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- BubbaJay
- Suave raconteur and dinner party favourite. Once held the Olympic torch, has delivered newspapers to prime ministers, shaken hands with Prince Charles, wrecked Jason Donovan's skateboard, climbed 300 metre granite cliff faces, surfed with dolphins, appears on community radio and is in demand for these and the accounts of other thrilling exploits!
Monday, April 26, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
The Future of Books
Kindle, iPads and whatever... an intersting article HERE
I would hope in the future the printed word still has a place. This move to putting them on screens fills me with no enthusiasm for the medium. Books have two advantages for me at the moment, they don' t need batteries and I can read them on the loo.
Your move technology...
I would hope in the future the printed word still has a place. This move to putting them on screens fills me with no enthusiasm for the medium. Books have two advantages for me at the moment, they don' t need batteries and I can read them on the loo.
Your move technology...
Listening to Lou Reed makes you do stuff..
Last night at band practice we had a really cool moment when we were in the GROOVE. We had this tight sound and headspace going on. I started off mucking about with some chords (I was trying to recall the sequence for "Across the universe". We managed to keep a rhythm and lock in a beat and energy that was fantastic.
So I happened, for an unrelated reason, to be listening to The Velvet Underground's "Waiting for the Man". The thing that strikes me the most about that song is the simple 3 chord structure (3 1/2 if you count the Suspended 6th in the chorus). Mr Reed himself described the recording of the song as seeing what happens if you keep up 3 chords for as long as you can.
Listening to the sounds and various instruments on the track you can hear people experimenting with effects and emphasis and contribution but still managing to stick within the songs structure. All in all a great example of a jam working well.
So I happened, for an unrelated reason, to be listening to The Velvet Underground's "Waiting for the Man". The thing that strikes me the most about that song is the simple 3 chord structure (3 1/2 if you count the Suspended 6th in the chorus). Mr Reed himself described the recording of the song as seeing what happens if you keep up 3 chords for as long as you can.
Listening to the sounds and various instruments on the track you can hear people experimenting with effects and emphasis and contribution but still managing to stick within the songs structure. All in all a great example of a jam working well.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Sell the Swindle
Others might not care but the passing of Malcom Mclaren is the passing of Punk's Nixon. Forever dispised by the Indie music scene for always selling the swindle and having a swindle to sell.
From the John Lydon website HERE probably the most honest obit you will ever hear about the deceased.
From the John Lydon website HERE probably the most honest obit you will ever hear about the deceased.
Monday, April 05, 2010
An interesting Article
In my last year at Uni (last century) I did an anthropology course Anth 101. (Sounds like the name of a BBQ CD Best of...)
One of the (many) useless things we had to do was write a story about a tribe (creativity!!) from the perspective of one of the tribal members. I picked a tribe from the Amazon called the Yanamanno or Yannimato or whatever. The name roughly translates as the 'Real People' and yes they ingest an ungodly amount of drugs. They also had an interesting counting system.
One
Two
More than Two
That was it. They also wandered around vandalising the jungle and stealing (way big on stealing stuff. From everyone and anything).
After a while reading about these wild men of the jungle I got the distinct impression that the anthropologist who was visiting with them just really wound up loathing these guys with every fibre in his body. The whole counting thing was only the tip of the iceberg. Numbers for these guys = just not that important.
Nice to know I'm not the only one, HERE.
One of the (many) useless things we had to do was write a story about a tribe (creativity!!) from the perspective of one of the tribal members. I picked a tribe from the Amazon called the Yanamanno or Yannimato or whatever. The name roughly translates as the 'Real People' and yes they ingest an ungodly amount of drugs. They also had an interesting counting system.
One
Two
More than Two
That was it. They also wandered around vandalising the jungle and stealing (way big on stealing stuff. From everyone and anything).
After a while reading about these wild men of the jungle I got the distinct impression that the anthropologist who was visiting with them just really wound up loathing these guys with every fibre in his body. The whole counting thing was only the tip of the iceberg. Numbers for these guys = just not that important.
Nice to know I'm not the only one, HERE.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Action!!
Many upcoming action infused adventure movies will be coming to a cinema near you soonish. Just about all of them will suck completely and utterly, rendering my will to care (about crappy action movies) paralysed.
All except, perhaps, possibly for this guy HERE
Background data Here and Here
So yes it is another SNL straight to video movie, but it could be worth a larf or two (as a video).
In other news the weather has finally turned into Autumn, which means we cannot be too far away from that first dump of snow!!!
All except, perhaps, possibly for this guy HERE
Background data Here and Here
So yes it is another SNL straight to video movie, but it could be worth a larf or two (as a video).
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In other news the weather has finally turned into Autumn, which means we cannot be too far away from that first dump of snow!!!
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