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OK, so I had the bright idea to do a search for the Pogues on You Tube. Now that I’ve lost a well spent hour or so watching wonderful videos, I thought I’d share a couple.
First up, an old version of Sally MacLennane

On a side note, the woman in this vid, playing bass, would [...]

So, last month I dropped a couple of hints about a top secret project that I’ve been working on. Well, today’s the day of the grand unveiling.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Geeks of all fandoms.
I give you…
Stop Standing Still!!!
For those that may be curious, Stop Standing Still is a site that I’ve set [...]

Several weeks ago Z pointed Church and I to an article over at Something Awful, titled The 8 Most Awful Minorities. Specifically, this page which talks about nerdcore.
To quote,
The genre amounts to a bunch of people aping that MC Hawking joke site from like 1998, but that hasn’t stopped Internet losers from falling head [...]

Red Shipley has passed.
Don’t know who Red Shipley is? Then you don’t live in the DC area or central VA. And if you do, then you’re not a fan of old time country or bluegrass.
Shipley was the host of Stained Glass Bluegrass a show devoted to gospel country/bluegrass music, that ran on the [...]

So, someone is turning The Watchmen into a movie.
Honestly, I think this is a bad idea.
Now I’m not motivated by the usual knee jerk reactionism that they’ll ‘ruin it’. I just don’t see the point of doing it. I don’t see anyway to adapt something like The Watchmen into a film, and keep [...]

Remember how I said that I’d have a new project to debut this week? You didn’t really expect me to follow through on that did you?
Seriously, this week has taken a change for the weird so I’m pushing the new project back to Sept 30th. Possibly earlier, but that’s the date I’d expect [...]

So I just got back from seeing Stardust, the new film based on the book of the same name, by Neil Gaiman.
The book tells the story of a boy, named Tristan, who travels into the world of Faerie in order to fulfill a promise he has made to the woman he loves, to bring back [...]

So I’m trying to clean out my bloglines account of all the various posts that I’ve saved for later. I did an initial hack and slash earlier today and got rid of most of it, but I saved a couple of posts that I really wanted to mention, so here they are,
First up, we [...]

A quick post that I’ve been meaning to make.
I came across this a week or so ago and have been meaning to post about it. Archeophone Records is a label that sells recordings from early 20th Century. One of the cool things is that they have ‘year book’ compilations that let you sample [...]

At the end of July I went on a little record buying binge, placing orders with four or five different labels. I’m still digesting all the great music that I ended up getting, but there have already been a few things that stuck out that I thought I’d recommend.
First off is a new recording from [...]