December 2009
39 posts
Noble acts and shit up your back
Firstly, if you’re on twitter and lucky enough to follow Ross Noble you will know that he encourages people to TWITTER BOMBARD. Usually it’s organisations or companies. Last week it was the Vatican. Amusement.
This week he went for Dragon Duncan Bannatyne who proceeded to get really annoyed and hoity toity about the swears appearing on his feed. UM THEY DONE A SWEAR, I’M OUT.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Orson Welles (9)
Bombay Bicycle Club (9)
Tripod (3)
Bill Bryson (2)
Father Christmas (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
crowth:
It was brought to my attention last night that Simon Cowell has plans for some sort of political spin-off of the X-Factor format. I somehow missed the report a couple of weeks ago, probably because I instinctively ignore anything with his name attached. brokenbottleboy has written one of his interesting and sober posts on the topic, and I’m not sure there’s anything else I could add...
“We made eye contact I think. You glanced up and away. You might have smiled, but...”
– best of craigslist: Shared Smile/ Brief Eyecontact? w4m - w4m (via theoriginaljoefisher)
I often do this. Write a well-thought-out message and then at the last minute add a truthful P.S.
Oh Mr D'arsey!
This blog post is inspired by a tweet from @cpfcrox -
Pride and Prejudice on ITV. Oh Mr Darcy, if you weren’t so arrogant I’d be unimaginably in love with you.
As I responded on twitter, I like a bit of arrogance. It’s only ever a front. In my experience with men, the more arrogant they appear, the more insecure they are. Many a comedian who may appear arrogant worries way...
the2009
Highs and lows (in no particular order)
Graduated from Uni Didn’t go to the Edinburgh Festival Got a good job Moved to London Gained another nephew Fell in love Saw Paul Weller duet with Roger Daltry Got dumped Signed on Finished my first feature film Nick Griffin got showed up for the twat he is The return of Shooting Stars Was described as “Screwed up, indecisive, non-committal, armour...
Trojan Reggae Christmas Box Set
jhnbrssndn:
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margann:fuckyeahskinheads:
Disc 1
01. Wish You A Merry Christmas/Ahamaric Temple-Jacob Miller/Ray1 02. Jingle Bells-Don Carlos & Glenice Spencer 03. Santa Claus Is Ska-ing To Town-The Granville Williams Orchestra 04. Santa Claus Never Comes To The Ghetto-Yellowman 05. Blue Christmas-John Holt 06. Ding Dong Bell-The Ethiopians 07. It’s Christmas Time Again-Junior...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Christmas (4)
Johnny Mathis (3)
Aled Jones (3)
Ferrante & Teicher, Les Baxter (3)
Handel & Haydn Society (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nervous of my last.fm coming through...
Predicting lots of Bing Crosby and Mariah Carey.
#itschristmas
“Christmas is thought to be a time when atheists turn into Scrooges and Grinches....”
– Richard Dawkins (in the programme for Robin Ince’s Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People)
Getting Christmas wrong.
I got a card in the post from my Dad.
“That’s nice”, I thought.
There was a cheque inside -“Wow!”
Then I realised that was my Christmas present and he posted it because he wasn’t planning on making much of an effort to meet up.
No, daddy. YOUREDOINGITWRONG.
I put extra thought and love into my gift for him, hopefully to make him realise.
Hope you’re...
Watchelectronicalrattlebag:
“I’m going to miss you. Thank you. Thank you for being my friend”
(Sir Terry Wogan bids farewell after 37 years)
I just listened to this and shed a tear in the office.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Christmas Carols (8)
Band Aid (6)
Winchester Cathedral Choir (6)
Canadian Brass (5)
Darlene Love (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Humans
cultshasha:
Did anyone watch the Horizon special with David Attenborough the other night? Jesus. If you didn’t I can tell you now that it was the bleakest documentary I’ve seen in a good long while. It was called How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth and it was about how many people could live on Earth and basically we’re f**ked.
The population will need to be culled, and when they knock at...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Frank Sinatra (4)
Mariah Carey (3)
Bing Crosby (3)
Sarah McLachlan (2)
Johnny Mathis (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Busted. I’ve been listening to a lot of Christmas music.
“The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him...”
– Milan Kundera (via electronicalrattlebag)
Sandcastles in the sky
I plan to spend the weekend writing.
About bloody time. An idea has been spinning around in my head in various forms for a couple of years.
Don't worry too much about word count when writing...
iainbroome:
Good post. And glad to hear you got your breath back.
“The publishing world is very resistant to change,” Meltzer said. “But there are...”
– Essay - See the Web Site, Buy the Book - NYTimes.com (via fluffynotes) (via iainbroome)