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Mexican Standoff

sam — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:09:32 +0000

Days are happy and spent watching Six Feet Under and thinking about going outside to museums of surgeons but we watch the rain fall instead and it’s much better. I have a new flat in a brilliant location but it doesn’t feel like a home, it feels like a student flat and it’ll take a while to adjust. 47 Arden Street has been awesome and it feels odd saying so because the others seem so adamant the year was just a bit crap really. Whatever. Eh, it would have been great if it wasn’t for people having different agendas.

Two things have happened in the world in the last few days. One involves Japanese people getting carried away with their video games and breaking their arms, the other one of the worst possible ways to die. (‘A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her.‘) :/ :/ :/ :/ :/ :/ :/ :/ :/ :/ :/ :/ :/

I cracked and downloaded the FoFR theme (if only someone would say what FoFR stands for) for foobar and it’s amazing and gorgeous and all this, but it’s not my quaint foobar that can handle several playlists of 15,000 songs and rename and tag and move files and still perform wonderfully. Though it is rather nice to have some glamour to my media player.

An Addiction to Hands and Feet

sam — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:31:05 +0000

Did I ever mention how wonderful Regina Spektor’s voice is? Human of the Year gets more and more powerful everytime I hear it. A morning of concentration and I’m free for summer. The new Wordpress release is nicknamed Getz, in honour of the tenor saxophonist who took every opportunity to chat up any attractive woman around. I suppose you can get away with that when you’re musically genius.

We’ll be poking our toes around Warsaw in twelve days now. I’ll totally use Mogwai song titles for posts along the way – We’re No Here, Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home and A Cheery Wave From Stranded Youngsters are a few (though hopefully not the last, I suppose). Smooth connection: These are some great Mogwai sessions. Download My Father, My King and You Don’t Know Jesus if you only want a taster. I have no idea how long they’ll remain available. And go see them live if you get the chance; I can’t think of any band more intense.

This is pretty astonishing.

A wonderful song

sam — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:36:12 +0000

By Sidsel Endresen and Bugge Wesseltoft, two Norweigan musicians. If you like Portishead, shades of Massive Attack, the trippy side of life, then take a listen. It’s too good not to share.

Chanced upon it on a compilation of Nordic jazz. If you’re subscribed to eMusic the whole album is currently free.

Prog Not Frog

sam — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:30:52 +0000

Found a great blog showcasing some of the best and least appreciated music from around the world .. no idea where the name is from though .. they’ve some great Indian fusion kindofthing made in the seventies, or thereabouts, by an Australian band called Kanguru here, and some great ‘psychedelic afro funk’ (perfect description) by a band called Akido here.

Classing it all as prog is entirely misleading though .. ‘prog’ has so many connotations of ugly bearded men wearing cardigans and flares .. PNF is so much better than that.

–> Prog Not Frog

I’m backin’ the USSR

sam — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:49:26 +0000

Seriously, will anyone ever tell Vladimir Putin their true thoughts on that fruitful democracy of his?

Smooth Russian connection:

Saw Regina Spektor at the Shepherds Bush Empire on the 23rd, she was fantastic. Her songs are full of bizarre scenarios and character profiles and odd happenings and everything fits together so perfectly it’s as if she made no effort at all in writing them.

Baby Jesus, Pound of Flesh and Eight Miles High are my new favourite songs, Baby Jesus is totally awesome for the matter of fact way she states ‘I could -honestly- say I was scared for my life‘ without sounding at all ridiculous .. take a listen – I uploaded a version she sang somewhere in Seattle on May 7th earlier this year, download it here.

She’s very pretty in a bizarre, angular way that doesn’t make complete sense.

We Will Be Pilots

sam — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:43:59 +0000

We Will Be Pilots are offering their first EP This Is What You Fight For for download on their website. It’s really quite good and .. free music! Take a look.