October 2011
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Got mistaken for a member of staff in a clothes store earlier today. Does this mean that I’m WELL FASH!?
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Kat persuaded me to look at Ikea’s range of lamps before committing to spending more money buying one from elsewhere as discussed in my earlier post. Most of them just look as cheap and flimsy as the prices would suggest but the GLOBAL work lamp pictured above looks more robust and for £13.99 (plus postage) it is fairly aesthetically pleasing. The clamp is a plus too.
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Apparently the UK dance music underground has had a “recent fascination with acid house”. I’m such a trend-setter. This mix is really good despite it all being old hat to me by now (!) Looking forward to seeing Blawan live in Sheffield if I can get the time off work next week.
FACT Mix 230: Blawan by Fact Mix Archive on Mixcloud
The minute a man is overdressed, he is badly dressed.
– Charles Bryant, Anderson & Sheppard’s managing director in the ’60s and ’70s. (Taken from this great article about Anderson & Sheppard)
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I’m currently trying to find a new desk lamp because my current one is broken and now that the nights are drawing in, working past 6pm without one is no doubt doing irreparable damage to my eyes. Ideally I would like one which can clamp onto the shelf above my desk and angle down but I’m willing to compromise. As long as the base is compact enough it could stand on said shelf but I can...
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Small Ideas Radio - Show 1, Autumn 2011 - 14/10/11 by Small Ideas Radio on Mixcloud
Small Idead Radio is back on the air every Friday 2100-2200 on Forge Radio! Here is last week’s show, featuring artists from the Tangled Tour and TUSK festival as well as Blawan and Young Montana?. This week’s show will have new tracks from Oneohtrix Point Never, Kammerflimmer Kollectief, Colin...
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Akira is ultimately about a terrible, unstoppable, cataclysmic force: somebody...
– Akira? A caricature, more like | Film | guardian.co.uk
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so until today I didn’t use the Tumblr Google Chrome extension very much and when I did it was only for browsing my dash. The reason is that I didn’t know that one could tag posts in the extension in the ‘advanced’ tab and I thought that everything I posted from the extension would require being tagged at a later date on the actual tumblr site anyway. Now my ignorance has...
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it’s autumnal as fuck out there tonight
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Big congratulations to Phil G for winning the individual UCI World Tour series and to Omega-Pharma Lotto for winning the team classification. I suspect Phil is one of my favourite cyclists for the same reason that he won the series, i.e. because he’s fucking ace at what he does. I liked Omega Pharma-Lotto for other reasons, however, including their versatility and lack of specialisation in...
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Word of the day
otiose: “serving no practical purpose or result”
come on guys get tumblin’; ma dash is mighty bare
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A whiff of creepiness perfumes every scene of this film, a distinct eau de perv.
– More great writing in the Guardian’s film section, this time courtesy of Peter Bradshaw on Sleeping Beauty.
Let’s pause for a moment to digest the fact we live in a time where you...
– Phelim O’Neill on Real Steel for the Guardian film blog