Unreliable information since 1972
A personal first – updating from bed, while watching a DVD of CSI. Truly, I am a wifi enabled laptop owner now.
In lieu of anything more useful, then, let my just recommend http://www.imified.com/ – a service that will allow you to do all manner of things via IM. Handy if, like me, you’ve got a chat client running more or less all day.
Various techy things I want to get done in the next few weeks, just so I’ve got a record.
Just a quick heads up:
Jason’s playing in London on the 4th and 7th of March.
He’s at http://www.favelachic.com/ at 9pm on Sunday the 4th. (Nearest tube Old Street.)
He’s at http://www.greennote.co.uk/ in Camden on Wednesday the 7th.
I say this every time, and I’ll do it again: everyone I’ve ever dragged along to see him has had a bloody good time. Almost everyone winds up getting hold of at least one of his CDs.
There are 4 free MP3s by him available here: http://www.elevenrecords.com/free.html
If you’re free either night, then you really should come along.
Just a quick heads up:
Jason’s playing in London on the 4th and 7th of March.
He’s at http://www.favelachic.com/ at 9pm on Sunday the 4th. (Nearest tube Old Street.)
He’s at http://www.greennote.co.uk/ in Camden on Wednesday the 7th.
I say this every time, and I’ll do it again: everyone I’ve ever dragged along to see him has had a bloody good time. Almost everyone winds up getting hold of at least one of his CDs.
There are 4 free MP3s by him available here: http://www.elevenrecords.com/free.html
If you’re free either night, then you really should come along.
This may be taking a risk – historically, Apple machines and I have not been the best of friends. But regardless, I am posting this from my rather lovely new MacBook, and I can already feel that things are going to be different this time.
So, Mac users – what can I not live without installing on this machine?
This week’s book: Wall and Piece
I keep meaning to write something about Banksy for Black Ink, but I haven’t got around to it yet. So, this is his book. Well, you know what to expect. A load of photos of graffiti and other acts of “vandalism”. Some of it is quite witty. Look you know who he is. You either like him, or you don’t. If you like his work, this is a nice book.
This week’s music: Memento Mori by The Bastard Faries
A friend recommended this at the start of the week. It is available in it’s entirety for free at the link above. They sort of feel like what you’d get if you crossed The Paradise Motel with The Dresden Dolls. Yes, I know that almost all of you are saying “who?” to one, if not both of those bands. The deficiency is in you, not me, that’s all I’m saying.
Look, you can get the whole album for free. I think it’s quite good, especially for a free thing. Download it yourself, and make you own mind up.
The branch of Sainsburys local to my work is selling mass produced “wall art” for a fiver a pop. It’s fucking hideous sub-pikea horrorshow stuff.
(Naturally I have bought some. Helpfully, it comes with a large sheet of cardboard. Now all I need is a can of spray paint, and an idea.)
Also inspired by my trip to Sainos: Porn Words
I had a chicken and tomato sandwich for lunch. But this wasn’t just any chicken and tomato sandwich, no. This was “Juicy Pieces of Sunblush ® tomato in a light mayonnaise with succulent slices of chicken, vine ripened tomatoes, spinach and basil on malted bread with seeds”. My sandwich is now being described in the breathy pre-orgasmic tones of an M&S add.
Let’s strip the porn words from that sentence, shall we?
“Juicy pieces of Sunblush ® tomato in a light mayonnaise with succulent slices of chicken, vine ripened tomatoes, spinach and basil on malted bread with seeds”
Or: “Tomato in mayonnaise with chicken, spinach and basil on bread”
One of these accurately describes the sensation what I had. Would you like to guess which? (And frankly, that’s generous.)
Porn Words: Pointless bits of linguistic padding designed to make you feel that an orgasm is in the offing.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
(OK, my first answer is “a lawyer” but let’s pretend that that’s not true, shall we?)
I have just bought Australian Wine from a German website, to be shipped to the UK, and paid in dollars.
On the bright side, I paid in dollars, so it was cheap.
Running a little late here, so a couple of very short reviews for last week’s stuff.
This week’s book(s): Still Life
Donelly does a sort of celtic horror – the stories are generally set in Scotland, and rooted in (heavily fictionalised) myths and legends about ancient Druids and witchcraft. I still think his first book, Bane, that I read many years ago, is his best, but these three did manage to keep me nicely entertained for a week or so. While his books have common elements – he’s particularly fond of slapping a love story into them, and his works do tend to be written from a default position of of Decent Man looking after Capable-But-Still-In-Need-Of-Rescuing Woman – the books are different enough not not feel entirely like you’ve read the same thing from him before.
I would heartily recommend Bane to anyone, and of these three, I think Still Life was the strongest.
This week’s music: A to Z of Classical Music by Various Artists
Nope, still can’t do it. I do like this stuff, but it completely fails to command even a fraction of my attention. Were I buy classical music in a serious manner, I’d need to buy it, and sit doing nothing but listening to it. Which isn’t unreasonable, except that that’s not how I listen to music – I’m almost always doing something else with music playing, but I do like to be aware of the music, and with this, I’m just not – I might as well be sitting silence. Once in a blue moon, I’ll lie in bed and just listen, but even then, I want something that’s not going to let me drift into thinking about other stuff. I feel like a bit of a philistine, but there you go. Anyway, I’ve always got the jazz collection to prove that I do in fact listen to music for grown ups when the mood takes me.