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ALBUMS
1. PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
2. Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love
3. Jay-Z – The Blueprint III
4. Jon Boden – Songs From The Floodplain
5. Future Of The Left – Last Night I Saved Her From Vampires (live)
6. Jamie Cullum – The Pursuit
7. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
8. Converge – Axe To Fall
9. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
10. Various – Dark Was The Night
(excluding things I played on – so Jim Bob’s amazing album Goffam – and albums on Xtra Mile)
TRACKS
1. Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys – ‘Empire State Of Mind’
2. Jamie Cullum – ‘Don’t Stop The Music’
3. Lady Gaga – ‘Poker Face’
4. Cheryl Cole & Will.I.Am – ‘3 Words’
5. Future Of The Left – ‘The Best Laid Plans’ (live)
6. Broken Family Band – ‘John Belushi’ (as played on final tour)
7. Graham Coxon – ‘Sorrow’s Army’
8. Black Eyed Peas – ‘I Gotta Feelin’
9. Miley Cyrus – ‘Party In The USA’
10. Hockey – ‘Too Fake’
(also: Tom Williams & The Boat – ‘Too Slow’ but I played on it)
GIGS (IN THE AUDIENCE)
1. Carter USM perform ’30 Something’ & ‘101Damnations’ – Brixton Academy, London
2. PJ Harvey & John Parish – Stubbs, Austin & Corn Exchange, Brighton
3. Frank Turner – Shepherds Bush Empire, London
4. Richard Herring ‘Hitler Moustache’ – The Three And Ten, Brighton
5. Jay-Z – Alexandra Palace, London
6. Decemberists perform ‘Hazards Of Love’ – Stubbs, Austin
7. The Broken Family Band – The Garage, London & Jericho Tavern, Oxford
8. Local Natives – Bike Shop, Austin
9. Foals – All Tomorrow’s Parties, Minehead
10. Seashell Radio – Hotel Utah, San Francisco
11. Something Beginning With L – The Park, Bletchley
12. Skunk Anansie – Concorde 2, Brighton
Honorable mentions: Sandra & The Memory Machine (solo), Shellac, Mary Epworth, Throwing Muses, Men Diamler & Clayton Blizzard, Graham Coxon Power Acoustic Ensemble, Tom Williams & The Boat, Collings & Herrin Live Podcast.
December 11th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
1) Exactly.
2) I don’t give a single damn about his private life.
3) Also, think of all the money Ali lost because of his inability to box while he refused to fight in the Viet Nam war. Name any sports figure who would do that now. Anyone… (of course we pussy out of making anyone face that choice by havng a war(s) with no draft).
December 11th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Pat Tillman?
December 11th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
To me, golf and poker are similar, in that I can see why people *do* both, but I can’t imagine watching either of them. It’s kind of like watching paint dry.
December 11th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
To me, this is more of a wtf-why-do-we-care story than even MJ’s death. I’ve been staying away from the news, so I don’t know the full story on Tiger, nor do I plan on ever finding out. Has he spoken at all to the press, though? Is he whining? I might like to see that.
I just hope all of his mistresses get to make tons of cash off of this. It’s only fair. Even if Tiger has to pay them off for silence.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
See, I just don’t see what the big deal is. To me, this looks like every case of male-side marital infidelity in the history of the world. The shenanigans are discovered, the wife throws an operatic fit, the police struggle mightily to keep from laughing. It’s something that happens.
December 11th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Marc – I don’t think golf is much of a spectator game unless you really happen to be into it, but neither is watching guys play poker, no matter how hard they’re thinking. Both appeal to a pretty hard core fan. As for Woods, he’s always seemed like something of a cipher and more than a bit immature, so I’m not surprised when the surface gets scratched and a totally self-centered schmuck is revealed.
December 12th, 2009 at 5:21 am
“…the Greatest Philosopher Of Our Time.”
yep.
December 12th, 2009 at 7:34 am
so I’m not surprised when the surface gets scratched and a totally self-centered schmuck is revealed.
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The “totally self-centered shmuck” did find a little time to donate millions to chaties and start his own foundation, my nephew is a recepient of a scholarship from the Tiger Woods Foundation.
December 12th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Heh, He’s a good looking, sharp dressing, sharp personal qualities, highly successful, world famous, filthy rich, and has to travel alone. I blame it on the gorgeous babes offering themselves to him. I know how it is.
He’s not Jesus….but then again, for all we know, Jesus wasn’t perfect either.
Oh, and those babes should not get a goddamn cent. They new he was married, knew exactly what they were doing, and got it. They should be real proud of themselves….fucking whores.
December 12th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Proud of themselves for literally fucking up a married man, his career, and his family life. Selfish bitches.
December 12th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Before the News broadcasts turned into entertainment broadcasts, you use to have to go to the girlie tabloid broadcasts programs to get the dirt on others personal problems.
Now you don’t, and the bloodsucking parasites are out in locust swarms finishing the destruction of one’s personal life and privacy doing really cheap shit for big bucks. Sick bastards. I hate human nature.
