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This lad is trying to get his personal posessions down to 100 Things. I was thinking about trying the same thing, with an “excluding Books/CDs/DVDs” caveat, but I’m not sure it’d be that hard. I might list 100 possessions, and see if I think I could cope.
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Somebody somewhere is writing this paring right now. I can only hope that they do, and then Ryan’s prediction comes true.
Author: Alasdair
Links For Monday 16th June 2008
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Copright-violation-tastic, but still: the complete text of Alan Moore’s performance piece. Worth a read, and I’ll probably find it handy to refer to, but if you can get hold of the CD, that’s much better.
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This, and the next one, particularly need to be heard to get them right – they’re very rhythmic pieces and the formatting on these does them no favours at all. Still, handy reference if I need to quote them at some point.
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It’s a dreadful armpit of a place, is Highbury. But scratch the surface…
Do I?
I have decided I would like to go see a film this afternoon.
Should I:
- Go see Hulk?
- Go see Iron Man again?
Prace bets now!
Links For Sunday 15th June 2008
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If you can listen to this, and not be moved, not understand why he was irreplacable, then you are not human and I would thank you to leave the planet at once. (Link good for seven days. Use it. Yes, you.)
Links For Friday 13th June 2008
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Obvious gag, I guess, but I still laughed at this review.
Change Of Format
I don’t imagine anyone’s likely to care, but I’m in the process of giving my not-a-fucking-moblog-honest, Dead Air a wash and brush up. Well, brush down, perhaps – stripping out the visual clutter, giving the photos a little more room, and opening it up to non-landscape-format photos. I did try setting it on a white background, to be in line with every other blog I run, but decided that the black-and-whites I’ve been running on it look better on the black.
I’m contemplating starting to run colour photos on there – it wouldn’t be hard to set the script I use to post from my phone to understand different processing rules based on email subject line. I’d be interested in people’s opinions – should I stick to B&W for now? I’m already expanding the format a bit to allow portraits, should I leave it at that, or throw it wide open?
It’s That Time of Year Again
Them as have been round these parts a while may be fed of of my more-or-less yearly exhortations to everyone to go see Jason Webley. Tough.
For the rest of you: He’s a very nice, and more importantly, very talented chap, who deserves to be rich and famous. If you like Tom Waits, or Kurt Weil, or klezma, or that sort of cabaret-type-thing, you will like him.
Also, Neil Gaiman likes him, for the goth and comic nerds in the audience. And Amanda Palmer out of the Dresden Dolls did a single with him. If you go see him now, you can claim to have seen him before he got big. It’s clearly only a matter of time.
He’s playing again, in Camden on the 17th (next Tuesday) and Brighton on the 20th. I can’t do Brighton, since I am seeing My Bloody Valentine that night, but does anyone fancy the Tuesday show?
Links For Thursday 12th June 2008
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These are beautiful, amd several of them are even practical. Someone get me a set at once.
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Well fuck me running. A Tory MP has done something that means I’d vote for him like a shot, if given a chance. Well done, David Davis. I may disagree with most of his party’s platform, but on this I agree entirely, and I applaud the bold move.
Little Brother
It’ll get posted as a link later in the day anyway, but I just finished reading Little Brother, Cory Doctorow’s new YA novel at lunch, and wanted to recommend it very strongly to, well, everyone. It’s an absolutely brilliant stealth primer on the issues surrounding on-line privacy and civil liberties, as well as being a entertaining read. It’s a YA novel, so it reads at a terrifying pace – I think it took me a hair under two hours to read cover to cover – but there’s quite a lot of information in there, disguised as a ten-seconds-in-the-future yarn about what happens when Homeland Security fuck with the wrong teenager.
Yes, surveillance, civil liberties, e-privacy and so on will be familiar hobby horses to anyone who’s read Doctorow’s stuff on BoingBoing or in the media, but this is the first time he’s come out with a book aimed so squarely at them, and his passion for the subjects clearly drives him without it ever feeling preachy.
You can get the book for free in a variety of formats, and it will amply reward time invested in it. Highly recommended.
Idle Question
This may all come to naught, but I’m just wondering: while I know I have a number of friends in what I might charitably call “the largely irrelevant bit outside the M25” (Who, me? Parochial?), I’m just wondering: do I know anyone in (or in easily commutable distance of) Leeds? And importantly, is there anyone of that parish who might be able to put me up for a night or two later in the year?