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Baby Let’s Just Start Again

Rhubarb’s second album, Slow Motion, was the most played album on my stereo for a long long time. It was probably the first album I loved to the point of obsession. Almost three years on, the first single from their third long player has been released (or at least, will be released, on Monday. But if you’re quick, you can grab it for free from their website), and it’s yet another piece of absolutely brilliant guitar driven pop rock.

I like guitar.

And here’s the interview I did with Steve Drinkall, of said excellent band. Thanks Steve.

Yeeeaaah, You were right, we don’t always get things wrong
We can leave, but we always wander home…
…Baby let’s just start again.

No More Ergonometric Chairs for Me

Well, I’m done. I’ve finished it all. And quite a good read it all was too.

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So, the washup of the first test match. Australia ended up pretty easy winners, in the end it was well over two hundred runs, which England would be disappointed with after knocking Australia over for one hundred and ninety on the first day.

Some points of interest:

• Umpire Aleem Dar looks quite a lot like a sub-continental Mr. Bean.
• When Kevin Pieterson walked off the ground after scoring fifty seven, he acted like he’d just single handedly won England the game. When Michael Clarke walked off the ground after scoring ninety one, nine runs short of a century on debut in three different countries, and his name on the honours board at Lords, he hung his head in dissapointment.
• Kevin Pieterson really is a quality player, and isn’t half as arrogant as I first thought, in fact, he came across as a pretty nice bloke. Andrew Strauss on the other hand…
• Pieterson managed to drop three catches in the match, practically nullifying the effect of scoring his two half centuries, which left England with … zero batsmen who did anything useful.
• After Pieterson dropped Clarke on twenty one, Clarke in true Aussie fashion said, “I owe Kevin a beer or two”.
• Before the match, Matthew Hoggard put his foot in it by saying that the Australian bowling attack was too old, and not able to bowl England out twice. McGrath took five wickets in the first innings, nine for the match, while Hoggard took only three. McGrath got Hoggard out for a duck in the second innings too, just so he knows how ‘over the hill’ the Australian bowlers are.
• The umpires, namely Rudi Koertzen, had an appalling game, with at least three plumb LBW appeals given not out, including an absolute shocker that denied Brett Lee a wicket (which was quickly followed by a pile of weak excuses).
• Brett Lee’s “the chainsaw” wicket celebration is still possibly the most stupid thing I have ever seen.
• Simon Katich is a gun.
• That Steven Harmison is a great test match bowler.
• And finally, the television commentators were mincing their words no end, with expressions like “rubbing insult into injury” (was that ‘rubbing salt into the wound’, or ‘adding insult to injury’?), as well as mixing up the names of Gilchrist, Gillespie, and MacGill (who wasn’t even playing in the game) on numerous occasions.

England are a good team at the moment, but Australia is still the best by a long shot. England might well win a test, but I doubt it’ll be before Australia have already won the series.

The English media sure is hard on those blokes.

OutOfTime

My sincere apologies to all my adoring fans, the site has been all over the place lately, updates dissappearing and reappearing and the like. The webhost decided to (rather unsuccessfully it seems) change servers, without notifying customers. Thay’re going to go far, I can tell. Hopefully everything is now restored, and will stay that way. If your comment has dissappeared, don’t cry, I don’t hate you (much). Now off you go and do something interesting eh? Good.

Long Hop From Pakistan

“I don’t think teams bowl enough short stuff at him and it’s something England should be looking to do.”

That’s what Pakistani coach, Bob Woolmer, says the English should do to target Adam Gilchrist’s ability to take the game away from the opposition batting at number seven.

Well done mate. I reckon Gilchrist would be looking forward to that, though it’s unlikely England would be that stupid. No wonder the Pakistani’s lost three nil the last time they played Australia, while Gilchrist averaged over seventy five.

Today is Monday. The first test starts on Thursday. I’m feeling it.

Don’t Wanna Know What State I’m In

So maybe I got new media.

Firsty, Ross Noble’s UnrealTime DVD. When I saw Ross Noble live the first time, I cried. When I heard him on the radio, I cried. When I saw him on Rove, and The Glass House on TV, I cried. When I saw him live the seond time, I cried. This DVD makes me cry, and makes my face hurt so much. Quite possibly the funniest man on earth.

When I heard Travis’ two hits (way back in the day) I liked them, but dismissed them as pop rubbish. I don’t know why I did. A few weeks ago I heard them sampled in a mashup, and liked it. Britpop like this rarely fails.

Despite it’s title, The Fiery Furnaces’ EP, is ten tracks long. It’s a rollicking forty minutes of garage rock, blues, and indierock and I absolutely love it. The Fiery Furnaces set my imagination on fire like no other band. They also make want to get up and dance like no other band, but we won’t go there. I don’t care if I’m poor, the next CD you’ll see me talk about here will be Blueberry Boat (the only Fiery Furnaces CD I don’t yet have).

A friend wanted me to recommend some good music to them. I went through a CD store, and pulled out a handful I thought they’d like. They bought 78 Saab’s Crossed Lines on nothing more than my word, the name, and the cover art. I got it too. Just awesome.

Fix My Car

When you try your best but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse.

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste…

Seems to sum up my life lately. There’s been a few things that… not. If I see another weblog gush about how Coldplay’s Fix You is touching someones heart, I’m going to vomit.

Could it be worse?

No. No, I don’t think it could possibly be worse. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great song, by a great band, but everyone already knows. We know it’s a good song. We know it’s written to appeal to certain senses. We’ve all got the album already, we’ve listened to it six thousand times. Artists have been writing music like it for ages. Why are we wetting our pants now?

And I may be broken, but I don’t want Chris Martin to try and fix me. Though he can have a crack at fixing my car if he wants.

Style-Up

10.6 Giles to Hayden, FOUR, full on the off, gets forward and firmly
swept to square leg, one bounce into a security guy sitting on a
chair, that woke him up

Watching the cricket via the net (dial-up style) is funny.

Australia scored a good win (scorecard). The new rules are still lame. Bring on The Ashes.

After all the commotion, (and all plaudits to England, they caused most of it with a heap of quality cricket) we’re starting to see the same old signs, Australia turning up the heat, and England’s problems being shown up. Still, it should be a masterly summer of test cricket.