Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Small Fuzzy Thing in the Night Sky
That would be Comet Holmes. Elementary.
Belgium still up Merde Creek without a paddle. (This might be a no.94 tram.)
iPod-alotry
"Slow Country" - Gorillaz
"The Bends" - Radiohead
"Serenade" - Arab Strap
"So Long, Lonesome" - Explosions in the Sky
"Axis '67, Pt.2" - Bobby Conn
"Organum" - Max Richter
"Marathon" - Vic Chesnutt
"Car" - Built to Spill
"A Good Friend is Always Around" - The American Analog Set
"Starcleaner" - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
"Motorbus" - Fridge
"Swastika Eyes (Chemical Brothers Mix" - Primal Scream
"First Hits" - Don Caballero
"Mr President" - Clinton
"Mr Lucky" - John Lee Hooker
"Revenge of the Black Regent" - Add N to (X)
Labels: astronomy, belgium, daily bollocks, iPod
:: Posted by pete @ Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Olympian Effort
Defended the corporate line: yeauch!
Overslept: but still feel knackered.
Creative: used artistic endeavours to brighten up the workplace.
Get your chocolate fix and save the environment. Green & Black's anyone?
Olympic Legacy: a 25,000 seat athletics stadium that no one needs (and without a "anchor" tenant); a crumbling Crystal Palace "National" Stadium; a shocking lack of swimming facilities in London; a hardcore of displaced people; a huge debt for London taxpayers (possibly). But, the opening ceremony will be breathtaking no doubt including "entertainment" luminaries such as Sting, Suggs and the Spice Girls and Seb Coe will flash his boyish smile.
"Ebb's Folly" - Will Oldham and Jim O'Rourke
"Piano" - Tricky
"E-Pro" - Beck
"Graine De Beaute" - Monade
"This is Why You Love Me" - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
"7:25" - Mogwai
"Renaissance Man" - Sebadoh
"Loaded" - Primal Scream
"Sell Me Back My Soul" - King of Woolworths
"Slip Inside This House" - Primal Scream
"Paro Fadeout" - Microstoria
"Easy Money" - King Crimson
"Anamorphose" - Stereolab
"Ruin It, Ruin Them, Ruin Yrself Than Ruin Me" - Kid 606
"End of a Century" - Blur
The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy hair - Led Zeppelin
Labels: daily bollocks, iPod, olympics, Work
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Isn't Nature Wonderful
Horse hanging out in the neighbourhood.
Cow having a pee.
Big ol' mushroom.
Watched: greedy middle class people taking advice from a women with an ample bosom and a penchant for tight clothes.
Ate: Apple Crumble
Boredom at Work: half-day workshop (sic)
Irritation of the Day: alleged professionals breaking the brand
iPod-alotry
"Come on You Slags - Aphex Twin
"The End and the Beginning" - The Devics
Tenskwatawa" - Songs: Ohia
"Little Eyes" - Yo La Tengo
"When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You" - Jeff Parker
"Off To Mars" - Mike Ladd
"Part 2" from The Three Cornered Hat - Manuel De Falla
"The Incredible He Woman" - Stereolab
"Stratum" - Rod Cooper
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" - The Beatles
"My Heart Might Stop" - Black Heart Procession
Brandenburg Concerto No.4 - J.S. Bach
"Annabelle" - Gillian Welch
"Mickey's Mother" - Arnold
"Russian Orthodox" - Delgados
"Schon Sehr Viel Telefuniert" - To Rococo Rot
Labels: Buckland Brewer, daily bollocks, iPod
Friday, November 02, 2007
I'll Have the Herring
...with New Potatoes and Salad...
World Toilet Summit: "An estimated 2.6 billion people, or about one-third of global population, do not have access to a proper toilet..."
Standby: "Wasted energy from appliances left on standby...accounts for 4m tonnes of excess CO2 each year."
Orchid Watch
iPod-alotry
"You You You You You" - The 6ths
"Glasgow Mega-Snake" - Mogwai
"The Apartment Song" - Do Make Say Think
"Assassination on X-Mas Eve" - Archers of Loaf
"Mirror Ball - Buffalo Daughter
"Ode to Louis Hardin" - Tele:Funken
"For a Moment" - To Rococo Rot/I-Sound
"Larks' Tongue in Aspic, Part IV" - King Crimson
"Plays John Cassavetes" - Ekehard Ehlers
"Love is No Big Truth" - Kings of Convenience
"Hassle" - Sebadoh
"23kid" - 65 Days of Static
"Decoration Day" - John Lee Hooker
""The Streets Where All I Saw" - Dakota Suite
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, energy, environment, iPod, orchid watch, seagulls, toilets
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Civic Duty
Civic planting in Barnstaple.
