Kings of Convenience
A track from the upcoming Kings of Convenience album Declaration of Dependence, due to release on Oct 2, 2009.
Boat Behind (Album Version) by Kings Of Convenience
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Sep 20
Sep 18
Q&A: Michael Palin
via guardian.co.uk
When were you happiest?
Flying in over London on a cool, clean morning after a long time away.
What is your greatest fear?
Being taken seriously.
What is your earliest memory?
Buying National Health orange juice with my mother in Sheffield.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
David Attenborough, for constant good work in the face of popularity.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Agreeability.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Certainty.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
Doing an Eccles impersonation on the one occasion I met Peter Sellers.
What is your most treasured possession?
Ian Allan trainspotters' guide, Combined Volume 1955.
Where would you like to live?
In a palazzo off the Grand Canal.
What makes you unhappy?
Unread books.
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My head.
What is your favourite book?
Cassell's Dictionary Of Slang.
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Large-size Toblerone.
If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?
Hancock's Half Hour.
What is your most unappealing habit?
Chewing the ends of things.
What would be your fancy dress costume of choice?
A carrot.
What is the worst thing anyone's said to you?
"Be funny."
What do you owe your parents?
Stability.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Helen Gibbins.
What does love feel like?
Never having to say you're from Surrey.
Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Desmond Tutu, Shane Warne and Katharine Whitehorn.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"How" and "interesting".
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Not being fluent in another language.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
My footballing career.
How do you relax?
Running on Hampstead Heath.
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
A huge kitchen.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
My 15ft vertical plunge into the water during the fish-slapping dance.
What keeps you awake at night?
A really exciting day ahead.
How would you like to be remembered?
With a broad smile.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Nobody knows anything.
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Sep 16
Seriously Facebook? I have to tell you why I don't like an ad?
So now every time I remove an ad from the right side of my FB homepage, it invokes a layer that asks me why I didn't like the ad. Wrong FB! It should just go away without me having to explain to you. If you want to find out more about me, the user, leave those thumbs up/thumbs down icons below each ad, and invoke a layer only when I LIKE something and ask me why I like it, as in "Do you like the ad because it's relevant? Interesting?" That way you don't need all those negative adjectives in your pulldown, which indirectly tells users that you're shiite at predicting and inferring what people like. Capiche?
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Sep 15
Eliza's closing
Practically an institution on the hill, Eliza's is closing after 16 years of doing business in this neighborhood. I've come to know the owner and all the people who work here, and it's a massive bummer that they're going away. Walking in here I feel like Norm walking into Cheers, except they don't yell out my name and I don't have my own bar stool, but they almost always know what I want. So sad.
It seems in the last few years long standing businesses around the city have closed. Just on 18th street alone there have been three closures, with the Thai BBQ place (now Umi sushi) having been in the hood for the longest at 25 years. I guess a downturn like this is as good a time to pack it in as any.
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Sep 14
Jorge Verdin – Tremolo Audio
The multi-talented Jorge Verdin gets it right musically with this collection of mixes by collaborating with various musicians around the world. Tremolo Audio is his side project away from Clorofila (Nortec Collectives). Minimal at times, subtly complex and always (Jorge being Jorge) cheeky as hell. Love it. Good stuff dude.
Disclosure: Me and Jorge graduated together from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, so I'm biased.
Get the album from iTunes or Amazon.
Chitu Chitu (Latinsizer Remix) by Tremolo Audio
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