January 2007 Archives
In celebration of the new Arcade Fire album 'Neon Bible' (leaked this week), here's one of its songs played live in the KCRW studios. I could not resist ordering the 'deluxe edition' and am currently hunting down tickets for their show in Utrecht in April.
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"Jermaine Jackson talks about his time in the Big Brother house and how he feels his bother Michael should become a Muslim"
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Dirk Benedict's son looks like Chris Martin.
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"Salton Sea, it's the largest body of water in California, at 40 miles long by 25 miles wide. It's an accident of nature"
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Joshua Tree, the Salton Sea, Slab City, Salvation Mountain
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Miriam Blennerhassett's MySpace profile. Opera goes popular.
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Going to see this act on March 8 (Melkweg)
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well known Dutch photographer
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Dutch news photographer
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"Whatever these sour and horrible young men but mainly young women (and old women) represent, they do not represent me."
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Wow. I always thought I had a fierce temper. Now it seems my impatience is shared.
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Richard Hammond blogs about going back to work
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Dutch provider KPN will stop offering dial up accounts by the end of 2007. 900.000 accounts will be cancelled. There are too few customers to guarantee quality.
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'Interesting stories from around the world, hand-picked by Daylife'.
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Dutch chefs reveal their favourite haunts
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Caroline scoffs at "crazy" Cleo.
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"More than a year ago he set out, hand-held camera crew in tow, to interview virtually everyone connected to the show." Must. Have. This.
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Shandling spars with Alec Baldwin
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Fantasticallly cringe-worthy moments between Shandling and Gervais, who really don't hit it off in this interview
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Legend.
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(via Tom)
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Joss Whedon reports on directing an episode of The Office
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Just ordered this tripod, need it for a job at work
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Got the tripod in a kit deal with this 3-way head. 135 euro in total. May get a ballhead later for travel purposes.
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Dutch EOS user forum
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Just trying out this tool
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U2's show designer Willie Williams gets a little bored on tour. McGuinness not amused.
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Dammit, I've run out. Making do with Tetley's
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Stating the obvious
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Watching Die Hard on the box tonight for the first time since the 80s. I remember wanting to hate it and having to admit it was pretty good.
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"New search Web site Midomi is designed to actually identify that song for you in as little as 10 seconds"
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Oscar nominee John Knoll and his brother created Photoshop
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Who should win CBB this year? I don't need to write the post. Grace Dent has written it for me. Spot on on every evaluation of this year's housemates. My pick? Jermaine. Dirk. Or Ian.
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Hand made Star Wars video. That's HAND made.
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Slebs being fanboys/girls about other slebs. Cute!
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Man claims to dress like The Joker for religious reasons. Gets ID-card in full make up. (dutch)
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"Voices are notoriously tricky things. They change with age, time and training, and a shift in type or register, whether upwards or downwards, is not uncommon in the operatic world."
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I'm having focusing problems with my 350d. Not sure if it's my incompetence or a camera and/or lens fault.
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So Michael Muhney, Sheriff Lamb in Veronica Mars talks about Whedonesque (well, among other things) on his Livejournal. That'll be odd watching the next VM episode.
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"The more I look at Jo, the more l realise breeding puppies is her perfect vocation. I hope she has 101 of them - since it's getting colder, she'll be needing a new coat."
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Great Dutch 80s band. Wish I had more of their stuff (only have one single).
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Dutch punk band. Must make mp3 of the one single I have.
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Every generation has their very own anti-bloggies. Bless.
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A fine piece of code hackery by yours truly. Adapted from existing Dutch site. Articles NOT by me, thanks.
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According to Techcrunch this tool is for 'serious photographers'. Have to look into that.
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" With two days to go before Pulp began touring This is Hardcore, Cocker enlisted the help of Gareth Dickinson, a student who had pretended to be him on Stars in Their Eyes a year previously."
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Mike's Post of the Week website
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"Yoiks are not sung about something but considered a rhythmic signifier of the actual thing itself, be it a place, an event, a family member, associate or an animal, especially reindeer."
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Control, I'm here
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"I do believe that we?ve seen an enormous rise in amateurism."
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And now, as a podcast. Someone should remix that.
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"Aaron Sorkin probably doesn?t believe me. He thinks I hate him. He dismissed comments I made in a recent LA TIMES article by saying I wasn?t a ?real? comedy writer and was unemployed."
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And the L.A. Times hits where it hurts: "Well, Sorkin is right about one thing: It is not difficult to look on the Internet and find people who don't like his show."
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Always good for a groove
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More and more convinced The Infadels are my favourite new band.
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"'I'm not working-class,' the self-described 'slum Mick' once said, 'I come from the criminal classes." Fantastic interview with Peter O'Toole.
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Dirk apparently the only one in the house who has heard of Boris. For shame.
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There's a band called Bono must die? Don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Was all I needed to get the cheer back in my life. Didn't know most of the songs, didn't matter. (Seen 22-1 at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.)
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Charlotte Church and Amy Winehouse do MJ's Beat It. Amy's had a few too many.
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Manado, Sulawesi - that's where my family comes from
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"What's the name of the condition for people who for some reason are highly susceptible to passing on electrical current?"
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My new favourite photography magazine. Fun, practical.
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One of the less inflaming, more objective and totally on the money columns about CBB's debacle
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They were often told: "Nid yw'r creigiau'n deall Saesneg." (The rocks do not understand English)
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"Nid Dafydd yw'r unig hoyw yn Llanddewi-Brefi" (Dafydd isn't the only gay in Llanddewi-Brefi).
