Bonjour!

Ever so sorry for the delay. I finally arrived in France a few weeks ago and finally got hooked up to teh intertubez about a week ago.
Since then I’ve been trying to re-familiarize myself with this whole interwebs malarkey and generally get back into the swing of things.
I figured it was about time I updated the blog.
That said, I don’t have much in the way of actual updates just now, although you may be happy/interested/disgusted/terrified to hear that I’ve started work on the next record. More on that later, in the meantime, here is an awesome 80s movie mashup video for the song Lisztomania by Phoenix. Enjoy!

via Sleevelessness

Don’t set fire to yourself.

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what my twitter posts *should* have looked like…

So, the first part of the journey is over and I’m knackered.
I posted a few comments and pictures during the trip to Twitter via my mobiley phone, but I’ve discovered that the comments accompanying the images didn’t show up, they each just say “You have received a new message”, which sucks!
I figured I’d cobble together all the pictures/message I sent, in order, with the original captions. That way, should you care, you will have a better idea of what I was going on about!
(text messages in bold, messages that were meant to accompany photos in italics)

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Mobiley phone acquired. Let Twitpicery commence! On the ferry to France. Yay!
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Now in France. By way of proof, beaucoup de fromage!

Raining but warm, lightning seems likely. Electrical storms follow me everywhere I fear!

Just saw a kid walking around, carrying a shoe on a stick. I know not why.

After spending 33hrs traveling about 2000 miles I finally slept! Ants in 1st hotel room. Thanks ants. Thants.

Just drove through Cuisery, a french Hay-On-Wye. Books FTW!

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The mountains are visible now, yay!

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Foggy morning in the mountains (this picture didn’t show up at all)

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But clearing up now

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Beautiful scenery, just hope this piece of shit van survives the journey!

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It’s crazy hot in this (looong) tunnel. When we come out – Italy!

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Porno DVD vending machine? (pity you can’t see it properly in the picture!)

Arrived at port in Genoa. Are we in the right place? Who knows, absolute chaos!

Right place, wrong time ie seems. Everyone around us is headed to North Africa
(turned out to be the other way around)

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Sitting in the heat, eating bonbonbonbons, wondering what the hell’s going on!

Finally onboard ship. “Ferry”=cargo ship, Grimaldi Lines=liars, Genoa port=epic, EPIC fail! Bollocks!

Off coast of Sicily, mobiley service back. Not much food on board, but sweet jebus it’s good!

There you have it. Now for a couple of days of intensive packing then I get to do most of it again in reverse!

Don’t set fire to yourself

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On the road again…

Hello there, just a quicky.
I wanted to post this earlier but epic fail on the part of my (ex) webhost meant, until earlier today, I wasn’t sure if I’d still have a website to post to. Apparently I do though, so here it is.

Basically, as some of you know, I’m moving soon and phase one of that move involves a mini adventure which starts tomorrow.

It involves a lot of traveling in about six days. Basically, Malta->UK->France->Italy->Malta

During that time I won’t have access to the interwebs but hopefully I will, at some point, be able to post pictures to Twitter via some newfangled mobiley phone device.

While I do intend to post updates, it does rely on

a) Me seeing something worth updating
b) Me figuring out how to to it
c) Me remembering to do it

It’s a tall order, but you never know, it’s so crazy it might just work.

Anywho, wish me luck

Don’t set fire to yourself

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Packing up is hard to do…

Apologies regarding the radio silence. I’m a little distracted at the moment by an upcoming move (again). The studio equipment is dismantled, so no new music – or discussion of said new music – for a few months I fear.

On the plus side, this looks awesome! I can’t wait to see it

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A bunch of stuff, mostly awesome…

First of all, I should apologise for the appalling lack of updates lately.
I really have no excuse. I’ve simply been too busy arsing around on Twitter or watching X-Files or Burn Notice or Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe to bother!

So I figure a quick stream of consciousness post about awesome stuff I’ve seen or heard lately might help make up for it.

Before I try and think of awesome stuff though, let me start be mentioning something despicable.
Namely ‘journalist’ Paula Murray’s sickeningly vile excuse for an article in a recent edition of the Scottish Daily Express.

Rather than try to explain in detail here, I shall instead refer you to the blog of TV writer, actor, director and burgeoning web crusader, Graham Linehan.
His recent post on the article and the subsequent campaign to get the paper to apologise and is far more eloquent and informative than anything I could hope to write on the subject.
Besides which, you should check out his blog anyway because he’s a bit of a legend.

Just promise me you’ll come back here when you’ve finished. Deal?

The Express Wins The Race To The Bottom

Finished? Shameful excuse for front page news isn’t it? I hope you signed the petition!

Anywho, at least Graham’s blog is jam packed with other funny stuff, so it’s not all doom and gloom.
Consider Why, That’s Delightful! Awesome Thing Number 1.

Awesome Thing Number 2:

I’ve watched countless excellent videos on YouTube recently (mostly via Twitter recommendations). Here’s a few of them.

Kutiman Remixing YouTube

That’s right, fantastic music made by sampling YouTube instructional videos! The best bit is the fact the songs have ready made music videos themselves. Genius.

You should visit his channel and watch all his other videos too. Freakin’ brilliant! Kutiman’s Channel

David Letterman Bill Hicks Apology
On January 30th 2009, after more than 15 years, David Letterman finally apologised for screwing Bill over just before his tragic death by inviting BIll’s mother on the show and finally broadcasting the routine that sparked the controversy.
It’s surprisingly moving and the routine is unsurprisingly brilliant.

Part 1 (Intro)

Part 2 (Interview with Mary Hicks)

Part 3 (The long lost routine)

Awesome Thing Number 3:

Where The Wild Things Are Movie Poster!

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Courtesy of HeyYouGuys.co.uk

Oh. My. Days!
I’m so excited about this. Where The Wild Things Are is one of my favourite things in the universe.

Anywho, I’m gonna stop at 3 so I’ll have plenty of other things to post in the future.

Until then
Don’t set fire to yourself

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