Archive for August, 2007
Sounds Like Silver
Sounds Like Silver
The World of Me likes free stuff, which is why TheWorld of Me fully endorses Sounds Like Silver, the unofficial remix of LCD Soundsystem’s excellent album Sounds of Silver.
Brought to you by the team behind always outsiders, never outdone, the unofficial Prodigy remixed album, Sounds Like Silver features unofficial remixes by both UK and international underground producers.
The album is free to download, but it is requested that you donate to Oxfam or Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy if you like what they’ve done.
Download the album from www.lcdremixed.com
Oh shit, I’m Welsh!
The Skull Family Gathering
“He said the [Skull] surname seems to have originated in the Brecon area and spread over the centuries into Bristol, the villages of Dauntsey and Edington in Wiltshire, Bitton in Gloucestershire and Ashmansworth in Hampshire.”
It all started after a chap named Sid Skull had attended a Lyneham Stage Club play. He had noticed my name in the programme and was intrigued by the similarity in our surnames. As a hardened genealogist and postmaster, Sid used his investigative skills to track me down and interrogate me for information about my lineage.
The interrogation took place at The Skull/Scull Family Gathering last weekend. More than 70 Skull/Scull clan members attended a gathering at Lyneham Church Hall to pool their resources and help solve some of the puzzles in the Skull/Scull family lineage. People from Hampshire, Derbyshire and Australia attended the event, with previous gatherings hosting Skulls/Sculls from afar as North and South America.
To discover the fascinating facts about my family, how cleverly inventive and handsome we are and whether we indeed have any skeletons in the closet, visit www.skulltoscull.org.uk.
A Pain in The Asteroids
I am somewhat envious of Queen guitarist Brian May. I am envious not of his axe-wielding abilities or his ridiculous poodle haircut, I am envious of his knowledge of astronomy.
Last night my house played host to the First Annual Perseid Meteor Shower Barbecue, where myself and Joe gathered a selection of fine wines and jolly meats and set up camp in my back garden to watch the Perseid meteors fall to earth. Knowing not the first thing about astronomy, we prepared for our little endeavour by downloading various confusing star maps and used Google Earth to work out the direction in which my back garden pointed (it points North-West, orientation fans) so we could orientate our garden chairs for optimum viewing.