Surprise, surprise. With Jade Goody gone, the evil coven (Jo, Danielle, Jack and Cleo) are laying into Dirk Benedict and Jermaine Jackson, since they're now afraid to go after Shilpa. Their new bullying tactics? Among other things Hiding Dirk's (macrobiotic) food and taunting them with it, and waking him up during the night. The latest plan involves dressing Jack up as a woman. They think it will hurt Jermaine since he's muslim. The mind boggles. Jo is full of glee as she talks about how close to 'breaking point' Dirk and Jermaine are.
Cleo: "He takes his macrobio diet seriously as he believes it helped him beat cancer." Jo: "So what."
Yes, it's time to burn your Sclub7 discs.Oh, you're not watching CBBUK? Count yourself lucky not to be drawn into this car wreck television.
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Dutch photographers just ARE.
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Dave Ball on MySpace
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Bryars has a LiveJournal.
The UK trailer makes Scott Walker - 30th Centry Man sound like a thriller. Already it's looking better than the Leonard Cohen tribute film.
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Ken Russell's bang on the money
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"I?m lucky that I?ve been able to define roles within work which allow me to share and apply knowledge and inklings and hypotheses. And I?m lucky that it?s been well-accepted from my colleagues"
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Ugh. UGH. UUUUGH. Not romance. Please. At least not Matt and Harriet.
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Urban exploration. Three guys find out what's behind Niagara Falls
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ha!
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(toured with GF in 92)
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'Evict face of hate'. Blimey.
OXO want Jade Goody to advertise their product. They're launching a Jade Goody cube.
It's called the laughing stock.
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Lyrics to Janis Ian's song 'Stars'
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'Complete surrender'
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Right. Only behind her back. So that's ok then?
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Meanwhile in India...
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Eh... too hard for me!
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Have linked this before, but she's updated her site. Still a very good read.
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Brevity is king
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Some good points on Apple's iPhone.
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Faking it on Flickr
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Ahem. I'm in their somewhere.
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Ben Trott has the greatest header for his VOX blog
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Celebrity Big Brother has now attracted 4,500 complaints. Media watchdog Ofcom has received 3,500- the highest number of complaints ever made about the show.
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?How long will that take to transpire into an actual physical record? ? he ponders. ?I don't know.?
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Village Voice article
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"Songs of Leonard Cohen" sports two incomplete tracks from recording sessions in the summer of 1967, "Store Room" and "Blessed Is the Memory."
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Jade, Jack, Danielle Llloyd and Jo O'Meara are pig ignorant. Time to vote them out, oh great British public.
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Does Endemol condone Miss Cheat for England calling Shilpa Shetty a 'dog'?
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"She makes me feel sick. She makes my skin crawl," said Jade. Danielle added: "She's a dog."
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Good stuff for pub quiz people
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Jermaine Jackson, Dirk Benedict, Shilpa Shetty and that idiot Danielle whatever her name is do 'I want you back'.
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30 albums dissected by music fiend with verocious appetite
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Angular 80s jingle jangle from Denmark
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Also Danish, more straightforward than Mew. Think Interpol.
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(via hg)
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As long as people don?t start comparing me to Danny La Rue I?ll be happy.
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Scan my ass. I'd love to go to New York again, but not like this.
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"Today, no other realm of culture displays so much power than that of the image."
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"No wonder bank notes often carry traces of cocaine -- in Ireland 100 percent of them do."
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"SPIEGEL ONLINE is putting together a Germany Survival Bible -- a cheat sheet for understanding those quirky Germans and their odd ways, the good, the bad and the ugly."
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Weblog by Geert Lovink
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"Instead of presenting blog entries as mere self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artefacts that remotely dismantle the broadcast model."
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"I don?t think I?ve ever breathed. I was a kid who worried about everything.?
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Prenup, Fiachna and Cait's new band
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"But it wasn't anyone brilliant, it was the Goody clan. "
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Ask me, ask me, ask me
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Nokia n800, the 770's follow up
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"Nokia and Vox have teamed up to make it incredibly easy for you to upload video, photos, and updates to your Vox blog directly from your Nokia Nseries device."
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Found 'How Bizarre' among my cd singles today.
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Beep's managing this band
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official site
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Happy Birthday, Mr Bowie
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Videos and interviews
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Whatever it is.
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Ag caint, ag caint, ag caint, but not as Gaeilge, please.
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... and Mary Coughlan's ex. Christ. (no He's not there)
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Dutch band.
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"Irish-Dutch-Britrock band with a bite"
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Extensive Wii review. Want one. Want one. Want one.
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This is old, but I need it archived.
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The madness begins.
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"...his exposure to TV evangelism didn't appear to have any effect until he suddenly announced to close friends in the spring of 1977 that he'd become a born-again Christian."
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Faceman to win!
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beta
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Scott Allie on the conception of Buffy Season 8 (comic). Look whose featured in the pictures.
7pm. Killing time in Dalkey. Fruit & Veg. Saltimbocco & Medaglioni Di Filetto. Batman & Robin. Chalk & Cheese.
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Look, Americans dream of wolves at the door. The British dream of solitude, and facelessness. You and I dream, when we dream nightmares, of being somehow less than worthy of that grace, that strength, that love. We dream of cages, where nothing is permitt
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Must remember to listen to John's new show on Lyric FM
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Cute boots