S*T*U*F*F* Reloaded

We had a manic week of friends last week - fantastic! Some pals came over from Belgium (photo of beers attached), then the mighty Martyn James Brooks came to stay with us during a week-long shoot for Time Out.
Friday night was the big one… Nico (Nicolas Godin) from Air told me one night during the [...]

I like the writer Haruki Marakami a lot - well, not so much recently, as I think his novels have become a little less intriguing than they were. When I lived in Japan, I was delighted to find a collection of small, palm-sized versions of Murakami novels which were unpublished in Europe at that time [...]

Is there any other sport apart from snooker where the winner can just keep going when they’ve already won?

I’m up late, waiting for an emergency gas engineer to come round. I called them at midnight, supposedly to have someone round within one hour, but calling them again at 2am, I was told it wasn’t in the system. If the house explodes, someone sue them please.
I hope it doesn’t come to that. But there [...]

So am I the only one who was disappointed by the MacWorld keynote speech by Steve Jobs of Apple? Well, I suppose its not every year you can release the iPhone, but seriously, releasing the MacBook Air, something that is thinner, smaller and lighter than anything else is more like average Japanese manufacturer marketing material. [...]

I am starting to record some guitars. I couldn’t find a pick anywhere… until I remembered my friend Richie brought me a little present from Paisley Park… he snaffled it off Prince’s music stand in the studio!!

No wonder they sound funky.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but we’re all led to believe that this symbol means “recyclable” - am I right?

Well, it doesn’t. And I was shocked to find that out. Check this out - from the site Valpak which controls the “Green Dot” symbol in the UK:
“The UK Green Dot® is not a recycling symbol [...]

I hate the whole concept of social networking, the building block of “Web 2.0″ - the way we use the internet now. Actually, while we’re at it, the whole “Web 2.0″ thing is starting to get a bit dull, but I’ll post about that on my company blog (G-RAFF BLOG) in due course. I don’t [...]

The Flow is what happens when your creativity starts to work. Take for example a little tiny piece of music that I wrote in Australia four years ago, maybe more. Just a high acoustic guitar thing with a foot tapping. I kept coming back to it as I liked the groove and the chord sequence, [...]

It makes me laugh that people still look at the feature list on the iPhone and say that its just not as chock-full of goodies as some other Nokia or Sony Ericsson device… if you have tried one, you’ll realise that this completely misses the point - its the interface and the way it reacts [...]

I have always enjoyed writing complaint letters. In fact, if the truth be told, I think I have a real penchant for this activity. There are few occasions in life when one gets a chance to use grammatically complex English to convey a simple point, but when those chances arise, I believe it is our [...]

No, I’m not trying to get search engine hits with the post title… I am just getting increasingly upset with the tendency of reporters to throw a horrific or shocking statement into their pieces on television.
*** Please don’t read the next bit if you don’t want to be disturbed in the way I was [...]