I could put this on a loop and watch it all day.
via Animals Being Dicks which along with ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS accounts for most of my internet LOLs these days…
and remember, high cadence, low gear.
Woke up this morning singing Kung Fu by Ash. This version of the video is an edit of the outtakes that appeared during the credits of the 1995 film Rumble in the Bronx. Maybe it’s just how old I am now but just watching this makes me wince in pain.
Steal the MP3 here.
It’s 2012! Happy new year kids and fuck you Mayans.
There’s an entire EP of Raise Your Weapon Remixes out now but the original track from Deadmau5′s 4×4=12 album from last year is still the stand out version with its Cinematic Orchestra-like intro.
Download the MP3 here.
Around the the last week of September, when the rains in Goa ended, I finally quit procrastinating, got on my bike and lugged my camera around North Goa to photograph the many interesting lions that people had on the gate posts of their houses.
They had piqued my interest forever it seemed and I finally did what I had been planning to do for months, cycle around Moira, Nachinola, Aldona, Assagaon, Carona, Olaulim, Pomburpa and Britona and photograph as many of them as I could find. It turned out to be a hugely rewarding day and I came home tired, sunburnt, with a sore ass, back and neck but I ended up with many photographs I am actually pleased with.
Click on the picture to go Flickr and see the complete set of photographs.
Since I will be leaving Goa in about a week and don’t know when I will return I have been trying to make the most of the time I have here. One of the things that I have enjoyed the most this year has been to rediscover the thrill of cycling and do it on a regular basis like I have never done before.
I’ve been cycling at least 50 K a day and on many days as much as 120 K or so during a couple of trips to Sawantwadi in Maharashtra and many trips to the Maharashtra border check-post.
The rains though put a major damper on my habit and after a few weeks of cycling in a downpour everyday and coming home like a drenched rat I tired of it and the cycling got sporadic. A week back though the monsoon disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived in Goa. I woke up one morning with the sun shining brightly at me through the window and not a cloud in the sky so I decided to do my early morning cycling trip to the lighthouse at Fort Aguada. This is a 48 K or so trek I was doing every morning for the first few months in Goa but the monsoons threw a spanner into the works of my well maintained habit.
It was the morning after I had booked tickets to Mumbai and then to Delhi so I decided I ought to get back in the saddle regularly and make the best of the few weeks left. So here’s a description of my daily ride from this morning. This may only be interesting to other cyclists at best and will surely be thoroughly boring for pretty much everyone else but I’m writing it as much to put down the memory to savour later for myself as for anyone else to read. So here goes…
So, British singer and DJ, Fink’s new album Perfect Darkness has been out for a month now and it is even more moody and melancholy than the last album. However, I still find myself coming back to this track from Biscuits for Breakfast called All Cried Out, over and over again.
Hat tip to Saga for playing it for me last year, I loved it as soon as I heard it. That was indeed, a decadent and fun day.
Steal the MP3 from the internets here.
Avoid the mediocre bad guys.
Adèle is just going to have to do..
This is Right as Rain off her debut album 19 from 2008 that I’ve been listening to a lot lately.
Though her sophomore effort, this year’s 21, isn’t nearly as inspired, this album is worth listening to for sure. It’s packed full of tracks that span the gamut from soaring ballads like Chasing Pavements to fun, light little ditties like My Same all of which highlight this woman’s considerable vocal talent.
Steal the MP3 for this song here.
Be good. Avoid assholes and sundry mediocre bad guys that harsh your mellow.
