April 2007 Archives
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Still as beautiful as ever
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"Recipes, cooking tips, resources, and stories for people who love food"
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3rd Segment says it all, that's what I recognised. Fire in the belly.
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Rufus Wainwright past and present
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"The Malloys are Travelers, Gypsy-like nomads who in the United States, most often in the South, live in tight, hierarchical communities."
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The lovely Julia Palmer. On MySpace.
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Our new google.uitzendinggemist.nl page
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Dutch public broadcasting on youttube
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Dutch 3FM on YouTube
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download 2 minutes' silence
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Jesus R.S. get your page titles in order
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(... and another one that should fix their page title) Anyway. Where I'm staying this weekend.
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Portrait of Tammy Faye Bakker
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Yay, Renaud's got a presence on the web
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Old interview I hadn't seen before. Good stuff.
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Apparently getting these free British/Irish channels is a question of buying a satellite disc (100 euro), no receiver/subscription needed.
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Tweakers.net topic on satellite tv. Astra2/Eurobird 1 is the one I should get. I'd get BBC 1-4, regional BBC's, ITV 1,2,3,4, Film Four, etc etc
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Dutch info about getting a satellite to receive British freeview
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Overview of the channels.
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Columbia records doing A&R work through VOX
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RCA doing A&R work through VOX
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"Oldest Dutch Twitter accounts"
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Alyssa Milano blogs about baseball
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'adhesive capsulitis'. Frozen shoulder may be associated with diabetes, high cholesterol
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This was a great TV series and it's great to see it given a proper conclusion! Hope they manage to keep the original cast together.
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22 vids
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"My first pop star crush was on Marc Bolan...I worshipped him for a couple of years."
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mp3's might make a good ringtone
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Steve Kilby (The Church) blogging after last night's show at the Paradiso.
Where do rockbands go when they grow old? The small room upstairs at the Paradiso.
It's unfair perhaps and it must smart, but The Church soldiers on. All the good bands do. Whether you perform in front of thousands or in someone's living room, you play as if it's your last show.
I go see young bands, I go see the big names, I go to club gigs, I - reluctantly - enter stadiums to watch the megas. And I get jaded about concerts and complain I'm not getting what I need from them, most of the time.
Young bands especially, I find, have no stage craft and no mystique. (There's always exceptions - Arcade Fire for example have plenty of both.) I want bands and their frontmen in particular to make me believe. Believe them. Believe something. I like to see bands play because they need to, not because they want to.
I go see bands full of expectations and come away disappointed a lot of the time. So when I went to see The Church I expected them well past their heyday, coasting on past glory. Instead I watched four guys soldiering on with more fire in the belly than a lot of the new 'The'-bands put together. Overcoming ridiculous technical problems, they played blistering versions of songs from their vast repertoire.
Frontman Steve Kilbey, past the pretty but sporting a distinguished bearded look, still oozes star quality despite the weary, dog-tired I'm-too-old-for-this-game vibe that surrounds him. He commanded the room. How do I know this? He asked people to lay off the ciggies because they hurt his throat. Dutch people don't like to be told 'no'. But they obeyed. And when the pauses between songs became longer and longer while the drummer and techs tried to rid the stage of a persistent buzzing, nobody complained. Kilbey made up stories to pass time, people listened.
I left the Paradiso floating several feet above the ground and with a keen, renewed, interest in the band. I spent the weekend gorging information, properly obsessing and hungry for the chime of Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper's riffs.
Next time, give them back the big room, Paradiso.
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'Google's released Google Web History. It's a brilliant, powerful, even insightful tool that will undoubtedly worry those who were concerned about privacy in the early days of the web's popularity."
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J.R.R.'s grandson likes Neubauten
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Steve Kilbey (The Church) blogging shortly before playing Amsterdam's Paradiso
A friend invited me to facebook. I had previously decided not to join, but what the hell, I click on the link and fill in the registration form...
... and I'm informed my name 'contains too many words'.
Scottish indie-popsters didn't steal my heart and didn't seem to make an effort trying either. The word 'dour' is probably overused in connection with 'Scottish', but you know the thing about cliches? They tend to have some truth in them. Some catchy tunes, too many filler songs. Not much action on stage so little chance of a spectacular photograph... hence the standard three-in-a-row.
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"But then they told me to come to the studio, and there was a man punching a side of pork, and I thought, okay, they were right.?
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"In that part of British society that will for ever be built around strange vowel sounds, shooting animals, green clothes and endless luxury, there was really no hope for her."
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Anybody heard of the 'blogger's choice awards'? I haven't. Whedonesque nominated in four categories.
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How music is arranged, composed and produced. (Because you want to be able to understand your lovely neighbourhood musician.)
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Bid on my photograph in support of the African Well Fund
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Question about accents in The Office leads to interesting comments
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I have no words
No, not to throw him in, don't be cruel.
Phil Romans has organised the 2nd photo auction in support of the African Well Fund's 'Build a Well for Bono's Birthday'. Last year, his efforts raised $11,000 for the charity.
The African Well Fund is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was founded in 2002 by a group of U2 fans. Since that time, AWF has raised more than $300,000, which has been used to fund clean water projects that have benefited over 60,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nineteen U2 fans and photographers (including myself) have donated over 100 pictures of the band (and one of one of their best friends) to be auctioned off on eBay. All proceeds will be donated to the 5th Annual Build a Well for Bono's Birthday fundraising drive.
