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Maiden Concert
Posted Nov 4, 2000
Just been to see Iron Maiden in concert at the Manchester Evening News arena. Awesome. Halford was supporting and he wasn't half bad either.
Up the Irons!
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Maiden! Maiden!
Posted Jul 7, 2000
Having just bought the latest Iron Maiden album, Brave New World, my interest in this band has totally been revived. The new album is excellent - well above the standard of Somewhere In Time, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, No Prayer for the Dying and the detestable Fear of the Dark.
I've also just bought the albums the band did with singer Blaze Bayley. I'm beginning to love The X Factor - haven't listened to Virtual XI much yet. Until I'm thoroughly familiar with all three albums, though, my "Albums of Iron Maiden" guide entry will remain very much a work-in-progress.
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At this very moment...
Posted Jun 20, 2000
...I'm sitting here writing this Journal Entry, wondering how on Earth I'm going to make it interesting.
I am in the middle of writing a book about the history of life on Earth, with twelve chapters, each corresponding to a geological period (starting with the Precambrian which, yes I know, is not strictly speaking a 'period'). Anyway I've got to the second last chapter (the Tertiary) and am currently researching what was going on in the Palaeocene epoch (the first of five epochs in that period). As you might expect, it largely concerns the radiation and diversification of the mammalian fauna, but it also considers the radiation of birds (particularly the giant predatory land birds like Diatryma) and the ongoing success of crocodiles.
To be honest, there is not a great deal to say about the Palaeocene, at least not in comparison with the action-packed Eocene epoch that followed it (global cooling, appearance of grasses, emergence of a great many bird orders, plus the appearance of whales, bats, elephants, horses, sirenians ... the list goes on).
I'm going to endeavour to avoid the horribly anthropocentric stance taken by most works of this kind. Therefore my last chapter, dealing with the Quaternary period, will be brutally short.
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