Big 'Puppy' Brother

I cannot fathom why the below video actually exists, what's more puzzling is why I can't seem to take my eyes away from it.

It is simply nothing more than a group of puppies playfully beating the shit out of one another and some fluffy vegetable toys.....and somebody has set up a live video stream of it. This is the modern world ladies and gentlemen.



Help me.


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Trouble Causers

This thread is not-so-ironically titled, but The Old Romantic Killer Band should be causing trouble in every fucking city around the planet at the moment and one day I hope that they will be.



Yes. A two-piece that actually works. Blues, grunge, pop, rock, punk, roll, beer, drums, guitar, 120 seconds. BANG. There you have the ingredients of the perfect song brought to you in association with these creatures.

Harry Johns and Greg Holland have just recorded their debut album entitled "The Swan With Two Necks". It shall be released in December 2008 apparently, with a little help from the ever-reliable Bad Sneakers Records. Make sure you buy this, as I'm pretty sure the band are getting fed up of wearing the same clothes and smelling quite badly.

On top of that, whilst you're wondering what to do with your life, watch this pretty sweet video for their impending single "Lovers Pass" which is out today to download from iTunes.



Anyway, these dope-asses have got a tour of their own coming up, check the dates out on their Myspace and get yourself along. I can almost guarantee you won't be disappointed. If you are pretty clever and really on the ball AND living in Leeds, you should get yourself down to The Faversham on Thursday 20th November to see them supporting the Matador maniac, Jay Reatard. Swoosh.


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The Boy Who Ran Away

Thursday the 25th September was quite a while ago wasn't it? Damn. I started this shit with the original intention of updating it R.E.G.U.L.A.R.L.Y...... Who was I kidding?

At least I have kept myself pretty busy in the mean time, which goes some way to making up for it. A quick update would include the likes of:

1) Been deemed capable of driving legally on the roads. Oh dear. Just as well that I can't afford, nor am I bothered to buy a car just yet.
2) Getting the obligatory, mundane office job, answering calls from grumpy people.
3) Dusting off my Samba's and joining a 6-a-side football league with the mighty F.C Locomotiv iLT.
4) Leaving the obligatory, mundane office job to poorly reenact "Almost Famous" with some douchebag band, who answer to the name of Grammatics.
5) Preparing myself to trot around parts of Europe with Leeds favourite library-rock-doomsters I Like Trains.

So yeah, it's not as if I've wasted the past month and a bit doing nothing........oh yeah.
I'm back now, but I don't fancy promising how long for.

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Diesel XXX Advert

Okay, I really haven't gone YouTube crazy but I just have to share with you this clip.
It's an advertisement for Diesels XXX Party which shall be taking place in 17 different cities all around the world on the same day, 11th October.

It is technically Safe For Work, but you'll soon get the idea and make your own mind up. Wicked!



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Guitar Girls

I was forwarded this link from a good friend, cheers.
In a world where we often lack originality and inspiration within the realms of music videos, this could well be the greatest music video ev.... Okay, maybe not, but you've got to give some credit to the innovative idea. The Omaha Bitch drummer seems to be having more fun than anyone else....




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YouTube Comedian

Richard Sandling has just restored a little bit of pride to those idiots who keep video diaries on the ever-useful YouTube. If you're worried you haven't heard of him, don't sweat. He is apparently a comedian who has a host of comic sketches and home footage bursts of information on the site under the guise of Buchan39. He has a video entitled I Love Videos, where he frantically declares his love for the black rectangular goldmine of VHS combined with the fun and games you can have whilst charity shopping.

The clip below shows Sandling telling of the saga when he bought a record on the basis that the lyrics would improve his life.




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Listen to these, they're on my Stereo!

It was never going to take long before I felt the need to share some of my current listening delights with the blogging world. I've recently had the pleasure and time to revisit and discover bands that were before my time. However, no matter how many new noises tease my ears, I have found myself listening to the usual sounds at the end of the cold and lonely night.

Anyway, these two bands are really tickling my fancy and I believe they'll be tickling your ears a lot more in the not so distant future:

Dinosaur Pile-Up

THE coolest new band to arise from the mucky surroundings of Leeds and brainchild of Matthew Bigland, formerly of alt-rockers Mother Vulpine.

Ultimately raw with melodies and riff's galore, Matt tells tales of his misfortunes and desires in their jam-packed, quick-hitting pop tunes. They entertained the crowds at this years Leeds and Reading Festival and are picking up adoring fan's daily, possibly with the help of Drowned In Sound and NME bigging them up. They've also secured a tour support slot with The Automatic, whom I expect to be crushed Jurassic Park style.

