You Must Be From Away

Wow!

Posted on 15 August, 2013 by jb

Lightning at 10,000 frames per second

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 13 August 2013

Posted on 13 August, 2013 by jb

Boom Boom (Out Goes The Lights) – Little Walter – The Chess Story 1947-1975 [Listen]
Get Gone – White Arrows – BIRP! October 2011 [Listen]
Hemorrhage – Fuel [Listen]
Just One Kiss – Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers – Roots Music – an American Journey 3 [Listen]
New Friend Jesus – Craig Finn – Clear Heart Full Eyes [Listen]
Repeat (Stars and Stripes) – Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists [Listen]
Simple Life – The Weepies – Happiness [Listen]
Slumming On Park Avenue – Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra – Any Major Mix in black & white [Lsiten]
Why (RCA version) – The Byrds – Fifth Dimension [Listen]
Without A Woman – Kip Anderson – The Chess Story 1947-1975 (1965-1966) [Listen]

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I know all about Kosher…..

Posted on 8 August, 2013 by jb

but this is swinging the pendulum a bit far the other way…..

Why don’t they just write “non-Kosher”?

And what about Muslims? Don’t they eat pasta, too?

Do they have a special series for Buddhists.

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I’m not quite ready…….

Posted on 7 August, 2013 by jb

…for one of these things (they’re for older people..), but it’s the coolest idea I’ve seen in a long time.

Bunch of young guys from Vilnius.

http://vimeo.com/68219134

Website here: http://www.rubbee.co.uk/

Yours for a mere £699 and on Kickstarter for another 9 days.

I’m assuming they’re using Lithuanian-ion batteries…er..that would be Lithium-ion batteries

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 6 August

Posted on 6 August, 2013 by jb

Debaser – Pixies [Listen]
Farmer John – Premiers – Too Good To Be Forgotten Vol 1 [Listen]
Good Lovin’ – The Young Rascals – The Very Best of the Rascals [Listen]
Must Be the Moon – !!! [Listen]
No Title (Molly) – John Maus – BIRP! April 2012 [Listen]
Reno – Bruce Springsteen – Devils & Dust [Listen]
Stoppin The Love – KT Tunstall – Eye To The Telescope [Listen]
Think of You – Bleached – Art Fag 7″ [Listen]
Train Man – Bob Seger – Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man [Listen]
UR My Bby – Ricky Eat Acid – BIRP! June 2011 [Listen]

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Shouting at the……..

Posted on 4 August, 2013 by jb

….TV (or wireless…er…radio…) is what we geriatrics do quite frequently.

Yesterday I starting shouting at the windscreen.

Driving from the east coast to Birmingham on the A14 – cruise control set at 70 mph – and I slow down at a 50mph sign.

Just behind it (and adjacent to an area of significantly degraded tarmac) was a supplementary sign saying:

SPEED LIMIT DUE TO SAFETY REASONS

It wouldn’t have been too bad if I’d just THOUGHT it, but I blurted (yelled, actually..)

“ALL speed limits are for safety reasons, YOU FUCKING IDIOTS. That’s why you have them. And you don’t need an extra fucking SIGN to tell me that…!”

I trust you’ll all agree….

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For the Formula 1 afficianados among us..

Posted on 1 August, 2013 by jb

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I have nothing to add…

Posted on 1 August, 2013 by jb

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 30 July 2013

Posted on 30 July, 2013 by jb

All Your Answers Will Be Question – Wild Wants – BIRP! March 2013 [Listen]
Doubt (Speak It Plain) – Sandra McCracken – Gravity | Love [Listen]
Forever Ago – Spiritanimal – BiRP! July 2013 [Listen]
I Got Mine – Ry Cooder – Chicken Skin Music [Listen]
Minneapolis – That Dog – Retreat From The Sun [Listen]
Misery – The Beatles – Please Please Me [Listen]
Savage Earth heart – Milltown Brothers – 2 Meter Sessies [Listen]
Slow Hearse – Son Volt – The Search [Listen]
Twist And Shout – David Lindley – El Rayo-X [Listen]
Walking The Cow (Daniel Johnston Cover) – K. McCarty – Dead Dog’s Eyeball – Songs Of Daniel Johnston [Listen]

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No proof, though

Posted on 24 July, 2013 by jb

Patricia Hill once owned 104 bottles of Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey which was distilled in 1912 and valued at US$102,400 ($128,500). It was found under a staircase in a large property she bought in Pittsburgh. Hill put the bottles in the basement while the main floors were being renovated.

Meanwhile, John Saunders, the caretaker who lived in the basement, was expected to safeguard the bottles, but appears to have drunk all four cases of whiskey within about a year. Although he denied consuming the vintage alcohol, his DNA was found on the bottles and he was charged.

Saunders’ lawyer told the court his client is waiting for a liver transplant.

So that’s OK then…

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