- http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/more_og_romsdal/1.6806675
An orignial Merzbau-hut of Scwitters is still standing (in Norwegian w video) # - "Becoming absorbed in art is like going to church." Kurt Schwitters. #
- One of my early teen favs (pre-punk), still amazing
http://open.spotify.com/track/14OSsU1aoidcM87WCeA24o Spotify: The O'Jays – Back Stabbers # - http://open.spotify.com/track/7IoKA8yRibsK8Ryy4SH2NL Spotify: The O'Jays – I Love Music #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/2Fb6khjvXSLk1LVdRns123 Spotify: Flunk – I Love Music #nowplaying #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/2UahDqMDEN5N4YvsiSIwMc Spotify: Prefab Sprout – I Love Music #nowplaying #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/2hAQuY8Abdw7yMgelHc7w3 Spotify: Prefab Sprout – Let There Be Music #
- Ha! A light pop band called Mooli @moolis.
http://open.spotify.com/track/0BZW9C165QsqKdbO8uNPyN Spotify: Mooli – Underneath The Same Sun # - http://bit.ly/82nBN8 - Jonathan Jones gives up on Damo Hirst. A bit early - Damian's "Dark Trees" might an improvement? http://bit.ly/81WBP5 #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/1GFacqP32zA9KyvpdYZ6hK Spotify: Friedman, Liebezeit, Sylvian – The Librarian, Nonplace Version #nowplaying #
- Spotify: Joan as Police Woman with David Sylvian – Honor My Wishes
http://open.spotify.com/track/4mrToHJzSd5xWolr7Yq6nd # - "The Wire IS dissent", David Simon. #
- "The drug war is a war on the underclass", David Simon. War on Drugs, no political capital in change on WoD, juking stats: all nu-Labour #
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qulcqNMHVic&feature=featured
One hour total David Simon interview. And Wire is flat out the best telly ever. # - #nowwatching David Simon (The Wire) interview on YouTube. SE01-04 I've seen twice, SE05 had too much slapstick slack for me to see twice. #
- THINKING of relaunching Acecast.com with a "Top 10 free legal MP3s of the nougthies" (that are still available, we lost download.com). #
- It would be a shame if Spotify went bust. #
- Spotify: Fontän – Backustugu
http://open.spotify.com/track/066S3dGgdZOVSvD1cYZfr4 # - It's a free-for-all then, as "FA say there will be no official England World Cup song" http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/49250 #
- Trying to open @spotify link directly on the iPhone: another #fail. This service is not ready yet /(c) Grolsch/. #
- Dexter S03E03. First series was glass-chilled perfection, second less so (major moment-of-disbelief), third looks to be OK? #
Tweets for 2010-01-16
2010-01-16 – 23:50
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Tweets for 2010-01-15
2010-01-15 – 23:50
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- Dexter SE03E02. No Tate Modern, too knackered. #
- http://twitpic.com/y67qr - Lomographic Phallic series. Kapoor's "Tall Tree" being dismantled. #
- 1161 txt messages left, so test SMS-tweet. #
- How to create custom backgrounds for Twitter, YouTube, & MySpace http://is.gd/6hF9H (Lifehacker) #
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/14/youtube-movies-joe-queenan
"Reefer Madness" is on YouTube. # - Vanity search night.
Oh dear - my Unix tips from 1991 (in 8-bit Norwegian Native ).
http://ftp.ntnu.no/old/info/artikler/unix-tips.rn191 # - Jan 1991: me discussing smell-o-rama on the comp.multimedia newsgroup.
Oh yes - we had internet back in the day =8-)
http://bit.ly/4sSFhW #
Tweets for 2010-01-14
2010-01-14 – 23:50
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- Still using old @Spotify account even with paid-up Premium. Too hard to get playlists over from old to new account and wifi sync sucks. #
- Klaus Nomi mixed with Europe and Wagner! Spotify: Therion: Cults Of The Shadow
http://open.spotify.com/track/4Uw3nSga9HjgOIXpl1zWHe # - http://cleanify.net/play/track/the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart/falling-over #
- Memory Tapes: Channeling Roxy Music (Avalon), Talking Heads and New Order all in one tune. Delphic! You can Take That!
http://bit.ly/5DeKq7 # - Collision in schedule tomorrow night.
Pop Art or Pop Pop?
Tate Modern or Memory Tapes? # - John Peel's festive 50 playlists in Spotify. Yay!
http://indiefy.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/updating-the-festive-50-playlists/ # - "word I’m reading in a book is the same word the radio announcer has just spoken; a synchronous word"
http://bit.ly/5VVHoG David Flusfeder # - Just as I wrote "In the future" there was an "In the future" on the telly ("Global Harvest #2). @ballardian, @TaraBusch, @ianvisits #
- In the future I will play around with the characters available, ie "THE middle OF" could have been "< the || MIDDLE || of >"? #
- Dexter SE03E01. #
- Why do people put themselves in THE middle OF three seats on a commuter train? #
- While the battery in my watch was being replaced - I lost time. http://twitpic.com/y1wu1 #
- http://twitpic.com/y1vyu - Crew arrives at Regent St to fix water leak #
- RT @knowyourmobile O2 launches new £20 a month iPhone tariff http://tinyurl.com/ydzo7n4
SIM-only tariff for users reached end of contract # - Misheard TV-advert just now: "Celebrity quitters" became "Celebrity Gritters". Think the latter would have been the better show. #
Tweets for 2010-01-13
2010-01-13 – 23:50
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- Loads of Scandie on @spotify, good.
