We're on the ball...

So, nearly 4 months after this site found out about Catwoman Copycat, SFX have printed a news article about it in the latest issue (Christmas 2005). Sheesh, get with the program, guys! ;)

SFX

Oversol - new site, new tour, new single!

"Speed", the debut single by Oversol is released on November 28th! To celebrate, the lads are going on tour, and have unleashed a smart new website: Oversol.co.uk. You can hear a snippet of the new single, plus bits from all their previous EPs.

The song sounds great, a little like their big brothers, Athlete, but with their own spiky edge. Buy it when it's out - you know it makes sense...!

Short Story: The Unexpected Drink

I wrote this a few years ago as part of a creative writing course, and I still like it. Fancy use of different voices and everything... Not sure what I'm trying to say, but there you go. I'm just writing it, you guys figure it out!

The Unexpected Drink

Seeking the Bubble

Yes, you poor unfortunate souls have stumbled on to the very rare and exclusive tracks that I made many many years ago. Armed only with an Amiga 1200, a Yamaha PSR-300 and a copy of Sequencer One, I created a number of tracks (two albums worth of original material, plus a further two of cover versions). Many of these tracks were sadly lost in the great Hard Drive Crash of 1993, so these files are all that is left. I had stuck them onto a crumbling C-60, and have recently been able to convert them into MP3s for future enjoyment. The quality of the recordings isn't great, but not too bad. If I'm brave, I'll venture up into the loft to get my old Amiga, and see if I can recover any other long forgotten gems. In the meantime I hope you enjoy them!

Seeking the Bubble was my debut album, recorded sometime in the early 1990s. Heavily influenced by Jean Michel Jarre, a lot of these tracks just seemed to appear from nowhere, usually with a bass line or a drum beat to start, and then a "melody" of sorts to follow.

The artwork on the left is brand-new. I had designed a cover for an album called "Seeking the Bubble" by Jane Galvani (?) for my A-level art, which I may dig out for your amusement at some time, but I felt I needed a new cover for this website, so there it is. If you click on it, you'll get a whopping 1000x1000 pixel image to stick into iTunes to look at while you enjoy the music.

Oh, and by the way, the title come from Shakespeare's As You Like It, in Jacques "Seven Ages of Man" speech: "Then a soldier,/...Seeking the bubble reputation/Even in the cannon's mouth". I just liked the phrase, I guess. Read into it what you will...

Seeking the Bubble (4'14") The first track I wrote, and I'm still pretty proud of, even after all these years. I can't remember if I started with the bassline, or the drum track. Amiga Format had a tutorial which showed you how to recreate the Funky Drummer sample, so that was that. Some have likened it to an ice-cream van jingle, so if you feel the need for a Mr Whippy, then that's the reason.

Abracadabra (13'30") The Magnum Opus of the album, "Abracadabra" is really three tracks in one. Once upon a time, they all had different names, but I'm buggered if I can remember them now. The tricky part was working out the bridges between sections. The sequencer I was using was quite basic and didn't allow you to fade things in or out or change tempo mid-song, so it all had to be on one level. In the third section I had a really deep bass bell sound, but it seemed to be too deep and was setting up resonant frequencies! I thought I'd taken them all out, but there are still some in there near the end of the section. You have been warned!

Tributizer (3'21") The title comes from the drums in the middle eight section (about 1'35" in). I suppose I thought they sounded a bit Motown-esque, so this is my tribute to that. No I'm not sure either. Anyway, the track follows the pattern of most of my early stuff, come up with a phrase, and repeat it in different voices and in different keys. Still, it's quite jaunty and not too embarrassing!

A Wasted Life (3'12") Hmm. A slow track, and in some ways a very painful one. I think this was my first stab at a live melody line, played over the rest of the arrangement. I think I'll let you be the judge of whether or not I succeeded. And yes, I know most of it is off key. I'm sorry.

MegaKick (3'51") It's brash, it's ballsy, it's got a cool (or annoying) hi-hat going all the way through it. It's got banjos. It's got slightly phased drums (achieved by duplicating the drum track and playing it back at exactly the same time). It's got swooshy bits. It's got a silly title.

Interlude (1'36") The perfect way to end the first side of the album. "Interlude" is a nice little bit of a looped melody which builds up through most of the preset organ sounds on the old Yamaha, chucks in a few drums, and then starts to take things away again. Nice.

Touch and Move (3'23") Ah, the old Orchestra Hit, where would I (or the Pet Shop Boys) be without it? The rest of the track is quite average, which is a pity, as it was due to open the second side of the album. I think the melody was live, but I'm not sure. The quieter bits are nicer than the shouty bits.

