Wednesday, September 30, 2009

TOTD: .Hinge - Mea Culpa

I picked up this album second hand in a 3 for $10 special from Red Eye solely because it was on Creative Vibes (RIP). It's not the sort of thing I'd usually listen to, but it's pretty good nonetheless.

Friday, September 25, 2009

TOTD: Nickodemus - Sun Children

The lineup for Days Like This! has been released. Oh yes!



In honour of this epic collection of dopeness, here is Sun Children.

Friday, September 18, 2009

TOTD: Midnight Oil - Put Down That Weapon

For no other reason than that I really like it:



(Live version, because recorded versions have embedding disabled by request).

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Battle cats

I found myself musing this evening that in the pantheon of great human ideas, putting a saddle on a lion, tiger or panther and sallying forth into battle rarely rates a mention. I was somewhat crushed to discover after roughly 136 seconds of googling various permutations of "battle cat", "battlecat", "tiger saddle" and "riding a tiger into battle", that it probably didn't ever happen. I guess that explains it.

Friday, September 11, 2009

TOTD: Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe so, maybe no

Mayer Hawthorne released his debut LP the other day. The TOTD is a live version of Maybe So, Maybe No, done in the studio for Radio KCRW. Just gorgeous.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

TOTD: Quantic presents Flowering Inferno - Dub Del Pacifico



Quantic, aka Will Holland has made music as Quantic, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, Flowering Inferno and most recently as Quantic and his Combo Barbaro. This track is from his Flowering Inferno album, which has a distinctly dubby influence, but retains the soul, afrobeat and latin influences that pervade all his music.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Englishmen don't dive.

After the brouhaha surrounding Eduardo's "dive" in the Champions League game between Arsenal and Celtic a few weeks back, John Terry, captain of England and Chelsea, has come out and said that English players are too honest to dive. He appears to be entirely serious too. Perhaps someone should tell him to do a search on "Gerrard dive", "Rooney dive" or even "Cole dive" on youtube. Yep, diving is definitely something that the English lads don't do...

This is also worth your time - Arseblog's response to Terry's ludicrous remarks:

I read this before going to bed last night and, being somewhat in my cups, subjected poor Mrs Blogs to a rather lengthy, and I'm sure tedious, rant about what a humungous, plague-carrying cuntmongrel John Terry is. I spelled out, using the most wicked men in the history of the world, how he soared above all of them, his iniquitous existence a blight on the human race, a stain on us all. I used hand gestures, pie charts, graphs, Powerpoint presentations, empirical research and much more to prove, once and for all, that John Terry is the biggest cunt in the world.

"But why?", said Mrs Blogs.

I sighed.

"Because he's a cunt", I said.

How can he say something like that with a straight face? He plays in various teams with the likes of Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard and Joe Cole and he says English players are too honest to dive? He plays with Didier Drogba, has played with him for years and years, yet he still thinks it's ok to talk about diving?

That's like being a mafia henchman and castigating those who go around garotting people and stabbing folk in the throat before shooting them in the head, wrapping them up in plastic, weighing them down and dumping the body at sea.

England play Croatia on Wednesday and apologies to any patriotic Englishmen who want to see their national team do well but I hope Eduardo scores a hat-trick, nutmegging Terry for each goal (one of which will see him go around the keeper, stop the ball on the line, then kneel down and head it in off the ground), before an outrageous Terry dive to try and win a penalty for England explodes both his knees and brings about a grave, and hugely debilitating, case of sudden onset polio and a dose of consumption while he's at it.

I couldn't agree more. Come on Croatia!

TOTD: Nina Simone - Feeling Good



Because I am.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Risk

As a motorbike rider and climber, risk and risk management are a particular area of interest for me. On Monday my mate Seb, who got his L's at the same time as I did, had a bit of a bingle on his bike, and I'm currently reading the Boardman Tasker Omnibus. These two things have set me ruminating on risk (again). There's a long post about this lurking somewhere, probably on the other side of thesis submission though. Until then, stay safe y'all.