How to Steal Music

I am a criminal.  And a shameless one at that, especially when it comes to stealing music.  It has been one of my major pastimes over the past few years, having downloaded around 2500 tracks over the past half decade.
I was at it again today.  As I mentioned in a previous posting, I am going [...]

I Can’t Get No Sleep

Faithless – Insomnia

Normally I am a creature of the night – always was and always will be.  This isn’t usually a problem for me because most of my work is online and so I can do it whenever I like.  And I like to work late into the night, finished around 3.00 [...]

My Karaoke Shame

Being a cruel and evil bastard who loves nothing more than a good bit of schadenfreude (enjoyment taken from the misfortune of others), I must admit to enjoying the first few episodes of each series of Pop Idol/American Idol (or whatever they call it in your particular country).
Like the rest of you, I’m sure, I’m [...]

Funny YouTube Clips (For Old Music Nerds)

It was only as a result of making the research for the ‘Music and Me’ series of postings that I have come to realize exactly how much stuff there really is on YouTube.  I had absolutely no idea that there really was that much stuff on it.
It’s really quite hard to find anything that’s not [...]

Music and Me (For the Love of House)

Not everyone understands house music
It’s a spiritual thing
A body thing
A soul thing
A soul thing

Eddie Amador – House Music
At the start of 2007, I started ‘the search for the perfect girlfriend’ – an exercise which was undertaken with military precision.  Step one was to lose some weight as I had porked up [...]

Music and Me (Kolja – The Old Raver)

Back to talking music bollocks now …
In the summer of 2004, I already knew that my marriage was in its death throes and I also needed to make some more friends, so I started dabbling in internet dating.  Being an internet marketer by trade and having the novelty factor of being one of the few [...]

Music and Me (Riga – Midlife Crisis)

My soon-to-be-ex-wife thought that Riga was a shithole – “just a backwards part of Russia” and “Bratislava after the Second World War” was how she described it.
But no sooner had I entered the minimalistic stripped pine interior of Riga airport, I could tell that this was going to be a cool place.  Prague had become [...]

Music and Me (Prague: Left Bank of the Nineties)

In 1991, the video company I worked for decided that they were going to open up offices all over Eastern Europe in order to give the poor people there easier access to the works of Sly, Arnie, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, etc.
Having long had a fascination with all things Eastern European, I thought [...]

Music And Me (It Was Acceptable in the Eighties)

It was around the same time that I started my first job (as the worst bank clerk in Christendom) when, one evening, I was listening to the radio when something came on that made me just stop, open my ears in wonderment, thinking “what is that?”
I’d never heard anything like it before and I just [...]

Music And Me (Childhood)

In his rather boring and pretentious song from the Seventies, Music, John Miles sang:
Music was my first love
And it will be my last
Music of the future
And music of the past
To live without my music
Would be impossible to do
In this world of troubles
My music pulls me through
Some of this is, of course, bollocks.  How can music be [...]