My favourite Beatles album is probably...the best of the Beatles..

He's back. That is all.

New Year, New (old) Tunes

Thought I'd share some of the stuff santa brought me.

From Four Tet's remixes album:

From an album I should have owned for at least 15 years longer than I have:

I also got a ukulele. This will be me by the end of the year....

Frozen notes

Happy new year!

I listened to this tune during the late afternoon train journey back from Norfolk, post Christmas hols. As I watched the frozen, bare flat fields pass by, and the winter scene slowly succumb to the creeping darkness of night, this tune's cold, ethereal quality seemed to match perfectly with the scene outside my window. The mood and the tone of the vocals reminded me very much of the choral music that can be heard on the radio (Radio 3 generally...) played over the festive period. Anyway, enjoy:



Talking of the radio, I very much enjoyed discovering Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata which caught my ear on Christmas eve. A very famous piece of course, and I'm sure for the classical bods amongst you this tune comes as no great revelation, but whilst I had heard snippits here and there (TV, film etc), it was only over Christmas that I listened to it properly, and in its entirety.

Again a fitting piece for the time of year I feel. I recommend listening to it from start to finish without doing anything else; don't read, don't cook, don't text, in fact, don't think, and afterwards, I promise you, you will feel calmed and revived.

More Geek Stuff

Howdy all,

Thought I'd follow up the massive response to the below geek posts (what happened to comments...) with some more geek stuff. Firstly, I discovered this after watching one of Mr Tea's geek videos, as it's Alby Reid's blog (his is the decimalisation of time video below). It is well worth a look for all things geekish. Predoninantly science-y, but particularly interesting, especially the stuff on nuclear energy: http://wordpress.mrreid.org/

Secondly, you may well be aware of Derren Brown. He's often on the television doing strange things. He is a very interesting bloke as well (as a side recommendation, his book "Trick of the Mind" is fascinating, and he is an excellent and amusing writer, it's definitely one to consider for the christmas list). His website, particularly the blog section, is frequently updated (not just by him) with very interesting stuff. Check it out. http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/

Finally, a link from the Mr Reid blog above, if you don't get far enough down the page to discover it yourself. This is a nifty little program based on the fact that your eyes don't like the light that laptops/computers give out all day long, and would rather the screen followed the light intensity pattern of the sun. The program, therefore, makes your screen give out different intesities of light at different times of the day. If you're on a computer a lot, it makes sense, particularly if you use the pooter into the wee hours. Check: http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

Gold Panda

Yo yo- have escaped with a couple of days leave to deepest darkest somerset to write essays with the snow outside- and take advantage of momma's cooking. nice. Anyhow having a little listen while i try and get things done and i think these two tunes are as tasty as the aforementioned cooking. Both have been around for a good few months but who knows they may have escaped radars still:

Snow & Taxis (Glitterbug's Pink Snow by Gold Panda

You by Gold Panda

The Christmas Sandwich

Epic video

Embedding has been disabled, but do check the link, tis a wee bit special:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYhWnTv2CU