Patrick entered this short story in a competition and never heard back so he assumed he hadn’t won. He read it again two years later and thought it was pretty good. Good enough to be published here at least. Continue reading
Filed under 2013 …
Top 10 Albums of 2013
1. Trouble Will Find Me – The National 2. Reflektor – Arcade Fire 3. AM – Arctic Monkeys 4. Bad Blood – Bastille 5. Modern Vampires Of The City – Vampire Weekend 6. Evil Friends – Portugal. The Man 7. Holy Fire – Foals 8. Steal The Light – Cat Empire 9. Megalithic Symphony – … Continue reading
Top 100 Songs of 2013
Step inside to find out what the best songs of 2013 were… Continue reading
Why sledging is bad for cricket and should be dismissed
Second innings runs are the most valuable. With the pitch decaying and the result becoming clearer, being able to score big runs in your team’s second dig is the difference between a good batsman, like Justin Langer, and a world class batman, like Michael Clarke. The Australian captain scored 113 exquisite second innings runs against … Continue reading
Top 200 Songs of the 1980s
1 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinead O’Connor 2 How Soon Is Now? The Smiths 3 Birdhouse In Your Soul They Might Be Giants 4 Fairytale Of New York Pogues & Kirsty McCall 5 Always On My Mind Pet Shop Boys 6 The Boy In The Bubble Paul Simon 7 I Was Only 19 (A Walk … Continue reading
New Seven Wonders of the World…
This task was set by Matthew. Here are the parameters: They must still stand, so that rules out six of the original seven. They need not be old, but assume that your list is going to be read in several centuries, so anything new has to already promise timelessness. One way of deciding: if Egypt … Continue reading
Prediction for Triple J Hottest 100 of Last 20 Years…
1. Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley (36) 2. Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley (3) 3. Somebody That I Used To Know – Gotye & Kimbra (9) 4. Paranoid Android – Radiohead (13) 5. The Nosebleed Section – Hilltop Hoods (4) 6. Daughter – Pearl Jam 7. My Happiness – Powderfinger (10) 8. Wonderwall – Oasis (1) … Continue reading
Best Albums for Every Year…
Step inside to find at Patrick’s (and some other people’s) fave albums of every year… Continue reading
Songs Voted For in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years
These are the songs Patrick voted for in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years. It will be updated with inclusion numbers after the countdown. Tool – Stinkfist (32) Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger Oasis – Wonderwall (1) Ben Lee – Cigarettes Will Kill You (95) Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 … Continue reading
Track By Track Review of Random Access Memories (Daft Punk)
Song titles are in bold. Give Life Back To Music is upbeat and fun but just when you want Billy Ocean to start singing, it’s repetitive autotune. After a painfully slow fade out, we move to the Chicane-esque The Game of Love. Sounds like Sade singing through a mechanical larynx. Giorgio by Moroder is a … Continue reading