Spotify:The National Bank–Tolerate
http://bit.ly/5FM5c2 #nowplaying # - Most of wearehunted's playlist soundslike1981
http://open.spotify.com/track/28FatBdGQ69KAEFdA0zRVm Spotify: Liechtenstein – All At Once # - Lee Miller, what a beauty, but what sh O cki ng t E e T H ! #
- Photography day: A polar raid [you are FIRED! Ed] to Atlas to see Polaroids, just finished taped Lee Miller doc http://bit.ly/leemillerbbc4 #
- http://www.uncarved.org/blog/ for John Eden's 20 best reggae singles +
http://open.spotify.com/user/acecast/playlist/2woY4KNZyrxXI78z2x09er # - More people must be killed by Drug Wars and the War on Drugs, than by drugs.
At least in Mexico. # - Insular Insult! No "Heimat"?
@guideguardian "Wire not number one shock! Guardian critics' top 50 dramas of all time http://bit.ly/5YBgnj " # - "the crucifixion of Jedward will be performed in Trafalgar Square" @Londonist @LDN #
- http://twitpic.com/xwg8t - #uksnow 2/10 CR0 #
- http://thingelstad.com/using-google-reader-send-to-with-wordpress/
Works quite well, post directly from Google Reader to WordPress. # - wp-o-matic includes the whole feed, so not suitable.
I just want the subject header and the link to the actual article. Back to start. # - Google's don't really like WordPress and Twitter and the like. I guess I should look closer at what Google Wave can do. #
- Trying to set up wp-o-matic to get the interesting stuff from google reader directly into WordPress. #
- Currently Browsing: http://is.gd/69O0V #
Tweets for 2010-01-12
2010-01-12 – 23:50
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- Just read The Technium: Better Than Free http://instapaper.com/zQc4jdon
Brilliant on serial copies and making bytes valuable. #
- http://bit.ly/8bt04P #nowplaying Holy Toy, the finest postpunk album made north of Dundee (where Associates met) #
- Extreme Trucking. They ARE The Ice Road Truckers. But why the FuCk is the swearing beeped out. #nowwatching Ice Road Truckers on Five. #
- The goat at @moolis is only there for a month (poor animal).
So goat in there (sorry). # - Lazarides lunchtime as well. Liked: Yeo, (Space?) Invader and Faile. #
- Goat Mooli from @moolis has a nice kick in it. #
- http://cleanify.net/play/track/tanya-stephens/its-a-pity #nowplaying from John Eden's top reggae 7"s at http://www.uncarved.org/blog/ #
- Not sure I like that my account name comes up in @spotify playlists.
Is there a way to prevent this? #
Tweets for 2010-01-10
2010-01-10 – 23:50
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- Robert Peston on a free (as in price £zero ) Independent.
http://bit.ly/pestononfreeindie # - Does Marina (Marina and the Diamonds) sound a bit like Lene Lovich? #
- Would rather spend an hour on Twitter and YouTube than watching Top Gear. #
- has cut down broadhsheet consumption from two a day to two a week. Guardian on Saturdays and Sunday Times, but what if the Indie goes free? #
Tweets for 2010-01-09
2010-01-09 – 23:50
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- Various Ambient, nothing to do with veggie boy
http://open.spotify.com/album/3YK5g4IwCQFyMJgfCtfe24 Spotify: "Putting … Back In Morrissey" # - "Man on Wire" almost too short.Which means it was pretty much perfect. #
- You owe it to yourself, give Sidsel Endresen's "Undertow" a listen.Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2ILFCbyTURxFKCRxLdhuwV #nowplaying #
- BBC News 24 "Salt supplies are dwindling."
Sainsburys, Purley Way. Sold out for dishwasher salt.
Luckily there's some port on half-price. # - Watching "Man on Wire" off-off the PVR. #
- Has just finished watching Culture Show special on John Lydon, Pistols and PiL. http://twitpic.com/x9r6y #
Tweets for 2010-01-08
2010-01-08 – 23:50
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- Hayward Gallery at Night.
http://twitpic.com/x9l3w # - Will not be missing Jonathon Ross's assembly line chatty-shitty-smutty shows. Will miss his specialist shows as ie Japanese films:Ping-Pong! #
- OK next time I WILL PREBOOK. Last late night for Ed Ruscha at the Hayward at the South Bank. Outside in the windy cold for some cool art. #
- http://twitpic.com/x89o8 - Lomographic phallics. A bollard. Lomography. #
- http://twitpic.com/x892l - Lomographic phallic series. Centrepoint. Lomography. #
- Zaha Hadid! Snøhetta! Ron Arad! Norman Foster! Thomas Heatherwick! Starck! Dieter Rams!
Can you hear me!?!
Redesign Clapham Junction NOW! # - So tempting to mash-up Fever Ray with Cardigans. Maybe later. #
- Anyone got some fitting Finland female to fit (a Suomi siren to sit!) on that @spotify playlist please? @HafdisHuld - you are in there #
- My 50 min of Nordic females Spotify playlist: jazz,pop,avant,acoustic,disco. From Ane Brun to Bertine Zetlitz.
http://bit.ly/scandiecool #
Tweets for 2010-01-07
2010-01-07 – 23:50
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- The King at 19.
http://open.spotify.com/track/5QMvGxYvmk9LnCsza1FkPB Spotify: Elvis Presley – That's All Right Mama (Hayride 1954) # - On bus 38 thinking large chunks of Central London has become very tatty.
