Bowie

Just got back from seeing Bowie at Wembley Arena. Fantastic — there aren't enough superlatives. His voice was better than it's been in years; I'd name high points but it was all great.

Of particular mention: his duet with Gail Ann Dorsey (bassist) on Under Pressure — GAD did a fantastic job of Freddie Mercury's part — a better version than the original!; Sunday, which was vocally magnificent and polished off by a lovely guitar solo from Earl Slick (as was New Killer Star, incidentally — as it should have been on the album!); and Ziggy Stardust in the encore, which was played as stadium rock and set the crowd on fire.

My MiniDisc was low on battery, so I got the first few and last few tracks. I was waiting for The Motel, but it never came on despite Mike Garson's beautiful piano throughout. Spent a silly 25 quid on a nice t-shirt, and 12 on a program (well, you gotta!).

Well worth 50 nicker + travel per ticket. Next time, I'll take a proper camera and a fully-charged recorder! I'm hoping bootlegs will hit Teenage Wildlife soon, or even a DVD (it was good enough for one).

Can't wait for next year.
Now I just need to get some sleep.

Update: Forgot two things: Dandy Warhols were both entertaining and in good spirits, and Life on Mars was amazing!

Posted at 2003-11-26 17:16:22 by Richard • Link to Bowie
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I hate Web design.

Well, some bits of it! Check this page in Mozilla/Firebird. Then check in Konqueror/Safari. Notice anything? My central alignment just doesn't work in KHTML.

I suppose sometime I'm going to have to strip out the nasty mixture of tables and CSS and go all-out modern. That'll be the same time that I generate the whole page using XSLT :)

Posted at 2003-11-26 04:57:12 by Richard • Link to I hate Web design.
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Fascinating Facts

• The # character is properly called an octotroph.
• Indiana University's library sinks an inch each year because the weight of its books was not accounted for in the design.
• Snails can sleep for 3 years.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• On average, people fear spiders more than death.
• Ducks' quacks do echo.

(largely thieved from this week's Spark newspaper)

Posted at 2003-11-26 04:06:00 by Richard • Link to Fascinating Facts
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