I'm getting well into silly internet games at the moment! come and join in the fun!
This one's a bit like pokemon! :)

1. All Biscuits are ace
2. Biscuits are less bad for you when dunked in tea.
3. Biscuits won't ruin your dinner, unless you try to cook them in it.
4. The bad stuff in biscuits is the same regardless if you one or the whole packet.
5. Biscuits are the only thing in the world that get better when they're broken.

Anyone else know about 'Dark night of the soul'?

Danger mouse, Sparklehorse, David Lynch and a horde of guest vocalists.

You can't buy this album, for legal reasons. You can buy the book of lynch's photography, all based on the songs from this album, which comes with a cd-r.

more info here. http://www.dnots.com/

Oh, and the album is ace anyway, so you should obtain it by whatever means you can.

It does seem like the book is going to be available from amazon in the uk.

OK, Here it is, because you Demanded it!*

The first new Roy D'Cour track in Years!
https://download.yousendit.com/U0d4SmJ5SWVubHpIRGc9PQ

Enjoy!

P.S. I should point out that this is entirely exliontamer's fault.


*Ok, not so much DEMANDED as SUGGESTED.....Whilst Drunk.

another video for you to watch. Man, Do i want his toy collection! :)

..So Today, apparently, not a good day.

There seems to be a lot of unhappiness and illness around both here on the interweb and out there in the real world too.

I want to be able to make it all better but I don't know how. I would advise that where possible people get outside and into the sunshine. it doesn't make your troubles or ills go away but it's warming and does make you feel a bit healthier, stronger and more able to cope. Well, I find it does anyway.

I also advise a good listening to Carrot Rope by Pavement, that song never fails to lift my spirits and put a smile on my face.

Hope everyone's day improves,
Love you all.
x

You'll kick your collected selves...

1) See you here it makes me smile, I hear you laugh and all day I am waiting to be next to you
"Cut & Run" by Electrelane - Now had any one of you bothered to listen to my ranting about this band and this song in particular you would have got this now, wouldn't you! :p

2) Did you see her working? Did she come around here sir?
"My Beautiful Leah" by PJ Harvey

3) Finish what you've started here, you make your move just once a year.
"Make Your Move" by The Delgados. see! The title was there! I couldn't have made it easier!

Maybe if I give you more lyrics of this next one, you'll be able to guess it?
5) Know that I could bend my tongue outwards leave your lungs hurting tucking my shirt into pants I wear so well cross your t's shirts smell worse than your lying caught my dad crying loose like the wind from the rough we get par sleet city woman waiting to spar.

No? :) Ok It's "Rattled by the Rush" by Pavement


6) She got mad again, know what I'm saying?
"Good Intentions" by Livingston. I'm shocked no one got this.

7) Don't talk of dust and roses, or should we powder out noses.
dr_f_dellamorte Almost got this but was one track out, It's actually "Big Brother" by David Bowie

8) And I don't deal in books, I don't deal in looks
"Take Care" by Hot Chip

9) Always crashing to the ground, always from a safe height, always falling down.
"Nobody Lost, Nobody Found" by Cut Copy

10) Stone cold sober, how can I hide? I can't go to work today.
"Different Drum" by London Elektricity

13) I get them Bleeps, get them bleeps and I'm losing sleep
"Can't Get Enough" by Infadels

15) Lime green, lime green and tangerine.
"Wrong Number" by The Cure.

16) In the summer, oh, the hikers, hike out for the highest peaks.
"Black & White Unite" by Belle & Sebastian.

17) Let's go away for a while, you and I, to a strange and distant land
"Holiday" by Weezer

18) There's a man in the funny papers we all know
"Ally Oop" by The Coasters

19) You know I can't stand the haters and I hate the f***ing fakes
"Revolution" by Gold Chains

Now, go hang your heads in shame.

Ok, this has gone on long enough and there's still loads left!! But seeing as there are others doing the rounds, maybe your minds will be more focused! think people, THINK!

http://roy-dcour.livejournal.com/75006.html

I should also point out that if at least half of these aren't guessed then I'm going to be very ashamed of my friends list and may have to get a new one!

Just because I've been meaning to do one for a while and I'm not quite ready to go to bed yet.

THE RULES! (as if you need them!)
Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Don't look them up on Google or any other search engine, you cheater.
Step 5: If you like the game, post your own.
Step 6: After a week, any songs left, I'll just post the answer.

