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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Be good. Avoid assholes and sundry mediocre bad guys that harsh your mellow.
This morning I woke up whistling this tune from Jamiroquai’s album ‘A Funk Odyssey’ from 2001.
‘Picture Of My Life’ is the last track on an album packed full of some of Jamiroquai’s best work and it makes listening to the album from start to finish truly worthwhile; a beautiful, melancholy song to end an album full of energetic, upbeat music.
This is the acoustic version of the song which is perhaps even better than the one on the album.
Get the MP3 here and sing along to it or do yourself a favour and go listen to the entire album. You can thank me later.
I couldn’t go for my daily bike ride this morning because the rains are finally here and it’s coming down like nobody’s business. Actually, the monsoon hit Goa yesterday but I was like “Meh! It’s just a little precipitation!” and went out anyway.
After about an hour or so of cycling in the drizzle and feeling like a drenched rat on a bicycle I realised why all the locals generally stay in during the rains if they can help it.
So this morning I am wisely staying indoors, drinking coffee, watching the rain and listening to a playlist of songs about rain. (Yes, I am that lame)
One of those songs is “It’s Coming Down” by CAKE from what is probably their best ever album, Fashion Nugget.
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Be good, watch out for assholes.
For the past month and a half or so I’ve been in the sticks of North Goa with just a 3G modem for internet, the trade off being that I get to cycle about like a mad fool for hours everyday in the sunshine and the salty air with house music blasting in my earphones and occasionally I get to take photographs like the one above. Fun!
There have been a few close calls while cycling about though and last week I was almost run down by a local bus with a large JESUS SAVES! logo on the back and a small, maniacal driver in the front. Almost.
That would have been the most ironic road death ever but I digress. When I haven’t been doing permanent damage to my ear drums with house music this album from a few years back called Leave It All Behind by the American-Dutch group The Foreign Exchange has been on a loop on my iPod.
Some would say that is way too over produced but this has to be one of the smoothest and most delightful sounding R&B albums I’ve heard in a long time and is even better than their next album Authenticity, which came out last year. This track is called All Or Nothing/Coming Home To You. Enjoy!
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Be good, use hand signs when cycling and look out for crazy bus drivers of all denominations. Give ‘em the special hand sign. You known the one.
P.S. Dear reader my PJs were never dirty. You know who you are.