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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Posted by Captain Flymo on 11:06 pm with No comments
So that list thing never happened. As usual with these things I got bored and just couldn't be arsed. Oh well. Instead, I thought I might share some music with you. Well, I say share, but you might not want to listen to it, but there you go.
You may or may not have heard of Spotify. In case you haven't, it's a free service which allows you to stream unlimited music to your PC for free. Yes, free. You do get an ad every now and then but frankly, it's not intrusive and it's a lot better than radio - no annoying DJs or shitty low rent ads from local carpet tat merchants. You can get it ad free by paying a monthly sub, buit frankly I don't see the point. I have tos ay, I'm not sure how long they can last as it seems like a rather revenue-light busniness model to me, but what do I know?
To use it, download the client from Spotify and then you can stream music, make playlists or listen to other people's playlists and thats how I intend to share music with you, dear reader. I will eventually put some links on the sidebar but for now, here's the spotify links for my playlists (click them once the client is installed and it should open spotify and start playing).
Seriously heavy metal \m/^~..~^\m/
Some downbeat stuff
Some good old fashioned hip hop
My guilty pleasures list
(Note you might need to refresh the page after clicking the link to get it to work - no idea why).
You may or may not have heard of Spotify. In case you haven't, it's a free service which allows you to stream unlimited music to your PC for free. Yes, free. You do get an ad every now and then but frankly, it's not intrusive and it's a lot better than radio - no annoying DJs or shitty low rent ads from local carpet tat merchants. You can get it ad free by paying a monthly sub, buit frankly I don't see the point. I have tos ay, I'm not sure how long they can last as it seems like a rather revenue-light busniness model to me, but what do I know?
To use it, download the client from Spotify and then you can stream music, make playlists or listen to other people's playlists and thats how I intend to share music with you, dear reader. I will eventually put some links on the sidebar but for now, here's the spotify links for my playlists (click them once the client is installed and it should open spotify and start playing).
Seriously heavy metal \m/^~..~^\m/
Some downbeat stuff
Some good old fashioned hip hop
My guilty pleasures list
(Note you might need to refresh the page after clicking the link to get it to work - no idea why).
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Posted by Captain Flymo on 4:17 pm with No comments
And so I come to my 100th post. I was going to make this a bit of a discussion on new music delivery models (namely Spotify) and my thoughts on them, but I've decided that can be post no 101 or even a bit futher on.
No, today we are talking lists, specifically, the kinds of list that tell you you should have read/listened to/done, or whatever, the various things contained therein. Of course, these things are largely pointless because they generally involve lists made up by journos or pundits all of whom, have some sort of agenda and so they are far too abitrary, but I have done one or two of late and thought I'd share them with you.
So, first up, a list of 100 books that apparently everyone should read according so some spurious BBC News article.
1 - Read some plays and sonnets at school but by no means the whole lot. I doubt many people have truly done so or have the patience to put up with the overly-wordy prose.
2 - I started to read it but gave up because, frankly, it was shit.
So, thats the books taken care of. Next was a list on The Guardian website regarding 1000 (yes, one thousand!) songs you should hear before you die, or somesuch. And since it's my blog, I am going to list every last one of the buggers in the next post.
No, today we are talking lists, specifically, the kinds of list that tell you you should have read/listened to/done, or whatever, the various things contained therein. Of course, these things are largely pointless because they generally involve lists made up by journos or pundits all of whom, have some sort of agenda and so they are far too abitrary, but I have done one or two of late and thought I'd share them with you.
So, first up, a list of 100 books that apparently everyone should read according so some spurious BBC News article.
