I can’t even remember the last time I posted on here.

But go to www.grammatics.co.uk, read a bit and order their brilliant album.

07.02.2008. the whitest boy alive. electric ballroom, camden, london.

These boys have got it all. The groove, the melodies, the instantaneous desire to just start flicking your hip, you feel the people shout around you and you look at their faces. Her face, the smiles, the hands in the air, the high fiving with a brilliant enthusiastic group of Spaniards off their heads on mdma. the sheer, unbridled joy of the occasion. and suprisingly cool t-shirts (even if I did have to buy a large girls… oh dear… the skininess…)… listen to the video…

‘can you keep a secret?’

the Whitest Boy Alive are the bees knees.

They play at Koko in May on the 21st. [CLICKY THING]

Check out the brilliant dancing at the end

Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is the best musical ever. Fact.

Witty, dark, funny, amazing music – what else could you need?

I like Tim Burton, I like Johnny Depp, I like Helen Bonham Carter… but I hope they don’t ruin it.

The clips so far though, they look ok. Visually perfect at least. Let’s hope the new film doesn’t butcher it musically. I’m only slightly concerned about his accent.

Ok, so I’m really bad at this. I just never post, I don’t get regular… never mind.

So today (cue fanfare), let’s share something. Something I meant to share a long time ago. This website (err… the big picture) is the World Picture Service.

It’s an amazing set of pictures taken by a guy who travelled round in a car, as he drove from Amsterdam to India and Nepal and back again. They restore my faith in life somehow. All the images were taken in 1976 to 1977. Amazing images.

J.

Little jump start so I hopefully get going again…never fails to make me laugh… they should’ve made it a real advert…

I love Martin Jol, but he’s not exactly endearing himself to me. I’m getting it everywhere this morning.

Last night was one of the most uninspiring performances by a Tottenham side I’ve seen. And I’ve seen a lot of games now. Not one player covered himself in even the remotest part of glory. What makes it worse is Newcastle are not good. They are not a good football side.

Much has been written about Levy, Kemsley, Ramos and Jol. Now’s not the time to go over it again. The board have completely destabilised and ruined what we had, for once it seemed like our potential wasn’t fictional, it was real and we just needed to do things the right way.

But the fact is now, we’re in crisis. What can we do to redress the balance defensively, to make us tighter? Play Gardner or Rocha? It won’t do a thing. Just make it worse. Send in a no-confidence keeper to stabilise a back four led by Dawson in crisis? It’s ludicrous.

There was no other way to win that game last night, against to be fair, a poor Newcastle side. They were there for a taking, a decent side would have ripped into them and sliced them apart.

But the one thing I can’t forget or delete is that last night Jol had a chance, even after 20 mins or however long to prove he was a Tottenham man. When Bale limped off the pitch, he had a chance. Replace him with Lennon, no matter how poor he’s been this season and indicate we were there to win the game. Or bring on Tainio, which shows we’re there to draw the game. A negative substitution which indicates the team we will ‘play it safe’. We can’t ‘play it safe’. We can’t defend.

He needs to ignore all the politics, wipe his glazed over eyes and realise there are players who don’t care and do not give a flying f what happens. Jenas should not be anywhere near the team. Bent is either a ridiculously fragile confidence player or the biggest con in history. But it’s done now, and we only have our players.

Now there’s a choice, sack Jol or keep him. Eventually he’ll go, we all know it but we have a chance now.

Look at the next games…  Three at home: Getafe, Blackburn, Blackpool. Then Boro, H. Tel Aviv, Wigan, West Ham, Aalborg, Birmingham, Anderlecht, Man City, Portsmouth, then Arsenal.

Until Arsenal, they are all winnable games. Fact. They are all games that we now HAVE to win.

There’s only one thing to do, on Thursday and forever more until Jol goes, support the team. Three home wins, no matter who they’re against, will breed confidence.

Disillusioned? Naïve? I don’t care. And when all the once a season prats turn up on Thursday, I will sing my heart out. Put it in the past and support your team.

Come on you lilywhites. It’s time to stand up and be counted. And not just for the manager, for your own self-respect.

J.

This is the funniest interiew I’ve seen in ages… it’s exceptional, Sigur Rós, simply the most wonderful band, simply the worst interview I’ve ever seen. The interviewer is so crap, and I’ve done a few bad ones in my time, but he’s AWFUL. His questions are just completely non-researched, encouraging the ridiculous monosyballic answers. Got what he deserved.

…are shit.

Ok, for seven days only, here is one of the weirdest things I’ve heard for ages.

Interpol’s new album, the excellent ‘Our Love to Admire‘, begins with a mournful, thoughtful song ‘Pioneer to the Falls‘. It’s brooding melancholy is set, before the song builds slowly, layer by layer, until a beautiful climax during the song.

Now, I don’t know but I am assuming – and hoping – that this version was scored and put together by Carlos D. Who, as I mentioned a month or so back, is also exploring his potential in classical composition and film scoring.

As b-side to their ‘Mammoth‘ single, I assume and hope it was him. Hear his glory for the next seven days only…

Interpol – Pioneer to the Falls (orchestral version)

Verdict?

Well, it’s not something that will end up listened to as much as other b-sides, or ‘pol album tracks, but I always admire someone who tries something different.

In all honesty, when it reaches the climatic parts, I think it’s excellent but I feel it lacks something when the chorus returns to each verse, I feel is slightly underwhelming. It lacks rhythm at these parts. I feel some of the horns at the start are distracting, but all the way through I think the woodwind colours are excellent whilst the song runs. I also have a problem generally with synthesised brass. They sound shit. If it isn’t synthesised (and I’m pretty sure it is, I’ve only listened twice to it so far) then it just sounds crap. really tinny.

Generally though, well worth listening and full respect for trying something new and expanding the reportoire. Although it’s not exactly going to be performed live… although that’d be an amazing thing for the BBC Electric Proms concerts. Hmmm…

J.