Ruminations on the state of music, bands, technology, town and country and anything else that takes my fancy
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
A Playlist For Christmas
Am quite impressed with Grooveshark , not sure how exactly it works , but thought I would try this playlist I put together in "Crimbo Limbo". Hope you enjoy it , I certainly do!
Crimbo Limbo
Did you do the sales (I didn't) ,
Any hope everyone had a great Christmas , and hope the "crimbo Limbo" has kept you on a high.
I nearly filled up my hard drive with films , and we still have Sky 1's Treasure Island to come!!
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Ghost of Christmas Future
Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!
Anyway there will always be Christmas films on at Christmas (most a variaton on Dickens' Christmas Carol) and business entrepreneurs will continue to try and remove the spirit of Christmas in the name of money!!
Friday, 23 December 2011
Ghost of Christmas Present
As well as the food technology gives us things like catch up TV , mobile smart phones amd timy music players that will hold most normal people's music collections. Never has life been more convenient with such choice. Despite all the golom merchants predicting global coolapse , the reality is that we probably never had it so good. And it feels good at Christmas
Ghost of Christmas Past
Anyway we don't have these places anymore and it was interesting the read the comments from various friends in there . I remember seeing Rocket From The Crypt , supported by the Coyotemen on my birthday, and remember seeing loads of bands such as Faith No More , Stiff Little Fingers etc at The Mayfair , the Academy seems to do its best to crush the life out of gigs , The Mayfair was just the most perfect venue ever for concerts.
We humans have a penchant for progress and nostalgia and while both can be good , sometimes they can also be destructive!!
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Christmas , 911 , The Gulf Wars and Good Will To All
Anyway This caused me to take some notice , after all this war was played out on television for all to see and was scarily weird because all Bill Hick's routines about the first Gulf War were eerily pertinent to the second!
Q: How do you know they got weapons of mass destruction?
A: We got the receipts !!
Thanks for that one Bill
Also I didnt realise till that point that both Christians and Islam worship the same God!! Their main prophet was a different guy , Islam had Mohamed and the Christians have Jesus, so what the hell were the Crusades about.
These days it's the fundamentalist few who screw it up for everyone , at this time , well all the time you should "Be Nice" , "Love Your Fellow Man" and the world will be a better place . Look out for each other , stop worshipping power and trying to control others and the world will be a better place despite what the Dail Mail and Express tell us.
All my Muslim friends enjoy Christmas and join in , and if Diwali means I get nice stuff and get to enjoy myself with friends then thats a great thing!! All the restaurants have Christmas menus regardless of origins yet politically correct left wingers say we cant mention the "C" word for fear of offending others. Christmas offends no one but idiots
It's a week before Christmas but we who are Ok should enjoy ourselves , count ourselves lucky and help others if we can. Be of good cheer and may your God go with you , even if He is Richard Dawkins!!!
Sunday, 11 December 2011
The Greatest Riff of All
Once you start thinking of this lots of thinks start crawling out of the woodwork , such as "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes , "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin , any number of Black Sabbath and Hawkwind songs.
Above is a carousel of albums and here is a Grooveshark playlist featuring ten great riffs (in my opinion).
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