Genuinely the best website I have found all year.
Blogotheque - The Take Away Show
Sessions of Bands and artists playing in obscure places across Paris; some playing whilst walking along a street, another in a lift, in the metro, on the back of a pick up truck... and the music selection is top notch; Arcade Fire to Yeasayer to Of Montreal to Andrew Bird.
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Monday, 13 October 2008
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Well what do you know
Ironic I should do anothr post already. Anyways, I must be getting myspace withdrawl syndrome, Im doing one of those annoying quizzes people post as bulletins. So, Music quiz
1. Of all the bands/artists in your cd/record collection, which one do you own the most albums by?
I have 4 Pixies and 4 Radiohead on the download. Hard copies? Muse wins with 3, probably joint with a couple of others. Also I have 5 REM on old skool casette, plus 2 CDs.
2. What was the last song you listened to?
Soma - Smashing Pumpkins is playing atm
3. What’s in your record/cd player right now?
Crystal Castles
4. What song would you say sums you up?
Creep - Radiohead.
Hurhur. (That was a joke)
5. What’s your favorite local band?
Enter Shikari come from the next town over so I'll go with them.
6. What was the last show you attended?
Reading Festival? Actual gig - Reel Big Fish
7. What was the greatest show you’ve ever been to?
Rage at Reading were quite insane
8. What’s the worst band you’ve ever seen in concert?
I usually have problems with dull crowds rather than dull bands. CSS and Snow patrol both suffered.
9. What band do you love musically but hate the members of?
Id say Razorlight as Jonny Borrell's a wanker
But then they're shit anyways
11. What show are you looking forward to?
Nout, Im conserving money for various holidays at the moment
12. What is your favorite band shirt?
My Biffy Clyro one :D
Also Im quite partial to my REM one - good memories
13. What musician would you like to hang out with for a day?
Scroobius Pip sounds like a bit of a laugh. But probably Dev Hynes (Lightspeed champion, Test Icicles)
14. What musician would you like to be in love with for a day?
Lovefoxx
15. Metal question: Jeans and Leather vs. Cracker Jack clothes?
Lack of knowledge of the nature of these ‘Cracker Jack’ clothes prevents me from answering this question.
^^ What he said
16. Sabbath or solo Ozzy?
Neither appeal much
17. Commodores or solo Lionel Ritchie?
And again
18. Punk rock, hip hop or heavy metal?
Probably punk rock. Metal has it's moments though
19. Doesn’t Primus suck?
Probably
20. Name 4 flawless albums:
Doolittle - Pixies
In the Aeroplane over the sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party (Yes, problem?)
In Rainbows - Radiohead
21. Did you know that filling out this survey makes you a music geek?
I do and I am proud
22. What was the greatest decade for music?
It's all happening at the moment.
23. How many music-related videos/dvds do you own?
Not many. 5ish, I would guess.
24. Do you like Journey?
Can't say I do
25. Don’t try to pretend you don’t!
Ok I lied I haven't head of them
26. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
Fight Club is pretty good for that (Dust Brothers + Pixies = Bliss)
And Juno is nice
Oh and American Beauty! Spacey singing along to American Beauty = genius
27. What was your last musical ‘phase’ before you wised up?
I had a massive Panic at the disco phase. Still top of my lastfm :/
28. What’s the crappiest CD/record/etc. you’ve ever bought?
I started pretty wank by buying Garath Gates when I was about 10
29. Do you prefer vinyl or CDs?
CDs. Vinyls are before my time.
1. Of all the bands/artists in your cd/record collection, which one do you own the most albums by?
I have 4 Pixies and 4 Radiohead on the download. Hard copies? Muse wins with 3, probably joint with a couple of others. Also I have 5 REM on old skool casette, plus 2 CDs.
2. What was the last song you listened to?
Soma - Smashing Pumpkins is playing atm
3. What’s in your record/cd player right now?
Crystal Castles
4. What song would you say sums you up?
Creep - Radiohead.
Hurhur. (That was a joke)
5. What’s your favorite local band?
Enter Shikari come from the next town over so I'll go with them.
6. What was the last show you attended?
Reading Festival? Actual gig - Reel Big Fish
7. What was the greatest show you’ve ever been to?
Rage at Reading were quite insane
8. What’s the worst band you’ve ever seen in concert?
I usually have problems with dull crowds rather than dull bands. CSS and Snow patrol both suffered.
