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The Da Vinci Code

I finally got round to reading ’s The Da Vinvi Code. I have to say that it took me ages to get into, by that I don’t mean how many pages I had to read before I was in, but how many times I had to re-start the book to get myself going. The start is so poorly written. I found myself constantly stumbling over the structure of the words. I knew I had to keep trying, and eventually either the writing got better or I got over the issue. Before long I was actually rather enjoying it.
The book is very good as a thriller. I’m not going to make the mistake of judging it on the “content” of the subject matter, because to be honest, it doesn’t really matter to me. The story is well told within the confines of the “revelations” and if nothing else Dan Brown helps to feed you this information in an entertaining way, rather than sitting down to read any serious book on the subject.
I read the illustrated version, because that was the version I was given as a gift. Apart from it really being to big to be practical for reading, it was a little uncomfortable sitting on the sofa with it, I did like all the pictures that gave you that extra bit of help with the visualisation of what Brown was describing. In no way essential to the plot, but educational in its own right.

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Girls

The video for ’s new single ‘Girls’ is now available online. The single is released March 27th.

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Seasons End

Seasons End
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Getting close to seasons end
I heard somebody say
That it might never snow again
In England
Snow flakes in a new-born fist
Sledging on a hill
Are these things we’ll never see
In England

We’ll tell our children’s children why
We grew so tall and reached so high
We left our footprints in the earth
And punched a hole right through the sky

We’ll tell them how we changed the world
And how we tamed the sea
And seasons they will never know
In England

So watch the old world melt away
A loss regrets could never mend
You never miss it till it’s gone
So say goodbye, say goodbye

We’ll tell our children’s children why
We grew so tall and reached so high
You never miss it till it’s gone
So say goodbye, say goodbye
To seasons end

I just thought I add this little snipped that Steve has to say about the lyric.

A nostalgic lament about cold English Winters and their loss to global warming. Once you’ve got your own children you start to think about what kind of a world we’re leaving them with… and which of your dearest memories might be impossibilities in the future.

Words stolen from www.marillion.com – sorry!

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Brit Awards – the Albums

Well as was last night, now seems a good oppotunity to look at some of those new albums I got for Christmas and my Birthday.

British Album

  • Coldplay X & Y
  • Gorillaz Demon Days
  • James Blunt Back To Bedlam
  • Kaiser Chiefs Employment
  • Kate Bush Aerial

, , and were on my list of new albums.

I would have chosen between Kate Bush and Coldplay, so the fact that Coldplay won is not a problem.

Coldplay - X & YColdplay – X&Y, I didn’t think I was going to like X&Y, because I didn’t like the Single ‘Fix you’. Victoria was going to buy the album for me, so I thought; what the heck, and bought it. I really really like it! It’s worthy of all the praise handed to it.

Kate Bush - AerialKate Bush –  Aerial, is also fantastic. Typical oddness beautifully done. I read the lyrics before listening, and thought it was going to be crap. How can you have a song about ‘PI’ where the number is recited throughout it? Or singing about washing machines ‘Mrs Bartolozzi’? But the album is Kate Bush at her best, just wonderfully done. There are two discs for the album. The first seems a more random arrangement of songs, whereas the second seems to be put together with some relationship. That said ‘A Coral Room’ on CD1 is just gorgeous.

Kaiser Chiefs - EmploymentKaiser Chiefs – Employment, on the other hand is pants. It does have some great songs on it, ie: all the ones that have been released as singles so far. ‘Everyday I Love You Less and Less’, ‘I Predict  A Riot’, ‘Oh My God’, and ‘Na Na Na Na Naa’… but that’s it, all the rest are dull dull dull…

BRITISH FEMALE SOLO

  • Charlotte Church
  • Kate Bush
  • Katie Melua
  • KT Tunstall
  • Natasha Bedingfield

    • KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope took this one, which from the nominees I won’t argue with.

    KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope. Love this. Fantastic album. Not a bad track on it. She at times reminds me of other artists, but hell there is no crime in that. Well put together album.

    Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams took International break Through Artist.

    Jack Johnson –  In Between Dreams, loved this as well. Again, not a bad track on it. Reminds me a little of , but that is no bad thing.

    Madonna - Confessions on a dance floor picked up International Femal Solo Artist.

    Madonna – Confessions on a Dance Floor, I thought I was going to hate this one. When it was first released I listened to some of the tracks on MSN Music and didn’t take to it at all. So I was going to give it a miss, but Victoria gave it to me. I love it! There is only one dodgy track on it; ‘Push’, which I think is terrible and therefore so out of place.

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    Baker Street




    Winding your way down on Baker Street
    Light in your head and dead on your feet
    Well another crazy day, you’ll drink the night away
    And forget about everything.

    This city desert makes you feel so cold
    It’s got so many people but it’s got no soul
    And it’s taken you so long to find out you were wrong
    When you thought it held everything.

    You used to think that it was so easy,
    You used to say that it was so easy
    But you’re tryin’, you’re tryin’ now.
    Another year and then you’d be happy
    Just one more year and then you’d be happy
    But you’re cryin’, you’re cryin’ now.

    Way down the street there’s a light in his place
    He opens the door, he’s got that look on his face
    And he asks you where you’ve been, you tell him who you’ve seen
    And you talk about anything.

    He’s got this dream about buyin’ some land
    He’s gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
    And then he’ll settle down, it’s a quiet little town
    And forget about everything.

    But you know he’ll always keep movin’
    You know he’s never gonna stop movin’
    Cause he’s rollin’, he’s the rollin’ stone.
    And when you wake up it’s a new morning
    The sun is shining, it’s a new morning
    But you’re going, you’re going on.

    Gerry Rafferty Official Website.

     

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