Slightly Askew

Born To Run at Latitude 2009

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The last time I heard the word tessellate, I was about nine.

Before me lay a piece of dotted paper with the same shape repeated over and over again. And to be fair, I’ve had very little reason to use the word since then. I always thought it was a good word, though.

Thankfully, those clever chaps collectively named Tokyo Police Club have put it to brilliant use. This is the acoustic version; the electric one is equally superb.

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I don’t recommend you listen to Kiss FM, but - credit where it’s due - this is funny…

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I haven’t posted for a while; naughty me.

Okay, so by now you’ll have probably heard this delightful little ditty by Noah and The Whale. It’s called Five Years Time.

Amusingly, the plebs at Censorship Central (I don’t if such a place exists, but I’m happy to go with it if you are…) have decided that the following lyric is far too disturbing:

It was fun fun fun when we were drinking;
and it was fun fun fun when we were drunk.

So on NME TV, the words drinking and drunk get that silly reverse treatment - saving our kids from such a disgraceful sentiment.

Shame on you Noah. And your whale.

And not just for your alcoholic tomfoolery, but also for your apostrophe omission.

Surely it should be Five Years’ Time.

The logic being that we don’t say one week time, we say one week’s time (and there has to be an apostrophe in this because one weeks doesn’t make any sense).

So, similarly, the apostrophe must also be used for the plural, i.e. five years’ time.

But even Hollywood gets it wrong.

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A joyous little video satirising the effect that committees have on simple, good ideas.

Let’s go eskimo:

Via Seth.

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Here’s a heart-achingly intense magical 4 minute moment.

i will turn - i will turn your tide
do all that i can to heal you inside
i’ll be the angel on your shoulder
my name is Geraldine, i’m your social worker

Amazing.

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Anybody who has used Wordpress and tried to embed a Youtube video will have suffered the frustration of code getting stripped whenever you edit a post.  Enter EasyTube -  a wonderful YouTube plugin for Wordpress.

Now, without any hassle whatsoever, I can post YouTube videos into Wordpress.

Here’s a video by Theresa Andersson.  The song makes you feel ill halfway through the second listen, but it’s a clever live performance.  Quite why she set up all her equipment in her kitchen baffles me.  It’s probably because that’s where her muse was or something (she does, after all, play barefoot, like any respectably self-indulgent singer songwriter).

Anyway, here it is:

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