1) See you here it makes me smile, I hear you laugh and all day I am waiting to be next to you
2) Did you see her working? Did she come around here sir?
3) Finish what you've started here, you make your move just once a year.
4) You went to school to learn girl, what you never, never knew before. "ABC" by The Jackson 5 - dr_f_dellamorte
5) Know that I could bend my tongue outwards leave your lungs hurting tucking my shirt into pants I wear so well.
6) She got mad again, know what I'm saying?
7) Don't talk of dust and roses, or should we powder out noses.
8) And I don't deal in books, I don't deal in looks
9) Always crashing to the ground, always from a safe height, always falling down.
10) Stone cold sober, how can I hide? I can't go to work today.
11) I fell asleep on your sofa and I had a dream about a small child in dungarees "Acrylic afternoons" by Pulp - braisedbywolves
12) Oh I was walking round my local store, I was searching for the 10 pence off Lenore "F***in' 'ell, It's Steve Titmus" by Half Man, Half Biscuit - carsmilesteve
13) I get them Bleeps, get them bleeps and I'm losing sleep
14) Must I always smile and say yes? Must I always play that game? "Bumblebee" by Jenny Astley and her merry troupe of minstrels - Anonymous, but probably either Jenny Astley or one of her merry minstrels!
15) Lime green, lime green and tangerine.
16) In the summer, oh, the hikers, hike out for the highest peaks.
17) Let's go away for a while, you and I, to a strange and distant land
18) There's a man in the funny papers we all know
19) You know I can't stand the haters and I hate the f***ing fakes
20) You've seen the world and tasted something, do you feel alive? "Disco Pig" by Melys - melys_cerys

Night. x

Ok, so here it is as promised, part 2 of my fantastic best albums of 2008 poll!

64 albums were nominated in the first stage, and going over the nominations i can still think of other albums that came out this year that didn't impress anyone enough to earn them a place in this extremely important list!

So what I need from you in this mid-way stage is simple. have a look through the list below, these are the 64 albums you nominated. Check the little box on ALL the albums you have heard and enjoyed this year. It doesn't matter if you didn't nominate them initially, it doesn't matter if they're not in your top ten for the year, Tick as many as you like. Also, it not too late to get your friends involved. and this stage is anonymous as well, so you can admit to liking the Ting Tings and everything!

Now I'm not sure how the facebook note importer is going to deal with a poll, so you may need to come here - http://roy-dcour.livejournal.com/65684.html

Anyway, Ready??? Here we go.....


Poll #1322204 Albums of the year part 2.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None

Ok, so tick ALL the albums you've listened to and enjoyed this year

Some pretty good albums there. Now, what about these?

Were there really this many good albums this year??? oh yes! and there's more...

Almost there! There's still some fantastic albums coming up though!

last 4!

64 albums were nominated for album of the year by you lot! Craziness!

Anyway, the lines are now closed as it were for the nominations. I'll post the voting round next Monday when most people should be back at work and looking for an excuse to spend 15 minutes ticking boxes and thinking about all the good music from the last year instead of actually working.

Merry Chrimble!

Last day at work today until saturday, whoop!

Christmas dinners all bought and waiting eagerly to be cooked in the fridge. I should probably jot down some kind of cooking plan really, before I start cooking.

I'm off to teh BC after work tonight to get in the last minute gifts, I would have gotten them earlier but I only got paid today. I'm not really looking forward to it but hey ho (let's go!).

Then when I get home I shall be closing the doors on my Top albums of 2008 PRELIMINARY NOMINATIONS ROUND!. So if you haven't given me you nominations yet, get to it! Also if you know other people who like to have opinions on this kind of thing then tell them about it too! The 2nd Round will be up on monday with poll-tastic voting madness!! Whoop!

Anyway, If I don't speak to you before, have an Excellent Christmas and take care.


And remember....Don't Drink & Drive!!

Just in case you don't look at LJ over the weekend and haven't gone back to see if you've missed anything fantastically exciting, I point you in the direction of my Best Albums of 2008 post.

Basically I want you to go to it and list all your favorite albums released in 2008, the first stage is just nominations so list as many and in any order you like won't make a difference to the final standings. The voting stage will start at at the end of the week!

So another year draws to a close and I feel strangely compelled to compile some kind of top ten(ish) ALBUMS OF THE YEAR!!! (said in big boomy voice!)

There have been loads of good albums this year, what are your favorites? give me lists please! I'll collate them and then start some kind of polling system, to figure out what we all think are the best ones.

I'm just looking for nominations at the moment so don't worry about putting them in any order of favour just yet, Also list as many as you like.

I'll leave this post viewable to anyone so feel free to get your friends to get involved too, the more people that take part the better the results will be, right?

I'll close this first 'round' on wednesday and hopefully have the voting round ready to go before the end of the week.

I've been listening to The Mojo Club Dancefloor Jazz series a lot today, and was thinking that it would be really cool to go to Hamburg and go to the Mojo Club, i was thinking this in a kinda jokey way, but then I started thinking well why not? Seriously? It would be so much fun to get a group of people together and jump on a plane one friday and go.

Looking at easyjet, Flights would cost around £35 in jan or feb, 7 Euros to get in, which is now pretty much £7. I have no idea how much drinks would be. but I'm well up for it.

Obviously you'd have to be pretty keen on the music they play there. Check out the Mojo club presents series here, and click on the recordings tab.

