Lost your love of life? Too much apple pie.

Went to see the ever-wonderful Wedding Present last night. And they were quite, quite superb (as indeed they tend to be).

The support band was an American band called Scarling who appear to be very popular with the myspace crowd, and while they were kind of bland for my taste they did have their moments, and the smattering of 14 year old Goth girls appeared very appreciative. They also had a girl playing guitar who was probably the palest person I ever seen, but none-the-less seems very charming.

The Wedding Present themselves did a mix of old and new stuff including the first time i heard them play Brassneck which was pretty special. I also enjoy the fact that at a Wedding Present gig you get an awful lot of 40 year old, balding men moshing like good-uns. And David Gedge does write the greatest songs ever (tm).

Part-Time Tribe

Boing Boing: Join a timeshare island tribe in Fiji
- Rather a curious idea, although I suspect it is just a new way of spinning the timeshare concept to people who have been watching lost too much It could work out to be rather interesting.

Irrespressible Info.

Musicality

I have added a little box over on the right hand side of the screen there that displays the songs podcasts that i have been listening to. This will no doubt demonstrate to the world my slightly dubious taste in music. It mostly revolves around people with guitars who sing songs about things, and as such is dreadfully old fashioned. This is however at the very least consistent with my dubious taste in just about everything else.

As an added 'bonus' if you click on it it takes you to a page with a lot of charts and what have you, and lets you set up your very own version of same.

Pictures

1. A Banner.














2. A Dolls Eye Weaver logo (Albeit in a slightly Slipknot style) for your very own mobile phone.

Mac

So. I've been using my new and shiny Apple MacBook for a week or so. And it is quite, quite suberb.

My computing history basically runs thus:

1) BBC-B. A great little computer. Mostly used for playing Repton.

2) Acorn Achimedies. A very easy to use, easy to learn computer. My first real experience of programming and so on.

3) At around the same time my dad made the leap from CP/M to DOS/Windows 3.11 and brought a pretty powerful (for its time) 486DX PC and i began to take an interest.

and i've been using PCs pretty much exclusively ever since. Going over to Mac OS X is awfully like going back to the Acorn. Things just *work* and look so, so elegant.

Nightingales

Approximately 14 million years ago I had a university lecturer who used to be in a Punk band back when punk was cool. This band was called the Prefects, and didn't actually make it so far as producing an album, but did get to support the Clash on the 'White Riot tour'.

Anyway, the lecturer was a chap called Alan Apperley and he told me about things like Associative Democracy, Rawl's Theory Of Justice and explained what Post-Modernism actually was (among other very clever and interesting things) basically making university a hugely more worthwhile experience.

Anyhow, he seems to have a new band called The Nightingales, who can be found at This MySpace page. and I would definitely recommend a listen or two.

Adam And Joe

I was always a big fan of the Adam and Joe Show on channel 4. Now you can also get the Adam and Joe Podcast from the xfm website and it is *very* funny. I'm especially impressed by the songs that they sing because they can't use the real ones.

Phonogram

I am, it must be said, not the single greatest fan of comics ever. But I will admit to being intrigued with Phonogram

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Has returned for its latest series, always worth a listen. Humphrey Lyttelton is a god among men.

Intention.

What I would really like to be posting in this particular space is stuff that I find interesting.