Monday Blues Cure

This is such a hoot - the Arty Bollocks generator! Feel free to generate some nonsense, even if your not a humanities academic.

Monday Blues Cure

Been really lazy wrt my blog recently, to busy with project proposals to think of anything else. Anyway, heres something that I quite like, don't normally like this particular style of music, but this track is ok - 808 state "Pacific State":

Monday Blues Cure

Double header today! Here's "All Along the Watchtower" sung by Sacramento State Jazz Singers:





(h/t: David Thompson). Also here is Seth Lakeman doing his song 'Kitty Jay', saw him on friday in concert at the Union Chapel - he and his band were fantastic!

Monday Blues Cure

Here's The Walker Brothers - The sun ain't gonna shine any more - can't seem to embed any videos of this song!



RIP: John Walker.

Filter Bubbles

Here's a rather interesting talk on personalisation and the internet, and problems associated with such:




(h/t: Robert Stroud).

Monday Blues Cure

Here is another example of crowdsourcing music by Eric Whitacre, entitled Sleep:





See also Lux Aurumque, a previous Monday Blues Cure post. Nice.

Monday Blues Cure

Break from my Yardbirds theme (will be returned to later), heres a scene from Mrs Browns Boys, the funnest thing on telly for a long time:




Erm, best not view it at work...