9. What band do you love musically but hate the members of?
Id say Razorlight as Jonny Borrell's a wanker
But then they're shit anyways
11. What show are you looking forward to?
Nout, Im conserving money for various holidays at the moment
12. What is your favorite band shirt?
My Biffy Clyro one :D
Also Im quite partial to my REM one - good memories
13. What musician would you like to hang out with for a day?
Scroobius Pip sounds like a bit of a laugh. But probably Dev Hynes (Lightspeed champion, Test Icicles)
14. What musician would you like to be in love with for a day?
Lovefoxx
15. Metal question: Jeans and Leather vs. Cracker Jack clothes?
Lack of knowledge of the nature of these ‘Cracker Jack’ clothes prevents me from answering this question.
^^ What he said
16. Sabbath or solo Ozzy?
Neither appeal much
17. Commodores or solo Lionel Ritchie?
And again
18. Punk rock, hip hop or heavy metal?
Probably punk rock. Metal has it's moments though
19. Doesn’t Primus suck?
Probably
20. Name 4 flawless albums:
Doolittle - Pixies
In the Aeroplane over the sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party (Yes, problem?)
In Rainbows - Radiohead
21. Did you know that filling out this survey makes you a music geek?
I do and I am proud
22. What was the greatest decade for music?
It's all happening at the moment.
23. How many music-related videos/dvds do you own?
Not many. 5ish, I would guess.
24. Do you like Journey?
Can't say I do
25. Don’t try to pretend you don’t!
Ok I lied I haven't head of them
26. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
Fight Club is pretty good for that (Dust Brothers + Pixies = Bliss)
And Juno is nice
Oh and American Beauty! Spacey singing along to American Beauty = genius
27. What was your last musical ‘phase’ before you wised up?
I had a massive Panic at the disco phase. Still top of my lastfm :/
28. What’s the crappiest CD/record/etc. you’ve ever bought?
I started pretty wank by buying Garath Gates when I was about 10
29. Do you prefer vinyl or CDs?
CDs. Vinyls are before my time.
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
THE Reading Festival 2008 Review
It's that time of year where the festivals are all ending, and we have to readjust to the horrors of everyday life. This being the first festival in which I'd actually camped over the whole weekend, I can safely say that I now realise camping is half of the fun of it all. A great, friendly atmosphere meant that hour long chats with random people were far from impossible, and many a friend were made.
The bands of the weekend
1 - Biffy Clyro - Blessed with one of the best crowds of the weekend, a topless trio blasted through a phenomenal set packed with energy from the openening Saturday Superhouse to the end. One of the few times where moshing was genuinely great fun and not just insanely painful cramped and pushy, the set became my highlight of Reading 08.
2 - Rage Against the Machine - Undoubtedly the most highly anticipated set of the festival, what with Bulls on Parade being blasted from sound systems of punters around the campsite, and chants of 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me' whenever groups were ordered to put out their fires, it was pretty clear that the band weren't set to disappoint from the moment they appeared, dressed in Guantanamo Bay clothes, and bag's over their heads, and launching into a flawless performance of Bombtrack. The set was relentless and the energy didn't let up; Zach de la Rocha bouncing around the stage and Morello unleashing some awe inspiring guitar riffing, which climaxed in mass moshing and chanting to Killing in the Name Of. It was hard to see how Saturday and Sunday could live up to such a blinding first day.
3 - Does it Offend You, Yeah? - Playing a slot before Rage at the Festival Republic stage, the local band's electronic sounds got the crowd moving and the songs really came into their own live. Annoyingly we had to leave early to catch Rage but they warmed us up for the headliners nicely.
4 - Pendulum - Even before the band had begun, the NME stage was well and truly packed out; not helped by the cancellation of slipknot, who were due to play on the main stage at the same time. Scenes of mass jumping barrier jumping to escape the intensely packed crowd followed, but those who persevered were rewarded with a high octane set from the Aussie D'n'B / Rock band.
5 - Hadouken - Their charismatic frontman, along with with the fact that you could actually make out what he was saying and a great crowd meant that new life was breathed into tracks from what to me seemed like a pretty poor Music For an Accelerated Culture. Surprisingly good stuff.
Oh and I'm told by my friends that Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip and Babyshambles were both similarly great - though clashing with Rage I couldn't go see them...
