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Write a blog about being a gigolo. Pretend to be one if you aren't. If women start to get all excited - be one. Then blog some more. Get book deal. Sorted. Spice all the sex in your novel with some "Morvern-Callar-light-music" references (you know Bjork, The Scissor Sisters, Madonna), add...

I am after one or two legally available grime tracks for a potential/future podcast (for I am the "Commitee": see "Underground Smash" thread). A podcast is a "direct-to-your-MP3-player-radioshow-for-later playback", or like taping from radio to cassette and playing it later (but all automated)...

A little new thread from Ness: A wasted voice: Seal - aka Sealhenry Samuel. I love the bloke's voice. But his current output sounds like something George Michael threw away (judging by his last album which is available as a feed online - Seal lives in the US, you can tell - his album is...

Morvern Callar one I do not own, but I have sometimes thought of buying: the Morvern Callar soundtrack. read the book (so much better than "High Fidelity"), seen the movie, no T-shirt, no soundtrack. But it looks rather good, probably a bit too chilled out. When I read the book I was always...

Carlos Alomar's solo album "Dream Generator". Picked it up for a pound. Sounds like something Level 42 would do on a bad day, with some over the top sci-fi thing going. Very, very bad: I was hoping it would be some brilliant obscure album ... (Carlos played with Bowie on those seminal...

Haven't heard the album yet, but I really like that "Losing my edge".

Second Diva. A "meta" soundtrack? The electronic sequences are not always great, but it just works. (where can I get one of those wave machines?) Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas with that long speach from Harry Dean Stanton (and other Ry Cooder works). Lisa Gerrard's film music: Whale Rider, The...

http://www.halvorsen.org/audio/mash/waitingforluckyclockworks.m3u (streaming audio: at least it works for me. clockworks and Lene's yelping from vinyl). If someone wants to do a better mash (I know I am crap, but it's fun anyway) I can make available the Lovich and Rats samples, or get the...

music you regret getting rid of The one I really regret getting rid off is "Neu 2". Bought it for £1.50 and sold it for £2 around 1979. --- It was the thing to do: small adverts were found in the music press at home, hand-written (or in some cases typewritten) lists sent to each other using...

the chief blogger himself at kottke.org has a pic of himself in the top right corner. very small though (he looks quite "generic" anyway). I guess that's a good compromise between "I am nice, this is me and this is a friendly place; but don't expect to recognise me on the streets".

Not so quick. They have voted again recently and Poland saved the day once more. But the whole thing is a farce. You have parliaments being against it - but their representatives voting for it (or abstaining from vote): http://www.theregister.com/2005/01/25/letters_2501/ "Both the Dutch and...

Older stuff which might work: Futurustic: "Sex Video"/John Foxx&Louis Gordon ("Crash&Burn" 2003) I guess even Kraftwerk might still sound futuristic? Fairytale: anything Jan Garbarek from around 1990 (apart from his Hilliard stuff). Specially "Rosensfole"...

shame on me for not having this CD (I've got the Nordheim Deathprod/Biosphere CD though) - but I'll chip in with our own Arne Nordheim: "In the mid-50s he had lessons with Vagn Holmboe, and also started studied in sound particularly in conection with "musique concrete," and studies in...

I am going to tap into the pool here with a strange request: does anyone know of someone doing a deep/slow update of hawaii-guitar, possibly treated with electronics and some deep bass/synth thing going. Sort of a rolling waves thing. Eno has this one track (I think it's "deep blue day") which...

I've put a 30 second or so sample of the track here (+fading). http://www.halvorsen.org/audio/samples/UnorthadoxDaughterextract35sec.mp3 on the the "pre-listen" on runtheroad.com you just hear parts of the intro, which really doesn't give you any idea of what the track is like (no vocals)...

I am using the stuff on Windows and both iPodder and Doppler works fine. No problems. Are you sure you are pointing the apps to the right location? Have you used RSS viewers before? As for shows - I haven't found any really good music shows (yet) - I'd rather listen to pirate or the Beeb/XfM...

> over the head repeatedly with a baseball bat hehe. sometimes I like that (at least in the musical sense) or maybe I am just fascinated by the quoting. I think not - WYWF is similar to Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number", which I still like... The album might not be the new "Jesus of Cool" and WYWF...

BBC Two 22:30 (previously shown on BBC Three) http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/blood_turntable.shtml It is a bit angled. Johnny Boy is our hero. McLaren is the crook. Watch it if you think The Pistols were only media dolls. --- Question the daddies and grandmothers of music. Question it...

I like Gwen Stefani's new album ... It's just good pop music. It's fine taking the piss out of her or any big name act. But the single is very good. Quoting Abba, Boomtown Rats and Lene Lovich - all from around 1978 ... Silverdollar apologised for liking "These Words" on his blog. No need...

petridis and paphidis (the times) were both bigging up robbie's awful "radio" at the tail end of last year. well - at least giving mr duffy at lot of millimeters on print with very similar pieces. Mr Duffy clearly thinks he is writing masterpieces, while Q (the new synth issue - which I quite...