Queen

When I was growing up, I was a big fan of Queen – I listened to their albums over and over and felt real sadness and loss when Freddy Mercury died. I remember feeling this way, despite feeling very awkward about liking a gay musician (that just wasn’t done in my school).
Over the years Queen [...]

Cool blogs

This is a blog that I found last week through the Outside Magazine website which I quite enjoy. It is a true time story of a group of guys doing a big wall first ascent in Malaysia, they are doing it now and uploading a video blog every couple of days.
The climbing doesn’t really appeal [...]

Bike Tricks

No – I can’t do any of this, Yes – I wish I could.

It’s beginning to look a lot like spring

The blossoms are out on most of the trees, I see people running on every street where there is space, I see bikes, skateboards and those ghastly rollerblades everywhere – yep, I think spring is here. 
I like spring a lot, it is the happy in between season for me where there is still some snowboarding [...]

Boot Camp

For a while now I have been having back problems. I have been told by a physio that I have a slipped disc in my lower back (can’t remember the number) and that I should consider it to be permanent. Sometimes it goes out and I am sore and bent over for a week or so, [...]

Syncopated Kids

It’s funny, we often talk at our music practices about how people struggle with syncopation so I found this quite inspiring. Kids in numbers showing how it’s done.
I also think it’s really cool that Coldplay put a link to this on their newsletter.

Wikipedia: In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms [...]

Priorities

I find myself in a position I never expected to be in. I am trying to convince people to come to a U2 concert with me… trying, why oh why should I ever need to put any effort in to that? When asked “do you want to come to U2?” the only reasonable answer is [...]