Top Random Sights Spotted
• Man wearing a gasmask when he went to the toilet
• Random dudes doing a limbo chain using gaffa tape in the walkway (We then had a long ol' chat with them)
• Man dressed up in that Borat outifit
• People moving along a path inside their tent, rolling it along like some sort of freakish hamster wheel
• Lightsaber duelists
• A 'Stereo Battle' when two groups with portable stereos met in the path late at night
Other Bands of Note
1 - Lightspeed Champion - Good chillout band that seemed to spread happiness to the festival. It was hard not to raise a smile at the Star Wars theme being mixed into the epic Midnight Surprise, and Dev makes a great frontman.
2 - Killers - Despite it seeming like I'd heard the entire set the year before, watching the band headline Glastonbury, and despite tales of poor sound issues plaguing the performance from those stood further back, the Las Vegas band played a pretty good set and a couple of new songs.
3 - Yeasayer - Coming on late due to sound issues, the band eventually came on to play a shortened but enjoyable set that included 2080 and Sunrise
4 - Santogold - Enjoyable performance from the strange sounds of Santogold and her freaky dancers. Arguably Les Artists stands head and shoulders above her other tracks live though.
5 - Flogging Molly - Playing a packed out Lock Up tent, one of the few bands I saw who I knew nothing about turned out to be great fun, with their brand of Irish Punk Rock inspiring moshing as far back as outside the tent.
6 - Justice - Starting out with a couple of poorer album tracks, the band soon up-ed the game with crowd pleasers D.A.N.C.E and lastly their remix of Simian's We Are Your Friends. Only fails to be classed as a highlight because of some wanker in front of me who thought that it'd be really great to blow on her foghorn every few seconds. Didn't exactly make listening the most pleasurable experience.
Disappointments
1 - Justice running on late and causing me to miss nearly all of the Bloc Party set (Which apparently wasn't that good anyway)
2 - MGMT being far too packed to enjoy, shoving and pushing as opposed to dancing or moshing meant we decided to escape to outside after the opener, Electic Feel.
3 - Dirty Pretty Things having surely the worst crowd of the festival, refusing to join in even in a pretty-good rendition of Nirvana's In Bloom. Perhaps Carl could have helped by sticking in a Libertines track or two to get a singsong going?
Stuff I've heard of and wished I'd witnessed
• Insanely big piss take mosh pits & Wall of Death's at the worst-band-of-the-weekend The Plain White T's (See below)
• Gladiator style
• People slashing abandoned tents by the road, hiding in them, and jumping out of them to scare people.
• Everyone thinking the Foo Fighter's were doing a secret gig disguised as a band called the FF's, and a random crappy band turning up and getting booed off the stage.
All in all the festival was brilliant, and the urge to be back there right now is massive. With Glastonbury apparently on the way down, with poor ticket sales this year, and sound issues the last, it looks as if Reading and Leeds are becoming the festivals of the country, arguably of the world, and If I wasn't so broke from this years, my ticket for 2009 would already be purchased.
The bands of the weekend
1 - Biffy Clyro - Blessed with one of the best crowds of the weekend, a topless trio blasted through a phenomenal set packed with energy from the openening Saturday Superhouse to the end. One of the few times where moshing was genuinely great fun and not just insanely painful cramped and pushy, the set became my highlight of Reading 08.
2 - Rage Against the Machine - Undoubtedly the most highly anticipated set of the festival, what with Bulls on Parade being blasted from sound systems of punters around the campsite, and chants of 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me' whenever groups were ordered to put out their fires, it was pretty clear that the band weren't set to disappoint from the moment they appeared, dressed in Guantanamo Bay clothes, and bag's over their heads, and launching into a flawless performance of Bombtrack. The set was relentless and the energy didn't let up; Zach de la Rocha bouncing around the stage and Morello unleashing some awe inspiring guitar riffing, which climaxed in mass moshing and chanting to Killing in the Name Of. It was hard to see how Saturday and Sunday could live up to such a blinding first day.
3 - Does it Offend You, Yeah? - Playing a slot before Rage at the Festival Republic stage, the local band's electronic sounds got the crowd moving and the songs really came into their own live. Annoyingly we had to leave early to catch Rage but they warmed us up for the headliners nicely.
