The Best End of Year Lists of 2010
Music is extremely important to me but for probably the first time it has been low on the list of priorities for much of this year. I’ve had a lot of other stuff going on. Now I find myself at the end of the year and not having heard half as much of the year’s ...
Scottish Music Sundays: Och the Week
Now that Frankie Boyle has left the TV show of the same name, this is the only Mock the Week worth watching reading, except because it’s Scottish it’s Och The Week – what do you mean it’s offensive and reinforces lame stereotypes? In fact I feel it suggests a kind of bittersweet resignation about ...
Mini blog post about Star Wars mini amigurumi
My girlfriend is into her craft stuff and found these cool Star Wars mini amigurumi created by Lucy Ravenscar who can be found at: http://lucyravenscar.blogspot.com/ Excellent work Lucy!
Wired Magazine (US) preview their iPad app
This isn’t fanboy stuff, this is future of journalism/publishing/entertainment stuff. (via Mashable)
Music Video of the Week: Mia Doi Todd (Michel Gondry has done it again)
The trouble with having a ‘music video of the week’ is there’s not always a music video of the week, if you get my drift. However this week is different because there’s the new video from Mumford & Sons as featured below and then there’s this. Almost every music video that Michel Gondry has made ...
Tis The Season of The Lists – Best Albums of 2009 and The Decade
Last year I couldn’t be bothered doing a best albums list, and in a way I was quite right because I discovered a few of my favourite albums of 2008 in the first part of this year, such as Devotion by Beach House and Deerhunter’s Microcastle. I agree to a large extent with Jamie from Conquering ...
Random Reading List – 15 December 2009 (with free Seth Godin e-book)
image via This Isn’t Happiness I’m at danger of adding to the internet echo chamber here but in case you don’t know, Seth Godin is a bestselling author and highly respected blogger who writes about marketing and business, and this week he launched a new free e-book called ‘What Matters Now’. It features 70 thought-provoking ...
Random Reading List – 9 December 2009
A day late, as I had an interview yesterday amongst other things. Anyway, here’s some stuff. 100 Days Projects by People I Know The Pictish Trail has overcome the tonsil troubles which threatened to derail his project to record a song a day – and he’s recorded some interesting stuff including a wicked little rap called ...
The Cope Smokes Dope?: Withered Hand get weirdest review yet
Clearly I have gone wrong with my writing style. From now on I will be including a bizarre mixture of praise and personal abuse in each review. Or maybe you have to be arch-drude/nutjob Julian Cope to get away with that kind of thing. This review of Withered Hand by Cope is probably the strangest ...