February 2011
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January 2011
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Albums 'o 2010
Some said it came too late. Others said no one cared. It happened anyway.
20 albums what were good in 2010 because everyone cares what I think:
1.Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
2.LCD Soundsystem - This is happening
3.Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
4.Trent Reznor & Co. - The Social Network OST
5.Grinderman - Grinderman 2
6.Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot…
7.Beach House - Teen...
December 2010
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Top 13 Films of 2010
I keep on getting inundated with fans asking for my top films of the year, so here goes…in a sort of order. It’s top thirteen too. Just to be kooky.
1. A Prophet
2. Enter The Void
3. Toy Story 3
4. Somewhere
5. Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
6. Inception
7. The Social Network
8. Winter’s Bone
9.The Illusionist
10. Four Lions
11. Another Year
12. The Kids Are Alright
...
August 2010
3 posts
The Question On Everybody's Mind.
Having returned from the cinema to watch Inception, you can imagine my delight to find a like-minded individual on IMDB posing the question we all wanted to ask.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/thread/167703487?d=167703487&p=1#167703487
June 2010
1 post
Freedom. Horrible freedom.
I’ve officially got NOTHING to do until at least September, and perhaps even for a year after that, and I’m not sure I like it. Asking me to try and live in the real world is like asking Michael Barrymore to come to your dinner party; it’s unpleasant, and somebody’s going to end up dead.
The upshot of all this AWFUL, REPULSIVE free time is that I might write things down...
January 2010
1 post
New Years Resolutions
1. Reinvent the wheel. (It’s outdated as hell.)
2. Find out who my real parents are.
3. Get excommunicated.
4. Enslave women in my latest contraption (see below)
I shall keep you informed on my progress.
December 2009
4 posts
Poetry Corner
Letter From A Lonely Midget
I am thinking of starting a website,
For elderly men of a similar height,
To pitifully wallow in their plight,
And bemoan with spite,
About how everything is shite,
And I wondered if you might,
Be interested.
Best Christian Album Cover
Jeff from Wyoming sums up this album perfectly: ”It’s pretty amazing that they were able to get Al Davis to record with them!”.
The album cover manages to capture two of the Christian Crusaders with their eyes closed (this is presumably symbolism) and we are still unsure whether the person at the back is a dwarf or just has no knees. Mix that with the lighting, the beautiful...
September 2009
5 posts
鳩山幸.
There’s a new Prime Minister in town and he goes by the name of 鳩山由紀夫 (Yukio Hatoyama to us simple folk). Yukio Hatoyama may seem like a normal Japanese Prime Minister-y type but his wife may be a touch strange. Miyuki Hatoyama, the new first lady of Japan, described her interests as picking vegetables, creating stained glass art and pottery…Oh and 20 years ago she was abducted by...
““Dooooooooooooooooooo you love? horse????????????????????? I am a pr etty...”
– I found this comment below a story on Yahoo! News concerning a Danish footballer who lost his leg in a lightning related incident.
So what do we think? Perhaps sjlk49sk49sl is operating on a level way above our consciousness, or maybe she just really, really loves horse.
August 2009
29 posts
The Fighter
Check out my latest short film. Hope you enjoy.
THE FIGHTER
Matthew Copson & Evan Westenbrink; Music by Joe Mason Documentary/Experimental, 3.23
Less a documentary in its conventional sense, more an experimental short film about the passion and innocence of a young boxer. Shot on 16 mm film using a 1970s Bolex camera, The Fighter combines gritty imagery with an original orchestral...
Poetry Corner- Ode To An N-Dubz
Dappy,
You look like a twat,
I hope you’re happy,
With that cockish hat,
And music ever so crappy,
Even with Tinchy’s rat-a-tat-tat,
Oh Dappy- just piss off
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Cult writer’s website. At times it’s dangerously funny, at others it’s inspiring, thought provoking stuff. Still pretty dangerous though.
I bought one of their books yesterday, McSweeney’s Quaterly Concern 21 - Glorious.
A must for all wannabe writers.
Fact of the day: 80,000 americans are injured by lawn mowers each year.
Whitty Strikes Again...We think.
