Came across this in Pitchfork and sent the link onto the boys to watch- Feist’s 1,2,3,4 done on Sesame Street for an episode to air in August. So having Feist running through the head for the last two days I of course went digging to show the boys the actual videos for her songs and came across an official blog site (updated by somebody other than Feist) and a very good piece on litigation in relation to the song. Funny read and just to bring out the child in you here is the clip from Sesame Street…although be warned you will be humming this for a while after!
Went to meet a mate in Club Nassau last night- yes Club Nausea is back! Lots of cheesy 80’s pop songs….absolutely loved it!
So the voice is in tatters since I knew the words to almost every song they played and the legs are like rubber with all the moving (dancing would an relative term for my moves!)
Great start to the gig week…now where did I put that Solpadeine?
Some mornings I forget that I have changed around the widgets on the iGoogle page and get a surprise when I click on the articles and The Onion appears. I use to have Breaking News and Irish Times up near the top and I moved The Onion there last week- the funny thing is though that either The Onions headlines are getting tamer or that the other news sites are getting more sarcastic!
Unfortunately half the audio is an add for Grand Marnier…I severely dislike advertisements that are forced on you but damn doesn’t that just make you thirsty!
I was listening to Jim on the way home from town after The Ting Tings and I heard this bloody excellent song….when he came back on and said it was Where In This World by The Notwist I thought I was hearing things…weren’t they a metal group?? Had a quick look at Wiki to check and they were grunge/metal at one stage but have completely metamorphosed to an indie/electronica band…and a good one at that!
So, not only have these guys gone under my radar but sonar and satellite as well- I am going to blame it on the fact that when they changed I was more in the Sesame Street frame of mind looking after the boys at home. (In your best Ernie voice…breath in up goes the mountain, breath out the mountain goes down, breath in up goes the mountain top, breath out low in the town…funny I can remember Up Goes The Castle and not peoples names….argghhhh!)
Anyway- back to The Notwist- some great tunes there from there last album in 2002 and if Where In This World is anything to go by the new album The Devil, You + Me is going to be brilliant.
Just a YouTube of one of the older songs…you can thank your lucky stars there is not one for the Ernie song!
Pick Up The Phone
[EDIT]- Just adding a video for Where In This World as well…in work and cant see it so hopefully its correct!
Have a quick look at the map here- it appears the rapper Ludacris has been spreading his love and has a hoe in every single part of the state of Maryland. I don’t think I have even been to every part of the state and that is where I am from! Given its ludicrous shape though I suppose its a perfect match.
Was awake before the alarm this morning and just as well- when it was time for it to go off there was a very strange sound….absolute silence! I raised the volume and still nothing…I then changed the radio station which I haven’t done in over a year and the other stations were on-air but absolutely nothing from Phantom!
I know that they should have on some programming before 7 although I had never listened at that hour before. Some music did come on at just before 7 but then there were tracks playing over each other and it seemed like somebody had put a cat on the desk. At this stage I thought that Pete had been run down on the way into work- from what I here he cycles into work which in Dublin can be a bit dodgy. About quarter past though Pete finally came on so he was alive and well but I had to get moving so never did find out what the story was there.
The reason I was up early was to go over a few things for the driving test. This is a saga worthy of a Gogol story- bleak humour and incompetent public servants! I passed my first drivers test years ago but it was restricted to automatics so had to redo it for manual cars- I won’t go into all the details but suffice it to say that nothing had gone right up to today. Thankfully the ending is better than Gogol’s would be and there were no administrative hiccups so I could do the test and passed it. As the examiner said- it was really just a formality for me but thankfully it is one behind me.
Many thanks to United Visual Artists (www.uva.co.uk) for the profile picture from the music video 'Tonto' by Battles. They have done some amazing light fixtures for other groups and shows so check them out!
