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Sat outside Rough Trade East for five hours today to get my hands on the new Blur single. Ended up spending £37 on 36 slices of vinyl. not bad, eh? Pics of me sitting outside Rough Trade and with my vinyl after the jump.
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So a year ago, I started this blog by posting THIS AWESOME POST. Since then I've made over 60 posts, and had over 1000 visits from every continent in the world (Although only one from Africa, come on Africa, get with it). So, um thanks for looking at my blog.
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Lists of my favourite stuff music related stuff of the year, because everyone else is doing it, and peeps need to know. Click HERE to continue reading.
JANUARY / T.I. - Dead And Gone
FEBRUARY / The Maccabees - No Kind Words
MARCH / The Horrors - Seas Within A Sea
APRIL / Health - Die Slow
MAY / Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers (Club Mix)
JUNE / The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa
JULY / Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard
AUGUST / Beyoncé - Sweet Dreams
SEPTEMBER / Ash - True Love 1980
OCTOBER / Shakira - She Wolf
NOVEMBER / Wetdog - Lower Leg
DECEMBER / Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
Click HERE for MANDATORY SPOTIFY PLAYLIST.
Cheryl Cole - 3 Words (Although BLINK 182 did it better)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Health - Die Slow
Ramona Falls - I Say Fever
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
The Rakes (316)
Hands On Heads (127)
Gentle Friendly (117) (According to their WIKI)
Teen Sheikhs (87) (According to their MYSPACE)
Dartz (74)
Favour For Sailors (72)
Mika Miko (29)
Let's Wrestle – In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Love On An Oil Rig
Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx
The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa
Hands On Heads - Tough Fun
HEALTH - Get Color
Gentle Friendly - Ride Slow
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
WEEK 1/ Animal Collective - My Girls
WEEK 2/ Jaguar Love - Highways Of Gold
WEEK 3/ Au - rr vs. d
WEEK 4/ Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
WEEK 5/ Errors - Cutlery Drawer
WEEK 6/ Amadou & Mariam - Sabali
WEEK 7/ Peter Broderick - Below It
WEEK 8/ Electricity In Our Homes - Silver Medal In Gymnastics
WEEK 9/ Official Secrets Act - So Tomorrow
WEEK 10/ The Maccabees - No Kind Words
WEEK 11/ Hatcham Social - Murder In The Dark
WEEK 12/ T.I. - Dead And Gone
WEEK 13/ Graffiti Island - Head Hunters
WEEK 14/ Dananananaykroyd - The Greater Than Symbol And The Hash
WEEK 15/ Elle Milano - Catch The Magic
WEEK 16/ The Premarital Sect - Snuff Scene
WEEK 17/ Health - Die Slow
WEEK 18/ HTRK - Ha
WEEK 19/ Think About Life - Sweet Sixteen
WEEK 20/ Let's Wrestle - Song For Old People
WEEK 21/ Peepholes - My Traps
WEEK 22/ Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
WEEK 23/ Vivian Girls - Where Do You Run To?
WEEK 24/ Crystal Stilts - Departure
WEEK 25/ Swanton Bombs - Perhaps I Thought You'd Never Change
WEEK 26/ Stellastarr* - Graffiti Eyes
WEEK 27/ Kalev - Undoing
WEEK 28/ The Chills - Pink Frost
WEEK 29/ Not Cool - Wonderful Beasts
WEEK 30/ Teen Sheikhs - All Wrong
WEEK 31/ The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa
WEEK 32/ Stained Glass Heroes - Stationary
WEEK 33/ Entrepreneurs - Wasted Floozies
WEEK 34/ Trash Kit - Fame
WEEK 35/ The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Parrot
WEEK 36/ Karen O And The Kids - All Is Love
WEEK 37/ Pens - High In The Cinema
WEEK 38/ Ash - True Love 1980
WEEK 39/ Tubelord - Propeller
WEEK 40/ Wetdog - Lower Leg
WEEK 41/ Julian Casablancas - River Of Brakelights
WEEK 42/ BEAK> - I Know
WEEK 43/ Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
WEEK 44/ LCD Soundsystem - Bye Bye Bayou
WEEK 45/ Fair Ohs - Summer Lake
WEEK 46/ Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh
WEEK 47/ Late Of The Pier - Blueberry
WEEK 48/ These New Puritans - We Want War
WEEK 49/ Liars - Scissor
WEEK 50/ Los Campesinos - Romance Is Boring
WEEK 51/ Good Shoes - Under Control
WEEK 52/ The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Found this design proposal for a global currency while researching money designs for SUPERSWEET. If money was this awesome, I'd never spend it. Also, the space age names for the global currency are EQUALLY AWESOME. (SOURCE)
A bit late, but I've compiled my top 12 tracks of 2008. Based entirely on my top played track for each month of the year. To read the list and download CLICK HERE
Based entirely on my top played track for each month of the year.
JANUARY / Blood Red Shoes - You Bring Me Down
FEBRUARY / Foals - Red Socks Pugie
MARCH / Vampire Weekend - M79
APRIL / Elle Milano - Laughing All The Way To The Plank
MAY / Let's Wrestle - Let's Wrestle
JUNE / XX Teens - The Way We Were
JULY / Bow Wow Wow - C30, C60, C90, Go!
AUGUST / Bon Iver - The Wolves (Part I & II)
SEPTEMBER / Metronomy - Heartbreaker
OCTOBER / Sunset Rubdown - The Mending of the Gown
NOVEMBER / Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen (Ruined By Justice)
DECEMBER / Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
list compiled using LAST.FM and HISTORICAL CHARTS
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learnt to knit on thursday. expect new direction. even got a label for knitting in this blog now.
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Woman on the news told us to light a candle to help MJ out. Didn't work.
Devastated.
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