TV On The Radio - Check it Out

Album of the Week / Day / Moment

TV on the Radio - Dear Science.... Very retro cool sound brings back lots of vibe like Heaven 17, Gery Numan, mid 80s when Numan was cool and Tubeway Army was fresh.

Here is the Emusic link where I downloaded it.  Need to upgrade that car radio to MP3 as my CDs are overflowing and there is too much great music to listen to before I head for the brown box..

Boney M

I am in shock.  I downloaded Boney M's greatest hits last night and always thought it was "Brown Girl in the Rain" - Nope its in the Ring. Need to have a strong coffee to recover. As for what I downloaded Boney M for that's another story.

Scribefire and Flickr

I use Scribefire with Firefox to write my Blog entries and they post them to whichever Blog I want (scribefire sits at the bottom of my browser).  It has a feature that allows you put in an image from Flickr by just searching.

[Vespa from Flickr]

Album of the Day - 10 September 2008

I have been too busy in the past couple of days to listen to much music in work but the current album in heavy rotation on the earphones is Okkervil River's new offering The Stand Ins. Saying that one of the kick ass tunes that I have heard this week is Fedde Le Grande - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit. Found this track when browsing DNA Lounge's mix tape by jwz. He has some interesting stuff there that I sometimes download and listen to.

Billy Bragg is coming to Cork

[Billy Bragg is coming to Cork -Image from Flickr]

Freemind

I have started using Freemind again after a break. It is an open source mind mapping tool and I used it in the past for studying for my MBA. You can save it as HTML as well and put it on web sites (not sure how on a blog but wait and see). I have started using it to track tasks in work and for any other computer based project like the web sites I work on or blogs that I have created and am working on.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

So there I am wondering what I should listen to and download and surfing and looking and around and then I just revert to basics. I love Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ... excellent lyrics - great beat - singer rocks - they are back on my always play list with Massive Attack and BMRC.. I will travel to see them when they hit Ireland again for sure and Paudie is coming with me.

Album of the Day - Sep 2nd

Listening to Thursten Moore at the moment. Never a Sonic Youth fan but this 2007 album Trees Outside the Academy is really solid listen. The Shape is in a Trance is my favourite track on the album by far but overall it is a real cool feel good album to listen to. I have burned it to CD as my Ipod radio transmitter does not do it justice in the car - note to go look at replacement stereos.. Pitchfork gave it a 7.9 when it came out - read the review here

Trying to listen to the August downloads that I didn't listen to. Plan to download even more this month - go a bit back into the 90s and dig up some of the classics that I just didn't get to due to life, kids and travel. Watch this space for the September download list.

Mobile Phones

I notice more and more that people walk around gripping their cell/mobile phones in their hands as if they are going to ring any minute. I don't think so!! For instance my phone rang twice last weekend (yes the whole weekend). How many times did yours?

What does this mean ? I think it means to me that the need for an easy to use all in one device such as the Iphone makes sense as taking a picture or listening to music are things that we do more of than actually receiving or making calls.

I accept that SMS/texting is more popular but to the era of taking a picture and being able to send it through your phone easily is coming more and more th the fore. I can do it on my phone but to be honest the picture is small and hard to see.