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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
fridgemagnet
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11:13p
Today's Good Animal
...based on animals being counted in London Zoo, is the coati.
The coati is of the same family as the raccoon, and has a prehensile nose that can bend in sixty degrees in any direction. Its tail is not prehensile but is quite mobile, and is usually held upright to help other coati see where that coati is. (I am not precisely sure of the plural of "coati"; I think that it is "coati".) They are, also, apparently sometimes known as "snookum bears".
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the_book_game
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10:35p
Linus mortus
The deadline has been and gone but not everyone has posted so I'm leaving the poll open till I go to bed.
You have until I get really sleepy to post your lines.
Results will go up tomorrow night.
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poptimists
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9:24p
Fruits of procrastination, bass flavour
Xposting from my own journal, in case of interest:
I just spent most of my day putting together a YouTube playlist illustrating the genre boundary-straddling camp in (so called) bass music that seemed to really explode last year -- the ever-expanding population of the borderlands between dubstep/funky/grime/house/d'n'b/idm/name yr electronic/dance genre, you know, that lot Joy Orbison was pretty much the poster boy for. There were just enormous amounts of exciting things happening in those parts of the scene last year; this playlist can be seen as a small (and very personally biased) primer for anyone who'd like to explore it a bit more.
(It's also sort of a top list, of course, though it's obv somewhat limited by what's up on YT, and also lacks most of my more traditionally flavoured dubstep favourites of '09.)
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blahflowers
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7:54a
< sigh > It does seem that, living in Central London, I get to experience all the annoyance of ice and ballsed-up transport but not the joy of fresh snow. It snowed most of yesterday but was melting the moment it hit the ground.
current mood:  pissed off
current music: Spiritualized - Amazing Grace
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(3 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
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dubdobdee
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4:33p
eek
cow-irker T's bf M was given for xmas an OWL PELLET containing MOUSE BONES plus DISSECTING TOOLS. Purpose of same: extricate bones from w0lp0o, rebuild small rodent
We argued in the office whether this was a good present. P said YES if yr a 12-yr-old boy. T said I am not actually dating a 12-yr-old boy. LJ to decide!
Poll #1508031 bubo whut-bo now?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21Is a mouse-skeleton-in-an-owl-pellet dissection and reanimation kit
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poptimists
[ friend_of_tofu ]
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3:33p
Delphic: Behind the times already?
Just wondering if anyone else saw this article about Delphic on the BBC today.
While this isn't any sort of comment on Delphic's music, I found some of the remarks frustrating:
They are not, they say, a bog standard indie band of the sort that was in plentiful supply when they formed in 2007. They are not one of the many electro acts that, they feel, caused dance music to lose its soul. And they are definitely not one of those groups still desperately clinging to the Madchester glory days.
Are we *still* fighting these battles? Do we still have to "prove" that dance music can have soul, and that guitars have something to offer? Really?
I dunno, what do other ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) poptimists think? Am I getting mildly irked over nothing?
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slightlyfoxed
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2:02p
Neither beautiful nor useful
A friend has recently built himself a woodshed. Every good woodshed needs Something Nasty in it, so I'm going to make him one. I'm not sure how best to do it. It needs to survive rain and ideally frost, although it's fine if it looks worse as the years wear on. Ideas so far:
- carved or pyrographed wood
- painted enamel on a metal plaque
- sheet metal (copper?) hammered into a shape, or just dented into a pattern
- something tentacular made out of old inner tubes?
Any ideas? I'm open as to the variety of the nasty, but a sinister face or obviously monstrous creature would do nicely. It's only a little lean-to of a shed, so it can't be too big.
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poptimists
[ katstevens ]
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11:29a
Yet Another Year In Pop: FINAL RECKONING
It's been a long twelve months in the charts - SIX different Lady Gaga singles, plenty of female singer-songwriters scuffling for Elbow room among the X Factor graduates, more electro-grime than we could shake a glowstick at. But what did YOU LOT think of it all?
( 2009 Chart Poll top 50! )
As for the 2010 chart polls, I decree that the weekly polls will continue, but the 'NOT HEARD ANY' box will disappear. I will try and do regular monthly round-ups of the top 100 but I'm not promising anything :) As there was only one new entry this week, I'll tack it on to Monday's poll.
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