NEXFEST 2024: Burgerkill – DeadSquad – Babymetal – Bring Me The Horizon
Category Archives: Diary
The Cephalic
Good to see you again after three long years, old mate.
Truth
I remembered our RF engineering lecturer Dr Steve Collins lamented at us, “You lot are going to be bankers, aren’t you?” And yes, many of my peers did end up working for Goldman Sachs or J.P. Morgan. Thankfully I didn’t become a banker, and yet I didn’t practice as an engineer also, a decision I …
Je ne veux pas travailler
Sometimes you don’t feel you truly own something unless it presses against the flesh.
Babymetal
One item on the bucket list ticked–hearing Road of Resistance live. And I was in its infamous Wall of Death to boot and had lived to tell the tale. Despite how innocuous this band looks, Babymetal play some of the absolute heaviest, brutalest metal ever concocted by any mortal. The breakdown in Iine! has got …
Mechanicks at the Universitie
By the late Alastair Howatson. Shipped from a used bookstore in England, now in our family library for posterity.
History
I’m now a proud custodian of these three important records of Mansfield College history–Mansfield College, Its Origin and Opening by Robert William Dale et al. (1889), The Life of Andrew Martin Fairbairn by William Boothby Selbie (1914) and Mansfield College, Oxford: Its Origin, History and Significance by Dr Elaine Kaye (1996). There’s something reassuringly immutable …
22 Years
Wisdom of Adrian Lester
Adrian Lester, inside the March 21st issue of Saga Magazine: I had to match what I thought I would be at that age with what I actually am. Then I had to work out what I could possibly achieve in the future and let go of a few things. What profession you’re in – you …
Travis
I was browsing through my shelves for a good read, and found a copy of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan – bought nearly 23 years ago in Oxford. Flipped it open and saw this note from my friend Travis: Being the oaf I was I had foolishly tried to debate him on the utility of knowledge, and …