michael lambe

Frankly, I’m charmed.

You can download it here.

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In no particular order…
1. I work with good people. Stirling people. They are not only fun to hang out with but they work hard and are keen to share ideas and to help each other out. They are totally awesome.
2. The school generally treats us pretty well. We all get our own computers for example. [...]

Last Friday, Ted Taylor and I met up at Sarasa Kayuukoji for some old timey jazz and oishii beers. That’s a nice cafe with some very tasty nibbles of which we ordered …way too much.

We were there to see Sweet Strings… which turns out to be not one band but a label for a mixed [...]

Something very bad has happened to Deep Kyoto. If you try to look at it there’s a page of code you have to scroll through to get to the home page. But what’s worse (for me) is I can’t access admin – when I try I just get code. If anyone out there in the [...]

I found this Julie Fowlis song by chance earlier this week and can’t stop listening to it. Absolutely lovely. Bit hard to sing along to though.

Wonder what it means?

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Hello. I hope you all had a lovely Easter with lots of eggy goodness. Today a delightful young chap from NTT came round and reconnected me to the interwomb with a nice new fibre-optic umbilical. I feel whole again. Lots of things have been going on. I’ve moved to a new place with mostly good [...]

Last December I went along to see the 軽音部 live performance at my school. 軽音部 (kei-on-bu) translates as “light music club”. Actually that’s a misnomer. What they are is a rock guitar band club. And they were pretty good too. I don’t know how many bands I saw play over the 3 or 4 hours [...]

I went to see the Robert Doisneau exhibition at the Kyoto Station Art Gallery today and it made me want to live in Paris AND become a black and white photographer. Robert Doisneau really knew how to wait for the perfect moment and he knew where to wait too. Pure genius. Every picture is a [...]

Hurray!

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Umm huh!
You wouldn’t forget him either if you
had met him where I met him
Talkin’ about desolation!
Desolation is a railroad station ‘roun’ about 2:00 am on a weeknight
When you walk into desolation like that
and suddenly, from nowhere comes a
warm song, you aren’t about to forget it.
Betty H. Neals (From Introduction to Theme for the Eulipions)
The other [...]