Unintelligent Design

(link via razorjak)

This is an extremely silly video.

Requires sound. Possibly NSFW, depending where you work.

Trailer - Brokeback to the Future.

Some Doctor Who news.

We get Inferno released on DVD in a few months time...

Yay!

At home. Not pubbing due to illness - as soon as we got the heating fixed, the cold from hell hit me. I now have a hacking cough and a vile headache. I'm fuelled by lemsip and not much else right now. Blah.

On a more positive note, I'm listening to We Are Scientists. I like 'em.

Just got home. Not in London. This alone means that today is Not Going According to Plan. Which sucks. The temperature ain't helping, either.

Might console myself with the pub. In the mean time, I can't resist linking to this lovely quote on the BBC site, a comment on last night's Question Time:

"Until about three minutes ago I judged my eligibility to be a fully paid-up member of the human race against the strength with which I disagreed with everything Norman Tebbit ever said."

I heard the Dizzee Rascal song 'Dreams' today. For the first time. And yes, I now know it's at least a year old. But...

He's sampling Captain Sensible's "Happy Talk". Dear Gawd. A number of interviews done at the time seem to have picked up on this, mostly with Dizzee saying it was just something he saw on TOTP2 and wanted to play with?

Odd. Now, how about a Captain Sensible version of Dizzee Rascal's 'Dreams', then? Just to bring it full circle. :)

"At the Khuderbegainov trial I met an old man from Andizhan. Two of his children had been tortured in front of him until he signed a confession on the family's links with Bin Laden. Tears were streaming down his face. I have no doubt they had as much connection with Bin Laden as I do. This is the standard of the Uzbek intelligence services."

( That's an excerpt from a telegram sent to the Foreign Office by Craig Murray, who was our ambassador to Uzbekistan at the time. It seems that the UK government is not keen to see these published - and is NOT going to be happy to see them on the web. So let's spread the word, shall we? )

Heading off in a South-Easterly direction. Back Mon or Tues.

Merry Wotsit, all of ye.

It's a new Burger King ad line, intended to tie in with the King Kong movie. Really.

Now, I might think it actually sounds closer to a line from a certain Chris Morris 'Blue Jam' sketch, but I'm sure that's just my warped mind.

...isn't it?

Back in Coventry. Back on LJ too, at least for the moment. Less stressed now.

It seems to be a weekend of unexpected musical links...

The latest edition of Songlines, a 'world music' magazine, arrived on Friday. It's usually quite a serious publication - and normally quite some distance away from goth/industrial, as you might expect.

Two points of interest in this one, though...

1)Ukrainian/NYC crazies Gogol Bordello, who get a track ("I Would Never Wanna Be Young Again") on the cover CD. Frontman Eugene Hutz also gets profiled inside, with some interesting results:

What was your first (world music) album?
US punk band Dead Kennedys' Plastic Surgery Disasters - where I come from that's world music.

Class. A quick google confirms that Gogol Bordello are starting to appear in some US deathrock playlists, too - which makes perfect sense to me (out of interest - caveynik, have you heard of 'em? What d'you reckon?).

2) Crossing the Bridge - the story of music in Istanbul. A new documentary film from award-winning Turkish-German director Fatih Akin. Covering a wide range of music, from classical through to Kurdish, Armenian and Gypsy music... and the local rap scene. Oh, and it's presented by Alexander Hacke. Yes, the same Alexander Hacke who's part of Einstürzende Neubauten. (Looks like it's also featuring the music of Mercan Dede, which is definitely a good thing).

[Go. Follow the Mercan Dede link. Listen to the music on his site. Some of you will undoubtedly hate it, but hopefully someone else will like it as much as I do...]