Stranger Place (2'51") A more interesting track than it first seems. If you listen closely there's quite a quiet bell noise before each section, which I quite like. I also like the random "rah" section, starting about 1'53" which then builds up. The drums might be a little harsh at times, but overall I think the effect is quite good.

Planet Three (3'30") Probably should have developed into something more interesting after the introduction and the start of the random bassline, but it doesn't. It just keeps looping.

Hide and Seek (4'47") Having got the hang of live melodies, I progressed to writing proper songs, with words and everything. Fortunately, I know I'm not a singer, and didn't own a microphone at the time, so my voice will not be heard. The words were excruciating as well. The echo effect on the chorus nearly killed everything, as my Amiga tried to process something like 28 notes at a time, when the keyboard only had something like a 16-note polyphony. Which is why it seems to slow down a bit at times!

Inside (Your Own Mind) (5'47") Aw, it's a love song. Again, there were words and everything. It sounded really good when I converted nearly everything into the piano voice, but you've only got the multi-instrument version here. And yes, the words were as cheesy as you can imagine. It's probably a better track if you don't know the words.

Multiverse (4'35") Inspired by the concept of a multiple universe, and the fact that there seems to be a few different verses and bridges and choruses floating around the same song. I also have to warn you of multiple key changes, 'cos they're cool. One of the better tracks on the album, this probably would have been a choice for a single!

Seeking the Bubble [New Version] (3'42") After learning more about making music, I decided to revisit "Seeking the Bubble" to see what I could do with it. Out went the Funky Drummer, and in came a new drum beat, a funked up bassline, a key change or two, and even, <gasp> samples. There was even room for a new verse. And so we finish the album the way we started it - not with a whimper... and I'll leave it to Private Hudson to have the last word...

The End of an Era...

Alas, as I write this, the last moments of Christian O'Connell's Breakfast Show on Xfm are playing out. It's almost as emotional as when Simon Mayo left Radio 1. Still, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Christian, Chris Smith, Roque and Brian the Idiotic Assistant for five years of making the trip to work bearable (and sometimes making me cry with laughter so much I could hardly see the road). You will be missed, my friends (even if I never did get a T-shirt...!)

The Lovely Lauren Laverne™ takes over in a week or so. I'm not saying it'll be the same, but I'll keep an open mind. At least it wasn't bloody Richard Bacon.

Pop Will Eat Itself - 04.11.05

Just got this message from the PWEInation website: "we'd love to see you on the site some time in the next two weeks...... who knows what you might find?", so I go there: pweination.org If you click on the huge "04.11.05" you get taken to the forum. There's a thread under Reformation (the name given to the set of concerts at the beginning of the year), but no actual information. (and then Safari crashes for some reason!) The crafty so-and-sos are keeping us guessing...

My guess is that it's a new series of gigs rather than a new album, but here's hoping...

Um... The Chalets New Album...

Sorry, I appear to have dropped the ball on this one... The Chalets new album, Check In, actually came out at the beginning of the month, and I didn't know. Forgive me? I'm going to see if I can get hold of it today in the shops, or else I'll have to get it off Amazon (hey, I'm just an old-fashioned guy who likes the shiny plastic cases...!). Anyway, you can get it off iTunes here:

I've had a quick listen to some of the samples, and it all seems chock-full of the same quality goodness of their debut single, "Feel The Machine" (which you did buy, didn't you?) I'll let you know what the whole album's like when I get it. Probably. You're still waiting to hear what I thought of Shelly Poole's Hard Time for the Dreamer (beautiful music, possibly a touch too much Radio 2), and t.A.T.u.'s Dangerous and Moving (not as good as their first one), aren't you?

t.A.T.u. - A Health Warning from CD:UK

"...it's all too clear why t.A.T.u. are the most exciting pop act we've experienced for years. It's because t.A.T.u - like their motherland - are unbelievably dangerous.

And we mean that sincerely. t.A.T.u. honestly give us the impression that they could have us killed. Compare that with... say, Girls Aloud, who - at the very worst - could inveigle us into a situation where we might have to make regular payments to the Child Support Agency. Or The Pussycat Dolls, who could just about blind us with the steely glow of their over-bleached teeth. Or the Sugababes, who could possibly sulk us to sleep. None of them can do what t.A.T.u. do so effortlessly: scare us."

