i want to spend time with you.

New Maya Arulpragasam. Album out this year. Colour me interested.

M.I.A. - There's Space For All Dat I See
(via Sound Verite)

My girl and I had our first date at an M.I.A. show. I always find that really cool.

"what the fuuuck just happened?"

Classic shit right here. Is that Lukas Haas? Sorry the quality isn't great.

Gilles Peterson's show this week revisits the N.E.R.D. x Spymob Maida Vale session from 2002 - remember when these guys seemed like the next, next until Pharrell fell into "twelve pages in women's American VOGUE"/La Vegas schintz mode and Chad went seemingly into hiding, producing intermittently for nameless RnB divas? And they have a sense of humour on this shit, too, Pharrell sings with a cold!

I've got an untitled jam that they played live around the time of the In Search Of... tour at home (I remember that, I travelled down to LDN with my dad to see them at the Brixton Academy - thanks Dad). I'll up that this weekend if I remember, it's a nice listen.

"this is merely superconductor electromagnetism"

As I sat down tonight to have a late dinner, I noticed that one of my favourite films of all time was on: Street Fighter! Fucking Street Fighter! With Jean Claude Van-Damme! JCVD! As a film, it's inept on pretty much every level - the acting is balls-to-the-wall bad, the script is as clunky as a broken dishwasher, the mise en scene is ugly and the editing does whatever it can to destroy any excitement you may get while watching the fight scenes.

BUT as a piece of entertainment, it's pretty much second to none: JCVD playing the US born-n-bred all American hero with THAT ACCENT, the invisible speedboat sequence (predating 007's ridiculous invisible vehicular shenanigans by seven years), Kylie Minogue's "acting breakthrough" (snicker), Dhalsim's unintentionally hilarious shirtlessness in the last ten minutes, the ridiculous action, the constant failed attempts at comic relief, and this immortal exchange: "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday."

In fact, the only reason I'm going to go see Avatar in December is because the dude that plays Sagat is in it. Just when I thought my life couldn't get any better by stumbling on this unintended masterpiece, I found THIS:


Just... incredible. Incredible.

where's elvis costello?!

New Fall Out Boy video, and they're sneakily hinting at the possibility of THE END and getting all their big fans flustered and cryin' and shit. Hell, I was moved by the grandiosity of the video... until 4:18. Someone screencap that shit for me, stat. (No shots.)

Starring my new best pal, Andy!

zoidberg metal

So I finally got round to seeing the video for "Stick Stickly" by Attack Attack! and all I can say is:





Find your own favourite bit and click HERE. "STOP HATIN ON ATTACK ATTACK!" indeed.

EUUURGGHHHHHHHH

I turn twenty-one years of age on Sunday and that doesn't quite scare me as much as it should. No, I'll be approaching it like every other birthday since I was sixteen - by eating sugar, hanging out with friends and family and getting NO SLEEP WHATSOEVER.

So I'm raising a (digital and therefore theoretical) glass to myself by watching this video over and over:

I almost went and paid 79p for that off iTunes. Almost.