nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (blue diva)
[livejournal.com profile] lainy122, this is the version of I Loves You Porgy, by Nina Simone, that I am familiar with. Tis awesomeness and y'all--yes, you, I'm looking right atcha!--should download it!

I WOULD be going to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs today but tickets were all sold out. So instead I updated their bit on my music pimping post. There's some Nina Simone there too.
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo)
OMFG THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS ARE PLAYING THE GOV THIS SUNDAY AND I ONLY JUST FOUND OUT AND I CAN'T GET TICKETS TILL TOMORROW AND IF I MISS THIS I MAY JUST DIE.
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (cheeky little fucker)
Tagged by [livejournal.com profile] lydia_petze*

Seven songs you can't get enough of right now:
1. Great Waves - Dirty Three feat Cat Power
2. What Katie Did - The Libertines
3. Run - Air
4. Nude as the News - Cat Power
5. Nature Boy - Angela McClusky and Triptych
6. Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
7. Jolene - White Stripes

Aaaaahhhh so much greatness. I have been playing 1 over and over and over the last few days.

Anyway in our continuing quest to perve on attractive people lainy and I had a bit of a Jared fest. Her reaction pretty much sums up mine (except I didn't like FotP much at all). So I am going to express my emotions in poetry. I wrote it all by myself with no help from anyone.

Completely and 100% original. )
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*Anyone else find it amusing that the code for lj hyperlinks makes us all lj junkies?
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (shake shake shake)
I got here too late for everyone else's (all the ones I knew were guessed!), but here's my version.

First lines of the next twenty random songs on my mp3 player to be guessed by you, yes YOU SIR, COME ON DOOOOOWN, without recourse to google because that makes the baby jesus cry.

Some of the ones that came up were so truely obscure I skipped 'em. Because boring! Number 3 turned out to be a rare release version so there's a bonus question. Oh and it would be funny if you thought I could restrict myself to what is technically the first line.

Read more... )
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (i wanna be sedated)
Yay I am back! In one piece, too. So much has been going on but if it's report-worthy I can't really remember it right now.

Hugh Laurie got a Golden Globe! Yay for him. Mary-Louise Parker beat the Housewives! Yay for her, and yay for her being so aborable, and yay for her John Spencer tribute (*sniff*). Yay for Felicity Huffman, it's about fucking time, YOU ARE TOO CUTE WOMAN! Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje aws there! It's about fucking time for him, too, he blew me away every time he was on the screen on Oz. He and Chris Meloni must have been constantly trying to outdo each other in the sheer animal magnetism stakes.

Lauren came round and we played a Golden Globes drinking game with cowboy cocksuckers (SO! APPROPRIATE! It only just hit me):

when to drink )

Good times.

[livejournal.com profile] frostmourne wrote this and it rawks my sawks. Guess which tv show:

Well theres this big ringy thing and it go flush sorta like a toilet and everyone goes whoa.
Then they step through it and go whoa.
Then they meet some aliens and go whoa.
Daniel bitches about some morality issue, other people dont go whoa.

Then they all go home and slap Keanu Reeves.

I think it's the Keanu Reeves that tips me over the edge. WTF? Heeeeeeee!

[livejournal.com profile] veronamay tagged me for a couple of memes like ten million years ago and I've just been sitting on them.

guilty pleasures meme )

And vague memories of another:

I think it was five songs you're into atm meme. )

I think it was [livejournal.com profile] angstslashhope who mentioned that she used imdb to keep track of all the movies she'd seen for the first time in the past year using the "my movies" page. Great idea.

To the best of my atrocious, atrocious memory, here's 2006 so far: )

Obviously I need to get in some precious OLD SKOOL (WORD!) time. I am desperate to see Marathon Man and the original Producers atm and [livejournal.com profile] lydia_petze has just given Victim a glowing review so hopefully I can add them soon.

And........I'm spent.
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (we're all mad)
Possibly the best meme ever. Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] jiffy_spiffy

Draw ten songs in paint and get people to try and guess the songs! Warning - bad paint drawings ahead.

oh, some of these are absurdly easy )
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (i'm so hip!)
So, the Mars Volta, the White Stripes, and Iggy Pop will be at the Big Day Out next year; guess I better fucking go then. Oh, if only 'tweren't so expensive!

In the spirit of good music, here's a couple of songs I've been playing, well, repetitively is a nice way of putting it, recently.

