Author Archives: adrian
New music: ‘Revenge is Never Sweet’
Some new music for your downloading and dancing pleasure… Revenge is Never Sweet (3MB) I made it for a recent Collective task, the aim of which was to write a “sad” song. I’m not really a sad sort of person … Continue reading
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Water of life
What about that new Dasani bottled water, eh? Filtered tap water in a nice blue bottle. London water has always tasted fine to me, but not enough to make me want to buy half a litre of it from a … Continue reading
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Free child pornography with your Super Sizzling Sun
So what’s worse… exhibiting pictures of a naked child in the very young-hip-and-urban Spitz Gallery in East London or printing one of those pictures (alongside one from a “genuine” child porn website) in a national newspaper? Or, to put it … Continue reading
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Football now “officially” uncool again
In contrast with the situation I mentioned back in January, all talk of the Football League rebranding seems to have been forgotten, because there’s now some proper lascivious scandal for the media to froth over. In the past week or … Continue reading
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Americans frighten me sometimes
By way of the always interesting Ben Hammersley comes an intriguing account of US mall culture from Chris Heathcote’s antimega blog. Whenever I read stuff like that, I feel a certain relief that our supposedly limitless adoption of all (bad) … Continue reading
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Stereolab without Mary
I honestly didn’t realise I’d gone so long without posting. Time must be going through one of its warped phases. I won’t say I was exactly apprehensive about seeing Stereolab in their unfortunately Mary-less format, but I did wonder how … Continue reading
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Genius smiles on us all
Oh yes, of course I’m going to write about last Friday… I just didn’t have time to do it properly until now. Friday was the first night of Brian Wilson’s Smile tour. I’d heard a few bootlegged (speculative) versions of … Continue reading
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Enforced recreation(al grief)
An article on the BBC site confirms something I’ve been saying for a few years now. The mass outpourings of public grief in response to Princess Diana, Jill Dando, the Queen Mother or even the Soham murders are examples of … Continue reading
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Make your own Windows
So Windows has gone open source, eh? That the leaked code released onto the Net was accompanied by a message from Bill Gates, saying “I’m so sorry, I screwed up. Please fix this for me” is sadly, as yet, unconfirmed.
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Miscellaneous musings round about midnight
Miscellaneously… Mozilla have had to rename their Firebird (previously Phoenix) browser again. It’s now called Firefox and version 0.8 will probably be every bit as good as the previous versions… I’ll let you know next time I’m on the WinXP … Continue reading
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