Today I found myself back in the reception area at the orthopaedic unit of Broadgreen Hospital once more, waiting to see Mr Taylor, my knee specialist. It had been almost a year and a half since I last saw him, back in August 2006 (kneesy does it – part 4), when he’d told me that my MRI scan hadn’t shown anything and he didn’t want to put me through an operation when there might be nothing wrong.
I think that’s catchier, and more accurate, than plain old “European City of Culture 2008”.
Mackets Lane, where that guy was shot in his car, is less than a mile away from where we live. Fortunately we’re much further away from where the 21 year old was shot in the leg. I wonder if we have to mention stuff like that in our Home Information Pack when the time comes to sell up? (And that time cant come soon enough.)
“15 year old, two bedroom, semi-detached home. Surrounding brick boundary wall gives lower floor ample protection from stray rounds. Upper floors gives unique vantage point for viewing the local morons when they blow up the nearby phone booth.”
Thanks to Last FM, here are my top 20 charts from the last year – in brackets are the number of listens to each artist.
- Foo Fighters (191)
- Moby (144)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers (134)
- Buckcherry (100)
- Linkin Park (99)
- Feeder (94)
- The Strokes (92)
- Jackyl (88)
- Placebo (84)
- Rage Against the Machine (81)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd (77)
- Blondie (73)
- The Chemical Brothers (73)
- Garbage (65)
- Snow Patrol (63)
- Barenaked Ladies (62)
- Hydrogyn (53)
- Massive Attack (51)
- Underworld (51)
- Paul van Dyk (49)
Earlier in the year I was actually listening to a huge amount of Red Hot Chili Peppers, but that release of the new Foo Fighters album in September had me hitting them hard in the months that followed. Then I picked up Moby’s Hotel at long last toward the end of the year and was using it to chill myself out during all of the end of year stress at work. So the Chilli’s kind of got bumped into third by the late charge from the other two.
This year I think I’m going to listen to more of my recommendations radio station, as I’ve flat out exhausted my CD collection and I’ll need to broaden my horizons a bit before I get sick of my favourites.