Billy Bragg - The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
The lyrics and the way they're set to the music cracks my shit up, but I think what I love most is the way it quotes from When Johnny Comes Marching Home, which I know from singing "The ants go marching one by one" in school assemblies. Ah, primary school, how I miss thee.

Kanye West - Jesus Walks
So that Jarhead trailer I was nattering about? I tracked down the music from it--ok, so apparently this is was a big hit, but I don't listen to the rap music usually, so I was proud of myself. Anyway, this song is fucking awesome. I keep trying to call him Kyan, though. He'd probably put one of those caps in my ass for that.

White Stripes - There's No Home For You Here
I have been listening to Elephant like a LOT recently. There are a ton of great tracks on that album. Seven Nation Army and The Hardest Button to Button can be heard in the video section of their website (and they're both AWESOME videos too); here's another of my favourites.
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (i'm so hip!)
So I've been watching and rewatching that Jarhead trailer (Jamie Foxx gives me absolute chills). I love the song at the end. It is, apparently, "Jesus Walks" by Kayne West (who has provided us with some nice social commentary, especially recently, it seems). Anyone got a copy? I'm addicted. I'll have to download accidentally come across the whole album when I can.

(Dear lainy: right, essay writing. Right. On it. Now.)
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (kev facepalm)
Someone has put up bits of Kev & The Authority at [livejournal.com profile] scans_daily! I don't care if you don't like comics, you must check this out. This is in the running to be my favourite single issue of a comic, ever. *points to icon* Extremely funny and, just, genius work from Ennis and Fabry, here. I'll make the entire thing available to anyone who wants any more.

Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] vensre: European Geography quiz (I got 71% even though I was REALLY close on most of them. Well, a couple. Ok, one or two. Geography's not my strong point, ok?) and US Sate quiz (74%). Despite the fact that I got a higher score for the US one I have real trouble with US States. When I read about them I tend to divide them into east and west according to their assumed hillbilliness quotient (yeah, that's a technical term). What? Indiana and Tenessee are in the east and Washington's on the west coast? Since when is Montana on the Canadian border? Yes, I sudied the Pesidential election maps; yes, I got out the atlas to read that excellent O11/O12 roadtrip fic; yes, I even studied the War of Independence (for that reason I got most of the east coast right). For some reason (namely, I am stupid) it just doesn't stick. I mean, I owe the fact that I know where Florida is purely to Piers Anthony.

Anyway. Found via [livejournal.com profile] boing_boing: the website for Matthew Herbert's Plat du Jour. Herbert and his mates have created an album made entirely of found/food instuments. Check out the images and making of sections! One of my favourites:
we recreated the meal that nigella lawson cooked for george bush when he came to britain to thank tony blair for his support during the iraq during the meal... then we drove over the meal with a chieftan mk 10 battle tank from the mid-late sixties.
....an advisor to the foreign office baked the apple pie with his fiancee using one of nigella's recipes. it was then taken to manassas, the site of one of the opening battles of the american civil war, where it was shot by an us ex-military intelligence officer using a 9mm luger (1937approx) as used by a nazi sd officer, colt 45 (model 1911) high standard .22...

There is, as you can see, a definite political/philosophical idea behind it. Lord knows if it will sound any good but I am interested in hearing it.
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (i'm so hip!)
I love music and I love talking about music. Well, [livejournal.com profile] theantimodel was talking about how she wasn't listening to many female artists; I've been thinking a bit about this as well recently as over the past couple years my tastes have changed such that the m/f ratio I am listening to has gone from say, 90/10 to 50/50. She asked for recs (incidentally I'd love some too), and, because this is a subject close to my heart and I have a tendency to go overboard I thought I'd post mine here. I've tried to limit the number of songs for each artist but comment if you'd like to hear more. Probably best to download one at a time, speedwise, as we don't have a very big pipe here; please tell me if you've any trouble.

here begins the humongous music spam )
In a quirk of timing, the latest Big Issue has great article about music blogs (plug! plug!).

Edited Cat Power and Yeah Yeah Yeahs stuff 16/7/06 .
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (Default)
For [livejournal.com profile] theantimodel: John Zorn's Batman theme. Also the James Bond theme is cool too.

Had a Beauty lecture yesterday and my lecturer played a clip from The Barchester Chronicles to demonstate something. Alan Rickman about twenty years ago! So amusing.

