Any Major Dude With Half A Heart

Finally at home

Published on 2010-01-19 13:25:00

I have my own domain now. Visit Any Major Dude With Half A Heart atwww.halfhearteddude.comAll archives are there. Don't forget to bookmark www.halfhearteddude.comSee you there.

More migration

Published on 2010-01-16 02:45:00

The URL halfhearteddude.wordpress has been replaced with http://amdwhah.wordpress.com — please change your bookmark, and tell all your friends.RSS Feed: http://amdwhah.wordpress.com/feed/

He's leaving home

Published on 2008-12-12 13:49:00

.As I mentioned earlier, I'm going to leave this arbitrarily post-deleting shithole for a new home at Wordpress. The new URL is:http://halfhearteddude.com (new URL, as of January 2010)Thank you Google for providing me with a free platform, but don't anyone think that Google is a cuddly maverick outfit. Google is one with The Man.Anyway, I haven't figured out how to operate the 301 redirect thing

Top 20 albums of 2008

Published on 2008-12-10 12:22:00

.Everybody's doing it, so I might as well dabble in the conceit that anybody is really interested to know which releases of the year I liked best. I don't think it has been a vintage year for music, or perhaps I have not paid much attention. I've also found myself falling off Planet Indie, so the "singer-songwriters" boss the list. I've put sample tracks into one file, in case somebody is

Elvis movies quiz

Published on 2008-12-04 22:54:00

.What it says in the title... Guess the Elvis movie from the synopsis. Clue: all these movies were made after Elvis served his fatherland. The answers are in the comments section. Not that I'd know any of them. Except two. When Elvis went to Hollywood, he hoped to inherit James Dean's mantle of rebellion. As these questions may suggest, he didn't even inherit Bing Crosby's mantle of casually

Intros Quiz - Classic rock edition

Published on 2008-12-02 23:26:00

.Here is the last intros quiz of the year, this time on the theme of classic rock, covering the period from the late 1960s to 1979. It's pretty easy, I think. In fact, some are so easy, they are bound to insult somebody's intelligence. But the easy ones will make Uncle Fred very happy when you run the intros quiz by him when he comes visiting on Boxing Day. One thing I learned in my brief career

A Renaissance Christmas

Published on 2008-11-30 22:47:00

.I am not in a habit of uploading full albums. There are blogs that specialise in that. So I have ever only posted two albums which are not easy to find (at least if you don't do amazon, which is sticky with deliveries to some countries) and which I think are quite special. One of them was A Renaissance Christmas by the Boston Camerata. Since DivShare wiped out my entire account coinciding with

Revisiting '60s Soul

Published on 2008-11-29 03:27:00

.I don’t think I’ve so much fun putting together an Any Major Mix as I had with this one. So much great music to choose from, so much great music I hadn’t played in a while. As always, the mix is timed to fit on a standard CD-R.This mix is not a representative overview of ’60s soul. Some essential artists are not represented here: Sam Cooke, James Brown, Temptations, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye,

Reflections of my life

Published on 2008-11-23 22:34:00

.Last weekend I was strolling around Cape Town's Waterfront – a brilliant place despite being aggressively touristy around which all kinds of normal harbour functions are taking place – when I passed a structure I have walked by many, many times over the years: a garage type of thing in which is parked a quick response boat run by the National Sea Rescue Institute (although I have lived by the

Yet more '80s soul

Published on 2008-11-20 10:03:00

.I'm not sure whether it is due to popular demand after last week's compilation, but here is a second '80s soul mix, with a third and final installment in the works. The first mix was an attempt to create a fairly representative cross-section of the genre. This mix is less self-conscious about that. What we have here, then, are some of my favourite soul tracks from that comparatively barren