Still running. And jumping.
“The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself”. Cheers Baz. Good advice, ou quoi?
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50 pence (iN Da Pod)
I started my blog as a continuation of the daily write-up that I did when I got 500 people to give me 50p so that I could buy an iPod.
World Record Holders
There's a lot of tube related stuff on this site due to me being a former World Record Holder for travelling around the entire network (275 stations) in the fastest time possible back in May 2004.
Living in the USA
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the BBC News website I moved to Charleston, South Carolina in the USA in May 2006 for three and a half years before moving back to England and back to work for the BBC in November 2009.
Underground : USA
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London Tube Map.
My Ten Favourite Blog Posts:
The human league (of friends)Because everything counts
It's only a TV programme
No names mentioned
Chicago, Improvised
Superstar Power
Minding the Gap
Lift is a mystery
117 people later
184 days later
Previously on iBlog...
My Last.FM
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Ignore all of this if you want or if you already know it, but the history of your blog quote is more interesting than the quote itself.
The music to ‘Everybody is free…’ comes from the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’, which he didn’t write. He liked the sound of it and wanted it released but with a lyric. The lyric that was eventually found came from a newspaper article. It was read over the track, Baz produced the track and it was released.
However, this sparked interest in the article and its source. The article has been in circulation for a while and reprinted a number of times, but it was eventually traced to an American local newspaper.
The author described the piece as being “Advice that I wished I has received when I was younger”, but it was also an apparent homage or pastiche of a Graduation Day speech given by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The article/lyric was so close in style and substance to Vonnegut’s work that (apparently) he had to issue a denial that it was his work.
The trouble was that (in the UK at least) the response to all this was ‘who the fuck is Kurt Vonnegut?’ If you get any enjoyment/comfort from that quote though, go and have a look at the real article – and then get yourself some of his work, especially the later stuff.