It always bugged me that in the film Braveheart, the battle for Stirling Bridge is presented as being in a big field- no bridge. It's annoying to me because in reality it was a really interesting battle- a relatively tiny amount of Scotsmen took on 10,000+ English soldiers (with cavalry), and won. They won because it was really an ambush- they waited until a large portion of the horsemen were acro ...

Hot (well, warm) on the heels of our performance at The Secret Garden Party (which I will go into more detail about soon, I promise), Grok (the band that I am in) will be opening for the album release of Ghostclub. As usual it will be held at your favorite pub, and mine: The Spice. See y'all there if you can make it. UPDATE! Nat & Ian are both also having their birthdays at the gig, which is v ...

Hello hello, back with another, EXTRA-SPECIALLY LONG episode of the only half-decent music podcast out there, the show I couldn't find so I had to make it myself. Yep it's the eighth destruct\hour, so we're doing it less than once a month but more than once every two months, which isn't bad considering. No special guests this edition, although an angry Scotsman does show up for a bit of a rant whi ...

I'm just about to post another exciting edition of the destruct\hour (calm down, please, you're embarrassing yourself), but I thought it might be a good time to recommend some of the other podcasts I listen to. Pretty much the only podcast that comes close to being like the destruct\hour is the Muzak for Cybernetics Mixtape, which is run by a couple of incredibly dry Canucks who have an amazing r ...

I like this: I hate those promotions that like, make you jump through hoops to have a chance at winning something. In fact I hate any kind of chance in my promotions. I'd say the best promotion was that one where you won another bottle of coke by looking under the bottle cap. That ruled. I think I won like 12 cokes off of $1 when that thing was playing. But this is a neat idea. I mean, I get a c ...

I spent the last two days at a conference, so I spent a lot of time doodling. Bethan was up speaking. I liked Bethan, she was an ex-teacher and her job now was trying to encourage new ways of teaching and learning. "You may not realize this," she was saying to us all, as I continued to listen while I doodled "but they have now identified up to eight different learning styles, with everyone poss ...