It’s been about two years since I worked on it, but it looks like the Sanctuary Music Licensing website has finally gone live. Not likely to be of much interest to anyone that’s not looking to license music from Sanctuary’s catalogue, but it’s quite a nice little site, with a lot of nifty little features, and well, I’m always happy to have a bit more CV fodder available to the public.
Book And Albums Reviews: Weeks 16-20
No reviews. Too far behind. Just a quick listing to bring me up to the end of this wek, so I can try and get back to things next week.
Books:
Necropolis: London and Its Dead – A history of the what London has done with its dead down the centuries.
Autopsyrotica – Chad Ward is a twisted mind, but his photography is some of my favourite.
Working Stiff – The autobiography of a man who wound up working for Nerve.com as a sexual adventurer,
Powder – fictional rock band story, one from Dave when he moved away.
Albums:
Arcade Fire – Funeral and Arcade Fire – Neon Bible – Late to the party. I did give em a while when everyone was raving about Funeral last year, but wasn’t grabbed. I like them rather more now, and these are definitely growing on me.
Artemis – Undone. Pleasant enough trip hoppy stuff.
Tiger Lillies – Punch and Judy – I like them. Other people find them ear bleeding torture. Obviously, they are wrong.
Un Lun Dun
So, I’m reading Mieville’s latest, a children’s book about two teenage girls who slip into a mirror world occupied by all the lost and broken things of London. So far, it’s excellent. But I just had to share a couple of lines from early in the novel, that made me smile with recognition, the sort of shared opinion that endears me to the work.
“There’s a lot of animals very good at that sort of disinformation. There are no cats in UnLondon, for example, because they’re not magic and mysterious at all, they’re idiots.”
Cycling Help?
Not, y’know, literal help with the actual cycling, obviously. That’d be peculiar. But I know there are a few people around here that take their cycling pretty seriously, and I need a bit of advice.
I’ve just started cycling to work, and the saddle on my bike is, to put it politely, not terribly comfortable. Can anyone point me at a reputable maker of more comfortable saddles? Are there any things I should look out for? What kind of price could I expect to pay? Comfort really is all I’m looking for…
I May Die
So, as everyone knows, I’m allergic to exercise, and possessed of the balancing skills of a penguin with CJD.
So I’ve just signed up for a rollerblading course.
Post-Viral Infection
Well, it turns out that sometimes people do behave in a surprisingly decent and honourable manner. The CEO of BoggleIt.com has stepped in and paid my friend’s fee, after Moodia screwed them.
Diseased Marketing
My absurdly hardworking chum Alex de Campi has just been rather badly shafted my a marketing agency. You can read the full story of how Moodia and BoggleIt.com shafted a bunch of hard working people for yourself.
I personally find this particularly disgusting, because Alex, being the terribly conscientious person that she is, is determined to pay the people she worked with, even though she wasn’t paid herself. To which end she’s selling a prized painting, by one of my favourite artists, Wright of Derby. I can only imagine how heartbreaking that must be. If I could afford the damn thing, I’d buy it myself.
I mention this so that everyone is aware that Moodia are a bunch of cunts, and BoggleIt.com are a shitpot operation that appear to exist only to scam the terminally stupid. It’s among the most contemptible practices of my industry, this notion that it’s OK to not pay freelancers if for some reason, you don’t like their work. I’m pleased to say that I have never, and would never work for someone who did that. If a freelancer does the work, they get the fucking money. If you were worried about the standard of their work, you should not have commissioned them in the first place.
I’m also willing to bet hard cash that Moodia will have charged BoggleIt.com for the “account handling” time incurred in the commerical that they don’t like, and haven’t paid for.
<a href="http://www.alexdecampi.com/2007/04/boggleit-saga-when-in-doubt-shaft">Moodia</a> are a bunch of cunts, and <a href="http://www.alexdecampi.com/2007/04/boggleit-saga-when-in-doubt-shaft">BoggleIt.com</a> are a shitpot operation that appear to exist only to scam the terminally stupid. <a href="http://alexdecampi.livejournal.com/64695.html">Here's the full story about how they shaft talented hardworking freelancers</a>.
That New Computer Smell
We’ve got a new guy starting at work next week. He’s going to inherit my old machine, and I’ve just spent the afternoon setting up my delightful new 20″ iMac. It’s Friday, and we’re all out of here shortly for a pint sitting in the sun my the river.
It’s a rough old life.
Taste of London
Is on again this year. I went last year, it was ace. Details here: http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/T/taste/london.html
ewa and I are planning on going. Anyone else fancy it? Should we try and all pick the same day and time? My preference is for either the Friday evening or Saturday afternoon slot…
Sunshine
Is a bloody good film. I couldn’t stop thinking of a quote from Alan Moore as I was watching it:
“We parade with the magicians on the endless plazas of the sun and watch them trail gem-warted fingers through six-thousand degrees centigrade degrees of photosphere. We walk there at their side, become them are them. Are at last our true and only selves. We flourish, we ignite. And as with each, so with us all. So with our culture and our world where information brinks its saturation threshold, and we all look up in that white moment when the sky unwraps, and the unfiltered truth of us rains blazing down; a searing holy deluge where those parts of us we’ve not yet turned to gold are utterly devoured, are made incinerate.”
That’s Moore talking about heaven. About glory. About the ultimate human achievement. And that’s what the film is about. And Sunshine isn’t perfect, but I love the theme, and I really, really enjoyed it. Seriously, go see it.