January 2010
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BBC Holocaust Archive →
A selection of reports broadcast from 1945.
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If you live in the UK, text GIVE to 70077
to donate £5 now to the Disasters Emergency Committee.
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Thousands join campaign to save music venue pub →
One of my locals in Cambridge may be demolished.
Architecturally it’s one of the most interesting pubs in town. A public bar, lounge, yard, barn, and hundred capacity music venue, with a single central bar, set in an imposing neo-Georgian public house. Apparetly it’s among the only surviving examples of its architect’s work in the region. The current landlords have done a really...
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Adam Buxton: Alone in the Shed
“I came out here to this shed because I wanted to do something extraordinary. I wanted to fill my life with extraordinary things, extraordinary adventures, extraordinary learning experiences, extraordinary beer, extraordinary tortilla chips, extraordinary magazines about jazz. And I think that if I do that my life will be more vital, more worth living. Also...
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Barenaked Ladies: You Run Away
Brand new offering from album All In Good Time, which is out in March. Neat musical progression, and great lyrics. I particularly like:-
I tried, but you tried harder,
I lied, but you lied smarter,
You made me guess, who was it?
I did my best, but it wasn’t enough.
Thoroughly recommended.
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Mr Scruff brings in the New Year →
Six hour DJ set from Manchester’s greatest exponent of beats, electronica, soul, short films, and cups of tea to bring in 2010. Wish I was there! The choice of the Countdown theme-music to bring in the new year is particularly inspired.
G.O.B.: My God, what is this feeling?
Michael: Well, you know the-the feeling that you’re... that you’re feeling is-is what many of us call 'a feeling'.
G.O.B.: But it’s not like envy, or even hungry.
Michael: Could it be love?
G.O.B.: I know what an erection feels like, Michael! No, it’s the opposite. It’s... it’s like my heart is getting hard. Maybe I am ready to be a father.
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Formspring Me. →
Ask me whatever you’d like.
I wish the world was flat like the old days then i could travel just by folding...
– Death Cab for Cutie (The New Year) (via zenofblogging)