For a badly translated by google description of the club, go here

I know a couple of non-LJ people who'd probably be up for it, but the more the merrier!

yes, another music meme!

1. Put your music playing device on shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag friends who might enjoy doing this here meme. (Sorry, can't be bothered.)

The results mostly suck but there's the occasional amusement.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY? Until Dawn
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY? Hard To Explain
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL? The Silver Pageant
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE? Beetlebum
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? London Calling
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? Stella is a pigmy 2
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? Hernando's Hideaway
WHAT IS 2+2? Tika Toc
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND? Si Tu Dois Partir
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Painted Soldiers
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? More Powah to Yah
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Days Like These
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? Ease Jimi
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? You Know What To Do
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? Butterfly
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? Blanc-Bec
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? No Child Of Mine
WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN? Gangsta Sh*t
HOW WILL YOU DIE? M.I.A.
WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET? Shuffle Boil (Retake)
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH? Do You Love Me?
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY? Out Of Control
WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED? Scare In The Comunity
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST? The Notic
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU? You Send Me
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE? Ahh D Yaaa
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW? Dancin'
WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS? Badhead

Artists: Tomahawk - The Strokes - Silver Jews - Blur - The Clash - Euros Childs - Billy May - Skibadee - Fairport Convention - Pavement - Xploding Plastix - Cat Empire - Nightmares On Wax - The Beatles - Weezer - Buck 65 - PJ Harvey - Outkast - Kitty Hudson - Thelonius Monk - The Contours - The Chemical Brothers - John Shuttleworth - The Roots - Sam Cooke - The Goats - Vanilla Ice - Blur

SO today I went a bit mad and bought the first Absolute Sandman, which is lovely! :)

But it IS expensive! at £65 each and with 4 in total, I'm entering in to quite a pricey collection, but I've been umming and arring about it for ages now, and finally decided to take the plunge.

One of the main things holding me back was the fact that I already own 8 out of the 10 regular paperbacks, which I'm now looking to sell, They're worth around £100 in total but I'm looking to get about £50-60 for the lot, Or feel free to make me an offer.

Also if you know anyone who may be interested then point them in the direction of this post, I'll make it public so everyone can see!

Cheers.
x

Now I'm extremely skeptical of really good deals on the internet that's why mp3fiesta has my spider-sense a-tingling.

first of all i got there by following a link from a torrent site, then it tells me that I can download tracks legally from as little as $0.20 and whole albums for $2 (including, I might add, a whole load of Cal Tjader albums!!)

My interest definitely piqued, i went through the registration step of registering my email address and giving a password. It then asked me to top up my account, so i made with the clickety click but Instead of any kind of payment details page I got a message saying that they were giving me $10 free, and that I'll also be able to claim $10 free once a week provided my account balance is below $2.

THEN, it tells me that for every friend that follows this link - http://www.mp3fiesta.com/?user=4070225, and registers, I will get another $50 free!

Too good to be true?? It certainly feels that way, I'm scouring the site for small print now.

So, as many of you know, my birthday is coming up soon and one question I ( and I'm sure it's the same for you) always get asked is, "What do you want for your birthday?"

I never know how to answer that question, my mind is suddenly filled with hundreds of thing I 'want', like a castle. or a speedboat. or a pair of unicorns.
Under that a cornucopia of things that are slightly more reasonable lie, but they are numerous and all of them equal in terms of how much I want them. I can't possibly list them all because that would just take ages and probably make the listener wish they'd never asked.

I usually answer this question by asking for vouchers, Ikea vouchers are the best because it's somewhere you might not necessarily go to buy stuff ordinarily but a) there is always something you'll want there and b) the mere experience of shopping in Ikea is enough to make most people I know act like a small child at an amusement park.

Also last week I have discovered the Amazon.co.uk wishlist feature, extremely useful. You can just go to Amazon and search for people either by name or e-mail and see if they have a wishlist. This is probably another one of those internet things that I'm the last person in the world to pick up on. It's like window shopping but you can leave a little stamp on everything you see and like so that people who are out looking for something to buy you later on can know what it is you want.

I'm terrible at buying presents myself, usually because I'll think of something to get someone and then assume that I can just go out and get it at any time I like, which I then find not to be the case at all and the shops that stock said gift are either closed until it is to late or just plain out of stock of whatever it is I was going to buy!
This resulted in Livvie getting a George Foreman Grill for Christmas, which has turned out to be the most USEFUL thing I've ever bought anyone, but that's not really the point.
I also tend to worry( as worrying is my way) that if I buy anyone something they obviously want then everyone else is going to have bought them the same thing.

What about you? tell me your present anecdotes! *

Most importantly, one of the best things about presents is that element of surprise. when someone has just bought you something completely out of the blue, without asking what you want, and got it spot on. They're the best kind of presents, no?

No, actually, the best present any one can give is to just be there in person to help celebrate the day...



*Sorry, that came across as a bit bossy, didn't it?