4 - Pendulum - Even before the band had begun, the NME stage was well and truly packed out; not helped by the cancellation of slipknot, who were due to play on the main stage at the same time. Scenes of mass jumping barrier jumping to escape the intensely packed crowd followed, but those who persevered were rewarded with a high octane set from the Aussie D'n'B / Rock band.
5 - Hadouken - Their charismatic frontman, along with with the fact that you could actually make out what he was saying and a great crowd meant that new life was breathed into tracks from what to me seemed like a pretty poor Music For an Accelerated Culture. Surprisingly good stuff.
Oh and I'm told by my friends that Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip and Babyshambles were both similarly great - though clashing with Rage I couldn't go see them...
Top Random Sights Spotted
• Man wearing a gasmask when he went to the toilet
• Random dudes doing a limbo chain using gaffa tape in the walkway (We then had a long ol' chat with them)
• Man dressed up in that Borat outifit
• People moving along a path inside their tent, rolling it along like some sort of freakish hamster wheel
• Lightsaber duelists
• A 'Stereo Battle' when two groups with portable stereos met in the path late at night
Other Bands of Note
1 - Lightspeed Champion - Good chillout band that seemed to spread happiness to the festival. It was hard not to raise a smile at the Star Wars theme being mixed into the epic Midnight Surprise, and Dev makes a great frontman.
2 - Killers - Despite it seeming like I'd heard the entire set the year before, watching the band headline Glastonbury, and despite tales of poor sound issues plaguing the performance from those stood further back, the Las Vegas band played a pretty good set and a couple of new songs.
3 - Yeasayer - Coming on late due to sound issues, the band eventually came on to play a shortened but enjoyable set that included 2080 and Sunrise
4 - Santogold - Enjoyable performance from the strange sounds of Santogold and her freaky dancers. Arguably Les Artists stands head and shoulders above her other tracks live though.
5 - Flogging Molly - Playing a packed out Lock Up tent, one of the few bands I saw who I knew nothing about turned out to be great fun, with their brand of Irish Punk Rock inspiring moshing as far back as outside the tent.
6 - Justice - Starting out with a couple of poorer album tracks, the band soon up-ed the game with crowd pleasers D.A.N.C.E and lastly their remix of Simian's We Are Your Friends. Only fails to be classed as a highlight because of some wanker in front of me who thought that it'd be really great to blow on her foghorn every few seconds. Didn't exactly make listening the most pleasurable experience.
Disappointments
1 - Justice running on late and causing me to miss nearly all of the Bloc Party set (Which apparently wasn't that good anyway)
2 - MGMT being far too packed to enjoy, shoving and pushing as opposed to dancing or moshing meant we decided to escape to outside after the opener, Electic Feel.
3 - Dirty Pretty Things having surely the worst crowd of the festival, refusing to join in even in a pretty-good rendition of Nirvana's In Bloom. Perhaps Carl could have helped by sticking in a Libertines track or two to get a singsong going?
Stuff I've heard of and wished I'd witnessed
• Insanely big piss take mosh pits & Wall of Death's at the worst-band-of-the-weekend The Plain White T's (See below)
• Gladiator style
• People slashing abandoned tents by the road, hiding in them, and jumping out of them to scare people.
• Everyone thinking the Foo Fighter's were doing a secret gig disguised as a band called the FF's, and a random crappy band turning up and getting booed off the stage.
All in all the festival was brilliant, and the urge to be back there right now is massive. With Glastonbury apparently on the way down, with poor ticket sales this year, and sound issues the last, it looks as if Reading and Leeds are becoming the festivals of the country, arguably of the world, and If I wasn't so broke from this years, my ticket for 2009 would already be purchased.
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
I'm Back! (Again)
So, as once again I'd forgotten to say I was taking a brake from the blog, I was at Reading festival the last few days, and it was perhaps the best weekend of my life thus far. I'll blog it properly another day.
Meanwhile, try this thing
http://www.findyourtribe.co.uk/
From the looks of it, it appeared to be pretty good, but then the results are pretty wank.
Apparently I'm 'PC World' 'With Signs of being a Trendy'. I guess I answered too honestly. Just because I know how to use a computer, use facebook, and have this blog doesn't mean I don't value 'human interaction' and in fact haven't 'not left your room for a week or so'. Add to that I've never dated someone met online, very rarely buy things online, and only watch tv only cause our tv sucks and you're left with a big pile of fail.