On this evidence, the police in Tampa might not make it on to CSI.
Our local village shop on TV. Click on "Latest Edition" and scroll to 19:10. Lack of local customers hurts, but closure of the Post Office will kill it.
Got your free Radiohead yet? How much did you pay?
iPod-alotry
"I Shall Be Free" - Bob Dylan
"Bittersweet Me" - R.E.M.
"Time to Find Me (Afx Fast Mix)" - Seefeed
"Chronology" - Ornette Coleman
"Djed (Bruise Blood Mix)" - Tortoise
"Song Meat" - Subtle
"Simple Halo" - Shipping News
"Chorale" - Spring Heel Jack
"Saint Stephen" - Grateful Dead
"Wren's Nest" - Vic Chesnutt
"Rockstar" - Sebadoh
"Love is Like Jazz" - The Magnetic Fields
"For Lack of Better Words" - Orso
Labels: Barnstaple, Buckland Brewer, daily bollocks, North Devon, police state
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Autumn leaves
Autumn kicks in along the River Taw.
Great football kits of our time.
Great football quotes of our time:
"...[Avram Grant] is in a no-win situation, unless he wins..." - Graham Taylor
iPod-olatry
"Rain King" - Sonic Youth
"Tak" - Kim Hiorthoy
"Lewis" - Yo La Tengo
"Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása" - Sigur Rós
"New Adventures" - Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia
"Love Detective" - Arab Strap
"That's the Way" - Led Zeppelin
"Big Boss Man" - Grateful Dead
"Solitaire" - The Notwist
"Tjed" - Tortoise
"De Gal Komt in mijn Mond" - Silvester Anfang
"You Set Off My Brain" - Simian
"Afterwards" - Arab Strap
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, football, iPod
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Running on Empty
Nearly came a cropper: just about wheezed into the filling station this morning on fumes of ethanol.
Ahoy there! Today is/was World Maritime Day. Support your local Flag of Convenience.
Whither Belgium? The centre of international co-operation is also the home to a dysfunctional domestic federation.
Axis of Evil Updates
"You arrogant renegade, your accusation against the DPRK is no more than barking at the moon!"
(Ironic) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an unintentional comedian:
An Iranian-American journalist asked him to clarify his extraordinary claim on Monday that there were no gay people in Iran, pointing out, "I know a few myself."
"Seriously? I don't know any," the president replied, in apparent surprise. "Give me some addresses so we're able to go to visit them and learn about them."
Given that sodomy is a crime punishable by death in Iran, it was a particular chilling offer.
iPod-olatry
"The Bereaved" - Experimental Pop Band
"Have You Passed Through This Night" - Explosions in the Sky
"1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to be)" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Nailing Honey to the Bee" - Brian Jonestown Massacre
"Harold Budd" - Rothko
"Neon Golden" - The Notwist
"Personal Stereo" - Appliance
"Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II, Tropical Storm" - John Adams
"Zebra" - The Magnetic Fields
Labels: belgium, daily bollocks, iPod, iran, irony, north korea, petrol, shipping
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Offside
On the radio the first Tottenham goal looked onside to me.
What is the top item that you think Motorway Service Areas should try to improve? Show your MSA dinner, too! But, where's Taunton Dean(e)?
Bog Roll: artistic use of the humble toilet paper.
"Best" blog on the web.
Last night at the Spitz: get there if you can and support the cause.
iPod-olatry
"King of Nothing Never" - Lambchop
"Pushkin" - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
"Trumpcard" - Jimi Tenor
"The Swarm" - Simian
"I Ain't Crazy" - Brute
"Darkest Dreaming" - David Sylvian
"Bittersweet Me" - R.E.M.
"Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (J.S. Bach)" - Muenchener Bach Orchester
"Plays John Cassavetes" - Ekkehard Ehlers
"One Chance" - Modest Mouse
"Bill's Mom Likes to Fuck" - A Minor Forest
"It's All Around You" - Tortoise
"Roman Candle" - Bedhead
"Tired Hippo" - Yo La Tengo
"Lyasnya" - Pullman
Labels: daily bollocks, iPod, motorways, music, toilets, Tottenham Hotspur
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Pay Day
£500,000 (or about 105,000 dozen donuts) for a new playground. Hope the kids enjoy it.
