A quick post, pimping myself.

Hi everyone.

Sorry that this blog has been so fallow of late. I hope that the holidays will give me the energy I need to be updating and such like.

Anyway, just wanted to promote my video, The Spearfish Massacre, which you can see here. It’s a bit of fun. Highly recommended to all Deadwood fans.

Ok, hope that wasn’t too tasteless a self-promotion. Talk to you soon.

xY

Barack08 … or something.

Over the last few days I’ve been following a lot of the commentary on the US Democratic presidential nomination race (just so’s you know, I fully support Obama and wish that Hillary would wake up to herself and resign with whatever dignity she has left).

I just thought I’d point out this chuckleworthy line from an article about yet another superdelegate pledging allegiance to Obama:

Today, Indiana Congressman Joe Donnelly endorsed Barack Obama for President, citing his commitment to working families and building a real coalition for change

Has Barack been cribbing from K-Rudd’s playbook? Or have working families been sprouting the world round, like a particularly dubious fungus? Only politicians truly know!

xY

Just when you thought GTAIV was poised to take over the world …

… one man stands against the tide of darkness!

In all seriousness, though, I’m not hating on GTA. I just appreciate the chance to get the other side of the argument. It’s nice to have an opinion, even if it is spurious, which balances this. And, you know, the claim that GTAIV is the best videogame since OoT. Which it may be. But it’s nice to know not everyone agrees.

x

Y

Fun with Videoheads.

Thought I’d post about some humorous Radiohead videos I’ve been checking out lately.

Firstly, there’s this little mash-up by Adam Buxton and Garth Jennings, which was included in one of the Radiohead webcasts.

Hilarious! Nobody spoil the reference for those readers who haven’t seen Se7en, the film that the footage is taken from. I love Morgan Freeman. Just look at his shiny head. Actually, not that shiny. Thinking of Morgan Freeman makes me excited about seeing The Dark Knight, too. Well, more excited, anyway.

Next there’s the official video clip for ‘Jigsaw Falling into Place’, also directed by Adam Buxton. A nifty idea for a video, though kind of limited in its application. I had been hoping, when In Rainbows came out, that ‘Jigsaw’ would have had a kind of cooler film clip. It’s such a visually interesting song, I think.

Anyway. After watching that clip and thinking about how goofy Thom Yorke looks in it, I realised that it’s far from the goofiest that he’s looked in the past. The man seriously has no shame. That hair. My god. Barf.

And if you need an antidote to that hellish moment of pop history, there’s this, which is about the most beautiful thing ever, despite the assy video quality.

xYosh

Twitter.

Anyone out there using Twitter? If you are, I can be found here. Go right ahead and add me.

If you aren’t using it, you should check it out!

Whose dulcet tones are these?

A little something I cooked up in my spare time — it’s a cover of Sufjan Stevens’s song ‘The Mistress Witch from McClure, or the Mind That Knows Itself’, from The Avalanche. Fun!

Here!

Some life.

Also, seriously, go and buy The Seldom Seen Kid. You shan’t regret it. It’s a gorgeous, melodic album — I can say that much confidently, even though I’ve only just got it. It’s by this little Mancunian band, Elbow, who haven’t released a bad album yet. Elbow are as underrated as they are excellent. Hopefully the seven or so people who read this blog can change that.

(Yes, I’m alive. Just absent-minded. I’m doing some stuff here, but that’s not likely to be interesting to most people. Just rest assured that I haven’t forgotten this little mouthpiece.)

Haircut.

Ok, so, I finally took the plunge. I went out to a little place in Deer Park called ‘Close Shave’, and I got myself a haircut.

Growth.

I’ve had girlfriends before. Every time that they’ve told me they loved me, or whatever, part of me was wondering if they were talking about the guy behind me. I didn’t feel like there was anything in my character to love — not even that what was there wasn’t worth loving, but that there wasn’t anything there at all. I felt like the Onion boyfriend. I couldn’t understand what was there for them to love, underneath the layers of superficial interaction.

But it’s dawned on me, perhaps for the first time, that there is something there. Something really substantial. Something which has been growing and developing over the last couple of years (and it’s that long since I’ve been in an intimate relationship). There’s a Yosh there who I am really beginning to like, a lot.

And goddamn, it feels good.

MacBook Pro: Day 1.

I was up at eight this morning, in anticipation of a package which I expected to arrive in the vicinity of 8.30 - 9.00 am. I was in my blue dressing gown, folding swathes of my hair down in an attempt to appear at least 40 or 50 % respectable for whenever the parcel person should turn up at the door.