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Archive for July, 2007

All good ideas need squared paper.

Posted by Alex

Michel Gondry’s Rubiks Cube Feats are all well and good but surely nothing is as awesome as planning out the video for Star Guitar on squared paper and then roughing it out in the street using utensils, fruit, shoes and nails… The original video itself remains funadamentally awesome and should be in all modern art [...]

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“Let’s Fix This Bloody Sport”

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It’s a hard habit to break. Even tonight I came home, turned the telly on at 7PM and hopped to ITV 4. Alas, the tour is over now, but despite all the controversy I still enjoyed it. Cycling Weekly got it badly wrong when they called for the tour to stop early. Whilst it is [...]

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European Slaves In A Broadcasting Union

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Yes, Bill Bailey is going to try and take part in Eurovision 2008 as the UK entry. Meanwhile, the first Eurovision Dance Contest is coming up and all thanks to the UK. I fear it won’t be featuring morris dancing.

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flood

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No, not the classic They Might Be Giants album. It appears to be a bit wet out there, though I think The Evening Standard is being more alarmist than usual. Right now many people are working around the clock to try and avoid losing a major national grid switching station to the waters and plunging [...]

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Ga^2 for Ga^5

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Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon (nifty streaming thing for the whole album linked) I’ve been tracking Spoon since I came accross them on both the Stranger Than Fiction and Veronica Mars soundtracks simultaneously. Aggressively nerdy rockers that they may be they are now past (and ever more present) masters of indie rock experimentation [...]

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