Piccadilly Circus and Centerpoint end of Oxford St is depressive. # - So long, long tail. http://bit.ly/loongtail . Guardian:
"The top 10% of artists are now responsible for 90% of all music sales." # - Spotify Resources on Pansentient League: 4 new resources for 2010! http://bit.ly/DUazs /via @afront
Including URL-shortener. #
- BLIZZARD: "Snow with winds in excess of 35 mph and visibilities of 1/4 mile or less, for an extended period of time (eg. > 3 hours)." #
- http://twitpic.com/x14ks - Closing schools and having a pint, what Brits do when there's a bit of snow #
- Add the food chain EAT to the "H&M" outrage list: "emptying yoghurt over salads and sandwiches to make them inedible".
http://bit.ly/eat_it # - Bursting Out, to go with Live&Dangerous
http://open.spotify.com/track/0sgyEp8EtZgKJmAeNKSr8j Spotify: Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath (Live) # - http://bit.ly/zKmXA
http://open.spotify.com/track/4Cu1Sd4ePLqCdbwOr9bzIF Spotify:Jethro Tull–Skating Away #nowplaying # - This to see speed skating in the UK over 160 years ago. Nice little read that wiki page on skating away on the thin ice of a new day. #
- winter of 1854/55 was exceptionally cold … number of persons present was stated at from five to eight thousand, and some said ten thousand #
- I take some of that back: fen skating on the Beeb Snow24 just now with wonderful winter nostalgia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fen_skating # - In Britain a "blizzard" is a breeze with some snow, back home in Norway it's a storm with tons of snow. Pathetic. #
Tweets for 2010-01-06
2010-01-06 – 23:50
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- Spotify: Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue - HD Re-Mastered 2010
http://open.spotify.com/album/1mEf0Zy1pdBiljENUM2yIN
#nowplaying # - BBC News 24 has gone BBC Snow 24 #uksnow #
- Looks like it's twitter swearing tour today?
First @crystalbennes and then @gilescoren tweeting totally Tourette's # - #LDNtravel The Gatwick Express almost empty as Gatwick is closed (?); so if you just need to get to Croydon jump on board. Travelcard valid. #
- #LDNtravel
Nationailrail website seems to lie? All trains from Victoria delayed. Taking Gatwick Express as the 18:45 stops at East Croydon. # - "Anyone who supports ID cards should be banned from having curtains".
Mark Thomas - The Manifesto. # - #LDNtravel
On Commuter train from East Croydon to Victoria.
It's just half-full. 80 minutes late or so. # - WordPress 2.9.1 upgrade night. Seven sites updated.
Hopefully Twitter Tools will survive the upgrade: http://bit.ly/83ZRJl on my tumblelog #
Tweets for 2010-01-05
2010-01-05 – 15:50
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- Warm Earl Grey and Ice Road Truckers to prepare for tomorrow's white-out. #
- Watch and learn @mayoroflondon!
Ice Road Truckers is now on Five.
Next stop: Deadhorse. # - "so is it supposed to snow in London or what?" @moolis
Yup, here we go again.
http://twitpic.com/wsvlu # - RIP Tony "T-Bone" Bellamy (guitarist Redbone) http://bit.ly/7EJsFd , their
"Greatest Hits" the first record I bought http://bit.ly/6JdNp6 # - http://twitpic.com/wruju - Dover Castle pub in Weymouth Mews. #
- "Criticising social networking sites … is as pointless as knocking people who discuss the weather", Cory Doctorow http://bit.ly/8OvaPy #
- http://twitpic.com/wpd53 - Note: Explore Rathbone pubs. Format126. #
Tweets for 2010-01-04
2010-01-04 – 15:50
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- Spotify on iPhone is working OK, but there are usability issues (proper blog post might come).
WiFi on iPod Touch inferior?->USB sync please # - http://twitpic.com/wooub - Spotify + iPod Touch = #fail again #
- http://twitpic.com/wn6a6 - Format126 Test. Croydon towers. #
- "Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded" BBC #
Tweets for 2010-01-03
2010-01-03 – 15:50
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- Gone through all my incoming gig and arts email alerts.
Last year: averaging a gig every six weeks and a couple of exhibitions every week. # - http://open.spotify.com/track/2KHyQAFgmSv0jxDci9szlY Spotify: Ungdomskulen – Modern Drummer #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/5V8nd7c9J72SaobT43cwMC Spotify: Memory Tapes – Bicycle #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/1yOFzfRc7PMwMp4EJLK2qg Spotify: Diskjokke – Større Enn Først Antatt #
- http://twitpic.com/wg4pp - 2005-2009 or so is in the bag. #
- http://twitpic.com/wg2bg - Popeye out of copyright 2009, what Jeff Koons was waiting for. #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/3nXwWebujXnIG4Qi4BWtOt Spotify: James Blackshaw – Cross #
- "Learning not to fear failure is the most liberating thing: it frees you from low self-esteem and the judgment of others". Malcolm McLaren. #
- "I get 150 magazines a month and read a lot of books. I also go to the movies".
John Waters on relaxing. Observer 2008. # - "Right now, British kids are listening to Grime, an even shabbier version of rap music that romanticises uselessness". Nirpal Dhaliwal, 2006 #
- "There is a certain client that refuses to lower himself to going into a store and picking something off a rack". Giorgio Armani, 2006. #
- Chupa Chups was sold in 2006 (part of my alternative noughties), its logo was designed by Salvador Dali.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupa_Chups # - "Well, we're not professional northerners".
