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Astrid Williamson: Reach

It starts with what sounds like a typical Kristin Hersh guitar intro, then unfortunately goes all strummy. Nevermind, because the song is chock full of ideas: piano and organ at the same time, and piano and guitar at the same time which is a Very Good Thing, then more piano which is An Even Better Thing.

From Astrid’s third solo album, Day of the Lone Wolf, which I discovered last night during snooker-inspired ramblings through the iTunes Music Store.

PS: Amarylis is the bomb.

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How not to design: Flash Edition

It must be ‘Bad Design Thursday’ today. How not to use Flash, or indeed, how not to sell your business. It’s truly awful.

I love the Job Search page – mmm.. lovely dollop of VB Script visible on the page and no matter what you search for you get all the jobs. Or rather you get 127 of them, which is a suspicious sounding number of results.

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How not to design

If you want any tips on how not to design a website, pay a visit to itv play.

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Palm Happy Wednesday

Palm sent me an e-mail newsletter at 7.21pm yesterday, which I received today. Included way down in the newsletter is a promo for Happy Wednesday, which starts at 9am each Wednesday where the Palm Store “proposes one exceptional offer for 24 hours only starting at 9am”.

Great, except for four reasons:

  • where on the planet is the 9am that the promo refers to?
  • why send the newsletter out if it’s going to reach me on Thursday, giving me very little time to investigate this ‘exceptional offer’
  • the ‘Happy Wednesday’ link doesn’t work, instead my browsers try to download a .vcs file, which is the schedule for Happy Wednesdays
  • there is no link associated with the text ‘Visit Happy Wednesday page’
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Deepest Cuts


It simultaneously creeps me out and pleasures me like nothing I’ve encountered since I first saw David Bowie in Labyrinth at a sleepover party in middle school. It’s goth, it’s techno, it’s electro, it’s synth-pop. But most of all, it’s the embodiment of “haunted house,” a sub-genre coined by Pitchfork’s own Mark Pytlik.

I want this album to be HUGE. I want depressed, androgynous teenagers all over the land to play this album in their strobe-lit bedrooms while they paint their fingernails black. I want this to soundtrack a movie scene in which Scarlett Johansson overdoses on heroin. I want this to play on the radio while I’m taking a taxicab through the rain-stroked streets of New York at midnight.

Amy Philips writes about The Knife signing to Mute for the US release of Silent Shout.

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Sundry Monday

Some tracks I heard yesterday:

  • Planet Jazz: Monster
  • Wire: I Am the Fly
  • Joanna Newsom: Peach, Plum, Pear

The Wire song reminded me how great they are. I Am the Fly appears to be more contemporary now than it did a decade ago, despite it being released on the Chairs Missing album in 1978. Joanna’s song includes a chorus of vocals which sound like an attempt at getting a classroom of five year-olds to sing.

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Your favourites are our favourites

I was mildly miffed to read today that in a poll by MTV/VH1 a line from U2’s song One has been voted the UK’s favourite song lyric.

As it turns out, you could only choose from a shortlist of 100 pre-selected by “music industry figures”. Some choice.

Coming soon.. you too can vote for your favourite Tori Amos lyric, come to this site and choose from a list of one. I wonder what will win?

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Kelli Ali: Fellow Man

Lyrics

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