Right! Back off to watch Ocean's 11. So much fun.
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (kev oh no)
The first of some 5,000 magnets that will bend particles at near light-speed around a huge tunnel under Switzerland has been lowered into place.

The {Large Hadron Collider] will recreate the searing-hot conditions that existed just fractions of a second after the Big Bang.

Scientists hope this will enable them to see new physics, and discover the sought-after Higgs boson, or "God particle", which explains why matter has mass.

Researchers may even find new dimensions and generate mini-black holes.


On the one hand, this is so totally amazingly cool; and on the other I'm kinda worried we're all going to get blown up. Ah well!

[livejournal.com profile] theantimodel has uploaded a bizarre mp3 of the Batman theme song and the Beatles' "Taxman" mixed together it's very amusing and worth downloading for the name alone. And also very disconcerting and slightly freaky if you're at all familiar with either of the songs. Hearing "batman" where "taxman" is supposed to be reminds me of other Beatles lyrics where they stuck stuff in on the sly, such as in "Girl" (are they in fact saying "tit tit tit"?) and "Baby You're A Rich Man Now" ("baby you're a rich fat Jew" referring, of course, to Epstein).
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (ww by lainy)
Last night I finished Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. I'd previously read The Golden Gate (a novel composed entirely of sonnets, even the contents and acknowledgements) by him, and while there were elements of it that I was dissatisfied with, I thought it was brilliant. But An Equal Music is even better; I was just blown away by the beauty of the prose. It wasn't consciously beautiful in that purpley-but-not way, but just this quiet, gentle, poignant, questioning lyricism and it was the main reason why the main character didn't come off as a self-centered jerk, which he really could have. His name is Michael and he's a violinist, which is the other reason I adore this book. I know much, much less about classical music than I would like to and this book was absolutely fascinating in that it gives you an idea about what it's like to be a clasical musician. Anyone who loves music passionately, even, I reckon, if they're not fond of classical music, would love this book. It's about what music does to us, does for us, about why it's so important. And the woman Michael loves has a certain medical condition which I won't spoil because I can't be fucked to use the cut tags but Michael's musings on it are absolutely heartbreaking. Plus, it's also set in Vienna and Venice and the descriptions of the cities are wonderful. Just, a fantastic book; if you get the chance, check it out.


And now for something completely different:

For 5 of your fandoms, name:

1. The first character you first fell in love with:
2. The character you never expected to love as much as you do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that you don't:
4. The character you love that everyone else hates:
5. The character you used to love but don't any longer:
6. The character 'ship everyone else loves that you don't:
7. The character 'ship you love that everyone else hates:

SV, DS, BtVS/Angel, LotR, SN. Bearing in mind that I'm rather conventional and OTPish and have no real idea who fandom at large does and doesn't hate )
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (dorkglee)
I meant to post this before when Huygens went down, the ESA put up two sound files of the descent. The first one is not all that much except on a "so this is the sound of x descending to Titan in Y fashion" level but the second one is so awesome I have stuck it in my playlist! It is "produced by converting into audible sounds some of the radar echoes received by Huygens during the last few kilometres of its descent onto Titan" and it brings out everything gloriously sci-fi-geeky in me (because OMG A MOON IN OUTER SPACE!!11!) and I love the whole world and also there's that rush of adrenaline or endorphins or whatever just from the actual *sound*, PLUS I like weird rhythmic sounds and it has actual similarities to songs I like. Wooo! I bet it's already been mixed into a song by some electronic-neubauten band.

(I have had to use this icon *so many times* since I made it. This is a good indication of my nature. But bear in mind, I am a dork/geek about practically *everything*, except maybe the ways people fuck eeach other up. And sometimes even then!)

ETA: funny which intentional tort are you meme )
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (Default)
guess the lyrics answers )
nigeltde: if trixie could just think hard enough she would undo everything (Default)
Well, seeing as I pretty much do anything lainy does, here is my own lyrics quiz, because I am a sheep, and because I like lyrics and quizzes. I didn't follow the 'stick your playlist on random' rule because they all ended up being in German or Icelandic or so totally fucking obscure I barely know them myself. Some should be really, really easy, some not so. I hope. Mostly I just chose my favourite lines whether they make it obvious or not.

Guess the lyric )

I am feeling much love for all my music now :-)

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