Martyn Ware on The Arctic Monkeys (I've got a lot of quotes like these saved for later). # - 30 to 2 is the recommended ratio of chest compressions to
breaths for CPR. http://www.redcross.org.uk/standard.asp?id=56929 # - 30 to 2 is the ecommended ratio of chest compressions to breaths for CPR.
http://www.redcross.org.uk/standard.asp?id=56929 # - http://twitpic.com/wflnk - Football boots a brief history (Observer 2008) #
- Think you can be a darts player? Then read this first
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jan/06/features.sport22
by @bachelorofdarts # - "The 54 billionaires said to work in Britain were estimated to have just paid just £15m tax on earnings of some £126 billion". Nougthies … #
- Night-time nu-jazz. http://open.spotify.com/album/74i5nM8I9AYc7ShrlWsuYi Spotify: Various Artists – Nuballads #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/0NMf7YcmfLIKczRv1SRUdB Spotify: Markus Stockhausen/Dhafer Youssef – Close To You – In Deiner Nähe #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/7cnewEdHk9nPzPUJ4YpXAK Spotify: The Stooges – I Got A Right (Live / Remastered) #
- Yup - still going through a decade's worth of magazine and newspaper clippings. Some will turn up here, others at tlog and maybe even at www #
- Bebe Barron (what a name!) electronic music pioneer short-circuited in 2008 aged 82.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_and_Bebe_Barron # - If you need some old free reading for this new decade -
http://www.classicshorts.com/authors/Guy_de_Maupassant.html # - "Wild salmon is often sold as younger fish known as grylls, which weigh 2-3kg" (Times 20070504). Bear Grylls is a 35-year old man, ca 75 kg? #
Tweets for 2010-01-02
2010-01-02 – 15:50
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- Job titles from the last decade: "Checkout Captain" as seen in Sainsbury's, but the best - drumroll - "Sandwich Designer" as seen in Subway. #
- Fascinating.
http://open.spotify.com/album/3pbrUAjRlUUZ4hYAKjvLtQ Spotify: Joy Division – Joy Division: Martin Hannett's Personal Mixes # - http://open.spotify.com/track/3EKRYb9556OgAan0K68o79 Spotify: Redbone – Niki Hokey #
- Shame on Yuval Taylor in The Guardian for missing Redbone http://bit.ly/4HJhOB
Bless Siouxsie for not as standin-Peel
http://bit.ly/6XS8yn # - From the first record I ever bought:
http://open.spotify.com/track/3Rd7MizSxuoKeacF1REuex Spotify: Redbone – The Witch Queen Of New Orleans # - Mobygratis.com if you are in need for free music for your indie movie (from that millionaire NY-veggie guy). #
- Bass on this is better on CD
http://open.spotify.com/track/5HQ1VN3u716yMatlYvBXLt Spotify:Fleetwood Mac:Second Hand News RemasteredLPVersion # - http://twitpic.com/wd2r6 - Lomographic phallic series. Watertower Park Hill. Lomography. #
Tweets for 2010-01-01
2010-01-01 – 15:50
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- http://twitpic.com/w9u99 - My mate Willy at the local #
- http://twitpic.com/w7thr - Croydon towers old and new. #
Tweets for 2009-12-31
2009-12-31 – 15:50
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- Goodbye and good riddance to the noughties.
James Blunt has the bestselling album of decade according to The Grauniad
http://bit.ly/51QGDk # - http://twitpic.com/vyo0d - #fail. Ten years of news clips and more. #
Tweets for 2009-12-30
2009-12-30 – 15:50
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- http://twitpic.com/vxnbo - Spotify offline frustrations on iPod Touch. #
- Just discovered fora.tv. Another place for hi-minded time wasting. #
- Quite impressed by SpotiBot.com playlist generator @spotibot for @spotify. #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/6DCpOgiqplnkiZfNskE2eh Spotify: B.E.F with Billy MacKenzie:The Secret Life Of Arabia
Associates is on Spotify. # - Still frustrated by Spotify offline mode and its implementation.
I want to sync only THIS playlist NOW please.
Sharpen up you Swedes! #
Tweets for 2009-12-29
2009-12-29 – 15:50
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- iTunes needs a "sort by price" column for apps.
So I can delete all the free crap I've installed in one go. # - http://open.spotify.com/track/3qESikezOuLcQTyByD4Xws Spotify: King Midas Sound – Ting Dub #
- Spotify offline mode nothing but #fail.Get "Offline access for this computer/device has been withdrawn" now. See thread http://bit.ly/8odG5B #
- Spotify offline syncing to iPod Touch #fail.Battery 95% full, but tells me connect to computer to save battery? If so why not sync via USB? #
Tweets for 2009-12-28
2009-12-28 – 15:50
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- So I just passed tweet #666.
Just signed up for Spotify Premium. I would like there to be one big fat sync button on my phone. # - Solveig's slow-jazz, perfect for latenight.
http://open.spotify.com/track/4ygqogeul39kf7ABXpCxoc Spotify: Solveig Slettahjell – Another Day # - http://open.spotify.com/track/1KoBmqSv0em6MT2gXoI6tf Spotify: Solveig Slettahjell – One Of These Days #
- As played on Acecast. New podcasts coming in 2010.
http://open.spotify.com/track/43njG5D5ma4iiOPFzafXix Spotify: Sara Rumar – Au Monde # - Filofax still doing well in the digital age under US owners Presly according to The Sunday Times. Best tool for the calendar job, no syncing #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/0R7sxUBslpOpJxclxHARXI Spotify: The Unbending Trees – Messages (Table-Turn) #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/7vkhCfj2foJ2doUuNpJ2m5 Spotify: Bel Canto – Blank Sheets #nowplaying #
- That is £ 1 600 000 000 for Mr Tepper.
