Posts by davesparks
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Caught that Lontalius vid earlier this week from twitter:
https://twitter.com/flaneur/status/646545359569846272
always nice to see a slice of something so close to home came back to you via your heroes on the other side of the world. Choice track and super vid. I'm not crying you're crying!
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Further to the Kimbra... noting this here from the twitters:
via
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jono-brandel
Wouldn't have picked they'd pick that as the new single, but is a personal fave.
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All due deference to your headlining DJ skills, : ), the CTRL + ALT + DANCE line up is pretty stonking. Harry the Bastard has some nostalgia appeal for the old folks!
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I'm going to make more of an effort with Spotify, I really am -- but it can't just be me who finds the user interface extremely unappealing
I consider myself of around average intelligence and have used an app before, so it should be easy right, but nothing, NOTHING, has made me feel as lost, hurt and confused as the Spotify UX. It's likes it actively hates music, listening to music, or people who do in fact want to listen to music. Things got better when I figured out the shuffle icon *is* actually a button, you just have to hit it the right way, hold your tongue out and swear an awful lot before albums will play sensibly. Then make sure you never hit it again.
That being said it has been moderately invaluable for picking up and previewing some new stuff (along with here of course!) , especially since iOS 8 wiped all my Soundcloud downloads off my iPhone. The Golden Echo was my album of the year, but this has been hogging my Spotify of late:
Not much new there in the world of sound, but done real nice.
Big thanks from me for the Friday Music posts, they've been standout gold in a year of meh online, appreciate the work and care you put in. Best reason to come to work on a Friday is to get some unbothered time under the cans to listen in : )
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Meh, Messam led with the shoulder and the arms were an afterthought at best. He was trying to smash him. If this was talkback I could bang on about league style tackling having no place in the game and some players spending too much time hanging round with leaguie mates.
Imho A Smith looked a bit tired, as he has done in the last couple of games at times. He has played a lot of minutes this year without any backup. He got slow ball, his targets were slow getting into place, he was a half-step off his normal electric pace.
I'm not necessarily a big TKB fan but thought he looked keen as when he did come one - would have liked to see that earlier in the championship. To my mind it beggars belief that he was described as a 'brave boy' for trying to play on with that much damage done.
There was a lot of ambling into place even early on, and slowness getting up and away from rucks and setting up the defense, noticeably (to my eyes) from numbers 10 and 6 - and holes were ran thru.
EDIT: I am nitpicking tho, not nearly as grumpy about the game as the above assessment reads! : ) All credit to SA for playing that gameplan at pace, rugby was the winner on the day and all that.
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And utter madness from the Dastardly Bounder
Utter genius! Feel the burn when the acid really kicks in about the 7 minute mark. This is one track I'm definitely dropping into my sets* for now on.
* Disclaimer: I don't actually have 'sets" as such. I just listen to music on my computers by myself.
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First one to make it easy gets my money. I've tried pretty much all the options at one time or another and the honest truth is that pretty much any faffing around required means the abandonment of said options each in turn.
Pretty often we can't even be bothered finding the second (Sky) remote and just end up bouncing round whatever the TV is showing at the time. I realise this comes across as pathologically lazy, and am fully aware of the myriad deights available with (relatively) minimal effort through means fair and foul, but I suspect I'm with a substantial lazy minority. Because lazy is our natural resting state.
My ISP and Sky get roughly equal large sized globs of my money every month, and if that could be turned into internet + a smaller sized glob of money for a reasonable standard of programming I'd take it.
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Field Theory: Drinking & Insomnia & the…, in reply to Sacha,
They'e tried a few different things to try and crack the tv market:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxTrax
but
http://ictvictor.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/foxtrax-puck-tracking-failure/
and
but most fans say it hasn't worked.
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Field Theory: Drinking & Insomnia & the…, in reply to Hadyn Green,
That is a sweet TV for watching ice hockey. Watched the Finland/USA bronze medal game and marvelled at how much better it was than last time I watched hockey - which was on a 32" CRT.
Probably needs Peter Jackson to shoot it at 48 fps before the puck is truly easy to follow, but the secret (imho) is to watch the game not the puck. It is what the players do ahead of the play, anticipating the puck, which defines the action, and despite the apparent swirling chaos it is a pretty structured game.
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If we're talking classics, and CJ Mackintosh:
That Stereo MCs, good times. : )