Mark's Musings

They’re all stuck.
Look at me.
Silence is gray.
Silence is golden.
Silence is a stone in my mouth.
Nobody can see me.
I had no idea.
They’re going to miss me.
Here we go again.
What is she thinking?
17 years…
If I had a gun.
How’m I gonna do this?
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
They that sow in tears shall reap [...]

Posted on January 27th, 2010 under Music, Pointless Ramblings. Tags: Think. Comments: None

Today is formally the first day of Advent, the start of the Christmas season. So, to kick off, here’s my list of the twenty best Christmas singles ever written:

Fairytale of New York – The Pogues and Kirsty McColl
Merry Christmas, Everybody – Slade
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day – Wizzard
Saviour’s Day – Cliff Richard [...]

Posted on November 29th, 2009 under Music, lists. Tags: Christmas. Comments: None

A selection of my photos from Greenbelt 2009 are now online, at http://photos.goodge.co.uk/v/music/greenbelt/2009/

Posted on September 4th, 2009 under Music, Photos. Tags: Greenbelt. Comments: None

If you buy music from iTunes, it currently costs 99c a track in the US or 79p a track in the UK. Is this reasonable? I think not. Here’s why…
According to a report on the Harvard university website, a typical breakdown of costs for a retail music CD sold in the US is:
Retailer: 35%
Distributor: 9%
Record [...]

Posted on May 5th, 2006 under Digital Lunacy, Internet, Music. Comments: None

According to a BBC news report, the music industry has (yet again) launched a “legal onslaught” against file-sharers. In one sense, I can understand why – a report by research firm XTN suggests that unauthorised downloading has increased by 3% to 28% of Internet users since last September. So we’re buying a lot more commercial downloads, but [...]

Posted on April 4th, 2006 under Digital Lunacy, Internet, Music. Comments: 2