Bwah ha ha! Read the whole thing here: :: cduk

And while we're on the subject of everyone's favourite faux-lesbian group, I went to get the new album today, and only found it for sale in HMV (CD £10.99, CD & DVD bizarrely priced at £9.99, when their in-store computer thing said it should be £15.99). Tesco, Asda, Woolworths and WHSmith didn't even acknowledge its existence. The new Sugababes and Liberty X albums were there, but not t.A.T.u.'s. Have the girls really pissed someone off? Or is this a big conspiracy to keep cool pop out of the charts?

Stop and Smell the Serenity

OK, this is a Priority One Directive. This weekend, you have to go and see Joss Whedon's new film, Serenity. You don't have to have seen the original Firefly series (but why haven't you? You can get the DVDs for about £13 if you shop around - you really won't regret it), you just have to be ready to see the best science-fiction film this year.

Did Revenge of the Sith leave you cold? War of the Worlds leave you unimpressed? Well, Serenity will make you laugh, cry, cheer and clench just about every muscle in your body.

If you liked Buffy or Angel, then you yourself a huge favour and go and give Joss Whedon's baby all the love and attention it deserves. Not many cancelled shows get to be made into a movie, but then Serenity is different.

Go and see it. You can't stop the signal...

Serenity

t.A.T.u. - UK Website

Just stumbled across the new UK t.A.T.u. website at tatugirls.co.uk. So far, so Flashy (some dodgy picture editing on the main screen too), but the best thing has to be the 30 second excerpts from the new album Dangerous and Moving (crap title, I know, but at least it's not as much of a mouthful as 200km/h in the Wrong Lane...), and they sound fantastic! Roll on the 10th October!

BTW, yes, I did cave in and buy the singles... I'm so weak! The remixes aren't bad, and the new track "Divine" is pretty good, if a little unusual. And the video on the DVD is as good as ever - again, the edited version doesn't make sense.

And I hear the girls were up to their usual scampish selves on The Frank Skinner Show this week, but I missed it. Bah!

Oversol - gig and new single!

"In 2004, frustrated by the limitations of their guitar-based line-up, Oversol decided to add keyboards and Rees joined, bringing a new depth and melody, and perhaps just as importantly the additional vocal harmonies that now make up a big part of their unique sound. They are attracting interest both in the UK and USA, have supported Athlete at several sold out shows, and "Speed Of Light" has picked up airplay on radio stations across the UK. To coincide with the release of Oversol's debut single, "Speed", you can see them live in London. 17TH NOVEMBER - LONDON WATER RATS" - getLive.co.uk

Cool!

How Much??!?

So there I was, about to get the new t.A.T.u. single, "All About Us" (see below, or above, or whatever), when I suddenly saw the price. Okay, so you can buy the standard CD single (presumably the one that is chart-eligible) for £1.99, but if you want new tracks or remixes, then you have a choice. You can buy the DVD single, featuring the "banned" video (BTW, the edited video doesn't make sense) and a new track, or the maxi-CD single, featuring a new track and about four remixes (definitely not chart-eligible). Both of these cost £3.99 each! So, if you're a completist, that's going to cost you a tenner! For a single! It's an outrage!

Coldplay "Fix You"

Shite, isn't it?

Free Shelly Poole!

Hurry, hurry, hurry! For a limited time only, you can download "Totally Underwater" from Shelly Poole's album absolutely free from !

If you didn't know, Shelly used to be in Alisha's Attic with her sister Karen, and has since written songs for people like Kylie, Girls Aloud and Amy Studt. The new stuff is still definitely Alisha, but a little bit more mellow. Check it out now!

Goldfrapp: "Supernature"

So here's the thing. I bought Goldfrapp's third album yesterday, on the day of release, and I was going to post a review the same day. But, as I listened to it, I was finding myself stuck for what to say. So, I didn't get around to writing a review.

Thinking about it today, I realised that while it is a lovely, beautiful album, it's also not that exciting. None of the tracks have really grabbed me, not in the way that something like "Twist" or "Strict Machine" from Black Cherry did. The opening track and recent hit single "Ooh La La" (praised in this very organ) is probably the most dynamic song of the lot, with its Glam-Rock attitude and style. That's not to say the rest of the album isn't worthwhile. "Lovely 2 CU" and "Slide In" are both good songs, but they only just keep their head above the surface.

