YouTube
Friday, February 10th 2006
Youtube is a great site. No doubt it's clogged with rubbish of people jumping around their bedrooms acting like idiots but there is also a wealth of fantastic stuff not least the music related stuff that people have uploaded. Sooooo many amazing clips.
I've been marvelling at Prince again recently. Pretty much a daily task. He was on Saturday Night Live last Saturday and just owned that stage with a version of a new song called 'Fury'. The song was pretty good but the performance just ruled and the backing vocalists with their synchronised dance routines looked really cool too. He's starting to look his age and he's not at the cutting edge as he once was but he's still too cool for school.
I'm not going to post that performance though, I'm going to post something else (if it works)and that's his performance on While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame a couple of years ago. It starts off with the same band as performed at Concert For George at the Royal Albert Hall - Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Dhani Harrison etc and it sounds great, then there's a grin from Dhani H and the man in the hat who'd been hiding at the side comes front of stage and just takes over. This is a man who can play guitar! Looks good in a hat too...
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Muffin
Tuesday, February 7th 2006
Of all the things I expect to be wiping from the toilet seat before sitting down chocolate muffin crumbs is not one of them.
What possesses someone to buy a chocolate muffin and then to decide to sit in a public toilet with the lid up and eat it leaving crumbs on the seat and the empty paper case floating in the toilet water?
I mean were they sitting with their trousers round their ankles while doing this or would that have been to unhygienic and disgusting?
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Sitcom
Friday, February 3rd 2006
Golden age of sitcom, my arse.
First Hyperdrive fouls up our screen and bleeds away some of the good will that Nick Frost had built up from previous projects and now after Nathan Barley Chris Morris loses some of his cred with his appearance in the painfully bad The IT Crowd. It took all my good natured tolerance to watch past the first 10 minutes just so I could say I gave it a fair chance.
I know what you're going to say, it's the first episode give it another chance. Well sorry but I gave it one full episode and a quick glance at episode two and I just can't takes no more.
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Switch
Friday, February 3rd 2006
Finally I got around to cancelling my Amazon DVD rental account. Like many who sign up for similar deals and start with good intentions of watching lots of films I had stopped watching any at all. I find it hard to find at least 2 hours regularly in an evening where I have the time and energy to watch a full film. So off it went and instead I have diverted the monthly fee to Emusic where I might actually get my money's worth.
I've been thinking about it for quite a while and the joining offer of 100 free songs was just too good to pass up. I've been hunting through their catalogue and I think there's plenty there to keep me interested for quite a while. It's roughly £8 for 65 songs a month and there is no DRM on the files so that's pretty good. There's no major label stuff on there it's all indie but when that includes Sufjan Stevens, Cat Power, Devendra Banhart, The Decemberists Teenage Fanclub, Posies, Belle and Sebastian, Pixies, Go-Betweens, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Sloan, Spoon, lots of 4AD and Cherry Red artists etc etc etc then the lack of major label input is no loss.
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