Simon Wistow’s blog Vox 2009-12-01T16:55:24Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2252555dbf219/ One Drink Too Many and a Joke Gone Too Far 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2009-11-30:asset-6a00c2252555dbf2190123f183016d860f 2009-11-30T21:18:28Z 2009-12-01T16:55:24Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

REM - Everybody Hurts

I really don't get the content industry sometimes. I mean, I do - insomuch that occasionally I can flip my perspective and sort of see things from their world view in which they live in a world in which they don't really understand why the things ...

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Pick One

Alternative titles: Bathroom 51 X Flies Kinkiest threesome ever "Honey, are you sure the child is mine?"

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]]> I CAN HAZ TURDUCKEN tag:vox.com,2009-11-25:asset-6a00c2252555dbf2190123ddc27cc6860b 2009-11-25T19:50:04Z 2009-11-25T19:50:04Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Turducken1 Turducken2

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]]> ♫He could play that plastic guitar just like ringing a bell♫ tag:vox.com,2009-11-25:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21901240b7dcc6b860e 2009-11-25T19:48:56Z 2009-11-25T21:40:41Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Adam rocks out ...

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2009-11-23:asset-6a00c2252555dbf2190123ddea55dd860d 2009-11-23T20:15:34Z 2009-11-24T00:37:08Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

KLF - Last Train To Transcentral KLF - What Time is Love? KLF - 3 am Eternal KLF - Justified & Ancient (Stand by the Jams) The KLF & Extreme Noise Terror "3AM Eternal" (Live at The Brits 1992)"

I struggled getting started writing this week's 90MM because I don't actually have the vocabulary to describe The KLF. I started off trying to write something comparing them to that scene in [insert name of practically any teen movie here] in whi...

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2009-11-16:asset-6a00c2252555dbf2190123dde70ffd860d 2009-11-16T19:57:14Z 2009-11-23T19:10:56Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

N-Trance - Set You Free N-Trance - Stayin' Alive N-Trance - Do you think I'm sexy

House music has always veered between having a sense of humour about itself and being thoroughly up its own arse. Tracks have trodden the very thin line between novelty, kitsch and playfulness - witness the differences between The Prodigy's "Charl...

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]]> In which I date myself tag:vox.com,2009-11-16:asset-6a00c2252555dbf2190123dde70109860d 2009-11-16T16:59:03Z 2009-11-16T19:45:06Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Do a barrel roll

I'm pretty sure the only person in my neighbourhood who might get this was 8 at the time it came out. Also: by date myself I mean - "give clues as to my age" not "pick myself up, take myself out to dinner and then hence to watch a movie before a...

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2009-11-10:asset-6a00c2252555dbf2190123ddbb6afa860b 2009-11-10T01:45:14Z 2009-11-13T01:48:34Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Young_and_the_restless Eastenders Kylie Natalie Imbruglia - Torn Wolfsheim - Find You're Here & Find You're Gone Ednaswap - Torn Lis Sørensen - Brændt Trine Rein - Torn Johann Lippowitz - Torn Johann Lippowitz with Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

Apparently #musicmonday is a trending topic on the Twitters - bunch of bloody Johnny Come Latelys. Some of us have been here every Monday morning (for various definitions of 'every', 'monday' and 'morning'), mining the rich vein of at-least-a-deca...

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]]> 90s Music Monday tag:vox.com,2009-11-02:asset-6a00c2252555dbf2190123f176a7a7860f 2009-11-02T20:19:42Z 2009-11-03T06:16:02Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Placebo - Nancy Boy Placebo - Pure morning Placebo - Running Up That Hill

Placebo are one of those bands that I always feel oddly guilty about enjoying which is odd because "Nancy Boy" is damn fine blistering 3 minute pop song which lovely crunchy guitars and a thumping bass line. I mean the video's a little bit "Art sc...

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]]> Spotted during a bit of Economics Blog spelunking tag:vox.com,2009-11-02:asset-6a00c2252555dbf21901240b73359d860e 2009-11-02T19:07:30Z 2009-11-02T19:07:30Z Simon Wistow http://deflatermouse.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom "Economists should listen more to techies on what techs will be feasible at what costs, but techies should also listen more to economists on the social implications of tech costs. Alas, just as economists prefer to rely on their intuitive folk tec...

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