Meanwhile, try this thing
http://www.findyourtribe.co.uk/
From the looks of it, it appeared to be pretty good, but then the results are pretty wank.
Apparently I'm 'PC World' 'With Signs of being a Trendy'. I guess I answered too honestly. Just because I know how to use a computer, use facebook, and have this blog doesn't mean I don't value 'human interaction' and in fact haven't 'not left your room for a week or so'. Add to that I've never dated someone met online, very rarely buy things online, and only watch tv only cause our tv sucks and you're left with a big pile of fail.
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Since this time last week I have:
- Finished one good book and one meh book. I think I'll do a book post next, once i finish my current one. Try and bring in the bookworms to this blog.
- Found out the (I think, now) final lineup of Reading 2008, as the last stage (new bands tent) was added. It's abit meh, considering that one of the only bands i'm interested in (Dan le Sac vs Scoobius Pip) clash with Rage Against the Machine AND Babyshambles. One of their songs below. It's fookin brilliant.
That said, Does it Offend You, Yeah? Have been added to the bill :D Which Im fuckin' psyched about.... they look mentally awesome live. Video below
- Decided that Jay Z actually isn't too bad, and was certainly the best headliner at a (pretty poor) Glastonbury festival. Not like I watched or anything, it was on TV.
- Finally buckled and started watching Skins from the start, season one.
- Had my first gay experience, which was interesting, but certainly not something id like to repeat.*
- Wasted alot of time on... ahh shit i've forgotten the name of the site. Fun games though. I'll edit this post when me friend reminds me of the address...
*I should point out at this point that it was to see two girls kiss, so it was worth it, probably.
- Finished one good book and one meh book. I think I'll do a book post next, once i finish my current one. Try and bring in the bookworms to this blog.
- Found out the (I think, now) final lineup of Reading 2008, as the last stage (new bands tent) was added. It's abit meh, considering that one of the only bands i'm interested in (Dan le Sac vs Scoobius Pip) clash with Rage Against the Machine AND Babyshambles. One of their songs below. It's fookin brilliant.
That said, Does it Offend You, Yeah? Have been added to the bill :D Which Im fuckin' psyched about.... they look mentally awesome live. Video below
- Decided that Jay Z actually isn't too bad, and was certainly the best headliner at a (pretty poor) Glastonbury festival. Not like I watched or anything, it was on TV.
- Finally buckled and started watching Skins from the start, season one.
- Had my first gay experience, which was interesting, but certainly not something id like to repeat.*
- Wasted alot of time on... ahh shit i've forgotten the name of the site. Fun games though. I'll edit this post when me friend reminds me of the address...
*I should point out at this point that it was to see two girls kiss, so it was worth it, probably.
Monday, 14 April 2008
Actually scratch that...
Much more cool,
Coolness :D
I can almost taste the joys of mixtapes...
http://www.mixwit.com/widgets/a53c3df9315770e700919124789bc535
Coolness :D
I can almost taste the joys of mixtapes...
http://www.mixwit.com/widgets/a53c3df9315770e700919124789bc535
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Linkdump 3
- http://www.black20.com/black20-trailer-park/tetris-movie - Tetris, The Movie. Id go see it
- http://uk.movies.ign.com/dor/articles/863515/legend-of-zelda-movie-trailer/videos/legendofzelda_filmtrailer_040108.html;jsessionid=l9wekbkwtir2 - Zelda, the Movie. I wouldn't go see it. Happily it doesn't exist.
- Typography = Awesome (See below)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker - Read up on his column for the Guardian (British newspaper). He is most amusing, despite his apparent dislike for macs or my phone. That said, my phone - Samsung e900 if you're wodering - is pretty shit, with touch screen buttons that, to quote Brooker, 'either refuse to work, or leap into action if you breathe on them'
- http://www.piterwilson-toys.com/wcsmt/ - A nice, easy amusing way of making short stop motion animation, hosted as gifs. Id paste a couple of my efforts but i like to retain some sense of anonymity blogging.
- i ordered a friend to do some photoshopping for me, which i then colour adjusted a little with the mac preview thing. Anyway its a page for my sketchbook but i thought it looked pretty cool so im pasting it below.
- http://www.jmtb02.com/flash/compulse.htm - COMPULSE - Brilliant flash game. Good for chillaxing with its serene music. And it saves your progress for added cool points
- And did i mention already? Typography = awesome. Tenacious D - Inward singing.
