Pink Martini

Saw a fantastic band called Pink Martini at warwick arts centre last night. So I thought I'd blink to them. (blink: verb: to link to a website from a blog) Click on their name above to go to the site. You can listen to them there, buy CDs and also look at the tour dates, to see when they are visiting your area.

I must say that their percussion section was especially good. Very tight rythmically, and very versatile. However, this is not to say the rest of the band wasn't good - I thought they were all good. They were good enough to get many couples dancing by the end (alas I didn't really have anyone I knew with a compatible dance style (I do ceroc, and the only ladies I know there do ballroom), and I can't dance solo to save my life. Shame really, would have been nice to dance.).

I'm Rather Shocked...

to discover that serveral people I know agree with the death penalty. This world is scarier than I thought. It is not just America that has this blot on the landscape - there is potential for it, even in the country, given the right circumstances.

This all adds to the situation already developing in this land, where the government is clamping down, and making morality part of its bussiness. I think that protection and creation of oportunity, and providing services are the job of the government - not moralising, and not monitoring our every action. Of course, they take the stand that it is necessary to protect us - but I wonder how much it kills us in the process.

This is not to say I don't believe in morality - quite the opposite. In fact I think that the government must try to maintain its own morallity in the laws it creates (ie. by not doing things which are wrong, such as killing people). All I am saying is that it is not a job for the government (who, being human, like the rest of us, are not really the ideal people to decide on this) to impose morallity on us. No, I think that this is much better in the hands of a perfect judge, which we find in god, and, a merciful forgiving judge, which we find in this same place.

right, I think that is the end of my rant. - Of course no-one will read this anyway, but hey, never mind, my thoughts are here if anyone wants them.

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It's Only a Cold

Nuff Said.

Music is GREAT!!!

This last few weeks I have new-ley been listening to...

• Carole King "Tapestry"
• David Gray "Life in Slow Motion
• Atlum Schema "The Final Scene"
• The Corrs "Home"
• Katie Melua "Piece By Piece"
• The Futureheads "The Futureheads"
• Sheryl Crow "Wildflower"
• Franz Ferdinand "You Could Have It So Much Better"

All highly recommended. I hope to listen to...

• Rodrigo "Concierto De Aranjuez" etc. from BBC Music Magazine
• Badly Drawn Boy "One Plus One Is One"
• Shola Ama "Much Love"

over the comming week.

Once again, music is fantastic!!!!! Go listen to some.

Apparently Asda don't stock...

...Garam Masala. Randomly discovered this when going to buy the ingredients for this recipe. Still, the staff were helpful enough, and I was directed to Michaels Supermarket on bath street. It appears that this tiny place has loads of random spice type ingredients that no-one else has (like what I needed, Monosodium Glutimate - which I didn't want(!!!) - and huge bags of spice, the size of bags of sand in a builders yard). Got the Garam Masala, and Mustrard Seeds. Very Yummy recipe - Highly recommended.