This is £ 1 000 000 (one million).I bet he worked hard and all, but that is obscene. #
- Hedge fund manager David Tepper to make £1.6 billion.
Some guys have all the monies.
http://bit.ly/83alLy # - Boards of Canada, not much on Spotify.
http://open.spotify.com/track/3W8xrBFkxPV1DkDbM2KLkv Spotify: Boards of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy #
Tweets for 2009-12-27
2009-12-27 – 15:50
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- Skimming on http://www.dissensus.com/. #
- Bliss, one of my few classical LPs has this on. http://open.spotify.com/track/0Jo7db0ajM3LoePIeIK1c9 Spotify: Debussy/Satie: Gymnopedie No.1 #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/63i7RTboQTEqItB6bDevp2 Spotify: Sam The Sham&The Pharaohs – Wooly Bully
I loved this when I was kid, still do. # - http://open.spotify.com/track/40piwJqdvTBJOqVa3OU3Ap Spotify: The Legendary Stardust Cowboy – "I Hate CDs".
Me too, plastic waste of space. # - http://open.spotify.com/track/64B3w8QMMRGLLe3PRV4ZTS Spotify: Gino Washington – Gino Is A Coward #
- The "Volume Mixer" in Windows 7 is a good thing. Playing online poker (low volume) while listening to music on Spotify (high) on headphones. #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/67ddLrSfzlBbg0CEOcxrqn Spotify: Neko Case – This Tornado Loves You #
- Indulgence. LBV Port and Chocolate cake. #
- "What U Workin' Wit?" No sort-by-reverse-date in Twitter?
January 11th 2009 for my first tweet.
Chicago Juke music, loads on YouTube. #
Tweets for 2009-12-26
2009-12-26 – 15:50
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- TV catchup.
Andrew Graham-Dixon's "Art of Russia" and David Attenborough's " How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?" # - http://twitpic.com/vcp5n
So much for being exclusive. Catalogue/Moloko: "Napster exclusive", also an "iTunes exclusive" available on Spotify # - No Guardian today and could not get hold of The Times in town;
so tired old Telegraph and The Independent for once. # - http://open.spotify.com/track/3szv1wBCcMXFx7GdPNm721 Spotify: Brian Eno – The Last Door #
- http://open.spotify.com/track/4JOEA98OeqQdK9pTaoS6oM Spotify: Arne Nordheim – Intermezzo #
- #in2010: upgrade all blogs to WP 2.9, get Acecast.com over to WordPress, set up art site at Digging.it?
Swim more, write more, podcast again # - Setting up Spotify+iTunes scrobbling via last.fm to WordPress again.
http://www.halvorsen.org/now-scrobbling-spotify-to-lastfm-to-wordpress #
Tweets for 2009-12-25
2009-12-25 – 15:50
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- Downloading "A Decade in the Dark", Soundslike 1981's aka Musicophilia's end of decade mix.
http://bit.ly/5NioiT # - Solstice.
Beer, Løiten Linie Aquavit from the old country (and some Danish akevitt as well), Duval Leroy champers and now a glass of port. # - Outside my prize range I guess, but like the Rothko effect.
RT @tweetmeme Comme des Garcons Black Holiday Collection.
http://bit.ly/62tfb8 # - http://twitpic.com/v1xck - Julian Opie mosaic at Penfold Street. Public art. #
Tweets for 2009-12-23
2009-12-23 – 15:50
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- http://twitpic.com/uv6kk - Lomographic phallic series. Tower 42. Lomography. #
- http://twitpic.com/uv3ou - Death Counter processed green. #
- http://twitpic.com/uuydt - No 1 London Bridge. Lomography. #
- http://twitpic.com/uuy2h - 52 reasons not to join Goldman Sachs. #
- http://twitpic.com/uuy20 - Lomographic phallic series. Monument. Lomography. #
- Reading Simon Jenkins on travel and hypermobility on the train. #
- http://twitpic.com/utx51 - Adam's Court, EC2. Lomography. #
- All empty in Mount Street Gardens in Mayfair earlier today. http://twitpic.com/ut6bs #
- Lovely that was @moolis. Keyboard a bit grimy though. Beef mooli for a tweet, well worth it. #
- http://twitpic.com/us1rq - Merry snowman spotted this morning. #
- http://twitpic.com/urtep - @derrenbrown observed at Carnaby Street #
Tweets for 2009-12-21
2009-12-21 – 15:50
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- #LDNtravel
Just spoke with better half. Three hours getting from Bromley to Shirley by car. BORIS! Where are you and your GRITTERS hiding? # - London Victoria - East Croydon 30 minutes if you can get on board a train.
Just made it.
#LDNtravel # - Big delays at London Victoria as well, have managed to squeeze on a train after a bit of shouting to get people to move down the corridor. #
Tweets for 2009-12-20
2009-12-20 – 15:50
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- Sunday Times and #nowplaying Spotify: Tangerine Dream – Rubycon (Part One)
http://open.spotify.com/track/77WAv8OQNLSQI4rLsN8cQF # - Eurostar! Breaking news!The UK is located in NORTHERN Europe.
