Tag: Hitchhiking
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Antony Szmierek
As played on the latest podcast, just checking out Manchester rapper Antony Szmierek‘s tracks – one about Ventolin (oh hai fellow asthma sufferer) with a wonderfully trippy middle eght, and this summer woozy banger from last year – The City Is Safe With You about I suspect the re-opening of cities post lockdown….but it’s also…
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RC 369: Clownbusting (Hardcore Heatwave)
Hardcore you know the score – the heatwave is here and BoJo the Clown is finally busted. I would say PARTY TIME at No. 10 but there’s a clown car of other fools on the way in the Silly Season that’s lasted , ooh, 6 years now…. Brought to you by the letter C, this…
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RC 363: Swinging Songs For Mashup Lovers
The return of the mashups, now re-integrated back into polite society and the podcast, now mixed live with non-mashups a merry sort of chaos (no-one mixes music like this!). This is the second ‘Towelcast’ – originally streamed live from The Disco Bathroom. If you watched the stream (well the bits that haven’t been trimmed or…
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Hitchhikers
Not the Douglas Adams one, but very appropriate animation by LISAA as I’m reading ‘Dimensions of Miracles’ by Robert Sheckley at the moment, which shares a lot with Hitchhiker’s Guide, although not the ‘complete rip off’ that some catfishy Amazon reviewers contend, and Douglas said he hadn’t read it anyway… (via Counter Sparkle)
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Land Grab
While most of the country seems to be worried that Uragoing Home from the World Cup, I’m more concerned about the Infrastructure Bill and the land grab going on. There are two things: like the horror of what happened to Royal Mail, the Land Registry is being privatised, and this new Bill allows building on…
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Last Chance to See – Douglas Adams
Sadly in this 2001 video the most imminently extinct animal is the speaker, Douglas Adams who had a heart attack a few days later. The message about the world, caring for it and the gods and reasons we create to excuse our behaviour are good ones and well worth watching. Even if it’s just for…