Yelle - A cause des garcons
Love this video, great track and crazy tecktonik dancers
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Cat playing a Theramin
Ronseal post, does exactly what it says on the tin.
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and found I rather like it.
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Pimp my Segway
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I’m feeling a bit odd, full of cold or something, and thus a bit out of it. I’ve been passing the time by catching up on a great little web comic, Questionable Content. It’s been going for coming on for five years now I think, and I’ve been reading through the archives to learn just what has been going on. It’s all making even more sense now, but even without doing that, it’s well worth a read.
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Songkick may be worth a look if you want to keep track of your favourite band’s gigs, or see what’s on in your area. They’ve even got a downloadable client which will scan your music collection, and see if any of the bands you have listed are on tour. Nice (except the client doesn’t work in Linux. Makes grumpy geek face).
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Star Wars (Sweded): A Cardboard Hope
Sweding is the process of copying a film by remaking it yourself, as per the wonderful Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind. Sweded remakes of films are now starting to crop up on Youtube, such as this version of the original Star Wars. It’s alright to begin with, then just gets better and better.
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Technically speaking, I think that counts as assault. I’ve just been shouted at, beaten with bass, drop-kicked with drums, kerb-stomped with keyboards. It hurt a lot. And sounded great. Beautiful messy enormous noise. Tiring, not tiresome. Mark E Smith wandering about a lot, turning knobs on things in a manner that suggests he knows what he’s doing, but not necessarily convincing. Singing/shouting into two microphones at once, alternate ones, other peoples. Having a go on the keyboard himself if he fancied it, hitting the odd cymbal. No respite. For an hour or so. No muses on the wonders of Oxford, no telling us we were a great crowd, just a second or two to allow them to let any feedback out for a moment, then right on with the next track. No encore. Seemingly. Let people leave, put the lights up, put music on, do everything to convince people they are doing, then come back on for one last ten minute workout of noise Ah. The ringing and static has mainly subsided now, drained, but sated, for now.
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Is it that time of year again? It is. The results of the 2008 Bloggies have been announced. I follow such things, so I’m quite interested in who has won, but I would suggest this is a great place to look at some blogs you may not know about or have read before. If this is the case, you may also be interested in this article from a few days ago on the Guardian site of the 50 most powerful blogs in the world.
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I finally got my main birthday pressie from Mrsfb today (took a while to sort out what I wanted, and getting hold of it). A proper Scalextric set 
I have properly regressed (or as mrsfb put it, “That’s the start of your mid-life crisis, I presume”). I’m rather happy. Just as I remember it, but a little easier to set up and take apart, and gives you less of an impression it is about to blow up in smoke than the set I had when I was a kid did.
The picture above is of the car my brother in law bought me for said birthday, and is a copy of the car Alonso drove to failure last year. Beautifully modeled, in fact I’m taking care with it as I don’t want to mash it into a bookcase and spoil it. I probably should put the trackside barriers up next time, but then again, I like the frisson of danger of not having them up. Old Skool.
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