This is not adverse weather, it's just some snow.Please learn to deal with it. # - http://open.spotify.com/track/2uUqPx08n2xZM0xi76UUBX Bertine Zetlitz – Fake Your Beauty #
- The Nordic do the best females? From Anissette&Virna Lindt to Hafdis Huld,Stina Nordenstam,Anja Garbarek,Bjørk,Bertine Zetlitz, Annie … #
- http://spotibot.com/playlist/
Typed in Virna Lindt (who is not on Spotify UK) and it came back with half-and-half. Half known, half unknown. # - Virna Lindt /Attention Stockholm http://bit.ly/522Ew6
Virna Lindt bio: http://bit.ly/7bqTSC only got her first: Shiver # - Sweden's diseuse (?) since Virna Lindt.
http://open.spotify.com/track/7GTwTHhm9J12CKArEYLpCw Spotify: Stina Nordenstam w Yello – To The Sea # - Share some solid air instead.
http://open.spotify.com/track/0RI6eB2F8rBiCAr8W0WwOu Spotify: John Martyn – Solid Air - Demo Version # - Come on, how BAD is this!
http://open.spotify.com/track/1KHlZJq2GCmdV9rI84EfUR Spotify: Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name # - People should be embarrassed if they buy the Cowell-backed-droid or RATM's ridiculous Status Quo/stomp/rap. I would NEVER pay for that crap. #
- Recall my virtual real-time-telly train journey?
http://tlog.halvorsen.org/?p=2051
Full footage available for remix,
http://bit.ly/82kiwn # - Should be in ANY top 100 list of the decade.
Spotify: Gillian Welch – Revelator
http://open.spotify.com/track/0TlDMQ5SKPRj6NMUVGCn4H # - Stuffed. Watched all of Jamie Oliver's Family Christmas specials in one go.
http://bit.ly/8ayPcT # - 600 tweets, celebrating with "600 Bliss" Fragile State (best 600 song I could find).
http://open.spotify.com/track/0kuNIEJaEW052h8dgqBMEV # - This is ZE favourite christmas song of mine,
http://open.spotify.com/track/01v13selXC4A6EwpG4ZK56 Spotify: Cristina – Things Fall Apart # - One of the best bands of last two decades.
LOW.
http://open.spotify.com/track/4u51yg8263eJ3uxmyTU6Mi Spotify: Low – Monkey # - Not the best song title, but an army's worth of VIBE.
http://sade.com/ for a prelisten of "Soldier of Love" from Sade's upcoming album. #
Tweets for 2009-12-18
2009-12-18 – 15:50
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- Well done Southern, TfL and Boris.
My advance snow warnings must have worked winter wonders. # - Snow! So Bollox to style. Gone all Norwegian and Croydon (Ray Mears) native. I'll be the one in Gore-tex jacket ,Gore-Tex boots and mittens. #
- Watching weather on BBC News. Doubt that Boris, Southern and TfL will get me to work tomorrow, but will try. #
- Putting Windows 7 on newly repaired laptop. Windows Experience Index is 4.1 on the lowest. #
- "noticeable lack of snow" @ianvisits said some hours ago, but not now? Hoping that public transport IS noticeable tomorrow. Boris, step up! #
Tweets for 2009-12-17
2009-12-17 – 15:50
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- Spotify: Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen – Sart
http://open.spotify.com/track/5JFUBL0EcWCic4KMEZf38c # - Jonathan Ross now only worth 500 BBC journalists. #
- Winter lights III.
Tatsuo Miyajima at Lisson as seen on @JANUSZCZAK.
http://twitpic.com/tw8mk # - Winter night lights I and II.
Croydon around midnight last night.
http://twitpic.com/tw88j http://twitpic.com/tw88d # - Probably my last gig of the year as The Gallows seems to have cancelled. Lovvers still playing, so _might_ go to Vice mag x-mas gig. #
- Going to The Vortex in London?
Book and go four together to get a nice table upfront. Tables seemed to sit four and you avoid standing. # - Though watching Seb play drums with chopsticks was worth the entrance at The Vortex tonight. Seb not in this pic. http://twitpic.com/tt5vn #
- Jazz is as ritualistic as rock music. the candlelights, the red wine, the knowing clapping, the drum and bass solos. #
Tweets for 2009-12-16
2009-12-16 – 15:50
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- Sheppard / Benita / Rochford later at the Vortex (first time at the Vortex) #
- http://www.artupdate.com/pdf/london.pdf
I picked up a copy at White Cube,
after walking there in the snow. # - http://twitpic.com/tqyib - Another face pattern à la Rosalind Nashashibi #
- http://twitpic.com/tqxm7 - Lomography: Arch at Piccadilly #
- As for me, I've never seen an episode of Eastenders, or an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Heroic! /via @JANUSZCZAK
Hah! Easy. # - The ONE (pint) never is just the one is it?
Ten or so gorgeous French girls drinking halfs just behind us at Shaston Arms, half our age… #
Tweets for 2009-12-15
2009-12-15 – 15:50
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- Couple of midweek pints with another ex-QXL guy. The often used route of White Horse and Shashton Arms. #
- http://twitpic.com/tn4pn - Celebrity Twitter directory anyone? Spotted at WH Smith #
- Bad day:spilled milk all over breakfast, then jammed at Victoria line, having to go back to Pimlico just to get on Now in Post Office queue. #
- Boris Johnson! TfL! Bus, train, tube and tram drivers!
Listen up!
There might be snow on Friday.
This is NOT an excuse to close down London. # - http://twitpic.com/tk0gn - Is this where rock band Let's Wrestle got their name? #
- Some Simon godfather-svengali-type is running a show called The X-farter?
Progress or regress, let's hope the next ten are better. #
Tweets for 2009-12-14
2009-12-14 – 15:50
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- How to get mono on iPhone/iPod Touch: Settings/General/Accessibility.
Useful when you have one external speaker.
http://twitpic.com/tjpdq # - There is nothing wrong with using found objects in art.