Times are hard. At the end of the pay month, there was enough money in the account to buy about three-and-a-half dozen donuts.
Radiohead playing games with fans.
50 years ago (yesterday): dem bums play the last game at Ebbets Field. By the time I turned up on Long Island, Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds (home of the New York baseball Giants) were memories, though much fresher than now.
I saw all my baseball games at the Big Shea (including a "home" game for the briefly itinerant, hated Yankees). Dodger and Giant series were the big tickets given that both teams had only just left the area. Add to that, there were a couple of favourites from the 50s, like Wille Mays and Don Drysdale, still playing for those clubs.
My first game at Shea was to see the Dodgers on a hot Sunday afternoon in June 1968. We got held up in traffic and missed the first few innings. Sat in the upper deck, which was so high we could touch the sun. Or to be precise, the sun touched us with a severe burn. I did not have a beer (being slightly under age at the time).
My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer
Think Rheingold whenever you buy beer
That plastic batting helmet was still around in my parents house in the 80s.
iPod-olatry
"Niger" - Mali Music
"Brandenburg Concerto No.1 (J.S. Bach)" - Muenchener Bach-Orchester
"Shadow Pugilist" - June of 44
"Run! Christian, Run!" - Super Furry Animals
"Vent" - Tricky
"Bird in the Hand" - Sebadoh
"The Girls Want to Be With the Girls" - Talking Heads
"intercourse" - Techno Animal
"Our Way to Fall" - Yo La Tengo
"Trick Bag (Shoppin' for My Tombstone)" - John Lee Hooker
"Falling" - Julee Cruise
"Man Research (Clapper)" - Gorillaz
"Inside Elevation" - Pan American
"Send a Message to Her" - Beck
"Shoes" - Atmosphere
"Leaning Against the Wall" - Kings of Convenience
"Mr. F" - The Sea and Cake
""Peace - a Theme" - King Crimson
Labels: Barnstaple, baseball, daily bollocks, iPod, money, radiohead
Monday, September 24, 2007
Yawn, It's Monday
Camp Nou or is it Nou Camp? To be turned into a urinal or tread worn tire.
"Samples of earth taken by Russians who planted a flag on the seabed below the North Pole last month show beyond doubt the Arctic is Russian, its natural resources ministry said..." Might as well go further and annex Alaska on the basis that Siberia was once linked to it.
Baseball news: Washington Nationals play last game at RFK. Check back in April in case the building schedule on the new digs slips. Meanwhile, the cynics weigh in against the club's hitherto parsimony. Misschatter was serving mojitos.
iPod-olatry
"Driftwood" - Sickoakes
"It's Not My Cross to Bear" - The Allman Brothers' Band
"Untitled" - HIM
"Exit Right" - Eleventh Dream Day
"The Long Narrow Road" - John Surman
"You Were Right" - Built to Spill
"Side Netting" - Telstar Ponies
"Lachrymae Antiquae" (John Dowland) - Kronos Quartet
"Improv - Some Pussyfooting" - King Crimson
"Polynomial C" - Aphex Twin
"Down by the River" - Low/Dirty Three
"I Get My Kicks for You" - June of 44
"Pipeline/Kill Time" - Sonic Youth
"Nomanisisland" - Subtle
Labels: baseball, daily bollocks, soccer, un convention of the law of the sea
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Silent But Deadly
Then sing of Barum, merry town and Barum's merry mayor too
I know no place in a'l the world old Barum to compare to.
Apparently, this is fun: spinning through the North Devon evening after scarfing hot dogs, chips, candy floss, chocolate, fizzy drinks and possibly a nip or two of something stronger. Still, no worse than visiting McDonald's.
By burning waste from McDonald's "restaurants" around Sheffield, the company claims it is making a green contribution. Power for just 50 homes (according to green groups; McD's says 130 "buildings") from a menu of products that already has a staggering environmental impact as well as superfluous packaging. Each McD's produces 100 tonnes of waste a year: tackle the unnecessary waste first.
Vegetarian Society launches its "Silent But Deadly" campaign - i.e. what comes out of the bottoms of cows ain't good. "Farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world's entire transport system (13.5%)." Green fields: pretty, but not so green.