| Title | Author | Have I? |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | No |
| The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkien | Yes |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | No |
| Harry Potter series | JK Rowling | No |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | No |
| The Bible | No | |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | No |
| Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell | Yes |
| His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | No |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | No |
| Little Women | Louisa M Alcott | No |
| Tess of the D’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | No |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | Intend |
| Complete Works | William Shakespeare | Partial1 |
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | No |
| The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien | Yes |
| Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | No |
| Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger | Intend |
| The Time Traveller’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | No |
| Middlemarch | George Eliott | No |
| Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell | No |
| The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | No |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | No |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | No |
| The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | No |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | No |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | No |
| Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | Intend |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Yes |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | Yes |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | No |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | No |
| Chronicles of Narnia | CS Lewis | No |
| Emma | Jane Austen | No |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | No |
| The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe | CS Lewis | Yes |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | No |
| Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | Louis De Bernieres | No |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | No |
| Winnie the Pooh | AA Milne | Yes |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | Intend |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | No |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | No |
| A Prayer for Owen Meaney | John Irving | No |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | No |
| Anne of Green Gables | LM Montgomery | No |
| Far From The Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | No |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | Intend |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Yes |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | No |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Partial2 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | Yes |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | No |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | No |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | No |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon | No |
| A Tale Of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | No |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Intend |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon | No |
| Love In The Time Of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | No |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | Yes |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | No |
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | No |
| The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | No |
| Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | No |
| On The Road | Jack Kerouac | No |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | No |
| Bridget Jones’s Diary | Helen Fielding | No |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | No |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | No |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | No |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | No |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | No |
| Notes From A Small Island | Bill Bryson | Yes |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | Intend |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | No |
| Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome | Yes |
| Germinal | Emile Zola | No |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | No |
| Possession | AS Byatt | No |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | No |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | No |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | No |
| The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | No |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | No |
| A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | No |
| Charlotte’s Web | EB White | No |
| The Five People You Meet In Heaven | Mitch Albom | No |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | No |
| The Faraway Tree Collection | Enid Blyton | No |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | No |
| The Little Prince | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | No |
| The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | Intend |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | No |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | No |
| A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | Intend |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | No |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Yes |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | Yes |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | No |
1 - Read some plays and sonnets at school but by no means the whole lot. I doubt many people have truly done so or have the patience to put up with the overly-wordy prose.
2 - I started to read it but gave up because, frankly, it was shit.
So, thats the books taken care of. Next was a list on The Guardian website regarding 1000 (yes, one thousand!) songs you should hear before you die, or somesuch. And since it's my blog, I am going to list every last one of the buggers in the next post.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Posted by Captain Flymo on 6:24 pm with 2 comments
I've just started to watch the eighth (and probably last) season of Scrubs. I started watching this by accident way back 7 or 8 years ago when I caught an episode on a cable channel and thought it was just about the funniest off-beat comedy in recent times (it also helps that it has an eclectic and often rather good soundtrack). The characters are all very good and well acted, the scripts are good and consistently funny, but for me the absolute shining beacon of the program is one of the lead stars, Sarah Chalke (note that this link points to wikipedia as her official site, or what appears to be her official site, seems to have been hacked by some butt monkey bigging up Palestinian suicide bombers).
Most people will probably know her as Becky, the eldest child in Roseanne. But ever since the start of Scrubs she has been extremely foxy and now, 8 years on she is more stunning than ever. I'm not given to fawning over celebs like some star-struck loser but in her case, I make an exception. A lot of people say they have a 'list' - the ten (or five or whatever) essentially unobtainable celebrities who they would be allowed a pass for in a relationship (usually jokingly I'm sure because no matter who the celebrity I can't imagine your partner being overly keen on you bumping uglies with them). Anyhoo, my list consists of just one person and it's her - she really is awesome. Very elegant, classy, classically beautiful and always seems very genuine and down to earth.
Probably turn out to be totally wrong about that and she's actually an evil, Machiavellian crazy woman, but since I'm never going to meet her (much less date her) I will carefully ignore that possibility. So, the point of this post? Well, there isn't one. I just fancied saying how much I fancy the behind off Ms Chalke. And it's my blog so ner.
Most people will probably know her as Becky, the eldest child in Roseanne. But ever since the start of Scrubs she has been extremely foxy and now, 8 years on she is more stunning than ever. I'm not given to fawning over celebs like some star-struck loser but in her case, I make an exception. A lot of people say they have a 'list' - the ten (or five or whatever) essentially unobtainable celebrities who they would be allowed a pass for in a relationship (usually jokingly I'm sure because no matter who the celebrity I can't imagine your partner being overly keen on you bumping uglies with them). Anyhoo, my list consists of just one person and it's her - she really is awesome. Very elegant, classy, classically beautiful and always seems very genuine and down to earth.
Probably turn out to be totally wrong about that and she's actually an evil, Machiavellian crazy woman, but since I'm never going to meet her (much less date her) I will carefully ignore that possibility. So, the point of this post? Well, there isn't one. I just fancied saying how much I fancy the behind off Ms Chalke. And it's my blog so ner.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Posted by Captain Flymo on 2:03 am with 1 comment
I'm wrecked. Totally wrecked. I'm also still single but things are moving on. Would be happier if I wasn't single but what the hell - life is pretty reasonable. Happy Easter!! In a totally secular way, obviously.
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