Most Listened To Of The Year

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Most Listened To Of The Year

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My First Podcast

I made a mix for the already legendary Locast podcasts.
You can subscribe to the podcast here using itunes
when the box pops up click launch application and it will take you to itunes where you can subscribe.
It is FREE, you just need to log on using your itunes/apple log on which you should have if you own an ipod and have registered it.

Or if your not too hot on pod-casts and all the new technology then you can download it as an mp3 here and keep it for ever:
My First Podast.mp3
Drop the file into your itunes or whichever software you use to play music.

Give the rest of the mixes a listen too.
Theres a pretty eclectic mix with sets from Patl aka PaulOrder , Lo , and a-filter.

Check out the podcasts direcotry at the Locast site: www.locast.co.uk

Here is the tracklisting for my mix:

Palmitos Park – El Guincho
Lips - Micachu & The Shapes
Straight to Hell - The Clash
Kamphopo - The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit)
Way More Brazil - Diplo
Bucky Done Gun - M.I.A.
Shimmy Shimmy Ya - Ol' Dirty Bastard
Again & Again - Roots Manuva
Poison Dart ft Warrior Queen - The Bug
Where's My Money (Caspa Remix) - TC
Opera - Bass Clef
Money Folder (Four Tet Remix) - Madvillain
Sabali - Amadou & Mariam
My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille - Realpeople
Smile Upon Me - Passion Pit
The Bears Are Coming - Late Of The Pier
Brother Sport - Animal Collective
All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem

Duck Bus

The weekend just got better and better!

Ant Colony

What a subterrain ant colony looks like



This is simply incredible!
Amazing!

Heroes Pt. 4

Stephen & Jay
Cheers to PK for sending me this one


a bit of fry and jay z from defyingdarwin on Vimeo.

Good News

I bought my first paper in a good couple of months this weekend (I had stopped buying newspapers becuase I find all the news a little too depressing at the moment) but I bought the observer on Sunday morning because I was having a lazy day.
But this weekend there was some good news. the main being the election in the US. Very positive news and a great outlook for the future. Brilliant stuff.

But the news that really made me smile this weekend was a little news story from my hometown of Bristol. I think this story is great. Here it be:
Original story from BBC

Thief sent 'sorry' letter to shop

The owner of an Indian food store in Bristol has received an apology letter and £100 from a former drug addict who stole cigarettes from the shop in 2001.

Imran Ahmed, 27, who runs Raja Foods in St Marks Road, Easton, said he was stunned to open the remorseful letter.

It begins: "Dear Sirs, I am writing this letter to make amends to you for something I have done in the past."

Mr Ahmed said the thief's change of heart was "really good" and he intends to give the money to a drugs' charity.

The thief's letter continues: "About seven years ago I was walking past your shop late one night when I noticed that someone had broken into it.

Make amends

"I used this opportunity to enter your shop where I stole 400 cigarettes. The money enclosed (£100) is to pay for those cigarettes which I stole from you.

"At that time I was heavily using drugs and my life was in a mess, now I no longer use drugs and I strive to lead a decent and honest life.

"As part of my ongoing recovery I try to put right all of the wrongs I have done in the past, at least where I can, and this is why I am giving you back the money which I stole from you.

"I regret the harm I caused you in the past and I sincerely apologise to you for it.

"I was very wrong to do this and I hope that returning the money will make up for this harm, at least in some small way."

Vote 08

I'm not claiming to have a huge biasty towards any particular party and your not gona see me out on the streets of London riding a donkey preaching that anyone is the black Jesus because I simply do not know enough, but I'd like to think I know a little more than most on the subject and I don't mean from what Cheryl Crow or the Black Eyed Peas have told me.
I will be watching tomorrow with greatest of interest and apprehension and any other emotions that the 'democratic' selection of the most powerful politician in the world can conjour up in a person with even the slightest interest in their own or the worlds future.

Wikipedia has a great bit of background knowledge which is definitely worth a read and the BBC site has a nice little guide to election night in plain (British) English.
I for one will be drinking Redstripe when the Republicans win a state and Blue Pandapops when the Democrats win a state...
... so fingers crossed I'll be bouncing off the walls rather than drunk in a gutter by result time.

People say its in the bag, but don't forget we voted Boris Johnson as Mayor of London.

Heroes Pt. 3

Stephen Fry
National Treasure, head of the dinner table, gospel.
Have a listen of his superb podcasts (currently #1 on itunes and rightly so)
I would like to invite him round for tea.

That is all.

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.