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nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:11:54 -0700

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90s Music Monday (sort of)

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:20:41 -0700

I actually forgot that yesterday was Monday. I can't decide if that's tragic or not. sigh I have a soft spot for Mark Romanek videos - especially the sublime "Hurt" for Johnny Cash, "99 Problems" for Jay-Z (although for the last I couldn't really...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:46:24 -0700

Once, in art class at school, I tried to bluff past my suckiness at the aesthetic by claiming I was creating modern, abstract peices whereby my teacher primly told me that you have to be good before you can break the rules. I think I probably resp...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:33:48 -0700

For some reason which completely baffles me I had Luscious Jackson's "Naked Eye" stuck in my head all yesterday. ALL of yesterday. But not all of the song. Just the hook. Over and over and over and over again. No idea where it came from or why it...

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Z-list

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:08:37 -0700

So the Interwebs have been all a twitter (literally I suppose) about the Infocom archive. A million others will comment on it but I have a larger point to make. The complete nerd in me is all squeefull. Stuff like this is interesting and deserves...

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Point/Counterpoint

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:04:50 -0700

san francisco: do a start up london: start an experimental music group utilising only the sid chips from old c64s san francisco: easy to get to the beach, the mountains, sonoma, napa or marin london: easy to fly to europe san francisco: ...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:18:14 -0700

It's a shame when good songs get over used. Moby's "Play" has the dubious distinction of being the first album that had every single one of its tracks licensed for an advert, movie or tv show. Hell, even Track 1 of the B-Sides album was used in th...

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You get what you need

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:02:12 -0700

For a year I didn't buy any games. Over a year actually. Partly this was because I had a stack of things to get through and finish but also because I was going to be moving sometime and would need to sell off my modern consoles. So I gamed vicar...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:56:53 -0700

The best laid plans of mice and men etc etc - I had a whole post written in my head and then the overdue sproggling of two of my dearest friends chose today to log in to the great MMORPG that we call "Life'. However, since Adam, the Stamen bearin...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:09:53 -0700

High Fidelity scores highly in Simon's personal all time top 10 list of films. For a start it's good - always an advantage in these types of situations. It's also one of the best adaptations of a book to film which deftly takes the central messag...

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