Simon Wistow’s blog Vox 2008-07-14T19:26:06Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2252555dbf219/2008/ One Drink Too Many and a Joke Gone Too Far 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2008-07-14:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa968770110002 2008-07-14T19:25:22Z 2008-07-14T19:26:06Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Album Nightmares On Wax - Les Nuits

So, in order to scratch the itch I dug through the giant pile o' stuff and dug out the Nightmares on Wax album. And lo, it's as chilled as my feverish brain remembered. Bizarrely I also dug out a copy of Paula Abdul's "Forever my Girl", a second c...

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]]> The things you own end up owning you tag:vox.com,2008-07-13:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9687c0740003 2008-07-13T19:12:00Z 2008-07-17T11:00:46Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Everything I own in the whole wide world

Almost a year ago I packed my wordly belongings up into a motley collection of cardboard boxes and stashed them in a storage locker in North London waiting to get shipped to the US. Now, after various trials, tribulations, diversions and disaster...

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2008-06-30:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9683382c0002 2008-06-30T22:24:16Z 2008-07-01T02:27:35Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Liverpool Road office Massive Attack - Teardrop

I started working 10 years ago today. Or, at least, this Monday of the month 10 years ago. It all started with a football match and probably some beer and ended up with me and a friend named Gareth walking up Liverpool Road to an interview at som...

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]]> The Nozzle tag:vox.com,2008-06-28:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9682953c0002 2008-06-28T18:29:14Z 2008-06-28T18:29:14Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Nozzle

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]]> Crimes against humanity tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9681b9b10003 2008-06-23T19:50:48Z 2008-06-27T07:15:20Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Celine Dion-You Shook Me All Night Long Shania Twain - You Shook Me All Night Long

This not improving my mood We must burn all copies of this before it infects others. OH GOD, it's spreading. We're too late! Oh the humanity! I honestly cannot decide which of these is worse - all involved must be killed. It is a moral imper...

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa9681b74e0003 2008-06-23T19:06:59Z 2008-06-24T09:58:25Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Tricky - Black Steel

It's the kind of cold, overcast day here that Mark Twain wrote about and which, for someone already in an oddly bad mood, seems to be pregnant with brooding menace - which isn't really helping. What's also not helping is the continuing stupidity ...

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2008-06-16:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fad691fb0e0004 2008-06-16T17:34:03Z 2008-06-16T19:36:41Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in your Soul

It's a cold overcast day in SF - just the sort of weather I wanted to show off to the guests who arrived on Friday. Still, there's always MUSIC TO CHEER US UP [ CUE elaborate dance routine. ENTER gayly coloured CLOWNS and ACROBATS also DOGS in A...

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]]> Let us pound it through your brains tag:vox.com,2008-06-11:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fa967e109e0003 2008-06-11T18:02:09Z 2008-06-11T22:51:06Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Gravediggaz - Unexplained

Today is panning out to be made of EPIC TECHNOLOGY FAIL I still don't have the Internets at home. Lightning seems to have stopped working for no good reason. I can't log into the work HR web site for some reason. My MP3 player went from 2 bat...

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2008-06-09:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fad68ffd9e0004 2008-06-09T23:51:09Z 2008-06-10T07:39:48Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Le Dernier Coup - Karim Le Roi et Freeman Taxi chase scene

French hip-hop is sorely underrated in the US which, to paraphrase Messrs Le Sac and Pip, seems to forget that guns, bitches and bling were never part of the four elements and never will be. So let me educate you. Which was used to great effec...

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]]> Curse my frail human mind tag:vox.com,2008-06-04:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21900fae8bfe35d000b 2008-06-04T14:49:18Z 2008-06-07T08:34:11Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Let's you and me try a little experiment. Take the last 3 digits of your phone number. Add 200. Now tell me when in history, approximately, you think Attila the Hun was getting his rampage on. ... Now chances are that your Puny Earth Brain h...

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