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Toadcast #115 – The Messcast

Posted by Matthew in Podcast on 27 Mar 10 • No Comments »

The Toadcasts stumble from one clusterfuck to the next, each one more incoherent than the last. This, I think it’s fair to say, makes the Homegame one look good by comparison. Not that the songs aren’t good, just that the instances of people talking over one another and two conversations going on at once and so on and so forth are notably worse on this.

However, the music is excellent, and surprisingly up to the minute by my standards. We even managed to sneak the new National song in there, which they only released on Thursday – how’s that for happening and newsworthy and so on and so forth.

We have some new Sam Amidon as well, a track by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti which dropped through my letterbox while I was away in Austin, and some splendid stuff by Harlem and Clogs. If only it wasn’t for the pish chat, this would be a great podcast, actually.

Toadcast #115 – The Messcast

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1. Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou – Ruth Drink My Whisky (05.12)
2. The National – Blood Buzz Ohio (13.40)
3. Loch Lomond – Spine (MMIX) (25.50)
4. Sam Amidon – Way Go Lily (29.43)
5. Harlem – Friendly Ghost (34.49)
6. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round (44.02)
7. Ghostkeeper – By Morning (49.10)
8. Love is All – Bigger Bolder (53.57)
9. Grand Champeen – Broken Records (62.16)
10. Clogs – Last Song (68.24)

Tags: ariel pink's haunted grafitti, clogs, ghostkeeper, Grand Champeen, harlem, loch lomond, love is all, sam amidon, the national, travork moss and hannah lou

Friday Is A Fishy On A Little Dishy

Posted by Dylan in Five for Friday on 19 Mar 10 • 20 Comments »

I took a real physical roll of camera film to be developed yesterday. Haven’t done that in a while. Unfortunately the photos it contained were a series of rather grisly images taken with a fish-eye camera at a late-night after-party back at ours last weekend at Homegame.

The guy in the camera shop did look at me a bit funny when I went back in to collect them.

I didn’t bother getting real photo prints, though. I figured the photos were only going up on Facebook for a bit of a giggle, so they might as well just go straight onto a CD. There was no point paying extra for a pack of prints. Which struck me as very revealing about how we interact with photos now in the Web 2.0 world, populated with Facebook, Twitpic and Flickr. It’s like the old joke that asks when was the last time you played Solitaire with a real pack of cards.

When was the last time you looked through a real set of photos?

Matthew only asked me to compose this Friday Five late last night, and I had a panic on the bus this morning because I realised I hadn’t copied five MP3s off my hard-drive at home to put up on the post.

Then I remembered that I had meant to take a compilation CD to the Homegame mix-tape swap bin; (You drop a compilation CD off when you arrive on Friday, then return on Saturday to collect a random CD of someone else’s in return. A bit like a mix-tape Secret Santa.) but I managed to leave the CD itself at home after compiling and burning it. Luckily for us today I still had all the tracks for my compilation on my portable USB hard drive that lives in my bag.

So that has ended up giving today’s chioce of tunes the same theme as my compilation CD was going to have; classic ‘Side One: Track One’ songs.

So here’s today’s test:

1. Tell us a fishing story. Come on, everyone’s got at least one fishing story.

2. What embarassing things tend to happen around you when you stay up late?

3. What was on the last real camera film you had developed?

4. What do you do with photos you take nowadays?

5. Best Side One: Track One ever.

And here are the choons:

Beck – Loser