Keep tabs on them for announcement's of their debut single and tour.
In the meantime, they feature on the brilliant On The Bone Records compilation number two, so go and buy that before they get massive.

Vivian Girls

Three hot girls playing carefree shoegaze tunes was always going to be a hit with my eyes and ears. I am quickly falling in love. They play out in Brooklyn, New York City and have their self-titled debut album released on the 7th of October. You can pre-order that shit right here from Rough Trade Records.

They seem to be pretty busy ladies, currently displaying an impressive tour on their Mypsace page. They'll be playing in and out of jaunts across, up and down the US of A, some parts of Canada and thank fucking God, England. Along the way they shall be sharing the stage with the likes of Jay Reatard, Times New Viking, Deerhunter and Fucked Up. See them at the Cockpit in Leeds on the 7th December.

Check the Vivian Girls very own blog out too: http://viviangirlsnyc.blogspot.com/

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The World Is Going To End

Next Wednesday, apparently...

So I thought it was at least my duty to quickly show you this inventive and unique idea that is taking, erm, London's black cab's by storm.

The Black Cab Sessions are quite simply that. A camera crew and a quite reputable act squeezed into the back of a black cab in the Capital.

Acts such as The National, Jeffrey Lewis, Wild Beasts, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver and Seasick Steve have all taken to the sick-soaked seats.

Here's one of my favourites from the site, Illinois hip-hop duo Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish, who together make up the formidable, aptly named The Cool Kids:

Be sure to check out the rest of the videos on the site, they update it quite regularly.

http://www.blackcabsessions.com

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Sean Conway ‘the UK’s coolest filmmaker’

This is a heads up to film-boffs or just people that generally enjoy good cinema. Sean Conway is starting to create a little bit of a stir within the short-film industry. He's from the same small, industrial town of Batley as I, but has spent the past few months jettin' around the world, shittin' on diamond encrusted toilet seats, hangin' at parties in Vegas with the Beastie Boys, been within smellin' distance of Britney Spears scalp, oh and attendin' the Premiere's of his short-films. He was declared as ‘the UK’s coolest filmmaker’ by actor Giuseppe Andrews and championed as 'a fucking genius' by Dazed and Confused co-founder Rankin.

Sean also once directed a music video for the now-deceased Leeds alternative/indie/electro outfit Parisman, which featured on MTV2 for twelve weeks running. It was all shot at the Primary School I attended. You can see the brilliantly-crafted video here.

So, he's currently pennin' a lot of scripts, which I'm sure will be hittin' a screen or pokin' your eyes in the not too distant future. If you're into your cuttin' edge and fearless British writers/directors then he's your man, I think.

In the past couple of weeks, my favourite terrestrial television station Channel 4 have shown two of his shorts as part of a 4Talent series. They have since received glowin' reviews in some of the usual places.

Alex and Her Arse Truck

Shown on Channel 4 on Saturday 16th August 2008
(review 1) (review 2)

"By far the best short of the series though had to be one directed by a young British filmmaker named Sean Conway entitled Alex And Her Arse Truck. Recalling the style of such films as Trainspotting, Alex And Her Arse Truck trades drug addiction for sex addiction and gives insight into the anything-goes lifestyle of young British deviants and their kinky fetishes while retaining a sense of playfulness and humor, not to mention a completely unconventional soundtrack to sweeten the deal. Before you’ve made heads or tails of what you’re looking at, Alex and Her Arse Truck is over and you’re left with a sense of the new and ultra-erotic that may well become Sean Conway’s signature; a signature worth revisiting as his status as filmmaker ascends in the coming years."

It is even rounded off with some Jeffrey Lewis. Perfect.

Kings of London

Shown on Channel 4 on Wednesday 20th August 2008
(review)

"Amid yet another summer of bland sport and tedious evictions, it’s reassuring to know that there are still programmes being made which at least try to bend our minds a bit. However, this latest installment of C4’s Generation Next project, to showcase the work of hitherto unknown directorial talents, takes mind-bending to breaking point. Kings of London follows the fortunes of two teenage black brothers, both named Aristotle, with the semi-alcoholic elder struggling to get his life on track, and the enigmatic younger becoming the undisputed champion of the Ghetto Riders, a group of young men from London’s rough estates who have transformed themselves into urban cowboys."

http://www.seanconway.co.uk

Keep an eye on him. He's pretty bloody talented.

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I'm A Perfect Piece Of Ass

I've still not decided whether this will just be a hopeless, yet self-satisfying outlet for myself, or whether I'll get any visitors to this dope-ass place.

Either way, it'll probably help me get things off my chest and trick myself that I'm actually being a really informative and helpful individual to people who aren't even there.

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