Posted as an offering to those crazy mash-up kids over at GYBO, or anybody else who Googles for that mandatory, obscure spoken word sample that all good bootlegs seem to need. I give you my strangest ever answer machine message: confused.wav
Having learnt that I’ve turned back to the Today programme, Kerrang radio has sent out operatives to ensure that I’m duly reprimanded. This morning I had to endure the sight of two underdressed women waiting for me at some traffic lights. It was awful. Really, it was. In the background I spied the reporter of …
About a week ago I was driving in to work when I passed a pick up truck belonging to the new Kerrang radio station. I decided to ditch the Today programme and tune in. They were about to do an outside broadcast that involved reading out the number in a phone box and the first …
We have a winner! James gets in first with a combination of vague memories and Google. The text in question is the lyrics to Grandad – the #1 hit from 1971 sung by Clive Dunn. For reasons I’m not prepared to explain, it popped up via the Winamp shuffle button at work this morning and …
Ten points to the first person who can tell me the source of the following poetry. I’ve been sitting here all day thinking Same old thing ten years away thinking Now my days are gone, memories linger on Thoughts of when I was boy Pennyfarthings on the street riding Motorcars were funny things, frightning Bow …
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I’m not allowed to request the Sex Shop Boys because it’s only just been played – I’ve gone for Boys by Sabrina instead. Can’t wait.
Mistyped URLs often provide sublime discoveries. Searching for something different to listen to here at the office this morning, I suggested that we try Radio Paradise – a site that my father-in-law recently suggested to me. I passed on the address incorrectly and we ended up at Paradise Radio – ‘The Legends Of Italo-Disco And …
Never let it be said that my entries don’t give good value for money. I’m pleased to see that the ‘BBC can’t play mp3s discussion’ is continuing over at boingboing.net. I should confess that the conversation is moving out of my field of knowledge, as I know nothing about audio compression and CDs. The CDR …
Since this entry has just gone up on boingboing, I thought I should clarify a couple of points. Firstly, when the BBC told me they couldn’t play mp3s, I asked them if they meant technically or legally – they replied saying it was technical reasons that prevented it. I didn’t enquire any further, but in …