The End of the Future

Hi all,

Sorry I haven't been blogging much - I think I'm going to wind this down. I'll be recording my experiences as a superstar DJ over at http://superstar-dj.blogspot.com so check that out.

To keep you up to date in the coming months check out:

The Maccabees, DatA, Hot Fuzz (Film), Jamie T, LightSpeed Champion, Diplo/Mad Decent Radio, Time Traveller's Wife (Film), The New Pony Club, South Central, Babel, Running with Scissors, Airs New Album, Off the Wall (Record Label) & the Gothenburg scene, Weekend in the City, Emmy the Great, Apples in Stereo and my brother's blog.

You know the tools: Google, Exploseek, YouTube, MySpace, HypeMachine, Vice. Go forth and boogie.

Stay Cool,

John

"I will chop, I will slice..."

I have been listening to Bloc Party's new tune incessantly. It's literally the best thing they have ever done and I cannot wait for the new album (February 2007.)

In honour of the song, here are three songs about the white lines.

1) Bloc Party - The Prayer (Video)
2) Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
3) Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues

Fookin' upforrit

Oasis were my favourite band for about 18 months surrounding What's The Story. I was aware of Definately Maybe but when the Oasis-bandwagon gained speed in 1995/1996 I jumped onboard. 1997 came along and I heard Paranoid Android and Firestarter and that kind of blew it (plus Oasis released Be Here Now.)

Noel Gallagher has been on an acoustic jaunt recently and it's good to reminisce and watch a solid-gold singer-songwriter practicing his craft.

You can watch him here or listen here.

Have a good weeekend.

Radar & Daily Motion

In a break from my usual posts about movies, music and comedy, I thought I would post about... technology.

Radar is a new website which allows users to upload their photos from their mobiles onto a personal webpage. This webpage can be accessed by either phone internet (I've tried it - it works) or regular internet.

Check it out at http://radar.net

Also, take a look-see at Daily Motion (http://www.dailymotion.com) which seems to host a startling number of TV series. Seen as the only reason I use YouTube is to watch Kenny Vs Spenny, music videos, footage from recording sessions and stand-up, this is very good.

Check out http://www.tv-links.co.uk/ for some serious TV action.

So, that's the downfall of MySpace and YouTube taken care of. I looked at FaceBook this morning to see if it was worthwhile but it seems to be based solely for the purpose of chatting up students who share your views on utilitarianism and collect posters of Karl Marx. I'll pass.

Coops

PS Check out http://lovelydayforaguinness.blogspot.com for a blow-by-blow account of my bro's trip around Vegas with his depraved friend (in what critics are calling Fear and Thumbs in Las Vegas) :D

I love film

Hi,

Just a quick one - I might do a longer post at the end of the week.

If you head over to http://www.lovefilm.com/partners/train.html you can join LoveFilm and get some DVDs in a free trial. This isn't new news but the fact that they will pay you £10 is.

Money for watching films? Yes please!

Wednesday's Random Music Post

I downloaded MR2 a couple of weeks ago from Diplo's Myspace page and thought I'd better get round to posting about it seen as it appeared on Zane Lowe's show in it's unmixed form. The orginal is good, don't get me wrong but the Diplo mix makes you dance in that funny way where you constrain your arms and bob about a bit...what, only me? Shit.

On the other hand Van She's Kelly and the Kelis remix both make you want to jump around. The Van She song sounds like early Daft Punk and when the Bossy remix explodes in an MDMA rainbow at the one minute mark how can you not smile?

Yay.

MIA - XR2 (Turbo) Follow this link.

Kelis ft Too $hort - Bossy (alan braxe and fred falke remix)

Van She - Kelly

Buy 'em at Juno (see side bar)

Ricky Gervais

Hi all,

The new job is going well and I just have enough time to let you know that Ricky Gervais will be resurrecting his podcasts (did they ever cease) with three special broadcasts. Details are in the picture. More Ricky stuff here.

Keeping the comedian vibe, here is some Dane Cook (again) and after watching the BBC2 special, I am even more in love with the late, great Richard Pryor (watch here).

Take it easy,

John