Barking
Barking
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
It has also occured to me that I should be uploading an image a day to make it worthwhile. I’ve just set myself a challenge…..
Monthly archives: March 2007
Barking
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Petition keeps Afflecks in the news
The petition to save Afflecks Palace has caught the attention of the Evening News, though it has little to say about developments in discussions between the developers and the tenants.
Why do I never have a bazooka when I need one
Why do I never have a bazooka when I need one
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
You know you want one (and if you don't, can you send it to me instead?)
I’m not quite rich, or enthusiastic, enough to have queued for a Playstation 3 last night, but obviously I wouldn’t refuse one if offered.
On the other hand, I can wait. The flagship Playstation game is probably Gran Turismo, and Gran Turismo 5 isn’t coming out until next year. The other must-have game, Grand Theft Auto 4, is coming out sooner but is going to be available for the XBox 360 as well.
In fact, if you can’t stretch to a PS3, I will take an XBox 360, particularly if you can throw in Project Gotham 3 and a few other games.
Really, really off-piste
Kashmir is the new destination of choice for skiers looking for spectacular and unspoilt runs.
Technorati tag: Skiing, Snowboarding, Kashmir
Fire! Prints available
Some more prints are available from Deviantart. These are from the photos I took of Installation de Feu last September. If you’re in the UK, there are also prints available at my Photobox gallery.
Fire Festival by ~Spinneyhead on deviantART
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NY:LON – Battle of the cities
Telegraph blogs are doing a series on New York vs London and all of their contributors have been invited to join in. I’ve yet to visit New York and I’ve probably spent less time in London than any of the Americans I’ve met. (Staines doesn’t count as London, it’s just a rather dire place tauntingly close to the capital.)
With luck I’ll get to visit both cities this year. I could try out my accent over the pond to see who’s impressed, but I’m sure it will be less of a novelty in New York than elsewhere in the US.
Manchester International Festival timetable
The events for the upcoming Manchester Festival. I shall investigate and plan something cultural for late June/ early July.
via Mancubist
Go that way
Mapki Map Projects:Route Plotting. I used Routebuilder to work out how far I cycle to work- 4.7 miles, which is about what I expected.
Living on the ceiling
Living on the ceiling
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Manchester International Festival
The festival sounds interesting, start looking for events going on at the end of June. I should try to sort out some SPinneyhead publicity to tempt all those art lovers with. Or perhaps we could start our very own Fringe?
Music, Lyrics and Prose
Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by The Fall will be launched later this year. It’s a collection of short stories inspired by the music of Mark E. Smith’s band and the first of a series. I’ve often used song lyrics and titles to name stories and blog posts. So Much to Answer For is from a throwaway line in a Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
All hail the neo-nomad
I’d like to be a neo-nomad, working from whichever cafe serves the best coffee, so long as it has free WiFi, using all those wonderful Web 2.0 applications to do business. Of course, I’m not, and I have to trundle off to work every day and sit in an office with all the other poor souls tied to the humdrum.
But I can dream.
Robo-Hawk
Robotic Peregrine Falcons are being deployed in Liverpool to scare off the pigeons that are getting fat on fast food.
You dirty rat, too!
You dirty rat, too!
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Sign the Afflecks petition
I don’t know who the Afflecks Palace petition is going to be presented to, but I’ve signed it just in case it can make a difference.
via Mancubist
"I've just played two hours of Gran Turismo. Dare me to drive?"
Playing driving games encourages people to take risks when they get in their cars. This is particularly true of young male drivers, who are already a menace to themselves and others anyway.
We play a lot of driving games in casa Spinneyhead. It’s probably for the best that two of us don’t have cars.
Our current favourite, FYI, is Midnight Club 3: DUB edition
Wham! Bam! my cat Splash
Yam! Bam! mon chat Splash
Git sur mon lit a bouffe
sa langue en buvant tout mon whisky
quant a moi peu dormi, vide, brime
J’ai du dormir dans la gouttiere
Ou j’ai eu un flash
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
En quatre couleurs
Allez hop! un matin
Une louloute est venue chez-moi
Poupee de cellophane, cheveux chinois
un sparadrap, une gueule de bois
a bu ma biere dans un grand verre en caoutchouc
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Comme un indien dans son igloo
Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi
Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ca plane pour moi
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Ca plane pour moi
Allez hop! la nana quel panard!
Quelle vibration!
de s’envoyer sur le paillasson
Limee, ruinee, videe, comblee
You are the King of the divan!
Qu’elle me dit en passant
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
I am the King of the divan
Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi
Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ca plane pour moi
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Ca plane pour moi
Allez hop! t’occupe t’inquiete
touche pas ma planete
It’s not today
Quel le ciel me tombera sur la tete
et que la colle me manquera
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Ca plane pour moi
Allez hop! ma nana s’est tiree
S’est barree enfin c’est marre a tout casser
L’evier, le bar me laissant seul
Comme un grand connard
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Le pied dans le plat
Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi
Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ca plane pour moi
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Ca plane pour moi
Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi
Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ca Plane Pour Moi – Plastic Bertrand
Tentative translation of the lyrics here.
You dirty rat!
You dirty rat!
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
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