The photo auction starts April 14th, and will last for 7 days. The first auction starts at 12pm EST, and each auction will subsequently start at one minute increments.
Go check out the photos and put in your bids. If I may make a suggestion: this photograph by some Dutch woman would be a fine choice.
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Tons of delicious looking asian food on here.
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Oh. My. God. That's it, I'm emigrating to Australia.
My recipe at Open Source Food.
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Vote Vader
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LOU REED, GAVIN FRIDAY, LAURIE ANDERSON, BABY GRAMPS, JENNI MULDAUR and BETH ORTON will be performing pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys at the world premiere of Hal Willner's Rogue's Gallery Live in New York on May 2.
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38 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
LOU REED, GAVIN FRIDAY, LAURIE ANDERSON, BABY GRAMPS, JENNI MULDAUR and BETH ORTON will be performing pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys at the world premiere of Hal Willner's Rogue's Gallery Live in New York on May 2.
The concert, based on the double CD born on the sets of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, will be in support of 'Arts at St Ann's'. All proceeds benefit programming at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn.
Programme:
6:30 pm Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
8:00 pm World Premiere of Rogue’s Gallery Live
9:15 pm Dinner and dessert
Tickets range from 'Co-Chair', at $10,000 a table (10 tickets), to 'Friend' at $250 (1 ticket). To buy tickets contact Inga at 718.834.8794x11 or inga@artsatstanns.org (before April 20)
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How Hal Willner produced 'West'
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They've ordered six more scripts. Hope this means renewal. The suspense! Christ.
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Drive, the new Fox series starring Nathan Fillion (Firefly), is on Twitter.
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New album releases april/may: Rufus, Marc Almond, The Mish, Patti SMith, The Bravery, Pigeon Detectives, Interpol
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I'm probably the last person on earth to bookmark this
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Adobe does colours 2.0 or something. It's been done. There were sites like this back before blogs.
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Performance artist Kira o'Reilly says the Virgin Prunes were a key influence
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Carrie's site dedicated to music photography
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"My generation is going to redefine what it means to be a pensioner."
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Hee, funny commentary.
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For those of us having trouble reading the comics, excellent synopses on WikiPedia
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Please, please, please, Santa, make the renew Friday Night Lights
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Good tip if you have job interviews coming up
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"A former altar boy from a staunch London-Irish family, Wobble was schooled by the Sisters of Mercy, ?the Waffen SS of Catholic nuns?."
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Hurrah!
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I've been overdosing on the Fast show lately and was hoping Whitehouse would return to our screens. Seems my wish has been granted.
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Starts April 13. Um, they're doing Bono and The Edge? Yikes. I've never seen anyone do a good Bono.
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David Boreanaz blogs about ice hockey on the NHL site.
Having just installed a new TV (the one I had, relatively new, died in an electrical surge that hit our house - it also killed my digital settop box), I ventured onto some local digital TV forums and was delighted to read that UPC will soon (this summer) be carrying NBC's Sci-Fi channel. It's going to be a localised version, so I don't know what exactly they'll be showing, but it'll make me hang on to my digital subscription for sure.
Ah... more information:
In its opening month Sci-Fi will screen Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, New Battlestar Galactica, Tremors, Sliders and Dark Angel.
(source: Broadband TV News)
13th street isn't sounding too bad either. Cracker!
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Gavin sings Eno
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Fergus O'Farrell (Interference) teams up with David Bickley.
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Hope he gets well soon. I miss his film reviews.
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"Clickster is an easy to use application which searches and downloads mp3 files from the Internet and not, from other P2P users."
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Some great concert shots in there.
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Naz picks Lightroom. I really need to upgrade my PC if I want to make my digital work flow a little easier. My comp has problems running Lightroom. And Photoshop.
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De Britten ontdekken 'foute' muziek
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I'm feeling all William Shatnery.
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Depeche Mode's April Fool's Day prank backfires.
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Fab trailer, spoilery for casting reasons. Is that Simon Woods' voice at the end of it?
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Badger uses Yahoo! Pipes and JavaScript to create Web badges out of any RSS feed.
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"For example, as an homage to Howard Hawks' classic 1932 Scarface, Scorsese scattered Xs throughout the movie (some more subtle than others), using them as a symbol of impending doom."
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details of upcoming double album Theology
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Taster of the new NIN album Year Zero. Not sure why I keep buying this stuff.
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Bjork, apparently hammered, covering 'No Limits'
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Catch up for the April 8th final season premiere
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Amsterdam band with Norn Iron frontman
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Belgian band. Sound a lot, A LOT, like dEUS
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"You can take the man out of Ireland, but you can never take Ireland out of the man."
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"This page will try to document every R.E.M. performance, and provide a general timeline of when albums were recorded and released, as well as provide setlists for shows where known."
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The Guardian's music blog is getting more tabloidy by the minute. Pissing me off.
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"He knows that he's about to become a poster boy for the confused."
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"The new indiestore service, in partnership with web music firm 7digital, allows bands to upload and sell four tracks, with the band keeping 70% of the revenue."