Tag: spin the bottle
Three cheers for Dads’ music tastes
Looking at today’s pop music scene, I reflect that my dad’s music isn’t so bad after all.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Baltasar and Blimunda
Saramago’s breakthrough novel in English, full of contrasts and landscapes but lacking his later spark.
- Originally published: 17 Jan 2010 in Books
Mozart at the Karlskirche
Mozart left his extraordinarily emotive Requiem unfinished when he died and it had to be completed by another composer.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Concerts
Ma Mère
Director: Christophe Honoré France, 2004 Pierre has too much time on his hands. He’s a sullen, truculent, overweaned, morbid youth who spends his inordinate amount of spare time writing miserable prose and pulling faces at his elders. Ma Mère is all about Pierre and it’s as indolent, ignorant and insolent as he is. Based on …
- Originally published: 30 Dec 2006 in Film
St Bernardus 12 Abt
5/5. Peppery and woody with a touch of plums, there’s also plenty of nuts, caramel and even a bit of salty licorice in there.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2010 in Beer
Happy Feet
Arctic penguins have an intolerable enough existence even without being voiced by Robin Williams.
- Originally published: 30 Dec 2006 in Film
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.