Away from the music, it seems like someone has told Alison Goldfrapp that she really is quite a good looking girl and should have her picture taken more. I think I've seen more pictures of her to promote this album than I have for the previous two, and that can only be a good thing! And what's with all this extra DVD nonsense? I'm getting fed up with having to decide between buying the vanilla CD for under £10, or the CD/DVD/SACD multipack with extra flanges for £17. Most of the time the extras aren't worth it, so why are we made to have to choose? Bah!

I really wanted to love this album, but I think I'll have to be content with merely liking it. Supernature is a good album, and will probably grow on me, but for the moment it's only a good album. Nothing more.

Get Supernature at

The new t.A.T.u. video!

Yep, these are the latest pics from the new t.A.T.u. video, "All About Us", taken from their forthcoming second album Dangerous and Moving. If you want to see the new video, then go to tatugirls.com and click on the audio/video link at the bottom of the screen.

As for the song itself, I like it. Once more, it's full of their overblown Eurovision style (never a bad thing), with more than a hint of late ABBA, especially in the chorus. Lena's voice seems to have got better and she's looking darn fine too (she's the one with the reddish hair who does most of the singing, if you didn't know). The video nicely plays on the whole t.A.T.u. mythology - Are they lesbians? Do they hate each other? - with a dramatic storyline involving Julia and a dodgy bloke, and the revelation that Lena will always be there for her. Aw bless!

Possibly not as strong and as brazen as "All The Things She Said", but I think that "All About Us" is a fine addition to the EuroPop tradition.

V Festival 2005

Just to let you know, the V festival sounded great this year - well, the bits I could hear from my house. You have to concentrate a bit, and hope that the wind is in the right direction, and to roughly know who you're meant to be listening out for, but that's only a small matter. I heard Athlete playing "Beautiful" at just after 5 o'clock yesterday, and most of Scissor Sisters set last night ("Mary", "Comfortably Numb", "Return to Oz", "Filthy/Gorgeous" and some other song I didn't recognize).

Yes, I know I could have just turned on the radio, or watched it on TV, but that doesn't count, and anyway they only seemed to want to show The Ordinary Boys on the telly, and they're not particularly my tasse de thé.

I hope everyone that went to Hylands (and the other place) had a great time (sorry about the rain on Friday night) and you'll come back to sunny Chelmsford again!

"Tourist" released!

"Tourist" is out now on a 2-track CD, featuring a Roots Manuva remix, and also a 7" picture disc with a BBC6 Music Session of "Half Light" on the b-side. Go buy now!

Catwoman "Copycat"

Just stumbled across this site for a fan film. Okay it may not be official (or even much cop) but it looks a damn site better than the Halle Berry atrocity. For a start, they've got the costume right! Catwoman 'Copycat'

You can see loads of other pictures and download a short teaser trailer - even to your mobile or PSP if you're feeling flash. My, she is flexible...!

"Ooh La La" - the brand new single from Goldfrapp

Hurrah! Goldfrapp have got a new single out! "Ooh La La" from the forthcoming album Supernature is out next week, and it's rather good - a stomping glam rock number with the usual Goldfrapp electronic embellishments. And of course, Alison Goldfrapp herself looks as gorgeous as ever in the video. If everything is working correctly, you should be able to pre-order the single from Amazon by clicking in that box on the right. Go on, give it a try!

Why stuff takes me so long...

You see, if I didn't get obsessed with things like trying to find pictures of Angelina Jolie in that outfit from Mr and Mrs Smith, then I'd be able to get a darn sight more done around here. Anyway, you'll no doubt be chuffed when I tell you I've found them here: Mr. and Mrs. Smith Movie news on MC Movies. The spirt of the kinkyBabes lives on!

Buy an ink cartridge for £28, or...

buy an new printer for £50! Yes, I was fed up with having to shell out huge amounts for an ink cartridge for my HP printer (bought in a bit of a rush x years ago when I first got my iBook - along with my crappy scanner and Zip drive - which I never use cos I've lost one my only 250Mb disk and have password locked my other disk and can't remember the password - d'oh!)

Ahem. Anyway, I decided to buy a new printer today instead - the Canon iP2000 (if you're interested). The cartridges only cost £6 for a black and £11 for a colour (although I read a review of the printer and some bloke said he bought job lots of 10 for only £14 - bargain), so that's a saving already!

And the bonus is that it prints really good photos, so they no longer have to stay on my hard drive.

Which is nice.

Version 5.1 - or something!

Right, let's try again, now that I've worked out how to host the Blog on the kinkyMachine webspace. I may have to tweak a bit more, but I'm quite happy with it for the moment. What do you think?