Didn't watch whole series, so no idea who was annoying or not. #schoolofsaatchi # - "Fuckin' hell reaction to winning #schoolofsaatchi" @ArtCasual
Just got last episode, but the tree-on-metalfence was fresh. Right winner. #
- More bankers off to Switzerland, but BA staff say no? A wide-boy exodus, no less ("we can get by on five million quid, but not four"). #
- Never liked Coldplay,but I do like them selling off old kit for Kids Company,bless
http://bit.ly/5OunRF # - http://twitpic.com/thifa - Segway observed at Picadilly, watch out! #
- The Burlington Arcade really is full of opulent ridiculousness. #
- Ding takes the ming? enough of #snooker for tonight, off to check those new train times. #
- Ding pots the red #snooker and that's it. Ding the winner. #
- Higgins hiding the red again #snooker. #
- Higgins fighting now, one red left #snooker. Ding 75-31 #
- Ding looking good, potting black then red in #snooker. 33-27 Ding. #
Tweets for 2009-12-13
2009-12-13 – 15:50
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- Higgins taking this one with century. 9-8 Ding.
Sum of all coloured balls are 27 in #snooker. # - Higgins looking stronger. Potting well again, black five times now. 40-18 Higgins frame 17. #snooker #
- Ding done away with the yellow, green, brown #snooker. Looks he will take this frame.
He just did. 9 frames to 7 Ding. # - 49-42 as Higgins misses yellow #snooker. All reds gone. #
- Higgins clapping the table after another good safety shot from Ding #snooker #
- All very tactical at the moment #snooker #
- Higgins plays a safety #snooker at 49-22. #
- Higgins 49-0 and misses in frame sixteen #snooker #
- #snooker Touching ball:cue ball resting on other ball. With ref's permission, cue ball can be played away to safety without hitting another #
- Ding takes the frame after Higgins's brown miss #snooker. Ding 8-7 up. #
- Ding looking to heavens and Higgins missing easy brown for the frame #snooker #
- Third attempt: Higgins pots the red #snooker #
- Higgins missed red twice #snooker, not sure what is happening here in terms of rules. #
- Ding hiding that red #snooker #
- One red left on the table #snooker. #
- Super shot from Higgins hiding the red #snooker and Ding almost got to it. #
- 46-34 Higgins in frame fifteen #snooker. Ding to shoot. #
- £100,000 for the winner #snooker Pukka Pies UK Championship (are they served on the premises?).
First to ten frames by the looks if it. # - Seven all Higgins vs Ding #snooker. #
- 60 minutes. Grand total of what I have exposed myself to of BigBrother and X-factor over the years.
Life is too short. # - #snooker Higgins up 7 frames to 6. #
- Six frames all #snooker. 91 so no century.
Rules: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/rules/default.stm # - #snooker Higgins looks to have the 12th frame in the bag. Looking for century? #
- Ding 6 - Higgins 5 #snooker #
- #snoooker. 11th frame still being played. Higgins's shot at 12-28. #
- http://iphone.tvcatchup.com/ for #snooker (and bookmarks) if you are on the move in the UK with your Apple devices.BBC Two now catching up. #
- Guardian's "The people who ruined the decade" list, excellent choices (Homme, Will.I.Am.Humps, of course S.cum.Cowell)
http://bit.ly/5q5Kv3 # - #snooker
Ding Junhui 5 - John Higgins 5
Higgins to break. # - Yup, marginal vaginal.
"Christmas decorations on South Molton Street look vaguely gynaecological?" http://bit.ly/8Ae2Xi /via @Londonist #
- News on climate conference from third largest oil exporter (Norway):it's everybody else's fault! The hipocrisy.
- Reasons to be cheerful, Roger Lewis's 2009 (author of many biographies I won't read & Seasonal Suicide Notes that I will)
http://j.mp/84ZMMx # - Sunday Times, snooker and tea. Twelve years in England taking its toll; back home I would be reading Dagbladet and watching team handball. #
- The Kamprad (IKEA) family is getting rid off Habitat after five years of losses. #
- Hundreds of songs to rate in SXSW torrent: the clickwheel method of rating songs on iPod Classic is much more effective than on iPod Touch. #
- iClassic app for iPod Touch/iPhone does not have "press center button for star rating" a song, the thing I miss the most from the olden days #
- Spotify: Wayne County&The Electric Chairs:Berlin
http://open.spotify.com/track/5z0phZuSHKW4aD2OmhNTQ0 #
Tweets for 2009-12-12
2009-12-12 – 15:50
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- Hmm, sorry to Lines&Savage - but The Only Ones did the punk/psychedelia thing better than anyone else.
spotify:track:52QZyQgIleFXjIaBECRQ5d # - The Lines according to Jon Savage:http://bit.ly/7hk38W
http://open.spotify.com/track/1VbYTzb4jkq0SUjw9zhz8t Spotify: The Lines – White Night # - During 1926 General Strike the toffs kept things going; toffs of today (bankers/hedge funders) will simply leave for Switzerland or France. #
- Curry, chocolate cake and excellent Culture Show (PiL&Braun on the same bill!), then Andrew Marr and his luminous ears + few frames of pool. #
- http://twitpic.com/t7xtm - British alchohol prices 1L of Smirnoff £12 in the shops. #
- "most disturbing sight … queue for A&F" http://tweetphoto.com/6288677 @crystalbennes
Spot on, I laugh at the folly every time I walk past # - Friday fun:Dominic "McNulty" West on HIGNFY, whole Seinfeld crew on crazy Curb Your Enthusiasm show, watching Kapoor's cannon being fired x2 #
Tweets for 2009-12-12
2009-12-12 – 15:50
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- Hmm, sorry to Lines&Savage - but The Only Ones did the punk/psychedelia thing better than anyone else.
