That video up there is probably the most mental song we’ve recorded in our house.  It is the second of a couple of preview videos of the PAWS Toad Session, which will be going up tomorrow.  Yes, Phil does play his guitar with one of our candles.  Yes, and with the cymbals too.

It’s not often I get involved in a gin extravaganza and come off worse than anyone, but yesterday was one of those incapacitating hangovers whereby I could barely even look at the internet, much less write anything on it.  Is something ‘on’ the internet?  It is, isn’t it.  I always think ‘in’ the internet is a bit more fitting, treating the thing more like a jungle than a nice orderly noticeboard.

While we are fannying about wasting our time with the Friday Fives I will be putting together the last video for that PAWS Session.  The main video – the ten minute one which goes at the top of the page – always takes ages, and is always the hardest to get right.  It’s amazing how brutal you have to be with cutting these things, too.  I remember the first time I realised I could get the whole thing down to ten minutes, I was amazed at how much I left out, and yet still ended up with a pretty coherent, entertaining video.

Anyhow, yes, after pretty much losing Thursday altogether, I kind of feel like I have to be productive today, but for the rest of you, honestly, it’s Friday afternoon, even your boss doesn’t really think you’re doing any work.

1. Favourite subject at school.
2. What might you have ended up doing for a living had you made a different (plausible) choice at some key stage in your life.
3. Name one thing you might do right now if you had the gumption/money/freedom to do so.
4. Book you were forced to read in school but actually ended up liking.
5. Good habit you had as a kid but have long since lost.

Lotus Eaters – The First Picture of You

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The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty in Pink

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Furniture – Brilliant Mind

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The Icicle Works – Love is a Wonderful Colour

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Sugarcubes – Birthday

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Yoo hoo Toadlings, welcome to Toadcast No. 22.  This one is a sort of natural follow-on from the series of movie soundtrack posts we ran on the site a week or so ago.  I can’t believe we managed an entire series without mentioning either Ennio Morricone or Quentin Tarantino.

So I’ve tried to put that part right here, as well as throwing in some corkers by the likes of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis and a few others.  It may come across slightly as a novelty podcast, what with the Darth Vader theme music and so on, but I still think it makes an interesting listen.

It actually made an interesting listen for me this morning too, because I was so utterly shanghaied on gin by the end of it that I actually don’t remember half of the introductions to the songs towards the end.  So join me on a voyage of discovery and find out exactly what on earth I found to say about Nick Cave whilst pickled out of my tits on a Friday evening.

Toadcast #22 – The Cinecast

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01. John Williams – The Imperial March (00.00)
02. Barry Adamson – 007, A Phantasy Bond Theme(05.37)
03. Ennio Morricone – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (11.44)
04. Hans Zimmer – True Romance (16.20)
05. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Rather Lovely Thing (23.37)
06. The Divine Comedy – Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (28.10)
07. The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty in Pink (32.21)
08. Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me (36.12)
09. Andrew Lloyd Webber – Everything’s Alright (45.04)
10. The Divine Comedy – Les Jours Tristes (51.43)
11. R.E.M. – Leave (58.31)
12. The Shins – Saint Simon (62.27)
13. Eels – Your Lucky Day in Hell (70.52)
14. Tom Waits & Crystal Gale – Take Me Home (77.49)
15. Barry Adamson – Mitch & Andy (80.30)
16. Andrew Lloyd Webber – King Herod’s Song (88.53)
17. John Williams – Cantina Band Theme (93.01)
18. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand (Scream 3 Version) (97.01)
19. The Pogues – Night on Bald Mountain (105.22)
20. Ennio Morricone – Once Upon a Time in the West (Deborah’s Theme) (109.01)
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