YOU CREATE SOMETHING!
YOU FUCKING SIT IN YOUR FUCKING TOWER!
- Battlestar Galactica is pretty darned good
Ok im guna stop before i post about 20 of these
- http://uk.movies.ign.com/dor/articles/863515/legend-of-zelda-movie-trailer/videos/legendofzelda_filmtrailer_040108.html;jsessionid=l9wekbkwtir2 - Zelda, the Movie. I wouldn't go see it. Happily it doesn't exist.
- Typography = Awesome (See below)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker - Read up on his column for the Guardian (British newspaper). He is most amusing, despite his apparent dislike for macs or my phone. That said, my phone - Samsung e900 if you're wodering - is pretty shit, with touch screen buttons that, to quote Brooker, 'either refuse to work, or leap into action if you breathe on them'
- http://www.piterwilson-toys.com/wcsmt/ - A nice, easy amusing way of making short stop motion animation, hosted as gifs. Id paste a couple of my efforts but i like to retain some sense of anonymity blogging.
- i ordered a friend to do some photoshopping for me, which i then colour adjusted a little with the mac preview thing. Anyway its a page for my sketchbook but i thought it looked pretty cool so im pasting it below.
- http://www.jmtb02.com/flash/compulse.htm - COMPULSE - Brilliant flash game. Good for chillaxing with its serene music. And it saves your progress for added cool points
- And did i mention already? Typography = awesome. Tenacious D - Inward singing.
YOU CREATE SOMETHING!
YOU FUCKING SIT IN YOUR FUCKING TOWER!
- Battlestar Galactica is pretty darned good
Ok im guna stop before i post about 20 of these
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Reading Festival Lineup 2008
Ahhh Reading... *has tickets*
Lineup^^
Doesn't it just look fucking... godly??
The only trouble is the RATM / Babyshambles clash
Babyshambles - One of my favorite bands, and has Pete Doherty for bonus points*
RATM - I would imagine, incredible live
Tricky decision.
*might not actually turn up
Lineup^^
Doesn't it just look fucking... godly??
The only trouble is the RATM / Babyshambles clash
Babyshambles - One of my favorite bands, and has Pete Doherty for bonus points*
RATM - I would imagine, incredible live
Tricky decision.
*might not actually turn up
Friday, 29 February 2008
I summarize the week... again...
...'cause it's easier than doing proper entrys
What i have learnt this week
- N+ is good, nay, even better than i thought it was. Its also fucking frustrating but there we go. Coop and Online coop are brilliance, if only cause you don't have to play with wanker 11 year old kids. They're all too busy playing Halo and COD4 and Halo. Anyway i've been spending about all my free time on it and i suggest you do too.
- The Big Lebowski is still within my top 5 films, having been on tv recently.
This guy seems to agree
Can't figure out if he's a cringing cock or an amusing review man.
- Charlie Brooker is a God (his articles in G2 are most amusing)
- Devonte Hynes is also some kind of god, having listened to his album 'Falling off the Lavender Bridge' and then the various songs i have downloaded from his earlier band Test Icicles (Harhar) for about all of this week
- Thats apart from when i've been listening to the Juno OST, which is FANTASTIC. I havn't even seen the godamn film yet but the soundtrack is just so.... so good that i've listened at least 20 times in the last week... Kimya Dawson is some kind of Goddess
- Lost really is a phenomenal program, with an episode this week which was without a doubt the greatest episode of anything, ever™. Ingenious storyline - if somewhat pointless in the grand scheme of things - all very exciting, and happily not starring boring characters like kate, or kate.
Unrelated to this weeks episode, here are two ways i can see the flashforwards panning out
1 - They pull a heroes, except worse, and at the last minute jack does something differntly on island which mean that the flashforwards never happen, and we've wasted hours watching them
2 - The whole time fluxuation-thing will mean that at the end of the flashforwards, jack and co will go back to the island, but for the islanders, barely any time will have passed.
3 - A third, more clever option that i haven't thought of.
Lets hope for the later.
Also, it's 24th december - could mean the tsunami's gunna hit in 2 days.... o.O Kewlness
Oh and, nearly forgot this,
What i have learnt this week
- N+ is good, nay, even better than i thought it was. Its also fucking frustrating but there we go. Coop and Online coop are brilliance, if only cause you don't have to play with wanker 11 year old kids. They're all too busy playing Halo and COD4 and Halo. Anyway i've been spending about all my free time on it and i suggest you do too.