Yeuch. I'm not loving it.
iPod-dolatry
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - The Beatles
"New Broadway" - The High Llamas
"Immune" - Low
"Wrinkled Ghost" - Robert Pollard
"Kesson Dalef" - Aphex Twin
Untitled from The Eventual Bow - Sonna
"Tharoman" - Threnody Ensemble
"Dead Flowers" - The Rolling Stones
"Dazed and Confused" - Led Zeppelin
"Spiderwebbed" - Tortoise
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, environment
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Rainbow
"Red sky at night/sailor's delight/Red sky in the morning/sailor take warning"
Can't remember the rhyme for rainbow. Maybe it was this:
Up above the streets and houses,
Rainbow climbing high,
Everyone can see it smiling
Over the sky.
Paint the whole world with a rainbow.
Or maybe it was: "pete gets soaked walking to work"
The US Defense Department is to hold a Q and A session on a $1 million contest to build a lightweight, wearable battery power system for US forces. Wage war and save the environment. Cool.
Make cities mobile: Severing car dependency
More silly environmental news: Surfers fear smaller swell as Atlantic wave farm approved. Tough.
iPod-dolatry
"The Waterfront" - John Lee Hooker
Mystery Bretheren Vironment - Mice Parade
"Charlotte's Mouth" - Seefeel
"I Couldn't Sleep, Either" - Montgolfier Brothers
"Lewis" - Yo La Tengo
"This Year's Girl" - Elvis Costello
"Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" - Bob Dylan
"Bonde" - Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder
"Excavation" - Haruna Ito
"Emperor Tomato Ketchup" - Stereolab
Labels: daily bollocks, energy, environment, iPod, weather
Monday, September 17, 2007
Get Your V1agra Here
10 places not to take your hols
Iamadonut: guaranteed not unhealthy content according to the Chinese Government
It's EU Mobility Week: so get mobile, but preferably not using a car.
That Viagra e-mail? It is a scam.
England suck, England suck, England don't suck. Women to the rescue, as usual.
Suddenly, the Archbishop of York is an expert criminal investigator (or a stooge of the McCann media machine).
Make your opinion known, earn money (and earn me money): be a YouGov Panel member (sorry UK residents only).
WHOM have you slept with?
iPod-dolatry
"Epitaph" - King Crimson
"Tower of Our Tuning" - Broadcast
"When We Reach the Hill" - The Black Heart Procession
"Silver Rider" - Low
"California" - Low
"Sine Wave" - Mogwai
"Comely Row" - Solex
"Desert Chorus" (from Harmonium) - John Adams
"Rainy Day, Dream Away" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
"The Story of Jazz" - Yo La Tengo
Labels: daily bollocks, environment, iPod, sex
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Fields, Birds and Pistols (and Femdom)
Hey, kinky linky link (nsfw)
16.16km on the Tarka Trail - Puffing Billy to Bideford - at a clip of 23.3kph. Not bad for an out-of-shape, bloated 49 year-old.
Cows in green fields, unconcerned about Foot-and-Mouth disease, but they ought to know that animals can now be moved to abattoirs.
The Sex Pistols say a dirty word on TV.
...[Pistol Glen] Matlock is the first person without an Oxbridge degree to have used the word [fuck] on television, an irony only if you have peculiar views about the value of an Oxbridge education and/or swearing.
Meanwhile ex-Stone Rose Ian Brown praises the 70s (and the Pistols too boot):
There was no Walkmans, videos, Nintendo or Xboxes, no internet, no mobiles. No computers. No DVDs. There were only three TV channels. They cry laughing. But it made us hungry and thoughtful. And we had great things like the Sex Pistols.
Swallows: either preparing to migrate south for the winter or crap on the car.
Labels: blogosphere, Buckland Brewer, cycling, daily bollocks, farming
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Where There's Muck There's Brass (or Onions)
Bagging the homemade compost.
e-Bay fraud and how small-time fraudsters get away with it.
Plans to rejuvenate the Quartier Europeen in Brussels.
Glass and steel aside, there's a lot of grubby old buildings around Euro-Land
22 years in a Travelodge? Must be the complimentary biscuits.
Onions out to dry.
Labels: crime, daily bollocks, EU, gardening
Friday, August 31, 2007
Non, je ne regrette rien
Virtual Unreality: WWF (not that WWF) on Second Life:
"Pack your virtual suitcase and head for Conservation Island, a place where an orangutan will sell you an ice cream and a floating panda will be your friend."
Plate tectonics: Manchester hit by sixth earthquake in a month.
Health News: Drug addled elephant in rehab.
