C is for Cookie

Another lazy image post. It’s the silly season, whaddya gonna do?

Botox

Stop downloading my mixes!

21 May UPDATE! All remasters are up now and can be found on in their original posts. They’ll be added to the ‘Mixes’ page eventually (!)

Because they sound rubbish! I’d always suspected that they were too loud, had far too much clipping and were uneven, but what could I do? That’s the way I got ‘em.

Well, the stuff I rip from cd or buy from sites such as DJDownload are usually good quality 320kbps files, but some of the stuff I, ahem, discover, is not always of very good quality. And yet sometimes one just has to overlook the deficiencies of the file because the track is so damn good.

Anyway, just purchased Platinum Notes, by the same people who do the fabulous Mixed in Key. Platinum Notes claims it can ‘heal’ your audio files, repairing clipping, equalising audio and even correcting pitch.

And it bloody well does. Amazing….

I ran ‘Even More Unacceptable in the 80s’ through it. All the clipping (almost 40,000 instances in an 80 minute mix!) are gone and they thing sounds like it has been properly mastered. As soon as I can find a free host that let’s me easily share files of over 100 MB, I’ll start reposting my Remasters!

Gawd, this post looks like a dreadful sales pitch, but let me assure you that I’m not being paid to write this. I only get fewer than 100 hits per day! Who would bribe me?!?!? No, this is really amazing from my point of view.

When I get time, I’ll replace the old mixes in their original posts, but I’ll also have a nice new page up there where you can find all the mixes in one place!

Enda P: Remastered!

Weekend(ish)

The sun is shining as it has been doing. People are sparking up barbeques. It’s Friday and I’m inside doing my goddamned Open University homework due next Friday. How utterly dull.

As my writing energies are going into an evaluation of two dodgy small scale papers investigating the use of blah blah blah, I can only offer you a lovely picture of Angela Lansbury.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Lisbon Treaty: Ooh!

So, Ireland has to go to the polls for yet another tedious European Union treaty ratification. Every other EU country just let their governments worry about this stuff, but no, we have to have a bloody referendum. We always vote ‘yes’ (except when we don’t, then we just keep having the same referendum until the government gets the answer it wants).

So, hats off to Young Fine Gael for presenting us with a big slice of mancake with a crotch full of Euro-goodness for every one who votes Yes.

Works for me!

(If you prefer ladies’ boobs, Young Fine Gael will satiate you too)

 

Apologies to all my millions of readers outside the EU, particularly in the USA. But then again, as we have to endure the McObamton malarkey, why not send some tedium your way?

Holy Moly! Apple Mac Music Video

Ok, if either Apple or The Bird & The Bee don’t immediately approach the guy who made this with a large cheque, I’ll eat my housemate’s second copy of Céline Dion’s ‘Taking Chances’.

Nuala O’Faolain R.I.P.

It’s just been announced that writer/broadcaster/producer Nuala O’Faolain has did, just three weeks since she gave that extraordinary interview (stream mp3) on the Marian Finucane show. She had been freshly diagnosed with cancer and had refused treatment, saying “I don’t want more time. As soon as I heard I was going to die, the goodness went from life”.

The interview sparked a huge reaction in Ireland and it was ever thus had a good post about it at the time.

Why don’t people comment?

You know how it is, you occasionally click on a few of your blogroll peoples’ blogrolls. And a post catches your little eye. Why don’t people comment?, asks deafulgora (via the delightful Alan). 

I had to respond:

 

1. They have nothing to say.
2. They have something to say but they reckon you’re not worthy of their response (they only came here accidently after all. Now maybe if it was The Huffington Post.…or Gawker…)
3. They accessed your blog on their mobile phone and they’ll be damned if they are going to type a comment on a goddamn numerical keypad with THAT tariff…
4. Typing a comment is physically difficult. Zillions (OK, thousands) of people have disabilities and find it a lot of effort to type.
5. They found your site when Googling for ‘Daddy I’m nude’ and, as my mother says, got a bit of a land.
6. They’re shy.
7. They are intimidated by your dazzling brilliance.
8. They couldn’t be arsed. American Idol is on in five minutes.
9. The fire alarm went off. It can’t always be the evil twin playing with your mind, right?
10. They just enjoy reading your thoughts. You put it out there of your own volition; no one owes you nuthin’. 

 

Great tits cope well with warming

Well, that’s what the BBC is telling us anyways.

 

[Sits back and watches hit count skyrocket...]

Lovely new video from Justice.

Beautiful new track from Justice. And with a sensitive, emotional video to accompany. 

Glass of wine, good book and press play.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Sorry…)