A rather good video showing old bits of redundant hardware doing their best to play a reworking of Radioheads' "Nude". Takes a little while to get going but well worth it. I hope the student who made this gets top course marks for this.

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
Apologies for adding yet another video to this blog!

Curve were probably the best thing to come out of the early nineties...

One of the best things to come out of the 80's... "The The"...

I know I keep banging on about Prince but he was a big part of my youth. Here's probably the best offshoot from his rather large family, Wendy and Lisa...

Hypnotic.

Saul Bass style re-imagining of the original Star Wars opening credits.

I've been dusting off all my old prince related music after many years. What a joy it is to hear all those old classics. He also created a lot of tracks for other artists. Check out this sublime Martika track. Eminem needs slapping fort what he did to "Toy Soldiers".

Somewhere in the depths of my mums house I have a vinyl copy of Win's "Uh! Tears Baby". Its the one album from my youth that I'm most desperate to find in MP3 form. I'll have to get someone with a USB turntable to rip it for me. But until then I'll have to make do with this, it was used in a McEwan's Lager ad BITD...

This sums up everything that is great about being a drummer!

Outstanding!

Played in a very wrong key. Please note her amusing use of the trumpet as a laser gun in her "dance routine". Pffft!

Obligatory eighties pop Youtube link...

Most notable for the appearance of esteemed TV scientist Dr. Magnus Pyke. Watch out for those elbows!

The world has officially imploded! HMV have bought out Fopp, retaining only six of its stores in the UK. Hello to overpriced CDs and DVDs. Amazon and CDWow must be rejoicing at the news. And they wonder why there is a slump in sales.

There are some things in life that you are slightly embarassed to admit to, but still like whatever anybody says. Hall and Oates are one of mine...

Can somebody please take Kate Nash out to a tea and buns stall in a little known hamlet of East Anglia and leave her there please? That way she'll get confused amongst the bric-a-brac stalls and forget to bother the charts ever again. Could someone also take little Lily to an equally mundane destination at the opposite end of the country? Trust me it would really be doing the country a favour. Now I just need some mindbleech to rid me of all this o-ver pro-nun-see-ay-shun, but I cahn't.

Weep tears of joy as music is played the way it should.

Weep tears of sorrow for the state of music today.

Who in their right mind puts Tracy Chapman on in the office? That's the way to motivate the troops.

Some cheeky twunt had a go at lifting my nano the other day as I left work. Luckily I reacted quick enough to clamp my arms to my chest trapping the ipod in my jacket. However I don't think it was a serious attempt - the geezer was drunk and trying his hand at making me rise to his bait. I think he just wanted to have some agro. Luckily I spotted his empty bottle of ASBO juice and decided that giving him the evils was exactly what he wanted, so I turned and walked away.

What a pile of bollards that feature is. iTunes "Just for You" tries to predict the tunes you're most likely to be interested in. Apparently I like Natasha Bedingfield and Charlotte Church. How far from the truth could it be? No wonder it's still in beta.