Futtocks
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Here's a bit of fun to test your ears'n'gear - three different pressings of Bowie's The Prettiest Star edited together in one song. Same turntable, arm and cartridge, so see if you can tell when the switcheroo happens, from original UK pressing, to 1997 reissue, to the new box set version.
There's a link in this post if you want to download the full quality 24/96 file instead of the compressed YouTube version.
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I am also dipping into Judith Schalansky's Atlas of remote Islands (Fifty Islands I have never visited and never will). It won a German Arts Foundation award for "The most beautiful book of the year".It combines detailed illustrations for each island with a page of text that can be plainly historical or sometimes a little poetic, as the mood of the author takes her.It is also fun to read while looking up the islands on Google Earth for aerial photos.
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Stephen King's Bazaar of Bad Dreams - his latest collection of short stories, some are good, some are ######, most are just plain weird
For such a prolific author, I'm not sure I've ever read any of his books. I've seen a fair few films of his work, and it seems like there are a lot more bad adaptations than good ones.
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Gavin Maxwell - Harpoon at a Venture. His first book, chronicling the time when, just out the army after WWII, he attempted to start a basking shark fishery on the Hebridean island of Soay. With zero experience and a fair amount of bad advice, he has a tale to tell.As always, he's a wonderful writer, no matter what the subject matter. It just seemed like everything he did in life went awry in the end somehow.I lost my old copy of this years ago, so asked for a new one as a Christmas present and my dad obliged.
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Mind. Blown.
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This is one of Rory Gallagher's quieter, more intimate moments.
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Premiership managers, back in their playing days.
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A treat for the guitar/classic rock fans - someone has uploaded footage of the entire Jimi Hendrix February 1969 Albert Hall concert here.
It isn't YouTube, so I can't post the video directly to this thread.
Enjoy!
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I've found a sport with more stoppages than Rugby Union!
It's the wretched live stream of the British Indoor Athletics Championships, glitching every couple of seconds, then finally giving up and now just showing a still picture. And when the first event it the 60m heats, the pauses can (and do) last longer than an entire race.
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The single from his new album.
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Garth Hudson (formerly of The Band).
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Portland Ben is so jealous of the attention Bill gets, to say nothing of Little Weed.
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This film hits you with 10 different types of awesome all at once. The bit where the wig comes off mid fight scene, the bad guy tries to push it back on his head and they keep it in the final cut.
And in part 2 of the interview the interviewer asks "how do you try and capture lightning in a bottle again for Samurai Cop 2 ".
It is so sloppy - when the sex-mad female cop is attacked in her house, she opens a drawer with an automatic pistol inside, but when Robert Z'Dar disarms her, a revolver is taken from her hand. And so much more in the same vein.
I have Samurai Cop II on disc and will watch it soon. It'll have to go some to beat the original. And it probably won't.
But after watching the interview, I really changed my opinion of Matt. He was funny, articulate and charming, if you discount his scary eyes.
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I watched 'Samurai Cop', which is actually worse than the title suggests... and the title suggests badness to start with.
The cheapness, crassness, fumbled pacing and wooden performances are something to behold, but it is actually far more entertaining to watch this interview (in two parts) with the star, Matt Karedas/Hannon instead.
The scene with the nurse and co-star Mark Frazer's botched reaction shots is painfully funny.
Happily, Matt can laugh about it now and many of the best worst bits are shown during the interview.
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Second attempt at coffee roasting/frying. I started on medium heat, then raised the temperature in two steps 'til the husks started cracking.I also used a very thick-bottomed saucepan, to even out the heat distribution and stirred the beans more than I did last time. A much more consistent-looking result.This batch will get its first grind for tomorrow morning's cuppa - I will report back.
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I've just roasted (well, dry-fried) coffee beans for the first time. The beans are currently cooling, but I think I had the hob heat too high, as the results are visually a little uneven.The tasting's the thing, though.
Oh my, that's one hell of a brew! A little over-roasted for my taste, but incredibly aromatic.
More practice will make for better and more even roasts in future.
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I've just roasted (well, dry-fried) coffee beans for the first time. The beans are currently cooling, but I think I had the hob heat too high, as the results are visually a little uneven.The tasting's the thing, though.
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Brendon McCullum's final innings - makes you wonder why he's retiring!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fefa_8Y1cU
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Does it physically strangle the man or does it have some strange psychokinetic power and chokes him with its mind?
You should be so lucky - it is a purely physical strangulation.
And, just to make it worse, this is the facial expression he uses while he is carrying out the deed in question.
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lol, wtf?!?
Exactly. What. I. Said.
Unfortunately.
Random internet link of the day
in Any Other Business / Any Other Sports
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A man who really really loves his job! It's like 'Will it blend?' with knives.