Tuesday, January 16, 2007

[misc] Bloody January

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I'm so fed up of January already. The pissy, miserable weather. EITHER RAIN OR DON'T! Quit 'spraying' at me as I walk down the road. And how is it that if it chucks it down you never seem to get too wet, yet this piss-ant excuse for rain manages to get you more soaked than if you'd jumped straight into a pool. And in less time.

And - love my country of birth though I do - must it be *so* bloody, arsing grey all the time. Christ! It's not even like it has shades of grey - a nice mottled selection of clouds, or overcast with breaks. Just a solid, neverending inverse sea of grey, dismal, joy-sapping misery in the sky.

And finally, there is the darkness. Ohhhh, the darkness. My alarm goes off at 7am every morning and it's no lighter than it was when I went to bed, making getting up an absolute nightmare. I feel like I'm pulling myself out of an enveloping bed, emerging from under a heavy treacle duvet. Blinking like a newborn mole, I'm cold, irritated and tired. Reliably I end up crawling back into bed, only to race around maniacally when I finally do get up because I'm late.

Roll on spring

Monday, January 15, 2007

[music] 2474 free Mash-ups

Been a while. Must catch up with all the albums 'n' stuff I've got hold of recently.

In the meantime, I've found a site linking to 2,474 mash-up tracks. Some I've never heard, many are top quality tracks by Party Ben, Go Home Productions and more.

On the site, you can listen to the tracks individually, and download them 1 by 1, or you can download each of the 7 torrents representing the 7 volumes that the 2474 mashups are spread over. I've got hold of 2 volumes already and stuck them on random - they are brilliant to listen to and give life to tracks I'd never, ever listen to otherwise (e.g. music by Britney Spears, The Cure, Nelly, 50 Cent etc. Nothing better than hearing typically over-posturing rap stars mashed up with Dolly Parton - lol!)

All the mash-up goodness is at Good Blimey