December 12th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Jim
Get out your tool box; that screw is coming loose again.
December 12th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Robt & Jim have nailed it.
I can only add the glee coming from the right-wing blogoshpere in seeing a man fire-hosed down the fairway because of the color of his skin.
Seperate but unequal attention being paid at an unconscious level in order to Woods in his place. Thus there can be a media frenzy over a Larry Craig which is both amplified and on steriods when the moral miscreant is a person of color.
Thus on Monicamemo or the Hannity blogs the great unwashed make invideous comparisons between Woods and OJ Simpson; Woods and Obama. This comparison reveals the depth on innate racial stereotypical fears stemming from an individual who is perceived subconsciously of breaking all of the taboos and the delicious cathartic effect in the unfolding spectacle in seeing a black man broken.
December 12th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Jim, sorry, but this is hardly the fault of what is undeniably a blood sucking media. It’s the fault of a blood sucking athlete who wasnt satisfied just making $22 million playing golf, but who wanted to make a billion by plastering his mug all over creation and by doing so with a squeaky clean image. The sort of gross notoriety he bought to himself and then to his hypocrisy seems to me to be fair game. I love it when jokers like Woods sell their names to be put on everything imaginable so you cant walk ten feet anywhere in the world without seeing their name and image and then.. when they get in a jam.. come weeping onto TV and ask that the public grant them and their families privacy. Ha! It’s easy to be private, You do it by being private. If Woods was only a golf super star and not a commercial barker, then one could have sympathy. Not his fault that he’s a great golfer and he would have the right to be left alone and unmolested by the public. But when he reaps a billion dollars by saying: “Look at me! Look at me!” then we will damn well look at him.
December 12th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Oh Christ Pablo… I just read your drivel. You are a totally lost cause. You think Woods is getting it because he is BLACK? My God. The juicy part here is Pablo the Radical stepping up to defend Woods the Corporate Pitchman!
If being black or half black was such a turn off to the American people then why on earth would the most powerful of corporations associate their products with his image to boost sales?
Don’t know what kind of self-enclosed ideological fishbowl you dwell in, pal, but my perception from living in what is described as The Real World is that Americans WORSHIP Tiger Woods.
Man, are you ever lost.
What a few hundred wack jobs write on extreme right wing blogs is exactly what we would expect from right wing wack jobs. Wow, they are racist. Didn’t know that before.
December 12th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Jim R – you completely undermine your alleged moral philosophy stated here repeatedly in other areas with that crap. It’s called “responsibility” – it appears that in today’s crazy, mixed up world, supposed “conservatives” have less of a clue about it than most people. As for Tiger’s charitable donations, that’s great and I’m sure he consulted his tax lawyer about that, but for a billionaire to shell out even tens of millions for his foundation is not a sign that he’s sacrificing anything to help other people. Thanks Tiger, but consult the New Testament on the widow’s mite for better insight into the personal character issue as it relates to these celebrity foundations.
December 12th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Incidentally, if Tiger Woods wants to spend what would appear to be most of his spare time chasing skirts and trysting with cocktail waitresses, that’s fine with me. I wouldn’t criticize him for it. What I would criticize is carefully constructing a fictional character who then appears to be in the midst of a family and public image crisis when his real-life commitments are revealed.
December 12th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
And just to be clear, by “screw loose” I mean your id-fueled ejaculations of “fucking whores” and “selfish bitches.”
He has consensual affairs with women, and *they* are whores and bitches?
I sometimes hear that Islam hating is the last acceptable prejudice, but not in Jim’s world.
December 12th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Not to associate myself with the above insanity spewed by Jim and Pablo, but the problem with Marc and Reg’s position in identifying Tiger and other rich celebrities as deserving to have their dirty laundry aired out in public is a subjective and moral judgement (albeit on a serial philanderer like Tiger, with whom it is difficult to sympathize). Was it not equally fair for Eliot Spitzer and JFK to have their private life exposed, since by holding high offices, they presented themselves as men of character?
Food for thought: did the young and attractive CNN anchor deserve to recently have pictures taken of herself unclothed in her hotel room? If not, then why not? Certainly, these pictures were undoubtedly taken illegally; but isn’t her network also guilty of probing into the private lives of people by publishing film footage/pictures obtained from God knows who/what source? Isn’t she a party to this kind of muckraking, “GOTCHA!” pseudo-journalism that is more and more bent on capturing famous people at their most vulnerable? What makes her network different from awful TMZ, which much to her chagrin published some of the photos?
Marc Cooper is a prominent journalist, and blogger; but like each and every one of us (including myself), Tiger Woods is no less deserving of his privacy than any one of us. Every time we cast judgments or opinions about others, we have given up our right to privacy. Every human should either be entitled to their privacy, or have none. It is as simple as that.
December 12th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
That should have read, in the last paragraph – “Marc Cooper and all of us are no more deserving of privacy than Tiger Woods.” Such a hurry tonight, finally seeing “Blindside”