Because I’ve gotta say this stuff somewhere

So I stumbled upon (not using StumbleUpon, ironically) the Internet Wayback Machine and hit it up for old instances of LiquidElephant.
Found this.

It’s me blogging about stuff about 4 years ago, and it’s almost as boring as my current stuff! Huzzay!

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There’s a track on ‘The Other Side’ single from Pendulum. It’s a live version of Showdown without their MC verbally crapping all over it, and has an awesome intro that builds into the main song.

I really wish they’d release it as a properly mastered single without the crowd noise over it.

That’s about all, really

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Yeah … probably could have been more descriptive, but sometimes stupid simplicity is the best way.

Thesis, the theme that this site runs, has just been updated, and now you can click the images to the right of this post to follow them to larger, better quality versions.

Good eh? Two of them don’t go anywhere, because their large-sized bretheren aren’t on Flickr, but you can’t have everything.

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I think I linked to this on a previous iteration of a blog.

Moby - Disco Lies

Great song, great video.
You’ll never look at a KFC in the same way again

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Wrong Del Monte

Click and you’ll see me, demonstrating an incorrect smoothie lolly.

At the end I say “It’s not right” in a BAD Italian Accent, but thankfully it doesn’t seem to have picked it up

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Seeing as I’ve just put in a YouTube plugin on the site, here’s some videos leading off what I went on (and on, and on) about in the previous post

Official Video for ‘Negative’

Official Video for ‘Legacy’

Official Video for ‘Being a Girl’

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According to Wikipedia, Mansun were an indie band that formed in 1995 that “liberally [mixed] beatrock, prog, psychedelia, pop, and 80s noir influences—along with having a fearsome live act who drastically rearranged their songs for the stage”.

I think that Paul Draper (vocalist, rhythm guitarist) would take exception to that. It wasn’t indie, it was rock and roll.
It is the 10th anniversary of the band’s album Six, and Paul has written an extensive, revealing and (at times) downright bizarre two-part blog about the album, it’s meanings, inspirations, the trials and tribulations of putting it together, and everything in between.

To me, Mansun were - and still are - much more than just a band that did some off-the-wall shit and tried to challenge preconceptions and genres, getting critically slaughtered whilst doing it.

Mansun were the first band I ever saw live, during their Six tour back in late 1998. I would have been almost 14 then, living in Mid-Cheshire and just finding my way through the social minefield that was High School, being a teenager, and all that other crap we all have to go through before we find an even keel to guide us through this crazy world. I can still remember queueing up outside the Chester Leisure Centre (it was a big place!) at night with my friends, sheltered from the winter weather by ridiculous black puffa jackets. Yeah, we sure were cool back then.

It seemed like an age before the band came on stage, and we were so short we could barely see anything anyway. Along with the ridiculous jackets (which were so hot we risked passing out from heat exhaustion), it all got considerably uncomfortable. We left the crowd and ended up walking around the upper floors of the Centre, whilst Mansun’s sound perforated every wall and surface, echoing down corridors so that wherever we went, it would find us.
We went back in at the end, standing near the side with the people in wheelchairs, in time for their final song. I can’t even remember what it was, but to this day I still remember the experience, so it must’ve meant something to me.

The album Six, however, meant and means a whole lot more. Mainly because I can listen to it without standing behind unfeasably tall men whilst my internal organs boil out of my ears perhaps. 2008 is, as I’ve already said, the 10th anniversary of an album which is as musically complex and fascinating as anything else I’ve known. And I’m going to talk more about it. Click ‘More’ if you’re bored, and maybe want to get an inner glimpse at my internal locus. [click to continue…]

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If you’re a Heroes fan, that’s the only date you need to remember.

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Not a musing (read: rant) this time, you’ll be glad to see

I just scrolled down and saw my post Making a Mark. Posted on June 6th, it was borne out of a desire to do something with my life (a recurring theme of mine that ebbs and flows like a very sporadic tide) and a decision to make that something photography.

Since then I sold my Canon S3 IS, and purchased a Canon EOS 450D. The full bananas. I thought if I was going to do it, I may as well do it properly. Digital Photography, that is. Besides it’s not like I spend my money on having a life or anything (sorry, but it’s pretty much true) so I might as well splurge a bit from time to time (in monetary terms, that is).

It’s an amazing camera, and despite myself I have actually managed to get a few decent pictures here and there. I don’t have a decent macro lens though, and I remembered when I was just trying to take some pictures of a dragonfly that I actually really like macro photography. Something to go on the list I guess.

The money that I’m not spending or putting into a pension ISA (see, I do have sensible grown-up plans other than just buying shiny toys) is being saved for a new car. I like my current car, but it’s rapidly approaching 100,000 miles and is realistically too big for my needs. More often than not it’s just me in the car, so I have absolutely no requirements for a family hatchback … [click to continue…]

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