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hipster dinosaurs is just very very well done

know your asian poses

mr salt has located some excellently geeky clothing made from computer and electronics nerdery.

sal linked me to bbc's live recordings of glastonbury. some quality belle and sebastian. muse should be up there soon.

my new favourite band are the decemberists. Their 2003 album "Castaways and Cutouts" really rules. I must get hold of their 2004 EP.

Stewart lacks organisational skills: tar: File name too long for ustar dvd/Desktop/April 2003 desktop/feb2003 desktop crap/Desktop/October Desktop/desktop/desktop crap feb/Doors 6/5k_nov7 Folder/sylloge2000/archives2_sept2000/sylloge_archive_03-14-00/www/animations/cover animation/gifs for ani/text w_ shaded pics/TND and houses.txt

this movie is utter genius. funny, clever and oh so right. [via coates]

i'm converting citycreator to flash, as my first big project. after quite a few hours of battling against flash i seem to be making some progress. i'm conviced flash was designed to stop people from building useful applications out of it, and optimized for shitty vector based movies.

"But don't take those pills your boyfriend gave you, You're too wonderful to die". i heart neutral milk hotel

lost in translation was great, but reading this translation of a key scene adds even more. i wish i spoke japanese. i'm really considering learning

garned from The Face mailing list this morning, a selection of lego films. requires divx, but well worth the download. if i had more free time, this is what i'd be making.

channel 4's new advert is a work of genius. i'm not quite sure what it's supposed to say about the channel, but it makes me sit up and take notice.

rumor has it that natalie portman is going to be in a sequal to luc besson's fantastic leon. now that would fucking rule.

i take back at least some of what i've said about the uk music charts - my favourite track from the latest belle and sebastian album is in the top twenty. nice to hear radio one playing something half decent.

on the advice of a indie kid friend, i bought a pair of kristin hersh albums (sky motel and the grotto). in a word: stunning. the grotto, especially, i touching and sad, but with some excellent euphoric moments (listen to "Silver Sun"). definately my favourite album of the moment.

went to see lowgold at lunchtime. they played a small set (four tracks) from their newish album "welcome to winners". in a small club under little portland street, it was for radio execs as far as i could make out (i built their website and their management invited us along). very good stuff. i recommend you buy their cd.