My dad’s very British, and when it comes to food he loves to get a bargain and get full up. That’s why our nation loves those pay one price buffets and stuff yourself till you die, I usually eat more than I can take, in fact I never wear a belt to those places…
Now there seems to be a craze, maybe not a craze…more a phase of dodgy backstreet cafes offering huge 5,000 calorie breakfasts as challenges.
Halloween seems like forever ago I know, but that’s only because this horrible world wants you to start celebrating Christmas 10 months early every year so you end up getting lost in seasonal celebration. For halloween this year we inviting two sailor girls and a couple of boxes of the lovely Sailor Jerry rum. As before, It was gone in seconds but everyone had a great time even though the bar had to close in the day due to protests and riots.
Some lovely stuff going on over at Lord Whitney’s mansion of art and photography and set design and things. If you don’t know then, well, they are a Leeds based creative duo and they enjoy making and creating all sorts of magical things from theatre props to album artwork, they love new opportunities and challenges (and cardboard!).
More over at http://www.lordwhitney.co.uk
Remember when street art became cool? and everybody was into it, and everybody had these great ideas but not so many people did them and do you remember those really bad ones where people just made a stencil of Barack Obama or a monkey and it made you think that street art was kinda crap. Then that guy did all those weird 3-D ones where it looked like you were going to fall into the ground but in reality they were just some cheap shitty chalk drawings and now they just end up on those office emails…well this guy changed my mind last year and now he’s still doing cool things, which is nice.
Nine years ago, Reflection Eternal (a collaboration between Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek) released their one and only album, “Train of Thought”. It was slick; the near perfect hip-hop record. The combination of Kweli’s crisp articulacy and Hi-Tek’s production capabilities lead to an album which explored the different, almost schizophrenic sides of hip-hop; from the spitting lyrics of “Ghetto Afterlife”, the mellow smoothness of “Memories Live”, and the deep soul of “Touch You”, “Train of Thought” covered it all and did it with serious aplomb. Read the rest of this entry »
