I had to miss a few weeks of the Tuesday Tunes, there. There hasn’t been much time for any kind of blogging, lately. Inbetweentimes, though, there has been much listening to music — or, at least, having of music on in the background while working on something that isn’t a blog post. Which gives me a few tracks to mind to choose from.

This week, then, is “Bearing Star”, from Iain Archer. It’s a gentle song off his Revelation Bell EP. In case you’re curious, Revelation Bell is by far my favourite of his released records. (I did have a MiniDisc of demos that included very different versions of songs like “Boy, Boy, Boy” and “Mirrorball Moon” to the ones that were eventually released on Flood The Tanks; I much prefer them to the album verisons. Those recordings were brilliant, but the disc was lost sometime during one of the house moves we made a few years ago, and I haven’t been able to find those recordings again. A shame.)

I've sung your name over in a thousand different ways
Because I like the sound of it and the person it portrays

(No streaming options I could find for this one.)

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Such as it was, anyway. This was the late-August bank holiday in Belfast. As expected.

In no particular order:

• Mig's Metamorphosism was one of the first blogs I started reading regularly. It's because he can write. For a taste, treat yourself to his travelogue of an Apline hike and follow it up with his experiences of nymphomania (safe for work, I assure you). I get the feeling the two posts are related.
• Les Paul died the other week.
• An interesting list of the 100 greatest sci-fi movies.
• If you know computers, or programmers, you might enjoy Stack Overflow's best programmer jokes.
• KickStarter is an interesting micro-funding idea, especially if it ever reaches these shores.
• I thought about writing about the current debate over the freeing of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. But it turns out that William Crawley said most of what I wanted to say, and an Independent editorial said most of the rest. I find I'm with @jearle.

(It’s not terribly relevant to the discussion, but I find it interesting that I typed “the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing” rather than “the Lockerbie bomber”. Analyse away.)

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It’s another eye.

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