Thank you Simon for sending me this. You know me so well.
Archive for April, 2008
Awww…. I <3 Enrique
In Musak on April 27, 2008 at 3:11 pm
This isn’t new, but I stumbled upon it again recently and thought it worth sharing. Enrique performed in London’s G.A.Y. and sang Hero. Usually when he does this, he serenades a woman from the audience, but given the audience at G.A.Y….
Whatever you think about his music, this shows that he is one cool mofo.
Weekend Mumps
In Musak on April 25, 2008 at 5:20 pm
It’s Friday evening, and apart from going to have my rather ancient car have its 2-year test (it will fail) tonight, I’m unexpectedly free.
Well, freer than I thought I would be. I was to have given a talk tomorrow at the University Day, but the whole thing has been called off because we have an outbreak of mumps (or as we like to call it: the mumps)!
10,000 potential students had to be contacted today to tell them it’s all off and apparently isn’t going to be rescheduled.
So, I can have a sleep in! Yay! This is a bit sad because we had written to almost 350 people with disabilities who might be coming next September and we were looking forward to having a chat with them.
Odd. I wrote that last sentence and realised that I really like my job.
Still, sleep in is good too.
Get well soon mumpy-kids (and stay away from my office when you’re going to the Medical Centre! Cheers!)
Mumps outbreak stops university open day from rte.ie.
Ouch! Mac vs Windows: The Debate Rages (I mean, really RAGES)
In Current Affairs on April 21, 2008 at 9:00 pm
This picture (which I was alerted to in one of my Open University forums) has sparked a really nasty discussion on the tired old Mac vs Windows debate that people with far too much time on their hands seem to love to keep burning.
Despite working in a vaguely tech field and being a Mac fan, I tire of these debates very easily.
Guys (for it’s usually guys), just go out and have sex or go dancing or devote your energies to something more meaningful than drumming up cheap publicity for one of two rather large multinational corporations.
You big nerds.
It’s Mix Time!: Even More Unacceptable In the 80s
In Musak, funky house on April 20, 2008 at 11:23 am
Ok, you know the drill by now. Here’s another mix of 80s-inspired boogie nonsense. The tracks are covers, remixes, have samples from or just sound a bit 80s.
Tracklist
- Something Good 08 (Van She Tech Mix) Utah Saints
- Run To You (Red Kult Remix) Bryan Adams
- Situation (Richard X Remix) Yazoo
- With or Without You (Dr. Kucho! Rework) U2
- I Want Your Love (Thomas Gold Remix) Jody Watley
- I Can’t Wait (7th Heaven Remix) (feat. Kelly Marie) Kurtis Mantronik
- Love To Love You Baby David Vendetta
- Running Up That Hill (Datassette Remix) Kate Bush
- Love Is A Stranger (Kolomboot Remix) Eurythmics
- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ 2008 (Johnny Vicious Club Remix) Michael Jackson feat. Akon
- Tuff Ass Disco Thingie Freemasons
- Ain’t Nothin’ Going On But The Rent (Fonzerelli Remix) 7th Heaven feat. Katherine Ellis
- Big Fun (Simian Mobile Disco Remix) Inner City
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want (2008 Soulwax Remix) Rolling Stones
Download Even More Unacceptable in the 80s (mediafire link) (Remastered) 80 mins continuous mix 78MBs
Still available: the first Unacceptable In the 80s.
Titanic rewrite
In Humour on April 17, 2008 at 4:32 pm
New kid on the blog, It Was Ever Thus, responds to the – let’s not shilly-shally – rather pointless study in which it emerges that Titanic sank as a result of substandard building materials.
Obviously, there would have been script implications for James Cameron, had the shipyard not been so stingy.
That was fast….. (Joe Chester update!)
In Musak on April 15, 2008 at 4:10 pmCan’t talk now as just in from work to discover Joe Chester CD on doormat. It’s not out til Friday! They also threw in the ‘Charlie For A Girl’ single – nice!
Full report later.
Yayayayayayayayayaayayayayayayayayay!
Touch My Me
In Groovy Sites, Humour, Musak on April 11, 2008 at 8:31 pm
This post did start out as an April Fools joke, but it is now a full week and a half past that excuse and I’d be the first to admit that since then I have paddled way too far into dangerous water. If the truth can set me free then let this is my get out of jail free card, so here it is… I bought Carey’s hit song from iTunes but I didn’t stop there, I attempted to make “Touch My Body” into poetry…
Yonah Korngold over at Merry Swankster follows the footsteps of John Cage who supposedly ‘wrote through’ James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, but choosing a more curvaceous muse in the form of Mariah and her latest US-chart-topping opus.
If you liked that, you might enjoy Carl Wilson’s contribution to the 33 1/3 series on classic albums: Céline Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. You will learn to strangely respect the Quebec chanteuse and be doubled up by the final chapter.
Nice Internet Thing: Muxtape
In Musak on April 6, 2008 at 12:18 pm
This is cute. Upload up to 12 tracks and share them very simply. Basically, Muxtape let’s you create a text-based list of tracks that can be streamed within your browser. Very simple.
A selection of my current earworms is online.
Yet another stupid, but essential, internet meme
In Humour on April 3, 2008 at 5:43 pm
ORIGINAL, originally uploaded by boyshapedbox.
I think the graph is self-explanatory. Loads more on flickr.
UPDATE: This is excellent:
Enjoy Infinity: Rufus Wainwright’s Ode to Antidote
In Humour, Musak on April 3, 2008 at 8:22 am
For those of you who asked, here’s a re-up of Rufus’ Ode to Antidote. You could listen to it at Viktor & Rolf’s website, but life is far too short to sit through such wankery.
