They’ll like us when we win..

.. let Toby be Toby. I know, I know – I’m far too Sorkin-centric at the moment, but I do believe he’s as close as we’ve got to a Bard these days..

And beauty surrounds ye..

Now this did raise a wry chuckle. From a few years ago, Mr. O’Duffy and myself moonlighting under pseudonyms to produce and arrange this oft-overlooked contemporary classic for loveable English eccentric and all-round good bloke, Mr. Vic Reeves. Actually, it charted higher than Breakout in the UK. Sound quality on the video is not great, but I still find it somehow oddly moving, and I’d quite forgotten about all the Strawberry Letter 23 references – not entirely sure any more as to why we did that…

Quotes of the day

..this little widget is definitely starting to know me too well..

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
- Robertson Davies

Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.
- Kurt Herbert Alder

Two for today

..and the Quotations widget strikes again in the ’seems relevant to me at the moment’ stakes..

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
- Marston Bates

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
- Bernard Berenson

Good morning, Tokyo

Ha! The wonders of Youtube.. Had forgotten about this kind of thing. Seems like a different place and time now.. I suppose I should say thanks to Wes for sourcing this -it was filmed in the little concert area at the top of Tower Records in Shibuya, in case you were curious..