops…forgot that one… Day 24 Day 25 Day 26 Day 27 Day 28 Day 29 Day 30 [ READ MORE ]

Movember – week 3

And as we entered into the third week of November, it started getting colder, and darker. It always strikes me how sudden the change is. You’re just trudging along, minding your autumnal business, and next thing you know all the trees have lost their leaves, your hoodie won’t cut it anymore for that morning bike commute, [ READ MORE ]

Movember – week 2

This is the time of the month when you can definitely tell who’s doing Movember. Just walk by bike shops, Kensington or Queen Street West and you would know what I mean. Or the Russian Circles concert, for example. Which, it must be said, was one of the year’s best performances as far as I’m concerned. [ READ MORE ]

Movember – week 1

  • November 9th, 2011
  • Posted in life

I’ve meant to write more regularly, and not necessarily about music matters. Where to begin? The beauty of the city in the early Autumn mornings? Bike advocacy? The long-awaited (and possibly final) fall of Berlusconi? Or I suppose there’s a lot of music I could also write about… Current favourites: Tom Waits, Mastodon, Russian Circles. Latest disappointments: M83, [ READ MORE ]

10 years

We’ve been having such a glorious weekend. Just when you thought you were done with bermudas and sandals for the year, there come perfectly blue skies and unbelievably golden sunlight, so sharp you can almost touch it. Those are some of the most beautiful days you could ever live. 10 years ago, we woke up in our [ READ MORE ]

In orange

  • August 23rd, 2011
  • Posted in life

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. Jack Layton, 20/08/2011 A lot of my friends in Singapore went to Baybeats over the weekend. From what I could see, it looked like a good edition, [ READ MORE ]

September is coming soon

My brother left yesterday after 4 weeks here, which partly explains the silence. The weather, while still mostly very pleasant, has changed somehow, and the days are getting palpably shorter. If anything, this really feels like the end of Summer, this elusive coda making the good days even more priceless. Nightswimming captures this joyful nostalgia for [ READ MORE ]

The hardest decision she would ever take

  • July 12th, 2011
  • Posted in life

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long days and a lull

I’ve missed Spring so much. The particular texture of the late afternoon sunshine, the birdsongs, the explosion of colours in the parks and on the quiet streets in my neighbourhood. I think I’ve really missed seasons more than I thought I would admit when I was in Singapore, and coming back to them just made [ READ MORE ]

suddenly everything

One of the highlights of the year so far. That was last Monday at the Sound Academy. What a difference two days make. RIP Gerard Smith. [ READ MORE ]

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