- The Big Lebowski is still within my top 5 films, having been on tv recently.
This guy seems to agree
Can't figure out if he's a cringing cock or an amusing review man.
- Charlie Brooker is a God (his articles in G2 are most amusing)
- Devonte Hynes is also some kind of god, having listened to his album 'Falling off the Lavender Bridge' and then the various songs i have downloaded from his earlier band Test Icicles (Harhar) for about all of this week
- Thats apart from when i've been listening to the Juno OST, which is FANTASTIC. I havn't even seen the godamn film yet but the soundtrack is just so.... so good that i've listened at least 20 times in the last week... Kimya Dawson is some kind of Goddess
- Lost really is a phenomenal program, with an episode this week which was without a doubt the greatest episode of anything, ever™. Ingenious storyline - if somewhat pointless in the grand scheme of things - all very exciting, and happily not starring boring characters like kate, or kate.
Unrelated to this weeks episode, here are two ways i can see the flashforwards panning out
1 - They pull a heroes, except worse, and at the last minute jack does something differntly on island which mean that the flashforwards never happen, and we've wasted hours watching them
2 - The whole time fluxuation-thing will mean that at the end of the flashforwards, jack and co will go back to the island, but for the islanders, barely any time will have passed.
3 - A third, more clever option that i haven't thought of.
Lets hope for the later.
Also, it's 24th december - could mean the tsunami's gunna hit in 2 days.... o.O Kewlness
Oh and, nearly forgot this,
Friday, 22 February 2008
I summarize the week
- N+ (aka xbla version on N game (make sure you download it for free by the way)) is truely as fun as ever. The online is kick ass, and the levels are addictive as ever. Then there's high scores, a level editor.... I've spent more time this year on just the live arcade than i have on my wii... way more
- Noein continues to be awesome
- Lost, on the other hand, does not, with a slightly dull episode about kate and her baby-stealing antics. Not enough of the god that is Daniel Faraday. Except he has memory problems, or something.
- The Brits were shits, and i should never watch them ever again. Though i only really tuned in for the last ten minutes, in which i saw Paul McCartney cruise onto the stage for getting his retard award for being a retard, much to the pleasure of the Ozbournes and Kylie minogue*. At this point i practically threw up.... sorry, but im allergic to sell outs. Good on the arctic moneys though... dressed as farmers and insulting the awards ceremony - kick ass
- Music theory can fuck right off
- Leonardo Dicaprioo is making a live action remake of Akira... o.O Yeaahh.... might not have been too bad if it wasn't for the fact that he's doing it. Oh and it's now in 'New Manhattan'. Fuck out.
- Xbox live can fuck right off aswell, as my friends crackdown won't connect, thus rendering the reason i bought my copy useless. I did get a good game with some geek american kid though; were quite fun. And N doesnt seem to want to let me online anymore. By anymore i mean that i got a day of play in before it wanked itself up.
- Facebook doesn't suck so much ass now that i've discovered that you can play Risk on it
*She's not as bad as 'macca' or 'ozzy' mind
- Noein continues to be awesome
- Lost, on the other hand, does not, with a slightly dull episode about kate and her baby-stealing antics. Not enough of the god that is Daniel Faraday. Except he has memory problems, or something.
- The Brits were shits, and i should never watch them ever again. Though i only really tuned in for the last ten minutes, in which i saw Paul McCartney cruise onto the stage for getting his retard award for being a retard, much to the pleasure of the Ozbournes and Kylie minogue*. At this point i practically threw up.... sorry, but im allergic to sell outs. Good on the arctic moneys though... dressed as farmers and insulting the awards ceremony - kick ass
- Music theory can fuck right off
- Leonardo Dicaprioo is making a live action remake of Akira... o.O Yeaahh.... might not have been too bad if it wasn't for the fact that he's doing it. Oh and it's now in 'New Manhattan'. Fuck out.
- Xbox live can fuck right off aswell, as my friends crackdown won't connect, thus rendering the reason i bought my copy useless. I did get a good game with some geek american kid though; were quite fun. And N doesnt seem to want to let me online anymore. By anymore i mean that i got a day of play in before it wanked itself up.
