Ah No!....

This guy has egg in and around his face...

I've been waiting for this moment...

I am feeling particularly ineloquent today. I think my brain might be decaying, or at the very least it's in a state of disrepair. I was feeling very bored and sorry for myself earlier and ended up wacking on some Silversun Pickups. I have re-reached the conclusion that theyre awesome, underrated, under debated, over deflated etc. I like this song in particular, its marveloso. THe videos pretty good too me thinks?....



I've also been revisiting some of The Shins this week. I think Wincing the Night Away is my fave of the albums. I'm fully aware that this a taboo subject and that I'm alienating myself with this opinion but I don't care, it's amazing. My life is so dull at the moment that I don't have anything to chat about other than music, always a sign of intellectual and general existence defunctness ( my spell check reckons defunctness is a word. orson)

Oh, one thing maybe. Peter Mandelson wants to replace Sargeant on Strictly Come Blah Blah. Imagine That. Just Imagine.



I saw a band called Chairlift on Friday night (I say "saw", it was more like could vaguely get a glimpse through the haze of voddy and my system not being able to cope as a result of giving up the "sauce" for a week). They have good songs but I don't remember being particularly impressed. But then again my recollection is disputable and clouded at best. What can I say, I'm a reprobate.


Reprobate: One rejected by God; a sinful person; An individual with low morals or principles; To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn; Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss; To refuse, set aside; Rejected; cast off as worthless; Rejected by God; damned, sinful; Immoral



On record they sound pretty cool, plus they were in an iTunes advert (I don;t know why I said "plus", surely thats a 'minus'. stig it to the man aint it.) Anyway, check out Bruises (aforementioned sell-out, yet still ear sex, song) on the ol mespace

Your destruction is inewitable!

North Korea, to me at least, is a fairly humorous concept. This is, admittedly, in part due to the enlightenment given me by that great World Politics Documentary 'Team America: World Police'. I recognise that living as a North Korean is probably not as much of a hoot as it seems to the casual observer but I nevertheless think the idea of Kim Jong Il hillarious.

We were talking about totalitarian regimes today and so I did a bit of youtube search and found this gem. Basically, NK created some sort of cult of the individual around this fella Kim Il Sung. Sung created the state in its current communist form and was succeeded by everyones favourite warlord, and his son, Kim Jong Il. He then went and died (what a silly sausage) and this was the resulting level of national mourning. Never has grief made me chuckle so much.





His son, despite his speech impediment, is a good looking fella I think you'd agree...

Lekede Soundsystem dead? Murphy kicks us all in the balls

James Murphy, the genius behind LCD Soundsystem and everyone's favourite slightly overweight and middle-aged but nevertheless ridiculously talented musical genius, is apparently not going to record any thing else under the LCD moniker.

I don't think I'm alone in believing 'Sound of Silver' to be one of, if not the, best album of 2007. It has everything: poignancy, floor fillers and tenderness all in a work that fitted together track-to-track almost perfectly. It was an opus.



But apparently we shouldn't dwell too long on a winning formula. Murph allegedy wants to get some crazy disco vibe going on. Where he gets washed up, barely alive former stars to front a band that hes gonna get together. I'm initially cynical but to doubt Murphy would be on a par with questioning the legacy of Steffen Freund at Tottenham Hotspur. We all know this would be churlish. Only time will tell I suppose. So for now, warm up a cup of cocoa, put another log in the fire and sit back and enjoy some of LCD's finest moments...




And I suppose steffen freunds aswell...

Rumours of my death: slightly over egged

Ok, Ive been out of the game for nigh on a week and can only offer the profusest (a word?!?) of all my apologies. I dropped the ball and can only offer comiserattia.
However, the big dog is back with a vengeance. Just a collection of fun stuff I have been perousing at a casual pace over the last week. I blame my complete lack of recent creativity/prolificity on the visit of my friend Vlad which was simply too drunk. I have been recovering this week: work wise and basically being a pansy, or what we in the blogging trade refer to as a 'dickwad waste-of-space washed up tabloidquality-at-best (talking more the Daily Sport end of things) vagrant'.

The sincerest of all my apologies...
Anyhow, to the nitty gritty travellers.

Uno.
An interview with Charles Manson. Frankly epic. I don't need to explain nuffink.



Dos.
Geneva in winter...




Tres?.

A fun little wiki(d?) link. Can you top these? A pineapple for the best suggestion...


Fourteen.

I think this is a hoot. I feel like I've been to Seattle. I havn't. I think.

Cinco.

Newspaporial evidence of my exploits at Shred Yr Face. Featured in the Manchester student paper. And the resulting tshirt reward!..





Six.

Who spotted my casual U2 reference????

There's a boy across the river...

Off to see Laura Marling with my Ukrainian chum Vladimir. Marling is over a year younger than me and has a Mercury Music Prize nominated album. Her songs have some of the most insightful and downright sexual lyrics and ideas of almost any songwriter I've heard, let alone one younger than me, a 19 year old.

Check her below, covering a Jeffrey Lewis classic with Johnny Flynn. I can't urge you enough to get into this lady. She's awesome.

How many times have I heard John McCain being called a 'maverick'?..

What is a maverick anyway?



Some definitions:

1. An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.

2. One that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter.

3. Being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence: maverick politicians; a maverick decision.

I'm guessing people are referring to the first definition.


I'm currently getting hideously caffeinated for the night ahead. Sounds as though everything going fairly smoothly so far though, good turnouts etc. Although, queueing for 3 hours to cast your vote is ridiculous it shows how important this election is to people.

I love Paxman, ripping through the bullshit on Newsnight.

MUST STAY AWAKE...

Au Revoir Jorge...

I was reading an article today in The Times that said the arts could suffer from an Obama victory tomorrow.

So much of the political comedy around today is directed towards the Bush regime that when he buggers off in January people aren't gonna have anything to talk about.

Sure, if McCain gets in we'll have some great OAP/general loss of marbles gags supported by plenty of ammo aimed at his Russo/Alaskan Vice President/invalid, but if Obama wins there could be a drought at least for a while.

I think I'm gonna miss George 'dubya', even if it is in a "we can no longer as readily take the piss out of the worst US President of all time" kind of way. I'm still going to miss him though. Hopefully, he'll take some sort of ambassadorial role like Special Envoy to the United Nations Peace Keeping Force, I think that would be appropriate...


Anyway, I'll leave you with some of his greatest golden moments. Try not to shed too many tears...

Hedi Slimane watch your back...

I've designed some pretty sweet t-shirts.

Check 'em...





and this old chestnut...




Fuck tertiary education, I think I've found my calling.