spotify:track:52QZyQgIleFXjIaBECRQ5d # - The Lines according to Jon Savage:http://bit.ly/7hk38W
http://open.spotify.com/track/1VbYTzb4jkq0SUjw9zhz8t Spotify: The Lines – White Night # - During 1926 General Strike the toffs kept things going; toffs of today (bankers/hedge funders) will simply leave for Switzerland or France. #
- Curry, chocolate cake and excellent Culture Show (PiL&Braun on the same bill!), then Andrew Marr and his luminous ears + few frames of pool. #
- http://twitpic.com/t7xtm - British alchohol prices 1L of Smirnoff £12 in the shops. #
- "most disturbing sight … queue for A&F" http://tweetphoto.com/6288677 @crystalbennes
Spot on, I laugh at the folly every time I walk past # - Friday fun:Dominic "McNulty" West on HIGNFY, whole Seinfeld crew on crazy Curb Your Enthusiasm show, watching Kapoor's cannon being fired x2 #
Tweets for 2009-12-11
2009-12-11 – 15:50
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- http://twitpic.com/t474h - Kapoor slow tram pic no 2 #
- http://twitpic.com/t45p3 - Kapoor's slow crimson tram to the other room. Closing now. #
- Kapoor's cannon is still shooting for a couple of hoursvat RA. If you are cheeky enough you might walk right in for the shooting party only. #
Tweets for 2009-12-10
2009-12-10 – 15:50
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- Battered like the last North Sea cod.
No more alcohol (today) please. # - Note to self: do not EVER knock people off again just because they are from or live somewhere.
It is STEREOTYPICAL and simplistic. # - http://twitpic.com/sx7e2 - Bath House closed forever, Soho's cleanest pub gone. #
- http://twitpic.com/sx302 - New perfume "con", same as the old at Oxford St #
- A smaller world.
Norwegian reporter on this Russia Today TV clip about #norway spiral grew up in my neighbourhood.
http://bit.ly/6i2vS # - http://www.vedomosti.ru/photogallery/7204/
Gorgeuos gallery of the failed Bulava missile launch.
#norway #bulava #spiral # - #Norway Russians seems to confirm that beautiful spiral in the sky over northern Norway was a failed missile launch.
http://bit.ly/4prv3g #
Tweets for 2009-12-09
2009-12-09 – 15:50
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- Soft&mellow is Brazilian Kristoff Silva, delivering one of 2009's best free MP3s.
http://2009.sxsw.com/music/shows/schedule/?a=show&s=79334 # - Ungdomskolen, one of the better acts from this and last year's SXSW torrent.
http://2009.sxsw.com/music/shows/schedule/?a=show&s=77817 #
Tweets for 2009-12-08
2009-12-08 – 15:50
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- Stranded good,but "Prehistoric Sounds" is fav.
http://open.spotify.com/album/6ezthAJk2c1p9bbd2sZvsi Spotify: The Saints – Prehistoric Sounds # - Spotify: The Saints – (I'm) Stranded. The original long-haired punks.
http://open.spotify.com/track/6pXcyjABZyf6LKzL4wsj9k # - Had a browse through all tracks in SingStar to prepare for X-mas (no I can't sing either).
Biggest shock was finding "I'm Stranded"/Saints. # - So golfer is having sex,his Swedish wife (marriage in Sweden on avg last 11 years),mother-in-law gets ill on visit- and this is world news? #
- Sam Taylor-Wood at Apple was an ambivalent affair: good conversation, an affable Sam; but venue not ideal, simply too much background noise. #
- Currently listening to http://blog.iso50.com/?p=11941 via @iso50
Free ISO50 digital EP. # - At "Meet the film-maker" event Apple store, Regent Street. Sam Taylor-Wood should be here in ten. #
- Vital Ingredient's beef stew for winter must be a cousin of our Norwegian "lapskaus" (giving name to the scousers). Very nice. #
- Queue for Kapoor.
http://twitpic.com/snxwp # - http://twitpic.com/snssd - Walking the red carpet at the Burlington Arcade #
Tweets for 2009-12-07
2009-12-07 – 15:50
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- Xiu Xiu at Luminaire in February 2010 (via Fact mag).
On my summer 2006 Acecast along with Comanechi (yeah!),
http://bit.ly/6AKmaM # - There's a cringeworthy band in that SXSW torrent called The Cringe.
If only all bands were this honest. #
Tweets for 2009-12-06
2009-12-06 – 15:50
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- UK's richest man set to make cool £1 billion by massive carbon credits received. Giving Mittal £1bn will surely save the world. What a CON. #
- http://twitpic.com/sgne9 - Typo of the week: "members of the pubic" #
- http://twitpic.com/sgndd - Royal Airforce ad: nurse finds cans of Coke #
- Still going through SXSW 2009 torrent.Sturgeon's law applies:Ninety percent of everything is crud,although I would say 95% of class of 2009. #
- I have banned nothing apart from Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and ELO in my house; Townes Van Zandt, The Who and Sparks fill those spaces. #
- Current NME (Hello mag for the indie kids) editor has banned everything but Dylan from her house.
Can the NME pls just roll over and die? # - Best way to get photos to look right on both Twitter and Twitpic (text will show on stream) is to email twitpic account with subject line. #
- http://twitpic.com/sbmnm - Fever Ray lightshow at HMV Forum #
- http://twitpic.com/sbmc0 - Hildur Gudnadóttir warming up for Fever Ray #
- http://twitpic.com/sb8n3 - Fever Ray setlist HMV Forum (Kentish Town), London 20091206. #
