Taken from an old blog, post-by-post from the Very Old Blog from what I’ve then called Weekly Reviews, with the intent to make the list somewhat more publishable without re-opening all my prior ramblings. Please note that this means all of this is presented written-as-is by the 2012-version of the author, and cut short in some places.
January
Van Canto with In Legend and Orden Ogan. A great show with a great band and very good support acts. If you don’t know Van Canto: they make a-capella-covers of metalsongs. By now they have some selfmade songs, but mostly they sing covers.1
DJing at the medieval fantasy rocknight, playlist here. Good crowd, good party, great fun. In retrospect I would have done some things differently, but now it’s done. As it is a once-a-year-party I didn’t want to experiment too much, as long as the dancefloor is crowded. And the seemingly absurd combination of a medieval-party and a Depeche Mode-party (last year there was a pagan/viking/folk-metal-party) turned out to have a good side: No one complains when there is more than a few metal songs…
On saturday we visited the show Parodissimo by our friend Oliver. Great show, great fun. Parodies on singers (and some actors) together with some “serious” performances, anecdotes…2
Finished reading “The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research” by Petre&Rugg. Although obviously written for PhD-writers, many things could be useful for all other shapes of academic writing and discourse.
Finished the Clan Novel Toreador by Stewart Wieck and The Art of Nonfiction by Ayn Rand.
Watched the PhD-Movie and the movie-adaption of Pratchett’s Going Postal. Two incredibly funny movies, go watch them when you have the chance.