mixed tape 1

right, so i've become a somewhat prolific net-scourer for interesting tunes as many of us are, here are some of the ones that grabbed the fancies.

no 80's child can resist chiptunes.
  8 Bit Weapon - Closer (Bitpop Mix) by 8 Bit Weapon

p.s. there's an unreleased track out there by 'reborn' called 'trying to make it'. anyone, ANYONE reading this: if you find a link to it, please to post it to 'comments'.

a sexy, groovy song from a 23-year old white male- huh?


can't wait for this album to come out...


and while we're on the topic of 'robert smith'esque artists, here's the real deal. my favourite track from 'the cure'


electric barberella!


have a nice day!

ode to a raincoat

O pink thing

all-plastic lining,

inside deep

i wail and weep

at the loss of you

my shield most true.

The skies so bleak

do seem to speak

"the thing so pink

is gone we think.

t'was so gay

and did so sashay"

O lining so true, I will miss you.

What once was pink, is now all blue.

sangria in the sun

so here it is, random porn-sound-inducing pictures from my trip around europe.

for the fastidious:

- we started in barcelona (where we'd gone on work)

- flew 5 nights later to seville for 2 nights

- did a day trip to a small town called ronda

- got back to seville and flew out on the second morning to amsterdam

- 2 nights in amsterdam

- then train-ed it to a town in the rhine valley called koblenz

- at koblenz, we boarded a boat for a slow-cruise down the rhine river and got off at a pretty (but sleepy) town called bingen

- some hours of sleep, and we boarded a series of trains for the prettiest town ever in the black forest area

- schilltach, half a day

- on to triberg by train, home to the recipe of the black forest cake and germany's highest waterfall

- from triberg, we train-ed our way right through the night (slept some hours in strasbourg station) and woke up in paris!

- 3 nights in paris

- flew to istanbul on the fourth morning

- 5 nights in istanbul

- turkey turkey you are beautiful!

- back to BOM!

turkey, turkey, you are beautiful

phew! back from a 2 week-long holiday across europe. excellent, to say the least. pics and details to follow. for now, it's good to be back!