Ben Westbeech.
Buying it next week inshallah.
Another Jason Kay (singer from Jamiroquai) - white boy with an amazing voice.
Wicked music.
Welcome to the best years of your life.
'Nuff said. Just listen. Get his LP - it will make your year.
http://myspace.com/benwestbeech
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Sunday, April 01, 2007
I think I can handle (small) rollercoasters
My oldest brother bungee-jumped off of the Victoria Waterfalls in Zimbabwe, which according to Wikipedia are the largest waterfalls in the world.
I was scared to just go down the level 3 slide in the Tate Museum, even though all these little girls that I was chaperoning went after me.
I was scared to just go down the level 3 slide in the Tate Museum, even though all these little girls that I was chaperoning went after me.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
This blog, and a Steinbeck piano
I HATE looking at old entries in this blog - it makes me just want to delete the whole thing, but I tell myself no, and just let them be. That's not easy, because they really make me cringe.
Also a certain someone said that I should write in 'proper English' in this thing because he thought my writing was really crap. That ended up in my entries sounding extremely posh, and I when I look at them now them seem really annoying, and they don't reflect me. So now - I'm gonna write the way I want! I don't care if its correct or not. At least I will be able to cringe less when I look at my posts, kna wot I mean?
Anyway.
On Edgware Road there's this piano shop that me and my friend just happened to walk by, and then we walked up to the window. There was this Steinbeck piano, and it was 25 GRAND (in £), in USD that's 50 GRAND. Why the hell is this piano so expensive? It looked extremely nice and slick and made wish I could actually play the piano, or anything at all, but....huh?? £25,000? For a piano? Pianos (ones like those) have got to be some of the most expensive instruments. I mean at that price its not even an instrument, just a showpiece of wealth. I'll take a photo of it next time.
Piano music is quite cool though, though I don't really listen to any. It's amazing for films, its like they were made for each other. The Amelie soundtrack just does my head in, pianos and all the other stuff that's there.
Here's the best part of the film The Pianist:
Also a certain someone said that I should write in 'proper English' in this thing because he thought my writing was really crap. That ended up in my entries sounding extremely posh, and I when I look at them now them seem really annoying, and they don't reflect me. So now - I'm gonna write the way I want! I don't care if its correct or not. At least I will be able to cringe less when I look at my posts, kna wot I mean?
Anyway.
On Edgware Road there's this piano shop that me and my friend just happened to walk by, and then we walked up to the window. There was this Steinbeck piano, and it was 25 GRAND (in £), in USD that's 50 GRAND. Why the hell is this piano so expensive? It looked extremely nice and slick and made wish I could actually play the piano, or anything at all, but....huh?? £25,000? For a piano? Pianos (ones like those) have got to be some of the most expensive instruments. I mean at that price its not even an instrument, just a showpiece of wealth. I'll take a photo of it next time.
Piano music is quite cool though, though I don't really listen to any. It's amazing for films, its like they were made for each other. The Amelie soundtrack just does my head in, pianos and all the other stuff that's there.
Here's the best part of the film The Pianist:
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Why Jarvis?
I have been having lots of freaky and interesting dreams lately. I can only remember a couple though. For some reason I have been having a lot of dreams about Michigan and people I know in Michigan. Then I had this last night, or in the morning:
I had a dream that Jarvis Cocker threaded my eyebrows, in some odd joint in the Lower East Side.
I'm gonna write that down in my idea book.
I have been to the LES, but never went to some odd and freaky/funky joint like the one I imagined. And I've never met Jarvis Cocker. Or even listened to a lot of his music.
But he's a cool bloke, for some reason. Here's something I read by him a while ago:
'Jarvis Cocker's review of the year'
http://www.timeout.com/london/music/features/2385.html
Some excerpts:
'The only thing that spoils James Blunt for me is that I can’t abide his music or voice.'
'I can’t believe how many festivals are here in the UK now. Nobody wants to be outdoors that amount of the time. I just couldn’t understand why there were so many. Because the idea of a festival is that it’s something special, isn’t it? At one point, you just had Glastonbury, and it was around the time of the summer solstice, so it was a festival in the true sense – it was a big gathering and it was at least loosely tied to some kind of pagan ritual. Whereas with them happening every weekend, it’s kind of like they’re the new garden fête, which to me doesn’t go with rock music all that well.'
'That was the game where Zidane was really good, and the thing was he smiled. You just thought: God, he’s actually enjoying playing. That was the thing that did my head in about watching England – they all looked so miserable about it. Football is supposed to be about entertainment, so it was good to see somebody just relaxed and enjoying taking the piss out of the other team.'
Smash the system.
I had a dream that Jarvis Cocker threaded my eyebrows, in some odd joint in the Lower East Side.
I'm gonna write that down in my idea book.
I have been to the LES, but never went to some odd and freaky/funky joint like the one I imagined. And I've never met Jarvis Cocker. Or even listened to a lot of his music.
But he's a cool bloke, for some reason. Here's something I read by him a while ago:
'Jarvis Cocker's review of the year'
http://www.timeout.com/london/music/features/2385.html
Some excerpts:
'The only thing that spoils James Blunt for me is that I can’t abide his music or voice.'
'I can’t believe how many festivals are here in the UK now. Nobody wants to be outdoors that amount of the time. I just couldn’t understand why there were so many. Because the idea of a festival is that it’s something special, isn’t it? At one point, you just had Glastonbury, and it was around the time of the summer solstice, so it was a festival in the true sense – it was a big gathering and it was at least loosely tied to some kind of pagan ritual. Whereas with them happening every weekend, it’s kind of like they’re the new garden fête, which to me doesn’t go with rock music all that well.'
'That was the game where Zidane was really good, and the thing was he smiled. You just thought: God, he’s actually enjoying playing. That was the thing that did my head in about watching England – they all looked so miserable about it. Football is supposed to be about entertainment, so it was good to see somebody just relaxed and enjoying taking the piss out of the other team.'
Smash the system.
Global Warming
In early December (or something) London had a freak tornado.
Around Christmas time London had its foggiest weather in 15 years.
Just a couple weeks ago London had its windiest weather in 16 years.
How about a War on Global Warming?
Around Christmas time London had its foggiest weather in 15 years.
Just a couple weeks ago London had its windiest weather in 16 years.
How about a War on Global Warming?
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