Try as I might, it’s not easy to ignore the barrage of stupidity that so often rains down upon me. The source of this week’s troubles: the predictable, sanctimonious, egocentric warblings of Telegraph blogger Peter Whittle.
He’s known for his work with ‘The New Culture Forum’, a right-wing think tank hell bent on loosening the grip the ‘Liberal Left’ has...
Fact of the day: The inuit have no word for thirteen.
Oh! For the life of the wandering troubadour
Well now, well now indeed.
Everyone’s been away recently and mostly still are. After all, ‘tis the season.
Matt’s gone to Scotland, to something called the ‘Edinburgh Festival’- whatever that is - to do some clowning, and some technologery and whatever other Boisterous Larks might take his fancy.
Charlie’s in Crete, making unacceptably selfish use of vodafone’s ‘unlimited text and no...
fact of the day: stalin had webbed feet.
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Poetry Corner- Ode To Brass
Trumpets-
are not crumpets,
Nor will they ever be-
Which greatly displeases me.
(Jaques L’oeuf Copyright 2009)
The Most Swiney Album Artwork Ever
In recent years, the number of self-confessed ‘Swiney’ album artwork sleeves have increased twofold, giving birth to such popular subgenres as ‘Swinecore’ and ‘TechnoPork’.
So once again competition is tough. But The Most Swiney Album Artwork Ever award goes to…Johnny Houston- ‘Makin Bacon’
Be warned, it’s not kosher…
COMING...
Fact of the day:
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
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Most Gangstaaa Album Artwork Ever
As Lemar once famously said ‘if there’s any justice in this world…’ referring, obviously, to Bird Grave’s ‘Most Gangstaaa Album Artwork Ever’ award. The reason for Lemar’s distress was due to a certain artiste by the name of ‘Trina’…
‘Trina’s’ thought-provoking album ‘Da Baddest Bitch’ was considered...
Fact Of The Day:
Walt disney was afraid of mice.
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Sexiest Solo Male Jazz Flautist Album Artwork Ever
The title of Sexiest Solo Male Jazz Flautist Album Artwork Ever is one we all desire, yet for us mere mortals, something we realise is well beyond the realms of vague possibility.
Herbie Mann’s seminal record ‘Push Push’ not only set about to reinterpret the foundations of modern solo jazz flute (a scene that had been in decline with the rise of Evil Keyboards) but...
Fact of the day:
Thermometers used to be filled with brandy.
Fact of the day:
The lion costume from the wizard of oz was made from real lions.
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Fact Of The Day:
When Fidel Castro took control of Cuba he burned all the monopoly board game sets.
Fact Of The Day:
Earthworms have FIVE hearts.
Quite probably the best theme tune ever invented.
Fact of the day:
Barack Obama has tried cocaine and marijuana, smokes but never drinks coffee and uses a mac computer. (He is also left handed).
success.
You’ll be pleased to know that we now have three people working on this slice of binary wonderment/blog, so it should be covered in random shit really rather quickly. Hurrah!
Tom
Fact of the day:
fact of the day: samuel l jackson gave scarlett johansson and ryan reynolds a colony of 10,000 bees for a wedding present.
Savvy [sav-ee]
Festivals are an odd beast.
I first attended mine in 2003 at V Festival (the premise: thousands of Hull-ites get hammered on watery cider in a corporate environment, ironically run by a company called Virgin = enjoyment ensues) which, minus the headlining set by Muse, was more of an entrepreneurial experience for me. What do you expect when Richard Branson is offering 10p per cardboard cup? My...
Simply The Best. Better than all the rest.
Copic Ciao markers give me hope when I wake up in the morning and realise that my dreams are better than reality. Especially dreams involving one or several of the following: candyfloss ponies and honeycomb foals, Cameron Diaz’s shaved head, the prospect of the everlasting gobstopper, a salmon replacing Thom Yorke as lead vocalist (Copyright Sophie...
Tubular Bells: a review of a bus in one part.
As any well-seasoned commuter will tell you, there’s nothing quite like that new bus smell: the gentle, uplifting aroma of leather and freshly minted polymer fabrics intermingled with the harsher industrial chic of stain-proof plastic.
This very scent greeted your humble reporters - Tom Bateman and Matt Copson - as they mounted the beast, resplendent in its commercial livery of red and...