I don't see what anyone can see in anyone else....

I can't seem to get the embed functionality to work, but this is amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BowmW12yrpw

so cute.

More photo success!

I found out today that another photo I have taken is going to be used online. My photo of the toilets at Max Fish, a bar in the Lower East Side of New York, is going to be used in the latest Schmap guide to New York. It's not a guide I have come across before, last time I went to New York I planned my shopping trips meticulously with the amazing Jargol.

Faces in Places

I'm a little over excited to announce that one of my pictures has appeared in a photo blog!

A photo of my camera case has made it into my friend's Faces in Places blog...

The blog is really very funny and clever and all the pictures are focussed a lot better than mine too!

http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/

Cheeky

There was a quirky article in The Guardian by Tony Naylor whilst I was away, it was celebrating all that's bad about lad's bands - The Twang, (my secret guilty favourite band) Shed Seven and Little Man Tate. The last band probably got the worst of the critisism, with the scene variously called - "a laughing stock among indie's taste makers...lyrically gauche...Emotionally underdeveloped? Yes"

I had a little snicker at this blog post from the BBC Chart Blog yesterday. It criticises the over-the-top and generally exhausting press releases they get sent from time to time.

The following day I was entertained to recieve a beautifully written and conprehensive Little Man Tate press release - managing to pull a positive quote from the very article that had given them such a battering.

Little Man Tate - " 'But in a world where modern culture is so controlled, so predictable, so hidebound to mass marketing or notions of cool, any grassroots movement that refuses to buckle under and be told what to listen to has got be a good thing.' - The Guardian."

Amazing.

Lovely playlists

I have been sent some beautiful looking sites that allow you to listen to music playlists without registering

Deezer

Liveroom.tv/

Mystrands.tv/

All very beautiful sites that I'll be using lots in the next few weeks, for reseach purposes of course...

Dylan writes me a verse

Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues has a memorable, oft-copied promotional videos. The latest homage is a really nice bit of viral promoting the release of a greatest hits allbum. I know bloggers are turning against PRs and marketing at the moment but this has given me some joy, so I thought I'd pass it on.

"The bloody (pizza) pies"

Watching a really dramatic ending of The Sopranos, with that feeling when you know the series is going to get better and better and end suddenly.
It was really weird to hear a northern accent singing:
"The bloody pies are bloody old
the bloody chips are bloody cold"

It was John Cooper Clarke singing Evidently Chicken Town.

According to Wikipedia, John Cooper Clarke is having a bit of a resurgence among the current indie scensters. He's recently been on stage with Jon McCrure from Reverend and the Makers and one of his poems is printed on the inside of the last Arctic Monkeys single sleeve.