A Few Updates

Just to follow up on a few things: The Chalets "Feel The Machine" charted at a respectable, um, well, it didn't get into the top 40, anyway. Go and download it anyway, it's brilliant.

And osymyso extracted his finger and stuck 4 new parts of 05ymy50 on his site, so hurrah and huzzah!

The Return of t.A.T.u!

They're back, Back, BACK! Possibly the ultimate kinkyMachine group, (Russian teenage faux-lesbians who had the balls to sucessfully cover The Smiths "How Soon Is Now?" on their first album - what's not to love?) t.A.T.u. have announced the release of their second album, Dangerous and Moving, due 17th October.

Their official site has now also got English language pages, so you don't have to suffer the tortured translations of Babelfish or WorldLingo (although that does take the fun out of a lot of it!) So hold onto your hats for the second Russian Revolution (or is it the third...?)

You can read all about Lena and Julia's second coming at www.tatu.ru Hurrah and Huzzah!

osymyso

To celebrate the release of the tenth part of 05ymy50, "Something New", I thought I should highlight the work of one of the net's greatest musicians, osymyso.

osymyso first came to my attention when I heard his "Intro-Inspection" track on XFM. The track, which lasts for over twelve minutes, features a really silly number of samples from the intros to various pop songs. It truly is a work of breathtaking ingenuity, cleverness and downright inspiration. (My favourite bit has to be the "Need You Tonight"/"Come on Eileen" segue - it's sooo funky!). It's also perfect to round off a pub pop quiz - how many tracks can you name?

The really good news is that you can get this track on osymyso's website absolutely free! Plus you can also get all his other tracks for no pence whatsoever! There's the 30-minute long "Puckish Mix" (featuring a full remix of "The Reflex" among others), the hilarious EastEnders sampling "Pat n Peg", and the touching remix of Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes" called "Fiver to Bigwig".

But the highlight has to be the 05ymy50 project. Fifty tracks will be released throughout 2005, and eventually mixed together and released on CD. "Something New" is the tenth part which has just been added (hmm... 50 tracks in 2005, and the tenth part has only just been released, and we're over halfway through the year... oh....) Anyway, the first ten parts are all really rather good. Strong electronic roots with a healthy dash of Art of Noise and some help from Simon Pegg. Fabulous.

So get yourselves to osymyso.com right now, and give yourselves some aural stimulation.

Oh yeah, did I mention that it's all free? God bless osymyso!

Athlete release "Tourist"

The almighty Athlete have released a radio edit of "Tourist" as a single on . Haven't seen it in the shops, so I presume it's a download-only single. Will keep you updated...
Alternatively, you can get the whole album instead. It's really very good (though not as good as Vehicles and Animals. Why not get that too?!)

Review: Batman Begins

Thank god! The ghosts of Joel Schumacher's travesties can finally be laid to rest, and even Tim Burton has been blown out of the BatCave. Sing hallelujah! They've finally managed to do a decent, nay, brilliant Batman film!

Christopher Nolan has got the tone, the cast and the whole goddamn feel of the thing absolutely spot-on. Christian Bale makes both a dark, brooding and driven Bruce Wayne, and a well cool Dark Knight, both at the same time (well, not exactly at the same time, but you know what I mean...) Heck, everything was right. It was dark and brutal and there wasn't a single sight of a day-glo Batarang or bat-credit card.

And the support cast did exactly what they were supposed to do. Liam Neeson, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman (as a textbook study of Jim Gordon) were all fantastic, and actually acting their socks off, as opposed to chewing the scenery at every opportunity. And that's not even mentioning the new Batmobile...

The best thing was that it all made sense. It was never explained before how Bruce Wayne managed to accrue all these gadgets, without arousing suspicion (even if that means ordering 10,000 bat-ears from China). But this film lays it all out, logically and sensibly.

The first in a proposed trilogy, Batman Begins feels like three films in one itself. The story keeps building and building, from Bruce Wayne's training in the far east, to the creation of Batman in Gotham, to the finale, and the set up to the next film, and the treat of a villain who leaves a certain playing card at the scene of his crimes... Bring It On!

"Feel The Machine" is Out Now!

Yes, the brilliant debut single from The Chalets (see below) is out today. If you click here: you can listen to it, and download it if you want to keep it (and so you should, cos it's fab!). The b-side is great too - is that the Asda jingle or what?

If you don't want to get it from iTunes, you can go to a record emporium and get the CD for only 1.99. Bargain. What more could you ask for?