- Facebook doesn't suck so much ass now that i've discovered that you can play Risk on it
*She's not as bad as 'macca' or 'ozzy' mind
Saturday, 3 November 2007
Jazz Punk = awesome
Anyone see Later... last night?
Just me?
Oh right, thats cause im talking to meself.
Well anyways there was this band, Soil and "Pimp" Sessions were playing. They were the best thing on the program byt far, and it was amusing to hear their cheer after hard fi's much smaller clap.
Heres the music video with Avalanche
Killer.
Not really sure where people have got Jazz / Punk from though. I see no punk.
Just me?
Oh right, thats cause im talking to meself.
Well anyways there was this band, Soil and "Pimp" Sessions were playing. They were the best thing on the program byt far, and it was amusing to hear their cheer after hard fi's much smaller clap.
Heres the music video with Avalanche
Killer.
Not really sure where people have got Jazz / Punk from though. I see no punk.
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Review - Babyshambles - Shotter's nation
Well, i say i'll do some reviews on here, so why not start with something i really love?
Babyshambles - Shotters Nation
First things first, there are pretty much two people in the world; the type who think Pete Doherty is the idiot junkie ex - boyfriend of kate moss, who gives cocaine to his cat (see here - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a73182/dohertys-pet-cat-took-cocaine.html ) , and the other, more musically knowledgeable ones, who recognise him for his incredible music, in both the Libertines and now the Babyshambles
Suffice to say, i fall into the later group.
The first Babyshambles album, albion, is widely regarded as being an 'unlistenable mess', but i have to say, i quite liked it,and after a few listens, songs like 'La Belle Et La Bete' 'What Katie did next' and 'Albion' being well up there in my favorite songs.
The new Babyshambles effort is certainly alot less sloppy in terms of production, and has as a result become more critically successful. The first single from the album; Delivery, a great heavily Kinks-esque song, sets the album as being a far tighter effort than any of the band's previous work. My initial worry was that this was going to make tha album somehwat generic, dull, boring. After a few listens i was very much reasurred.
The album draws influence from all sorts of bands, if its the Cure on the brilliant 'There She Goes', or hints of britpop in 'Deft Left Hand', giving a varied sound not disimilar to their debut with Albion.
Pete's lyrics are, as standard (if a little egocentric... Don't always have to write about yourself, ya know?') with lines like 'She's far too good looking / to do the cooking' in Baddies Boogie
So, seems Pete's done it again, and this time, the Babyshambles have pleased not only me, but the critics and fans aswell.
9 / 10
Download
- Side of the Road - Baddie's Boogie
- There she goes
& don't forget the very Ska influenced 'I Wish' (Blinding B-side)
Babyshambles - Shotters Nation
First things first, there are pretty much two people in the world; the type who think Pete Doherty is the idiot junkie ex - boyfriend of kate moss, who gives cocaine to his cat (see here - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a73182/dohertys-pet-cat-took-cocaine.html ) , and the other, more musically knowledgeable ones, who recognise him for his incredible music, in both the Libertines and now the Babyshambles
Suffice to say, i fall into the later group.
The first Babyshambles album, albion, is widely regarded as being an 'unlistenable mess', but i have to say, i quite liked it,and after a few listens, songs like 'La Belle Et La Bete' 'What Katie did next' and 'Albion' being well up there in my favorite songs.
The new Babyshambles effort is certainly alot less sloppy in terms of production, and has as a result become more critically successful. The first single from the album; Delivery, a great heavily Kinks-esque song, sets the album as being a far tighter effort than any of the band's previous work. My initial worry was that this was going to make tha album somehwat generic, dull, boring. After a few listens i was very much reasurred.
The album draws influence from all sorts of bands, if its the Cure on the brilliant 'There She Goes', or hints of britpop in 'Deft Left Hand', giving a varied sound not disimilar to their debut with Albion.
Pete's lyrics are, as standard (if a little egocentric... Don't always have to write about yourself, ya know?') with lines like 'She's far too good looking / to do the cooking' in Baddies Boogie
So, seems Pete's done it again, and this time, the Babyshambles have pleased not only me, but the critics and fans aswell.
9 / 10
Download
- Side of the Road - Baddie's Boogie
- There she goes
& don't forget the very Ska influenced 'I Wish' (Blinding B-side)
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