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I've got this idea for a post in my head, tentatively titled "Pragmatism, Dogmatism and Theory", but I think that it might take me quite a long time to write; and that is not something I really have at the moment.
So, instead, we have GLASTONBURRRYYYYYYYY!
Definitely the highlight of my musical year (last year's Reading & Leeds shows did their best, but it just ain't the same).
These days the BBC has got its act together and actually started to exploit the wonders of increased bandwidth. With few exceptions this means that you can bypass the terrestrial channel (BBC2) for everything bar the headliners (last night, The Killers), mainly because the BBC now has attention deficit disorder and refuses to play groups in segments of more than four minutes.
BBC 3 earlier in the evening is better, but the real class is on BBC Interactive, where the "alternative" option shows complete sets from the smaller stages.
A downside of this is that by the end of the weekend I have about 30 hours of footage, much of which is repeats. The upside is that you get classics like the whole Arcade Fire set. I mean, three guitars, an accordion, a cornet, a violin, a viola, a French Horn, drums and keyboards. And, of course, organ pipes for the church organ sound. The "highlights" channel rightly picked up on "No Cars Go", which was an awesome performance. Possibly one of the few groups it's worth considering murder in order to get hold of a ticket.
Rodrigo y Gabriela did the Jazz stage, casually showing the world that, as guitarists, they are streets ahead of most players alive and not a few who are dead.
Theres's still bundles of stuff there as yet unwatched. More updates later.
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Andy Ward continues to post fascinating and helpful stuff from LV in Secrets of the Amateurs and Get It Quietly. His review of the Full Tilt Strategy Guide served only to convince me that there is no point trying to be an all-rounder these days unless you play poker full-time. The analysis needed for top-level profitable tounrament play is hard indeed.
However, that doesn't make it worthless to read for a cash player. It's fascinating how little snippets of limit play also apply in no limit (in areas that you wouldn't expect) and there are bits of tournament play which are useful in cash no-limit as well. The trick, of course, is to know what to discard and what to keep.
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A mass tidy-up of the office this morning, in the sense that there is now nothing on the floor whose rightful place is not to be on the floor. And I've reorganised some of the stuff on shelves as well. That's just about the only way the books and shelves get dusted.
The collection of books bought but not yet read continues to grow. "Burma Boy" looks interesting, of the 30 pages or so that I have read so far.
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The DVD recorder is beginnning to get temperamental. I'm normally a great fan of Panasonic, but the two recorders I have have both been "fussy" when it comes to discs. The hard disc drive on the more up-to-date Panasonic is great - but the Disc recorder is not so good. One would expect more than two years' useful life from a three hundred quid machine.
Then again, my Phillips CD player is causing problems as well, so one has to assume that it's something to do with the reading abilities of the laser. I've tried "cleaner" CDs, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.
+++++++++
So, instead, we have GLASTONBURRRYYYYYYYY!
Definitely the highlight of my musical year (last year's Reading & Leeds shows did their best, but it just ain't the same).
These days the BBC has got its act together and actually started to exploit the wonders of increased bandwidth. With few exceptions this means that you can bypass the terrestrial channel (BBC2) for everything bar the headliners (last night, The Killers), mainly because the BBC now has attention deficit disorder and refuses to play groups in segments of more than four minutes.
BBC 3 earlier in the evening is better, but the real class is on BBC Interactive, where the "alternative" option shows complete sets from the smaller stages.
A downside of this is that by the end of the weekend I have about 30 hours of footage, much of which is repeats. The upside is that you get classics like the whole Arcade Fire set. I mean, three guitars, an accordion, a cornet, a violin, a viola, a French Horn, drums and keyboards. And, of course, organ pipes for the church organ sound. The "highlights" channel rightly picked up on "No Cars Go", which was an awesome performance. Possibly one of the few groups it's worth considering murder in order to get hold of a ticket.
Rodrigo y Gabriela did the Jazz stage, casually showing the world that, as guitarists, they are streets ahead of most players alive and not a few who are dead.
Theres's still bundles of stuff there as yet unwatched. More updates later.
++++
Andy Ward continues to post fascinating and helpful stuff from LV in Secrets of the Amateurs and Get It Quietly. His review of the Full Tilt Strategy Guide served only to convince me that there is no point trying to be an all-rounder these days unless you play poker full-time. The analysis needed for top-level profitable tounrament play is hard indeed.
However, that doesn't make it worthless to read for a cash player. It's fascinating how little snippets of limit play also apply in no limit (in areas that you wouldn't expect) and there are bits of tournament play which are useful in cash no-limit as well. The trick, of course, is to know what to discard and what to keep.
++++++++++
A mass tidy-up of the office this morning, in the sense that there is now nothing on the floor whose rightful place is not to be on the floor. And I've reorganised some of the stuff on shelves as well. That's just about the only way the books and shelves get dusted.
The collection of books bought but not yet read continues to grow. "Burma Boy" looks interesting, of the 30 pages or so that I have read so far.
++++++++++
The DVD recorder is beginnning to get temperamental. I'm normally a great fan of Panasonic, but the two recorders I have have both been "fussy" when it comes to discs. The hard disc drive on the more up-to-date Panasonic is great - but the Disc recorder is not so good. One would expect more than two years' useful life from a three hundred quid machine.
Then again, my Phillips CD player is causing problems as well, so one has to assume that it's something to do with the reading abilities of the laser. I've tried "cleaner" CDs, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.
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