wake-up song (30/8/11)
I’ve Got Something on My Mind (The Left Banke)
which, of course, morphed into Jens:
tindersticks monday (‘bathtime’)
I submitted my thesis for external examination a fortnight ago, and eventually I’ll get back to the research-related posts. BUT, on Saturday I saw PULP in concert. It was only a festival set, but it was still one of the greatest musical moments, full of songs to sing along with and the patented Cocker moves. Jarvis is the best. And they played this. Oh yes…
High on London: Tilt-Shift City
3 minute time-lapse, tilt-shifted video of 12 hours of footage from around London… [via Digital Urban]
visualising (facebook) friendships
San Francisco typographic map (Axis Maps)
Part of Axis Maps’ range of typographic maps (also including Chicago and Boston)
how to write a research paper
Simon Lindgren provides a tutorial on how to structure, and write, a paper.
Half Man Half Biscuit: Irk the Purists
Fan-made cut-and-paste video for the HMHB tune - musical highlight at 1’12, visual highlight is all the way through:
Eurovision Week: In The Disco (Deen, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2004)
(Okay, so that was the penultimate post instead. Sorry.) Almost forgot this. Oh the shame:
Eurovision Week: My Lovely Horse
(Final post for Eurovision Week - until I go through the 2010 entries. Lithuania was robbed in the semi-final!)
And yet, even with the likes of Les Fatals Picards producing decent, real Eurovision entries, ‘My Lovely Horse’ (from the Father Ted episode ‘A Song for Europe’) is still ridiculously perfect. Neil Hannon still gets badgered to play it in concert (in recent times he’s actually done it), even though I think he only wrote the music and Graham Linehan/Arthur Matthews wrote the lyrics. To see Ted and Dougal trying to write a song about a lovely horse, go here (otherwise I’d just fill this up with clips from the whole episode), and for the final ‘Song for Ireland’ performance up against Father Dick Byrne, go here. For the full minute and a bit of the obligatory video, though:
And here’s Neil Hannon performing it for the BBC in 2009:
And finally, Ireland’s 1975 entry for Eurovision, ‘That’s What Friends Are For’ by the Swarbriggs. See if you pick why this is also included (it may take a minute or so):
