Blogging myself #2
Posted on July 24th, 2006 by Andy
Read me waxing lyrical about the very lovely Lorna on last.fm - Jumping on the bandwagon #2: Lorna - grange85’s Journal - Last.fm…
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I (heart) Gmaps Pedometer
Posted on May 10th, 2006 by Andy
This (via Beatnic) is just great for the stats and maps obessesive in me…
My cycle to work along the canal this morning and my ride to the Broadcast Centre yesterday…
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BtVS anonymous
Posted on April 21st, 2006 by Andy
So this is by way of a “coming out”. Latecomer as I was to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, like a born-again Christian or a reformed smoker I have become fanatical and obsessed. Having said that I am still a minor Buffy nut compared with Hazel.
So the two of us are stitting down to watch the entire run again - we manufactured an “excuse” involving Angel (which we haven’t seen as yet) but to be honest we just wanted to watch it again - and it’s not like we have anything else to watch (maybe 30 or 40 films and a few TV series - not really that much).
The most obvious difference this time around seems to be that the storyline, which was the most important thing first time around, has become only a minor player in our enjoyment of the show. The character development and interaction, and mostly the hilarious dialogue are more important - so we can watch an episode like I, Robot…You, Jane and thoroughly enjoy it despite its woeful plot - the big test for this theory will come with Beer Bad.
Just to prove she’s a bigger fan than me Hazel is blogging her thoughts on each episode as we go through it (Let’s Fold Scarves). As for me…I’ll just remain a detached and cool music snob and continue to whine preciously at the perilous state of the music and media industries…
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More MySpace venting
Posted on April 18th, 2006 by Andy
This article from the New York Times seems to suggest that MySpace is acceptable because of it’s democratic nature - it’s because anyone is allowed to create ugly, hateful pages that the site is so popular. That would be so sad if it were true. I’m not convinced - I think its popular despite that. I think its popular because of some strange freak of nature/timing/luck and that its popularity is the ONLY thing that keeps it going - there’s almost an obligation to embrace MySpace merely because everyone else is - it makes me want to cry.
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It’s about time
Posted on April 18th, 2006 by Andy
As much as I hate the way that the big companies want to own the whole of the Internet I seem to have become some sort of Google apologist. It seems that they can do so little wrong (although the Google China censorship is a little disappointing). I love Google Mail, I love that they have made Internet advertising less intrusive and ugly, I love Google Maps and Google Earth and now I adore Google Calendar - I’ve been waiting for this one for a while in the knowledge that they WILL do it and they WILL do it better than anyone else has managed an online calendar.
I love Google - I just hate the way they make me a hypocrite!
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I (heart) MySpace
Posted on February 20th, 2006 by Andy
In the wake of my childish and petulant rant at MySpace after Damon and Naomi decided to sign up to the flaky social networking Leviathan I was contacted by two former members of Galaxie 500 pointing out that there was an unofficial and inaccurate Galaxie 500 MySpace page and they thought it would be a good idea if there was also an official and accurate one as well
As if my ego hadn’t been inflated enough by a namecheck on the Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste DVD they suggested that I might be the right person to look after such an undertaking. Obviously someone with any moral fibre would have been compelled to decline the offer - sadly I just crumbled under my own vanity and am therefore obliged to withdraw my previous dissing of MySpace and say that it is not a shallow, mindless and messy horror - but a lovely, flowery and friendly place to hang out.
So here it is the official Galaxie 500 MySpace page
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My favourite blogs: If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger…
Posted on February 1st, 2006 by Andy
Apart from being interesting, entertaining, informative and educational If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger… provides me with lots of fantastic desktop wallpapers…
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Bloggies - voting time is here
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 by Andy
The voting form for the Sixth Annual Weblog Awards aka The Bloggies is now online so it’s time to go and vote for…
- The ever wonderful and enlightening Chromewaves in the Best Canadian weblog category
- Said the Gramophone is a tremendous read and so has rightfully got a nomination in the Best writing of a weblog category. Go read this fantastic/funny/sweet piece on Camera Obscura and then go vote!
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Week one over
Posted on January 6th, 2006 by Andy
The first post in my pretty new Wordpress blog.
A week at work gazing vacantly at the PC monitor drowning in a wash of 80s indie (JaMC, Sonic Youth, Stone Roses) and 60s Jazz (Miles, Cannonball, Bill Evans, Monk) and wondering what my first new purchase of the year will be. My Norman records email update came and went without any great inspiration. and a lazy trawl around my favourite blogs was equally unproductive. Maybe its too early in the year to be inspired.
Baffling is the only possible word to describe Stylus’s description of Spiritualized’s Lazer Guided Melodies as
pallid and homogeneous
and more baffled by the list of agreeing comments. It comes as part of Stylus’s reassesment of the band’s second album Pure Phase which I’ve also recently rediscovered.
Dave Simpson in the Guardian hunts down 43 former members of The Fall
“It’s a bit like a football team,” he said. “Every so often you have to get rid of the centre-forward.”
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End of year lists #4
Posted on December 17th, 2005 by Andy
Sorry - I nearly missed this one - a couple of weeks ago Largehearted Boy put up 2005’s Largehearted Favourite Albums - good read and plenty to download and check out.
It’s a very cool blog as well that acts as an aggregator for all things cool if, like me, you’re not very good at keeping your eyes on what’s happening or what’s available to download
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