Month: January 2003

I saw the Flaming Lips live yesterday. Sheer genius.

They had all the usual props out of course: fake blood, interesting visuals, the nun finger puppet. Even the tellytubbies made an appearance. They also had giant balloons bouncing around the audience (just beautiful) and about 10 people on each side of the stage dancing throughout the entire gig in animal costumes. We even had Beth Orton pop up beforehand to join them playing their cover of “can’t get you out of my head”.

I was smiling all the way home.

You may be wondering why I’m doing this. I suppose there’s two main reasons:

Firstly, I want to learn new web skills, so I designed/wrote all the back-end stuff for this bit of the site myself using a combination of PHP and MySQL (web scripting language and open-source database thingy respectively). Well, with the new economy being what it isn’t these days, you’ve got to keep an eye on the old CV. At the time of writing it’s not quite finished (and it is also not linked from anywhere else on the Paste site, as I want to get things right before exposing my innermost thoughts to a wider audience).

The second, and far more important, reason is that, after a year of failing to write anything substantial, I wanted to force myself to write on a regular basis, and this seemed like a good way to do it.

Hello. This is a new section of Paste magazine.

It’s a weblog. Think of it as an online diary. I will be venting my frustration at the ways of modern life here on a semi regular basis, as well as posting links to interesting stuff on the web.

At some time in the future, there may be other contributors to this section of the site, but for now it is just me.