Record Reconstructor

  This week:  When the other shoe drops, bad bosses and good bosses, and a little post-rock taster as a treat. I get nervous when things go well for extended periods of time.  I have a hard time trusting the ongoing passage of days where I am not wrestling with some personal existential crisis, and the longer that goes without disruption the more nervous I get - Catherine and I will have been together for 18 years in two months time, and I still wonder if one day she'll just be gone, either through tragedy or some irreconcilable difference, and what I'd do if that ever happened.  In my lived experience, the other shoe always drops, good times never last, and the best thing you can do when they are with you is enjoy them to the fullest, and keep an eye on the horizon for the oncoming storm. It's been over a year now really since anything truly anxiety-inducing has happened inside my personal life*, and because I had our holiday to Australia firmly in my sights, I miss...

  This week: The Internet, Brandi Carlile, Tame Impala, Wilco, Fleetwood Max, Sarah McLachlan, Bruce Springstee n, Sneaker Pimps, INXS and Maroon 5 It's a three-day weekend here in the UK which means that Mondays are the new Sundays when it comes to posting weekly wrap ups.  There are a lot of moving parts in play in the household this week - first, Catherine is away on a holiday with her mother on the Scottish island I want to move to one day, which is making me jealous, but has also offered me an unexpected Garbage Week Redux opportunity which, I'll admit, I have not taken any advantage of, mainly eating home cooked meals and staring at my computer trying to figure out how to bring in my Pearl Jam article for some kind of crash landing. The other major concern has been my own impending trip away, this time to UK Games Expo, one of the largest Board Game conventions in Europe, at the Birmingham NEC starting on Thursday.  My first UKGE was I think 2014, when I went for a ...