It’s November 21st, the third of five annual No Music Days, as dreamed up by Bill Drummond.
I am off to play some KLF tracks. They may as well have asked me to give up air.
It’s been a while since I was tagged but here we go, thanks mykel33.
Describe my earliest memory where the memory is clear, and where “clear” means I can depict at least three details.
Give an estimate of my age at the time.
Tag five other bloggers with this meme.
It actually begins as a dream that I was having a few years ago. I was a small child being taken to Athlone (a nearby town) before Christmas. I presume Mum needed to go liaise with Santa Claus and didn’t need the two kids with her so she pawned me off on Dad. I remember going into a bookshop and looking up at a rack of children’s books - Ladybird books in fact.
I must have wanted one because dad got me one which was about counting and numbers. Or rather it had various songs and poems involving counting (The Twelve Days of Christmas, Ten Green Bottles, One Man Went to Mow etc).
I was convinced this was a dream until I was looking for something in the attic and found a little Ladybird book about counting with my scrawl on the front saying ‘Ena age 3 1/2′ {or 2 3/4 - I can’t remember right now…} Aw! [Insert Twilight Zone theme here]
I told Dad about this but he didn’t recall anything specific. I should have been able to spell my bloody name at 3 1/2 though, right? 
I shall tag not, but invite regular readers to participate. Thanks mykel.
It’s my first Haji-free mix! Not quite girly house, not quite indie fare; shall we call it Yorkie House? It’s chunky and thick and not for girls*.
While I often mix with my pals, Kev & Garv’s spacious dining room in mind, I don’t think this one will suit. It’s a tad harder in places than we’re used to, but we like it hard every now and a-(oh stoppit!). The Vandalism remix of Rihanna is seriously fcuked up (sorry Garvan!).
I also put my Prefab Sprout/Drill thing in. I don’t care if I’m the only person that likes it (besides, the more I put it about, the better chance of the PS fans finding it and getting really annoyed - hee hee!)
Go, download, dance.
• I Found You (Remode) (feat. Max’c) * Axwell
• Amazing (Kaskade Remix) * Seal
• Right Here, Right Now (Redanka Mix) * Fatboy Slim
• The Mercy Drill (Prefab Sprout vs The Drill) * Enda P Guinan
• Forgiveness (Original) (feat. Berget Lewis) * Eddie Thoneick
• NYC Beat (Club Mix) * Armand Van Helden
• Uninvited (WaWA Remix) (feat. Bailey Tzuke) * Freemasons
• Hustler (Extended Club mix) * Simian Mobile Disco
• Let Me Think About It (Club Mix) * Ida Corr Vs Fedde Le Grand
• Like Something 4 Porno (Original) * Felix Da Housecat
• Washing Up (Tim Deluxe Remix) * Tomas Andersson
• It’s True * Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso vs Salem Al Fakir
• O Superman (Tribute To Sunsetpeople) (Original) (feat. Laurie Anderson) * M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade
• Umbrella (VNDLSM mix) * Rihanna
• Open Up (Full Vocal Mix) * Leftfield Lydon
Download Funk You, Beaver! (Remastered 75MB continuous mix mp3). [mediafire link]
* Of course it’s for girls!
Joe Chester has posted two new tracks on his MySpace. My DownloadHelper Firefox plugin is busily extracting them as we speak….
Le blog has been a bit serious of late, so let’s get fluffy!
1. The Shoreditch mix was very well-received by the indie boy blogettes. This was unexpected. The next one is on the way and it’s a fusion of the indie groove and the girlie house. That means no one will like it except me. “Between two stools you come to the ground” as my mother wisely said.
2. This has been viewed over 8 MILLION times. And it made me laugh out loud as I walked to work this morning. The council guys who sweep up around the canal now think I’m a loon.
Stupid boy.
3. Looking forward to a trip to London end of November. Feeling desire to go rather bonkers, but may bring that forward in the schedule (this weekend).
4. We are loving the Bizarro Dwarves. Em, well done, Manuel (see what I did there?).
5. Is Peter Petrelli ever going to put some clothes on in Heroes season 2?
Back soon.
So I’m a student.
I’m now officially knee-deep in proper studenthood for the first time in 12 years. Back to the research, assignments, tutorials and choosing nice ring binders.
Of course this time around things are very different.
Last time, I began uni at the tender age of 18. I had no idea what I wanted or how to get it. I knew nothing about university being the first person in my family as far back as I can see to go to university. I did English and Philosophy to degree level because I liked them and that seemed a fair enough approach. I did an MA in English because I didn’t know what else to do.
When I studied, it was to do well in examinations rather than out of any great love or insight into the subject. Yet occasionally I got quite involved and tended to do well (my Masters thesis on how Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest influenced camp pop culture in the 20th century is rather fun; how many thesis get to squash Kylie, Frasier, Pet Shop Boys and Diana Ross tracks as evidence?).
This time round, things are quite different. It’s a subject I’m interested in, assessment is activity-based rather than silly exams, its about technology in education, it’s bloody expensive… but I’m finding it hugely interesting (to the detriment of flickr, last.fm, facebook and ze blog).
After a difficult start, the brain has kicked in, and I’m very happily spending a Friday night researching online (another big change from 12 years ago), contributing to the online forums (instead of face-to-face tutorials) and uploading podcasts and video podcasts as assignments. After only 8 weeks, I’m using what I’m learning at work (being quite vocal at meetings and seminars, filled with ideas to implement) and thinking that this lifelong learning lark is actually very blinking good.
I have nothing but praise for the Open University by the way (until I get a crap mark, and then I’ll hate them!). And I don’t have to go out with scruffy youth and drink cheap beer and cop off by default with the only other gay in the village.
Education, peeps, just do it!
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