Light bulb update: "European consumers will probably have to wait another year before they see the prices of energy-saving light bulbs fall, following a Commission decision to extend anti-dumping duties on imports from China rather than scrap them immediately."
Arsenal bought by the Russian mafia.
On the radio: y'know, the theme from 2001.
Culture night per la famiglia "donut": un film.
iPod-olatory
"Everybody's in a Band" - Two Dollar Guitar
"Satan's Friends" - Experimental Pop Band
"Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" - Genesis
"Twin Falls" - Built to Spill
"Wont' Get to Heaven" - Spriritualized
"Hum" - Bardo Pond
"Silver Rocket" - Sonic Youth
"Swastika Eyes" - Primal Scream
"I Won't Back Down" - Johnny Cash
"Expect Snakes" - The Anomoanon
Labels: daily bollocks, drugs, earthquakes, energy, environment, EU, films, iPod, music, second life, wwf
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Enjoy Your Pizza
Battle between EU Industry and Trade Commissioners over lowering the cost of energy-efficient light bulbs. German protecting his own industry at the expense of consumers and energy efficiency.
Bush pr0n
Another internet 10th anniversary. Yawn. Teh bloggers.
...the medium has radically changed publishing and communication. But not everyone is convinced ...For the blogging tribe, it's more like time to get out the red pencil, and dispute the premise of the anniversary itself.
Props to the Tottenham Massive.
Another football cardiac arrest? As Sevilla holds funeral for Puerta.
Rock Parque
Rubbish food: food rubbish.
iPodolatory
"Just Me and Phil" - Jah Wobble
"Dánarfregnir Og Jarðarfarir" - Sigur Rós
"Soot" - Sam Shalabi
"Cuban" - Sebadoh
"Worlds Melt Away" - Rothko
"Cadriopo" - Stereolab
"Buffalo606 - The Morning After" - Kid 606
"The Individual" - Spiritualized
"81" - The Marquis De Tren And Bonny Billy
"Knife Attack" - Timesbold
"Team Handed" - Mogwai
"Larks Tongue in Aspic Part One" - King Crimson
"Milkman" - Aphex Twin
"Threnody of Souls in Torment" - The Robert Fripp String Quartet
Labels: Barnstaple, daily bollocks, EU, food, football, internet, iPod, pr0n, Rock Park, soccer, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, web content
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
A dead leaf trapped in the spider's web covering the rear view mirror.
Happy 10th birthday CSS: cascading style sheets what drives good internet style and what consigned flashing, nasty type-faced, table ridden web pages to the dustbin. Bring on True Type fonts and other aesthetic niceties. Or, perhaps we should concentrate on content that people will read.
The world's first ecologically sound prison. In Norway, of course. Prison should be about rehabilitation as well as punishment so a sustainable prison has a resonance to it. But, then I'm a limp-wristed liberal.
Berbatov is apparently staying at Tottenham, but JD on his way to AV.
Why we like chocolate.
British researchers ... found that the pleasure centres of chocolate lovers' brains lit up more strongly in response to the food than those who are less partial. "The take-home message is that if you want to limit [food] intake, you could limit the extent to which you are exposed to the combination of sight and taste. For example, you could eat in the dark"
Or you could eat dark chocolate.
iPodolatory
"Golfer Vrs Boxer" - Amon Tobin
"Camp" - The Anomoanon
"Anyway" - Genesis
"You Could Ruin My Day" - Four Tet
"Operator" - Grateful Dead
"Robot New York" - Add N to (X)
"Mogwai Fear Satan" - Mogwai (My Bloody Valentine Remix)
Labels: css, daily bollocks, environment, food, football, iPod, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, web content
Saturday, August 25, 2007
The Day the Sky Disappeared
To go along with the Summer that Never Was, the Day the Sky Disappeared.
Never mind Arsenal's sniff of homo-eroticism, what about Cesc Fabregas's child-like qualities: "When I scored my first goal ... I went home and celebrated by drinking a Coca-Cola and eating a Kinder Egg"
Sweeties and fizzy drinks tonight!
Any Mail Merge experts out there? Our whizzy top-of-the-range network uses Word 97. The following pops up when I try to mail merge.
A Kinder Egg and Coke for solutions that work.
Heard of Second Life? Try First Life. Marina Hyde on our internet fixation. (Hooray for the web.)
Crazy, fun-loving, friend of Fidel: Hugo Chavez puts the clock back 30 minutes. (Some might say he's moved the clock back three decades.)
Labels: daily bollocks, internet, soccer, summer, web ads