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Now That I'm a Grown Up: September 2011
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Now That I'm a Grown Up. The Learn to Swim blog. Sunday, 11 September 2011. I see Polly Harvey has won the Mercury Music award for a second time. I just realised her first single is now 20 years old. That sort of thing happens to me a lot these days. It doesn't matter, one can overanalyse these things and I don't want to do that with something which I love on a purely instinctive level. Maybe it's as simple as she was a girl who played damn good music. For me, Smells Like Teen Spirit.
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Now That I'm a Grown Up: April 2011
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Now That I'm a Grown Up. The Learn to Swim blog. Friday, 15 April 2011. I miss Stereolab. They seemed so. relaxed. Is the best word I can come up with. I don't know if they really were or not, but they always struck me as a bunch of people I'd want to spend time with. And now, they seem to have called it a day. It had to come eventually, I guess I just hoped it wouldn't be quite yet. Saturday, 2 April 2011. Over the years, I have come to realise that many of the people (by which I mean famous people rath...
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Now That I'm a Grown Up: August 2011
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Now That I'm a Grown Up. The Learn to Swim blog. Monday, 1 August 2011. The Total Perspective Vortex. It's another Wednesday night. I've had a glass or two of a rather nice wine after another long and complicated day at work which included amongst other things leading a tricky meeting in the morning (taking my usual refuge by a flipchart) and making an impromptu speech in front of some bigwigs this afternoon. At the time, that all felt terribly important. What was he worrying about? Did he love someone?
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Now That I'm a Grown Up: June 2011
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Now That I'm a Grown Up. The Learn to Swim blog. Monday, 13 June 2011. On the day I'm writing this, I've just heard of the death of Trish Keenan from the band Broadcast. Inevitably, since I didn't know her personally, what follows is more about me than it is about her. Hence, I've left a discreet interval before sharing it. What I find is that I'm unusually upset by the news. Instead, I wonder why I should find this news so particularly sad. Like I said, I never even met her. Maybe it's because there was...
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Now That I'm a Grown Up: March 2011
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Now That I'm a Grown Up. The Learn to Swim blog. Thursday, 31 March 2011. Suprarealism and the Soundmeme. The following is reproduced with kind permission of. Professor H. Jean-Luc la Fournier,. Department of Semiotics,. South Hampshire Institute of Tetratechnology. 1 Semioticist discourse, Soundmemes and pretextual construction. The characteristic theme of the works of Learn to Swim. States that we have to choose between Soundmimetics and postmodernist discourse. Hegemonies. Any number of theories c...
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Now That I'm a Grown Up: January 2011
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Now That I'm a Grown Up. The Learn to Swim blog. Friday, 14 January 2011. It's almost impossible to say why this works. Made in 1974 for the BBC's Play for Today. The play has an almost legendary status because of its elusive and layered qualities, raising the concern that, like the last episode of The Prisoner. It may actually be beautifully crafted nonsense and not worth sticking with. But be patient: this was directed by Alan Clarke. Also worth having is a "what the fuck was that about? Like many thin...
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Now That I'm a Grown Up: November 2012
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Now That I'm a Grown Up. The Learn to Swim blog. Tuesday, 13 November 2012. Badly Conceived, Poorly Realised. Earlier today a friend pointed out that he knows a lot of people with birthdays in mid November which proves that Valentines Day is clearly effective. Doing some rough counting back I can estimate that I must've been conceived some time in June. This means I coudl be the product of an evening celebrating the defeat of Charles I at the Battle Naseby. Or the defeat of Azal the Daemon at Dev...We're...
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Now That I'm a Grown Up: January 2012
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Now That I'm a Grown Up. The Learn to Swim blog. Monday, 16 January 2012. How the hell did they do that? I was never that flexible. If I'd been of the right age to go to Wigan Casino in its heyday a) I'd probably not have known about it and b) would have spent the entire evening nursing a cheap whisky and coke and standing on the sidelines. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Slabcake - The Learn to Swim Podcast. View my complete profile. Learn to Swim on Facebook.
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