New Band Alert: Oversol

I saw this band a couple of months ago when they supported Athlete at Brixton Academy, and I was really impressed by them (unlike the Morning Runner, the other support act who were quite boring, truth be told...). They've got some great tunes (2 of which you can download free from their website:oversol.co.uk) and a really energetic stage presence. I was so taken with them that I remembered their name even after the Athlete gig (which was stupendous, by the way) and managed to Google them at the earliest opportunity. They're unsigned at the moment, but as they seem to be loved by both HMV and Xfm, that may change in the very near future.

kinkyMachine v5.0

Or close enough!

Yep, here it is - incomplete and still a bit shaky around the edges, but the new kinkyMachine is here. Huzzah!

Most of the sections aren't here yet, as you may have discovered, but keep checking back, as they're not far away. I just felt that if I didn't stick something new on the web soon, then I never would. So at the moment, there's this blog, one short story in the Words section (plus a dead link - sorry!), and the FAQ. And that's it.

If you miss the old site, then it's still here, but some links might not work, and it's not going to be updated, so no more kinkyBabes, I'm afraid. (Never did get to see Angelina Jolie there...)

That's half the point of the new site - I wanted it to be all my own work, so everything you see here is mine all mine. Much as I liked pinching other people's images ('cos let's be honest, I'm never going to photograph Kelly Brook in her undies - not since that restriction order anyway...), I wanted this site to be more honest. And so that's what you're going to get. All my own work, some great, some not so great. I hope you like it. And if you don't, then let me know. (The Contact page will be up soon, promise!)

Have a great day!

New Band Alert: The Modern

The song "Suburban Culture" was a free download from the iTunes Music Store a few weeks back - and it's absolutely brilliant. A cool slice of early '80s electro-pop - shades of Duran Duran, The Human League and Visage (but not an actual rip off. Are you listening, Ms Osbourne?!). By clicking on the iTunes link you can hear a free sample and then buy it! Sorry, it's not free any more, but 79p is a small price to pay for such a great song. Check out their other tracks on iTunes - "Industry" is also a great tune! Also, make sure you go and have a look at their website, with its nifty Flash interface! www.the-modern.co.uk

New Band Alert: The Chalets

Just seen the video for "Feel the Machine" on The Amp, and I like what I saw (and heard as well). Cheeky new-wave electro-pop, a couple of Lauren Laverne-alikes called Peepee and Pony in long socks (which can only be a good thing) and 3 blokes (called Dylan, enda and Chris, if you need to know...).

It's got a really smart Photoshop-inspired video too! Anyway, here's the link to their site: The Chalets and I predict good things for them! (hey, I was right about Athlete when they first started!)

Roisin Murphy

I'm really liking Roisin Murphy's new single "If We're In Love". It's funky and sexy and cool. Bizarre, cos I couldn't stand anything she did with Moloko.

Update

Oh it's all been a bit quiet, hasn't it? The welcome message is still banging on about Big Brother 5, when Big Brother 6 is about to start! I'm sorry, if anyone out there is an avid KinkyMachine fan. I'm trying to work on a totally new design, a new concept, but it's not going very well.

You see, I've decided I want the site to be more about me, so that it'll be a place for me to put all my writing, my photographs and even, gulp, my music (which has already been converted into mp3s, so it's just a matter of time).

The trouble is, I can't quite get the layout right. I've got a lot of elements that I like, but they're just not hanging together properly, so it's getting quite frustrating. And then I've gone an overwritten the one bit of HTML and JavaScript that I liked and haven't got a copy, so I'll have to do that again. Bah!

On a different tangent, I've set up another blog purely for music (other people's, that is) over at DirtyPopSlut (deleted). Feel free to have a look and drop in a comment or two. There's links to mash-ups, dodgy remixes and iTunes goodies, so go and have a nose. It's only been up a day or so, so give it a chance. And if you want to be a fellow 'slut, then let me know.

Right, hopefully the new site will be up soon and this blog will remain (in content if not in design, so stick around!)

Oh my giddy aunt...

It's so twisted, it's unbelievable, it's 13 different flavours of wrong, and yet, and yet... it feels so good. You'll need a shower after this.

Enjoy! I Love Horses!

Mash-Up Mayhem: "Are You Going To Be My Love Machine?"

In my on-going quest to find the best (and worst) of the net's mash-ups, I proudly present Jet vs. Girls Aloud "Are You Gonna Be My Love Machine?" You see, it's Girls Aloud and Jet. Together. What's not to love?

Get it here!

I could have guessed...

You are Schroeder!


Which Peanuts Character are You?
brought to you by Quizilla