oh yes

I didn't know about Ultimate Thrush until ten minutes ago, and now they're a band I HAVE TO SEE LIVE LIKE MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. Luckily they're playing the Glasgow School of Art on Friday with FLFD faves Holy Mountain and some band called Mr Peppermint with no easily located Myspace page.

Download their self-titled album HERE and whet your appetite at their Myspace.

that soul music? that soul music.

I was listening to an old Gilles Peterson podcast on the way up to uni this morning - it was the Mayer Hawthorne podcast, click here to download it - and heard some stuff that absolutely knocked me out. For me more than anybody else, check out these songs... they're just... wow. Check 'em out, then subscribe to Gilles. He's my dude. You already know.



Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out

Brenda Holloway - Till Johnny Comes

"they're eating them! and I'm next!"

Somedays you just find a band that make you breathless and slightly slackjawed that you found them by pure luck! You're left just sounding like this kid after you hear one of their songs, especially the one below. If you weren't familiar with Kid, You'll Move Mountains before, well now I reaaaaaally hope you are.

Kid, You'll Move Mountains - Volts

*scurries off to their Myspace to immediately order the record, no joke*

you heard it here first

A REMINDER: I went in before the NME and Punknews. Sure, the lads from Calvinball got the name of the show wrong but on principle...

Calvinball - No Matter How Hard You Try

And remember, if you live in Gainesville Rock City, they're playing The Fest 8 alongside our mutual pals Apologies, I Have None, as well as Bomb The Music Industry!, The Flatliners, Trash Talk and a million other bands that my old paramour Blonde Ross probably bums.

"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.

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.