So Fresh, So Clean: MOvember Beggins

OK its October the 31st and I've just had my last clean shave for a month in my bid to grow a moustache for the MOvember charity (see post bellow).

This picture was just taken, literally after getting out of the shower.
Your not gona get cleaner than this.

MOvember

Today is the last day for a month that I will be shaving.
As part of the mens health charity in the UK Movember encourages men to grow a moustache to raise awareness for Prostate Cancer.

All info here: movember.com

So along with my flat mates and most of the men in my work place I will be growing a moustache.
There is even a moustache emporium opening on Charlotte Street in London: www.mosemporium.co.uk where you can get your moustache trimmed and styled for free.

I will be taking a photograph every day of my progress and posting it to my blog for all 3 of my followers to see so be sure to check back.

I am a little apprehensive that my facial hair may go ginger when it gets to a certain length.

To celebrate the moustache I have included pictures of my 4 favourite people with moustaches.

Liscence to ill

Hello,
Today im off work with the dreaded lurgie.
After a few days of having just a sore throat I have been taken over by aching muscles which was joined by trippy head and a constant feeling of being really hot but when taking the covers or jumper off feeling really cold. Nice.
But this is not a post to have a whinge. It is to bring comfort and home remedys to others if they happen to feel a little ill this winter.

Its recipe time!!!

Bryns Home-made Lemsip.

Ingredients:

• Half a lemon
• A nobble of ginger
• Honey
• Echinacea
• boiling water

1. Chop up ginger into thin slices
   
2. Cut lemon in half and then into quarters and squeeze the hell out of it into a mug
3. Add the ginger and a healthy dollop of honey to the mug
4. Open up the capsual of echinacea and pour the powder into the mix. (or add drops if in liquid form or crush up a tablet)
5. Pour on freshly boiled water
6. Stir it up!
7. Slurp it down and feel the goodness massage your throat and warm up your belly. Serve with a nice biscuit or some eggy bread.
   
8. Feel better

Banksy's Pet Shop

Banksy's first show in New York.

From Banksy:

“New Yorkers don’t care about art, they care about pets. So I’m exhibiting them instead. I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming, but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing. I took all the money I made exploiting an animal in my last show and used it to fund a new show about the exploitation of animals. If its art and you can see it from the street, I guess it could still be considered street art."

See more here at wooster collective

Shivers Part 1

I know I go on alot about Radiohead but this is just one of the most incredible songs I have ever heard in my life. After listening to it for the umpteenth thousand time and still getting shivers down my spine and the hairs on the back of my neck standing up I have decided to start making a note of all the things that have this effect on me.
It happens alot.
So... Shivers Part 1: Weird Fishes / Arpeggi

Hackney Cakes

Found this pic of the gas cakes on Andrews Road. I see these every day from my flat. I love them. Something so industrial yet so beautiful on the skyline.
Not sure who took the picture but found it on polanoid.net
Nice.

Adam Buxton's Credit Crunch Song

The genius that is Adam Buxton made this song about the credit crunch for the songwars sections of his radio show on 6music last week.
Its taken me a while to find but its worth it.
This weeks songwars was thier takes on Radioheads Reckoner with Adam doing a Thom Yorke in the shower remix. Genius!

Heroes part 2

Graham & Peter

Reckoner Video

Radiohead - Reckoner - by Clement Picon

The video for reckoner by Radiohead by Clement Picon.
Clement was one of the winners of the Aniboom competition set up to create an animation to go with the song. The band liked it so much they asked for it to be the official video for the song.
Good choice.
Well done.

Heroes

Thom & Kieren

London to Brighton in 4 minutes

Saw this on BBC 4 last night as part of an advert for a program that Ian Hislop is doing about the closure of Britain's train stations.
Really nice footage of the journey between London and Brighton in the 1950s.
Having made this journey recently its really interesting to see how the land surrounding the tracks has changed in 60 years since the railways heyday.
I'm trying to think up a joke about the cost of rail travel now or how the privatisation of the rail network in the 80s changed things but I don't think I need to really.
Nice one Maggie.