If you could take a single photo, every day, over the span of 18 years - what would it be of?

For many of us stuck in the cycle of the office lifestyle, our eyes maladjusted to the flicker of florescent tubing, the view doesn't change much. A photocopier here, a window there, but more often than not, the steady illumination of a computer monitor.

Jamie Livingston set out to create a photographic memorial of his day to day lifestyle, one photo at a time.

What transpired was some 6,697 photos, all Polaroids, detailing the chronicles of his life -- from sunny afternoons in the park, to his brain tumor surgery, and ultimately his death. His last photo was taken the day before he died, which occured on his 41st birthday.



In 2007, his friends gathered the photos and displayed them at Bard College, NY (which amusingly enough is where Steely Dan formed with Chevy Chase playing drums). The following link will take you through Jamie Livingston's photographic life. Some Photos of That Day.

When I told Simon the first Scorpions album rules, he laughed and said 'Wind of Change?' Well, I would like to watch him eat his words with a knife and fork while he listens to this proto-prog masterpiece at full volume.

Produced by Krautrock mastermind Conny Plank in 1972, this is the only Scorpions album to feature Michael Schenker, who soon left to form UFO, as a full-time member. Schenker was only 16 or 17 at the time, apparently. Klaus Meine's vocals, which later acquired their trademark nasal shriek, are toned down and tougher. Also, you must admit it features some pretty sweet artwork.

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"Pretty profound..."

Watched this interesting documentary the other day about the first pay cable tv channel in the states. It launched in LA in 1974 and was spearheaded by Jerry Harvey, a UCLA student and movie nerd. Harvey showed only quality films and set the format copied later by the commercial cable channels like HBO, Showtime and Cinemax who eventually hastened Z Channel's demise, despite the fact (or because of the fact) that these channels never even brushed Z Channel's standard of excellence.

The other thing we can thank Harvey for is the concept of the 'Director's Cut'. His first claim to film buff fame was his screening of Sam Peckinpah's full cut of 'The Wild Bunch' in Berkeley while he was still a student. Z Channel later famously screened the 220 min version of 'Heaven's Gate', rectifying the wrongs done to the film in the editing room that resulted in the critics' over-the-top vilification of the theatrical release.

Shame, then, that Harvey lost the plot and shot his wife and then himself in their LA home in 1988.

Anyway, the documentary has the usual array of talking heads gooing over how amazing this channel was (cue Quentin Tarantino spraying spit and gesticulating wildly). The best part, however, is the list of films that can be gleaned. These appear after the jump...

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Great little site where people upload emails/chats/texts from their Moms. It's fast set to be my new greatest worktime time waster after lolcats.

Hi sweetie,

Do you know how to google yourself? I heard on the radio that people can google themselves. I’ve done a lot of things to myself before, but I’ve never googled myself.

Check them all out here

True genius comes in many forms...
Outstanding talent...
The ability to attract the best backing band and then mould them to suit your inimitable style perfectly...
Choosing songs that you can represent astonishingly well...

Here's all 3 of the above, twicefold!

Every now and then us Beep Seals end up in a van for several hours with only our wit to entertain us.
"Well, you're knacked then" I hear you cry, sarcastically and yet; we manage it somehow.
Mostly it's by listening to Phil do impressions of well known celebs etc. and sometimes he does little sketches from Stella Street.
Which made me start looking for bits of it on't'web and I found a particularly good "60's Special" I hadn't seen before.
Here it is...

Above is a clip of this reeally neeeat dvd release i watched a few months ago which consists of the two mini-features The London Nobody Knows (1967) / Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (1969). The first film completely took me away. "The London Nobody Knows" is an amazing little historical documentary directed by Norman Cohen and narrated by James Mason with beeeautiful music composition by Wilfred Burns.

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Following on from the great self-titled album, some Buckingham Nicks rarities in the form of Leftovers 1970 - 1974.

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Further to Bobby Conn and The Bee Gees, I'm only posting happy things this week. For your listening pleasure, Buckingham Nicks.

Here.

Pete Frampton + The Bee Gees

Whenever I'm having a less than chipper moment, I simply watch this and my sense of happiness is doubly restored.

i'm totally keeping you on the cusp of cool here. muxtape.com.
share your mixes with the greatest of ease, so says the man on the flying trapeze.

depending on how long it takes before the powers that be decide to let this project last, you may see it grow to add increased functionality... perhaps a search engine, friends list, comments, etc -- but for the meantime i'm sort of digging the lowfi feel to it all.

here's the jist.
- create a username
- nerdtown - you can totally change your hexcolour to reflect yr individual style and chi, man.
- upload your tracks (a total of 12 songs, each must be under 10mb)
- post your username in the comments here
- look through others' mixes.

I made a compilation for my friend's birthday yesterday, and since it turned out rather well, I thought I'd share it here.

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