writer / broadcaster / humorist (hopefully)
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.
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 10 Albums of 2013
Step inside to find out what the best songs of 2013 were...
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 Why sledging is bad for cricket and should be dismissed
Here it is! The Top 200 Songs of the 1980s, which includes 1990 but not 1980!
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 New Seven Wonders of the World…
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 Prediction for Triple J Hottest 100 of Last 20 Years…
Step inside to find at Patrick's (and some other people's) fave albums of every year...
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 Songs Voted For in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years
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 Track By Track Review of Random Access Memories (Daft Punk)
