Is mine! The story behind it goes a bit like this. Restless Cheese and I went to see Pearl Jam in Manchester last night, in true fashion this was just a bit of an excuse for some hard drinking, although whether or not I’d call white russians hard I’m not certain. So as far as [...]
Of course if you hadn’t you’d have missed a treat. Fucking great isn’t it?
It’s true. Today was a voyage of discovery for me that lead to my uncovering of two amazing gems. The first is that we have Ronald Reagan to thank for GPS navigation! Well, a point of clarification perhaps, he didn’t invent it but he was responsible for allowing its use by civilians. After a Korean [...]
In order to prove how much like ELO, LEO are I present to you one of the choice cuts from their one and only album Alpacas Orgling. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] You must agree it is a wee bit ELOish no?
Having been reminded of Yakety Sax (as made famous on the Benny Hill show) by a recent tweet, I decided to do a quick Google to see if it was available for download anywhere. In the time it would take to slap a small bald man on the head a few times, I had discovered [...]
From the best PlayStation 2 game ever made, Ico, comes this beautiful track Castle In The Mist. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Whether you’re a gamer or not you should own this game. It’s actually worth buying a PlayStation 2 just to play it. Its mixture of puzzling, platforming and action is perfect, [...]
07.19Across The Universe
Across The Universe is actually a fantastic film. The Beatles were amazingly good at what they did. And what they did was write songs that transcended all space and time and became part of the collective subconscious. Dr Robert, as played by Bono, is more than amazing. It’s perfect. In fact, as far as I’m [...]
This is really rather good. Mixing Eric Clapton and Amy Winehouse ought to lead to some kind of horrendous abomination, funnily enough though it doesn’t! It does however highlight Ms Winehouse’s, shall we say, jazz-tuned voice. Interesting.