Listening to this song, you will have to admit that nomen is defintely omen with regard to the band name.
Not sure if we will still hear from them a lot in the future, as most band members are/have been involved in other projects/bands as well. But that is totally irrelevant as the mere fact of having released a single song as great as this ‘218’ entitles them to a spot in our collective and eternal memory.
“In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.”
FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (in the 90s cult TV series Twin Peaks)
If you put the amount of toothpaste on your toothbrush as is shown on the images in toothpaste commercials, you will run out of toothpaste quite quickly. Which means that you will have to buy more toothpaste.
By doing so, you help the manufacturers of toothpaste into some additional money. Undoubtedly, a part of that money will then be used to make more toothpaste commercials.
Is that really what you want? If not: use less or go for a cheap brand that doesn’t run commercials.
In the 1980’s there was something called ‘free radio’ in Belgium. Officially only the state was allowed to broadcast (it was acceptable until the 80s), but every town, even every village had at least two or three of these free radios. Most of them were just a couple of kids (some young, some a bit older, but all young at heart) with some often second hand equipment broadcasting to the local community (from a few streets to a few kilometers).
In 1982 I became of those kids. And the very first song I threw into the ether was Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band. A magical word that indeed really put a spell on me. Even today I still feel a craving from time to time to go live on air for an hour again (prerecorded is a drag, live is a thrill).
The video and sound quality are not spectacular, but it was acceptable in the 80s.
“Done is better than perfect.”
Hard to attribute, but made famous by Mark Zuckerberg
To be perfectly honest, this is the only song by The Divine Comedy in my entire iTunes collection. If you know that it is taken from Bang Goes the Knighthood, the 10th album that this band from Northern Ireland have released (factoids I had to look up myself on Wikipedia) you will understand that I’m not exactly a raving fan (never saw them live either). But this particular song is one of those that have the unique quality to evoke a really good mood every time I hear it (especially when they get to the part that goes ‘I like it when you’re sitting next to me texting me sexy things’).
I sincerely hope it has the same effect on you. Make sure to let me know if it did.
When was the last time you went through your collection of printed photos? In this age of digital a lot of people stopped making actual prints of their pictures somewhere in the last decade or so. Probably you still have some albums somewhere in a closet, but not much has been added to them of late.
Not that we’re all making less pictures than we used to. On the contrary: more photos are taken with an increasing amount of devices. But we simply stopped spending money on printing them in large volumes. Still every once in a while I now find myself browsing through folders filled with pictures on various screens. And that’s exactly what I was doing a few days ago… when I suddenly made this AMAZING DISCOVERY. Continue reading
“Life it aint real funky
Unless it’s got that pop
Dig it”
Prince (from the 1985 song Pop Life)
Caroline Polachek is her name and some of the sounds her voice unleashes in this song have a very special effect on my ears and my spine. She’s one half of the Brooklyn based duo Chairlift. In case you wonder where you have heard the song before: it was used in the commercial for the launch of the 4th generation iPod Nano.
“The next five years are going to be about how well a brand can actually change a relationship from one that looks at how many people are in their database (and how to target them more effectively with advertising messages)… to one focusing on precisely who those individuals are and how the brand can make the connection with them even stronger.”
Mitch Joel in Ctrl Alt Delete (on what it will take businesses to survive)
THE SECOND HALF 