Oh, I had such good intentions, people. I was going to post about flat stuff, I was going to post about X-Men and Edge of Tomorrow, I was going to post on Metropolithan. I was going to post actual content about stuff I've been doing recently. But no.

Earlier I was exercising and flipping through music channels as I usually do, and I saw this:

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NOTE: for some reason the crossposting is borked, it's fine on DW so please see http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/56825.html#cutid1 for the videos.

As per usual, I'd do a mix of what I'd listened to this year but it would be 80% Depeche Mode, so instead here are some themed lists of songs I really, really love:

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So, as mentioned earlier, I got the new DM album yesterday and have now listened to most of it. There's some excellent stuff on there, although so far nothing with the immediate gut-punch of Wrong (which stood out from the first time I heard Sounds of the Universe), and I need a few more listens to work out which songs I'll have on heavy rotation.

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Well I wasn’t going to do this, for the simple reason that every year sounds mostly the same to me: like a whole lot of Depeche Mode and then some other stuff. However, delgaserasca told me to anyway. However I do not have the time/patience to chase after all the sound files (especially as I don't have some of them) so the links here are videos on ( Read more... )

Mar 29th - Apr 2nd

Top of the Shard
Egg Hunt egg from Selfridges (more of those at http://metropolithan.blogspot.com/ and more to come)
Sound sculpture in front of Canada Tower (called Aeolus - it's been travelling round the UK and was actually in Cornwall when Crishna and I went last year :D :D) - http://www.lukejerram.com/aeolus
Biscuit thing (I' ( Read more... )

Current Will Young video, linked because it’s always worth watching a Will Young video:

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Turn Me On by Nicki Minaj and David Guetta

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Ok, look, I need to talk about this video. I understand that David Guetta is a creepy dude building artificial women and it’s all a bit steampunk, but I have feelings about the rest of it. And yes, I know I'm ( Read more... )

Ok, so I want to talk about Example because a few years ago he was sort of a rapper who had a song with lyrics about Pizza Express, which is why Claire and I were a bit confused when he turned up as a sort of electro singer type last year.

(Plan B did a similar thing but came back with a concept album, and even better, HAD THE VIDEOS MATCH THE ( Read more... )

Ok, I have been meaning to post this video since before Christmas, and then the BBC used the song on their 2011 preview and stole my thunder, the bastards. BUT! It is still an awesome song with a great video, in which Martin Solveig and Bob Sinclar PLAY A TENNIS MATCH. And are introduced by their DJ MAGAZINE RANKINGS.

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Trying to explain to a couple of guys at work how Lady Gaga dressing weird (or ‘nasty’, by which I think he means ‘in her underwear’) is not necessarily a bad (bad in this case meaning, sigh, slutty) thing without saying ‘and maybe not all her performance is based exclusively on the straight male gaze’. It’s not going well.

So, anyway, Alejandro:

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So! An entry. With content. Difficult!

1. Charlie Brooker = yay, as ever (Newswipe)

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qjnl2/Newswipe_Series_2_Episode_3/

2. Alexandra Burke also = yay (Broken Heels)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usz-vwNGCxA

3. Spent the weekend at Crishna’s, which was most fun. Fixed Crishna’s TV, watched SYTYCD (DREWWWWWWWW! HE DID ( Read more... )