"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | I can’t think of any other band who continued to nail their colours to the local mast quite as much as Dr Feelgood. Even when success came their way, they remained loyal to their home town… Photo shoots, album launches, live gigs, auditions and (incredibly) the bands first eight albums all had some local connection to them. Over the last couple of months I’ve been on the trail of Dr Feelgood, hunting down these local landmarks that plot the history of the band. How many would I find still in tact all these years on? This project turned into [ continue reading Start The Revolution Without Me: Dr Feelgood’s Canvey ] Music, oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell! Why should Feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well? Friendship’s balmy words may feign, Love’s are even more false than they; Oh! ’tis only music’s strain Can sweetly soothe, and not betray. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» On Music by Thomas Moore: .) Not as slick as Arcade Fire and HTML5 but shows the merging continues. Does Flash have the scale to compete? The UK online trailer for Sega’s new Vanquish game cleverly uses Google Maps Street View to let viewers see their own houses being attacked.To view the trailer you have to enter a valid UK postcode. If you don’t know any UK postcodes you can try SW1A 0AA, which is the postcode for the Houses of Parliament. The Street View scene comes at the end of the trailer and (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss Street View used in Game [ continue reading Street View used in Game Trailer -Updated ] In the modern context, what I don’t understand is this: that with the music of the entire planet now available in abundance, so few people seem interested in the creative cross-pollination it might inspire. So it is that you end up with the grim spectacle of good old Noel Gallagher, making the case against the rap titan Jay-Z appearing at the UK’s most fondly loved festival: “I’m not having hip hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.” The latter artist had a much better reception than some people expected. Then again, think back to events at this year’s revels, and the [ continue reading Morrissey’s parochialism echoes the whole indie tribe ] Breezy Stories. Bought in a Reutlingen supermarket bargain-bin on school-exchange in 1973 and just rediscovered digitally as vinyl copy is in a loft far, far away. Danny O’Keefe’s Breezy Stories is hard to define. Take a look at the musicians, Donny Hathaway, Bernie Purdue, Dr. John and Mac Rebennac (crazy, both names are listed), Airto Moreira, Hugh McCraken, Cissy Houston (you may have heard of her daughter) and David Bromberg to name a few; and produced by Arif Mardin, a master ♣. Been humming most songs from a clear remembering for years but then just yesterday thought, ‘give it [ continue reading Danny O’Keefe, Breezy Stories … a platter re-spun ] John Cooper Clarke showed up as (usually unannounced) support at practically all the gigs I attended… you know… back then. Or at least that’s how I remember it. Everything about his ‘angry coathanger’ on-stage persona led me to believe that he’d be a pretty prickly guest on Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday show a couple of weeks ago but when it came to it he was happy and open-minded, full of praise for younger artists and obviously still learning, still working. Really inspiring. Here’s the interview: John Cooper Clarke talks to Jarvis Cocker And here’s the haiku he [ continue reading John Cooper Clarke ] One of my biggest pet peeves when running or working out with headphones is that they constantly fall out of my ears. Now you and I have to worry no longer as Yurbuds are ergonomically designed to fit your ear and guaranteed to never fall out. Ultra soft and comfortable, you will be able to wear the Yurbuds for hours. In addition to providing a more comfortable fit, the Yurbuds claim to enhance bass frequencies and allow you to turn down your volume by up to 60%. Yurbuds are add-on, custom [ continue reading you will wear out before Yurbuds fall out – the GearCaster ] We may not have learned much from last summer’s Confederations Cup, but we certainly became well acquainted with the word ‘vuvuzela’ and the mute button on the TV remote. If anything, the horns will be louder still at the World Cup: what effect will they have on the players and coaches? A horny issue Bryan Robson is in no doubt: the vuvuzela is a weapon. The former Middlesbrough boss offered a stark warning after seeing his [ continue reading the effect of the vuzuzela ] Still a real floor-filler … I remember this song in 1965 and it still works. ♥ Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get richeverybody knowsthat’s how it goes … I am going to say the new Goldfrapp is surprisingly good. I don’t understand why, everything about it should repel me, but it works. So Head First, now in the cadence playlist with MGMT and Yeasayer and keeping me running up hills to a suitably re-invented 1980s soundtrack, but not a reinvented me. “That was Elbow with Friends of ours and if ever there was a track that proved the importance of playing an album in full that was it. After the break Goldfrapp” – or something like that. Sheesh. Dollyhead Books says, “A musician has spoken today of his shock at being removed from a train for ‘behaving suspiciously’ by writing a list of songs which included the band name The Killers.” Tom Shaw was travelling on a South West Trains when he began writing a list of song titles which his band The Magic Mushrooms would play at a forthcoming gig. But the 25-year-old was approached by two security staff employed by the train company and asked to leave the train at Fareham railway station. Mr Shaw, who works with young people with learning difficulties, said that [ continue reading Man kicked off train for writing song list that included band name “The Killers” ] why did this come into my head? Over 25 years since Diamond Life was issued! Where have the years gone? Now a new ‘lounge’ bossanova album Soldier of Love ♣ from Ms Adu. Is it any good? Yes. Is it great? Probably not. Let’s wait and see but whatever and despite the rather tinny drum sound on MP3 it is a marker in time for some. Most importantly for me, at a bloody big crossroads in my life, it is (perhaps) a successor to and reminder of the soundtrack of Meribel, Sardinia, the Wag, Ronnie Scott’s, Sutherland, oil-rigs, India, Spain, love and nest-building … and [ continue reading Diamond Life by Sade Album. Released 28 July 1984 ] oh… this will amuse you, I have found out today that Morris Dancing cannot be licensed! It is classed as an ancient tradition, of pagan origin thus religious and therefore exempt! Now I thought it was dying out but how does this affect the war on terror. “The honest heart that’s free frae a’ intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba’, Has ay some cause to smile.” You would have thought that people would have had enough of silly love songs, they haven’t and the song remains the same. Some good some bad and some that have meanings that seem to change with us as we grow older and others that we get bang on the first time we ever hear them. I have no doubt that people will queue up to explain stuff to me about Robert Palmer and had I considered this song or that one but this one seems a song that it was quite an achievement for a young man to write. [ continue reading Song Lyrics eh? just a load of meaningless old lyric poetry if you ask me ] “I’ll admit it: Everytime I hear that familiar ‘Ra-ra, ah-ah ah-ah, Ra-ma ra ma-ma, Ga-ga ooh la-la’, I crank up the volume. The outlandishly costumed fellow former Upper East Side prep schooler has garnered some serious mass appeal over the last two years. But what can you attribute Ms. Germanotta’s success to, and moreover, what can the average tech startup learn from it?” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> This is going to be BIG. The 5 things that startups can learn from Lady Gaga (cc @ladygaga): .) [ continue reading The 5 things that startups can learn from Lady Gaga (cc @ladygaga) ] Well then I’ll sail this ship alone I’ll sail this ship alone Between the pain and the pleasure I’ll sail this ship alone Amongst the sharks and the treasure Location:Morborne,United Kingdom Oh! it’s a good day, for singin’ a song, An’ it’s a good day for movin’ along, Yes, it’s a good day, how could anything go wrong? A good day from mornin’ ’till night! Yes it’s a good day, ( it’s a lovely day for shinin’ ) for shinin’ your shoes An’ it’s a good day ( if you wan’ a silver linin’ ) for losin’ the blues ( you got . . . ) everything t’ gain ( everythin’ t’ gain and nuthin’ ) and nuthin’ t’ lose, ‘cuz it’s a good day from mornin’ to night! ( you’re [ continue reading It’s a good day …. ] | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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