While the most important album of the year was clearly Dangermouse’s Grey Album (a vinyl copy of which is available for sale at the best record shop in the world in Amsterdam), it didn’t make my top 20 for the year in the context of the jazz show I do. Great record, nonetheless – and, [...]
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Ice-skating outside the Rijksmuseum My first Northern hemisphere Christmas – and it snowed. For about 11 seconds. But it was certainly cold… It was cold enough for the ice to start forming on the lakes in Vondelpark, where we took a stroll on Boxing Day, and it was cold enough to skate in front of [...]
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Another email conversation I’ve had this week that deserves its own post. You’ve met my neighbour here already. Well, he sent me a link to an article about file sharing he thought I might find interesting. Essentially it’s about how the heat is coming off music trading online because of the bigger problem of movie [...]
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I’m going to cut and paste something long, and I think you should read it. It’s longer than most things you’d normally read here – but trust me, this one is a) a better read than most of what you’d find here and b) kind of important. This article, a couple of days old, has [...]
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